More Random Things About Me

While cleaning out the 'drafts' folder of my email-box yesterday, I ran across this random things list that I wrote - some time ago - in response to a post on someone else's blog, I think. Even though I posted another "Random Things About Me" post recently, I decided to add this one as well because it was rather interesting to see how similar the two were. And how different they are too. Maybe people that know me already know these things. Or, maybe I'm more #11 than I'd like to admit to myself....

1. I'm addicted to reading It's Friday...
2. 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.
   
3. I reflect a lot, suffer despite it, and more often than not, focus on the negative stuff.
4. I've tackled a few nasty demons in my lifetime.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. I always tell the Truth. Even if it stings. Sometimes even when it's not in my best interest to do so.
9. 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.
10. Some people often annoy me to no end. I'm sure the feeling is mutual.
11. Yea, there are moments that I'm full of myself.
12. For many years I had a bumper sticker on my car that said "the more people I meet, the more I like my cat".
13. Sometimes I'm lonely.
14. The best thing I ever did was talk myself into a low-paying part-time receptionist job at a start-up new-media school.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. To date, the day my Husband and I got married was the single best day of my life.
18. My Husband revels in my sassiness and I revel in him because of it.
19. From the time I was really young, I wanted to be married and have 4 Boys.
20. Just before I found out that I was pregnant, I thought seriously that my Husband and I could be happy without kids.
    
21. I was relieved (actually, elated) when the Ultrasound Technician said the baby was a boy.
22. For me, being a Mom isn't and hasn't been all it's cracked up to be.
23. My mom was, but wasn't, a Fabulous Mom. She was a wreck. Still is.
24. I was severely depressed for the first two years of my son's life. Not so much anymore.
25. Breastfeeding was horrible.
26. 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).
    
27. I want to be a Fabulous Mom. No... I want my son to think of me as a Fabulous Mom.
28. 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.
29. I'll avoid a fight whenever possible. Except when I can't. After those fights, I'll try to make sense of the senselessness.
30. 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.
31. My favorite move of all time is the Black and White version of Elephant Man.
    
32. Growing up my initials were MR. The kids teased me and said I was Mentally Retarded.
    
33. 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.
34. 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.
35. The Sushi Chef that fed me Japanese food for the first time walked me down the aisle.
    
36. I love a good adventure.