100 random things about me


I’m probably the last person on the web to do this, but here it is anyway. 100 random weird, funny, and quirky things about me.

  1. I was raised by my grandmother until I was 13. This explains why I’m so weird. She is Mennonite, converted to Baptist, and blending the two. Very traditional gender roles, and a child of the depression who never really got that the depression was over.
  2. My uncle Jerry was my babysitter most of the time. He was a truck driver who got in a terrible wreck and couldn’t drive anymore. He worked as a mechanic at the trucking company. So I spent my free time with a group of hairy, smelly, greasy, foul-talking, men.
  3. I’ve had a goat, two geese, several turtles, a skunk, an armadillo, and a snake all as pets at one time or another.
  4. Slugs and Junebugs freak me out. The slugs I can understand, but I have no idea why Junebugs make me scream.
  5. I never expected to have kids. I was told that I couldn’t and had accepted. Both boys were complete surprises.
  6. I’m a recovering addict. Even thought it has been 5 years I don’t consider myself an ex-addict. I don’t think that anyone ever really recovers, they are just always recovering.
  7. Both boys were born completely natural. No drugs, no interventions, no crap. I highly recommend it for everyone.
  8. 1 day after having E I went out to eat, went to the in-laws, and went shopping. And I felt great.
  9. 2 days after having A I vacuumed the house and did laundry.
  10. When E was 9 months old he got a horrible diaper rash that would not go away no matter what I did or used. It left huge blisters all over that his doctor said would most like scar. I switched to cloth diapers and the rash cleared up. I’ve been a cloth convert ever since.
  11. Despite the myth, I’ve had more trouble from E’s circumcision with repeated infections throughout the years. A has been no problem at all, just wipe and go. Intact is so much easier and cleaner than cutting.
  12. I am addicted to Mountain Dew. I have to have at least 1 can a day.
  13. During my pregnancy with E I worked in a raw meat processing plant. All day in 30*F temps, covered in raw meat, and lifting 80lb rolls of raw bologna off of a conveyor belt onto a rack to cook. I swore I would never go back.
  14. I’m Pagan, but not Wiccan. It annoys me when people assume that one equals the other.
  15. On Dearest and mine’s first anniversary we moved into the coolest apartment ever, I bought him a brand new electric guitar, and we found out I was pregnant. I like to do things big.
  16. I’m a total book worm. My dream house has a room with floor to ceiling bookshelves and comfortable couch to read them on.
  17. When I feel passionately about something I tend to get myself very worked up and getting into other’s personal space about it.
  18. I was invited to be on the Montel Williams show to talk about breastfeeding. Then they decided not to use me and never told me, just left me hanging. I was told it wasn’t a good episode anyway.
  19. I hate doing the dishes. Hate, hate, hate. I’ll clean everything else as long as I don’t have to wash the dishes.
  20. I love writing. I’m not the best at it, but I don’t care. I just love doing it.
  21. I like playing games like Sims and civilization because it boosts my god-complex. *evil laughter*
  22. I was homeschooled for half of my Freshman year in high school. It was the best part of high school. But my mom’s boyfriend is opposed to homeschooling and demanded that she put me back in public school.
  23. I would love to live in an intentional community someday, but dearest hates the idea.
  24. My dream house is an Earthship.
  25. My hair has been red, green, purple, blue, black, and blonde. I love dying my hair and wish I could hire a professional stylist to come do my hair in a new color every couple months.
  26. I’m training to be a doula with CAPPA. I’ve got about 1 year left until I’m done. I’ve got to take 2 more classes and then do 3 births for free and I’ll be certified.
  27. I hate cold weather. Seriously, I was designed to live somewhere where its 75*F all year round.
  28. I come up with a million new ideas every day, and follow through on only about 1 of them a month.
  29. If I did the grocery shopping we’d never have any meat.
  30. I haven’t shaved in about 2 years, and I love it.
  31. Some parents piss me off. Especially the ones who have kids then act like everything is a huge inconvenience. Why have kids if you don’t want to be bothered by them? Just get a damn cat instead.
  32. “You train a dog, not a child” and “Never hit people, and children are people” are two sayings I want to find on t-shirts to wear.
  33. I check my email several times a day. I feel nervous and anxious if I don’t.
  34. I’m not anti-social, I just hate people. ;)
  35. I met Doug McClure once. I loved the show Out of This World, which he was in. I don’t remember much about meeting him, just that it was St. Patrick’s Day and my mom made me wear this hideous green polka dotted dress.
  36. I collect Dragon figurines
  37. I have 4 tattoos, and plan to get 2 more. I also want 2 of the ones I have now covered. I got the two I want covered at 15 because my mom said I couldn’t have a tattoo until I was 16.
  38. I’m not even half as funny as I think I am.
  39. Some days I really do wish I had a daughter. Then I feel guilty for feeling that way when I have two absolutely wonderful sons.
  40. I hate feet. I think they are the ugliest body part ever, and that’s only in part because I have really ugly feet. My sons, however, have the cutest feet ever. Especially their toes.
  41. I breastfed E for 16 months and plan to breastfed A for at least 2 years.
  42. Someday bob and Wendy will settle down, get married, build a straw bale house, and have a household full of kids. If you know who I’m talking about then you know why I’m even more nuts for thinking about their love lives. LOL
  43. I’ve never been out of the country. I’ve barely been out of Oklahoma.
  44. When I was younger I wanted twin girls. I was going to name them Jade Marie and Rain Capri.
  45. I get into major funks where I hate myself and everything about me. I tend to disappear and not say a word to anyone about it. I just sit on my couch all day.
  46. I love Italian food.
  47. I want to print this brochure off and stick a copy inside every BabyWise book I come across.
  48. Before I had kids I was a size 1, now…. I’m not telling.
  49. I don’t wear shorts, even in the summer.
  50. Woo-hoo! Half way there!
  51. I’m a thrift store junkie. I love buying things cheap.
  52. I had a cloth diaper store for a short while, then I realized just how much work I would have to do and tossed the idea.
  53. I’m done having children. I’d love to have many more, but I’m finished with the whole pregnancy and labor aspects myself. Now if someone else would like to have the babies for me that would be great.
  54. I try every year to have a garden and every year something happens to kill it.
  55. I love chocolate. There, I said it.
  56. I wish i could get paid for sitting on my butt all day. I’d be a millionaire.
  57. I need to schedule my time much better. As it is there are so many things I want to do, but I never get any done because I’m so unorganized. I keep planning on doing it tomorrow, but it never happens.
  58. It annoys me to no end when E does something he knows he shouldn’t be doing, I get on to him for it, and he laughs. I swear I can feel my blood boiling when he laughs about it.
  59. I need at least 1 hour of silence every day or my brain melts and oozes out my ears. Every night once both boys are asleep i sit on the couch with only the table lamp on and just unwind in the stillness.
  60. I worked for WIC and got certified by them as a breastfeeding counselor. Then my boss quit, lost all of the paperwork, I didn’t get paid, and the new woman in charge ignored my phone calls. It was the perfect job, at first.
  61. Its taken me half the day to get this far. Sheesh! Who knew list 100 things about yourself could be so hard?
  62. I like watching Anime. Momochan and Ranma 1/2 are my favorites.
  63. I curse. Often. More than I should. Its one of those habits I can’t seem to stop.
  64. I’m a terrible housekeeper. I spend more time stressing about how bad the house is than I do actually cleaning, so by time I feel ready to clean its so messy I don’t know where to begin and I feel overwhelmed. Which starts the stressing again.
  65. I think circumcision is a human rights violation
  66. I think you should take parenting advice from Dr. Phil the same way you would take marriage advice from Jerry Springer.
  67. I call my refrigerator an “ice box”. Refer back to #1 as to why.
  68. I think Islam is a beautiful religion. Unfortunately there are whackos who like to call themselves Muslims and give it a bad name. I took a great online class on Islam and fell in love with how poetic the religion really is.
  69. 69 heh heh heh
  70. In school I was the freak girl that no one really liked.
  71. I used to have a pair of furry, leopard print short shorts.
  72. I love red beans and rice, meatless please
  73. I had a past life experience when I was 8. It was recorded on blank cassette, but my grandmother destroyed it because she felt it was evil. It was my one and only so far.
  74. In college I used to do Tarot card readings everyday. I took donations of cash, food, alcohol, and “illegal substances”. I had quite a growing following, nearly every day someone was at my apartment for a reading.
  75. I don’t eat breakfast. No matter what time I wake up I can’t eat before 10AM or I feel bad for the rest of the day. My body’s clock is odd.
  76. I spend far too much time in my favorite chat board.
  77. I love Ska and Punk music. Its odd for a parent like me, but I can’t help it. There’s nothing like a good punk song to make me want to shake up the powers that be.
  78. As a kid I never had birthday parties with friends. It wasn’t allowed in my house.
  79. I won a state wide poetry contest in second grade. I never told anyone that the poem I wrote was a ripped off version of a poem Darlene wrote and won for on an episode of Roseanne.
  80. I don’t wear make-up. I used to in college, but that was to go out dancing and then it was colors like silver eyeshadow and bright red lipstick.
  81. My mom is dying of diabetes. She is on dialysis and in and out of hospitals often. I’ve lost an aunt and an uncle to diabetes already.
  82. I would love to sleep until noon every day. I just do not function without 12 hours of sleep every day. LOL
  83. I’m an ex-smoker. I quit the second I got the positive pregnancy test with E.
  84. My birthday is during school winter break.
  85. I love to cook, as long as I don’t have to clean up afterwards.
  86. I wish I could freeze time for short periods. Though, if I could I’d probably just use it to steal all the stuff I want and can’t afford.
  87. My navel is pierced. I used to have my nose pierced and would love to have it redone.
  88. I chew my nails to stubs
  89. I have one large breast and one small breast. Not just a little difference, a huge difference in them.
  90. I hate chewing gum
  91. I scored a 28 on my ACT, and it hasn’t done a thing for me.
  92. I am terrible at sports. All sports. I can’t run, jump, or throw a ball of any kind. I was a cheerleader for 1 year, but I was terrible so I didn’t try out again.
  93. My first job was selling flowers. I was 14 and me and my friends all applied together. We were each given a big bucket of water with 25 small rose bouquets and dropped off in areas around town to sell them. I got dropped off in a very bad area.
  94. My favorite color is blue.
  95. I wanted to be a teacher when I was a kid. I would set up all of my dolls in rows, kept a notebook where I jotted attendance and grades, and created my own curriculum. There are still drawings on my wall from that.
  96. We have 6 cats inside and 2 more outside.
  97. I believe in ghosts, or at least spirits. During my pregnancy with A there was someone who would stand in the hallway at night and watch me.
  98. I hate the taste of beer. I think it tastes the way feet smell. I’d rather drink something flavored and light, like a wine cooler.
  99. I used to play Magic: the Gathering. I had a huge deck and a special metal box to carry them all in. My ex-boyfriend kept them all when we broke up.
  100. I love scrap booking. I’ve got a dresser full of supplies. The only things stopping me is affording all the pictures I need to print off.

And there it is, all 100. Whew, that took all day. If you read the entire list and aren’t deleting me from your blog roll then you need to seek help. ;)

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Published by: Summer on April 21st, 2007 | Filed under life



4 Responses to “100 random things about me”

  1. Erin Says:
    April 22nd, 2007 at 1:47 pm

    Hey! Thanks for leaving a comment on my “green blog” :)

    I guess I visited your blog at the right time because now I know a bit about you! What an interesting life you’ve had!

  2. Christine Says:
    April 22nd, 2007 at 7:35 pm

    Wish you could have been sitting beside me while I read through your list. So many times I laughed, giggled, and wanted to slug you in the arm!

    So … much … to … say - like the fact that June bugs love to fly in your hair or attach to clothes, which is creepy. I HAVE LOPSIDED BOOBS (although, much less noticable b/c … well, you’ve seen my sad little pair), and BEER DOES TASTE LIKE FEET!!! How are those people actually making any money off that nasty stuff?!?

  3. JaniceNW Says:
    August 27th, 2007 at 12:12 pm

    Interesting. I can see you are very much your own indivual.

    I just did my 100 on Saturday. Check it out if you would like to.

  4. Chris Says:
    June 18th, 2008 at 10:05 am

    BUGS! My girls would get along great with your boys- I call them my “country girls” ‘cuz bugs, snakes, lizards, dead things, none of it is off limits as long as they don’t bring it in the house. But the bugs make me shudder. I did win a cool mom award from them for letting an ENORMOUS preying mantis crawl on me- ok until it got in my hair!!!! Hey- both of mine are the same size, but they sure don’t match the size of my ass!!!;)

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