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November 18th, 2006 at 01:20 pm

Okay, here's mine.

1. I have a penguin collection that includes 60 unique items.
2. I love science fiction, particularly military science fiction ala Elizabeth Moon, or sciency science fiction ala Greg Bear, but my favorite author is fantasy writer Anne McCaffrey. Aside from Anne I don’t care much for fantasy.
3. I write teenage romance novels as a hobby.
4. I wrote my first “book” in 3rd grade.
5. I have never won a contest, but every contest I have entered my daughter in, she has won.
6. I hate professional sports, but love watching K-12 soccer, basketball, volleyball, and football. I will watch the Olympic sports of ice skating, gymnastics, swimming, diving, snowcross and stunt skiing.
7. My favorite television show ever was Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
8. I cannot follow a recipe as written unless I’m baking cookies.
9. I have every movie Arnold Shwarzenegger has ever made except Predator. My favorite movie of all time is The Terminator. I was sad to see him become a politician as I figured it would mean his acting days were over. His real acting days, I mean.
10. I have kept a diary in one form or another since the 3rd grade and I still have them all.
11. I am madly, deeply, passionately in love with my husband, who is the only man I have ever slept with. We did not live together before we got married and we had a 4 and 1/2 year engagement, even though we knew we wanted to get married within one week of starting to date. We have been together for 16 years, married for 11.
12. Before I had children I had an IQ of 158. After I had children, I had an IQ of 144.
13. I like to make up words and break the rules of English.
14. I lost my winter trimester of my freshman year of high school due to illness, except for my English class, in which I got the highest A of the class despite only attending class 25 days that term.
15. I made up my lost credits by taking junior achievement after school as a sophomore and attending the vocational school for one summer between sophomore and junior years, so I could graduate with my class.
16. I did not understand algebra until college. I didn’t have a good math teacher until college.
17. As a child I had a photographic memory just like my dad and my son. A head injury sustained at 13 caused me to lose this ability. I can still memorize relatively easily but can’t glance at a page and remember it like before.
18. My husband is a Republican, my parents are Democrats, and I am an Independent. Holidays can be quite interesting.
19. I have 2 older sisters. I don’t like one of them.
20. I love science, especially geology. Glacial geology was my favorite of all the geology classes I took in college. Political Science was my favorite class period.
21. I love watching forensic crime solving shows on TV. Real ones, not fictionalized ones, well, except for Bones. Can’t do this any more as we no longer get cable. It is probably the only thing I miss.
22. I want Sami and Lucas to live happily ever after even though I haven’t watched Days of Our Lives in years. I still keep up in one of the digest mags.
23. I taught my husband how to cook when we were dating. He cooks almost as well as I do now.
24. I was 20 years old before I had any kind of real ethnic food for the first time. Taco Time doesn’t count.
25. I worked my way through college flipping burgers.
26. My first job was picking strawberries at age 4, before they changed the labor laws. I also picked raspberries and blueberries every summer. The first thing I bought with my berry money was a Snoopy wristwatch. It was powder blue. The last year I picked berries was 15. I paid for a trip to a week long Christian youth conference in Colorado, including airfare, with my earnings that year. I did go back and sort raspberries the summer I was 19.
27. My parents do not call me by the name they gave me. They use a nickname of my middle name.
28. I freaked out when I saw a movie with a character that had the same last name as my very rare maiden name. Fortunately I was watching it on DVD at home.
29. I am addicted to books on tape and listen to them every night at bedtime.
30. I still call music CD’s albums, even though I haven’t bought an actual record album since 1988. I still call recording something on DVD taping it. I still call typing a number into a touchtone phone dialing.
31. My cell phone only makes phone calls. It does not take pictures, email, play games, text message, or play MPG files. My cell phone company cannot believe that I like it that way.
32. I still have a few boxes that I haven’t unpacked since we moved into our house over 8 years ago.
33. Instruments I have played in my lifetime are violin, organ, flute, viola, and piano. I taught myself piano 2 years ago, though I am still learning. We own a violin, viola, 2 guitars, electronic keyboard, recorder, song flute, bagpipe practice horn (can’t remember the name, but it doesn’t have the bags or anything, it is DH’s) and a piano (that I got for free, it’s a 1917 Cable-Nelson Upright Grand piano).
34. I participated in an orchestra for 8 years and Concert Choir for 3 years.
35. I had P.E. waived from the 8th grade on so I could take more music classes.
36. I think people should have to take an intelligence test to have children, own a pet, or drive a car. If you don’t have common sense then you shouldn’t be allowed to do any of them.
37. I love puns and make them all the time without intending to.
38. My kids think I am hilarious. This is not quite the same thing as thinking I am funny.
39. I was not allowed to talk on the phone with boys until I was 16. Or to date until I was 16. I did both anyway.
40. In middle school I spent every Friday night at a roller skating rink that had been converted from an old armory for the army. To this day I cannot hear Tainted Love, Angel’s on the Centerfold, Somebody’s Watching Me, I Love Rock and Roll or Jack and Diane without flashing back to the skating rink.
41. When I am particularly unsettled I go to the water. Either to a waterfall, my first choice, a stream or river, or a lake. It always calms me down.
42. My favorite fruit is nectarine, with bing cherry running a close second. My favorite vegetable is kohlrabi.
43. All of my K-12 teachers were afraid of my mother.
44. I prefer cheap milk chocolate over the expensive “good” stuff.
45. I have a different tablecloth for each season of the year.
46. My computer desktop currently has a picture of yellow tulips against a blue sky.
47. My best friend growing up turned out to be a jerk. It was really too bad as she had tons of talent and unlimited potential.
48. I have not had a pet since my cat died 10 years ago. She was the most beautiful Calico Tabby cross I have ever seen and her name was Honi, pronounced like honey.
49. I painted my house dark forest green with brown trim.
50. My favorite color flowers to plant are the blues and the oranges, but not together.

4 Responses to “These Lists Keep Coming”

  1. jodi Says:
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    12. Before I had children I had an IQ of 158. After I had children, I had an IQ of 144.
    Kids will do that to you Smile
    I miss the old days of roller skating too. We all had our birthday parties at our local rink growing up. I just never got into roller blading at all. Gosh, I loved the 80's.

  2. kealina Says:
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    great list...
    i enjoyed geology as a class too... if you ever come to hawaii it's a really cool thing to explore... and so interesting about having photographic memory when you were young...i can't even imagine... my memory is pretty offbeat... i forget or remember the strangest things sometimes...

  3. PRICEPLUS Says:
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    Great list. You are like my DD in many ways. She collects Walruses(she says I remind her of one with my mustache)! She love piano, viola, and guitar. Her favorite activity on Fridays is to go skating at the rink! Smile

  4. Broken Arrow Says:
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    #3 is fascinating! What do typical teenage romance novels look like? Do you publish them or do you write them just for fun?

    #11 is so touching and sweet.

    I'm not sure what to say about #12 though. Big Grin

    #19, I have two younger sisters. I get along good with one of them, but is distant with the other. Personality conflict I guess.

    Hehe. I like #21 too. I like to things that I makes me think.

    #22, I have no idea what you're talking about. Wink

    #31, my cellphone can do just about anything under the sun. I too am constricted, but mostly out of personal frugality. Otherwise, it's go go gadget Tricorder! Big Grin
    #36, while I agree with the sentiment, I think it would be more difficult to implement than it would seem. Common sense isn't common, and intelligence takes many different forms. Some forms don't apply to others. But I suppose that's a discussion for elsewhere. Intelligence is a very interesting subject though. Smile

    #37 is cute. Heheh.

    #38 is even funnier!

    #42, I've never heard of kohlrabi before, until now. Learn something new everyday! What does it taste like by the way? Or is it the texture that you prefer?

    You know what? I think you and I could get along quite well in real life! As friends of course. Big Grin You're just so different from me in so many interesting ways that I could amused just by sitting around and seeing what you will do next. You know you're with someone special when you find people like that. (And before anyone thinks I'm trying to put the moves on her or something, I've felt the same way with guys as well. No, I'm not bi! Big Grin)

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