100 Weird things you probably didn’t know about me

07May08

1- Factories fascinate me.
2- I was the most monstrous pregnant person ever- 12 years ago today!
3- I qualified for food stamps at that time.
4- I received food stamps and had to go to nutrition classes to keep getting them.
5- I felt like a loser on government assistance.
6- I wasn’t one, even though I thought I was.
7- I used to perform secret science experiments.
8- I don’t know why I kept them secret.
9- I plotted to steal a horse.
10- I was successful.
11- I got caught very quickly.
12- My parents didn’t find out until many years later.
13- I have tasted horse manure.
14- It’s awful. I don’t recommend it.
15- I have also tasted mud.
16- It’s better than horse manure.
17- I didn’t get worms from it.
18- Getting worms is my deepest fear.
19- I have other deepest fears as well.
20- Sometimes I’m good at Scrabble.
21- I’m never good at Scrabble when my sister-in-law is playing.
22- Speed Scrabble is TONS more fun than regular Scrabble.
23- I was on an infomercial.
24- It got cancelled after one week.
25- Thank goodness!
26- I played on an all-boys soccer team in 8th grade.
27- Other girls joined after that.
28- They started whining.
29- The boys voted the girls off the team.
30- I started arm-wrestling.
31- I quit arm-wrestling later because I decided it wasn’t lady-like.
32- DUH.
33- I never follow a recipe.
34- I was born in Berlin.
35- I’ve met Ronald Reagan.
36- I’ve met George Bush.
37- I’ve met Laura Bush, Barbara Bush, Jenna Bush.
38- I got invited to the Inaugural Ball and a party at V.P. Bush’s House.
39- I turned down the invite.
40- I didn’t want the guy to get the wrong idea.
41- I’m not necessarily a Republican.
42- My family of origin has holiday birthdays. All of us!
43- When I was a kid I told my mom I wasn’t the “clean up type.”
44- I was right about that.
45- My parents made me stay in piano lessons and they quit paying for gymnastics.
46- I still love gymnastics.
47- Laundry depresses me.
48- I always wanted a monkey.
49- I want to learn to ride a waveboard.
50- I can’t snowboard to save my life.
51- I’ve broken my nose twice.
52- Both times it was on the bottom of a swimming pool.
53- I’ve never broken my neck.
54- I’m lucky!
55- My grandmother was crazy.
56- She arm-wrestled guys.
57- She always won.
58- She didn’t quit to be more ladylike.
59- She never did anything to be more ladylike.
60- Someone once asked me for my autograph, thinking I was Amy Grant.
61- I gave it to them.
62- Being stalked is not a compliment.
63- I am obsessive about some things.
64- Sometimes they are good things.
65- Sometimes they aren’t.
66- I can’t breathe when I wear corduroy.
67- I never endanger my life by wearing it.
68- I used to sneak sugar cubes.
69- I have eaten mothballs, thinking they were candy.
70- It takes a while to get rid of the taste of mothballs.
71- My son hides marshmallows in his room.
72- The ants betrayed him.
73- I got my first marriage proposal at 14.
74- The guy was old and weird, and wanted a wife who would give him 7 children and teach them many languages.
75- My dad told him I was too young.
76- I didn’t think I was; I just didn’t want to marry HIM.
77- I got engaged 5 years later.
78- I’ve been married for twenty years.
79- I’m a bookworm.
80- I listen to tapes often, too.
81- Does that make me a tapeworm? I sure hope not!
82- I get big crazy ideas- ALL THE TIME.
83- Sometimes they pan out.
84- I forget things ALL THE TIME.
85- I sometimes forget about my big crazy ideas.
86- Sometimes I can’t forget them, even when I want to.
87- I once raced against Renaldo Nehemiah, the former world record holder for hurdles.
88- I didn’t win.
89- He told me not to feel bad about it.
90- I didn’t.
91- I am thinking about going back to school.
92- I’m not sure how it would make a difference.
93- I like going to school.
94- My first car was a Buick LeSabre.
95- I crashed into my parents car, also a Buick LeSabre.
96- The accident happened in our driveway.
98- I flunked my drivers test on my 16th birthday.
99- My surprise birthday party cake was decorated like a driver’s license.
100- I’m still not a great driver, but I’m working on that.

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