October 5, 2005 1. I find it hard to start this list. 2. I like Law and Order (it’s on now, got some inspiration). 3. I’m 5’4 ¾” tall. 4. Since having our third child, I’m constantly losing 10 pounds. 5. I will not tell what I weigh. 6. Unfortunately, it’s the same 10 pounds over and over. 7. I find moderation difficult. 8. I find it odd to be old enough to see my own childhood/teenagehood fashions on my children. 9. I’m not much into sports. 10. In fact, I really don’t like them at all. 11. I followed my old musician boyfriend to college and met my husband there. 12. When he first saw me, he called his mom to say, “he’d met the one”. 13. Apparently, he did. 14. I swore I wouldn’t date another musician. 15. I married one instead. 16. My husband makes slammin’ margaritas. 17. We considered “Margarita” for our daughter’s name. 18. I was born in California. 19. When I was in high school, I thought that made me cool. 20. I really hate exercise. 21. But I hate for my arse to be large, worse. 22. I’ve moved 11 times in the last 13 years. 23. I’m tired of moving. October 6, 2005 24. I used to be very proud of my belly button. 25. Now, it’s sort of embarrassing (3 children, 3 c-sections). 26. While I’m continuing this list this morning, I’m working on a white sauce for lasagna. 27. I hope I don’t burn it (the sauce, not the list). 28. I’ve never made a white sauce for lasagna before. 29. I’m mildly acrachnophobic. 30. I think waaaay too much about my aging/post baby body. 31. I think this means I’m vain. 32. My husband is hysterical (not in a need institutionalizing way). 33. My husband has great shoulders. 34. And a nice bum. 35. And great legs. 36. I’m wondering what does it look like when the white sauce is thick enough? 37. I’m naturally brunette. 38. I spent 3 years as a highlighted blonde. 39. I’m hoping I judged the white sauce correctly. 40. I used to bake wedding cakes for a living. 41. I love the rain. 42. I don’t really like baking. 43. I believe whole-heartedly in a redemptive, loving, forgiving God. 44. But it still seems very unreal sometimes. 45. I have a hard time being on time. 46. It has driven my father, and my husband, batty. 47. I really like wine. 48. I don’t like really bad wine. 49. But I like OK wine. 50. I was an Alpha Delta Pi at the University of Georgia from 1988-1990. 51. I never got into it. 52. Sorry to offend, but I think it’s a ridiculous institution set up solely on superficial pretenses. 53. Doing the walk songs was embarrassing. 54. But I got to live in a 150-year-old Victorian mansion with 75 other silly girls. 55. I quit the year they blackballed a pre-med girl from a highly touted private school in Atlanta, because, and I quote “what will our alumni say? Our contributions may dry up.”. She was black. 56. But I didn’t quit til the end of the year, and I wish I’d been ballsy enough to walk out on the spot. 57. My ears tend to stick out. 58. I once cut my hair off like Jeanine Turner from Northern Exposure. 59. I looked like a MonChiChi (the ears). 60. My hair is now long and I’ll probably never cut short again. 61. Long hair feels like a security blanket to me (and covers the ears). 62. I love Lay’s potato chips, plain. 63. If I had the money, I’d get a boob job. 64. And a tummy tuck (the belly button issue). 65. I love horses, and riding. 66. I’d love to be really crunchy granola bohemian, but I can’t let my hair just go. It’s too flat all by itself. 67. Again, I think this means I’m vain. 68. I prefer cold weather to hot. 69. I sometimes have a hard time following through with good intentions. 70. I’m hoping that has something to do with the children. 71. I’m not worried about our children’s education, I’m worried about their ability to be happy, stable, giving, God-loving, productive people who can hold down sustentative relationships in their lives. 72. I have one sister, 5 years younger. 73. She has one child, my niece, who is 4. 74. We’re only just now learning to get along (my sister and me, not my niece and me, we’ve always gotten along). 75. I love to sing. 76. I don’t sing well. 77. I am pretty uncoordinated. 78. Therefore, although I love to dance, I don’t dance well. 79. I peel my toenails, sometimes til they bleed. 80. I’m too vain to make my hands look that bad. 81. I’ve frozen myself in my head at about 22, therefore constantly get surprised when I take a really good look in the mirror. 82. I’m surprised I’m up to #82 and am still thinking of things. 83. I love to read. 84. When I start a good book, I can’t stop. 85. A lot of people say this, but my husband really is my best friend. 86. I would love to really be able to dance a mean salsa. 87. I’ve never had much success at having many really good girlfriends. 88. I want them, I think. 89. I’m sometimes afraid that in saying I “do unschooling”, I’m really trying to cover for being lazy. 90. I had Cat Scratch Fever, Scarlet Fever and Mono before I was 10. 91. I’m knock-kneed. 92. I hate to read maps. 93. Because I can’t read maps. 94. I was one point away from failing Trig my senior year in high school. 95. If I’d failed Trig, I wouldn’t have graduated on time. 96. My friend Doug signaled the answer to the question I was deliberating on his way out of the final. 97. I graduated on time. Because of Doug. 98. Math makes me nervous. 99. My senior year in college, a lit professor accused me of plagiarizing my term paper, nearly failing me. 100. If I’d failed the class, I wouldn’t have graduated on time (issue resolved). 101. I’m surprised I’m already at #100. 102. I’m especially surprised I can still think of things to add. 103. For instance, when I was 7 mo. pregnant with our first child, I sat in the driveway and sobbed that I was worried I wouldn’t like him. 104. I didn’t much for nearly 6 months, when he finally began to sleep at night. 105. And that I got my first tattoo for my 32nd birthday. 106. My husband designed it and got a matching one. 107. I want another one. 108. I’ve found, through this little exercise, that I can say more things about me than I realized.