100 Things about Moi

100 things

1. I have curly hair and have learned over 28 years to just deal with it.
2. But I also love to straighten it and look like a fabulous super model when I do.
3. I love heels. Any shape, form or fashion. They are fabulous
4. I wear a size 6 shoe.
5. I am 5’1”, hence, number 2.
6. I adore Broadway musicals, and am a showtune fanatic
7. I grew up very involved in musical theater, and thought I would be on Broadway in NYC by now. –sigh---
8. I love my Tivo. If I could marry it, I soooo would
9. I am a fast reader. I could read a book in a day if I really put my mind to it.
10. My favorite author is Sidney Sheldon, but Harlan Coben is giving him a run for his money.
11. I love fashion. I don’t understand why I don’t’ make a lot of money and can buy designer names. I am so much smarter than Jessica Simpson. Bitch.
12. Pizza and macaroni and cheese are my favorite foods. But not necessarily together.
13. I always have to have something sweet after my lunch and dinner. But unfortunately it’s usually sugar-free pudding or fat free ice cream.
14. I love to cook
15. I wish fettuccini alfredo was fat-free. I would eat of a lot of that.
16. I have been on every diet known to man. I have never been overweight, mind you, I think I just like to see what they’ll do and how good they’ll work.
17. I would have like to have been a nutritionist. I find all of that very interesting
18. I have been on the internet since 1996
19. I have been an Ebay member since 1999
20. The very first thing I bought on Ebay was a vase with all of the zodiac signs on it. Funny how you remember your first.
21. Other things I’ve bought: comforter set, monogrammed pillows, my wedding band, Tivo, football tickets, a TV, antique canisters, and a credit card processing machine. Total items over 450.
22. I love computers. I would have also like to have been a computer science major in college
23. I majored in broadcasting though, but only until my senior year.
24. Then switched it to political science. I changed for a number of reasons, but the decision-maker was when I was reading a cheesy beach book about a nosy-ass reporter who brought down the White House. She got on my nerves so bad that I didn’t want to be a reporter anymore. Bad, huh? Whats even worse? I was one of the few people who knew what my college woudl be in the third grade.
25. I don’t’ have a favorite movie. There are too many great ones out there to pick just one.
26. There are two make-up pieces that will never change in my collection: Voluminous mascara from Loreal and Endless lipstick from Loreal.
27. I love jewelry and buy it like it’s going out of style, then lose it and wonder where it went
28. I Google everything
29. I am obsessed with Saved by the Bell. I watch it every day – and still laugh at some episodes.
30. At the moment, I am obsessed with You Tube. I can watch Saved by The Bell on there if I want
31. I am related to John Wilkes Booth on my mom’s side.
32. My father’s side is traced back to the 1200’s or something.
33. I am a member of the Children of the Confederacy and I think the DAR as well (The South will rise again – ha! joking)
34. I love antiques
35. Mostly, the only alcohol I will touch is wine, Miller Lites, and Vodka.
36. I love spell-check. Thank God for it. Otherwise, I don’t think you would ever be able to read a thing I write.
37. I am a Democrat through and through.
38. My first kiss was with a guy names Twinkie in the back row of the movie, Alien 3. (can you tell how hard I have tried to forget THAT one?)
39. I am a people pleaser and rarely say “no” to anyone. (hence, #36 – yuk)
40. I love the movie Shag. I know every word
41. My family has a condo in Hilton Head. I would like to go more.
42. I hate snakes. They give me the heevy jeevies. Most other things I can tolerate.
43. Once while we were inner-tubing down a creek in the mountains (helloooo, I am from East TN) there was a big black snake coiled on a rock that I floated by. I think I ran on top of the water to get out of there.
44. If there is any insect in my house – bug, fly, wasp, etc – I will try to find a way to save its life – I never kill them
45. I have a fear of flying. I didn’t used to. I had a horrible plane riding experience on a flight back from West Palm Beach and the plane took a huge dip right when we got over the ocean. Scared the shit out of me. Not I have to take Valium during take-off. After that, I’m fine. But, I am usually that loud drunk girl on the flight, so beware.
46. However, my cousin is a pilot for a small plane, and I have flown in it. He let me use the controls and take off and land, too. (although he was there for back-up). It was really fun! But this was pre-bad flight.
47. I don’t like riding horses, either. I got bucked off of one once and it hurt. I think my problem is that I don’t like not having control over the situation. Someone else if flying the plane; and the horse can just run over a cliff with me. I also like to be the one who is driving if there is a group of us going somewhere.
48. My birthday is in September, so I was always the last of my school class to do anything: drink, drive, etc, (but not together, of course)
49. When my family vacationed in the Bahamas, both my sisters went parasailing over the ocean, but I was chicken shit and didn’t do it. But I don’t regret it, though
50. While there we went to a restaurant that would serve sharks leftover steak from that day. They would throw it off the pier every night. It was a tourist attraction, and quite scary. Dozens of the huge sharks would come up and fight over the meat. It was very fascinating.
51. I am the middle of two girls. You know, Jan Brady. (hence, #37)
52. I was born in Knoxville, TN and lived there until I moved to Nashville. I have lived nowhere else.
53. I love UT football. Love it. Love it. Love it.
54. I have sung on stage in Carnegie Hall – twice
55. I made All-State chorus my senior year of high school
56. I took piano lessons and played the flute in the band until 6th grade, and totally sucked.
57. I have high blood pressure
58. I don’t like to exercise, even though I feel like I should.
59. I do play tennis, though, and love that.
60. I am very superstitious
61. I love Astronomy. I had a telescope in my apt in college and a poster with a map of the constellations.
62. I also love Astrology. I can tell you all about you based on your sign.
63. I’m a Virgo, though, and am supposed to have e green thumb, but everything I plant dies. 64. I am an ESTJ Myers-Briggs personality. This means I love facts, am systematic, I honor traditions and laws, am a take charge person, and value competence and efficiency. You can read more here.
65. I love the ocean. There is nothing better than sitting in the sun with a drink reading a book.
66. I am more of a radio person vs. a CD person. I like variety in music.
67. But not really in anything else. I usually order the exact thing each time I frequent a restaurant.
68. I only had one grandparent growing up. The others unfortunately died before I was born.
69. I love Math. My senior year of high school I had the highest average in the class, and I was the basis for any grade curve on tests.
70. My mother was a math teacher (she is now a guidance counselor) When we went to Dallas to visit my sister, we had a “quadratic equation solving contest”. My sister thought we were the biggest nerds, and she was probably right.
71. My adore my mother. She is fabulous.
72. My dad is a finance/credit manager, my husband is a mortgage broker, the younger sister does PR, and the older sister is a clothing buyer for a department store.
73. I have a tattoo of the Virgo sign on my bikini line.
74. I was voted “cutest” in high school and was Prom Queen runner-up.
75. Right now my stationery company is taking over my social life.
76. How am I just on number 76?
77. We started the stationery company b/c of a birthday card. Go read about it.
78. I have two cats, one is a Persian and one is a “street cat”. You can totally tell the difference in personality.
79. I love my blog. It is so fun. And b/c of this blog, I now contribute to two more.
80. I hate jazz. I don’t like any music that doesn’t have continuous words. I don’t like music concerts where they go into this big instrumental thing (a la Dave Matthews, jazz, and indie groups). That is when I make a beer run.
81. I have never been skiing
82. I have never been out of the country (only to the Bahamas)
83. I am forever cold. At any point during the day, my hands are like ice. I have my heater on at work right now. And it’s July.
84. I have tried to make sushi at home. But it’s really hard to do and doesn’t taste the same.
85. I hate talking on the phone. Just say what you need and let’s get it over with.
86. I have a few very close friends and lots of other friends.
87. I am a terrible friend though. They have to make the effort to continue the relationship, because I suck at it.
88. I like making up my own words and calling them “Mandyisms”.
89. I have random dreams involving celebrities. But not hot ones. Usually Bill Murray and people like that. Just normal dudes.
90. I really like juvenile humor. Random, stupid jokes are the best,
91. I have never broken or sprained anything – or gotten stitches. (knock on wood!)
92. I have met quite a few celebrities in my life, but none exciting enough to talk about.
93. I really love living in Nashville. It is a big town with a small town feel.
94. I love reading the comics. The other day I was on the “For Better of Worse” site and read the whole series when Farley dies. I cried like a baby.
95. I have only been to see one movie in the theater by myself. It is a very hard thing to do. It was “Big Fish”.
96. I have lots of movies at my house, but very rarely watch them. However, if they come on TV, I am glued. Weird, huh?
97. If I am watching TV, I am more than likely watching the following channels: E!, The Style Network, and TBS.
98. My favorite candy bar is a Butterfinger, but I haven’t eaten one in years.
99. I was a Disney kid growing up – not a Warner Brothers.
100. I had to go on other people’s 100 things pages to get ideas about what to write about. I am such a cheater.
and 101. I say fabulous too much. The word fabulous is "fabulous". So sue me...bitch.