More 100 Things About Me
Here is the last of the series that I’ve posted in 4 parts. 100 things about me part I, II, and III can be found here.
75. I collect cobalt blue mugs from places I’ve been to.
76. I like to people watch.
77. I like to thrift shop.
78. I come from a blue collar working class background, and I’m proud of it.
79. I’m a registered Independent, fiscally conservative, who votes Democrat because they represent my interests in Labor Rights, Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, and Environmental Protections better than their counterparts.
80. I’m a night shift stenographer hired by the muse to take down the moon’s business.
81. I once had a job as a night watchman.
82. I frequently write poetry about homegrown produce.
83. I’m a 5 on the Enneagram system of personality types. Now you really know everything about me.
84. I like toys – tops, small gadgets that wind-up and glow, and kaleidoscopes. I still play in the sand. Adults call this “sand tray therapy.”
85. When I was 4 years old, my older cousin carried me around Paragon Park. I pretended I was asleep so she would keep carrying me.
86. My father was in the CCCs (Civilian Conservation Corps) during the Depression. He was artillery solider in Patton’s army and his regiment helped to liberate Buchenwald Concentration Camp. He never got over seeing what went on there. My siblings and I (9 of us!) were educated early about the horrors of the holocaust.
87. My mother has a lake in Nova Scotia named for her family who were from there.
88. I like blogging because it helps me break down my life and my writing into bite size digestible pieces.
89. My favorite writing assignment was an interview I did for a Blacksburg art magazine. I interviewed 92-year-old Ruby Altizer Roberts, the first woman Poet Laureate of Virginia. After it was published and she read it, she sent me a card that said: “You are better than the best. You read between the lines!”
90. My energy is like a ball I’m trying to keep up. If it falls it stays down for a while.
91. Sometimes when I hug people, I see colors with my eyes closed. I call this my “vision.”
92. I once spent so many hours in China Town in San Francisco that I got confused and thought for a split second that I was in China.
93. I once bought a Kachina doll on the Hopi Mesa.
94. I have Andrew Wyeth, Gustav Klimt, RC Gorham, and Susan Seddon Boulet framed prints in my house.
95. I saw Phil Donahue in an airport, Phoebe from “Friends” in Sedona, Arizona, Stephen Tyler shopping in Hingham, Massachusetts, and Jessica Lange at the 2003 Washington DC Peace March. I only spoke with Jessica and just stared at the others.
96. I saw Led Zepplin at the Boston Tea Party before anyone knew who they were. I also saw Joe Cocker around this same time with my sister Sherry. We thought he had Cerebral Palsy because of the way he contorted himself when he sang.
97. I like to make up bumper stickers. My favorite is “If we all got more erotic, we wouldn’t be so neurotic.”
98. “Recess instead of Ritalin” is another one
99. I have a reputation for peeking at my Christmas presents before it’s Christmas.
100. I don’t like knick-knacks. I just see them as more things to dust.
PS. I like lists and resist structure and authority (like sticking to the 100 things rule). I think there’s a sequel coming.
More HERE.
September 8th, 2005 11:57 am
i love your lists…all of them…
now time for the next 100… 😉
September 8th, 2005 12:24 pm
I love cobalt blue too. 🙂 Love your 80 and 91 too.
90, ain’t it true though. Even one ball can be hard to juggle and life tosses more at a person. Like your bumper stickers.
I like your type 5 enneagram far better than mine. It seems you are already on your path of growth. Strange that the call cardinal sins as “driving energy”. Is it amusing to you or something you beleive in?
September 8th, 2005 1:33 pm
Zeppelin…sigh…I wish I liked them back in the day. I should’ve known if Charles Laquidara liked them, they were worth liking!
September 8th, 2005 1:42 pm
I’m a classic 5 and I’ve found the system more accurate for me than astrology and such. I’ve been able to own all the parts of my 5-ness and understand that we can be conscious in our strategies for coping (that we all have) and gain some control over them.
What about you, Pearl. Are you going to keep me guessing?
September 8th, 2005 6:42 pm
You sound like someone I would like to know! And AMEN on the knick-knacks. Another something to dust is right! Along those lines, I love gardening until it’s August, blazing hot, and everything is practically dried up anyway. Then it’s just another room to clean. Thanks for sharing all of these. They made me smile.
September 8th, 2005 7:43 pm
Hi. Here from Michele’s. Interesting lists!!
September 8th, 2005 8:25 pm
Love number eighty! Love Andrew Wyeth. I have two prints in my bedroom and a book called Three Generations of Wyeths. My favorite art book.
September 8th, 2005 9:29 pm
#99! That was me as a child, but I haven’t done it in a long time…..LOL!
September 8th, 2005 10:09 pm
Re: #91 — did you see any colors when you hugged me at Floyd Fest? I’ve always wondered what color my aura is! 🙂
September 9th, 2005 7:55 am
I try very hard not to peek at the gifts!;) I remember one Christmas as a child, I knew every gift Santa was going to bring…the closet wasn’t a good hiding place. I think you should do another 100 things about you. I enjoy reading them! I’m with Jeanne, I’d like to know what color I am. I have found “colors” to be very important messages!
September 9th, 2005 9:46 am
I’m a Type 7, The Epicure, but Loyal Skeptic seems more fitting, as do a few others. No clear winner.
84 is me too. One needs air, water, nutrition, movement, love, touch and play to survive. 🙂
I have lots of little toys. Which reminds me, I should hunt down where my wind-up mouse went.
September 9th, 2005 12:52 pm
Eugh, I hate memes – so self centred, lol.
Michele sent me.
September 9th, 2005 1:10 pm
Hello, Michele sent me. Memes are nice, and so are 100-thing lists! 😛
Congratulations on finishing yours, by the way!!
September 9th, 2005 1:13 pm
Hello, Michele sent me! I thought I typed something and hit post. Hmm, did the system swallow up my words?
September 9th, 2005 2:50 pm
So much to say here… WOW. As always, I enjoy your lists.
Joe Cocker is a marvel to singers – he really lets go and literally moves his words out of his body. To me that’s quite a skill. To many, it looks corny and “off.”
I totally want to buy your bumper stickers. NOW.
I think if you ever hugged me, you would see the color green. It’s a peaceful and kindly color – gentle.
I too like toys. If I walk into a toy store, I push every available button, turn every dial and feel every teddy bear. The place comes alive within minutes.
I wish I could write like you. The closest I’ve ever read to your writings are those of Annie Dillard. (this, to my thinking,is a great compliment)
September 11th, 2005 12:50 am
You know I’m still not sure which Ennegram type I am. My last thoughts were that I am either a 9w1 or a 1w9. I even bought a book on the subject. While I gdefinitly find the Ennegrams valuable and interesting, I think I prefer the MBTI because it’s more precise.
I like your mug collection idea. Only cobalt blue?
January 10th, 2006 5:58 pm
Perfect entry for the tea party!
December 14th, 2007 11:02 pm
84. I like toys – tops, small gadgets that wind-up and glow, and kaleidoscopes. I still play in the sand. Adults call this “sand tray therapy.”
100. I don’t like knick-knacks. I just see them as more things to dust.
I remember you wrote somewhere that you regularly carry a kaleidoscope. So did I, back when I carried a purse and also dealt with children. It was a one-piece plastic kaleidoscope with multiple facets on the lense, so moving it slightly made it work. It was small (didn’t take much room), but too large to swallow (safe for small children). I could stop whining from people’s children. And I could play with it myself.
I don’t like knick-knacks either. One Christmas I got something I knew I wouldn’t keep, and the next morning gave it to my SIL when she admired it! It was still in its original box, and she knew it had been a gift. The only proviso? That she never tell MY giver where she got it. (Yes, the other was also a relative, so they know each other.)
May 22nd, 2017 12:42 pm
How fascinating to have interviewed the first Poet Laureate of Virginia! I’ve met and read poetry with at least 2 former Poet Laureates of VA (not her.) I had the honor of reading my poem as an introduction for one of the (then) Poet Laureates. More on my page when I post about that. I am glad we share a love of poetry. Now I need to research that personality system! I made up a game with a friend for inventing license plates. It is fascinating to learn more about you!