101 Things
1. People used to say I had “piano hands”. Long, aristocratic fingers, I guess. Piano-playing ability? Low.
2. I can play “Fur Elise”, and that’s about it anymore.
3. When I was 14, I could also play “Moonlight Sonata” and Billy Joel’s “Just The Way You Are”.
4. I was seldom asked to play piano at parties.
5. Although I did go to parties, occasionally.
6. Once, apparently, I danced semi-naked atop a table at one party.
7. I don’t remember it though.
8. I have dyed my hair blonde, blonder, red, and brown.
9. My natural hair color is dark blonde, maybe brown, tending toward reddish.
10. When my hair was red, and in a bob, people used to say I looked like Molly Ringwald. That was in the 80′s.
11. Later I let my hair grow long(er), and people said I looked like Nicole Kidman.
12. Once someone said I looked like Jane Fonda. I never quite got that.
13. I was raised a-religious, though I did grow corn in a Dixie cup at my one Sunday school experience.
14. My parents were a lapsed Lutheran and a PK Methodist.
15. PK = Preacher’s Kid.
16. And he walked 10 miles to school in 7 feet of snow everyday, uphill both ways.
17. I broke my right pinkie finger, my left wrist, and my left foot, though not on the same day.
18. I hate R&B and country music. Ew.
19. I like what’s loosely termed as “alternative” music, and also lots of classical, though not-so-much Baroque and not modern. So much. Picky? Yes, that would be me.
20. I think Monet is overrated, though I adore Manet.
21. I thought modern art was stupid until I saw Mark Rothko’s work up close.
22. I could live on oatmeal, potatoes in any form, and sugary junk cereal brown rice. Except I don’t eat potatoes any more.
23. You don’t think I have issues with carbs, do you?
24. I adore coffee, though I didn’t drink it for ten years.
25. I think it’s the ritual aspect that I like so much.
26. Grapefruit juice makes my throat itch.
27. I am an excellent cook. Though, frankly, lately I lack motivation.
28. I think that paying 3x more for organic produce is worth it.
29. I talk to “dead people” and I believe in reincarnation.
30. I’ve had well over a hundred lives on this planet.
31. I’ve been a slave in Turkey, an 11th-century Spanish courtesan, a 6th-century potter in Mali, a Chinese sheepherder, an Assyrian fabric dyer, a Persian poet, an ancient female Irish warrior, and a 15th-century German clockmaker. Among others.
32. My most recent lifetime was as a nun in France during WWII.
33. I don’t mind if you don’t believe in reincarnation.
34. I skipped a grade: kindergarten.
35. Being younger than my peers wasn’t an issue until everyone hit puberty but me.
36. At least I was taller than most of them.
37. I always felt sorry for the really short freshmen boys who were routinely being stuffed into lockers and trash cans.
38. I prefer the word “trash” to “garbage”.
39. One word that makes me cringe is “moist”.
40. The sound of fingernails on a chalkboard doesn’t bother me.
41. I was usually the one doing it, anyway.
42. While wearing an evil grin.
43. Although I was a “good” child.
44. And seldom got caught.
45. Except once in the 8th grade, the only time I ever cheated on anything.
46. That was humiliating, and I missed a bowling trip because of it.
47. I also once missed a trip to go to a basketball game because I “dawdled” doing my paper route.
48. It boggles my mind now that I was ever once upset about either basketball or bowling.
49. I don’t watch sports.
50. Or TV much at all anymore.
51. I read a lot though.
52. Soon I hope to post a reading list.
53. I have stifled my creativity for many years now.
54. I think that being a mother does that, though it doesn’t have to.
55. I used to dream about my younger daughter, before she was born, having Down syndrome.
56. She doesn’t.
57. Imagine my surprise though when her younger brother did.
58. His father wouldn’t let me tell anyone about it for a year after her was born.
59. People figured it out anyway though.
60. When I was 25, I weighed 93 pounds.
61. I’m 5’7 1/2″ (that half-inch is so important).
62. I thought I looked great at the time.
63. I was fired once.
64. I used to be more comfortable in groups of men than in groups of women, though that seems to have changed. [Update: wrong, all wrong.]
65. I think I just had to learn the lingo.
66. I can move my right pinkie toe independently of all my other toes.
67. I can curl my tongue, too.
68. I can’t snap my fingers, though.
69. I prefer cats to dogs, hands down.
70. We have two cats, or should I say, they have us. Me.
71. I would love to live in many places, though it has to have mountains. A beach would be a plus. Places for cycling and hiking also. Trees.
72. Running is haaaarrrd, though I miss my treadmill.
73. We didn’t think it would fit in the moving truck, and there’s no place for it here.
74. I got to keep my bike though.
75. I’m a big procrastinator.
76. Finally doing the whatever-it-is that I let hang over my head is sometimes an almost-orgasmic relief.
77. Almost.
78. I was a model when I was 15.
79. But I didn’t think I could “make it”, so I quit.
80. I’ve owned ten cars in my life.
81. My favorites were the ’70 1/2 Karmann Ghia and the ’85 Mazda RX-7. Vroom.
82. I like independent films.
83. And films with subtitles.
84. I subscribe to Netflix.
85. Though I frequently forget to send back the movies for days weeks at a time.
86. I knit[ted].
87. I have started several sweaters.
88. I have three boxes of yarn, and knitting needles in (almost) every size.
89. Except the size I need, of course.
90. My sewing is pathetic, though I own an expensive sewing machine.
91. I have made a lion and a unicorn Halloween costume, though, as well as two princesses, a 50′s skirt, a leopard, and a ghost.
92. I like to make the costumes extra large so they can be worn for more than a year.
93. And sturdy so they can be handed down.
94. I have had surgery twice. Minor.
95. I hope I never have it again.
96. I wear contacts.
97. 32B.
98. I like the smells of vanilla, lavender, magic markers, and the side of Eric’s neck between his chin and his shoulder.
99. Salty, crunchy, and sweet, though not all at the same time.
100. I don’t like ice cream. Maybe once a year.
101. Dusting is my least favorite household chore, which makes little sense because it’s so much easier than swabbing toilets.
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