I enjoy getting to know my readers, and am unselfishly (OK, maybe narcissisticly) sharing 101 random things, facts, habits, or goals about me! This list isn’t complete yet, and is a work-in-progress. Maybe it’ll even grow to over 101 random, bizarre things!

So, in no particular order…

Hopefully you’ll still stop by and visit my blog on a regular basis, despite what I divulge below.

Random Things About Me

1. I live in the same town I grew up in, which is like, ah, over 50 years. This is the first and only house the Hubster and I have owned. I’d move out of town or to a different state in a New York minute.

2. When I was a teenager, the one thing I wanted to do most in life was travel, like all over the world. I had a penpal, and when I was 17 I went to visit her in England, solo, my first plane trip. I stayed with her family for 2 weeks, in 1969. It was when the Beatles were popular, and was great.

3. Hubster and I were in the same homeroom for high school, and he took me to the Senior Prom.

4. The Hubster doesn’t like to travel, and does so only under duress. So we don’t really go anywhere anymore. Go figure.

5. I still want to travel, and would really like to go on a cruise at least just once in my lifetime. I thrive in warm, hot, humid weather. I think I was born to live down south. I love the smell of fragrant flowers, the ocean, beach salt marshes & beach roses.

6. I started college right after high school and went to an all girls college in Massachusetts. There were lots of them there, like one big sorority house. I dropped out of college after I got engaged, to work to save money to get married. I finally went back to school in my 40s and got a B.S. in Business, and then went on further and got an A.S. in Paralegal Studies, Magna Cum Laude. But I didn’t play a sport, so sez my daughter, which is probably why I graduated Magna Cum Laude. But working full-time and raising 2 kids didn’t count ~ just the sport thing counts.

7. I’m a great cook. I like to bake, and make creative dishes. I probably should have gone to culinary school, but was too naive at the time and insecure to do anything else. If I had to do it all over again, that’s what I’d do.

8. At one time I wanted to be a stewardess, which all gals my age wanted to do. But they had a height requirement, ah, like 5-feet 2 inches back then. I was too short.

9. I like Folk music, New Age, Country, Jazz, that kind of music. Hubster only likes hard rock. I hate it. I seriously have contemplated buying ear plugs to wear in the car. I tune it out in my head.

10. I’m not a TV watcher anymore now that we have computers and internet. I get all of my news online, in depth, from various sources ~ blogs, ezines, Twitter. I formulate my own opinions. I don’t even read print paper any longer unless forced to. I read over 20 online major newspapers a day, coast-to-coast.

11. My family thinks I have an internet addiction. They don’t have a clue what I’m doing or understand why I’m trying to build a business and online presence before I retire so I can retire. I really don’t care.

12. I was married 9 years before my first child was born. The second daughter came along 4 years later. I was 22 when we married. If I had to do it all over again, I wish I could have been younger when I had them. I’m glad my oldest daughter had her first child at 23.

13. I’m glad I’m a kinda-sorta young grandmother. My own grandmother lived to be 101, was the oldest of 9 children, and outlived most of her siblings. She’d always been a part of my life. I miss her.

14. I only stay in touch with my best friend RLF from Kindergarten. She lives in New Hampshire. I was devested when she went to college in Virginia, and then moved to NH after graduation. We still talk and visit, but not as often as I’d like to. When we do talk, it’s like it was yesterday, we pick up the same conversation as if we just left off. I miss her too.

15. I am cautious when making friends IRL. I tend to size people up, and I’m a pretty good judge of character. I can read people. You get about a 2 minute once-over from me. If necessary though, I can work the crowd. I am a better judge of character with my online friends. My family doesn’t understand my online friends, because they don’t think they’re “real”.

16. I had an online “friend” who I invested a lot of time and energy into. Although I learned quite a bit from her, she turned on me like a hot potato without warning and burned me. I’m still PO’d over that. Many of you probably know her. I was a Moderator on her forum, and spent hours helping her out. I’m very cautious now that I’ve been burned, and won’t let it happen again. I don’t like it when people use and take advantage of other people for their own self-serving purpose.

17. I’m a Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino (iced) coffee fan. It started in Vermont when I took oldest DD on a road-trip to visit colleges. Only one local off the beaten path place to get a beverage. I have a 5 (4-pack) a week habit now. She ended up marrying a guy from Vermont. So I go up there quite a bit now.

18. My favorite ice cream is Ben & Jerry’s anything. But we do have a local place in town that has the best gourmet ice cream. I could go there every night of the week, but it closes in winter. I gained a lot of weight one summer, eating ice cream every nite.

19. I love my cat. He’s so aloof, like Garfield. I’ve always liked cats. I married a Dog person. We used to have a German Shepard mutt that ate my arm, even as a puppy. He died of epilepsy at 18 months. Then we had a Black Lab for 12 years, even before the kids came along. I miss that dog. Then we were fur-free for awhile until The Cat came along.

20. My Charming son-in-law is so awesome, it was as if I hand-picked him. I knew from the moment I met him that he was “the one” for my daughter. He’s so patient. I have a guardian angel watching over me who sent him specifically. Thank you. You know who you are.

21. I think am superstitious and psychic. That’s p-s-y-c-h-i-c, not psycho. Maybe that’s not the word. I have a “gift”. I know things, and feel things. I can sense things. I’m psychic. My family thinks I’m crazy. No, actually they don’t. After so many things I’ve told them that I feel were going to happen that did, I think they “might” actually believe it now. I think everybody has a sense, it’s just that they haven’t developed it to their fullest potential. I have.

22. I really want to retire from my day job and the dreaded cubicle. I’m tired of it and all the politics and corporate culture stuff after all these years. Just the daily grind of getting up and going in every day is getting to me. But I still have a mortgage. I suppose I should be happy I still have a job.

23. I really enjoy blogging. I’ve always been a writer. It’s the paralegal in me. I used to find it hard to write nice things, after composing so many collection letters over the years when I worked in law offices. In fact, it was hard to write “thank you” and “sympathy” notes when I had to do them for the family. It wasn’t my style. But I’m getting better at being nice.

24. When I was pregnant I craved SOS with one kid, and poached eggs on toast with the other. Neither kid eats that stuff.

25. I only have one brother who lives in Rochester, NY. I don’t get to see him as often as I’d like to. He comes to visit me, but the Hubster has only driven me up there 3 times in 30+ years. So I flew up there by myself this past May. I’m going to do it more often, whenever I get the money.

26. Golf, to me, is an extreme sport.

27. All families have skeletons in their closet.

28. It’s a long-standing rumor that one of my great-aunts was a Madam and ran a brothel. Don’t know if this is true – I only met her once when she was really old (older than me now).

29. I still bite my nails. Too cheap to get gels anymore, so I grew them out.

30. I have never lived alone.

31. I’m finding I’m taking an interest in photography later in life, especially scenic photography. I wish I developed this interest sooner. My brother is a professional photojournalist and has a degree in it. I do OK with a digital point and shoot. My interest in photography stems probably from the fact that I always wanted to travel.

32. Did I mention I want to retire? Due to poor planning, I will be working until I croak – whichever comes first. I will be the next Dooce and probably get canned because of my blogging.

33. I have an SAT vocabulary. It didn’t get me into my #1 choice of college though.

34. Surprise – I’m also an expert with four-letter words.

35. When I come back in another life, I want it to be as a 5′7″ blonde.

36. Places I want to visit (or visit again) but will probably never get to (feel free to leave me recommendations!):

California (San Diego, LA, San Francisco, & wine country); Lake Tahoe; Las Vegas; Sanibel Island; Key West; Disney World; Outer Banks; Myrtle Beach; Ocean City, MD; Wisconsin Dells; Austin, TX; Mackinac Island, MI; the Grand Canyon; Seattle, WA; Vancouver, BC; PEI, Canada; Halifax, Nova Scotia; the Caribbean (on a cruise); Acapulco, Mexico; Bermuda; Ireland; England; parts of Europe …

37. I like to take naps … a lot. My grandmother always said to take your naps.

38. Once upon a time I did a lot of crafts – crochet afghans, scarfs, baby things, doilies; I quilted. I used to make all the Cabbage Patch kids clothes for my girls’ dolls. I made every single one of their Halloween costumes and also sewed for ‘Lil Moomette. I was also big into doing counted cross-stitch and have made many beautiful samplers, which are framed throughout the house. I haven’t done any crafts in ages.

39. I don’t think I could ever live anywhere that wasn’t within a 45-minute drive of the ocean. Not a lake, but the ocean.

40. I wish I had a huge RV and could take a year off and just travel across the country, like a nomad.

41. I luv new clothes – but I can’t stand shopping. I know style (at least for my age) when I see it – one of those kind of things! Really, I need a personal shopper. I’d much rather shop online because I can’t stand malls, all that music bombarding you, and the crowds. It’s OK if my daughters are now my personal shoppers – as long as they don’t make me try to dress like I’m 20-something.

42. I need a housekeeper. Although I enjoy a clean home, I don’t like doing the work myself. Given a choice – clean, or blog – what do you think it’s going to be?

43. I’m a professional student. I’m happy when I’m in a classroom learning new things. Although I’m done with college (unless I audit classes), I enjoy taking Adult Ed classes in town.

44. Food Quirks – Likes: Boiled potatoes with relish; herring in cream sauce; SOS; poached eggs; yellow mustard on everything; rare meat (mooing, please); Dislikes: most all veggies (especially cooked carrots) except green ones (brussel sprouts excluded); any meat that I knew it’s first name; venison – although I haven’t tried it that I was aware of (to be continued)

45. I’m a cat person. I married a dog person. We had a dog that died of epilepsy. DH brought him home. Now we have 2 cats. Yay me!

46. I really like Pistachio nuts. Used to eat the red ones (that’s all we had when I was a kid) and break them open with my teeth. Don’t do that any longer, and now I can eat the white ones by bagfuls! Even at $6.99/pound.

47. Did I mention I love to bake? Actually, I’m pretty good at it – especially cooking cakes from scratch. They’re really the only kind I like.

48. I’m a Capricorn – a goat – born in January. Stubborn. Sort of. When I want to be. Usually I’m a mediator. But don’t get me mad.

49. When I’m working on the computer, it needs to be in complete silence. No music, no interruptions. Not possible in this house with kids and grandkiddos.

50. I weighed under 100 lbs. when I got married in 1974. Im a size 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 ….

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