100 Things About Me

1. I am a first born…hard to tell, huh?
2. Chris is the best thing to ever happen to me. I am still pinching myself.
3. Reading keeps me sane.
4. I am the happiest when surrounded by my friends and family breaking bread and drinking wine.
5. I believe in love at first sight.
6. I love to go junking and flea marketing.
7. I knit continental style.
8. I have met Bruce Springsteen.
9. I took the SAT’s for a friend of mine.
10. I sometimes bite my nails.
11. Rome is my favorite city.
12. I am an insomniac.
13. I love coffee.
14. My sister Lisa can drive me crazy, and I her, but I love her.
15. I collect vintage handbags.
16. I once had the same job for 13 years and for what it’s worth, really loved it.
17. I am punctual.
18. I am frightened by death.
19. I love pizza.
20. I once hated my boss so much that I used to plot her demise. I let go of that by the way.
21. I love my dog, Henry.
22. I love when it snows.
23. I miss my friends from the coffee shop at home.
24. I hate George Bush.
25. My mom and my sister Gina are the people I look up to the most.
26. I once rescued a cat who was pregnant and she ended up having 5 kittens.
27. I am a good cook.
28. I have had three VW Beetles, two old models and one new.
29. I have witnessed the birth of a child.
30. I wear a lot of black clothes.
31. I think Hugh Grant is sexy.
32. Tom Bags makes me laugh more than anyone alive.
33. The first adult book I read was In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
34. I have taken anti-depressants and been in therapy.
35. I loved an Egyptian, but I never walked like one.
36. My favorite perfume is Angel by Thierry Mugler.
37. I love the Oktoberfest!
38. Once, my friend John MacMinn told me I was “Hollywood Fine!”
39. I often give money to panhandlers.
40. I love kids, but am not having them.
41. I am addicted to food magazines.
42. I love Eastenders.
43. I have loved and lost.
44. The Barnes Foundation is my favorite museum in the world
45. My porn name is Mixie Linden.
46. I am sick of getting my period.
47. I can’t dance.
48. I enjoy a good cocktail every here and again.
49. I can draw.
50. I am working on improving myself.
51. I love rare meat.
52. I had to wear plaid culottes and a blue blazer in high school.
53. My comprehension of Italian, both written and spoken, is fairly good. I have a hard time speaking it.
54. I am terrified of flying.
55. I love the ocean.
56. My father’s death is the worst thing that has ever happened to me. I still miss him and it has been twelve years.
57. Eggplant makes my throat itch.
58. I drive slowly and carefully.
59. Autumn and Winter are my favorite seasons.
60. My eyes suck.
61. I love beer.
62. I enjoy gardening.
63. I hate cleaning.
64. When I love people, I tell them. Often.
65. I have skinny dipped in my family’s pool and in the ocean.
66. I dye my hair.
67. I love real Christmas trees.
68. I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
69. I love my collection of paintings, art pottery and photographs all of which are in storage.
70. I love coffee.
71. I can rattle off almost anyone’s phone number I have ever known.
72. I have made my own pasta.
73. I have never missed a vote.
74. I loved my old neighbors and their kids.
75. I have pissed myself laughing.
76. Nelson Mandela is a hero.
77. I don’t ever plan on having plastic surgery.
78. My team won at Quizzo a record amount of weeks in a row.
79. I hated the movie Titantic.
80. I have been quoted in a restaurant review.
81. I love to wheel and deal at the flea market.
82. I love foie gras.
83. I enjoy sitting a round a table with my pals picking through crabs and drinking beer.
84. I have a friend whose first name is Evans.
85. I got fired once (by the bitch whose demise I was plotting) and was escorted out of the building by security. Getting fired had nothing to do with the plot!
86. I break a lot of glasses.
87. I am in a fantasy football league.
88. I like sex.
89. I enjoy the website Toytown Munich.
90. My friend Erich is a genius.
91. I am terrified of spiders.
92. I like Garrison Keillor, even though I know he is corny.
93. I like Martha Stewart and I don’t care what she did.
94. I can cry at the drop of a hat.
95. I couldn’t live too long without National Public Radio.
96. The happiest day of my life was when my niece Lily was born.
97. My eyes are hazel.
98. I have had stitches above my left eye two separate times.
99. For years I thought I hated bananas.
100. Math makes me sick.