101 Things About Me

I saw this on another blog.... so yes I'm plagiarizing.... get over it...!

1. I am 5' 7 3/4" tall.

2. I am way overweight and think that it is inherited as I come from a long line of heavy set people on my father's side of the family.... yet I wasn't always overweight and I'm trying not to be now. But I've been trying for years and I just keep getting heavier.

3. After high school I went to college for two years to study to become a Travel Agent... I sucked at it and wanted out as soon as I finished the program and so wasted two years of tuition... I've always regretted those two years.

4. I have scoliosis for which I had surgery and had fifteen spinal fusions and a Herrington Rod in my back.

5. I've had three boyfriends over the years one of whom I married.

6. In my mid-teen years I was a prude.

7. That stopped when I became sexually active at 17.

8. I love sex... just like chocolate.... it's all very decadent.... (hope I didn't shock you).

9. I hate socks.... that's important.... I should live on a beach in a somewhat warmer climate so that I could walk around barefoot all the time.

10. Instead I have always lived in very cold and snowy places....

11. I almost convinced Teapot to apply for a position in Bermuda.... aahhh now that would have been the life... with bare feet.

12. I hate feet... I think they are disgusting and really wish I could never have anything to do with them.

13. Have always been artistic.... I started drawing at the age of 12 and never looked back.

14. I had a really awesome art teacher in high school named Robin Cook, who had a Master's degree in art. He taught me oh so much about art which I really didn't realize until later.

15. Finished my last year of high school in a school that I really couldn't care less about.

16. I worked at Suzy Shear for three years as a merchandiser and window dresser.... and loved it.

17. I can sing... well pretty darn good though I've never gotten any recognition for it even from my parents.

18. I have really lousy hearing...

19. I hate phones and especially having to make official calls to people I don't know... I much rather computers and email.

20. I love the feel of the sun on my face but I hate really hot weather and I hate humidity.... that's probably why I don't live in Toronto.

21. I hate city living and lived in a small city most of my years growing up.... I even lived in Toronto for two summers.... ick!

22. I worked for a homeopathic drug dispenser for two summers while going to University... it sucked... I think all homeopaths, as a result of my experiences, are next to witch doctors.

23. I had an opportunity to try out for the National ballet when I was twelve... I found out that I needed back surgery and that was the end of that.

24. I love to paint abstract paintings with acrylic paints. I turn my music on really loud and go out on the deck in the summer and have a few drinks.... (when I wasn't allergic to it) and just start spraying paint all over my canvases/boards.

25. I'm allergic to alcohol.

26. I write poetry.

27. I had two miscarriages before I was finally able to carry a baby to term.

28. I had the names of my children picked out long before I ever had children... I won't say what the girls names were because I had girls and that would compromise their privacy.... but the boys names were Aaron Montgomery and Keegan Ezekiel.

29. The fibre arts never really interested me until a few years ago at which time I became a spinner first a dyer second and a weaver third.

30. I learned to knit at the age of 8.

31. I never really started to knit much until I went to college and then to help pass time in the residence I knit myself a mohair full length coat.

32. I love my family. All of them.... though my mother and I have a strained relationship.

33. Teapot makes me smile.... he lightens my heart... and I'm devoted to him.

34. I really don't know why he sticks with me..... but he does. So he must love me too. (That always surprises me).

35. I'm very proud of my two daughters. They are both smart and witty and full of fun.

36. I'm partially werewolf because at the full moon each month, I have an odd reaction... either I stay awake long hours or I just want to sit in the moonlight and stare off into space.

37. I was an Anglican lay reader for many years.

38. I dabbled in the Wiccan religion when I was younger.... it didn't work for me. Though I do believe that the earth, and the universe have a deep spiritual pull.

39. I love to hug trees.

40. I want to be cremated when my time comes and have a Manitoba Maple planted where my ashes lay. Somewhere near a water source so that the Maple will have a long life.

41. I don't think I will live to be really old.... I have too many heart and high blood pressure problems in my ancestry.

42. I'm not sure I really believe in God, but I try to because I think that God is the best option to explain the connectedness that I find in life..... it works for me I guess.

43. Christmas is a terrible time of the year for me.... I used to love it but now I don't... mostly because I do all the work and find that it really is just another day in which I don't get to put my feet up. I hate Christmas shopping.

44. I studied Philosophy in University and graduated with an Honours degree.

45. I love Turkey dinner.... it's my favorite meal...

46. I asked Teapot to marry me.  It was an accident... but I'm glad he said yes.  We were watching a program on TV and the Heroin said , "Would you marry me?" She was asking her best friend (who was a male) if she was the marrying kind... so I turned to Teapot and asked him if he would marry me.... in the same vein. He asked, "Is that a proposal?" I stopped dead in my tracks and thought about it for a few seconds and said, "Yes!" That stopped him in his tracks and then he took a few seconds to think and then he said, "yes!" Then we both sat there for a while in complete silence and complete shock... then Teapot said, "Did what I think just happened actually just happen?" and I answered "Yes!" Then for about two months no one would believe that we were engaged.

47. It was my Uncle Dick who got us actually focused on getting married for real. He made me go talk to a minister.

48. I lived on an native reservation for the first 5 years of my married life... they were hard years but they were very fulfilling years.

49. I don't think I'm a very good mother.... especially when the daughters were little... but I try my best.

50. I love back rubs.

51. I didn't always have a good relationship with my father but I do now... and I'm really glad of that.

52. I'm very opinionated about some things and turn people off with my strong opinions... and I am very sorry for that because I like for people to like me and am disappointed when I turn people off.

53. I'm dreadfully lazy.

54. I'm shy in a crowd and tend to keep my mouth shut... mostly because I'm not at all witty on the spur of the moment.... scintillating conversation is not my forte.

55. I used to lie a lot... now I don't... and I'm not telling if that is a lie!

56. I've never had a career and think that the whole work at a career thing is ridiculous... most people work to survive. If you like your work then you have a career of insanity.... (see there I go with my opinions again....sorry)!

57. I love cheezies.

58. I've discovered quite recently that I could really get into silk embroidery.

59. I love jazz music.

60. I think Diana Krall is awesome.

61. I also think Uncle Kracker is awesome. I wish he'd get off his a-- and put out another great album.

62. I am a royalist... I love the Queen and think Prince Charles is a misguided fool. But I can't wait for Prince William's wedding. I love to watch the royals though I'm not a fanatic, and buy magazines and books about it all... one thing though I do wish them all well.

63. I'm a Newfoundlander.... from 15 generations back... and proud of it.

64. I've traveled all over Canada. I've lived in a number of different places in Canada. I could spend my life traveling around Canada and never want to go further afield... Canada has a lot to offer.

65. I still have a Newfy accent even after living away from Newfoundland for almost twenty years... which just goes to show that "You can take the girl out of the bay but you can't take the bay out of the girl"!!!

66. I'm terrible shy. Though I try not to be... but I absolutely quake if I have to get up in front of people to speak... and suffer terribly from stage fright.

67. I love the ocean and thanks to boyfriend number 2, I spent a great deal of time on a 40 foot yacht.

68. I've had one of my poems published. I just wish I could get a lot more published.

69. I am not a good housekeeper and have better things to do with my time than race around cleaning up dust bunnies.

70. I love to watch spiders but have a terrible fear that they will fall off the ceiling of my bedroom and into my mouth.

71. I sleep on my right side.

72. I am an insomniac... but less so as I age.

73. I snore so I am told.

74. I've always wanted to hang glide.... but would probably sh-t my pants if I tried.

75. I drove across Canada twice in a two seater convertible... and it was awesome especially looking at the mountains as we drove along.

76. I loved to watch in the rear view mirror, the autumn leaves swirling behind my convertible.

77. I drive a Dodge Dakota truck... that's falling apart... (well I am a farmer!!)

78. I raise sheep and alpacas.

79. I love dogs, tolerate cats (it's a reciprocal thing), and enjoy sheep and alpacas.

80. I owned a wolf/husky dog who I loved dearly... and miss dreadfully.

81. I try not to think about politics but every so often I get really fierce about it all.

82. I want to take cruise ship to Hawaii... some time.

83. I once spent two weeks in England and had a lovely trip... I love British History...

84. I have 3 children whom I support through Foster Parent's Plan and World Vision in Brazil, Peru and the Dominican Republic... and love each one.

85. I have made four quilts in my life... all of them were hand stitched. I never want to do it again.... but I will.

86. I have a dreadful memory.... so I'm told.

87. I am a dreadful homebody. I love my little house. It took Teapot and I a long time to find a home.

88. I tried to get a children's story book published that I had written a few years back and never succeeded.

89. I  would love to write a really good book... probably a novel... and get it published.

90. I have a dreadful memory... did I tell you that...

91. I've broken a toe and a wrist but that's it for broken bones and quite frankly I hope to keep it that way. I broke my toe when I was 6 yrs old and put my foot in the driver's seat when my father was closing it.... it was a two door car. The seat cracked my toe. Then I broke my wrist the first time I put on cross country skies... Ok I lost control of them on a little slope and one foot wanted to go one way and the other wanted to go the other... it was not a graceful fall but evidently quite a sight to see.

92. I am a terrible writer.... but wish that I could be a better one.

93. In one of the anomalies in life I am good at cooking but hate to cook.

94. I am terrible at serving my good cooking and everyone always gets cold food at my house because I'm completely uncoordinated at getting everything ready at the one time.

95. I love colour.... and have a hard time picking my favorite.... (you may know that)... I hate pink.

96. I love to walk in the forest and miss walking there in the winter when the snow is deep.

97. When I was a kid I always wanted to be able to communicate with animals.... especially whales and owls... I still do.

98. I love to sit in front of the fire... summer or winter... I could be Cinderella actually.

99. I wish I had closer relations with my cousins... and my sister.... we've all just gone our separate ways over the years.... sad really....

100. I've really enjoyed meeting my followers and computer friends even if it is only a limited relationship...... thanks to you all....

101. It's really hard to think of 101 things to write about yourself.... really!