Things About Me

1. I love my dogs way more than I like most people.
2. I would eat my weight in pasta and cheese.
3. I love to workout until the point I am on the verge of puking.
4. I've crossed about 18 finish lines and am never satisfied with the results.
5. Finishing isn't winning.
6. My life has been very non-traditional; I absolutely love it.
7. Challenges are preferred over monotony.  
8. I am a member of a secret society.  There's one other member.  We're actively recruiting six more people.
9. I'm still scared of Darth Vader.
10. Split pea soup is the most disgusting food.
11. I would be a fabulous mom, but that just isn't in the plan (to date).
12. I have read and continue to reread Conversations with God.  It was an amazing gift...because it is in alignment with my beliefs, the ones that were challenged at traditional church.  It was as if my soul found a home and my core beliefs were validated.
13. The same can be said for Eat Pray Love.
14. I interviewed Tom Brokaw.  I love him.
15. I've sat on Lance Bass' bed.
16. When I get "recognized" by readers, I am giddy with joy.
17. As a child, I'd watch Rockford Files and take notes.  I have always had a problem with paying attention and comprehension.  
18. I can't watch Law and Order for the same reason.
19. I bleed online - so a friend says - meaning I reveal a lot in my blog. 
20. The more confidence and awareness I gain, the less patience I have for weak people. 
21. I am so glad to have husbands.
22. Bargains are my love.  However, I usually spend too much money on sheets.
23. Red-headed sluts make me gag.
24. Whiskey is my new vodka.
25. Recent decisions have taught me who my real friends are.  God love them.
26. I go to the gym at 9 a.m. just to stare at the hot baseball players.
27. Mike Rowe is my (fake TV) boyfriend.
28. I like perfume and lotions.
29. Each day starts with The Today Show.  I can't quit it.
30. Of all the jobs I've had, the one I miss the most ... well, none of them really.  I appreciate all I've learned and gained, but wouldn't go back to any of them.
31. Chocolate.  Any kind.  Any day.  I love it.  Milk chocolate preferably. 
32. I left Seattle in 1997, driving a Ford Festiva across the country to live in Huntsville, Alabama.  I don't regret that decision at all.
33. I probably should support the arts more.
34. I was a finalist for a job at The White House.  After that experience, and the let down of not getting it, I realized several things.  The most profound was that I wasn't living up to my potential.  So I quit my job.  
35. And decided I was done with everything I had put my heart and soul into for the previous 10 years.  The realization came one day in a meeting where we'd been discussing the same thing we'd been discussing for 8 years.  
36. I wrote, "I'm over this" in my notebook.  I haven't changed my mind yet.
37. While launching a business, I've been a "lady who lunches" for three months.  
38. I fear tight spaces and birds.  
39. I want to be cremated, just because of my claustrophobia.  I want Jake Ryan and Poncho's ashes to be mixed in with mine.  Is that weird?
40. Poncho and I have conversations.  They are the funniest, most creative discussions.
41. Jake Ryan doesn't talk to me, just stares with a disapproving tone.
42. I have never touched a gun.  I'd like to be able to say that until I take my last breath.  Even it's a gun that takes my life.
43. I think online dating sites are like scratch and dent sales.  You review their issues and wonder which ones you can deal with or try to figure out if you can cover it.
44. I mentally correct your grammar when you speak and write.
45. If you write with poor grammar I can't read your writing.
46. Most of my closest friends have names that start with either A or J. Amy, Amy, Amy, Jessica, Julie, Amanda, Amy, Alison, Jenny... see the link.  And then there's Hollie.  
47. I think the "duckface" is the worst expression.  Ever.
48. My wit is my trademark.
49. I Google myself.  Frequently.
50. I'd like to drive a convertible.  
51. I never really tried hard in school.  I have a natural intelligence that can't be graded or scored by standard tests.  I'm a writer in talent and life style.
52. Tom Cruise was my first celebrity crush.  Top Gun.  Beach Volleyball.
53. I wish I had a bike.
54. If I had $1,000,000, I'd pay off my brothers' debts and renovate my house.
55. Either you get me or you don't.
56. If I don't respect you, I can't like you.  And vice versa.
57. I love cylindrical meat.
58. I'll always believe in and hope for the best in people.  Even after they've shit all over me.