Random Things About Wonelle

Unedited so sorry for any redundancies.

1. I found myself when I found myself in Fresno.
2. I'm a "glass half-empty" kinda gal. It's not really my nature to be that way. It's really the way of my nurture.
3. I met my dad at a Walgreen's Coffee Shop in a shopping Mall when I was 11 years old.
4. . In 1985 I was the only - and probably the first ever - girl to take wood shop in my high school. The instructor "Dick" (No, really), had to re-think his response to kids asking to go to the bathroom when it came to me. He realized that he couldn't tell me to put a rubber band on it.
5. In high school also I drove a $300 puke orange 1971 Ford Pinto (yes, the kind that exploded if rear-ended), partook in a few less than desirable activities, dated a guy 5 years older than me, and worked in a toy shop as a gift wrapper.
6. My step-dad would never stop to let me go to the bathroom when we were on family road-trips. No matter how much I cried, begged, and pleaded. He'd say "at the next exit" and every time, he'd pass it by. I thought he was being a mean, horrible, and awful person. Then I grew up and began to understand what it must have been like to be an interracial couple in the 70's.
7. It felt good to be on television spouting liberalism while at the same time serving country club folk who underwrote, in the form of automatic 18% gratuities, my non-work time activities. Yes it did.
8. Boys are better than girls. Mostly. There are a few exceptions.
9. I share my birthday with George Carlin, Burt Bacharac, Florence Nightingale, Katharine Hepburn, and one of my best friends - Bridget.
10. My BEFRI talked me into attending community college. She convinced me that the toy-shop gig wasn't going to take me where I wanted to go. Despite the fact that I had no idea where the hell that was...
11. Growing up, the library was my sanctuary. I love telling my son: "we can find out more about that - I'm sure there's a book at the library."
12. Can you imagine, playing the flute (2nd chair), smoking cigarettes, and being asthmatic...concurrently?
13. I like rules, boundaries, and structure. Except when it doesn't suit me. And it used to not suit me most of the time. I'm a little older and wiser now.
14. This meme thing has been a great way to practice remembering.
15. I blog in relative anonymity. I want to write my story and have it read in relative celebrity. I'd love to get comments from readers more often (although, I adore the ones I get from a couple of regular readers!).
16. I'm the oldest of 6; 3 are siblings by marriage and 2 by blood. But technically, I'm an only child.
17. Being called a "disobedient wench" was one of the best compliments I've ever received.
18. I once saw a tarot reader who said I'd be very lucky throughout my life. Past, present, future - she was right on.
19. The best day of my life was the day I married Wood. I make a conscious decision to be married every waking moment of every day. Because we can make 'this' be anything we want it to be. That's the benefit of having few good role models. You know what you don't want to do.
20. I'm competitive. Mostly with myself. I often strive to be a type B+ personality.
21. I want to travel the world. Anywhere - everywhere...
22. I have a dream of living in NY, NY.
23. Pregnancy, labor, delivery, and breastfeeding were the most difficult things I've ever done with my body.
24. Whenever considering names for a child it is important to test not only the way the full name sounds in the fit of a parent's anger, but also in the fit of a lover's passion. They grow up and do grown up things after all.
25. You can ask me anything you want to. And while I'll very likely answer any questions with complete and utter honesty, I always reserve the right to refuse to answer. Just in case.
26. I'm not good at following rules. I'll probably keep adding to this list. Maybe someday it'll be 100 random things about me..
27. I'm addicted to reading It's Friday...
28. It took me a very long to remember some things that happened in the year 1989. But once I did, I remembered that it was a turning point year for me.
29. I reflect a lot, suffer despite it, and more often than not, focus on the negative stuff.
30. I've tackled a few nasty demons in my lifetime.
31. I don't think I'm negative by nature, I think those demons sometimes get the best of me. Despite them I laugh, love and enjoy life.
32. I have lot's of my own philosophies and I'll share them with you if you want. Like this one: you can ask me any question you want however, I reserve the right to not answer it. Oh yeah, I'll share my philosophies with you even if you don't want.
33. People will often describe me as Sassy. Or Difficult or Bitchy or intense, or something equally negative. I agree to being all of those things and more - they're some of my better qualities.
34. I always tell the Truth. Even if it stings. Sometimes even when it's not in my best interest to do so.
35. I've been learning to hold my tongue. Even if it hurts. Especially if it's in someone else's best interest for me to do so.
36. Some people often annoy me to no end. I'm sure the feeling is mutual.
37. Yea, there are moments that I'm full of myself.
38. For many years I had a bumper sticker on my car that said "the more people I meet, the more I like my cat".
39. Sometimes I'm lonely.
40. The best thing I ever did was talk myself into a low-paying part-time receptionist job at a start-up new-media school.
41. I met this really cool guy there. Actually, I met more than one cool guy there - but I met the most important cool guy of my life because I worked there.
42. The next best thing I did was make a killer bare handed catch and throw as catcher to throw the runner out first base. That's when my Boyfriend knew he'd be my Husband. It was glorious on both accounts.
43. To date, the day my Husband and I got married was the single best day of my life.
44. My Husband revels in my sassiness and I revel in him because of it.
45. From the time I was really young, I wanted to be married and have 4 Boys.
46. Just before I found out that I was pregnant, I thought seriously that my Husband and I could be happy without kids.
    
47. I was relieved (actually, elated) when the Ultrasound Technician said the baby was a boy.
48. For me, being a Mom isn't and hasn't been all it's cracked up to be.
49. My mom was, but wasn't, a Fabulous Mom. She was a wreck. Still is.
50. I was severely depressed for the first two years of my son's life. Not so much anymore.
51. Breastfeeding was horrible.
52. My kid is one of the best people I've ever met. Not because he came from me, either. I could tell when I was pregnant he was something special (and probably going to be a drummer).
    
53. I want to be a Fabulous Mom. No... I want my son to think of me as a Fabulous Mom.
54. Catty girls (or women), cliques, and the like don't do it for me. Play straight and fair or prepare to be told about yourself.
55. I'll avoid a fight whenever possible. Except when I can't. After those fights, I'll try to make sense of the senselessness.
56. Some days, I miss being lonely. And being able to go to the gym whenever I want, and to take a shower alone, and read books all day and all night long, and do art, and have sex with reckless abandon like I once did.
57. My favorite move of all time is the Black and White version of Elephant Man.
    
58. Growing up my initials were MR. The kids teased me and said I was Mentally Retarded.
    
59. The better part of my career has been working with people considered to be Mentally Retarded. I'm not special or patient for working with "those" people, thank-you-very-much. Please don't say that - I think it's just plain rude.
60. Once, when I was hungry, I decided to try Sushi. I figured, "I've never tried Japanese food before". Sushi is my favorite food on the face of the earth! Well, so far. I'll try just about anything once. Food is good.
61. The Sushi Chef that fed me Japanese food for the first time walked me down the aisle.
    
62. I love a good adventure.