100+ Things
- I prefer tea over coffee
- Coke over Pepsi
- I do not have a green thumb, but I really, really want one
- I can't sleep in wrinkled sheets
- I love living in the Maritimes
- I won the title of 2005 Chocolate Lover Of The Year at the chocolate festival in St Stephen
- I really like to read
- I love seafood, especially scallops and salmon
- I don't like coconut
- I like rainy days and and I love a rainy night
- I believe in ghosts
- I've never seen one, and that's just fine with me
- I really love scary movies and books
- I'm not good at math
- Grover is my favourite Sesame Street character
- I prefer driving a standard
- I can't speak french, but I'm going to learn one day
- I can't swim very well
- I like to cross-stitch
- I like quilting
- I sort of like rug hooking
- I want to learn to embroider one day
- I really want to crochet and knit, but don't have time right now
- I don't have time because I have a full-time job and a two year old
- I think I'm a pretty good mom
- I really enjoy my job
- In fact, my current job is pretty much what I once considered my "dream job"
- I was Botoxed last year for my job
- I also rappelled down a very tall building for my job last year
- I'm a cat person
- I would like to have a dog one day
- I like small cars because I can't park
- I can't do anything with my hair
- I got 2 or 3 perms a year between the ages of 13 and 20 (it was the eighties)
- My first job was pumping gas as an Irving girl in high school
- I was also a Timbitch after college
- I supported myself 100% for the first time on that job
- My parents were thrilled I was working at a Tim Hortons after all they had spent on school
- I took a year off after high school and worked as a live-in nanny
- It made me realize I didn't want to work in childcare for a living
- But I did discover I enjoyed domestic life, and really enjoyed being in the kitchen
- I like to cook
- I like trying new recipes
- I make the best chocolate cake, triple chocolate cheesecake, and chocolate mousse cake in the world
- I like everything that involves food
- Including cookbooks, grocery stores, and kitchenwares
- I love antiques
- I collect old jugs and crocks
- I have a chamber pot that I keep filled with potpourri
- I am a card-carrying member of the First Wives Club
- But it turns out I'm way happier now than I ever was when I was married
- I'm not allergic to any food
- I can eat a LOT at a sitting
- I was so skinny as a child that I had to take an appetite stimulant
- I wish I was still that skinny (sigh!)
- The toilet paper end hangs to the back in my bathroom
- Toast with butter and a glass of milk is one of my favourite comfort snacks
- I eat multi-grain bread
- My most hated vegetable when I was a kid was The Vile Carrot
- I eat them now
- When I was a nanny I accidently killed the kid's sea monkeys
- They didn't mess with me after that (joke...it really was an accident)
- I'm pretty in pink
- I also like to wear red and forest green
- I hate litterbugs
- I have to read in bed before I fall asleep
- I like to read in bed before I get up
- I've always been a fan of DeGrassi Junior High
- Not the new one, though
- I strongly believe in karma
- My favourite pizza is plain sauce and cheese, preferably from Pizza Delight
- I think pineapple on pizza is an abomination
- I like hiking in the woods for exercise
- I used to cross country ski a lot, but just never seem to have time anymore
- I love the ocean
- I love trees
- If I could only pick one, I think it would be trees
- The best is a combination of the two, like at Fundy National Park
- The lookout with the bench when you get down the hill on the Coppermine trail at Fundy is one my favourite places in the whole world
- My writing is rather messy
- Except for the couch and chairs, every piece of furniture I own was made by my father
- I'm a big Daddy's Girl
- I enjoy time by myself
- I get very cranky if I don't get time alone each day
- My favourite chocolates are Turtles
- I love to travel, but haven't done nearly as much as I'd like
- I've been as far west as Prince George, BC and as far south as New York
- My two best friends in school and I took the train to NY, and were mugged literally within 5 minutes after getting to Penn station
- Rather than being freaked, I thought it was pretty cool...the guy only got $20, and I knew it would always be a good story ( I was only 20, and too stupid to be scared)
- My favourite alcoholic beverage is the Singapore Sling (girl-drink drunk)
- I think beer is yucky, but I do like to cook with it
- I tend to freeze in emergencies
- Autumn is my favourite season
- I don't have a favourite band, musician, or type of music
- I hate snakes
- My two favourite authors are Stephen King and Lucy Maud Montgomery
- I'm not athletic
- I will steal chocolate (well, from people...not shoplifting)
- I dislocated my elbow when I was 21
- I enjoy cleaning, though you'd never know it looking at my home
- I've been fantasizing for years about running an inn
- But I think it's probably more fun to dream about it than to actually do it
- I think I would really enjoy working in the tourism sector
- I like lighthouses (yes, I'm one of those!)