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01/28/2005: "100 things"

I didn't think I'd do this blogging trend, but what do you know.

100 Things About Me:


  1. I am naturally blonde
  2. When I was a senior in high school, I dyed my hair dark and never looked back
  3. Everyone I have known since then assumes I'm a natural redhead
  4. I'm not Irish
  5. I'm Polish, actually, as well as German and Austrian
  6. I've had hearing aides since I was seven
  7. I don't consider myself a disabled person
  8. However, I snort and roll my eyes when people try to be politically correct about the term "disabled"
  9. I'm a gigantic Buffy fan
  10. I named my dog after her
  11. It is my dream to be approached by a handsome, older British man and be told that I'm the next vampire slayer
  12. I live a life of crime
  13. I have a BS in Criminal Justice
  14. I'm in law school and plan to focus on criminal law
  15. Should my goal of being a vampire slayer fail, I plan on being a federal law enforcement agent
  16. The DEA automatically disqualifies people who have hearing aides
  17. I plan on having something to say about that
  18. I prefer having a small number of very close friends than dozens of superficial aquaintances
  19. I met my best friend on the first day of first grade
  20. She won me over by asking if I liked She-Ra
  21. Did I ever love She-Ra!
  22. I met my other best friend online when we were 13
  23. We have met in real life and hit it off just as much as we did online
  24. I believe she and I were separated at birth
  25. My boyfriend calls her "Harold" since he cannot fathom meeting a best friend online and thinks she's really a fat, old man
  26. My boyfriend also lives a life of crime
  27. He and I met in our criminal justice classes
  28. He does not plan on being a vampire slayer
  29. He is currently in the testing process for police departments in the Chicago area
  30. He's the best boyfriend ever
  31. I dated a verbally abusive meaniehead before him
  32. I dumped him and made him cry
  33. I still feel good about that
  34. I am an alumni of Sigma Kappa sorority
  35. I was never hazed, and our initiation is a beautiful ceremony completely devoid of blood and other scandalous rituals
  36. My Little Sister in the sorority means the world to me
  37. She's going to be a bridesmaid in my wedding along with my two best friends and my biological little sister
  38. I try to forget that my Big Sister ever existed
  39. She told me it wasn't a big deal when I got a 4.0 my first semester of college
  40. I graduated from college a year early
  41. Except for the first semester, I lived in the sorority house my entire college career
  42. The weirdest thing in the world is to go from living in a house with forty other girls to living by yourself
  43. I absolutely love Britney Spears
  44. To redeem myself in your eyes, I have absolutely no idea what the appeal behind Paris Hilton is
  45. I'm quite mad at her for dating my favorite Backstreet Boy
  46. If I ever get to meet him, I plan on bathing him in boiling water to remove any trace of her
  47. I own 363 CDs
  48. Approximately half of those CDs were bought on eBay or in a used CD store
  49. All of my CDs are on my beloved 20 gig iPod
  50. I have less than 5 gig left and I'm deathly afraid I'm going to run out of space soon
  51. The iPod was a gift from the law firm I worked at my last summer in college
  52. Working at that law firm lead me to the decision that I could never be a criminal defense attorney
  53. I was much more interested in prosecuting the people we defended
  54. I never, ever admitted that to the lawyers
  55. I have also worked at a law firm that specializes in estate planning
  56. I did not know what estate planning was until my first day on the job
  57. My summer consisted of people talking about where they wanted their belongings to go when they died
  58. I decided I could never be an estate planner
  59. I was born on the first day of summer
  60. I absolutely hate the winter, coldness, snow, and gray skies
  61. I planned on moving to Los Angeles to go to law school
  62. I moved to Chicago instead to be with my boyfriend
  63. I actually love it here, barring the winter weather
  64. I often wonder how the heck I thought I could handle the LA traffic
  65. I currently don't own a car and leave the driving to the Chicago bus system
  66. I think my stress and blood pressure levels have dropped dramatically
  67. I lived in LA earlier in my life for a five-year period
  68. I was a toddler, so my memories consist of Disney Land, toy stores, and playing with She-Ra action figures
  69. Strangely enough, I also remember being deathly afraid of the snails that would hang out around my sandbox
  70. I had my first computer when I was three years old
  71. It was an Apple with giant floppy disks and no hard drive
  72. My uncle's favorite memory of me is having a three-year-old slap him on his hand and tell him he was using the computer wrong
  73. My uncle's other favorite memory of me is when I got blindingly drunk at the family 4th of July celebration and puked on my car
  74. I also puked all over my bed and went back to sleep that night without changing the sheets
  75. I can never visit him without sitting through him reciting that story while laughing himself to tears
  76. Getting blindingly drunk is a pretty rare occasion for me
  77. My mom thinks I was born knowing how to read
  78. By the time I was six, I was bored with picture books
  79. When I go on vacation, my biggest fear is not bringing enough books with me
  80. I also am a video game fanatic
  81. I could never have kids because they would get pissed at me for hogging the Playstation
  82. In order to read all the books and play all the video games that I want to, I'd have to live to be 500
  83. I have a tattoo of a fairy on my hip
  84. It needs to be touched up, but I can't stand the thought of going under the needle again
  85. I'm tempted to use a ballpoint pen instead
  86. I used to pierce little kids' ears when I worked at Limited Too
  87. The sales associates practiced on each other when learning how to pierce
  88. I had three holes in each ear at one point
  89. I worked at Limited Too for two years and was very thankful to leave when I left for college
  90. To my surprise, I actually kind of miss it now
  91. I haven't made more than $500 a year since leaving Limited Too
  92. Hopefully, the experience I gained at the law firms was worth far more than money
  93. I'm convinced I could live on nothing but sushi
  94. When I had my wisdom teeth removed my senior year of high school, my mom wanted to make me feel better
  95. I asked for sushi
  96. The effects of the anesthesia hadn't worn off yet and I threw the sushi up
  97. Due to the condition of my mouth, I hadn't chewed much
  98. It took me 9 months to eat sushi again after that
  99. Nothing made me feel more grownup than buying my couch
  100. I spent three months sitting on the floor to watch TV before I found a couch I liked



Replies: 4 Comments

Yes, but the drunk thing was amazing.

FYI - If you're ever around Brooke and she gives you attitude, just booze her up.

Lindsay, Friday, January 28th

Oh I love your list! It reminds me of mine, the way you segued from one thing into the next. Fascinating stuff, too.

My daughter is the biggest Buffy fan on the planet. She writes some amazing fan fiction!

I forgive you for your Britney-love. I will confess to loving "Toxic", but that's as far as it goes for me. :)

panthergirl, Friday, January 28th

Thank you! Yours is one of the few that I could sit through for all 100 items, and I thought part of it was because it flowed so well. I tried to incorporate that in mine to keep people interested until the end.

Brooke, Friday, January 28th

#73. Definitely one of my favorite memories. :-P

Shannon, Monday, January 31st