100 THINGS ABOUT THIS SHOE!

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

~~Carl Gustav Jung~~


~1. One of my favorite things to do is to go storm watching.

~2. I discovered the best time to go to the beach is right after a rain storm

because the best shells and sea life wash up on the beach.

~3. Gary Brana-Shute is the professor I admired the

most during my college career. He was a great man and will be missed, but never,

ever forgotten.

~4. The most mysterious gift I ever got was a gourd filled with the

soul of a dead fisherman
given to me by Gary Brana-Shute.

~5. My favorite author is Stephen King.

~6. NPR is my favorite radii station to listen to due to great programming.

~7. The music I love the most to listen to is Celtic, Jazz and Classical.

~8. I have no idea what "my milkshake is the best in the yard and

they'r like it's better than yours
" MEANS??!!!???!

~9. I love sushi and when I was pregnant, I had sushi cravings for a week

and satisfied them by eating sushi for 4 days in a row for breakfast,

lunch and dinner.

~10. I am a cat person! MEOW!

~10. When I am down the things that cheer me up are a good English drama(public television) or watching The Color Purple.



~11. I have only been scuba diving once in the Caribbean and when I did

I visited a coral reef 30 feet below the oceans' surface. The beauty was

incredible! I want to go again!

~12. My favorite coffee table book is called " American Folk Painters of Three Centuries," by Jean Lipman and Tom Armstrong. It was given to me many years ago for

my 26th birthday by a dear friend and lover.

~13. If the day has been bad, the only thing that takes the edge off

is a shot of iced ABSOLUT Kurant vodka.

~14. My favorite CD of the moment is Paganini: After A Dream

by Regina Carter.

~15. I try to live by the Four Agreements.

I discovered them 3 years ago.

~16. Aliens are real and are living among us. I know...I have

seen a ship
.

~17. I think I am developing "blog addiction".

~18. I love Canada as well as the United States. I call both my home.

~19. My zodiac sign is LEO.

~20. Grief takes my breath away to the places of silence between breaths.

I am there now.



~21. My passion is anthropology and I have the dream of floating down

the Amazon River in a dugout canoe.

~22. I used to be very shy and introverted.

~23. My Spanish is fair, but I plan to study up to become fluent again.

~24. I was the one who wrote "butterball is a pig" on the blackboard in

6th grade resulting in the whole class getting detention.

~25. I have never felt loved by my mother due to a great divide that has

been there since my birth.

~26. Baths are the only true way to wash and I take a tub bath every day!

~27. I spend a lot of money at Bath and Body Works.

~28. I have had an out of body experience and I was worried I would not

get back into my body. It was hard to get back in.

~29. I have had a secret lover in the past--for many years.

~30. Out of my siblings, I am not the favorite child. I am clearly

the outcast yet have always been the more responsible, more educated,

more gainfully employed child of them all.



~31. Coke is my favorite soft drink.

~32. My worst date ever was the guy who went with me to my senior prom.

~33. Diamonds are my favorite gemstone.

~34. They say what comes around, goes around but I want to be there to see

it happen to at least get a little satisfaction.

~35. The one who loves me the best is my child.

~36. I spend an hour every Christmas eve just watching the night sky

and listening for sleigh bells with my child before packing her off to bed.

~37. Tinkerbell is my favorite Disney character.

~38. Writing is my secret passion and would love that to be my dream job.

~39. I love ice cream and milk products but they do not like me.

Soymilk has become my friend.

~40. My goal for 2005 is to learn how to climb the climbing wall.



~41. When I lived in North Carolina my favorite place to go was the Eno River.

~42. Go shopping when all else fails...that is what I do.

~43. I play the violin and have been playing since the 4th grade.

~44. The Matrix is real. Do you think that is air you are breathing?

I am trying to unplug.

~45. Shoes make my day. If I have on bad shoes, I will have a bad day.

~46. Silence of the Lambs is one of my favorite movies.

Clarice, is that you?

~47. I live for Halloween!

~48. Martha Stewart is my homemaking idol--Still. Will always be.

~49. Survivor is my favorite reality television show.

~50. Did I say I was a cat person? If not, I am a cat person.



~51. The two best performances I have seen in person in recent years

has been "Lord of the Dance" and "Yanni." Before that it was "Sting Live."

~52. I went thru the punk rock phase for about 6 months in college

and wore nothing but black leather, spikes and purple streaks in my hair.

~53. The book I am reading right now is The Da Vinci Code.

~54. B1 d- t- k- s+ u f+ i o++ x e- l c+ is my blogger code.

~55. The greatest joy in my life is my child.

~56. I want to be a contestant on Survivor.

~57. Last Easter, I ate ostrich eggs and alligator sausages for Easter breakfast.

~58. I am addicted to Starbuck's Java Chip Frappuccino's.

~60. A nice steaming cup of green tea is what I have every morning once

I get to the office.



~61. The Four Agreements have made a lasting impression on my life.

~62. I am into Feng Shui..so much

so I have a Zen garden at my desk at work.

~63. I love to buy lobster from the grocery store and cook it myself at

home. Restaurant lobster is not as good.

~64. Oval diamonds are my favorite diamond shape.

~65. I eat whole garlic cloves and drink lemon water when I have a cold

to cure it.

~66. Pirates of the Caribbean is one of my weekend

favorites to watch on DVD. Savvy?!

~67. I learned to swim in college.

~68. People tend to think I am aloof, but I am just a little shy, and am

taking it all in before making any sort of outward demonstrations.

~69. When Miami Vice used to come on in the 1980's I was seriously in

love with Don Johnson for many years.

~70. If I am lagging at work in the afternoon, nothing "perks" me up

more than 5 chocolate covered expresso beans.



~71. People other than my immediate family(toxic) have treated me the

best throughout my life.

~72. I have over 35 pairs of shoes.

~73. I have never been in an adult book store--too embarrassing--someone

might see me.

~74. I can sew, cross stitch and paint--generally arts and crafty.

~75. I have never gotten over the crushing news that Santa was really my

parents. My mother told me the summer of my 12th birthday.

I have never forgiven her.

~76. The summer of my sophomore year in college, I participated in

an archeological dig for colonial and Indian artifacts.

~77. The best time I ever had dancing was to Can't Touch This by M.C. Hammer. I had flown

to the Bahamas for vacation to Paradise Island .

I had on a formal, black strapless dress that had one sleeve.

he front of the dress had a train that hung on the right side.

I was doing the dance called the Chinese typewriter that MC Hammer used to do.

My formal gown split in the back seam all the way to my butt.

I had to go change into another formal and then I continued to party on!

~78. Sleeping naked is the most comfortable way for me to sleep.

~79. Gardening is one of my favorite ways to relax.

~80. I have 3 windchimes handing in my garden.



~81. I have a dreadful fear of the praying mantis. I was even attached by one once.

~82. My biggest disappointment came when I was in eighth grade. I was

first chair violin and we were having a performance at the local

auditorium. My mother refused to come to the performance to see me.

That was one of my biggest accomplishments/performances in grade school.

~83. I danced ballet for many years and performed in The Nutcracker

in the Teapot Scene for the city ballet company.

~84. I love to juice. I do not have the Jack Lalanne power juicer but mine is just as good!

~85. Fur is something I love.

I have 3 stoles, a muskrat jacket, a fox cape and hat and a

full length muskrat, mink and fox coat.

~86. I believe that angels have saved my life three times.

~87. Tae-Bo

is my favorite exercise of the moment. I have every tape there is to

have by Billy Blanks.

~89. I have met two celebrities in my lifetime: Dom DeLuise and Wally Kurth who plays Ned Ashton on General Hospital. I even have their autographs!

~90. My favorite fragrances are: Pleasures, Knowing, Picasso, Laila and White Witch.



~91. I own over 20 handbags with 5 of them being my favorite brand--Oroton.

~92. Peonies are my favorite flower.

~93. Oreo cookies are

my favorite kind of cookie!

~94. The first alcoholic drink I ever had was the Sloe Gin Fizz.

~95. I truly believe that Howard Stern is

the King of all Media! I do listen to him from time to time. He is good!

~96. My favorite place to go for touring in Canada is Goat Island and the Cave of the Winds Hurricane Deck.

~97. I have a tattoo of a rose on my left shoulder blade.

~98. My Sunday mornings are reserved for leisurely breakfasts, several

cups of coffee and A Prairie Home Companion on NPR.

~99. Star Trek forever made me a lover of all things sci-fi!

~100. Most of the time I feel that I am on the cusp of greatness...that

just around the next corner, the next hour, the next minute something

is going to happen. I am in a constant state of anticipation.