100 mostly lame things about me

Since you are reading my blog (really? what is wrong with you?) maybe you should know me better. I have wanted to do this since I saw Auny Becky's over a year ago but I am too lazy.

1. My middle name is Lynn which is the masculine spelling.
2. My mom doesn't know that some gender neutral names have a masculine a feminine spelling.
3. I will not eat cauliflower or octopus
4. I prefer not to eat bleu cheese, hot cooked fruit or anything raspberry flavored
5. My favorite food is birthday cake
6. Sometimes people don't like that birthday cake is my favorite food so then I say that it is chicken
7. My favorite drink is Big Red
8. Red is a flavor
9. I met my best friend after I ate a pan of jello shots that I was meant to distribute
10. Never ask a drunk 18 yr old to distribute your jello shots
11. Because high school was easy I wasn't prepared to study in college, my grades reflected this
12. Since I only did average in college, I wish that I had spent more time partying
13. I made up for it in graduate school
14. No one can drink more than adults that decide to get a masters degree and find themselves students again
15. Despite my loud volume, my dentist informs me that I have a rather small mouth
16. I have had 5 surgeries, all above my neck
17. My teeth were rather jacked up
18. but I have never had a cavity
19. I have perfect vision and hearing
20. I think this would make me be a good spy
21. I don't mean to listen to your conversation, I just can't help it
22. I always know what is going on so you might as well tell me and get my opinion
23. My teeth are fixed now, other people still can't see or here
24. Every emotion makes me cry
25. It is hard to yell at someone when you are mad if you are crying
26. When I am mad my accent decides to mimic the cast of Steel Magnolias
27. I am also a sympathetic cryer so if you cry, I will cry
28. Once a week, someone tells me I look like their best friend's sister
29. I look like your best friend's sister
30. Ironically, I do look like one of my best friend's sisters
31. I am afraid of spiders, needles and the ocean
32. The ocean is filled with sharks, jellyfish and ghosts of people who are not smart enough to be afraid of the ocean
33. I have felt my whole life like I have something to prove, I don't know what
34. I know just enough to be dangerous in several areas
35. Every year I change what I want to be when I grow up
36. I keep coming back to pastry chef
37. I will be a small business executive in my family business for ever
38. My favorite job ever was working in retail
39. I started bellydancing in 2004
40. The same year I met my husband
41. These two things are unrelated
42. Bellydancing is the first hobby that I have ever been good at
43. And the first one I have stuck with
44. It is my first love
45. My husband is my second
46. He is okay with this
47. We got married in a bar, on a cruise ship
48. I am clumsy
49. I spent 1 whole day of my honeymoon in a wheelchair
50. Because of this, I have never been to St. Thomas
51. I have never broken a bone
52. I have 3 major scars
53. The one on my chest is from chicken pox
54. The one on my hand is from an accident on a golf cart
55. The one on my head is from an accident on a golf cart
56. You would think that I would avoid golf carts
57. I have been in a couple of bad whitewater rafting flips
58. One of them gave me nightmares for a week
59. Rafting is still one of my favorite things
60. I didn't get chicken pox until I was 11
61. Chicken Pox is a virus related to herpes
62. My first major was microbiology
63. I remember a lot about the chapter on herpes
64. I think I am a really good cook
65. My husband says only if I don't count people who went to culinary school which I don't
66. I pretend to sew but it is much more like MacGuyver than Martha Stewart
67. My mom is named Martha Stewart
68. I wish someone had told me that you need to learn to sew before you can become a bellydancer, I would have tried harder
69. I have been to 5 of the seven continents
70. Technically, I have not been to Antarctica but I have been to the Antarctica welcome center so I count it
71. I have really big feet
72. Which most tall people have
73. I am 5'3" and 1/2
74. When you are shorter than 5'5" you count the 1/2
75. My favorite animal is a llama
76. In my dream home, I have 2 cats, a Welsh Corgie, a donkey and a llama
77. I just have one cat
78. We have a cat that lives in our office
79. When I am typing there is about a 40% chance that a cat is in my lap
80. There is a 100% chance that I have cat hair on me
81. My favorite ingredient to cook with is cat hair
82. I make myself laugh every day
83. Most of the time no one is around to hear me
84. I think I am a scaredy cat but occasionally I do something really brave
85. I walked on the edge on Auckland's Sky Tower, 192 meters above ground
86. This impresses me to no end
87. I am speed reader
88. If I really love a book, I read it a second time without speed reading
89. It is really hard to make yourself not speed read
90. I am also good at reading upside but only if I have to
91. In school I got in trouble a lot for not knowing where we were in the book
92. I was usually 20 something pages ahead
93. Every Sunday night at 11pm someone tried to fax my first apartment
94. I have an real appreciation for good wine
95. My favorite is New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc
96. There is always at least one piece of glitter on my body
97. I noticed a random piece of glitter stuck to the wall in my living room.
98. That's how I know it is home
99. When I started this I thought it would only take a few minutes.
100. It took me 8 months to complete this list to my own satisfaction.

Geography for the masses

So our office radio, which is totally in another room but I have mad hearing skills, is on a country station. I personally do not like country music so this is my exposure. Like my favorite 80s-90s-and today station it plays the same 3 songs over and over. One of these songs has a refrain in Spanish. I am pretty sure the song is about going to Mexico. I have been to Mexico and I think it is the kind of thing that a person would want to sing about. Anyway, in this song the dude loves Mexico so much that he even learned enough Spanish to sing the one line in the refrain. Also, in the refrain he says that they will drink some Jager(meister). Now again, I have been to Mexico and let me assure you that you can drink whatever the hell you want and lots of it. But if I loved Mexico so much I was going to write a song about it, I think I would at least promote one of Mexico's main exports such as tequila or Kahlua. I'm just sayin'.

It's my birthday and I'll cry if I want to

So it was just my birthday. I'm 29 (because I know that you wanted to know). My birthday this year was totally lackluster.

1) It was a Tuesday
2) I was depressed (not about my birthday)

Anyway, it got me thinking about my best and worst birthdays.

Worst - 19. Nothing happened. I think my roommate got me a cake at the store but that was it. No going out, no fun time, maybe a present from my mom.

Best - 23. So Hurricane hmm, remember to google this Isabel was going to hit the Virginia Coast and since my best friends parents lived on Long Island (Isabel target #2) she evacuated herself to Knoxville. She always said it would take a Hurricane to get to Knoxville and it did.

Now I don't know how or why we decided I needed to have a monkey themed 23rd birthday party (drink much?) but we did. We printed out lots of pictures of monkeys and posted them up in my apartment. We also bought drink mixers and replaced all the recommended liquors with 99 bananas. That's right 99 bananas IN EVERYTHING! You could have a cosmo-monkey or a slut monkey or a monkeys naval.

I recall a few things about that night. I was quitting smoking because I said I wouldn't smoke past graduation, I recall this caused me to act out. I do know I wore my door wreath on my head at some point. I also bit a guy on the ankle.

See I was getting my MBA and my laptop was out and my friend (a classmate) was on it chatting with another classmate and pretending to be me. I tried to stop him and he put his hand on my head and smooshed me to the floor (yeah, you try to fight someone after you've had 97 of the 99 bananas) and so since I was down there I made a strategic move and bit his ankle. This is the only incident in my adult life that I have bit someone, I am much more of a slapper. Anyway, once you bite someone's ankle there is really no competing with that.


What is your best/worst birthday story?

An important update

1 - go vote for me in the Aunt Becky Goes Places and Does Stuff Contest, it's #10

2 - my at work WW may not make. This means I will have to go with the masses to the WW main office. I will still go but reserve the right to complain about it. For reals people - the WW it works. It is worth the money - would you pay money for someone to wave a wand and make you thin? Yeah, so then you should pay for this (of course it's not magic fast but nothing is and the point is in 5 years when you haven't lost any weight you will be all like Dammit! I should have listened to Jen)

3 - The flu. I do not have it. If you think you have it then stay home. Do not touch me. Do not touch people who will touch me or things I will touch. I am not a baby about being sick (unlike every man ever) but I am dancing here in 2 weeks and going on vacation here the week after that and if you ruin that for me I will haunt your sweaty flu dreams.