100 Things

It has come to my attention that since my move to the grand Southwest (I'm not trying to rub it in or anything, but it's pushing 80 here today, and I had to put the shades back on the family room window 'cuz it was HOT!), some of the 100 things were no longer valid, so here's a current, updated version.

Also, I'm still feeling a bit under the weather after whatever knocked me out last weekend, so I don't feel like taking pics. Tucson ribbed T is done and washed and ready for photo-ing. Have started work on a secret (until April) project I'm loving (details at Ravelry).

But here goes -- 100 (or so) things:

1. My favorite vegetable is brussels sprouts


2. My second favorite is asparagus


3. With the exception of <2 years of my early childhood, I have never lived outside New England


4. I made the 2nd biggest leap of faith in my life when I left New England for the wilds of Arizona -- and so far I'm loving it


5. I really don't like the cold


6. AT ALL


7. Though I do love sledding


8. I've never been downhill skiing


9. And I don't ever plan to


10. I once ran over my own leg with a lawn tractor (don't ask me how)


11. I am afraid of the dark


12. I am also slightly claustrophobic


13. Ouija boards do not "work" when I'm in the room


14. My favorite sport to watch on TV is football


15. My favorite sport to watch in person is hockey


16. The only sport I've ever come close to being good at is tennis


17. I can't play any more because I have carpal tunnel in both wrists


18. And no ACL in my left knee


19. I always knew I would be a pastor's wife


20. I always knew I would never have children


21. I learned to knit when I was five years old


22. I learned to crochet shortly thereafter


23. While my mother knits (and taught me to knit) English, she sent me to my aunt to learn to knit continental because she thought it would be faster


24. I now knit some sort of combination knitting


25. I didn't know until recently that that's what it is called


26. A few years ago I lost 70+ pounds


27. I have gained about 20 of it back


28. While I would love to be a size 8 again, I am coming to terms with 12


29. I quit smoking without going through any withdrawal


30. I eat a banana every day


31. Some irrational part of me thinks that if I don't I will die


32. I never had training wheels -- before my father could get them on my first two-wheeler, I got on and took off without wobbling or falling


33. This astounds me because I'm one of the most clumsy people I know


34. Everyone in my immediate family graduated from high schools whose colors were black and orange


35. I hate black and orange


36. I don't have a favorite color


37. But if I did it would be green (or red, or purple, or pink... you get the point)


38. It would never be blue


39. I could best be described as a libertarian


40. I currently live in my dream house


41. Unfortunately, we don't own it


42. But you should see the view


43. I didn't want a dog because they need to be taken for walks during blizzards


44. Now that I live in Tucson, this isn't a concern


45. Though now heat stroke and rattlesnakes are


46. We adopted one anyway


47. I love him and can't imagine life without him


48. And I've discovered snow isn't half as bad as cold and wind


49. I am still a cat person


50. We also have 2 cats


51. Our baby boy cat was seized from an abusive home by DSS


52. He has finally lost his fear of the appliances (except the vacuum)


53. He's still not sure about strangers, though he's incredibly curious about everything


54. And for some reason, he seems completely unfrightened by children, even the really loud, active ones


55. Don't tell my parents, but all those times they couldn't find Scott and me at church we were up in the belfry


56. It had the best view in town


57. Sometimes I yearn to preach


58. I could never be a church pastor because once a year I would have to lead worship from a chancel filled with Easter lilies, and that just might kill me -- literally


59. If it pollinates, chances are I'm allergic to it


60. I am far more physically fit than I look


61. I work out nearly every day


62. I LOVE to work out


63. I don't believe in the death penalty


64. I love it when someone else cooks me breakfast


65. Numbers (NOT the book of the Bible) don't always make sense to me


66. Come to think of it, Numbers (the book of the Bible) doesn't always make sense either


67. I have always preferred the company of men


68. If I were still single and he asked, I would probably marry JD


69. Not that he'd ask


70. And I can't really imagine me as an Army Officer's wife


71. M says it's probably a lot like being a pastor's wife


72. I am an INTP


73. I wish we had more lesbian friends, but...


74. I am intimidated by many lesbians, and...


75. I find many others way too angry to be around.


76. I don't understand the reluctance/fear most people seem to have about dating/marrying/having sex with an ordained person


77. It pains me to watch our single clergy friends struggle with this


78. My favorite book of the Bible is Philippians


79. Don't tell my wife or his, but I have just the tiniest crush on the minister who married us


80. I changed my mind about college majors because I was afraid of the particle accelerator


81. Yeah, I know in my mind it's not dangerous


82. I chose my college major because it had the fewest in-subject requirements


83. Yes, I took full advantage of the breadth of a liberal arts education


84. I have been told on multiple occasions that I am "too smart"


85. I still don't understand what people mean by that


86. I know what they mean by "too intense," and I own it


87. My dream job is homemaker


88. With a sideline as a freelance writer/editor


89. It's taken me years to be able to admit that


90. I am one of the most honest people I know


91. Honest in that fairly transparent, motives up front, what-you-see-is-what-you-get sort of way


92. NOT honest in that rude-in-the-name-of-honesty way (see this commentary by Stephanie -- it's #3, the big question)


93. Sometimes this gets me in trouble in interpersonal relationships because I behave as if other people are just as honest


94. No matter how much evidence I've seen that they aren't, I am still usually blindsided by other people's duplicitousness


95. I am a process knitter


96. And once I've figured out the process, projects can languish


97. I fell in love with weaving the first night of my first ever weaving class


98. I bought a loom shortly thereafter


99. As with knitting and crochet, I am nearly fearless when it comes to weaving projects


100. I've wanted a workshop for ages, and now that I have it, I don't use a lot it because I miss M too much when I'm up there


101. I have had a compulsion to write since I was old enough to do so


102. I never thought I would like ballroom dancing


103. After marrying a ballroom dancer, I find I love it


104. But I think I really only love dancing with M


105. I passed the Jeopardy test once


106. But I didn't get on the show