100 Things, 21 - 40

Hot damn! That first installment of the 100 Things About Me meme was quite a barn burner. Are you ready for round two? I need more coffee to go on and on about myself...

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21. The actress Laura Linney is my doppleganger. Her face is a crazy resemblance to mine. Whenever we see that she is in a movie, I say, "Hey, I'm in this one."

22. I do not tend to discuss religion and politics with anyone other than Phil. The previous blog illustrates a perfect example of why.

23. Whenever I would point out the latest fashion trend that I had to have as a teen or I WOULD DIE, my mother's answer was always, "I can make that." To prove her point, she knitted pairs of legwarmers for my sister and me. Yes. I wore baby blue knitted legwarmers that were so wide they could have substituted as wings on my lower legs.

24. My name was going to be either Susan or Sarah. I like Sarah. I think I'm a Sarah. Also, I have a sis-in-law named Susan and an Aunt Sue. That would have been a gaggle o' Sues.

25. I don't like to consume soft drinks. The fizzies get to me and make my eyes water. Too much carbonation.

26. I do not drink beer. I cannot chug anything, either.

27. My bachelorette party consisted of two female friends and my BFF Keith. Keith tried to get me to chug something called a Flaming Dr. Pepper - a beer containing a shot of something or another. It required chugging to get the Dr. Pepper flavor. I sipped it, and he laughed at me. He had to drink the beer and fish out the shot for me.

28. I tried to be ambidextrous in high school. I failed.

29. I read Stephen King and H. G. Wells books when I was in the 4th grade. I had to stop at Cujo.

30. My hands and feet are oddly tiny. In a cross sample of adults, I will almost always be the one with the smallest hands and feet. I joke that, "I have small hands and feet, but everything else is gigantic."

31. I'm a horrible swimmer. When we were kids, my brother almost drowned me "for fun." I wasn't fond of swimming after that. I learned eventually.

32. My family moved around A LOT. As a result, I attended five different schools before finally settling down in Texas. I attended four schools in the third grade alone, one of them for only four days.

33. I am the youngest of six. None of them are full-blooded siblings to me. I'm an odd bodkin.

34. People called me Shirley Temple when I was a kid because of my curly hair. I was often found yelling, "DON'T CALL ME SHIRLEY!!"

35. I'm a nerd. I've won many academic awards, including first place in editorial writing and 5th in headline writing at a state level. What glory I have achieved. I'm a gigantic nerd.

36. My family did not do "kid things." We did what Dad wanted to do. He is a history buff. As a result, I've been to just about every historical monument, site, and marker in the state of Texas and beyond. Ask me about the Caddo Indian Burial Mounds. Go ahead, ask me.

37. I have a scar across my eyebrow and left eye from a Siamese cat scratch when I was a baby.

38. When people asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up, I said I wanted to be a singer. Later, I said I wanted to be a writer. Someday. Someday.

39. I have a collection of antique Wedgwood Jasperware fine china. There is nothing fancy about me except for that.

40. As a kid, I read every Nancy Drew book I could put my paws on.



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