Friday, January 18, 2008

the 101 things post

    well i haven't posted in a while, so here is a huge post, i have been working on this one since last week. here we go - 101 things all about me!

  1. i sell real estate, because i love houses and i can't have them all, at least this way i get to see a lot of them
  2. i am a freelance graphic designer
  3. i am obsessed with thrift stores
  4. love lots of old things, especially items from the mid century era, plus a few years either way
  5. i like to bake & cook
  6. i could watch the food network & hgtv for hours and not get bored
  7. i am obsessed with friends, i own every season, and i can probably recite all the words to "the one with the embryos," season 4, disk 2, last episode on this disk
  8. i have a similar obsession with the gilmore girls, its just not as advanced
  9. i have a christmas tree decorated completely with shoe ornaments
  10. i watch way too much tv, and the writers strike is killing me
  11. i love to scrapbook, but haven't in a couple of years
  12. i am always the one who is taking all the pictures
  13. i am still very close with most of my friends from high school
  14. i wish my friends from college lived here and not all over this side of the country
  15. my fiance's and my birthday are 4 days apart, we were born in the same hospital, my mom had to be in the hospital longer than usual after she had me, so we were in the hospital nursery at the same time
  16. we didn't meet till we were seniors in high school
  17. i have one brother, he is younger than me
  18. i want to travel everywhere, and have a list of all the places i want see
  19. i have europe planned in 5 easy trips
  20. i can get really interested in just about anything
  21. i have a burning desire to be wildly successful
  22. but sometimes i have a hard time motivating myself because i am overwhelmed
  23. i pretty much have 3 business right now, wedding invitations, real estate and freelance design
  24. i most want to grow my wedding invitations business
  25. sometimes i want to do something completely different, like own restaurant, or a paper boutique, or rebuild the gardenville community (oldest part of west seneca, where we bought our home)
  26. i love animals, i took in a stray cat in college, she had 4 babies, momma and one baby live with my parents
  27. i often think about being a vegetarian, but i have never tried it
  28. i think recycling is great, i like to convert people to being avid recyclers, i have successfully done this with at least 2 people
  29. i am excited to be able to have a compost and a vegetable garden when i move into my house
  30. i love it here in buffalo, ny
  31. i believe we should have a metropolitan government
  32. i want to be independently wealthy
  33. i don't know why, because i live for sales and thrift store shopping
  34. i am always proud of my great sale finds, ie the pj pants i got from old navy last week for $3.50, actually i spent $17 total and got pj pants, tank top, zip up sweater and 3 sets of christmas ornaments - see?
  35. i long to be a domestic goddess (stolen from michelle, but very true about me too)
  36. i want everyone close to me to be happy. i hate when anyone is in pain and i want to fix it
  37. i get very happy when good things happen to people i care about
  38. i often talk so fast that people can't really understand me
  39. i do this when i type too, i leave out words, and even when i proofread i think they are there as a read
  40. my roommates from grad school and i have a plastic banana that we pass around between the 3 of us (we all live in different places)
  41. i have a lot of problems with my stomach - mostly related to stress
  42. i also clench my jaw a lot when i am stressed, and i don't know i am doing it until my head hurts
  43. i used to be a runner, i stopped when i graduated high school and never really got back into it
  44. i wish i was still a runner
  45. cross country and track are some of the best memories i have of high school, they really influenced who i am a great deal
  46. one of my coaches died when i was a junior in high school, he was the first person i knew really well that died in my life, that was 9 years ago today
  47. i wrote my admissions essay for mercyhurst college about him and took my confirmation name after him. he was an inspirational person.
  48. i hate to make decisions, i fear i will make the wrong one
  49. i over analyze everything
  50. including my wedding registry, which is insane because everything can be returned
  51. my roommate from senior year and i used to eat oreos and watch golden girls at night
  52. i haven't talked to her in over a year, even though we played phone tag for a couple of weeks this past fall
  53. i never thought it would be this hard to write 101 things about myself
  54. i had a huge phase where i loved purple, i think it started my sophomore year in high school and ended my senior year in college
  55. my new phase is brown
  56. i wear glasses and have since i was in 3rd grade
  57. my favorite job ever was when i was the advisor to the ambassador club
  58. my last job could have been really awesome, but it took a majorly bad turn
  59. i quit my last job, without having another full time job, it was scary
  60. my very first job was at anderson's custard and roast beef, i was 16
  61. i know one day i will have kids, right now the thought of it scares the crap out of me
  62. i am ashamed to say i find other peoples kids irritating and i didn't used to
  63. i love class and i miss it now that i don't have anymore
  64. i still haven't finished my masters thesis, i finished my coursework in winter of 06
  65. i feel i have seriously messed this up and i don't know how to fix it, so i avoid it
  66. sometimes i am hugely confident that my businesses will be a success, other times i doubt i will make another penny
  67. i wish i dressed more stylishly and sometimes i spend a few weeks at a time pretending that i dress stylishly and wear make up
  68. truth is, i rarely wear make up unless i am going out or have an important appointment
  69. i love movies
  70. i never remember any celebrities name, unless they are super famous, like julia roberts
  71. it drives me absolutely mad when i can't remember why someone looks familiar in a movie or tv show or where i saw them last
  72. my favorite movie used to be 10 things i hate about you, before that is forever young and now i don't know what my favorite movie is
    when i was a kid i collected business cards
  73. i like to think of myself as an artist
  74. i often hate whatever i design, until i revisit it later (months even years), then i am usually satisfied
  75. i want to come up with a plan to save buffalo - or rather put it back on the map
  76. i try very hard to be organized, and i have a great ability to organize things, however usually the inside of my purse ends up full of crap and a pile of clothes usually ends up on my bed, the floor and 2 of the 4 chairs in my room
  77. i always fall asleep to the tv, it distracts me from my over analyzing madness long enough to fall asleep
  78. i am really bad at returning phone calls from friends
  79. i am also slightly afraid of the phone when i have to call someone i don't know, this works out awesome in a sales job, let me tell you
  80. even though i quit my old job, i miss it, not the insanity, but the people and my actual work
  81. i love popcorn
  82. i also love ice cream
  83. i often can't decide between the 2
  84. my fiance is my first love
  85. i can tell you the exact moment i knew i loved him, when he first told me he loved me, when we first kissed, and when we had our first real kiss, when he asked me out and how he did it
  86. i majored in graphic design, minored in marketing
  87. my masters degree will be in organizational leadership
  88. i went to college with 17 college credits that i earned in high school
  89. i nearly gave myself a nervous breakdown in high school because of this
  90. i always felt like anything below an 80% was failing, though as far as i can remember i have only actually failed 2 tests
  91. i met my fiance at a wake
  92. summer is my favorite time of year, but fall is a close second
  93. i have a mild purse obsession
  94. i love paper, and i have an emotional disconnect from conservation of trees and my love for beautiful papers
  95. i spent a whole summer and part of a winter researching recycled paper, paper from alternative fibers, paper usages and how mercyhurst could convert to a greener paper consumption plan, my plan was well received by the president of the college, i don't know if they have used it though
  96. favorite current show - greys anatomy
  97. i am a huge procrastinator
  98. i collect vintage buffalo postcards
  99. i am roman catholic, though i more closely align myself with the beliefs of the sisters of mercy, which are all based on service & compassion
  100. i always went to a school where the sisters of mercy were
  101. it took me 3 separate sittings to write this list

i wonder if people will think i am totally insane now...don't judge too harshly...

3 comments:

Michelle and the City said...

you know i could never judge. because you and i? SO MUCH ALIKE IT SCARES ME.

heart you much.
xoxo

Anonymous said...

i tried to post this before and i got an error :(

this is an awesome list, we don't think your insane, and i want to watch friends with you sometime!!!!

miss ya!

Larissa said...

Yay thrift stores and cooking and Friends!

I love these lists.