100+ Things

1. I prefer tea over coffee
2. Coke over Pepsi
3. I do not have a green thumb, but I really, really want one
4. I can't sleep in wrinkled sheets
5. I love living in the Maritimes
6. I won the title of 2005 Chocolate Lover Of The Year at the chocolate festival in St Stephen
7. I really like to read
8. I love seafood, especially scallops and salmon
9. I don't like coconut
10. I like rainy days and and I love a rainy night
11. I believe in ghosts
12. I've never seen one, and that's just fine with me
13. I really love scary movies and books
14. I'm not good at math
15. Grover is my favourite Sesame Street character
16. I prefer driving a standard
17. I can't speak french, but I'm going to learn one day
18. I can't swim very well
19. I like to cross-stitch
20. I like quilting
21. I sort of like rug hooking
22. I want to learn to embroider one day
23. I really want to crochet and knit, but don't have time right now
24. I don't have time because I have a full-time job and a two year old
25. I think I'm a pretty good mom
26. I really enjoy my job
27. In fact, my current job is pretty much what I once considered my "dream job"
28. I was Botoxed last year for my job
29. I also rappelled down a very tall building for my job last year
30. I'm a cat person
31. I would like to have a dog one day
32. I like small cars because I can't park
33. I can't do anything with my hair
34. I got 2 or 3 perms a year between the ages of 13 and 20 (it was the eighties)
35. My first job was pumping gas as an Irving girl in high school
36. I was also a Timbitch after college
37. I supported myself 100% for the first time on that job
38. My parents were thrilled I was working at a Tim Hortons after all they had spent on school
39. I took a year off after high school and worked as a live-in nanny
40. It made me realize I didn't want to work in childcare for a living
41. But I did discover I enjoyed domestic life, and really enjoyed being in the kitchen
42. I like to cook
43. I like trying new recipes
44. I make the best chocolate cake, triple chocolate cheesecake, and chocolate mousse cake in the world
45. I like everything that involves food
46. Including cookbooks, grocery stores, and kitchenwares
47. I love antiques
48. I collect old jugs and crocks
49. I have a chamber pot that I keep filled with potpourri
50. I am a card-carrying member of the First Wives Club
51. But it turns out I'm way happier now than I ever was when I was married
52. I'm not allergic to any food
53. I can eat a LOT at a sitting
54. I was so skinny as a child that I had to take an appetite stimulant
55. I wish I was still that skinny (sigh!)
56. The toilet paper end hangs to the back in my bathroom
57. Toast with butter and a glass of milk is one of my favourite comfort snacks
58. I eat multi-grain bread
59. My most hated vegetable when I was a kid was The Vile Carrot
60. I eat them now
61. When I was a nanny I accidently killed the kid's sea monkeys
62. They didn't mess with me after that (joke...it really was an accident)
63. I'm pretty in pink
64. I also like to wear red and forest green
65. I hate litterbugs
66. I have to read in bed before I fall asleep
67. I like to read in bed before I get up
68. I've always been a fan of DeGrassi Junior High
69. Not the new one, though
70. I strongly believe in karma
71. My favourite pizza is plain sauce and cheese, preferably from Pizza Delight
72. I think pineapple on pizza is an abomination
73. I like hiking in the woods for exercise
74. I used to cross country ski a lot, but just never seem to have time anymore
75. I love the ocean
76. I love trees
77. If I could only pick one, I think it would be trees
78. The best is a combination of the two, like at Fundy National Park
79. 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
80. My writing is rather messy
81. Except for the couch and chairs, every piece of furniture I own was made by my father
82. I'm a big Daddy's Girl
83. I enjoy time by myself
84. I get very cranky if I don't get time alone each day
85. My favourite chocolates are Turtles
86. I love to travel, but haven't done nearly as much as I'd like
87. I've been as far west as Prince George, BC and as far south as New York
88. 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
89. 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)
90. My favourite alcoholic beverage is the Singapore Sling (girl-drink drunk)
91. I think beer is yucky, but I do like to cook with it
92. I tend to freeze in emergencies
93. Autumn is my favourite season
94. I don't have a favourite band, musician, or type of music
95. I hate snakes
96. My two favourite authors are Stephen King and Lucy Maud Montgomery
97. I'm not athletic
98. I will steal chocolate (well, from people...not shoplifting)
99. I dislocated my elbow when I was 21
100. I enjoy cleaning, though you'd never know it looking at my home
101. I've been fantasizing for years about running an inn
102. But I think it's probably more fun to dream about it than to actually do it
103. I think I would really enjoy working in the tourism sector
104. I like lighthouses (yes, I'm one of those!)