100 Things About Me
When I first got interested in blogs, I noticed that many bloggers had “100 Things About Me” on their sites. I look for the 100 Things when I’m exploring a new blog because it’s a condensed and entertaining way to get to know someone. In that spirit, I’m offereing my 100 Things, which I’ll do in 4 parts over the next couple of weeks.
1. I grew up in an amusement park town but never rode on the roller coaster.
2. I’m allergic to PABA in sunscreen.
3. I manifested my second husband (love of my life) by playing and dancing to Steve Winwood’s “Bring Me a Higher Love” over and over.
4. My sister, Trish, manifested her husband this way too.
5. I don’t like blue ink pens. Pen ink should be black.
6. My license plate says: L3T IT B
7. When I was a little girl, I thought reporters on TV could see me. I hid behind the couch when they were doing the news because I didn’t want to be seen.
8. My earliest memory was putting a rock in my mouth and wondering if my mother was omnipresent enough to see me do it.
9. When I was 13 my hair went white in a streak on the left side of my head.
10. I had a clinical major depression when I was 19 that lasted 1 -2 years. There were no anti-depressants drugs back then.
11. I used to sneak into the drive-inn theater by hiding in the trunk of a car.
12. Summer squash used to make me gag, but I like it now.
13. I wore a black crow feather in my hair for one whole summer.
14. I jumped in a hole in an ice covered pond, naked after a sauna.
15. I bought my house with a down payment made from vending my own jewelry at Grateful Dead Concerts.
16. The most life changing event in my life was being with my brother Danny when he took his last breath.
17. I contracted Chronic Fatigue when I was in my mid 20’s. There was no name for it then. I once filled a notebook page with all the therapies I have tried for it. Everything has helped, nothing has cured. Managing it is ongoing. Most people don’t notice.
18. The most unusual therapy on my above list is: Psychic Surgery by a healer from the Philippines.
19. Being mother to my sons, Josh and Dylan, has been the highlight of my life.
20. Marrying my husband, Joe, has been the reward of my life.
21. Secret pleasure: popping bubble wrap.
22. Song title that best describes my life: What’s it all about Alfie?
23. Chairs that don’t move are useless to me. I was a rocker as a child, and I’m still in constant movement (usually my foot shakes back and forth).
24. I meditate everyday. I practiced TM (transcendental meditation) in the 1970s. Now I do passage meditation as taught by Sri Eknath Eswaran. (Must sit still for this.)
25. I wrote a book about losing my brothers a month apart. The booked spurred a reunion in the small town my siblings and I grew up in and is being used in a grief and loss class at Radford University. -2005
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June 13th, 2005 11:19 am
A very good start on your 100 things, Colleen. I am on #57 in my list, and I may never be able to come up with #58 through 100! I love popping bubblewrap too!
June 13th, 2005 1:53 pm
2- Mee tooo! 5. Totally agree…hate blue ink. Always have 15. Do you still make jewlery? Most of mine is handmade from different people..some I know others..I don’t ;0) I’d love to see some if you still make it. I’m planning on reading your Jim and Dan Stories this summer. I’m still gearing myself up for it…sad reads put me off..but I want to because you wrote it.
June 13th, 2005 1:57 pm
I look forward to reading the rest!
Ivy..
June 13th, 2005 3:15 pm
Yes, Colleen, at least I will probably be 100 before I finish my list. I meant to remark before about the playing of “… higher love” in order to manifest the man who became your husband. That is a prime example of practicing expectancy, and the adage that you ARE what you think! Good show!
June 13th, 2005 3:24 pm
Nice List!
June 13th, 2005 4:57 pm
A great begining. I’ve been thinking that it’s time to start getting this list together myself.
I also insist upon Black ink and I only use retractable pens. I like to click them, a lot.
June 13th, 2005 5:20 pm
Blue pens just don’t seem credible. When I started doing foster care work, there was lots of daily documentation. Everything was considered a legal document, and I discovered that we were ONLY allowed to use a black pen. I rest my case.
June 13th, 2005 7:24 pm
“Bring me a Higher Love” still moves me. It’s such an affirmation that really worked for us. Hey, I also love black ink! Another one to add to the list that keeps growing.
June 15th, 2005 6:30 am
Forgive me for taking such a long time to visit again! Life is a true test sometimes. Enough said.
I’m enjoying your list so far and can’t wait to see the rest.
I would love to read your book. Can you point me in the right direction to purchase it?
July 22nd, 2006 5:51 pm
What a fascinating and accomplished person you are. Thanks for taking the time to share about yourself.
May 11th, 2008 11:36 am
“When it comes to sociability, I’m only a few degrees away from being as reclusive as Emily Dickinson. If I go out one day, I have to stay home for the next two days, in order to recover.”
I do believe, Colleen, we would have quite a lot to say to each other. I don’t answer the phone when it rings – wait for the machine to take it before I decide if I want to talk to the person on the line. Never do I answer the door, unless I’m expecting someone at a particular time. Although pleasant in the outside world – smiling, talking with seniors etc., I rarely speak to my neighbours and actually wait until they are out of sight before I dash to my car to go where I need to go. I don’t know how I got this way. I was an only child until I was 9 and did spend lots of time on my own, but I had friends throughout school – though I have not held to any but a few of them.
By the way, my mother is from Cape Breton island (this is where she gets her feisty attitude from) and my creativity and (ability to bake) stems from this side. My verbosity and somewhat addictive personality comes from the Irish.
I need to read more Dickinson.
Kat
May 11th, 2008 12:03 pm
My mother’s kin are German Lutheran’s from Lunenburgh Novia Scotia, a very stoic, independent and hardworking clan. I think the reclusive, slightly anti-social streak you talk about is also an Irish trait. It runs very strong in my father’s Irish side and sort of contradicts the other common Irish trait, being communicative verbally and via the written word. My Irish kin are also affectionate, demonstrative, and sensitive.
My favorite Irish quote by an Irishman goes something like “I never liked jobs. I think their an invasion of privacy.”
May 11th, 2008 2:33 pm
Great quote!
It is the Nova Scotia side that is the reclusive element in my family – at least with my mother. She has always been quite shy and I think in some ways that rubbed off, but my father – prior to illness, was the epitome of gregariousness. He was always bringing home strangers to dinner. My mother was gracious, if a bit reticent at first, but usually they turned out to be fine people with whom we got along well.
My husband comes from Lutheran stock (Danish) and they are sociable in the extreme, but also very closed in expressing their feelings. The Irish (speaking for my family) don’t seem to have a problem unburdening themselves – especially with a bit of lubrication.
Kat
April 8th, 2009 9:04 am
In my multiply blog, I’ve written a list of 100 things but not exactly about myself. It’s a list of all the things that make me happy. I want to repost it in my blogger account sometime :).
By the way, what kind of help did you get from the psychic surgery? I want to know because although I’m currently living in Japan, the Philippines is my home country. 🙂
May 17th, 2010 9:44 pm
Here’s the story: http://looseleafnotes.com/wp/2006/12/psychic-surgery/
July 10th, 2013 11:43 pm
[…] It was my eldest son Josh’s birthday yesterday, which reminded me of something I posted in 100 Things About Me in 2005: “Being mother to my sons, Josh and Dylan, has been the highlight of my life. Marrying […]
May 22nd, 2017 12:37 pm
Your lists are interesting and creative. On a long defunct blog, I succumbed to a post I titled “Gel unmasked.” Even there, I did not reveal my location nor roots. I shall say here that I now live in the same state as you. (You can determine whether that is psychological, metaphysical, or … ). I, too, have roots in MA. I think these lists are intriguing because they offer glimpses into the personalities of the blogger in a way that is different than posts.
May 22nd, 2017 11:57 pm
They are old but still apply, I think. I’m an open book and take credit for everything I write. I got on your new blog but not don’t know how to get back.