100 Marvelous Facts About Me

I’m in a totally fragmented, random kind of mood.  Nothing deep, just typically odd for me.  I’m freaky like that.  Some call me weird, I say gifted.   Regardless of how you define it, I’m so very unique.  Quirky, fun, funny, odd, sarcastic, kind, loving, forgiving….yeah like that.  I have NO idea where this is headed, just random things in my brain.  Consider it a peek into the garden, and be thankful. I don’t open that gate often to the world.

1. If it is pink, it will catch my eye immediately.
2. If by chance it is pink and has any amount of bling, I’m on it like a fat kid on a cupcake.
3. I am fairly certain I am ADD, based on studies regarding stimulants & treating ADD, caffeine and adults.  I over consume but yet sleep even on a full pot of java.
4. I am OCD about a few things…the bed has to be made for me to get in it, I will check the stove multiple times before I go out of the door, it may be hanging in the art museum but if a picture is crooked, I will straighten it.
5. I mix my veggies in my mashed potatoes.
6. Ketchup on roast = awesome.
7. I snore.
8. Everybody poops.  At least that is what the book claims, but I cannot prove it as I’ve yet to take a poll on the  matter.
9. I am not an abstract thinker so I cannot do algebra.  I need concrete stuff to get my head wrapped around it.
10. I have a big butt.  Hey, I do, why deny it. I can live with it.
11. I have big boobs too, thanks to the ex and my surgeon.
12. I love wind chimes.
13. I think true beauty in a person is what they look like in the dark.
14. If you don’t understand #13….you aren’t for me.
15. Coffee is it’s own food group. So is chocolate.  Both are on the bottom of my food pyramid.
16. One of my favorite things is chubby baby feet.
17. I drink my coffee black.
18. I prefer diet colas, cannot handle the sweetness of regular.
19. I buy wine based on the amusing labels.  If it tastes good to me, I’ll buy it again. I don’t care about the price.
20. I  just stopped in the middle of this to dust the box fan in my room because it needed it.
21. I am afraid of the dark so I need a nightlight.
22. I sleep with a teddy bear, wrapped around it just like a kid.
23. I actually read and follow the washing instruction tags on all of my clothes.
24. I only did the laundry when I was married because the ex did NOT read the tags.
25. Tanning was a way to fight depression during the winter for me. I miss it.
26. Procrastination is my middle name.
27. My best work has always been accomplished at hour 11.5
28. My cat always bathes herself before going to bed. I think this is wise, one just never knows….
29. Grandma said wear clean undies in case you are in an accident…I just don’t bother wearing any, hee hee hee.
30. I need a line item in my budget for over due library books.
31. Reading is an addiction, I will get a quick fix reading shampoo bottles in the shower if necessary.
32. My lucky number is 13.
33. Don’t piss me off, you will end up in my novel.
34. Christmas is my favorite time of the year/holiday.
35. I despise being cold, but love snow for the beauty…from inside sipping coffee.
36. I HATE surprise parties, do it and I WILL walk out.  Try me.
37. Not real big on surprises at all to be honest.
38. I believe in ‘ghosts’ and think some are demons, some are dead folks that won’t move on.
39. I hate  wearing shoes, but don’t like being bare foot.  I go through a LOT of footie socks.
40. I love tattoos.
41. I have a nose ring, a small little ‘diamond’ but one day will have the real deal.
42. I’m considering getting my eyebrow pierced.  I don’t really know why, just want too.
43. Sometimes I spray pink in  my hair, because I LIKE it.
44. I’m a reformed cat hater.
45. I’m about 1 bad relationship away now from owning 12 cats.
46. I am very allergic to cats.
47. I own a cat.  We’re a package deal.
48. I love post-it-notes, in anything adorable or pink, not because I  need them I just buy them cause they are cool.
49. I love anything Hello Kitty, but I’m only just beginning to collect such items.
50. I’m allergic to bee stings, not deathly, at least not yet, but it is progressing each time.
51. I cannot, in conversation, just get to the point.  Believe me there is a reason for what color underwear someone was wearing in a retelling of a story that has nothing at all to do with ones drillies.  It makes sense to me so don’t interrupt.
52. If I don’t write it in my planner/calendar,  it isn’t real likely to happen.
53. I love the term “fartin shimmy” and I know what one is.
54. My favorite flowers are equally lavender, pink and yellow roses.
55. I gave someone a lap dance once to earn their beads – a really cool set of fire fighter ones.  No, you cannot have them.
56. I’ve posed naked for photos (in my early/mid 40’s), they were published on 2 websites.  Yes I still have them. NO you may not see them.
57. Because I’m afraid of the dark, very afraid, I keep a flashlight right by my bed. It needs NO batteries, and it’s a cat, eyes light up 🙂
58. I’m terrified of storms when they get severe or loud.
59. I’m terrified of fire, so I will not live in a house that I cannot easily escape from via windows that are not too high up.
60. I change smoke alarm batteries far more often than necessary.
61. I’ve been told I talk some in my sleep.  I wouldn’t know for sure, I’m asleep when this occurs.
62. I have a piggy bank.  It is not pink, as this one matches my bedroom, but I actually do put money in it.  I love it.
63. If what my ex tells me, that sexy is 90% attitude, then I ooze sexy from all of my pores.
64. I want to live to be 100 years old.
65. I’ve always gotten along better with men than women.
66. My shower gel, body lotion, skin softner, deodorant and cologne…are all the same scent.  It’s just one way I roll.
67. I don’t hold a grudge forever, even when I try.  I’m just too forgiving of a person.
68. I prefer to be at peace with all people if at all possible.
69. There are 2 people on the face of this earth that you can note a significant rise in blood pressure just by mentioning my name.  I’m powerful like that! 🙂
70. I currently cannot see a damn thing. I own ‘hoopty’ spectacles.  One arm on my glasses broke and I’ve not replaced them or my contact lenses to date.  Another way I roll.
71. Yes, I really was part of the swinger lifestyle once.
72. It is very unlikely I will ever run for public office.  (see #56 and 71 – enough said)
73. I don’t get emotionally attached to things anymore, as the ones that should have meant something (like my wedding rings etc) proved worthless in meaning.
74. I am a reformed pack rat.
75. “All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to  her that they are not all the same.” ~ Marilyn Monroe.  I’m still waiting.
76. I’m perfectly imperfect.
77. I’m looking for the guy that will love every imperfect part of me, and find it all to be perfectly adorable and love worthy.
78. Inside this woman that is so confident, sexy, brazen at times and fun on the outside, is an inner child that is shy, scared and needs to be loved unconditionally.
79. I believe the minute you start finding fault with someone you ‘love’, you’ve begun applying conditions to your love, you show that you don’t love them, but want to mold them and control them.
80. While I do enjoy being around people, a lot, I am somewhat of a loner at times too.
81. < – that is the year I graduated from high school.
82. I have been in 3 countries outside of the U.S.
83. I’ve been in about 40 of the states in this country.
84. There is SO much to see right here in the land I love that I would be happy just traveling around seeing it all here!
85. I LOVE light houses.  My favorite is the one in Cape Hatteras.
86. I believe that the beach is God’s therapy couch for us, and the sounds of the waves hitting the shore are the most soothing of stress.
87. In 54 days  I will be 49 years old.  This bugs me way the hell more than turning 50 will.
88. Every once in a while I enjoy reading a really trashy romance novel.
89. I struggle with my weight, goes with being a Taurus…we love food.
90. It’s important to me to be able to achieve my goals and be financially independent.  It isn’t that  I don’t want to be loved and cared for, but I never want to NEED a man to support me.
91. No man ever keeps me.  They gain my heart, then suck my love dry  and leave me.
92. I still believe in true love, the forever kind of love.  Just not sure it is meant for me.  Once  the infatuation wears off, they don’t really love me after all.
93. My dream table would have at least 12 settings of china, each one different from the next.  Each a complete place setting, but no two alike.
94. I’m working on my bucket list.  Not that I plan to die soon, I want to live to be 100, but time IS going forward.
95. I enjoy all genres of music…the mood I am in or  I want  to be in, or the atmosphere I wish to create dictates what I am listening too.
96. I hate plucking my eyebrows, it makes my eyes water like crazy, so I just shave them, CAREFULLY.
97. Over the past 2 years I’ve learned that happiness is the journey, and a decision, not a destination.  No wonder I’m happy.
98. I love my family something fierce.  I will protect them even if I don’t agree with their choices.
99. Sometimes I sleep with music on softly on one of the music channels (Sound Scapes), it helps me unwind if I’m stressed out.
100. This has not even put a scratch in the surface of who I  am….