one-hundred things

I'm feeling far too lazy to be creative right now, so instead I'm going to follow the lead of gazillions of other bloggers. 100 things about me.

1. I am 22 years old.
2. Of course, I always get carded buying alcohol but I was carded for `curfew purposes' at a Perkin's when I was 19. Who gets carded for curfew?
3. I don't think I look any younger or older than I really am.
4. I am a full-time student.
5. I am also a student advisor, an overnight “babysitter” and a writing tutor.
6. But I think the student job is far more important.
7. I have three parents - Mom, step-dad (Mike), and Dad.
8. I think I'm pretty lucky to have three parents.
9. My brothers are pretty old, at least compared to me.
10. They are 36 and 29, respectively.
11. No, I was not an accident.
12. The 29-year old tortured me mercilessly when we were younger.
13. He did things like fart ON MY PILLOW and once locked me outside in the winter.
14. I wasn't wearing any shoes.
15. Despite the torture, he was my best friend for a long time.
16. Despite the physical distance between us, I still consider him a close friend.
17. Now I have many other close friends who don't torture me.
18. My friend Chelsea knows more about me than any other person on the planet.
19. Some people might find that scary but it's a nice thing, usually.
20. I know a lot about Chelsea, too.
21. Though sometimes I can be quite perky in the AM, I'm not really a morning person.
22. But I'm not much of a night person, either.
23. I'm more of late afternoon/evening person.
24. It sounds silly but my theory for why I'm an evening person is because I was born at 7:05 PM.
25. I like to make up theories on just about everything.
26. My birthday is February 1st.
27. I'm an Aquarius.
28. I like both dogs and cats.
29. But I'm really just a dog person.
30. I am not, however, a snake or spider person… especially not a spider person.
31. I was born in the year of the Dog (in the Chinese zodiac).
32. I have a thing for shoes.
33. And hats.
34. And clothes.
35. I like to shop.
36. But I don't like trying things on.
37. Not because I think I'm fat or anything.
38. Just because I hate taking off my clothes and then putting on other clothes only to have to take them off again and put my own clothes back on. There has GOT to be an easier way.
39. I wouldn't say that I'm lazy, though.
40. I love traveling.
41. Outside the U.S., I've been to Canada, Mexico, London, Paris, Italy, and Venezuela, where I lived for 3 ½ months.
42. I have been to 40 states and hope to make it to all 50 someday.
43. But at heart, I'm a Minnesota girl.
44. There are few things I like more than summer in Minnesota.
45. I am the only person in my family (immediate and extended) who was not born and/or did not grow up in Colorado.
46. My step-dad is a Minnesotan, born and raised. We may not share anything biologically but the Minnesota thing is pretty close.
47. Someday I would like to get married and have kids.
48. But currently I'm enjoying my singlehood and childlessness.
49. I'm willing to try anything once.
50. I love doing laundry - the smell, the warm clothes out of the dryer, even folding...
51. …which is funny, because I've had to do my own laundry since I was 10 because I never used to fold my clothes when my parents washed them and they got sick of seeing my clean clothes end up on the floor in a wrinkly pile.
52. I like beer but I never really used to.
53. My favorite non-alcoholic beverage is iced tea with a little lemonade mixed in.
54. I never used to like tea, either.
55. I love ice cream, especially in its chocolate incarnations.
56. I just love chocolate in general.
57. Though I wear contacts now, I started wearing glasses when I was in second grade and wore them, true nerd-style, until my junior year of high school.
58. If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite color is blue.
59. But I like purple a lot, too. And brown. And green. And pink. And all the other colors. Except maybe orange.
60. The Apartment is one of my all-time favorite movies.
61. I love to sing and I used to be pretty good at it.
62. I like to dance a lot but I know I look silly when I dance.
63. I don't mind looking silly.
64. I love foggy nights.
65. I like hammocks, especially the hammock at Anne's house.
66. I like singing in the car, especially with Chelsea or my mom.
67. I like flying and I like planes, but stranger than that is I like airports.
68. Sometimes I get worked up about things but mostly it's just for show.
69. It actually takes a lot to make me mad.
70. I think people get too easily worked up about things that just don't matter.
71. Like food, for instance. I think people take food and ordering in restaurants way too seriously.
72. I think my parents are some of the smartest people I know.
73. I beat my dad at Trivial Pursuit once and I don't think he has forgiven me.
74. But I have truckloads of useless knowledge with no outlet.
75. My fingers are long but I have small hands.
76. Both my parents have brown eyes and so do one of my brothers.
77. I would say I have blue eyes but some people think they're green.
78. Either way, it's a recessive gene - blue from my dad's dad, green from my mom's mom.
79. I try to listen.
80. But sometimes I talk way more than I listen.
81. My memory is very good, though.
82. But not perfect, I'm the first to admit.
83. Sometimes I'm really good at keeping things to myself, especially problems.
84. I don't try to do it; it just seems to happen.
85. I'm trying to be better about it.
86. When I was little bit younger I used to wish I were taller. But not so much anymore.
87. Gala apples are the best.
88. I'm addicted to the internet.
89. I'm trying to be better about that too.
90. Someday I would like to go sky diving.
91. I think it would be fun to be a jazz singer.
92. I forgive others way more easily than I forgive myself.
93. I’m a sucker for considerate boys with nice smiles and facial hair.
94. Unlike many young children, my incorrect pronunciation of “spaghetti” was not “pasghetti,” but “pageetee.”
95. I wish mechanical objects (cars and computers, specifically) could work the way they are supposed to work ALL THE TIME without ever needing repair or maintenance.
96. When in a big group, or with those I don’t know at all, I can be very quiet.
97. I like to observe before speaking.
98. I don’t quite know where my life is going yet… sometimes this scares me, but at the same time, it seems like a really big adventure.
99. My good friends and my family are my touchstones.
100. I think the best we can do in our lives is to love one another and be compassionate and forgiving.