50 Things, Part 2 of 2
So, here it is, as promised: the second half of the 100 things you probably don't know about me post. If you missed the first 50, click here (btw, I am totally tagged up now, guys!).
1. In school I played sweeper and right forward in soccer, center field and shortstop in softball. I was a sprinter in middle school and still run on my toes.
2. I’ve had tropical fish as long as I can remember; there’s a 60-gallon tank in my house right now full of big (10-inch) South American Cichlids.
3. I first tried green olives on a school picnic when I was ten years old. Hated them, and that day decided to try them every ten years to make sure I still hated them. I tried them on my 30th birthday and liked them.
4. I’m 5’5 1/2’’ tall, but thought I was 5’6’’ tall until I was 32 years old.
5. I was a cheerleader in high school, and voted most school spirit. I also coached high school cheerleding for two years.
6. I can still do the splits (and all the jumps, baby!)
7. Until about five years ago, I swear to God I thought that light meat and dark meat came from different kinds of chickens, and that buffalo wings came from really small chickens.
8. I was never in my life in “the cool clique.” Used to hate that, now I’m grateful for it.
9. I can make magazine-caliber birthday cakes.
10. My eyes are green in the summer, spring and fall, but turn a little gray in the winter.
11. As of when I updated this list in 2007, I’ve been married for 13 years, and we have a five-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl.
12. I can't stand to touch side rails on escalators, and go out of my way to avoid touching door handles.
13. First road trip/adventure: When I was dating my soon-to-be husband, a friend of mine was dating his friend (both guys were in the Air Force in Texas). At 19, I spent the night at my friend’s house. We decided that night to tell our parents we were going to spend the weekend in Indianapolis with friends, but instead woke up at 3:00 in the morning, stocked up on caffeine and sugar, and drove (I did, because my friend couldn’t drive a stick) 18 hours straight through to Wichita Falls, Texas to surprise the guys and hang out for the weekend. We turned around and drove 18 hours back, straight through, on Sunday night. My father told me many years later that he knew I’d be able to make it on my own just fine after that.
14. I think Feng Shui is cool.
15. I don’t smoke or drink, never have, not even socially. Not because I’m particularly moral, I just don’t like it; vices, you know...
16. According to the Meyers-Briggs personality test I am an ENFJ.
17. I don't have any tattoos, and probably never will.
18. I can tie cherry stems in a knot with my tongue and teeth. Three in row, or two at a time, either in under a minute.
19. My dad was the first in his family born in the USA, his parents were from Sicily and Calabria. My mom’s family is also Italian with a sprinkle of German.
20. My favorite ice-cream flavor is butter pecan.
21. I think Ed Harris is debilitatingly hot in Apollo 13, The Abyss, and The Rock.
22. I’ve kept a journal since I was five years old.
23. I have never considered suicide.
24. I don’t believe in coincidence or accident.
25. I don't like bare feet to touch me. Except kid feet. Kid feet are OK.
26. Of all the virtues, I respect patience the most because I don't have much, but I'm getting there.
27. I am an exceptionally better writer than conversationalist, mainly I guess because I think faster than I can talk.
28. I’m superstitious more than not. No surprise that my favorite holiday is Halloween.
29. In the right brain, left brain dominance tests, I am equally right and left brained – so, my desk is immaculate but my closet is trashed.
30. I’ll probably never have short hair.
31. I loathe, to the core of my being, shopping for myself.
32. My favorite animals are Bengal tigers and horses.
33. “O Holy Night” is my favorite Christmas carol.
34. The song “Ave Maria,” sung in soprano, makes me cry.
35. For myself, I don't believe in organized religion.
36. If I could pick a new name for myself, it would be Sophia.
37. My favorite candies are Twizzlers, dark chocolate, and Reese's Pieces - the little m&m looking guys, not the cups.
38. I admire Bruce Lee and Mohammed Ali - Lee because he was the greatest, and Ali because he kept the faith that he would be.
39. I love what bullfighters personify, but hate bullfighting.
40. My favorite English word is “Moxie.”
41. When I was 18, I was carjacked, kidnapped, and attacked. I eventually got away by running into the woods as he chased after me in a car.
42. I am motivated by impossibility.
43. My favorite sound is rain.
44. My favorite smell is pending rain.
45. I carry no grudges of any kind. Really.
46. I write in a mangle of Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian for two reasons when I’m particularly internal: 1. No one I know can decode it, and, 2. the languages - their combination - best express what I want to say.
47. My biggest pet peeves are being interrupted and when people complain.
48. I don't like crowds, and I hate elevators.
49. My feelings are easily hurt, but easily repaired.
50. Sometimes I think in order to say the most one could possibly say, one should just stop talking entirely – that said…
1. In school I played sweeper and right forward in soccer, center field and shortstop in softball. I was a sprinter in middle school and still run on my toes.
2. I’ve had tropical fish as long as I can remember; there’s a 60-gallon tank in my house right now full of big (10-inch) South American Cichlids.
3. I first tried green olives on a school picnic when I was ten years old. Hated them, and that day decided to try them every ten years to make sure I still hated them. I tried them on my 30th birthday and liked them.
4. I’m 5’5 1/2’’ tall, but thought I was 5’6’’ tall until I was 32 years old.
5. I was a cheerleader in high school, and voted most school spirit. I also coached high school cheerleding for two years.
6. I can still do the splits (and all the jumps, baby!)
7. Until about five years ago, I swear to God I thought that light meat and dark meat came from different kinds of chickens, and that buffalo wings came from really small chickens.
8. I was never in my life in “the cool clique.” Used to hate that, now I’m grateful for it.
9. I can make magazine-caliber birthday cakes.
10. My eyes are green in the summer, spring and fall, but turn a little gray in the winter.
11. As of when I updated this list in 2007, I’ve been married for 13 years, and we have a five-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl.
12. I can't stand to touch side rails on escalators, and go out of my way to avoid touching door handles.
13. First road trip/adventure: When I was dating my soon-to-be husband, a friend of mine was dating his friend (both guys were in the Air Force in Texas). At 19, I spent the night at my friend’s house. We decided that night to tell our parents we were going to spend the weekend in Indianapolis with friends, but instead woke up at 3:00 in the morning, stocked up on caffeine and sugar, and drove (I did, because my friend couldn’t drive a stick) 18 hours straight through to Wichita Falls, Texas to surprise the guys and hang out for the weekend. We turned around and drove 18 hours back, straight through, on Sunday night. My father told me many years later that he knew I’d be able to make it on my own just fine after that.
14. I think Feng Shui is cool.
15. I don’t smoke or drink, never have, not even socially. Not because I’m particularly moral, I just don’t like it; vices, you know...
16. According to the Meyers-Briggs personality test I am an ENFJ.
17. I don't have any tattoos, and probably never will.
18. I can tie cherry stems in a knot with my tongue and teeth. Three in row, or two at a time, either in under a minute.
19. My dad was the first in his family born in the USA, his parents were from Sicily and Calabria. My mom’s family is also Italian with a sprinkle of German.
20. My favorite ice-cream flavor is butter pecan.
21. I think Ed Harris is debilitatingly hot in Apollo 13, The Abyss, and The Rock.
22. I’ve kept a journal since I was five years old.
23. I have never considered suicide.
24. I don’t believe in coincidence or accident.
25. I don't like bare feet to touch me. Except kid feet. Kid feet are OK.
26. Of all the virtues, I respect patience the most because I don't have much, but I'm getting there.
27. I am an exceptionally better writer than conversationalist, mainly I guess because I think faster than I can talk.
28. I’m superstitious more than not. No surprise that my favorite holiday is Halloween.
29. In the right brain, left brain dominance tests, I am equally right and left brained – so, my desk is immaculate but my closet is trashed.
30. I’ll probably never have short hair.
31. I loathe, to the core of my being, shopping for myself.
32. My favorite animals are Bengal tigers and horses.
33. “O Holy Night” is my favorite Christmas carol.
34. The song “Ave Maria,” sung in soprano, makes me cry.
35. For myself, I don't believe in organized religion.
36. If I could pick a new name for myself, it would be Sophia.
37. My favorite candies are Twizzlers, dark chocolate, and Reese's Pieces - the little m&m looking guys, not the cups.
38. I admire Bruce Lee and Mohammed Ali - Lee because he was the greatest, and Ali because he kept the faith that he would be.
39. I love what bullfighters personify, but hate bullfighting.
40. My favorite English word is “Moxie.”
41. When I was 18, I was carjacked, kidnapped, and attacked. I eventually got away by running into the woods as he chased after me in a car.
42. I am motivated by impossibility.
43. My favorite sound is rain.
44. My favorite smell is pending rain.
45. I carry no grudges of any kind. Really.
46. I write in a mangle of Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian for two reasons when I’m particularly internal: 1. No one I know can decode it, and, 2. the languages - their combination - best express what I want to say.
47. My biggest pet peeves are being interrupted and when people complain.
48. I don't like crowds, and I hate elevators.
49. My feelings are easily hurt, but easily repaired.
50. Sometimes I think in order to say the most one could possibly say, one should just stop talking entirely – that said…
posted by Wil at 2:02 PM
19 Comments:
33 and 34, Amen.
Okolo
OK--sooooooooo crazy:
2. there's a 125 gallon in my house with 8 African cichlids in it
5. EXACT SAME--except I coached for just ONE year
6. DITTO
21. I get made fun of often for thinking Ed Harris is a sexy old man
30. I've never cut off more than 2 inches at a time--and that's rare
48. I despise elevators and will rarely get in one more than 3 floors
How bizarre is this stuff!!!! :)
Girl, You got MOXY! That is a pretty cool word.
I LOVE Twizzlers & chocolate, but not together :)
Good lord. 100 things about you. I don't think I can make it past 10 myself.
I think the "lo-mein noodles before big race" should feature in there somewhere...
Read the first 50 too. You're a warrior poet, fucking incredible!
How can you be a cheerleader and not be in the cool clique?
You're messin' with my head, girl!
can i just say you are amazing! simply incredible.
btw, i love twizzlers and plain dark chocolate too. :)
6. Well, I bet your husband is a happy man!
41. Wow, girl. You DO have Moxy!
11. That means you got married really young too. Glad I'm not the only one. And glad it worked for someone else too!
Lady, you ROCK!
Great list! I most identify with #49. My feelings get hurt easily too but it doesn't take much to win me back. As for the moxy...you've got it in spades! Be well.
You had me at #2. I love tropicals also, but I'm still on my "starter" set, a 20-gallon tank of tiger barbs. Maintaining a 60-gallon tank would be my aquatic husbandry equivalent of the Ironman - but I can always dream.
I actually wrote a whole article comparing tropical fish with runners and triathletes - I'll try to e-mail you the link.
I've always thought Ed Harris was rather hot - especially in Apollo 13. (Must be the bald engineer thing a la my husband.)
My favorite holiday is TOTALLY Halloween! And while I try to tell myself that superstition is silly, I still knock on wood and throw salt over my shoulder.
Where I come from the cheerleaders ARE the cool clique; I didn't know it was possible to be smart and cool and athletic AND a cheerleader!
Somewhere on my list, were I to make one, would be the fact that the old copy editor in me can't help telling people when they're consistently misspelling a word: moxie.
That utterly unimportant statement made, Merry Xmas!
also enfj last time tested though don't think so now. On this list we match up 50% of the time.
I love these lists! I'm going to have to work on mine!
Although I've never actually seen her eat one, I have irrefutable evidence that my dog like to eat crayons too ... if you know what I mean ;)
#16... I thought so.
Another 50 astonishing things about you. And you've been keeping a journal (it was a 'diary' back then ;-) since you were five? Now that you've accomplished the '100 things' list, when can we expect your biography?
~ef
I like #12.
I'm Capybara's wife, by the way ;)
Just recently introduced to your blog by one of the girls I train with. Really enjoying reading along with you. Wanted to comment on the smell of impending rain, which is also one of my favorites. My ninth grade science teacher told us that it is the smell of decay in the earth. This smell is always present, but more noticeable before a storm because of the low pressure system moving in. The low pressure is literally what allows the smell to rise up, whereas the high pressure actually presses the smell down into the ground. This information only made me like the smell even more. I also taught high school English, and now I teach writing at the college level, but I always like to incorporate a little science and math into everything we do!
35 "for _myself_ ..." from an English teacher? tsk tsk :)
Great list though, that is nice.
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