100 Things
  1. I am the same age as Sesame Street.  
  2. The Dr that delivered me never delivered any more babies.  He had a nervous breakdown and was hospitalized.  True story.
  3. My dad did actually drop me on my head as a child.  Luckily I was wearing a thick knit hat my mom had made me.
  4. I am mother of two boys.
  5. I am a wife.
  6. I am a full-time student, again after taking 14 years off.  The difference is that this time I want to learn something rather than wanting simply to get through it.
  7. I am a musician.  I have played flute and piccolo for 26 years.  I was going to be a famous musician but seem to have taken a sidetrack into reality.  But being a musician is different than playing music.  It is a way of feeling music pass through you.
  8. I am a bookworm.  There is never a time when I am not in the middle of reading something.
  9. I have a serious book buying problem and have stacks and stacks of books on the "to read" list.
  10. I am an English Lit. major (see #8-9)
  11. I am a Music Major (never could give that up)
  12. I am a Gender Studies minor.  Not sure why that is, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.  There are some people I trust completely and have trouble saying no to.  One of those people suggested this would be good for me.  So far it has been an interesting choice.
  13. I worry that I will never graduate.
  14. I worry that I will graduate.
  15. I get depressed.  Not a little blue, but curled up in a ball for hours sobbing, depressed.  It scares me sometimes.
  16. I wish I was a better mom/friend/person.
  17. Sometimes, I secretly think I am ruining my kids lives.
  18. I also secretly think that everyone but me knows what's wrong with me and no one will tell me.
  19. I love baseball.  I crave it like a drug all winter and it is the true harbinger of Spring for me.  The sounds remind me of summers with my father and grandfather. 
  20. I live and die by the NY Mets. Born and raised a Mets fan I learned how to say "We'll get 'em next year at a very early age."  I never miss a game if it is humanly possible.
  21. I love spending time with my family.  We laugh until my sides hurt over nothing at all.
  22. I am obsessive.  
  23. When I die I want my ashes thrown out over Shea Stadium.  really. Right after a big Irish wake with music and drinks.
  24. I am easily star struck by academics as well as celebrities.
  25. I love Harry Connick Jr., George Clooney, Patrick Stewart, Viggo Mortenson, Sean Connery, Richard Gere.
  26. I hate stupid people.
  27. I love Jane Austen, George Elliot and Edith Wharton.
  28. I hate comic books (with the exception of Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes)
  29. Think my son might be Calvin.
  30. I watch a lot of TV.  Don't care.  Love it.
  31. Love Will and Grace, 24, Sopranos, Boston Public, Six Feet Under and any "made for TV musical"
  32. I love showtunes.  
  33. Have over 200 cds that include almost every genre of music.  Hate rap.
  34.  I love jazz. Wish I could play jazz.  I am making an effort to learn. 
  35. I try to be a writer.  
  36. I have hazel eyes that sometimes look an intense shade of green.
  37. I don't remember my natural hair color.
  38. I can do medieval calligraphy and illumination.
  39. I used to fence in tournaments dressed in medieval garb.
  40. I can knit and crochet.  Whenever I do I remember the way my grandmother's hands used to never be idle - always creating something to comfort someone she loved.  I miss her.
  41. Sometimes I cook and when I do I am pretty good at it.
  42. I talk too much.
  43. I love to buy electronic gadgets - lots of them.  Toys make me happy.
  44. I think TiVo is my new best friend.
  45. I don't have many friends.
  46. The ones I have I would do anything for.  almost.
  47. My son inherited my crazy genes.  I feel incredibly guilty about that.  He is too young to be depressed.
  48. I giggle a lot. Sometimes at very inappropriate times.
  49. I sometimes have the attention span of a gnat.
  50. I love Disneyworld!  I go almost every year.
  51. Tigger made his film debut the year I was born.
  52. I secretly wish I was a cabaret singer.
  53. I have to sing when I am driving.
  54. I talk to myself.  A lot.
  55. I am very close to my family.
  56. I wish I was more spiritual but I don't believe in organized religion.
  57. I am not nice enough.
  58. I have a very bad temper.  I yell a lot.  And I yell loudly.
  59. I never had sex in the back of a car as a teenager.  I have as an adult.  It's a favorite memory.
  60. I rarely hold a grudge.
  61. I love when everything is organized.
  62. I am a terrible housekeeper.
  63. I am online too much.
  64. Would stay online more if I could manage it.
  65. I always feel awkward in social situations.  I leave every event replaying the entire thing in my mind and wishing I had done or said something different.
  66. Don't do well in crowds.
  67. Don't like cities.
  68. Love to be near the ocean and just listen and feel it pulling at me.
  69. Don't like to swim in the ocean. Afraid of the fish.
  70. Don't eat any seafood. Ever.
  71. Try to eat well. Not always successful.  
  72. Love chocolate.  Almost as good as sex.  Not quite.
  73. Stress about losing weight.
  74. Eat when I am stressed.
  75. Love pets. Have a cat, fish, bird, and soon a dog.
  76. I can obsess over one piece of music, or even one phrase in a piece of music, or one chord in a phrase, for weeks at a time.
  77. I have trouble saying no to people who ask me to do things for them.  
  78. I love being a student.  I look forward to the difficult classes where I will actually learn something.
  79. I am going to be a college English professor so I can stay in classes and never join the real world.
  80. I am a sucker for a guy with a foreign accent (add musical or artistic talent to that and it's all over)
  81. I have over 200 DVDs.  
  82. I can wiggle my ears.
  83. I can't stand small minded bigots who jump on the political bandwagon of "patriotism" without thinking a single thought for themselves.
  84. I am pro-choice.  There are more lives to be saved than just that of the baby.  
  85. I have been known to be obsessed for years at a time over the Titanic and the Kennedys.
  86. My friends and family refer to me as an overwhelming source of useless trivia.
  87. There are days when I think it would be a very good idea to run away and live in a tiny apartment filled with books and just be the crazy cat lady.
  88. My favorite colors are green and brown, but I like most deep rich colors.  I don't like bright gaudy things or prissy pastels.  And also think you should never staple 6,000 anything to the wall in an effort to decorate.
  89. I am terrified of getting injections or having blood drawn.  I hyperventilate and make myself sick.
  90. Self help gurus make my skin crawl.
  91. My moods are extremely weather dependent.  A few rainy days in a row can send me scrambling for chick flicks and wallowing music.
  92. Favorite all-time cds:  Chicago - Soundtrack, Les Miserables - Complete Symphonic Recording, Jonatha Brooke - Ten Cent Wings, Dave Brubeck - Take Five, Harry Chapin - Verities and Balderdash, 10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe, Harry Connick Jr. - We are In Love, Harry Connick Jr. - Songs I've Heard, Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell.
  93. I can procrastinate better than anyone I know.  I will procrastinate until I worry myself sick that I won't finish something in time.  This list has taken longer than you will ever know.
  94. I am the queen of mediocre.  I can do many things a little bit but few things very well.  (See #49)
  95. The only things I can make out of play-doh are snakes and snowmen.  
  96. I sometimes go to campus just to soak it all in and breathe in the stale smell of the English Department.  
  97. I am most definitely not a high-maintenance kind of girl.  No foofy hairstyles and weekly manicures. I am a jeans and sweater kind of gal.  
  98. I do love to spend the day at the spa but I giggle uncontrollably at the idea of mass marketed tranquility.  
  99. I am just starting to figure out what I am going to be when I grow up.  This is not how I pictured my life.  Not better.  Not worse.  Just not what I imagined.
  100. There are still things about me that you will never know and I will never add to this list.