(insert jon lovitz impression here) get to know me!
in honor of my bloggity-blog’s new look and new home, I thought I’d do what so many before me have done, and post 100 things about me.
1. I like crosswords
2. I need coffee every day
3. I don’t like noises above my head or behind me
4. I’m more likely to be cold than hot
5. I watch a lot of tv and I’m not ashamed to admit it
6. I want to one day go into a bookstore and find something written by me on the shelf
7. Bad spelling annoys me
8. I hate liars
9. I like boys but could not survive without my girlfriends
10. I like to drive
11. I am a cat person
12. I am a dog person
13. I like astrology, although I may not do what my horoscope says
14. I believe in fate and signs
15. I cry at sad movies, really good theatre, and songs that incite my emotions
16. I listen to the lyrics as well as the music in a song
17. I am loved by someone special
16. If there is tiramisu on the menu, I will always order it
17. Sometimes I drink sparkling water in a wine glass
18. My favorite soft drink is Fresca
19. I haven’t ridden a bike in years
20. I love pumpkin pie, pumpkin cookies, and pumpkin lattes
21. I hate brussels sprouts and lima beans
22. I hate passive aggressiveness
23. I am a virgo
24. I don’t like conflict, whether involved in it or witnessing it
25. I voted for John Kerry
26. I have lost too many friends to cancer (actually, one is too many)
27. I think the glass is half full
28. If you ask me to not smile, I probably can’t
29. I can’t stand bad table manners
30. I used to hate country and rap music but now I like both
31. Sometimes I like to just drive around with no destination in mind
32. I am relatively low-maintenance and have little patience for high maintenance people
33. I believe in more cowbell
34. I sometimes have A.D.D.
35. My parents are still married
36. I can speak some French, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese
37. I’m afraid of clowns and ventriloquist dummies
38. I love words
39. I want more time to read
40. I am a morning person
41. I sucked my thumb until I was 10
42. I’m generally happy
43. If you are sick, I will want to take care of you
44. Wind chimes soothe me
45. I like scary movies
46. I tried to run away to live with Sonny & Cher when I was little
47. I like to write song parodies
48. I wrote a fan letter to Marie Osmond when I was little and invited her to spend the night at my house
49. I am a pop culture junkie
50. I want Pillsbury to bring back Foodsticks
51. I am sometimes too self-deprecating
52. I’ve been told I look like Katie Couric and Sally Field
53. I got my driver’s license when I was 18
54. I eat raw cookie dough
55. My favorite Ben & Jerry’s flavor is Phish food
56. Thinking of Ruth’s Chris steaks makes my mouth water
57. I was 16 when I had my first kiss, in Amsterdam, with a cricket player
58. I share a birthday with Sean Connery, Regis Philbin, and Elvis Costello
59. I never had braces
60. Bad pronunciation sometimes bugs me
61. I once ate venison at Disneyland (not Bambi though)
62. My writing has been published
63. I’m witty
64. I am allergic to pecans and cashews
65. I played Tom Sawyer in my 6th grade school play
66. I can knit
67. I have never been arrested
68. I TiVo Days of Our Lives everyday
69. I wish I could sing
70. I procrastinate
71. I am a California native
72. My most embarrassing moment is one I have little recollection of because I was drunk
73. I talk to my parents almost daily
74. I laugh until I cry
75. I believe in past lives, karma, and reincarnation
76. I have never felt more serenity than when I was barefoot in 30-something degrees, visiting a Buddhist temple in Japan
77. I get cranky when I’m tired or hungry
78. I hate being cut off in traffic and will give whoever does it a dirty look
79. I missed playing an elf in my school Christmas play because of stagefright
80. I often remember obscure childhood memories
81. I believe in love at first sight
82. Everytime the opening credits to SVU run, I repeat the word ‘heinous’ to the TV
83. I am a Kentucky Wildcat basketball fan
84. I prefer Letterman over Leno and Ellen over Oprah
85. I like thunderstorms, rollercoasters, and earthquakes, but I don’t like ferris wheels
86. It took me 5 and a half years to get my degree in journalism
87. I like Britney Spears’ music
88. I can recite the entire script of 16 Candles
89. When I sneeze, I sneeze at least twice
90. I have played golf on the same course Tiger Woods did…when he was 4
91. When telling a joke, I sometimes forget a crucial detail and just before the punchline, have to go back to the beginning and start over
92. I have a dirty mind and find innuendos easily
93, I don’t like motorcycles or boxing
94. I was an Avon lady and a holiday gift wrapper at the mall
95. I have been starstruck a couple of times
96. I am a good person, I think
97. I like bubblebaths
98. There are very few people I just do not like
99. I talk to myself
100. I took the Mensa test, and did not pass (math hates me)
Hey, Cathy: Who is Ruth? Is Ruth a “Donner”? Why is she making steaks out of Chris? Was Chris male or female? Would the gender make a difference in the quality of the meat? I just wonder…
How do you know if you are allergic to pecans? what happens? Please e me, I think my son may be allergic.
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Dear Catheroo,
Here I am bored at work and spent most of my day surfing our blog! You are very good at it and although I WISH I could keep one as religiously as you do, I don’t have the time (or the friends to bother reading “all about me :)”.
Reading your Get To Know Me list, we could be sisters, right down to the Virgo sign (although I am on the cusp Aug 23 – not the 25th but we are close). Differences are: I don’t like crosswords, not a big tiramisu fan (apple pie my fav), I didnt vote for Kerry because I AM CANADIAN, I dont know what cowbell is perhaps you can explain it to me?, no Japanese, I’ve been told I look like Suzanne Somers (ok maybe 2o years ago), phish food (ok thats gross), I am a Calgary Vipers Fan http://www.calgaryvipers.com, took me 5 years to become a stock broker, and last but not least … I wouldn’t even attempt the mensa test so good on ya!
I have read The Mercy of Thin Air and I loved it! Have you read Amanda Quick “Second Site”?, it was great .. this is her website, she goes by a number of different names: http://www.krentz-quick.com/.
Well thats about it … take care Catheroooooo!
I love number 88. I have the entire John Hughes 80s teen flick collection on DVD. One day I will have a marathon.
Okay let me first start off by saying I listen to Britney Spears too. Not to many people want ot admit this for somereason. It’s justpure fun. Not really meant to be taken seriously.
I have never been arrested
i talk to myself
I get cranky when I’m tired or hungry
I procrastinate
I never had braces
I like to write song parodies
Just a few things we share.
wow !!
its very unconventional point of view.
Good post.
realy gj
thank you 😉