Wednesday, December 29, 2004

101 Things About Me

1. I'm seriously blind without my contacts or glasses, but way too chicken to get eye surgery done.
2. In high school, I struggled to gain weight. I only weighed 92 lbs when I graduated.
3. This was a result of an illness in 7 and 8th grades. I also ended up with anorexie from it.
4. During this illness, I overheard a doctor tell my parents I had a brain tumor. No one ever told me.
5. I have been pregnannt times. I only have two living children that came from one pregnancy.
6. I have been in labor 5 times. I never complained of pain. Each time, my comment was, "My periods hurt worse."
7. I have one sibling. He is 9 years younger than I am.
8. My belly button was peirced until I went into the hospital for bedrest. It interfered with the u/s and monitoring, so I took it out. I promptly forgot to put it bcak after delivery.
9. My favorite thing to do is sleep.
10. My comfortable place is my bed. I spent $300 on my bed furnishings when I got my first job in high school.
11. I have very few close friends.
12. I am freakishly shy.
13. I was molested by a minister as a child. He was a family friend.
14. I have been raped twice.
15. My favorite flavor of ice cream is Mint Chocolate Chip. It has been my favorite since 2nd grade.
16. I am not too overly fond of red meat. I also pefer my red meat to be overcooked.
17. I am bisexual. No, I am not conufsed about my preferences. I simply like it all.
18. The only time I have not had safe sex was with the one person I probably should have.
19. That one unsafe experience did as much for me as years of therapy would have. I thank God every day I did it.
20. I can count on less than 5 fingers the number of things I regret in my life. I have made many mistakes though.
21. I am submissive in the bedroom. I am not in any other room.
22. I used to be able to read a cheap romance in less than 1 and a half hours.
23. I still remember the first one I read.
24. I've met Morgan Freeman several times.
25. On my 30th birthday, if I have lost to my goal weight, I will be getting a couple of piercings and a tatto.
26. I have taken my clothes off for money.
27. I tend to pick up emotionally unstable, needy people like other people pick up colds.
28. I have a sign on my forehead that everyone but I can see. It says, "Use and abuse me."
29. It's really a shame people can't just learn to ask me for what they want. I usually will say yes. If you take without asking, the resulting response is almost always a sound NO!
30. My favorite color is blue. Any shade of blue will do.
40. I used to drink like a fish. Now, I can get drunk just smelling alcohol. (I am such a cheap date.)
41. I was popular in high school only because I was friends with all the guys the popular girls wanted to date.
42. I tried to kill myself when I was 14. It failed. I have thought about it once since, and not when most people would think I did.
43. I have Reynaud's syndrome. I hate wearing socks and gloves though.
44. I learn best when I write the information.
45. I was diagnosed with ADD (no hyperactivity thank you very much) in nursing school.
46. I scored higher on the ADD testing than my extremely ADHD brother did.
47. I dream of backing for a living one day.
48. First though, I have to learn to make cheesecake.
49. My sex drive is as high as any male's.
50. Number 49 doesn't mean my hubby isn't sometimes a very frustrated man.
51. I love frogs.
52. I have almost no creative talents.
53. I am easily intimdated.
54. I am dyslexic.
55. I hand wrote my senion term paper draft backwards because I was tired and wrote with my left hand.
56. I am ambidextrious.
57. I sucked at golf. My boobs got in the way.
58. If you met me, you would think I was the sweetest, most innocent person on earth.
59. I shock the hell out of most people when they get to know me because of # 58.
60. Thanks to having my french teacher living with us, I was fluent within a year in the second grade.
61. I pick up languages easily.
62. I learned to diagram a sentence in French before English.
63. While in the hospital, pregnant with the twins and a gestational diabetic, I actually liked the diabetic breakfasts they sent me. The rest of the meals sucked.
64. I cooked my first Thanksgiving dinner at age 9. And no, I didn't assist the adults in fixing it.
65. I like holding hands.
66. I want a breast reduction.
67. A tummy tuck wouldn't be a bad thing either.
68. When my kids frustrate me by acting too much like me, I blame it on my SIL who is just like me.
69. I have always had a fascination with Marines. See #'s 18 and 19.
70. I was heartbroken when my best friend died at age 36 if bladder cancer. See #69
71. I dream in vivd technicholor, and usually wake up unsure if it was real or a dream.
72. I enjoyed wearing maternity clothes.
73. I have never spent a night in the hospital that didn't have to do with a pregnancy.
74. I suck as a parent.
75. I think my children are the most wonderful, beautiful, fascinating creatures.
76. I don't like drinking anything that tasts like alcohol.
77. I am easy to get drunk.
78. I am scared of clowns.
79. I am even more scared of snakes.
80. I am such a blond at heart.
81. For a nurse, I am amazingly unsympathetic.
82. During childbirth, I apolpgized for cursing in front of my mother-in-law.
83. I still don't feel guilty for mentally plotting to kick the delivering doctor in the forehead.
84. I have heard the word's "Holy shit, that's not normal." during my c-section.
85. I only have one ovary and my tubes are tied. I have about a 3% chance of getting pregnant again.
86. I had a 3% chance of having multiples while on clomid. Can you understand why I worry?
87. I have been asking for a hysterectomy since age 14.
88. I started my period at age 9.
89. I am eagerly awaiting menapause.
90. I skipped 11th grade.
91. I broke up with a guy through his parents. He was grounded and I had a date. I do NOT cheat.
92. My grandfather was a minister.
93. I could happily go back to bed right now.
94. I have the fashion sense of a retarded gopher.
95. I am paler than pale, yet can turn black with careful time in the sun.
96. Caffiene makes me sleepy.
97. I like heights if I am inside something.
98. I like puzzles.
99. My favorite flowers (not together though) are lilies and daisies.
100. The only person I have ever had phone sex with is my husband.
101. I lose my southern accent when I haven't talked to anyone from home. I have it back at the end of a phone call with my mother. Being stressed or angry brings it back out fast.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can I just say, that is the best, most honest 101 things I have read in a while. It takes a helluva lot of heart to open up like that. Karla

December 31, 2004 6:24 PM  
Blogger Shrirang said...

101 points are entertaining :)

January 6, 2005 3:29 PM  

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