So many blogs have these '100 Things' on them and I thought I'd try it. So here's 100 things about me:
1. I'm married.
2. It's my first and only marriage.
3. I married my best friend.
4. He is also the man beyond my wildest dreams.
5. We had one child - a boy.
6. He died in June of 2003 from Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome.
7. I will never stop mourning him.
8. I've been euphorically happy in my lifetime.
9. It was when I had my son with me.
10. I've been suicidal more than once since he died.
11. I've never actually tried to kill myself.
12. I believe in reincarnation.
13. I also believe the soul lives on and on.
14. I sometimes know when things are going to happen to me.
15. I'm quite intuitive.
16. I am incredibly straightforward.
17. I'm often frustrated by people.
18. I get especially frustrated by people who make assumptions about me without asking me anything about them.
19. I am sometimes known to be a witch.
20. I have also been called a buddhist.
21. I am a very spiritual person.
22. I have been involved in warping time.
23. I used to be in the cast of the Rocky Horror Picture Show in my town.
24. I played Janet.
25. I was drunk all the time when I did that.
26. I eat only organic food at home.
27. I also only use western medicine in times of crisis.
27. I go to yoga with a Tibetan Lama.
28. I might be the only person I know who was not raised in any of the Christian traditions.
29. I used to smoke and use some of the "lesser" drugs.
30. I no longer use any intoxicants or smoke.
31. I had a homebirth.
32. We had the only doctor in St. Louis who will do homebirths.
33. I made everyone there be totally quiet the entire time I was in labor.
34. It was about 12 hours and overnight.
35. My mother and my three best friends were present at the birth.
36. I didn't know when my son was born that he had a heart defect.
37. It wouldn't have made any difference if I did.
38. I have a tattoo around my ankle of my favourite cartoon characters.
39. My husband and I are planning on getting matching armband tattoos of our son's initials interwoven like celtic knotwork.
40. I am a Virgo on the cusp of Libra with Leo rising.
41. Yes, I pay some attention to such things.
42. I took 4 years of photography in high school.
43. I also took 2 years of it in college and quit before I got my degree.
44. I have a difficult time finishing things.
45. Consequently, my house is awash with my unfinished projects.
46. Also consequently, I am the jack of all trades, master of none.
47. English is the only language I speak.
48. However, I know several words and phrases in french, german, chinese, and spanish.
48. I have never been off the continent of North America.
49. I don't own and have never had a passport.
50. I lived in Canada for several months when I was a very little girl.
51. It was in a hippie commune, complete with outdoor outhouse and a ladder instead of stairs to the second floor.
52. It was somewhere in Ontario and my mother doesn't remember where.
53. I have also lived in Concord, New Hampshire.
54. When I was 7, my mother and I spent 6 months in an ashram in South Fallsburg, NY (in the catskills).
55. While I was there I made a 3-year-old who bit the top of my head eat dirt in order for me to push her on the swing.
56. I was trying to get out of pushing her on the swing, but she ate the dirt (to my surprise) so I had to push her anyway.
57. The boy I had my first kiss was also the one I lost my virginity to.
58. I think it was the same night.
59. I was 14 and he was 18. He was also a virgin.
60. I started smoking, drinking and smoking pot the very same summer.
61. I tried acid the first time when I was 15.
62. It was at a house party with a trampoline in the back yard.
63. Five of the most influential authors in my life have been: Robert Anton Wilson, Tom Robbins, Dr. Seuss, Richard Bach and Robert Heinlen.
64. I read a LOT.
65. I was introduced to science fiction the same summer I turned into a "bad" girl.
66. I go to science fiction conventions regularly.
67. I also go to pagan festivals.
68. I have been and danced naked outside at the latter.
69. I have traveled to Wisconsin, Colorado and Sherman, NY for pagan festivals.
70. I was engaged when I was 18.
71. I also got pregnant by the same person.
72. He did it on purpose - I didn't.
73. I am a damn good mother.
74. Everyone else thinks so, too.
75. I can be a little crazy at times.
76. I am extremely high maintenance.
77. I am also unpredictable.
78. Life with me is never boring.
79. I am one of the most intriguing people you may ever meet.
80. Some people think I am a mystic.
81. I'm not disputing it.
82. Nor am I confirming it.
83. I admire anyone who is still reading this.
84. I admire even more anyone who makes it to the end.
85. The way to get on my bad side quickly is to consistently not keep your word to me.
86. You do NOT want to get on my bad side.
87. I am not afraid of verbal confrontation.
88.I do not, however, believe in violence.
89. I have been in one physical fight in my life.
90. I am a flaming liberal.
91. I am not, however, a democrat.
92. I have been in several car accidents in my life.
93. I hurt my back in every single one.
94. I was only driving in two of them, and at fault in neither of those.
95. The worst one was when a guy tried to impress me by "street jumping" and I ended up flying through the windshield.
96. I have only ever broken one bone in my life.
97. It was a fracture in my ankle.
98. I got it walking in front of my house, slowly.
99. However I have sprained the same ankle 3 times in as many years.
100. I thought I would be glad to be finished, but I could do even more of these!