1. I’m starting this list at 12:44 am on a work night.
2. Which means I’m not being very smart right now.
3. I don’t really care about that.
4. I cheated on about 25 of these because I took them from a list I did 3 years ago.
5. I’m allergic to tomatoes and bananas.
6. I love pickles. A LOT.
7. I am rarely cold.
8. My normal body temperature is 99.4.
9. They give me crap for it every time I give blood.
10. I am anal retentive about paperclips.
11. Even my boss’ seven-year-old son knows to keep them separated.
12. I have a cat that thinks I am his mother.
13. It’s because I’ve had him since he was 3 weeks old and had to bottle-feed him.
14. I think that’s where he gets his strong oral fixation.
15. I love the rain.
16. I could walk in it or stare at it for hours.
17. Mike Walsh wants to marry me; he just doesn’t know it yet.
18. Numbers 15-17 were in my original list.
19. Mike Walsh has seen #17 and asked me about it.
20. He doesn’t want to marry me.
21. I’m okay with that.
22. I don’t really like chocolate.
23. I like to make lists.
24. Maybe that means this won’t be as hard as I thought.
25. I have an unusual obsession with bright blue food.
26. I wear my heart on my sleeve, and it gets broken a lot.
27. I will put just about anything (non harmful) in my nose.
28. I love the name Austin for a girl, but I’d spell it with a “y”.
29. I actually want twin girls so I can name them Abigail Tyler and Elizabeth Austyn.
30. No, my future husband will not have a say.
31. But that’s only if I get married.
32. And only if I actually decide to have kids someday.
33. I was a great babysitter when I was young.
34. Everyone says I’d be a great mom.
35. Frankly the idea scares me to death.
36. I'm constantly spouting movie quotes, song lyrics, or commercial jingles.
37. I am always sad when a friendship ends, even if I didn't like the person all that much to begin with.
38. I sleep with a stuffed panda named George.
39. I don’t care what you think about that.
40. I think manatees are the cutest animals in the world.
41. I have friends who think of really cool and unique birthday gifts.
42. For my 28th birthday, a good friend of my family’s “adopted” a manatee in my name.
43. This blog was actually a birthday gift when I was turned 25. A good friend bought me the domain and a year of hosting.
44. My life is pretty much an open book.
45. I’ve had the same best friend since I was nine.
46. She lives 150 miles away now.
47. I don’t call her nearly often enough.
48. She never gets mad about it.
49. That’s because she is awesome like that.
50. I color my hair, but still know what my natural hair color is.
51. I am officially halfway done.
52. Which is good because I’m out of the cheater items.
53. I started this list 5 days ago and am now looking at it again for the first time since then.
54. A lot of stuff has happened in those days that both make this list seem unimportant, but at the same time make me want to finish it.
55. Now would be a good time to mention that I’m a study in conflict and contradiction.
56. There’s always a part of me that wants something, and another part that is scared to go for it.
57. It’s not fun.
58. It’s led to a lot of bad decisions, and, unfortunately, broken hearts.
59. All I truly want from life is to find someone and be in love with him for the rest of my life.
60. Well, that and a gorgeous diamond ring so the rest of the world knows that someone loves me.
61. And a big wedding.
62. I’ve already picked out my dress.
63. I believe in God.
64. I was one of those scary Christians for the first couple of years, but I’ve mellowed out and am not “in your face” about it.
65. I decided that this is what I believe in and what is best for me.
66. I believe that other people get to decide what they believe in and what is right for them.
67. I used to say (and believe) that if God wanted me to be single my entire life, that that was okay with me, even though it wasn’t what I wanted.
68. I don’t say or believe that anymore.
69. I’m a *really* good liar.
70. That really sucks.
71. It’s very easy to get me flustered or make me blush if you know the right buttons to push.
72. I’m not a very good judge of character.
73. It scares my friends.
74. I cry at movies.
75. Hell, sometimes I cry at commercials.
76. I work in estate planning.
77. A lot of our clients are elderly.
78. Elderly people scare me.
79. I’m one of those people that seem to have to learn everything the hard way.
80. The only good thing about that is that learning things the hard way means I actually learn them, and don’t have to learn them over and over.
81. Thanks to the internet and the blogging community I have friends all over the country- some I’ve met and some I’ve not.
82. I’ve recently discovered people see me as “bubbly”.
83. I’ve even been called effervescent.
84. I think it was meant as a compliment but makes me think of Alka Seltzer.
85. I might be bubbly, but that does not mean I’m perky.
86. I love movies- chick flicks mostly but I’ll watch other genres too.
87. I was talking to someone recently, and was saying that I’d seen two movies with the last person I dated, one on our first date and one on our last. The person I was talking to figured out, based on the movies we’d seen, that I’d dated the guy about 6 weeks. It kinda floored me that he knew that.
88. I scrapbook, but not obsessively.
89. I make my own pajama pants.
90. I also do several forms of embroidery- cross-stitch, blackwork, split stitch and stem/leaf stitch. I’m learning some more.
91. I’ve done medieval recreation as a member of the SCA practically since birth.
92. I love to do theater.
93. I really want to do another musical- the last one I performed in was “Oliver” in the summer of 1994, though I’ve done tech for a few since then.
94. I used to read a lot of books about the Nazi occupation in Europe, and because of that I’ve always wanted to see places like Vienna and Belgium.
95. Someday I want to go on the “Sound of Music” tour through Germany.
96. I used to be very selfish, self-centered and unlikable.
97. I’m really glad that changed.
98. I listen to Christmas music all year.
99. I didn’t get my driver’s license until I was 22.
100. I have green eyes, and I love how intense their color is after I’ve been crying.