101 Things About Me
I've had this little nugget sitting in my Blogger Dashboard for ages as a draft, because I was going to add pictures like Carly did, but I don't have time to go digging around in my garage for them right now, so here goes anyway:
It's the latest blogging fad, and how could I resist?
1. I like Valentine’s Day because it reminds me of Valentine parties as a kid, and my birthday was always around that time.
2. I’ve always wanted a dog and never had one. I wish I had a beagle, and I’d name him Chauncey Jackson.
3. I’m the oldest of three girls in my family.
4. My dad has always called me his “firstborn.” I love that.
5. My name was Michelle for the first few days of my life, then it was changed to Rebecca after someone told my parents my nickname would be "Mickey". (I've never known a Michelle who was nicknamed Mickey.)
6. I had my tonsils out when I was 19.
7. I love shopping so much that even buying groceries is sometimes a bit of a rush.
8. My first kiss was with Carmen Wilcox when we were 12.
9. I almost married another guy before I married Hubby. (The guy was the lead singer in a band called Precious Blood *shudder!*)
10. I have always loved to write, and now I actually have a job doing just that!
11. The only reason I entered the Miss Abbotsford Pageant was to prove that I could do it. (Well, sort of - I was the second runner up)
12. I have a tiara.
13. I love staying up all night, and wish I could do it every night.
14. When I was a kid I used to hear the word “guerilla” on the news and thought it was a band of people who went around the world terrorizing people while wearing gorilla costumes.
15. Carly is my partner in crime.
16. My friend Rocket and I have this weird connection like we're soulmates, and Hubby agrees.
17. I love Chinese food.
18. My favourite “holiday” is New Year’s Eve.
19. I met a guy once who played drums – he played his drum kit to “Roxanne” by the Police and I was so turned on I could barely stand it.
20. I never had a Cabbage Patch Kid. I bought my daughter one this past Christmas and she doesn't want anything to do with it.
21. I have learned I am not a very detail-oriented person. I leave details to other people.
22. I don’t enjoy multi-tasking either.
23. I see a lot of myself in my friend Janet. She always seems to know exactly what I’m talking about.
24. I have always, even now, had a thing for the “bad boy.” Tattoos and goatees still do something for me.
25. I hate Britney Spears.
26. I love Johnny Depp, David Beckham, and Jude Law.
27. I consider myself a conservative, but feel like I can’t admit it sometimes because I don’t agree with some of the Conservative Party’s social policies.
28. I was in Amway for nearly 2 years.
29. I borrowed some books from my Political Science professor three years ago and never returned them. I still feel guilty, but too embarrassed to go back and return them.
30. I love politics and love talking about them.
31. I don’t like religion and can’t be bothered with it.
32. I cheated on Hubby when we were dating (he knows now!)
33. The first concert I ever went to was the Cutting Crew at the Centre of the Arts in Regina, Saskatchewan.
34. I don’t care about meeting famous people.
35. I look like Charlize Theron in my passport photo – unfortunately I resemble her when she played Aileen Wuornos, the serial killer in "Monster."
36. I had a mullet in grade 5 – Hubby calls my school picture from that year my “lesbian picture.”
37. When Hubby and I were first married, a guy three floors up in our apartment building was murdered and he lay dead in his apartment for two or three days before anyone found him.
36. The Vance Hotel has become a part of my daily thoughts, even though it’s been four months since I was there.
37. I’m too scared to watch scary movies anymore.
38. I never got “the sex talk.”
39. I'm a fiscal conservative, and a social liberal.
40. All the guys I ever dated who dumped me later apologized.
41. I would love to travel more, but never make it a priority.
42. I love laughing with my friend Shelley, we laugh at the dumbest stuff and she understands my sense of humour.
43. I would feel a sense of loss if my kids grew up to be lefties.
44. I am worried about the day my cat Roofus dies. He’s 11 years old this year. I always make sure to give him a scratch and a hug when I go to my mom’s.
45. I still remember my full address and phone number from my old house in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
46. I had a French teacher who didn’t like me for some reason and I quit taking French because she made my life in her class miserable.
47. I’m glad I didn’t go to university when I graduated from high school. It would have been a waste at that point in my life.
48. I feel a little bit of despair when I hear another American company has bought out a Canadian one.
49. To this day I still think the curfews my parents gave me as a teenager were lame. I was always grounded because I never abided by them.
50. When I was in high school, there was a garage band around town who heard about me being a Mormon, so they wrote a song about me.
51. I’ve learned that I’m a city girl, and I don’t like living in the suburbs that much.
52. I have no desire to ever go to Toronto.
53. I was always really tall for my age but stopped growing when I was about 12 or 13. I’m 5’4 now.
54. I lived in Las Vegas five years ago and while it was nice, I wouldn’t choose to live there again.
55. I quit being a doula because I couldn’t stand other doulas. I only attend births for friends and family now.
56. I was at the births of my nephew and my niece and I feel a little special bond with each of them because of it.
57. I think political correctness is out of control.
58. I wish we’d named our son Jude. The only reason we didn’t is because we had a “no ex-girlfriend/boyfriend names” rule when naming our kids
59. My favourite flowers are tulips.
60. I think I have nice-looking feet.
61. I once owned a great pair of black patent-leather pants.
62. My favourite sandals when I was a kid were tan/brown suede with coloured beads on them.
63. My mom’s side of the family comes from the Red River French-Canadian fur traders who married the Native women, thus giving me Metis heritage.
64. My dad’s side of the family is English, Scottish, and I’m guessing some Irish. 65. My great-grandmother’s cousin was Louis Riel’s mother. (Figure that one out!)
66. I never understood Shakespeare until I read Antony and Cleopatra on my own one summer while suntanning.
67. My best friend through high school was Dawn. She and I shared a locker in grade 12 and had a Rolling Stone cover in our locker of the Red Hot Chili Peppers naked with their hands over their jewels.
68. I still have that Rolling Stone cover in a box in my garage.
69. My favourite movie is Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet. I saw it in the theatre for the first time with Aaron’s friend Matt, who leaned over halfway through it and said to me, “Do you understand what’s going on or what they’re saying?” I answered, “Yeah,” and he sat back and muttered, “I don’t.”
70. I gained a new appreciation for the city of Seattle when I last went there with Carly.
71. I still laugh when I see a picture Sheri faxed me years ago on my birthday, of me dancing at a party, superimposed with O.J. Simpson.
72. I have only been a bridesmaid once.
73. I like watching old Star Wars movies with my five year old.
74. I’m anal about kids (even my own) messing up my house because I hate cleaning up after them.
75. I like having tea parties with my two year old, but instead of having a proper tea, we like to knock the lid off the creamer when we’re pouring it and go crazy, knocking the whole tea set off the table, while laughing maniacally.
76. If I were to have a pen name, it would be Layla O’Rourke.
77. I hate confrontation, and only in the last few years have started forcing myself to start dealing with it.
78. I think the Tragically Hip are lame, as well as Nickelback and Coldplay.
79. I love to have people over and love to entertain, but I hate cooking. A lot.
80. I’ve done the kind of camping where you build yourself a shelter out of a tarp and sleep under it and build your own fire to cook with. I wouldn’t do it ever again.
81. I love, love the Christmas special “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” I collect figurines from the movie and watch it several times during the holiday season.
82. I read a book I really enjoyed last summer but I can’t remember name of the title or the author.
83. They say you’ll know your perfect wedding dress when you see it. I found my perfect wedding dress, but I couldn’t get it because I had to have a dress with sleeves in the kind of ceremony I was getting married in.
84. I didn’t like “The English Patient” and turned it off halfway through because I was so bored.
85. My favourite book as a kid was “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
86. I love Gwen Stefani.
87. I wanted to change my daughter’s name to Olivia for the whole first year of her life. My husband refused and thought I was a nut, and now I’m glad I didn’t.
88. I love newborn babies.
89. 13 is a lucky number for me.
90. I pick my cuticles and bite my nails and have since I was a kid.
91. I’m terrified of jellyfish and I’m afraid of cutting my feet on barnacles.
92. Basically I think all marine life are scary.
93. I never felt more pathetic than when I used to go to the $1 a slice pizza places downtown for lunch because Hubby and I were so poor when we first got married. In fact I used to go to the place that charged $0.93, so that with tax it came to $1 even and I wouldn’t have to pay the extra 7 cents.
94. I don’t think anyone has a more infectious laugh than my friend Tyson.
95. I remember my mom being sad when John Lennon was shot. I was five.
96. I don’t like sushi.
97. People who really like hockey bug me.
98. I have a fond memory of my Grandpa taking me to the store and buying me a toy hairdryer with a brush and comb.
99. I have always loved makeup, and hated that my mom wouldn’t let me wear it until I was 14. (I did anyway.)
100. Some days I crave double-layered chocolate cake.
101. I love filling out quizzes and surveys, and will even answer phone surveys if I have the time, because I like the fact that I get to talk about what I think! (Any surprise there?)
It's the latest blogging fad, and how could I resist?
1. I like Valentine’s Day because it reminds me of Valentine parties as a kid, and my birthday was always around that time.
2. I’ve always wanted a dog and never had one. I wish I had a beagle, and I’d name him Chauncey Jackson.
3. I’m the oldest of three girls in my family.
4. My dad has always called me his “firstborn.” I love that.
5. My name was Michelle for the first few days of my life, then it was changed to Rebecca after someone told my parents my nickname would be "Mickey". (I've never known a Michelle who was nicknamed Mickey.)
6. I had my tonsils out when I was 19.
7. I love shopping so much that even buying groceries is sometimes a bit of a rush.
8. My first kiss was with Carmen Wilcox when we were 12.
9. I almost married another guy before I married Hubby. (The guy was the lead singer in a band called Precious Blood *shudder!*)
10. I have always loved to write, and now I actually have a job doing just that!
11. The only reason I entered the Miss Abbotsford Pageant was to prove that I could do it. (Well, sort of - I was the second runner up)
12. I have a tiara.
13. I love staying up all night, and wish I could do it every night.
14. When I was a kid I used to hear the word “guerilla” on the news and thought it was a band of people who went around the world terrorizing people while wearing gorilla costumes.
15. Carly is my partner in crime.
16. My friend Rocket and I have this weird connection like we're soulmates, and Hubby agrees.
17. I love Chinese food.
18. My favourite “holiday” is New Year’s Eve.
19. I met a guy once who played drums – he played his drum kit to “Roxanne” by the Police and I was so turned on I could barely stand it.
20. I never had a Cabbage Patch Kid. I bought my daughter one this past Christmas and she doesn't want anything to do with it.
21. I have learned I am not a very detail-oriented person. I leave details to other people.
22. I don’t enjoy multi-tasking either.
23. I see a lot of myself in my friend Janet. She always seems to know exactly what I’m talking about.
24. I have always, even now, had a thing for the “bad boy.” Tattoos and goatees still do something for me.
25. I hate Britney Spears.
26. I love Johnny Depp, David Beckham, and Jude Law.
27. I consider myself a conservative, but feel like I can’t admit it sometimes because I don’t agree with some of the Conservative Party’s social policies.
28. I was in Amway for nearly 2 years.
29. I borrowed some books from my Political Science professor three years ago and never returned them. I still feel guilty, but too embarrassed to go back and return them.
30. I love politics and love talking about them.
31. I don’t like religion and can’t be bothered with it.
32. I cheated on Hubby when we were dating (he knows now!)
33. The first concert I ever went to was the Cutting Crew at the Centre of the Arts in Regina, Saskatchewan.
34. I don’t care about meeting famous people.
35. I look like Charlize Theron in my passport photo – unfortunately I resemble her when she played Aileen Wuornos, the serial killer in "Monster."
36. I had a mullet in grade 5 – Hubby calls my school picture from that year my “lesbian picture.”
37. When Hubby and I were first married, a guy three floors up in our apartment building was murdered and he lay dead in his apartment for two or three days before anyone found him.
36. The Vance Hotel has become a part of my daily thoughts, even though it’s been four months since I was there.
37. I’m too scared to watch scary movies anymore.
38. I never got “the sex talk.”
39. I'm a fiscal conservative, and a social liberal.
40. All the guys I ever dated who dumped me later apologized.
41. I would love to travel more, but never make it a priority.
42. I love laughing with my friend Shelley, we laugh at the dumbest stuff and she understands my sense of humour.
43. I would feel a sense of loss if my kids grew up to be lefties.
44. I am worried about the day my cat Roofus dies. He’s 11 years old this year. I always make sure to give him a scratch and a hug when I go to my mom’s.
45. I still remember my full address and phone number from my old house in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
46. I had a French teacher who didn’t like me for some reason and I quit taking French because she made my life in her class miserable.
47. I’m glad I didn’t go to university when I graduated from high school. It would have been a waste at that point in my life.
48. I feel a little bit of despair when I hear another American company has bought out a Canadian one.
49. To this day I still think the curfews my parents gave me as a teenager were lame. I was always grounded because I never abided by them.
50. When I was in high school, there was a garage band around town who heard about me being a Mormon, so they wrote a song about me.
51. I’ve learned that I’m a city girl, and I don’t like living in the suburbs that much.
52. I have no desire to ever go to Toronto.
53. I was always really tall for my age but stopped growing when I was about 12 or 13. I’m 5’4 now.
54. I lived in Las Vegas five years ago and while it was nice, I wouldn’t choose to live there again.
55. I quit being a doula because I couldn’t stand other doulas. I only attend births for friends and family now.
56. I was at the births of my nephew and my niece and I feel a little special bond with each of them because of it.
57. I think political correctness is out of control.
58. I wish we’d named our son Jude. The only reason we didn’t is because we had a “no ex-girlfriend/boyfriend names” rule when naming our kids
59. My favourite flowers are tulips.
60. I think I have nice-looking feet.
61. I once owned a great pair of black patent-leather pants.
62. My favourite sandals when I was a kid were tan/brown suede with coloured beads on them.
63. My mom’s side of the family comes from the Red River French-Canadian fur traders who married the Native women, thus giving me Metis heritage.
64. My dad’s side of the family is English, Scottish, and I’m guessing some Irish. 65. My great-grandmother’s cousin was Louis Riel’s mother. (Figure that one out!)
66. I never understood Shakespeare until I read Antony and Cleopatra on my own one summer while suntanning.
67. My best friend through high school was Dawn. She and I shared a locker in grade 12 and had a Rolling Stone cover in our locker of the Red Hot Chili Peppers naked with their hands over their jewels.
68. I still have that Rolling Stone cover in a box in my garage.
69. My favourite movie is Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet. I saw it in the theatre for the first time with Aaron’s friend Matt, who leaned over halfway through it and said to me, “Do you understand what’s going on or what they’re saying?” I answered, “Yeah,” and he sat back and muttered, “I don’t.”
70. I gained a new appreciation for the city of Seattle when I last went there with Carly.
71. I still laugh when I see a picture Sheri faxed me years ago on my birthday, of me dancing at a party, superimposed with O.J. Simpson.
72. I have only been a bridesmaid once.
73. I like watching old Star Wars movies with my five year old.
74. I’m anal about kids (even my own) messing up my house because I hate cleaning up after them.
75. I like having tea parties with my two year old, but instead of having a proper tea, we like to knock the lid off the creamer when we’re pouring it and go crazy, knocking the whole tea set off the table, while laughing maniacally.
76. If I were to have a pen name, it would be Layla O’Rourke.
77. I hate confrontation, and only in the last few years have started forcing myself to start dealing with it.
78. I think the Tragically Hip are lame, as well as Nickelback and Coldplay.
79. I love to have people over and love to entertain, but I hate cooking. A lot.
80. I’ve done the kind of camping where you build yourself a shelter out of a tarp and sleep under it and build your own fire to cook with. I wouldn’t do it ever again.
81. I love, love the Christmas special “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” I collect figurines from the movie and watch it several times during the holiday season.
82. I read a book I really enjoyed last summer but I can’t remember name of the title or the author.
83. They say you’ll know your perfect wedding dress when you see it. I found my perfect wedding dress, but I couldn’t get it because I had to have a dress with sleeves in the kind of ceremony I was getting married in.
84. I didn’t like “The English Patient” and turned it off halfway through because I was so bored.
85. My favourite book as a kid was “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
86. I love Gwen Stefani.
87. I wanted to change my daughter’s name to Olivia for the whole first year of her life. My husband refused and thought I was a nut, and now I’m glad I didn’t.
88. I love newborn babies.
89. 13 is a lucky number for me.
90. I pick my cuticles and bite my nails and have since I was a kid.
91. I’m terrified of jellyfish and I’m afraid of cutting my feet on barnacles.
92. Basically I think all marine life are scary.
93. I never felt more pathetic than when I used to go to the $1 a slice pizza places downtown for lunch because Hubby and I were so poor when we first got married. In fact I used to go to the place that charged $0.93, so that with tax it came to $1 even and I wouldn’t have to pay the extra 7 cents.
94. I don’t think anyone has a more infectious laugh than my friend Tyson.
95. I remember my mom being sad when John Lennon was shot. I was five.
96. I don’t like sushi.
97. People who really like hockey bug me.
98. I have a fond memory of my Grandpa taking me to the store and buying me a toy hairdryer with a brush and comb.
99. I have always loved makeup, and hated that my mom wouldn’t let me wear it until I was 14. (I did anyway.)
100. Some days I crave double-layered chocolate cake.
101. I love filling out quizzes and surveys, and will even answer phone surveys if I have the time, because I like the fact that I get to talk about what I think! (Any surprise there?)
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Posted by
Anonymous |
10:52 AM
Ha ha, you're getting spammed!
Love the post! Here are my thoughts, commetns & questions:
2. I didn't realize Chauncey Jackson was a beagle. That make it even better.
4. Firstborn. I like that.
14. Gorilla costumnes...that's hysterical.
19. Drummers are idiots. They're just weird. Like goalies. But Roxanne!?!
36. Just wait until Clay & Aaron are thinking about it every day. Do you think Aaron's more a valet guy or front desk?
38. Well now I'm beginnign to wonder if anyone did. Do you now anyone who got it?
48. I hate that.
56. Totally know what you mean!
78. Me too. Did you know that radios are not playing New Orleans is sinking anymore?
80. That's the only kind of camping that I'd like to do. The electrician and I just had a talk about that.
97. Okay, that's fine, but what about lacrosse?
101. Not a shock at all.
Posted by
QueenieCarly |
4:04 PM
And here are my comments back to you:
19. I still get goosebumps when I hear "Roxanne"!
36. Unfortunately I think Aaron's more of a front desk kind of guy. Except in an inappropriate kind of way.
38. I don't know a single person who got the talk. I remember one of my friends in elementary school who was so disgusted one morning because her mom had sat her down before school and given her the "girl" talk, complete with diagrams. But then again, her mom was a nurse.
80. Okay, well, I guess we won't ever be going camping together then, will we?
97. Lacrosse? What's that? ;)
Posted by
Bex |
12:11 PM
Ok, I'm really mad because I made a big long comment for all yours and they didn't post. Humph.
Posted by
Toni |
12:21 PM