compile a 100-things-about-me list

47. while i could do without the stupid jokes, laffy taffy is my favorite candy by far.
48. sarcasm is not funny and constant sarcasm is worse. it’s just a front for having a lack of actually funny material or it’s a defense mechanism. i really really really don’t like sarcasm!
49. my hair is naturally wavy.
50. people always tell me how much i look like my mother who’s passed away. she was very beautiful but it still makes me sad when someone tells me that. i want to look like me… just me!

37. the last time i ate a banana was probably over 20 years ago. i threw it up in a trash can. i can eat banana pudding just fine or banana-flavored other things… but not bananas themselves. just thinking about it makes me gag.
38. i can tie a cherry-stem in a knot with my tongue in about 6 seconds flat.
39. my favorite smells are: fresh cut grass; rain; a guy that has the perfect mixture of soap, dirt, and cologne; autumn leaves scent from yankee candle; and baby smell.
40. for some reason i don’t seem to like talking on the phone. i’d rather make plans to meet and talk in person.
41. i love music, all types. i especially like new and/or obscure music/musicians and americana like tom petty, etc…
41. i am a character in a story that is far bigger than i can even imagine.
42. the movie come early morning could be a story about me, except i am now closer to my father than she was at the end of the movie, although it’s taken hard work to get there.
43. redemption is my favorite word.
44. i am learning what it looks like to not bulldoze people (ie: not have to be right all the time and set out to prove everyone else wrong).
45. i am perfectly flawed.
46. i am fervently pursued by a relentless lover.

36. i buy books faster than i can possibly read them.

15. i love a good thunderstorm and getting caught in the rain.
16. a steak burrito bol with extra cilantro at chipotle is the greatest thing since the beginning of time. i seriously think an intervention might be necessary.
17. every saturday morning i walk with my friend for a couple hours and then go have lunch with her and her husband. this is one of my favorite times of the week.
18. i prefer to read the book before i see the movie.
19. i currently don’t own a tv. the only thing i miss is “lost.”
20. i am 8 times blessed with nieces and nephews to love on and they love on me.
21. i love love LOVE words!
22. i want to write a book.
23. i’ve had a couple poems published.
24. you can visit me at http://like-the-seasons.blogspot.com
25. i love to drive but hate the responsibility of having a car.
26. i miss my mom. i was 22 when she died 7 1/2 years ago.
27. i don’t really like my stepmom. that’s the first time i’ve admitted that to anyone – or anything – ever.
28. i do, however, thoroughly enjoy my step brother and my step sister.
29. when i was in 5th grade i won the spelling bee for the entire school.
30. when commas or apostrophes are misused (used when they shouldn’t be or not used when the should be) it drives me crazy!
31. i far prefer cooler weather to hot weather.
32. fall, spring, winter, summer – that’s the order of the seasons, most favorite to least favorite.
33. spring of 1999 is when i last drank soda of any kind. i don’t drink it. ever! it doesn’t even sound good to me anymore.
34. the name of my first dog when i was little was pepsi. he was a mutt that looked just like benji and he was stolen right out of our backyard on christmas eve.
35. i’m in love with a friend of mine and he doesn’t love me back.

1. i am alive and try to live life to the fullest.
2. i love blues and greens.
3. i am a voracious reader.
4. i love a good quote.
5. after living in the kansas city area all my life, at 28 i decided i needed a change of scenery and moved to alaska. there was only about a week and a half between the initial thought and the actual move. it was insane. but they were two years that i would never ever change or trade for anything. and, it took me leaving home to make me want to stay.
5. cowboys are sexy!
6. i get to work at a place that i love and actually look forward to it every day.
7. god’s power is made perfect in my weaknesses. and i am weak a lot.
8. i write as though i am drowning and it is my only life-line.
9. i have two tattoos.
10. i once got my tongue pierced to remind myself of how piercing the tongue can be.
11. i love the smell of bookstores.
12. it’s been a dream of mine for a long time to open a bookstore / bar / coffeeshop / cozy-corner-in-a-harsh-world in a small mountain town somewhere that doesn’t allow big franchises.
13. i am jealous of the time that thoureau spent in solitude at walden.
14. time in community and time in solitude are both equally necessary and equally important to live life as it was intended.