100 things.

1. I am currently 8 months pregnant.
2. It's a boy.
3. I'm not married (yet).
4. I was born in Southern California
5. I have lived in California, Alaska, and Washington.
6. I am a Gemini, which to some people explains a lot.
7. I'm more crazy in love with my fiance (who has very long toes) every day.
8. I've traveled to 6 other countries. I think.
9. I have 2 cats and a dog.
10. I knit.
11. I don't read as much as I should, or as I used to, I tend to knit instead.
12. I am left-handed.
13. I'm a nester, being pregnant has only ratcheted up the nesting instinct to 11.
14. I thought I was a good swimmer until I nearly drowned in Hawaii.
15. I am not a morning person.
16. I really like to sleep.
17. I won't make coffee in the morning unless the kitchen is clean. But if someone else makes the coffee I can breeze in long enough to get some without cleaning.
18. Almost every day I dream of doing something more creative as a career.
19. I collected pigs when I was in my late teens and early 20s. I have finally rid myself of most of them.
20. I am not nearly as good with correspondence as I would like to be.
21. I make lists. But not compulsively.
22. I dated a felon. It's a long story. And that summary sounds much more dramatic than it really was.
23. I am more comfortable in my body pregnant than I ever have been before.
24. My favorite color depends on what it's for. I do like orange. When I was young, orange was my least favorite color.
25. I watch mostly HGTV.
26. I love my dog more the way most people love their kids.
27. My circle of friends is far smaller than it used to be.
28. My dad turned 80 last year. This year my little brother turns 40, as does the fiance, and my mom turns 80. I jumped out of a plane on my 40th birthday.
29. Most of the expensive designer things I own were gifts. OK, probably all of them.
30. I love design, but don't get too hung up on owning stuff. I can appreciate that it exists.
31. Growing up all I ever wanted to be was an architect.
32. I have a BA in English Lit.
33. My senior thesis was about Poetry and Architecture, it was the most fun I've ever had for research and writing.
34. I once drove across country for a month, staying with a long list of people that I'd never met in person.
35. I don't know anyone famous. But I have lots of friends who do.
36. My pets and son all effectively have 4 letter names.
37. I used to say that in a previous life I was large black woman from the south. I haven't thought about that in over a decade.
38. My most long-standing friend is someone I have known since I was 8.
39. I met her when I was selling avocados out of my wagon around the neighborhood. Her mother introduced us. But at the time her parents didn't like me so much, and my parents didn't like her so much. But for different reasons.
40. A few years later her sister hit me in the head with a very very large dowel. (Basically a closet rod.)
41. Her brother once blackmailed us for about a month because he caught us taking her mother's car out. We were 14.
42. I've had 7 cars since I was 16.
43. I've had a blog (of a sort) since 1994 or so.
44. I cried with excitement the first time I heard about HTML. It was maybe 1991. You could CLICK on a WORD to go to another part of the TEXT! I saw the future right then.
45. I went to the ER on my first date with my fiance.
46. On our second date I flew to the east coast to move him to Seattle.
47. I made him get an apartment just in case, but really he moved in with me.
48. Neither of us ever thought we'd get married before we met each other.
49. I feel more peaceful when the house is clean.
50. I wanted a nickname very badly when I was a teenager. I tried suggesting things. Nothing worked.
51. As an adult I've had many.
52. I wish I could sing well.
53. I pick up rocks on the beach. I have to limit myself now, as there are too many rock piles all over the house.
54. I have a handful of close friends that started out as virtual friends.
55. I love good thunderstorms (the dog does not).
56. I love riding in helicopters.
57. I once was medi-vac'd off of a mountain in Alaska.
58. I didn't think I'd like (or rather care about) Hawaii. I was SO wrong.
59. I used to go to Paris about every 8 months. Just because.
60. I'm really bad about thank you notes. I'm working hard to fix that.
61. I love tomatoes, olives, and pickles. (The fiance hates all of those.)
62. I love the smell of the desert at sunrise and sunset.
63. I've been to jail. One night.
64. My most embarrassing experience was getting caught shoplifting with a neighbor girl (I was in grade school) at a supermarket and having to pick up trash in the parking lot several weekends running as punishment. I thought everyone would know why I had to do that, so mostly I hid in the bushes.
65. I did the born again thing for awhile when I was a teenager.
66. It didn't stick after age 18.
67. I like nice smelly hand lotion.
68. I wouldn't have a regular job if I didn't have to. That doesn't mean I wouldn't work.
69. My first concert was Donny Osmond. He arrived at Angel Stadium on a hang-glider.
70. My favorite pants when I was 7 were red hip-hugger bellbottoms.
71. I remember seeing my first Beatles album, very specifically.
72. I have taken accordian and guitar lessons.
73. I also briefly played the clarinet and the tenor sax.
74. I've never been able to play an instrument proficiently.
75. I procrastinate. Sometimes quite badly. Like writing this list right now.
76. I have an absolutely horrid movie memory.
77. I used to be very extroverted. I'm not nearly so much now.
78. I think my Meyers-Briggs sliders have all settled in the middle.
79. When I was little I would give my dad my "blueprints" that I had drawn for him to make changes around the house. Like for that second storey. Or putting that fishtank in the wall.
80. I've got really great neighbors now. It keeps me from wanting to move, mostly.
81. I prefer caramel to chocolate by a long shot.
82. I love the smell of snapdragons.
83. I have notebooks full of art project ideas.
84. I like to drive.
85. I don't feel my age.
86. I think I used to be smarter.
87. I believe in karma.
88. I went to my 20 year high school reunion, but not my 10.
89. I'm pretty sure all the guys I went to dances with in high school later came out of the closet.
90. My second longest relationship was with a woman.
91. I have one tattoo.
92. I have been on 2 cruises. Both with my family.
93. My parents have been married 59 years.
94. I wish I would live long enough to spend that long with B.
95. I adore my brother and his family.
96. If I had a lot of money I'd have a lot of magazine subscriptions.
97. I've never dyed my hair. (other than washout stuff)
98. I miss writing poetry, even if what I wrote wasn't that great. But I don't miss the angst that generated it.
99. My favorite comfort foods are: an avocado sandwich, a meatloaf sandwich, or homemade mac and cheese.
100. I can't decide what #100 should be. I had about a paragraph written. Let's just let it be.