Things About Me You Wish You Never Knew

1.  My dream car is a 1949 Chevy Truck.
2.  My OTHER dream car is a Ford Probe.  (For some strange, strange reason.)
3.  I love chips and vinegar…. not salt and vinegar chips… but chips and a bowl of vinegar.
4.  I am the definition of a “southern yankee.”
5.  I am barefoot for 95% of the year.
6.  My two favorite shows of all time still are “Roundhouse” and “Perfect Strangers.”
7.  My lifelong dream was to be a fighter pilot or a college professor.
8.  I am a mountain person.
9.  I sunburn so easily I can’t remember a summer without sun poisioning.
10.  I am Bohemian and Italian.
11.  I love photography.  I just suck at it.
12.  My favorite animals are a dog and a moose.
13.  My favorite color is blue.  Cobalt blue.
14.  I am a proud fur-mom.
15.  I was ghetto before ghetto was ghetto (I drove a Buick LeSabre in high school).
16.  My friends and I used to frequent an abandoned greenhouse.  It is now a $3 mil home.
17.  I hate pictures of myself.
18.  I love haunted houses but hate scary movies.
19.  I don’t eat anything that comes from a pig.
20.  I hate meat on pizza which makes me a very unpopular “hey let’s share a pizza” partner.
21.  Pens.  I am PICKY about what I write with.  It has to have a thick point and feel “right” in my hand.  This means that I have probably abandoned roughly one million dollars worth of pens in my lifetime.
22.  I remember people through the music they’ve brought into my life.
23.  My first CD was Richard Marx “Paid Vacation.”  (A selection inspired by my childhood babysitter, Darcie.) 
24.  My senior year of high school I applied to some colleges just to get the acceptance letter 
25.  The only thing I’ve ever been cocky about are my boobs and my intelligence 
26.  Most of the time I think both of those are lacking too.
27.  I have never had a room that is completely my own.
28.  The first time I ever slept in a bedroom that was something other than white was when I bought my own house.
29.  My bedroom in my house had wood paneling.
30.  I am a gamer.  I love video and computer games.
31.  I **LOVE** surprises, if you can pull it off.
32.  Unfortunately, I am a surprise spoiling master.
33.  My goal is to be published once before I’m 30. I achieved that this year (2009) with a tattoo magazine. Go figure. Spend $100k on an education in writing and get published for your tattoos.
34.  I have no idea how to parallel park. Hence why I plan to purchase a Smart Car.
35.  I once killed a gopher with the trash can of my “secret clubhouse.”
36.  I still have no idea why I needed a trash can in there.
37.  I have a water phobia.
38. If I can’t see my feet, I don’t go swimming.
39.  I generally don’t swim in anything that’s not chlorinated.
40.  I think the water phobia is more from being scared of fish than the water.
41.  I’d rather get my armpit tattooed than go to the dentist.
42.  I really do like my dentist.  It would be better if he had nothing to do with my teeth.
43.  Children scare the crap out of me. Especially ones that don’t speak English.
44.  I’m afraid of children because they remind of me institutionalized individuals when left to their own devices.
45.  I once played a video game for two days straight.
46.  I feel more creative after 10 pm.
47.  I’m a bit of a go-getter.
48.  Once I have the idea to do something, I have to do it.
49.  My temper is pretty hot.
50.  I’ve been so angry my vision blurs more times than I care to count.
51.  My grandmother and I have gotten into fist fights several times.
52.  Mom died in January of 1990.
53.  Dad died in March of 1997.
54.  I have six seven nine tattoos.
55.  My goal is to have a half sleeve and a full sleeve by the time I start teaching college. 
56.  I feel pretty sexy in scrub pants.
57.  Geek doesn’t even begin to cover it.
58.  I’d rather wear glasses than contacts.
59.  My dog sat on my glasses and got glass shards stuck in his butt.
60.  Lucky always gets something from what I’m eating.
61.  Surprisingly, I’ve also taught him never to beg.
62.  I have once been horizontal to the ground on the end of Lucky’s leash
63.  I have also been horizontal to the ground while playing softball
64.  I fuel my dog’s hatred of squirrels by teasing him mercilessly with a stuffed squirrel.
65.  Cooking is not one of my strong points.
66.  Baking, however, is.
67.  I don’t like chocolate.
68.  Caramel and Butterscotch are my favorites.
69.  Sand was put on this earth to annoy the crap out of me.
70.  I have a brown (used to be) velvet pillow I’ve slept with since I was 2 days old.
71.  I can’t sleep unless my dog and brown pillow are in the room.
72.  I’m a trendsetter (I was divorced at 24.)
73.  Never finding my one true love is probably one of my biggest “life path” fears.
74.  I can’t stand being wrong.  I don’t have to be right… I just can’t be wrong.
75.  I followed Phish the summer of 2000.
76.  Lists… I’m obsessed with lists.
77.  I often take on more things than I could possibly do in one lifetime.
78.  I feel pretty with makeup on, so I don’t wear it often.  (Don’t want to lose the feeling!)
79.  I can’t stand double standards.
80.  I think that people who breed dogs should be castrated and have their dogs taken away.
81.  Amazon gets my business for almost all of my purchases.  Except for groceries.
82.  I’d rather shop online that in a store.
83.  I’ve been told my social anxiety and inexplicable decents into depression stems from my father’s involvement in Vietnam and his exposure to Agent Orange.  I think we just need someone to blame.
84.  My friends are more like a family to me than my own blood relatives.
85.  I bought my first house at 25.
86.  Nothing makes me happier than having purpose.
87.  I wish I had more courage.
88.  I’m a bit of a gadget addict.
89.  I think the workforce would be happier if we could chose between 10 hour days and 3 day weekends or 8 hour days and 2 day weekends.
90.  Someday I will have a job where my dog can come to work with me.
91.  I am more at home in a classroom than I am anywhere else.
92.  I once got pierced to piss a teacher off.  (My lip was still bleeding when I walked in the door.  He **HATED** me.)
93.  I had 17 piercings in above the neck college.
94.  I miss the 3 barbells in my tongue more than anything.
95.  I love it when my dog wags his tail.
96.  Halloween is my favorite holiday.
97.  Texas was the first place I ever moved on my own free will.
98.  I have eaten Taco Cabana for dinner more than three times consecutively on more than one occasion.
99.  There is nothing more irresistable than a guy who knows how to hug.
100.  I have a very distinct fear of hospitals.