In the spirit of “Common, everyone ELSE is doing it…” I am commencing my list of 103 things you may not know about me.

1. I rarely finish anything. This may be a list of 54 things you may not know about me. Or 13.
2. I am afraid of the dark. Really.
3. My secret vices are fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies (okay, that’s not a secret!) and The Simpsons.
4. I know the words to virtually every Barry Manilow song ever written. And I can sing them to you upon demand. This request is not something, oddly enough, that happens often…
5. I am a professional musician. Or rather, I WAS, in a former life. (Like, when I HAD a life!) You can read about that here.
6. I read about six-eight books at a time on average. I finish about 40% of them. There’s a lot of poorly written CRAP out there…
7. If I could do anything, I would find a way to become independently wealthy so we could travel the world and see all there is to see. I have a longing to travel that is unfortunately not matched by our budget.
8. I bait my own hook. I have also gutted my own fish, caught a snake, and held multiple frogs. I cannot, however, stand to clean off someone else’s plate to put it in the dishwasher. GROSS.
9. I am a Trekie. Hold your laughter.
10. My husband has recently gotten me hooked on the new Battlestar Galactica. NOW you may laugh.
11. I love to watch cooking shows and read recipe books. I said once to a friend that I “read recipes like romance novels.” She didn’t get it. But I know some of you do!
12. I talk in my sleep. According to my husband, I am completely nonsensical.
13. I am a neat-freak, but not a clean-freak. I pick up the house daily. I dust quarterly.
14. I wanted to be the next Sandi Patti. Really. (I can’t believe I’m sharing THAT one…)
15. I also wanted to be the next Amy Grant.
16. I do a pretty good imitation of both. Again, not many requests for either these days…
17. The ideal year, to me, would be for there to be spring (sunny and 75) until the beginning of June, then fall (sunny and 75) until the middle of November, and then it could snow from Thanksgiving until New Year’s Day and then start all over again.
18. I drink my tea with cream. Or, at least I did until I started this new diet.
19. I abhor meatloaf, peas, lima beans, and pot roast.
20. I have been known to eat cereal three meals a day.
21. I make “happy eating noises” when I am enjoying a particularly good meal.
22. I do not like to share my food. I am worse than a dog. I have actually GROWLED at my husband. And my children, well…
23. I love baby-butts. I think they are the cutest things in the world.
24. I have peed in the woods and lived to tell about it. (And not dribbled on my shoes!)

Gotta get to work… maybe more later, maybe not!

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