November 2005

• 1. I was born in California.
• 2. I’m not proud of that fact.
• 3. I came to Reno to go to school to get away from California.
• 4. Because it was the furthest from home my parents would let me go.
• 5. I can’t stand to be too hot.
• 6. Bad news is it can get pretty hot in Reno.
• 7. I’d love to live in New England someday. Maybe even the Pacific Northwest or Alaska. See a trend here?
• 8. I was married to K in August of 1998. 8/8/98, in fact.
• 9. My birthday is 12/12.
• 10. My son was born 11/10. I was *that* close.
• 11. My second son, who was stillborn, was due 4/4/04
• 12. I have a weird thing for those symmetrical dates.
• 13. I was raised Catholic and attended an all-girls Catholic high school. Complete with the plaid uniform skirt.
• 14. Contrary to popular belief, I really enjoyed my high school. I made a lot of great friends there.
• 15. I *hated* junior high school. All the kids there were stuck up selfish brats. If not for the private high school, I would have had to spend high school with those same people and I don’t know if I could have withstood that.
• 16. My favorite subject in school was English.
• 17. My senior year of high school I took five different English courses.
• 18. Surprise, surprise! In college I majored in English.
• 19. The real surprise? First I majored in Journalism and didn’t switch for the first two years so I had to graduate in five years instead of four.
• 20. When I came to school in Reno, I had no car, no friends and barely any money.
• 21. I was very homesick that first semester.
• 22. I had a crazy roommate. She did drugs and would stay out all weekend. Her “connections” would call all night long and then she’d yell at me because I’d unplugged the phone.
• 23. The next semester I moved in with a girl who I’d become friends with. She turned out to be psycho too. She tried to ban me from using the internet and one night attempted suicide with a bottle of tylenol.
• 24. I had better luck my sophomore year, but the first semester my roommate was a girl from Japan who never spoke to me the whole fall semester.
• 25. Spring semester that year I had a roommate from South Africa. She was nice but turned psycho the following fall when she tried to blackmail me for money to pay her outrageous phone bill.

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26. Junior year I decided to live in the on-campus apartments for upperclassmen. The first semester, I had another roommate who never spoke to me. She was from Taiwan and was always blasting the heat. (see #5)
27. Thankfully, she left at the semester but then I had this skank ho for a roommate. She’d bring this guy she was seeing (and she had a boyfriend at home) into our room and they’d have sex like two feet from my bed. She was also a freshman but her dad had worked his connections to get her into the upperclassmen apartments.
28. I’d met K by this time so I had someone to vent to. And someplace to go hide. Thank god!
29. When we got married, he was finished with school but I still had some more credits to finish up. (see #19)
30. When I graduated, I was three months pregnant. K and my parents still made me sit out in the sun for four hours anyhow.
31. I had no problem getting pregnant the first time. I actually got pregnant on Valentine’s Day and the doctor had a good chuckle when she figured that part out.
32. I have four other brothers and sisters. All much older than I am.
33. My mother had me when she was 42.
34. My dad was 40.
35. My sister used to tease me, saying I was a hole in mom’s diaphram.
36. My mother had several people recommend having an abortion with me. Thankfully, she wouldn’t consider it.
37. The rest of my family was born back east in Michigan.
38. Except my mom. She was born in Indiana.
39. My parents still live in the same house I grew up in.
40. My old bedroom is now the guestroom so when we visit, we stay in there and it’s really weird now that I have a husband and a son.
41. Especially when K gets in the mood. :shock
42. I got my first cat when I was in the fifth grade. She was a stray kitten and I named her Callie because she was a calico.
43. Callie had to be put down when I was in the sixth grade because she had cancer.
44. A few months later, I got Ben. And I had him up until the day my son was baptised in 2000. He got sick and had to be put down.
45. We had this great cat named Shadow that we got when I graduated from college. But when we moved to our new house this summer, he got out and we never saw him again.
46. For our anniversary, K let me get two kittens, siblings. We named them Tiger and Cinder. They *adore* the boy.
47. Just after we were married we had this dog named Indiana. He was a pain in the arse. When H was 10 months old, we gave him to my brother in law because at the time we were in an apartment and they live on a big piece of land.
48. Christmas of 2001 we got Mistletoe. She’s a rat terrier and pretty small so a good apartment dog.
49. We call her Beetoe becuase H couldn’t say Mistletoe. She’s the epitome of a lapdog.
50. I often remind her I’m not a dog person, that I’m a cat person, but she doesn’t seem to care. I have to admit I’m pretty fond of her.
51. After I had Harrison, my thyroid took a nosedive. Found out after we’d been trying to conceive for two years and now I’m on Levothroid to control it.
52. Even with my thyroid regulated, I still need Clomid or more to get pregnant.
53. I have a very obsessive personality.
54. In high school, I was addicted to “Days of our Lives” and drove my friends crazy with it.
55. Later on in high school and in college, I was obsessed with “Star Wars”. My first online alias was “Leia”.
56. For a few years I was obsessed with the PC game, “The Sims”. I had a website where I made furniture for others to download to use in their Sims homes. I just closed that site this last December.
57. I’m starting to think I’m rather addicted to this blog stuff.
58. My middle name is Sue.
59. I was named after my mom’s sister. First and middle names.
60. Since the name is rather old fashioned, I’m always getting AARP stuff in the mail.
61. Growing up, my favorite shows were Scooby Doo, The Muppet Show and Spiderman.
62. I miss “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.
63. Vicodin makes me totally zone out..:dead
64. When I was sophomore in college, I flew to Missouri to meet some friends from the internet. Totally on impulse.
65. Lucky for me, it was all good and I had a great time. Nowadays though I don’t think I’d even consider doing something that stupid.
66. I met K on a dorm sponsored camping trip.
67. I knew he liked me when, a day or two later, he started playing with my hair while we were talking down in the computer lab.
68. Never being the patient sort, I eventually asked him out for what was our first semi-date.
69. We went to see “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” at the $1.50 theater with a mutual friend.
70. That night we were doing homework together and ended up talking into the wee hours of the night before he walked me back to my room.
71. My favorite color is purple. Though I’m awful partial to pink right now.
72. I love Italian food. Especially if it involves an incredible sauce.
73. I was raised Democrat.
74. K’s family is mostly Republican but he is also a Democrat.
75. I love my Dodge Grand Caravan. I don’t see the big deal about SUV’s. Give me a minivan anyday.
76. My favorite author is Nora Roberts. I have a huge collection of her books and am always trying to add to it.
77. I learned how to swim when I was 18 months old. I grew up with a pool in the backyard and my mom figured I’d better learn how to swim early. They briefly entertained the notion of getting me in swim classes so maybe I could be on a team later on. But I just wanted to play in the water, not do freestyle.
78. I used to love to watch Punky Brewster and Silver Spoons.
79. I *love* lobster. Especially fresh ones from Maine.
80. I wear glasses. I used to wear contacts until I had an eye infection in college and ever since my eyes haven’t been able to tolerate them very well. I hate glasses.
81. When I was pregnant with my first son, the nurses told me I was 5′8 but I think I’m really 5′9.
82. K is 6′0.
83. I believe the Boy will outpace us both.
84. When I was in high school, I didn’t want to have any kids at all when I was married.
85. I’m pretty sure because other people’s children have always intimidated me. I never liked to babysit.
86. As a sophomore in college, however, I watched that stupid movie, “Nine Months”. You know the scene where Hugh Grant first sees the ultrasound and he gets all emotional? *That* is what did me in. Had baby fever ever since.
87. Thankfully, I’ve found out that I love being a mother and am so hoping for another chance at it.
88. H (the Boy) was born via an emergency c-section under general anesthesia. I had been induced due to pre-eclampsia. I didn’t get to even see him until five hours after he was born.
89. I got to see him once and then, while at nursery, he turned blue. They ended up moving him to the NICU and in order to see him, I had to get my hacked up body out of bed and go down there. All in all, I think having to get out of bed helped me heal faster.
90. H was on an apnea monitor for the first three months but that was more of a pain than it was worth. He was healthy as a horse and the dumb thing kept having false alarms, scaring the living shit out of us in the middle of the night.
91. I regularly have K trim my hair for me. He’s actually really good at it.
92. He’ll even color my hair for me. On several occasions, he’s given me highlights.
93. To be fair, I usually cut his hair for him too. We have one of those professional stylists kits, which helps.
94. I have a serious spider phobia.
95. My skin is whiter than white. I physically cannot tan.
96. My eyes are blue…my mom used to call them true blue because they have no other color in them. Whatever that means.
97. I have really long fingers. Which helps me type really fast.
98. I love the 80’s. Seriously.
99. 2004 was my worst year so far, hands down.
100. I need to have a watch on my wrist constantly. I start to unwind if I don’t know what time it is.

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