Don’t know where I am on the Yankee Blogger’s project [link removed; it’s now a porn site], but here goes:
- I love cats.
- I don’t like dogs.
- I won’t eat celery, garbanzo beans, cottage cheese or Spam.
- I believe I had a happy childhood.
- Money was tight when I was growing up, so I learned to be frugal and I learned appreciation for what I had.
- I am adopted.
- I found out about it in the funeral car on the way to my adoptive mother’s funeral.
- My adoptive mother was 58 when she took me (at birth) to raise.
- I can sing the Israeli national anthem (Hatikva) in Hebrew.
- I am Lutheran, not Jewish.
- I started blogging when I read Carol’s blog back in June.
- I pluck out gray hairs when I find them.
- I have never had breast augmentation or any other kind of plastic surgery.
- I do not have pierced ears (or anything else)
- I do have a tattoo on my ankle.
- It is of a guy’s name.
- A guy I am no longer seeing.
- Fortunately, his name is “Moody.”
- I’d like to get a second tattoo right underneath it that says “Bitch.”
- I am told I resemble the “fat Heart sister” [Ann Wilson]
- If I won the lottery I’d go out and buy a Hummer H1
- And a vintage Bricklin SV1.
- I love the beach.
- And the smell of fresh-mown grass.
- I love to get in my car and drive even if I don’t have anywhere to go.
- I failed typing in high school, yet I am a legal secretary (and a good one at that).
- I am lazy at home and tend to let Robert take care of most of the household chores.
- I hope I pass away before Robert does because I don’t want to have to deal with his death. It would upset me too much.
- The worst feeling in the world is losing someone you love; I felt that when my mother died.
- She comes to me in dreams every once in awhile, especially when I am troubled. I think she’s looking after me.
- I do not get along with my half brothers.
- I adore my step brother.
- I was not popular in high school, I was just one of the nerds.
- I suspect I am addicted to the Internet.
- I’d love to be paid to design web pages.
- My gravy always comes out lumpy.
- But I make a fantastic chocolate cream cheese pie.
- I am a Cancer.
- I am a cancer survivor.
- I collect art glass baskets.
- I may be addicted to e-Bay.
- I have taken some supplies home from the office.
- I don’t smoke.
- I don’t drink anymore.
- I roll the toilet paper and the paper towel rolls under from the back.
- I was born on Sunday.
- In San Antonio, Texas.
- In July.
- People always think I’m younger than I am (49).
- I don’t believe I act my age.
- I have no patience with slow or lazy waitpersons.
- If I don’t feel the service was good, I leave a penny. That way, they won’t think I simply “forgot” to tip them.
- I am a generous tipper if the service is good.
- My drink of choice is iced tea.
- I have to have two cups of coffee (laced with Hazelnut coffee creamer) in the morning to get started, then it’s tea the rest of the day.
- Mr. K (Yutaka Katayama, “father of the Z-Car”) signed my 300 ZX’s sun shade plate.
- I have been called “intense.”
- Some people mistake this intensity for anger (it’s not).
- I keep to myself at work.
- I won’t have an inkjet printer in my house. Years of working in an office has spoiled me for the laser jet.
- I think I have a pretty nice computer set up.
- I
wish I hadhave a Sony Mavica. - I once made a list of people whom I could make cry.
- When I first met Robert, I didn’t like him; I thought he was arrogant and full of himself.
- I firmly believe that Robert is my soul mate.
- My nickname as a child was “babydoll.”
- My nickname now is “Jonesy”
- I feel very confident in my knowledge of CSS and HTML.
- I wish I could get the hang of Flash and JavaScript.
- I wish I was on more people’s blogrolls.
- I am a published writer.
- I got to see The Patti Smith Group, Patty Smythe, Honeymoon Suite, Jethro Tull, Acoustic Alchemy and Charlie Musslewhite live in concert.
- I have a thing for my cats’ toes and tails.
- I like to smell things, especially cloth and leather.
- I chew my fingerpads when I’m nervous.
- Showers, NEVER baths.
- I don’t worry anymore about whether someone thinks I’m too fat, too loud or too anything else.
- I always raised the grading curve in any class I was in during High School.
- I became good friends with my sixth grade teacher after I was grown and got a job. Turns out she was a really nice human being after all.
- I learned to drive a standard when I was 30 years old (on a 1983 Ford Escort Station Wagon)
- I have never learned to ride a bicycle.
- I have never learned to blow bubblegum.
- I lost my virginity to Robert at age 22.
- I was a very sheltered child.
- I
wanthave broadband. - My most admired writer is Robert Jensen.
I am very frustrated right now trying to install and use GreyMatter on my blog.I gave up Greymatter and blazed through MovableType, Textpattern and am now settled on WordPress.- As a child, I could entertain myself for hours drawing.
- When I was young, I thought I wanted to be a disc jockey or an architect.
- I had a crush on a disc jockey in San Antonio when I was in my teens.
- I created a ruse to go see him at the radio station when I was 16 years old.
- He kissed me.
- I wish I’d spent more time listening to my mother’s stories.
- I wish I could find her recipe for Tomato Soup Cake.
- I think my mother would be happy with the person I am today.
- I am well respected among the attorneys where I work.
- I’m not sure the other secretaries like me, but I’m not sure I care.
- I don’t care too much for children.
- Wake up, I’m fat.
- And it’s also a good book by Camryn Manheim.
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