100 Things About Me
1. My middle name is Ann.
2. I have one brother and one sister, both younger.
3. I can’t blow bubbles with bubble gum.
4. But I can bend over with my feet together and knees straight and put my fists on the floor.
5. If I move my feet apart six inches or so, I can put my palms flat on the floor.
6. I currently have 53 pairs of shoes in my closet.
7. Ten out of 53 are red or have red on them.
8. Eight out of 53 have beads, sequins, or both.
9. I graduated from high school a year early.
10. I was valedictorian.
11. For years after graduating, I had nightmares that school officials told me I didn’t graduate after all. It was always because they’d discovered I hadn’t actually passed math.
12. I graduated college Magna Cum Laude.
13. My degree is in art.
14. I was licensed to teach art in public schools, but I’ve let the license expire.
15. My thumbs are double-jointed. (Yes, I know that’s not accurate, but you know what I mean…they can move into odd positions)
16. I was eighteen before I could whistle.
17. But now I can whistle complex tunes, from Beethoven to the Beatles.
18. As a child, I walked, talked, laughed, and cried in my sleep, but I don’t now. At least not often.
19. I don’t know how to swim.
20. But I’ve been white water rafting.
21. I’ve been in 5 other countries, but I still don’t have any stamps in my passport.
22. I really want a stamp in my passport!
23. One of my quilts has been to New Zealand, even though I’ve never been there myself.
24. My sun sign is Pisces.
25. My moon sign is Cancer.
26. My rising sign is Aquarius.
27. I believe in astrology, but not in those “one size fits all” horoscopes in the newspapers.
28. I’ve been married to the same fabulous man since 1989.
29. I don’t have children.
30. I don’t regret not being a mom, but I regret that I won’t be a grandma.
31. My current fur-friend count is 3 nice dogs and 1 evil cat.
32. My first fur-friend was a cat named Tiger.
33. My first boyfriend was named Jimmy. We were both 5 years old.
34. I’ve been keeping a list of the books I've read since 1983.
35. In that time, the smallest number of books I’ve read in a year was 40.
36. The largest number of books I’ve read in a year was 107.
37. I believe in reincarnation.
38. I believe in one former life I was a blind woman, living in Italy somewhere near the sea.
39. I believe in at least one former life I drowned.
40. I believe in at least one former life I died by either strangulation or hanging.
41. Both sets of my grandparents eloped when they got married.
42. I think they were smart. If I had it to do over again, I would elope.
43. I don’t have a favorite color. I love too many too choose.
44. But my least-favorite color is grey. Or gray. No matter how you spell it, I find it depressing, but sometimes useful.
45. When I was a child, I saw and spoke with my Great-Grandma Elliott after she died.
46. I no longer see dead people, but I sometimes sense them.
47. I liked the movie “The Sixth Sense”.
48. I figured out that Bruce Willis was dead before the end of the movie.
49. I’m good at solving twisty logic problems.
50. But I hate straightforward math.
51. I’m good at tongue twisters.
52. I don’t own a white bra.
53. I have long, complicated, vivid dreams nearly every night.
54. Sometimes things I dream about come true.
55. My mom (who died in 2001) and dad (alive & happily retired) were both school teachers.
56. In seventh grade, Mom was one of my teachers. She was tough.
57. I have naturally curly hair.
58. But it isn’t naturally red.
59. I have one ear pierced once and the other ear pierced twice.
60. I look a lot like my Great-Grandma Blevins.
61. I have good cheekbones and I’m a bit vain about them.
62. But my face is so round that they aren’t as noticeable as I wish they were.
63. I collect Tarot cards because I love the artwork.
64. I’ve designed some Tarot cards of my own, but not a full deck…yet.
65. I designed our current house.
66. I collect colored-glass vases.
67. Like Scout from “To Kill a Mockingbird”, I don’t remember ever not knowing how to read. (Accoring to my parents I actually started to read when I was three years old.)
68. I’ve been in 24 US states so far.
69. I hope to visit all 50 US states before I die.
70. I’m a bad house-cleaner and don’t intend to change that about myself because I think anything more than the minimum is a waste of time and effort.
71. But I’m very organized. If you want to know which dust bunny to shove aside to find something, I can tell you.
72. When I was a little girl, I thought the floating head in the “Wizard of Oz” movie was what thunder looked like.
73. No matter how much I grieve for someone, I almost never cry at funerals.
74. I sometimes wish I could cry at funerals.
75. I love cards, games, and puzzles.
76. I dislike most sports.
77. I love to dance.
78. I love to sing.
79. In fact, I’d rather sing to myself than listen to the radio. I only listen to the radio to learn new songs to sing.
80. I love fragrant flowers.
81. But I dislike perfume, scented candles and most other artificially scented products.
82. My favorite color for flowers is yellow, closely followed by pink.
83. If I really enjoy a book, I’ll read it more than once. I've read a few old favorits a dozen times.
84. Weather permitting, I love to sleep outside under the stars --- no tent.
85. I’m allergic to bananas and wool.
86. But I’ve never had poison ivy (knock wood).
87. I believe in God and consider myself a spiritual person.
88. But I believe a person’s spirituality is a private thing, so I don't participate in organized religion.
89. I go for a walk nearly every day.
90. I dislike cabbage in any form --- raw, cooked, pickled, whatever.
91. If my figure, blood sugar, and cholesterol could stand it, I’d eat dessert seven days a week.
92. I was a girl scout.
93. I earned every badge available at the time, except for two, both of which involved swimming.
94. I love to win.
95. But I hate to see others lose.
96. I love movies.
97. I love hunting for treasures among other people’s discards at flea markets, antique shops, junk stores, or yard sales.
98. I am moody, over-sensitive, obsessive, controlling, selfish, arrogant, stubborn, lazy, and self-indulgent.
99. I am also kind, smart, funny, imaginative, empathetic, practical, creative, loving, conscientious, and optimistic.
100. No matter how much I like talking about myself --- and I DO! --- I found it hard to come up with 100 things to say!
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