1.      I have two younger brothers.
2.      I am 6 years older than the first one.
3.      I am 10 years older than the second one.
4.      They are both taller than I am.
5.      I am terribly allergic to cats…
6.      I have one anyway. His name is Bug
7.      I was born in Houston but lived in Galveston until I was 23.
8.      I moved back to Houston the day before I turned 24.
9.      When I was born, my mom guilt-tripped a priest into baptizing me before they moved to Galveston. I was 6 weeks old and the priest didn’t want to without them taking the classes. My mom knows Catholic guilt with the best of them.
10.  My mom taught me to how to run a guilt trip. I can guilt trip you so fast and under the radar that you’d never know what happened.
11.  I’ve been bitten by a swan.
12.  I’ve been chased down by a large white pelican.
13.  I’ve been dive-bombed by mockingbirds.
14.  I’ve been attacked by grackles while carrying my cat away from the tree they live in. (I think he pissed them off.)
15.  Needless to say, I’m not very fond of birds.
16.  Cheese and I are best friends. I can eat some cheese.
17.  My parents divorced when I was 19.
18.  My Grandmother died when I was 20. She taught me to knit. I miss her every day.
19.  My best friend, Meryl, doesn’t knit but appreciates anything that comes off the needles so much that it’d break your heart.
20.  My other best friend, Adrienne, used to tease me about knitting until I taught her mom how and her mom taught her.
21.  I’ve always had issues with my weight.
22.  I’m learning to accept myself the way I am. It involves a lot of standing in the mirror in my underwear. It can be quite scary on a bad day.
23.  I bite my nails.
24.  I usually develop crushes on men who are either not right for me or not interested in me. I think it’s some bizarre sub-conscious way of keeping myself from getting hurt.
25.  I fell madly in love with Kurt Cobain when I was 12.
26.  Even though I’m no longer madly in love with him (he is dead after all) and no longer listen to angry grunge music, I still know all of the lyrics to his songs and sing them to the steering wheel when I hear them playing on the radio.
27.  When I was two, I went to London with my parents to visit my grandparents.
28.  While in London, I set off alarms in Windsor Castle. I apparently really wanted to play with the antique toys.
29.  I really like the comic strip Pearls Before Swine
30.  I also really like the comic strip Get Fuzzy.
31.  I went to the last show Soundgarden ever played in Houston.
32.  I tie pearls for a side job.
33.  I’m a licensed insurance agent.
34.  No, I won’t sell you any insurance.
35.  I’m also a house/pet-sitter.
36.  I’ve only seen it snow once in my entire life. Christmas of 2004.
37.  Galveston got 6 inches!!! My friends and I drove out to the deserted Wal-mart parking lot in the middle of the night and made snow-angels and had snowball fights and ran around like chickens with our heads off.
38.  It didn’t snow for Christmas 2005 or 2006. I felt cheated.
39.  I have high hopes for snow for Christmas 2007. Mother Nature, take notes!
40.  The night before Katrina hit, I talked to my buddy Jay, and looked over the edge of the seawall. It was so black that the sea and the sky were one and the same. It looked like the world dropped off forever. It’s one of the creepiest thing I’ve ever experienced.
41.  Monopoly is my all-time favorite board game.
42.  Scrabble is my second favorite game. I know a lot of the 2-letter words. I can kick your butt. J
43.  Risk and Life tie for third
44.  I’m sadly addicted to the Sims.
45.  I have a disgustingly large yarn stash and not enough time to knit it all.
46.  I adore the dance scene in Napoleon Dynamite.
47.  I love singing along to songs I like.
48.  I’m also tone-deaf.
49.  I was raised Episcopalian and Catholic.
50.  I have the Irish-Catholic guilt. Badly.
51.  I’m a Libra!
52.  I am a very typical Libran, don’t like being alone and am fair towards people and situations to a fault.
53.  I have a wretched weakness for expensive yarn.
54.  Another weakness for hand-dyed yarn.
55.  I shop around to find the absolute cheapest suppliers. I only settle for buying stuff at the cheapest I can get away with.
56.  Meryl is Jewish and she swears that I’m more Jewish than her at times.
57.  I am very clean, but a total mess.
58.  My apt is always messy.
59.  But at the same time, it’s a clean messy.
60.  I love art museums and have been going to them for most of my life.
61.  I bought my first Offhand Designs bag as a gift to myself after moving to Houston… I want another one. Some people love tchotchkes or shoes…I love bags.
62.  I don’t make friends easily despite being a very likeable and friendly person
63.  I absolutely HATE working out on machines at the gym. I hate them so much that I swim laps in order to get some exercise instead.
64.  I can swim laps for an insanely long period of time without wanting to stop.
65.  I have a lot of first dates. I rarely have a second date. Somehow this is sad.
66.  I bring work home from the office probably a little too often.
67.  I have hitchhiker’s thumbs.
68.  I look really good as a redhead. I have redhead skin and yet am naturally brunette.
69.  Everyone on my dad’s side of the family is a redhead, except me. I resent this.
70.  I fry like bacon after 15 minutes in the sun, even with really strong sunscreen
71.  After I cook like a lobster (and turn just as red) I peel and am instantly translucent white again.
72.  I finally this year found a sun-less tanning lotion that doesn’t make me look like an Oompa-Loompa. I’m enjoying looking tan for the first time in my life!
73.  I inherited pack-rat syndrome from my mother, who inherited it from her mother. It seems to be hereditary. In light of this discovery, I’ve decided not to have children.
74.  Actually, I’ve decided not to have children because I’m much too crotchety and only enjoy the type of child you give back after a couple of hours.
75.  If I ever get married and children are important to my spouse, I am willing to re-consider this.
76.  But only if my future spouse willingly agrees to turn a blind eye to my yarn habit. That’s a joke people!
77.  I bid farewell to the last of my acrylic yarn when I moved to Houston. It was the really crappy scratchy Red Heart kind that should be inflicted upon no one. Ever.
78.  I can count at least 7 different countries in my bloodline. One of which no longer exists.
79.  English, French, German, Scotch, Irish, Italian, and Prussian. I understand that there may be more, but to date, no one has been interested enough to find out. Certainly not me. I enjoy my Heinz 57 status.
80.  I like the cold. I reason that you can always put more clothes on. You can only take so much off before you’re slapped with tickets and court dates for exposing yourself to a minor.
81.  I do not like people who change lanes in the middle of an intersection. Its illegal folks. Get with the program!
82.  I also can’t stand it when people don’t use a blinker. It’s a common courtesy people, it’s standard to a vehicle for a reason…
83.  I like having a guy hold the door for me, it makes me feel special and I also kinda think to hell with the feminist "I can hold my own door dammit" viewpoint. If a guy holds the door for me, to hell with it, say thanks and go through it. I like it - its nice.
84.  I like men…in kilts
85.  I'm addicted to Chlorox spray. I love that stuff! I chlorox my counters and stovetop every night even if I didn't cook. I can blame my Uncle for this habit.
86.  I like supporting artisans and such. I make whatever I can but am all to willing to admit that I know somethings I make don't have the lovely finishing that somethings other people handmake do.
87.  100 things about yourself is harder than it sounds. But I like lists.