100 Random Things about Me

After all, the name of this place is Random Thoughts and I LOVE these goofy things...how appropriate. Some you may know - some you may not and they are in no special order.

1. I have a freakishly long 2nd toe. I mean freakishly long. Like people stare at it.


2. I HATE to go barefoot. Not only because of the toe - I hate the little rocks and stuff.


3. I don't like food on my plate to touch. I'll still eat it, but I prefer it not to touch.


4. I don't like nuts in things. I prefer them by themselves.


5. I had an imaginary friend that lived in a tree. His name was Brian A*. (I can't tell you his last name as that person does truly exist and I do know him now but, I didn't when he was my 'friend'.)


6. My Grandfather (Edna's Dad) was once a personal body guard for Henry Ford. My dad's dad was a mailman.
   
7. I believe in ghosts. I have never seen a ghost.


8. I'm afraid of the dark.


9. I have been engaged thrice, married once.


10. Once when Edna and I spent the night at her parents, the bed broke and we crashed to the floor.


11. I get sick if I eat Chinese buffet. I can eat Chinese just not from the buffet.


12. I never met my father's parents.
    
13. I HATE summer! Yes, I like the snow.


14. I lived in the same house from birth until I was 21. Edna still lives there.


15. I had an imaginary black cat, named Maude that I used to 'kick' out our slider door.


16. My favorite color is butter yellow.


17. I only like movies that could really happen.


18. I don't like slapstick funny movies or shows.


19. I have never watched an entire episode of SNL. Nope, not even one.


20. I still have the birth certificate from my Cabbage Patch Kid and I still have the doll. Bessie Clarice.


21. Pizza is my favorite. I like most everything on pizza. I don't like fish on pizza or specialty pizza - i.e. taco pizza.


22. I do like BBQ Chicken Pizza.


23. I'm learning to like fish.


24. I do not like Mexican Food. It's too bland. (tacos or enchiladas are an exception)


25. My first ever 'boyfriend' was named Jeremy.


26. I have eaten goat.


27. I have eaten turtle.


28. I have eaten snails.


29. I don't care to bake it's too precise.


30. I'm afraid of thunderstorms.


31. I would kill for anything made with rhubarb! Really, I would.


32. Cherries are another fave.


33. I used to eat celery stuffed with white bread with BBQ sauce on it. I don't anymore.


34. Jacob is named after the guy who introduced Jeremy and I.


35. Jeremy and I met on a blind date.


36. I can wiggle my ears.


37. I always watch the washing machine fill up for my first load of laundry - I don't know why.


38. I was 9lbs. 15 1/2 oz. and 22 inches when I was born.


39. I drink pickle juice.


40. My sister-in-law (and sometimes my sisters) save the black olives off of relish trays for me at family dinners. They put them in little baggies for me to take home.


41. My sister-in-law (brother's wife) has been my sister-in-law longer than she hasn't. And both of my brother-in-laws have been brother-in-laws longer than they haven't. Actually, I remember Cindy before she met Ron but, I don't remember Karen without Mike.


42. I cannot dance. At all. I don't try.


43. I don't like the smell after it rains. It smells like dead worms.


44. I don't wear nail polish.


45. I have only painted my toenails 1 time!


46. I don't eat pizza crust or pie crust - bread butts either!


47. Edna wanted to name me Beth.


48. I once fell off a horse - slid right off - down his butt and landed in the middle of my Grandma's road. My sister Valerie soon followed a little further down the same road.


49. I was a cheerleader in either 5th or 6th grade.


50. My earliest memory is eating the sugar Snoopy off of my first birthday cake.


51. I collect nostalgic tins - like old candy tins.


52. I have worked for the same company for 13 years.


53. White Chocolate Peppermint Mocha is my favorite Starbucks.


54. I rarely wear sandals. Partly the long toe thing, mostly I just don't like them.


55. I didn't want to change my last name when I got married. I liked my old name.


56. I can crochet - even the lacy doilies, but I cannot knit.


57. I can do counted cross-stitch too.


58. I kept every card and letter from my friend Emily.
    
59. I have 5 email addresses.


60. I only wear Nike sneakers.


61. My left ear is pierced 5 times. The right only 2.


62. I have no interest in hockey.


63. I'm a yellow gold jewelry wearer. I can't wear fake though. I break out.


64. My favorite sandwich is a turkey Reuben.


65. I don't typically order something new at a restaurant for fear I won't like it.


66. I am not a pack-rat.


67. Jeremy and I were married at 10:00 on a Tuesday morning.


68. After getting married, we went snorkeling.


69. I'm terrified of heights but, I enjoy flying in an airplane.


70. I have been out on the Pacific Ocean in a U.S. Coast Guard RHI and out on Lake Michigan in a U.S. Coast Guard 24 footer - just for fun.


71. I have been inside the lighthouse in Manistee and all the way to the top.


72. I refuse to take a cruise. I'm haunted by the RMS Titanic.


73. I'm very interested in the Titanic and the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald.


74. I have crossed Lake Michigan on the S.S. Badger and I threw up while boarding. It's kinda high and those steps are on the outside.


75. I have never had a surgery.


76. I have never broken a bone.


77. I have a perma bruise on the bridge of my nose that shows up when I'm tired. I got hit really hard by an accidental elbow - but it wasn't broken.


78. My ears turn bright red when I'm angry.


79. I stammer when I have something I really exciting I want to say.


80. I cannot say bench or goose correctly. I say binch and geewse.


81. I don't like chocolate birthday cake.


82. My cousin once tried to drown me in Perch Lake - down the road from my Grandma's.


83. I say 'soda' but write 'pop'.


84. I prefer Pepsi to Coke, Diet Coke to Diet Pepsi and I like either/or if Cherry.


85. I disliked my friend Jeannie over throwing some ice. That was 15 years ago!


86. I have a bad habit of licking my lips so they're constantly chapped. I've always had this habit.


87. I have 2 tattoos.


88. I spend almost $1,000,000.00 every month. Sometimes more, sometimes less.


89. Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street, I called them Ert & Bernie when I was little.


90. I wear a size 10 shoe. That's the only size I'm telling you.


91. I have had glasses since 4th grade. Contact lenses since 9th grade. And I can't see anything without either of them.


92. When driving, I always plan my route so I don't backtrack and to minimize left turns.


93. I had 3 turtles that lived in a tub under our deck. Their names were Henry, Herman, and Todd.


94. I watched a mommy cow deliver a calf. I got to name the calf. I called him Mikey.


95. Asparagus is my favorite vegetable.


96. I like cranberry sauce as opposed to gravy on my turkey or chicken.


97. Salt & Vinegar are my favorite chips.


98. I have a little German blood...I love me some sauerkraut.


99. I don't like roller coasters.


100. I believe that Ketchup is it's own food group.

Whew! Have a great weekend!