Eighty-Four

A friend of mine did this on her blog recently.  Due to my affinity for lists, I thought I'd do one myself.  Even though it is the epitome of everything hated about blogs.  Hey, I'm trying to procrastinate over here. 

Eighty-Four Things About Me:

1. I believe.
2. I love to sing.
3. I twitch in my sleep.
4. I am an ESFJ.
5. I wish I could play the piano better.
6. I am a vegetarian.
7. I have metal plates in my face.
8. I am lactose intolerant …
9. … but I love cheese.
10. I sleep in earplugs.  Every night.
11. I am a redhead. Natural, thank you.
12. I love red wine.
13. My favorite food is fresh cherries in the summertime.
14. I have dated someone that I met online.
15. I am the younger of two children.
16. I am usually mistaken for the older of two children.
17. I just figured out how to wear my hair wavy within the past few years, and I do not miss my hair dryer.
18. I am a relatively quick friend-maker.
19. I want to be a counselor when I grow up.
20. I don’t drink soda.
21. I want to get married.
22. The place I want to go most is Scotland.  Right now, at least.
23. I love to read.
24. I usually try to read too many books at once.
25. I like to deal with issues between myself and others as quickly as possible, but I am not always good at it.
26. Music is my first love.
27. I cook.  People tell me I do it well.
28. I write.  People tell me I do it well.
29. I have what I like to call “Cinematic Amnesia.”   90% of the time, I don’t remember anything from movies.  Even ones I watched the day before.
30. I was once a consultant for Arbonne.  I sucked at it.
31. I would like to have a PhD.
32. I am starting a Master's in Counseling in August 2010.
33. Once I ate grilled cheese and tomato soup every night for three months.
34. I am a grammatically correct texter.
35. I don’t cry much.
36. I need to lose 40 pounds to be at a “healthy weight.”  I think that might be bull.
37. I want to adopt a child.
38. Relationships are very, very important to me.
39. I have a growing mistrust of men.
40. I don’t want to mistrust men.
41. I look like my mom.
42. I am good at parallel parking.
43. I don’t like to receive flowers from significant others.
44. As of August 14, 2010, I will be living in St. Louis for at least three years.
45. As of August 14, 2010, I will have moved seven times in under five years.
46. I have only had two boyfriends in my life.
47. I love hymns.
48. I am independent.
49. I like filling out forms.
50. Sometimes I wear glasses that I don’t really need because I think they are cool.
51. I don’t like to abbreviate.
52. I wish I could write songs.
53. I love to dance, but haven’t done it in quite a while.
54. I listened exclusively to Christian contemporary music when in high school.  I consider it one of the biggest mistakes of my life.
55. I take anti-depressants.  It is one of the best things I have ever done for my health.
56. I will never, ever date online again.  Unless I am still single at forty.
57. I love wearing cowboy boots.
58. I didn’t like babies or dogs until I turned twenty-six.
59. I like to spell out numbers.
60. Writing in all caps or in all lower case really bothers me.
61. I love seeing makeovers of all kinds.
62. I hate being singled out for being single.
63. Sometimes I say the f-word.
64. I have been laid off from a job before.
65. I want to pray more.
66. I crave autumn.
67. I came darn close to going to culinary school.  I don’t regret not going.
68. I have a LOT of pet peeves that involve noises.
69. I love beards.    
70. Despite the fact that I am “forty pounds overweight ,”(see #36) I love to exercise and eat healthily.
71. I like to make lists.
72. I fall down quite a bit.
73. I love aprons.  I have several.
74. Sometimes I am rude to people who answer phones at utility companies.
75. I hate football.  Most sports, really.
76. I can’t do math in my head.  Even simple addition.
77. I was once served Arbor Mist by a guy I was on a date with.
78. I am severely afraid of bees.
79. I think Reese’s Cups are manna from the Lord.
80. I hate passive aggressiveness, but sometimes I am passive aggressive.
81. I like going to bed really early.
82. I don’t much care for babysitting, but will do it for people I love (I’m almost 30 for crying out loud!)
83. I’d like to be able to take great photographs.
84. I am a professional at "the ring check."