100 Things

Random things about me..

1. I am a mother of one (3, if you count dogs).   I refer to her as “TLK” (the little kid) anywhere I write about her.
2. My husband is from the UK.    He’s talented on many levels too numerous to mention.
3. Our daughter is on honor roll at school.   Gold honor roll.   She didn’t think it was a big deal till she told us and we were so excited about it.  🙂
4. We listen to quite a bit of euphonium playing, thanks to Select Band at our daughter’s school.  Their school band is quite good!
5. I have a “sister” (my best friend) and a sister-in-law who live in the UK.
6. I love my parents-in-law and my extended English family.
7. The rest of my family is remote, too:  Parents in Italy, brother & kids in Kansas City, and my other brother and his family are in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.
8. My pets: a golden retriever, Ginger, and a schnauzer named Molly.  Oh! and a betta (chinese fighting fish) named “Bob”.
9. I am in love with Western Washington.  Seriously.
10. I used to live to R&B whenever I listened to music.   Thanks to Spotify, I can listen to everything I like for free (so far)
11. I am a techie (for a living).   My favorite aspect is web design, which I get paid for as part of my day job.  Awesome.   Love the HTML and CSS writing, as well as layout and some photoshop dev.
12. I like lighting candles all year around.
13. I am American.
14. I was born in Peoria, IL
15. I am a computer specialist.   I know a few computer things, like hardware and how to troubleshoot, and I have a knowledge of networking, wireless connectivity and interacting with people/training.
16. I hope to be retired or maybe a barista some day.  Or maybe I’ll be an artist in the park drawing landscapes.    Something.
17. I like to draw.
18. I enjoy art of all kinds, and used to take classes like drawing and pottery in summer school.
19. I would like to take a creative writing class, and perhaps a salsa dancing class or two.
20. I know some Spanish (un pequito espanol)
21. I enjoy cooking and baking.  It gives me a creative outlet.
22. I played alto sax for a short period of time, about 10 years ago.
23. My ex-husband turned out to be a really horrible person.  I thought I already knew horrible, but apparently, I hadn’t seen “horrible” until after the divorce.  Really stinking horrible.    His former business partner was an equally suitable f*cker.
24. Cheese.  Love it.
25. I am a moonchild/cancer.
26. I was baptised Catholic (I am non-practicing)
27. I like animals of all sorts.
28. I do not like spiders or other misc. bugs, but I no longer kill them, either, if I find them inside.  I capture them and set them outside.  This is Ian’s fault.
29. I don’t mind rodents, but not loose ones in the house.
30. I am developing a penchant for white wine.
31. I was born in Illinois, US
32. I have 2 younger brothers, 2 sisters-in-law and 8 nieces and nephews (I think I counted correctly)
33. I have a goddaughter.  She is my niece.
34. I once designed flowers for a wedding (even my own wedding!)
35. I went to university for 3 years
36. I went to nursing school for one of those years.   I really disliked microbiology and dissecting my fetal pig.    Seeing that I dislike icky things, I would have made a terrible nurse.   Instead, I do computer support for nurses.
37. My last university major was English.    My first major was Business Info Systems.
38. I enjoy water/swimming/laying on the beach.  It’s very calming.   I so miss the hot sun during the winter.
39. I worry too much sometimes, but I’m starting to outgrow that.
40. Last year was one of my best Christmases ever, because Ian was here and we had a lot of fun showing him around Omaha and spending time with him.
41. I used to teach driver’s ed.   Once I had a student run a red light and was too shocked to use my instructor brakes or steering wheel.  Now I’m teaching it to my husband.  It makes for some interesting journeys.
42. My car has nearly been totaled thrice.  😦   Once was my fault.
43. I like animals of all sorts… I’ve owned an iguana, macaw, 2 Quaker parrots, a guinea pig and 2 hamsters, a couple of cats and several dogs.    I have been known to talk to geese.   They seem to understand “guinea pig”.
44. My wedding day in 天堂影院在线观看青青青 2009 was the happiest day of my life.
45. I’ve been to England twice.  I love it there, not only because my family is there, but also because the sea and the food and the architecture are very cool.
46. I have eaten blood sausage.   It doesn’t have much of a taste.   I have not tried bangers, though.
47. I love to bake.  I used to decorate cakes.   I may invest in some equipment to do cake decorating with.  It’s artistic, so I like it.   I make some really good chocolate chip cookies (do you know they only sell mini bags of chocolate chips in the UK?   Chopping your own chocolate bars is better anyway).
48. I used to actually enjoy going to school in the summer.  I took art classes, driver’s ed and foreign languages, including french, german and spanish.
49. I enjoy cooking.  I find it relaxing.   My favourite things to cook include curry, pasta, pizza and putting together various salads.
50. I didn’t know I could ice skate until 3 years ago.    I like skating fast.
51. I have eaten ostrich.   It tasted like … meat.
52. I can crochet, but often mess up my rows, and don’t notice until I’ve gotten quite a bit done.  The only project I ever completed was a poncho for my child.
53. I like all kinds of music, except I’m not that fond of the techno stuff from the 80’s.
54. I never understood the fascination with the Beatles.  I guess you “had to be there”, eh?
55. My child’s school is forcing me to re-educate myself.   They sure do teach math differently these days.
56. I used to watch horror movies, but don’t like them anymore.  I’d much rather watch something funny.
57. I took Jujitsu classes… briefly… when I was 11’ish.
58. I like growing things.    I have just restarted my herb garden.  This time, I will pay attention to the watering.  🙂
59. I have a secret desire to write a book.   I read that non-fiction sells well, but I think I’d stick to fiction, really.
60. I got really bored in American Government class and ended up dropping it.
61. I used to call myself in sick in high school (just a few times… until I got caught, that is)
62. I have started picking out clothing by what they have the mannequins wearing in the store.   🙂
63. I am terribly afraid of heights and afraid, to a lesser degree, of closed in spaces.   We just won’t talk about spiders.
64. I wouldn’t mind having a small girlish tatoo on my right shoulder/back.   It might be a heart or butterfly with Ian’s and TLK’s name in.   Not entirely sure.
65. Sometimes I type dyslexic.  It drives me nuts.
66. I have perpetually bad sinuses.  I am allergic to dogs and just about everything else.
67. I want to start working out.  I just need to be motivated.   Ages ago, I used to get to the gym by 6am, but that’s been a LOT of ages ago.
68. I love seafood.   I make a decent fish and chips, but my favourites are: sea scallops and crab.
69. I have to have a pop every day, or I start craving pop.   It has to be some sort of cola.   I’m not sure what that’s all about.
70. Every Friday, my work allows dogs into the office.   I think it’s a good stress-reliever.   I never take my own dogs in, but I commonly see two shih tsus named Oscar and Toby.
71. I am learning to do stuff with cars, like check oil.  I can actually change a tire, but haven’t done that in ages.
72. I colour my hair.  At least we are colouring it near to the colour it should be now:  brown
73. I have brown eyes with a vague ring of green that only I can see (apparently… hehe)
74. I love my LOL Cats email every day!
75. I am a former Etsy addict.   I mostly window shop, but have bought something (soap) before.
76. I could listen to French all day long.
77. It’s been since last 92午夜一百集视频在线观看 that I had a haircut (6 months ago).   I decided today that I’m on haircut strike until I see Ian again.
78. I like taking photographs, but sometimes it’s nice to just look at things and enjoy them.
79. I like reading self-help books.
80. I know more about Skype than I need to, at this point, but I thank God for it every day.
81. I use Facebook, Twitter and, of course, 天堂午夜伦理片.     I also have a Drupal site to play with, but it’s dormant right now (too much of it at work, I guess!)
82. I don’t really care for painting walls, but I like the after-effects.   I like colour.
83. I’m not the only one in my office who flies overseas.   Several people have been to the UK, Ireland, Germany, Italy and other places.
84. I’m going to have a new sister-in-law/nephew.  So exciting!   🙂
85. I love to garden, especially vegetables and flowers.  I’m going to try tomatos at the apartment this year.  I’m not sure they will survive the boys playing outside.  😦
86. I cannot drink rum straight (nor do I drink straight any hard liquor), and do not prefer it in anything, except occasional fruitcake.    I will take tequila instead.   I have never been sick after drinking tequila, IYSWIM.
87. I have travelled to:  Iowa, South Dakota, Illinois, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington State, Virginia, South Carolina, Florida (en route somewhere else), California, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, The Bahamas, Mexico (real Mexico; not just a border town) and England (x2).
88. I am addicted to peanut butter.   Especially Whole Foods Market peanut butter, which says “creamy”, but actually has lovely little peanut chunks throughout.   I DO toss in some Splenda, though.  I am part FLY afterall.
89. My favourite place to be is with my family.
90. I took an art class at the Joslyn Art Museum.   It was very cool..   Painting with Colored Pencils.
91. I have lots of friends from VisaJourney.com
92. It’s rare for me to sleep past 6:30am any morning, but if I have a week of vacation, I can usually manage sleeping in at least once (7:30am or so?).
93. Sometimes, Ambien is my friend.
94. I have perpetual allergies.  I am allergic to a lot of indoor and outdoor things, and I normally forget my medication for it.  🙂
95. In 天堂影院在线观看青青青, we will be filing for Ian’s 10 year green card.  Yay!
96. Flying freaks me out, but I love to get away.
97. Amazon parrots can be really loud.  Trust me.  We own one.
98. I drink sangria a few times a week (just a glass, though). It’s yummy. 😀
99. I like watching the World Cup.   I don’t watch football/soccer any other time, really.
100. It annoys me when I post about food and people comment negatively about it, like “Oh, that’s a lot of calories” or something similar.   I’m a smart person.   I already know what’s high in calories and not good for me.     Worry about yourself, is what I think.