Like You Care: Random Stuff about Me

Because I'm playing around with Blogger and can't figure out how to put this on its own separate page (yeah, I know - I shouldn't even be allowed to have a computer. Sorry.)

1. My master’s degree is in a field completely unrelated to my doctoral studies.
2. I judge people unfairly when I see them use “your” and “you’re” interchangeably.
3. Teaching college students is not what I thought it would be.
4. I love teaching.
5. And I absolutely hate it.
6. It depends on the day. And the student.
7. I am extremely disappointed in the American education system today.
8. I am on my second marriage.
9. I got a divorce when I was 28.
10. My first husband was an abusive drunk; I guess you could say I am a survivor of domestic violence (although he only choked me once. And only kicked down a locked door I was hiding behind once. And only shoved me so hard I fell and ripped my favorite jeans (the real travesty) once.)
11. When I was in that marriage, I dabbled with an eating disorder.
12. Because of that, the following foods literally make me gag: corn tortillas, Fiber One cereal, soy milk, yogurt mixed with uncooked oatmeal.
13. I got married to my first husband in Lake Tahoe.
14. Six months later I had a reception in my hometown.
15. I had a different wedding dress for each event.
16. Both of those days were miserable for me – in the top ten of “worst days of my life.”
17. I should have known.
18. I was only married for 14 months.
19. Sometimes I’m amazed I got out alive.
20. I believe that a handful of wonderfully supportive and patient people (including Schietto Sister) saved me from that marriage.
21. I truly adored my first mother-in-law.
22. Now I don’t have a mother-in-law.
23. Sometimes women say to me, “Your husband’s mother is deceased? God, you are SO lucky!”
24. My current husband is the smartest person I know.
25. He always says, “I’m not that smart” when I tell him this.
26. He has many nicknames for me.
27. My favorite is “Sassy Sad-Pants” and no, it’s not sexual.
28. My wedding to my second husband was a “surprise wedding” – our guests thought they were attending a black tie engagement party.
29. That wedding dress was a red satin gown.
30. That wedding day was the happiest day of my life.
31. For Better or For Worse was my favorite comic strip growing up.
32. When I was in sixth grade, I bought my dad a jar of Planter’s peanuts and a pack of grape Bubble Yum for Christmas. I hope he’s forgiven me.
33. My grandmother died when I was 15. I still think of it as the worst thing that’s ever happened to me and the most difficult thing I’ve ever been through.
34. Twenty years later, I still miss her terribly.
35. My natural hair color is dark brown.
36. I have been blonde for the past 7 years.
37. I have empirical evidence: Blondes do have more fun.
38. Even though my husband has a vasectomy, I stayed on the Pill for years because I was terrified of an unplanned pregnancy.
39. I am staunchly Pro-Choice, but I honestly don’t know if I could ever have an abortion.
40. I don’t want to know if I could ever have an abortion.
41. I lived in Hawaii but never visited Pearl Harbor.
42. I didn’t start drinking coffee regularly until I was 27 and then became almost immediately addicted.
43. I don’t really understand hot tea (unless it has alcohol and that’s for medicinal purposes, really.)
44. I love board games. LOVE. Them.
45. I really want to have “Board game parties” but no one seems that interested.
46. My family members will no longer play Balderdash with me because I am an obnoxious winner.
47. I once kicked the Balderdash board off the coffee table when I lost to a friend of mine.
48. I was really drunk when I did that and he has since forgiven me.
49. Both of my pinky fingers are crooked.
50. I think plucking your eyebrows hurts much worse than getting them waxed.
51. I have a freckle on my right earlobe that makes people say, “Oh, your right ear is double-pierced.”
52. They don’t believe me when I say, “No, it’s not.”
53. I’ve had more people look really closely at my right ear lobe than should be legally allowed.
54. I have all of my wisdom teeth because I had my “twelve-year molars” removed to make room for them.
55. I think I was born into the wrong religion.
56. I was raised Catholic, but I really believe there was a cosmic mistake and I was supposed to have been born into a big Jewish family.
57. Although I do hate blintzes and gefilte fish makes me really nervous, so maybe it’s all worked out for the best.
58. I know all the words to the Dreidl song.
59. I like to say, “Oy Vey Gevalt.”
60. I work part-time as a wedding planner's assistant.
61. The first time I saw a Ketubah signing I thought it was so beautiful I blubbered like a three year old.
62. I was working that wedding and the family members thought I was really, really weird.
63. I took a quiz called “How Jewish are You” and my result was “Incredibly Jewish!”
64. I was one of two kids to do a “very special reading” at my First Communion.
65. I remember getting dressed for my First Communion and telling my dad very somberly, “This is the most important day of my life.”
66. I had a crown and a veil to go with my First Communion dress and I loved it.
67. I wore it around the house for years afterward.
68. I was a very weird little kid.
69. I did have a nose job when I was 16.
70. I hated high school so much that if you said to me, “Here’s five million dollars to go back to high school,” I would say, “Not even for ten.”
71. I was a cheerleader in high school.
72. In our high school that really meant nothing.
73. I told my husband if we got cable television, I would gain 30 pounds.
74. I’m half-way there.
75. I can never remember how to spell commitment, knowledgeable or judgmental.
76. When I was growing up, I was completely jealous of kids who had nicknames, and tried to give myself a nickname.
77. Much like George Costanza's "T-Bone" experience, it didn't work.
78. Now that I'm an adult, I find that most people close to me don't call me by my name - they call me by a nickname (not one that I created, of course!)
79. I hated my first name growing up, so I tried to get people to call me by my middle name, "Marie."
80. Yes - I already told you that I was born and raised Catholic - see #56.
81. I also thought people should call me Marie because I loved Marie Osmond and thought she was beautiful.
82. This didn't catch on, either.
83. I've never been able to put on eyeliner in a way that didn't make me look completely ridiculous.
84. I have way too many shoes.
85. After it rains and the sidewalk is covered with worms, I can make myself really nauseous if I go outside and look at the worms.
86. The first time I ever went to the OB/GYN, I jumped up after she left the room, fainted, hit my chin on the sink on the way down and woke up naked and bleeding from the face to find the doctor peering over me. She said, "What are you doing down there?"
87. I think that's the dumbest question anyone has ever asked me.
88. I love to scrapbook, but I don't really take pictures, so I end up making scrapbooks of other people's pictures.
89. I don't really have "100 things about me."