Levedy

100 50 more things about me

My 100 things was getting a bit stale, so I thought I would come up with another 100.

I'm clearly not interesting enough for another 100, as I ran dry at 50.

1. I secretly fear that my mother in law will discover this blog. I’ve never said a false word about her on this thing, but what I have said she wouldn’t find flattering.
2. I secretly wish that people find my writing funny. Maybe they’ll think that I’m smart, too.
3. This is one of my favorite posts.
4. This one is, too. (Oh, fine. This one too.)
5. The best compliment that I ever got about my writing was that it reminded someone of Heather Armstrong’s.
6. My mother and my mother in law were (are) good mothers. I want to make them both proud. My good motherhood will please my mother and mildly shock my mother in law.
7. Even after 11 years with him, I still love my husband so much that it hurts
8. Exception to #7: when he eats too many carbohydrates. Then I silently debate sending him to another room to sleep for the night.
9. I have a newish freckle named Oliver.
10. I’m a good cook when I put my mind to it
11. I despise folding laundry
12. I wonder when the proper age to train my child to fold laundry will be. Is three months too early?
13. I pretend my cat talks to me by mimicking what her voice would be like
14. I talk to myself in the car. I’m an excellent conversationalist, if I do say so myself
15. I’m expecting my first child in early May
16. My childless friends have already tired of this subject and as such don’t call me much anymore
17. I’m an anti-pack-rat. I’m probably too aggressive about what I throw away
18. I am still afraid of stuffed toys that move or talk on their own
19. When I’m stressed I scratch at my face and my arms. I have the scars to prove it.
20. I once accidentally offered a blind girl a camera
21. I was teased relentlessly in grade/middle school about any one of the following issues: my weight, my family’s income, my complexion, my race, and my vocabulary
22. I wouldn’t repeat junior high if you paid me (see #21)
23. I never admitted to not being a virgin to my parents until I was pregnant
24. I yell at the television during Jeopardy!
25. I yell at the television during The O’Reilly Factor
26. I never liked sports, but I did enjoy badminton quite a bit
27. I’m a secret shopper for my local grocery store
28. I think exactly like my father. This scares both my father and me.
29. I think that my sister is becoming more likeable as the years pass. I’m still pissed about my yearbook, though.
30. My cat doesn’t like to touch me when I’m undressed. I try not to read too far into that.
31. I’ve stood 24 inches from the Rosetta Stone
32. I accidentally stepped on T.S. Eliot’s grave marker in Westminster Abbey and uttered a quiet “ooh, sorry” as if he could hear.
33. Apparently I speak before I think
34. I’m not exactly sure how a bidet works, although Lord knows I gave it the old college try while staying in Rome.
35. Evidently I made enough (unpleasant) noise in the attempt for the hotel management to bring up a tray of champagne and flutes. No, really.
36. I don’t pray to Jesus often, but when I do, it’s usually aloud and in my car. I crack jokes while I pray. It’s some of my best material.
37. My priest made me promise not to crack jokes at my baptism
38. I thank God almost every night for putting my husband in my life. (Exception: #8)
39. I fear that he doesn’t do the same for me
40. I’m told that I have a genuine, if not nice, smile
41. I’ll never own a pet bird
42. I want to learn to shoot a gun so that I will be less afraid of them
43. I can carry on a conversation with just about anyone.
44. Making people laugh with self-deprecating humor is how I whistle in the dark
45. I’ve already told my husband whom he can marry if I die without incurring my haunting. I haven’t broken the news to her yet, though
46. I don’t wear shoes on carpet
47. I told a dirty joke in the Vatican on the way to the Sistine Chapel. The pope was dead within a month. I hope the two are not related.
48. I never have normal dreams
49. Dimitri’s family (almost without exception) adores me and is genuinely excited when I come to visit. It’s a great feeling.
50. I don’t have enough pictures of my family hanging in my house