1. i spend way too much time on the internet. one day, i hope to grow a life and not be on here so much. in the meantime, blog on.
2. i really enjoy writing. getting things out makes me feel better and it is likely more socially acceptable than telling my innermost thoughts to random strangers in the a&p. it also saves the time/energy required in actually leaving my apartment.
3. i love to share things and talk. i know i talk way too much. i try to let other people have their turn. this is probably because i live alone with a two year old and a cat.
4. since i was a little dork, i’ve always wanted to live in dryden, ontario. it’s neat because parker’s godparents, christie and mike live there now.
5. i’d rather live alone with the two year old and the cat than be in a crappy relationship despite what it might seem like from my countless “i’m an unloved loser” entries. i’ve been down that road before and it sucks.
5. i am a big old dork. i embrace it.
6. i love to quote. i will quote song lyrics and lines from movies and just find a way to slip it into everyday conversation.
7. people either find this charming or…irritating.
8. i love to sing. i have a horrible voice but sing loudly anyway. there is not a moment in my vehicle that i am not singing…well, unless the tape is rewinding.
9. yes, i still listen to tapes. i love tapes. unforutanely this love for tapes came a good ten years after i got rid of my tapes. it is strange how i am now buying tapes i owned once before.
10. sarah is the only friend i have who will sing with me.
11. i have requested that some people never sing with me so it might be my own fault.
12. i love to go “yardsailing” and i spell it that way for a reason. i also love thrift store shopping but i never buy anything i actually need or will use. i love other people’s crap.
13. i don’t read very much but i wish i did.
14. i have a lot of dreams and remember all of them.
15. i love google. i am a pro at it and i google everyone.
16. as soon as possible after watching a movie, i “imdb” it. i love to read the quotes and the goofs. i also use imdb as a verb which confuses many people who are not internet savvy.
17. i hate being photographed but i take thousands of pictures of parker and the cat. the only photographs i post on the net have me looking retarded, on purpose.
18. for a person who works with special needs children, i overuse the word retarded. sorry, i can’t be perfect.
19. i really want to have another baby and i will get one from china, go to a sperm bank or go through in-vitro to get her. yes, her. it better be a girl if i am going to spend all that money.
20. her name will be matilda.
21. even “i” think it is a little weird that i have names picked out for my unborn child. what’s even weirder is when i buy her beverly cleary books from value village. my sister in law decorated a nursery for her unborn kid so it could be worse.
22. i’m lying. the books were really for me. i just made up that story because in my own socially retarded mind, it sounded better than me wanting the cashier at value village to know about my love for children’s novels.
23. i do not want to have this child until i am like 35 or have my shit together. if i had a kid now, i would be crying in a little ball on the floor.
24. if i do end up pregnant now, just call me Mary. i have not had sex in over two years. i like to think of myself as some sort of straight edge/born again virgin rather than…umm, unloved loser.
25. i seem to only date lemons. lemonade is overrated.
26. deep down, i wonder if i am the problem.
27. i despise internet dating.
28. i have a really big nose and am quite sensitive about it.
29. come to think of it, i am sensitive about a lot of things.
30. i am very self-aware. it’s helpful because i can say crazy stuff and realize that i am only saying it because i am jealous/hurting/insecure etc.
31. i’ve had battles with depression, especially postpartum depression. don’t even get me started on the tom cruise thing. i’m good now, thanks.
32. i think everyone should go to counselling.
33. i love my cat but sometimes she is a huge witch.
34. i give everyone nicknames because people likely don’t want to have their name on my website.
35. this, of course, doesn’t explain using the nicknames in public.
36. i have a lot of embarassing moments. the gems: 1) throwing up in front of all my special needs clients at the cle 2) having my brother walk in on me having sex (it would have been better if it was good old missionary but it was from behind and my brother thinking i was having anal sex and enjoying it immensely) 3) being so drunk on a birthday and trying to pick up my own brother. this was before entering a wet tshirt contest and crying to a friend saying that i loved him and never loved my boyfriend (which isn’t even the truth.)
37. i throw up alot. it’s kinda weird.
38. i should really bathe more.
39. i wish i could wear pajamas all the time.
40. i have an irrational hatred towards star jones-reynolds.
41. i have a mad crushes on tom selleck and kevin costner.
42. i liked country music when i was a kid and recently started listening to it again. we’re talking country/country like suzy bogguss, dolly parton and clay walker.
43. i liked johnny cash in that in-between period when it wasn’t so cool (post-60s and pre-covers/walk the line).
44. sometimes i feel really guily about not going to church even though i am kinda indifferent these days. i am more agnostic than atheist though. in fact, athiests kinda piss me off because i think they are wrong.
45…i’m not opinionated at all.
46. sarcasm is fun but most people don’t get my sense of humour. most times, people think i am sarcastic when i’m not.
47. i live for playful banter.
48. i will defend anyone or anything regardless what i think. the best is when i defend people i don’t know and movies i haven’t even seen.
49. i used to research things like the titanic (not the movie) and the kennedys (especially jackie o) in my youth. no wonder why i didn’t have many friends.
50. i refer to my ex as “cherry popsicle” in regards to the same named jann arden song. when he dumped me, i didn’t even know what to do with myself for a long time.
51. that’s never going to happen to me again.
52. sometimes i still think i love him. that is, when i am not hating him. one day i hope i can find the happy middle.
53. i have a huge fear of public speaking. i never do it.
54. i was one of those kids in school who never talked and cried all the time.
55. my favourite quote is “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” i first found it on the bathroom door at the inntowner.
56. i used to be on the curling team and did announcements in high school. in fact, i read the quote of the day on announcements. i carried my quotes around in a little book.
57. i wish i got more emails.
58. i had the whole bloody town in the delivery room when parker was born. we’re talking six people not including me, parker and medical professionals.
59. labour was not so fun. next time, i want an epidural even though needles scare the shit out of me.
60. i have some regrets. i do believe they made me who i am but i still would have done things differently.
61. i think people that say they don’t have any regrets are liars.
62. i can be a huge bitch sometimes.
63…but i do a lot of volunteer work and can be a real sweetheart.
64. i like to think it evens out.
65. my biggest fear is having someone take parker away from me. i don’t even want to talk about it.
66. i remember everything. it’s both awesome and a curse.
67. my favourite movies are kissing jessica stein, the bodyguard and dirty dancing.
68. i’ve always wondered if i was a lesbian. when i was a kid, my brother and i would play this game “name five people you would want to sleep with” and “name five people you would want to sleep with if you were gay, not like you are or anything but if you were..”
69. come to think of it, that’s not normal. it probably didn’t help things that for five years people thought my brother and i were dating. i miss that guy. i wish we were still close.
70. kelly olerud (john’s wife..are they still married? i better google) was always on my list for the females and turner ward and eric lindros for the men. i watched a lot of sports back in the day.
71. i still miss my dad sometimes.
72. i do not feel at all bad about my lack of a relationship with my mother. i don’t particularly hate her i just know that it is a healthy choice not to have her in my life.
73. i used to know all my american states and capitals and presidents (in order).
74. i’ve always been obnoxious about things like drug use and improper grammar.
75. i want to go back to school.
76. sometimes i still think about the one that got away.
77. i love to scrapbook but unfortunately, i am a good two years behind.
78. i change my msn name a thousand times a day. therapy through changing msn names is the way to go.
79. i hate when people assume it is about them. it is true that the name always means something but it could be as simple as “this was a song they played on magic 99 this morning on the way to school.”
80. one day, i want to meet someone that will do the hand on hand over glass thing that i think is super romantic just like in the music video “the heart won’t lie” with reba and vince gill.
81. i find reba (the tv show) inspirational. no, i’m not kidding.
82. i really like the word obscure.
83. i also love the word penchant.
84. i hate it when people talk like me. it reminds me how all the kids at school talk hillbilly like on king of the hill. i secretly think they are making fun of me.
85. i go to dictionary.com at least twice a day because i worry that i am spelling things incorrectly. there is a big difference between typos and bad spelling.i can spell. i cannot type.
86. i was once the grade 5 spelling bee champion. when we went downstairs for the entire school spelling bee, i choked on my first word, “reference” and then i went home to cry.
87. i say i don’t care about comments but i secretly love them.
88. i cheated on this list by going to look what other people wrote for ideas, namely brandi and sarah.
89. i was once attacked by a seagull. i was just walking across the street and it kept coming at my head.
90. i just found my old 100 things in the google cache. fuck it. i will finish this anyway. i like how i used some of the same things. that’s neat.
91. i was a lacto-ovo-vegetarian for five years. i started eating meat again when i realized i forgot why i stopped. i started on my five year anniversary to the day.
92. i was a hard core environmentalist/animal right geek when i was 14.
93. there is this one person i was friends with in high school that i miss talking to…and it’s not who you think.
94. i think dr sears is brilliant. i have a huge appreciation for attachment parenting.
95. i try really hard to be a good mom but i worry that i suck.
96. i watch what i say around parker because i have haunting memories of overhearing my parents’ conversations when i was a kid. i remember one conversation where a friend of my mother was comparing giving oral sex to mashed potatoes. that alone could explain some of my sexual hangups and why i can’t stand mashed potatoes.
97. my family relationships are disasterous but that’s okay. i am lucky as i have a lifetime to choose my family and who is important to me and who i want to spend my time with..
98. i just realized i went through this entire list without talking about dawson’s creek or alias. that is insanity. i love both shows.
99. i love boston pizza. it is my favourite restaurant. pasta tuesday, bitches. the waitress even knows what i order.
100. i am stealing this one from sarah as it is true for me too: “I start a lot of things I never finish. This isn’t one of them.”
