I love these things!

TEN random things you might not know about me.
1: I lived with my grandma when I was a teenager
2: I used to pray and beg to be sent to boarding school
3: I have 2 estranged step-brothers, and I am glad they're that way.
4: I believe my grandma's house is haunted
5: Once I went to a fancy luncheon with my grandma and her friend and I wasn't wearing a top under my ski jacket... so I had to stay in the jacket the whole time--- it was sweltering!
6: When I was pregnant it freaked me out and I felt like I was carrying an alien
7: If I weren't so heavy I would probably have been a complete slut in high school.
8: Sometimes I wish I was single and childless. But not for long.
9: Once in the 8th grade I wrote a mean poem and signed another girl's name to it and passed it around class. The teacher intercepted it and started asking the girl all sorts of questions.
10: I don't really regret leaving NECI as quickly as I did, and am actually glad I didn't end up as a chef.

NINE places I’ve visited
1: Thurso, Scotland which is almost the northernmost point (John O Groats is, I think)
2: Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico
3: London, England
4: Stratford-Upon-Avon, but I didn't do anything Shakespeare related
5: Mexico
6: San Antonio, Texas
7: Roswell, New Mexico
8: Cape Canaveral, FL
9: Portland, Oregon

EIGHT ways to win my heart
1: Sing
2: Make me laugh
3: Have an awesome voice
4: Talk to me
5: Have a dream or some ambition
6: Have a backbone
7: Eat my food; even if you have to pretend to like it
8. Don't sweat the small stuff; Like money

SEVEN things I want to do before I die
1: Skydive or Bunjee Jump
2: Go to Nepal
3: Publish something I have written
4: Grow as a person
5: Make a croquembouche
6: Be debt free
7: Have an inn or bed and breakfast

SIX things I’m afraid of
1: Losing the people I love
2: Disappointing the people I love
3: Not trying
4: Tunnels
5: Needles
6: Snakes

FIVE things I don’t like
1: pickled onion chips
2: people who accept that being bullied is an ok reason to do something morally wrong, like killing a kid or taking a weapon to a crowd of people
3: PEOPLE. WHO. LEAVE. THEIR. KIDS. IN. CARS.
4: spiders!
5: losing my dsl connection

FOUR ways to turn me off
1: make nauseating quips during or after sex, like in American Beauty when Annette Benning says, "I guess I just had the ROYAL treatment." Yuck!
2: be two-faced
3: be lazy
4: not be able to take a joke

THREE things I do everyday
1: Wish I had more time to sleep
2: Hug my daughter
3: Check my email, obsessively

TWO things that make me happy
1: Laying down on the couch with Barry
2: Warm sheets

ONE thing on my mind right now
1: When's the dayquil gonna kick in?!