100 Things About Me

So I started this list about six months ago. And I finally finished today. Whew. Enjoy.


1. I live on the south side of Chicago.
2. The south side is scary to me because I grew up in the west suburbs.
3. I have two brothers.
4. I only grew up with my baby bro. My older brother grew up with his mother.
5. I only met my older brother once and I don’t know where his is now.
6. I couldn’t stand my little brother when I was a child.
7. He is one of my favorite people now.
8. We both attended private schools until college.
9. We attended the same college, seven years apart.
10. I am married to a lawyer.
11. Most of his clients are criminals.
12. He represented one of my former staff members after she doused her husband in hot oatmeal. She got probation and had to go to anger management class.
13. I hate fighting with him because he fights dirty. Thankfully, we hardly ever fight.
14. We met at a nightclub.
15. I am too embarrassed to tell people where we met, so I usually make something up when people ask.
16. He is proud of where we met.
17. Shortly after we met, we discovered that my mom’s good friend grew up with his mom.
18. And our brothers knew each other in college.
19. And my brother married a girl that my brother in law liked in college.
20. I didn’t know my husband was ticklish for the first year after we met because he told me he was not.
21. When I found out I vowed to tickle him every day. :-)
22. I play the flute and the piano.
23. I own a guitar, but I don’t know how to play (yet).
24. I sing better than I play.
25. I used to sing in a Christian rock band.
26. I am a classically trained singer.
27. I plan to audition for the Lyric Opera Chorus every year until I get in.
28. I am on the praise team at church.
29. I regret not majoring in music in college.
30. I have a degree in print journalism.
31. I actually work in my chosen field.
32. I often wonder if it is too late for me to choose a different field.
33. Eight people report to me, including an administrative assistant.
34. My parents have been married for 39 years.
35. People usually think my mother is my sister.
36. My parents recently bought a five bedroom house in the south suburbs.
37. My mom is retired. My dad works because he was bored when he retired.
38. I think they secretly won the lottery.
39. I ran the Chicago Marathon in 1999.
40. After the race I did not run again for almost a year.
41. I gained 25 pounds during that year.
42. Now when I run, it is usually 5 miles or less.
43. I am an iPod/iTunes junkie.
44. I have 4,237 songs on my iPod.
45. The genres range from opera to hip hop and everything in between.
46. I currently wear a “fusion” weave. It is FABULOUS.
47. I wore braids in college.
48. I had a jheri curl in high school and my first year of college.
49. I’m convinced the curl affected my popularity in college.
50. Being a manager affects my popularity at work.
51. I don’t care about being popular (anymore) (hmph).
52. I love to eat.
53. I hated cooking until I got married.
54. I learned to cook against my will from my mom.
55. I am now an excellent cook.
56. We host Christmas every year because of my cooking.
57. My dad secretly thinks I have Christmas dinner catered because I never cooked when I lived with my parents.
58. Christmas is my favorite holiday.
59. When I leave corporate America, I might start a catering business with my mom and brother.
60. I love to read.
61. I was a late bloomer. I blame my parents for allowing me to get a jheri curl but not allowing me to wear makeup until I was 16.
62. Now I rarely leave the house without at least a little makeup on my face.
63. I am addicted to The Sims 2.
64. I am also addicted to chocolate.
65. It took me five years to graduate from college because I changed my major four times.
66. My majors were engineering, education, English and journalism.
67. I should have majored in music.
68. All of my college roommates married and had children before me.
69. I introduced one of my roommates to her husband.
70. I am reproductively challenged.
71. I dated a drug addict for three years after college. I didn’t know he was an addict when we met.
72. We met at church.
73. He got one of my fellow choir members pregnant. He denied ever sleeping with her.
74. One of the reasons we broke up (besides the drugs, lies and cheating) was because I didn’t want him to continue denying his child on my account.
75. He is now a minister. It’s hard for me not to judge.
76. I have never used drugs.
77. I dated a host of other losers before I met my wonderful husband. None were as heinous as the drug addict.
78. One ex-boyfriend left me a long voicemail on the day before my wedding to tell me how he regretted the way things ended between us and that he hoped I would be happy with my husband to be.
79. I never called him back.
80. The last time I saw him was right before my birthday. He wished me happy birthday.
81. It was creepy that he remembered, considering we broke up almost 10 years ago.
82. I am addicted to beauty products—makeup, skin, hair, it does not matter.
83. I rarely leave the house without makeup, unless I am going to the gym.
84. I was not allowed to wear makeup until I turned 16.
85. I started wearing makeup secretly in 7th grade
86. I was not allowed to have phone calls from boys until I was 16.
87. I still struggle talking to the opposite sex at times.
88. My brother was allowed to have a girlfriend in 8th grade.
89. I plan to work really hard at not having double standards for my boy and girl children (when we have children).
90. I have a tendency to misplace/ lose things.
91. I have a pet cat named Betty. She lives with my brother’s cat Nina at my parents’ house.
92. I was on the basketball team in high school. Our coach was so intense that I used to have nightmares about running suicides.
93. I use to talk in my sleep. Sometimes my dad would have entire conversations with me while I was sleep.
94. I love going to the movies. We hardly ever went to the movies when I was a growing up. Now I go at least one a week.
95. I have a weird obsession with mob movies (e.g., The Godfather, Casino, Goodfellas). I can watch them over and over again.
96. I was in the movie Hoop Dreams. My brother was on the basketball team featured in the movie. I was taking pictures at their awards banquet.
97. I love gadgets.
98. I love to travel. I’ve been to London, Paris, Madrid, Tahiti, Jamaica and the Bahamas. I have also traveled all over the U.S. including Hawaii and most recently Napa Valley.
99. I hope to go to Italy next time I go overseas.
100. I am addicted to St.arbucks and I hold my husband fully responsible. I didn’t drink coffee before we met.