100 Things About Me: Part 2

Without further ado, here are the last 50 items (see previous posts for the first 50). Again, let me know if you find something interesting or learn something new!

1) I eat cereal dry, without pouring milk over it

2) Famous people I'd like to meet: Barack Obama, Jon Stewart, Stephen King, Stacy London and Clinton Kelly (as a duo, of course), and Tim Gunn

3) The last musician I saw in concert: John Mayer

4) My goals for 2009: lower my cholesterol and get my abs back in shape

5) I taught ESL (English as a Second Language) to a spanish-speaking woman before moving to California, as a volunteer through the literacy council in Grand Rapids

6) I've never seen the complete, original Stars Wars trilogy (just bits and pieces of them)

7) My favorite movie trilogy is The Lord of the Rings

8) Other favorite movies include The Last of the Mohicans and The Shawshank Redemption

9) I've been told I look like Oksana Baiul (the Olympic figure skater) and Mischa Barton (the actress). Mischa is looking like an emaciated drag queen these days so I will assume I look like her former, classier self.

10) I've sponsored a little girl in Rwanda since fall 2005 - she just turned 10 and we exchange 1-2 letters a year

11) I'm super organized and on top of things at work but am a procrastinator at home

12) Strangely, the older I get the more I'm afraid of heights

13) When I was growing up with my male cousins, I used to target practice with a bow-and-arrow, a gun, and a slingshot

14) I once shot a bird with a pellet gun and then felt guilty for the rest of the day. Haven't been hunting since.

15) I played Little League baseball for a couple of years while in junior high

16) I'm addicted to lip balm. I have Avon Lip Savers and Bonne Bell Lip Smackers stashed all over the house.

17) My oldest friend is Jacquie - we've been friends since the first grade when I moved back to Michigan from
Texas.

18) The domestic task I hate most is ironing (I make Jason iron most of my work clothes)

19) My husband was the first man I dated seriously. Until then, I was known as "the freak magnet" thanks to my ability to attract weirdos.

20) When I was growing up I had an irrational fear of being kidnapped

21) My dreams are very vivid. I still remember my very first nightmare, from around the age of 5.

22) When I was in college, I could bong a beer as well as any frat boy

23) I took the controversial drug Accutane to "cure" my acne when I was 26. It was one of the best decisions I've ever made!

24) I was voted "Most likely to succeed" in high school

25) I love red wine but it gives me terrible headaches :-(

26) I have a deformed rib cage (Google "pigeon breast"). Luckily it's not so severe that people notice!

27) My perfect day: curled up on the couch with a good book, a warm blanket, and a cup of coffee (morning) or glass of wine (evening)

28) I have to sleep on a pillow with an ice-cold pillowcase

29) I love Kraft macaroni and cheese as much now as I did when I was a kid

30) I'm pretty klutzy. I cut the top of my thumb nearly off while chopping potatoes once and ended up getting stitches in the ER.

31) My dream job would be a book editor or agent (something that allows me to read books all day and get paid for it).

32) I love animals but I'm not a fan of indoor pets

33) I found out I was pregnant on Easter and the baby was due on Thanksgiving

34) My absolute favorite ice cream is Mackinac Island Fudge from Jilbert's Dairy in Marquette, Michigan

35) I don't like most "light" or "diet" foods including frozen yogurt, diet pop, reduced sugar peanut butter, low-carb tortillas, etc. They either taste like chemicals or cardboard.

36) When I was very young, my parents created a huge ice rink in our back yard in the winter. For this reason, I don't remember not knowing how to ice skate.

37) I find Martha Stewart to be extremely irritating. Her voice and manner of speaking are like nails on a chalkboard.

38) Even though I'm 30 years old, I still have the sleep habits of a teenager. If I didn't set an alarm (or have a baby) I could easily sleep until noon.

39) My friend Brooke and I wrote horror stories in junior high. We still have dozens of them saved in a three-ring binder.

40) I love San Diego and can't imagine living anywhere else right now, but the idea of raising our child(ren) in southern California makes me nervous (people are a bit more materialistic and image-obsessed here)

41) The least favorite part of my job is having to deal with doctors' egos, particularly those doctors who think they can tell me how to do my job because "marketing is easy."

42) Magazines I subscribe to: Rolling Stone, The Writer, Allure, and Shape (I also have a new subscription to Parent magazine, which was a gift from my friend Anne)

43) At 30 and 31, neither Jason or I have ever owned a house - and we're both honestly okay with renting for several more years. We like the freedom to be flexible and move easily if we need to.

44) I took a real wagon-train trip the summer before 10th grade. My church youth group went on a camping trip in South Dakota that required us to hike, ride horses, and ride on restored wagon trains like the pioneers.

45) Pregnancy was an absolute breeze for me - I didn't have any morning sickness, fatigue, mood swings, food cravings, or food aversions. Even better, I didn't get any stretch marks!

46) I love thunderstorms

47) I was a cheerleader all four years of high school (don't judge: I was a rare breed of cheerleader that was both nerdy and nice to people).

48) Although I'm not shy, I am "reserved" which has caused people to inaccurately judge me as cold and/or bitchy.

49) My favorite smells: spring air; lilacs; Isabelle's natural baby smell (except, God help us all, when she's filling her diaper); Irish Spring soap; cut grass; brewing coffee

50) I wish I could hire a cleaning service to clean my house once a week. (Is that a good enough reason to ask for a raise?)