100 Things II
Here is the second installment of my “100 Things About Me List.” One of the things that isn’t on the list but should be is that I love lists. Number 1 – 25 can be found here.
26. I live in a log cabin.
27. I once said I would have nothing to do with a computer.
28. My husband and I have the same IQ number but for different reasons.
29. My older brother, Jimmy, dubbed me with the nickname “Colly Dog” when we were kids. My younger brother, Joey, couldn’t say my name and called my “Lo Lo.” My dad calls me “Colly Wolly Wolf” (building on the dog-like theme?)
30. Dyslexia and dyscalculia run in my family.
31. I am one of nine siblings. “God bless mommy, daddy, Jimmy, Kathy, Colleen, Danny, Sherry, Johnny, Joey, Bobby and Tricia” was my nightly prayer as a child. My husband is also one of 9 siblings.
32. I didn’t know the word for “spatula” until I was 20. We just called it “the spanking stick” in my house.
33. If I was a bird, my call would be: A Loud Yawn.
34. I was once a delegate for presidential candidate Jerry Brown.
35. Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan inspired me to write more than anything in school did.
35. If I hear Aretha Franklin sing “Respect,” I will get up and dance no matter where I am.
36. I read all the Hobbit books, all of the Narnia series, all of The Borrowers, Earthsea Trilogy and most of The Mossflower books out loud to my sons when they were young.
37. My husband and I hiked down the Grand Canyon and camped at the Havasupi Indian Reservation. We left a week later via helicopter.
38. I’ve seen the Eiffel Tower and regretted not going into the Louvre.
39. I recently saw a Black bear less than a quarter mile from my house.
40. I’d rather be stuck in traffic than drive on the Autobahn in Germany
41. I speak pig latin and gibberish.
42. Good artwork can make me twitch. Sometimes it makes my eyes water.
43. When I was young my heroes were Annie Oakley and Peter Pan.
44. I write because I hate to lose anything and writing something down is a way of keeping it.
45. I have a blue willow platter that my grandmother carried when she was a girl and sailed to this country from Ireland.
46. I’m not a leader, but I’m not a follower either. I’m a party of one.
47. I used to meditate on the subway on the way to work at a boutique on Tremont Street in Boston.
48. Now I live in a one traffic light county in rural Virginia with no street lights or speed limits on the back roads.
49. I recently won first prize, a $100 gift certificate from a bookstore, at a local poetry slam.
50. I’ve been working through a life long phobia of public speaking.
_______100 Things Part 3 is HERE.
June 25th, 2005 10:02 am
Really interesting facts!
Hello, Michele sent me…
Minerva
June 25th, 2005 10:07 am
I love these lists! you get such an interesting view of someone by reading them.
I loved Annie Oakly when I was a kid!
West Virginia is truely beautiful isn’t it?
Hi from Micheles
June 25th, 2005 10:28 am
Hey Colleen. I love your list so far. Besides living in VA, we have # 39 & 41 in common. I need to go back and look at your first 25 to see if there are any more.
Michele sent me over today:-)
June 25th, 2005 10:33 am
Just a little sharing in response.
30. Both my husband and I are dyslexic.
32. My mother used a wooden spoon.
34. Jerry Brown was the first canidate I voted for.
June 25th, 2005 2:54 pm
Michele says hi. I, too enjoy lists and yours is really an interesting one. I live in a small town, but not nearly as small as the one in West Virginia.
June 25th, 2005 3:56 pm
Everyone seems to think I live in West Virginia…? It’s Virginia.
June 25th, 2005 7:14 pm
I like #33 and #42, but I really love #44…it sounds just like you. ; )
June 25th, 2005 9:55 pm
Hi Colleen. Actually the whole bear post was true. I did hear something in the woods, the dog was barking and acting weird all night, and then I had the dream. And we did have a bear a few weeks ago. I did not see him but something bent our trash can down like a like a crushed soda can, so that was my guess. Many of our neighbors have had the bear on their porches eating from the bird feeders and emptying out dog food containers. They go out there and band pots and pans but the bear doesn’t mind at all.
That was funny that you thought someone was in a suit. I would have thought that too;-)
June 25th, 2005 11:02 pm
“28.My husband and I have the same IQ number but for different reasons.” You have to explain this one! Please.
“32. I didn’t know the word for “spatula” until I was 20. We just called it “the spanking stick” in my house.” – I laughed out loud on this one. Sad fact of reality back then.
June 25th, 2005 11:48 pm
Colleen,
I agree with Karen on the IQ thing, we want to know more. Oh, and I am afraid of confrontation but not public speaking. Go figure.
June 26th, 2005 12:03 am
I have cabin envy. Looks like a gorgeous place (cabin and town). I have dreams of bears whenever change is approaching in my life. The size of the bear often indicates the magnitude of the change.
June 27th, 2005 6:36 am
Regarding number 35…same thing happens to me with Martha and the Vandellas’ “Dancing in the Streets.”
#44 – same here
#50 – isn’t this a little bit like public speaking? I took a class to get over my own fear of the same thing. Now I never shut up in public. Be careful what you wish for. *wink*
You know, of all the people who have done this 100 Things list, I truly think yours is one of the top five most interesting I’ve read (and you’re not even finished)!
Totally enjoying this.
December 14th, 2007 10:07 pm
41. I speak pig latin and gibberish.
Ha, and I speak fluent blarney!