Pole Dancing In The Dark

I haven't been here long

But I have to say that this is, by far, the friendliest blog/online diary/journal type place I have ever joined. I know that it doesn’t look like I have been around long, by the amount of posting done here and on Blogsnot, but I have been doing this thing on again off again in different forums since 1999. (Mostly in forum format until Diary-X in August of 2001.) But the kick ass thing about this is that it seems like everyone from Munuviana has dropped by to say hello and they all rock most righteously.

I don’t seem to have a lot of free time coming in the next couple of weeks. This week is going to be sent getting ready for vacation next week, and next week I will be in South Carolina with family, so you know I am not going to get any kind of actual entry done. So, to make up for the fact, here is a slightly outdated version of “100 Things You Never Knew and Never Wanted to Ask.” Enjoy.

And thank you Pixy Misa and Jim for letting me move in. I promise I won’t trash the place.

100 Things.

1. I was born deaf. Apparently it had something to do with tonsils and adenoids.

2. I didn’t learn to talk until I was three… because I couldn’t hear.

3. I had my tonsils and adenoids removed, and then had tubes for a really long time.

4. I have made up for lack of speech many many many times over.

5. I was adopted two weeks after my birth.

6. I have decided not to search for birth parents, but need to get my hands on any medical records.

7. I hated grammer school. I have blocked most of the memories. Otherwise I would be a very bitter bitch (more so, wise guy!)

8. My mother taught at the school I went to. I think that may explain #7 some. (it was a very small parochial school.)

9. I still hold some of it against her.

10. I have abandonment issues.

11. I hate spiders, but I am no longer afraid of them.

12. When I was in college, I had to baby sit a friend’s tarantula while he was away. I gave the little bastard earthquakes by shaking the aquarium.

13.I hate the smell, taste and texture of sauerkraut. My father is of German decent, so just imagine how well this went over.

14. I have severe family issues and wonder how much of it is my fault, and how much of it is theirs. (They don’t seem to “get” me a lot of times.)

15. I am terrified of perpetuating that abuse on my own child. I think that is the reason I am so not ready to have one.

16. I want to be a writer, and get paid great big gobs of money for my imaginative spewings and my uncanny wit!

17. I wanted to be a singer for a heavy metal band, but lack the voice and talent.

18. It broke my heart to finally come to terms with the fact that I cannot carry a tune in titanium enforced bag or bucket. Ahh, the death of a dream.

19. I still belt out tunes in the privacy of my car and shower. I torture my husband by singing at him as well.

20. I have a very morbid sense of humor.

21.I used to love camping. Now I can’t deal without a shower and a flushing toilet.

22. I’m terrified of outhouses. I imagine a large bug of unknown origin crawling on my ass when it is hanging in the breeze. Is that too much information?

23. I was the lone chorus member in our college production of Doonsbury. Talk about feeling like a 5th wheel.

24. I almost failed my first semester of college due to pneumonia and a car accident. Of course, my teachers didn’t believe me until I started handing them medical bills.

25. I despise Mr. Doan for yelling at me in front of the class “I don’t even know what the hell you are doing here!” Not a very good thing for a teacher to ever do to a student. I was there to learn, unfortunately your teaching methods sucked. (I hope you find this. And oh yeah, kiss my lily white ass.)

26. I still carry some anger over stupid things. (See above.)

27. I was engaged three times, but only officially once if the ring is a necessary part of the process. I will only really admit to the once anyway.

28. I had a boyfriend that stopped taking showers for weeks at a time while we were together. I broke up with him soon after.

29. I refer to him as my temporary insanity boyfriend.

30. I did actually have a nervous breakdown once, but I am feeling much better now.

31. I never thought I would live past the age of 21. I’m not sure why. But imagine my surprise that I will be celebrating my 29th birthday for the 6th time in December.

32. I am the only person I know that was given detention when I was in first grade. Apparently I wasn’t doing my homework.

33. I am wondering how I am ever going to make it to 100 things on this list. I don’t consider myself that interesting.

34. I regret the fact that I still haven’t gone skydiving.

35. I still want a tattoo of a moon on my ass.

36. I really do like vanilla coke.

37. I think blue pepsi taste a lot like ass.

38. I will never reveal how I know what ass tastes like.

39. I don’t really like my brother. I have to love him because he is my brother, but as a person, we don’t get along well at all.

40. Sometimes I don’t really like myself.

41. I have been in therapy. It saved my life.

42. I broke my arm when I was four by jumping off a swing.

43.I broke my right foot three weeks before high school graduation playing indoor soccer.

44. The gym teacher made me continue playing.

45. I broke my left foot three weeks before college graduation during a cast party. I still can’t figure out how it happened.

46. When I called my mother to tell her, she asked, “Can’t I ever see either one of you kids graduate in one piece?”

47. My brother was nearly killed in a biking accident the night before his college graduation, which is why she said that. He was BWI.

48. He did 1000 dollars worth of damage to the flat bed of the truck in front of him with his face. And yet, he only has one little scar. Talk about lucky.

49. Until I was 27, I never had stitches.

50. After that, I had one stitch in my finger after cutting myself with a cat food can.

51. I had all four of my impacted wisdom teeth removed at once. I fell in love with Valium that day.

52. I chipped the hell out of my front teeth while sledding when I was 13. I had temporary fillings on my teeth until I was 28.

53. I cried the night I came home from the dentist when I saw how ugly the temporary caps looked.

54. I cried the night I came home from the dentist when I saw how great the permanent caps looked.

55. I cry during Kleenex says bless you commercials.

56. I cry during the Iams Science diet commercials.

57. I cry when I think about my dog Smokey and how unfair her death was, and how unfairly I treated her.

58. I cry entirely too much.

59. I am very shy when I first meet people. Give me a day, and then you can’t shut me up.

60. I hate it when people interrupt me while I am speaking.

61. I was raped twice in college. I don’t like to talk about it, but I can’t believe I didn’t learn my lesson the first time.

62. I’m a little slow on the learning curve.

63. I think my life would have been completely different if I had been born a blond.

64. That was a joke.

65. I miss being in radio. But I certainly don’t miss the miserable paycheck.

66. I never became susceptible to the “radio ego.” That is a good thing.

67. Was a very good year. :)

68. Hubster sometimes calls me Liz. Says that I remind him of a lizard on a hot rock when I sleep. (I crank the electric blanket up to 9 even in the warmer weather.)

69. Just bought kickin’ new sunglasses that are way too big for me head.

70. I’m wearing them right now.

71. It’s kind of hard to see with them on.

72. I have had 10 teeth extracted from my mouth because it was (get this) too small for all of them.

73. Two of them (bottom front) were removed because they grew in black, thanks to antibiotics when I was a baby.

74. I was born with pneumonia. I have a sneaking suspicion that my birth mother was a smoker.

75. I was a very defective baby, looking back at it now. And ugly as well.

76. I broke my tailbone while roller blading when I was 27 (it was two months before I was supposed to get married the first time.)

77. At one point during our engagement, I broke it off. I wanted to be sure that I was doing the right thing.

78. I came to my senses quickly.

79. I have never regretted that decision.

80. I walked into the bathroom while my father was on the john last year at Thanksgiving.

81. I have the worst timing in the world.

82. I worry a lot lately about money. I never thought I was this materialistic.

83. I love horses, and regret not owning one.

84. Yes, I know how to ride both English and Western. (Or at least I remember learning the two.)

85. I hate country music with a passion. It comes from working at a country/western music radio station for a year and a half. It’s a wonder I didn’t kill myself during my shift.

86. I hated dolls growing up. I spent far more time climbing trees and picking ups snakes and all those tomboy things.

87. I am now terrified of snakes. (I can’t figure it out either.)

88. My brother and I almost burnt down our house once. We started a little firecracker fire underneath the arborvitaes.

89. I kill plants with just my mere arrival. I am prouder of this talent then I should be.

90. I always wanted to learn to play the piano. I have played flute, clarinet and guitar.

91. I actually loved high school. It was the only time in my life I was popular.

92. Spaghetti is my favorite food of all time.

93. Apparently I am Scottish, English and Welsh. I am proud of me Scottish heritage even though the Scots seem to be most well known for the love of sheep.

94. I think the Serta sheep are too damn cute, but that doesn’t mean I want to have sex with them.

95. My hands are starting to hurt from all this typing.

96. I am an awesome cook. But a better baker! Which explains part of my ever-widening ass.

97. I wonder why people find me so hard to get along with, when I think I am so easy going.

98. I feel like an outsider to the rest of my family.

99. I have suddenly begun to like beans, spinach and asparagus.

100. I can’t believe you are still reading this.

Posted by Ethne at April 11, 2005 08:16 PM