Is anyone tired of this yet? Listing 100 things about myself is like waterboarding, but worse. Let's get this train a'rollin'. Yeehaw.
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41. I have a photographic memory that was quite helpful in school. Phil is less of a fan of my memory. He is very happy that I seem to have lost it since being pregnant.
42. Family research has shown that I can join the DAR (Daughters of the American Republic) and DRT (Daughters of the Republic of Texas). I think DRT - dirt - is an exquisite name for that organization.
43. I can change the oil in a car, change a tire, and read an automobile manual. I only drive stick. No automatics.
44. I have seen a ghost.
45. In my 20s, I was a research scientist, mainly in molecular biology.
46. As a result of #45, there are five scientific papers published that include my name in some way as co-author. So, technically, I'm a published writer. Technically, no one wants to read them.
47. The first tape (tapes?!) I ever bought was Bryan Adams, Cuts Like a Knife.
48. Admitting this will shun me from being a member of the fairer sex, but here goes: I am not a fan of shoes. I do not buy tons of shoes, collect them, pet them, and give them names. Manolo who? Gucci what? Isn't that what Charo used to say? Gucci Gucci!
49. I am first cousin, 14 times removed, to two wives of King Henry VIII. They are Katherine Howard and Anne Boleyn. Obviously, I am very important in England. Heh.
50. I used the archaic version of internet messaging while in college back in the 90s.
51. My dad bought us one of the first Commodore 64s. I learned how to program with if... then statements. I think I had a program where a rocket "shot" off of the screen. Very high tech.
52. My father is a small aircraft pilot (not a small pilot, but a pilot of small planes). From the 6th grade on, I lived on a private airport.
53. My mother is not like your mother. I'm trying to accept that.
54. I'm a bleeding heart. I will cry at movies, TV, whatever, especially if an animal is in danger (add babies to that now that I'm a mother).
55. I have never cheated on anyone that I dated (or married). The same cannot be said for former partners.
56. I like to use slang from past decades, daddio.
57. I am a very sexual and sensual lady. Mmm, sophisticated mama.
58. Quoting pop references is a huge pastime for me.
59. When people meet my other siblings and then find out that they are MY siblings, there is always shock and then silence.
60. I am horrible at answering e-mail. Sorry.
18 beautiful people muttered something back:
Waterboarding hasn't officially been declared torture yet, has it? If not, you're clear on this list. If we find out that they're using this in Guantanamo Bay to torture the prisoners, I'd be awfully surprised. What potential terrorist is going to give up info because of your clever facts? They'd probably be happy to be held in their horrid conditions if they were able to enjoy a bit of your wit every day. "Hey, Achmed, did you read #47? Tapes! Ha!"
Now making them read your science papers, that might be torture.
How kind of you to say that my things list might bring a moment of joy to the prisoners. There is less sentiment in your last statement. For that, I will make you read about insulin resistance and Chinese hamster ovary cells every night this month.
my dad also had his pilots license and no one ever believed me when i said we had a airplane.
my dad was a mailman...and since we lived in a german town and he was a mexican no one believed me either....hahahhahahhaha....hahahahhaa...hooooobooooyyy..i think i wet myself over that one....oh well guess you had to live there to get it...
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you've inspired me to blog my 100...lets see how far i get...
uh, it is really scary how many of these 60 we have in common. The weirder stuff, that is. :)
Oh, and an FYI-I am posting that which I'd held back all these months. Expect fireworks from central Florida
Hey I just got your invite on blog 365 and so I stopped by to check out your blog, you're quite funny and I have decided that 1) I like you and 2) I will be reading your blog everyday now. Also, trust me, you do not want your mother to be like mine.
I was web surfing yesterday and saw some headline about pregnancy and memory loss. I thought, "What's my excuse?" LOL
Not to focus on just one of the 60 (so far) factoids published, but are you going to tell us your ghost story?
no shoe fetish? wha?? well, you're most definitely not shunned as long as you forgive those of us who wouldn't be caught dead in a pair of Clarks or Birks and lust publicly over Fluevog and Jimmy Choo. (I of course, live and die by the motto "never pay retail".....so if I do indulge, it's all thrift store babee!)
Surely we have that common sense in common?
oops! Judy Parnassus kidnapped me and posted. She's my evil twin and used to blog music stuff. You can delete the double. sorry :-/
#43 - I can't change the oil or tyre's. Last time I was in a car that had a flat tyre we call out the AA (Our version of your AAA).
#56 - That's not very cool man! I bet you wish you were groovy like me?
Why ain't you using your scientific research skills for good? Like building a time machine like the one in Back To The Future for example?
re #42 (I think) I am also eligible to be listed as a DAR and a DAM (Daughter of the Mayflower). I haven't done this but it is apparently very important to someone in my family and she is doing all the legwork for the rest of us. Also, re# 60 - I emailed you last week with a very important question... ;-)
Tana - YES! Exactly! No one believed me that we lived on a private airport and that we owned a small airplane (it's a Cessna 150). I threatened to fly it to school one day.
Tricia - HAHAHAHA. I don't think you're dad was on our route. We had a chain-smoking, angry lady in a station wagon as our postal mistress.
Suzanne - Haha. If you are anything like me, then you need serious therapy. That reminds me, I need serious therapy...
Allie Bear - Yay! Welcome to the dark side! We're serving treats today... cake or death? (That's really funny if you're an Eddie Izzard fan.)
Bonnie - Maybe the aliens took it? It's always a possibility (cue the X-Files music...)
LceeL - Only if you hand me some s'mores and a flashlight to hold under my chin.
Judy - Just for that comment, I'm going to wear my Birkenstocks around you every time I see you. Hahaha!
I'm an incredibly cheap consumer, and I always look for sales. Momma taught me well.
Stephen - Building a time machine would require work. And I'm not willing to work. Future schmuture. I need a nap.
Amy - Those acronyms sound like a sentence that some backwoods hick would utter. "Dar dam drt!"
Also, you are a dirty, dirty dog for making me think that you sent me an e-mail. Hahaha.
It's freakishly weird how many of these things are similar to my 100 Things list, too. Except I was never a research scientist, and the first album I ever bought was Barry Manilow. OK, maybe we're not so alike. ;)
I promise to comment more so no one thinks I need a gold-leaf invitation to read your blog, and never, ever, to mention religion again. OMG.
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