About

1. I am married to H.

2. I am in my late 20s.

3. Yikes, that sounds old.

4. The Sound of Music is probably the best movie ever.

5. I was in my high school’s production of The Sound of Music.

6. I played a nun and had no lines.

7. I got a speaking (and singing) part in Oklahoma, but I had to give it up because the rehearsals interfered with my debate practices.

8. I made the All-State Choir my junior and senior years of high school, and was even ranked second in my district my senior year. I wasn’t that good, but I practiced way more than everyone else.

9. Seriously, I am not a very good singer.

10. Other movies I love: Elf, Knocked Up, and the Bourne movies.

11. TV shows I love: The West Wing, 30 Rock, The Office, Project Runway, House, and Arrested Development.

12. Gossip Girl is my guilty pleasure. I have also gotten into The Hills in the last few months. Sad, but true.

13. I live in Minnesota now, which I swore I would never do. I said it was too cold.

14. It is too cold, but I still like living here.

15. I have lived in five other states: Kansas, Nebraska, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Texas (not in that order).

16. I only lived in Texas from ages 2 through 4, but I went back for college.

17. My sister went to college in Texas too, but she went to a different school that was in a different city.

18. I have one sister. She is two years younger than me.

19. When I was younger I wished that I had an older brother who would introduce me to cute older boys.

20. There was a boy who kind of (harmlessly) stalked me in the 8th grade, and it freaked me out, so I convinced him that I had an older brother who would beat him up if he didn’t leave me alone.

21. The imaginary older brother was named Eduardo.

22. I used to have a lot of kind of freaky boys that liked me. I think it was because I was probably one of the only people who was nice to them.

23. I have never been to Canada or Mexico. Or Hawaii or Alaska.

24. But I have been to Ireland, England, France, and Italy. Also, both the airport and the train station in Brussels.

25. My favorite alcoholic drink is a White Russian.

26. My favorite non-alcoholic drink is Ocean Spray Cranapple.

27. I don’t like Coke or Pepsi or RC Cola.

28. The only brown soda I will drink is Dr Pepper (or Diet Dr Pepper).

29. I rarely curse. Not for any reason other than it’s just not me.

30. The phrase “my bad” disturbs me.

31. I wear contacts and sometimes glasses. But not at the same time.

32. I am not an outdoorsy person. I have no desire to ever go camping.

33. I did get a bike this last summer and rode it several times a week during the summer and fall. That’s about as outdoorsy as I will ever get.

34. I am allergic to cats.

35. I used to think I was much more interesting before I started trying to write this list.

36. My favorite board games are Pictionary and Taboo. I have never played Cranium, but I think I would like it.

37. I don’t mind cleaning the bathroom, but I hate vacuuming.

38. Serious, I am telling you about my cleaning preferences. Am I really that boring?

39. I have been to Disneyland and Disney World, but I am generally not a big fan of amusement parks.

40. I like spinny rides (like the Scrambler) but not rides that make the riders go upside down (like that Viking ship thing).

41. I got hit on once by a carney. It was not really a highlight of my life.

42. My two favorite actresses are Allison Janney and Tina Fey. I am not sure who my favorite actors are.

43. I have never been a morning person. Except when I was under the age of 4, when I used to wake up my parents at 7 am on Sunday mornings to watch a cable access religious puppet show. My parents have both said that the puppet show was the worst thing they had ever seen. So I am not sure how I even knew it existed. Maybe there were commercials for it during Sesame Street?

44. I got a Cabbage Patch Kid for Christmas when I was 6. Its name was Wanda. My sister got an identical one named Beulah. Those are some serious old people names.

45. My sister wanted to mark which doll was hers, so she wrote her name on the doll’s butt in permanent marker. Except she wrote it on the wrong doll. I was very angry.

46. I wish I had more artistic skills.

47. I don’t like any of the capital cursive letters, so I print capital letters but use cursive for lowercase letters.

48. I can play the piano, but I haven’t played regularly since I was in high school.

49. I did not go to my ten year high school reunion, but I did go to H’s high school reunion.

50. I was bored at his reunion, so I accidentally got really drunk.

51. I am really bad at most video games. Like if I try to drive a car in a video game, I usually go really far left, then really far right, and run into everything. H gets very frustrated when I attempt to play a video game.

52. But I am awesome at Guitar Hero. Well, awesome in a relative sense.

53. I can’t play any songs on the Expert level, but I think that is because I actually have a life.

54. I have very little coordination and fall down somewhat frequently.

55. I bruise pretty easily, which does not go well with my lack of coordination.

56. I was born with red hair. Then it turned blonde, and when I was about 11 it started turning brown. It is medium brown now, I guess.

57. I have blue eyes.

58. My great-grandparents were Irish, French-Canadian, and Norwegian.

59. I am a loud phone talker.

60. I have only seen about 5 minutes of the movie Grease 2, and I don’t regret the decision to not watch the whole thing.

61. When I interviewed for jobs after law school, I told all the interviewers that H and I were engaged so that they would really believe that I wanted to move to Minnesota. (H already lived in Minnesota.) We were not actually engaged.

62. My mom even gave me my grandmother’s engagement ring to wear for the interviews.

63. That ring later became my actual engagement ring.

64. I have never seen Silence of The Lambs, and I don’t want to see it.

65. I hate scary movies. I am also easily scared.

66. I think the one odd craving I have had while pregnant is margaritas.

67. I love margaritas, but I really only want one because I can’t have one.

68. If I am sincerely excited or upset about something that is really important to me, I usually keep it to myself and act like it isn’t important. I don’t do this on purpose; it just happens.

69. When my parents used to go on trips, our neighbor would come stay with us, and she would let us shift gears in her car for her while she drove. I was in third and fourth grade. It was awesome.

70. I don’t know how to drive stick shift now, and I’m scared to learn.

71. I have mowed the lawn fewer than five times in my life.

72. I have shoveled a lot of snow though.

73. I am sometimes snobby about other people’s spelling and grammar, but I make typos on my blog almost every day.

74. I hate proofreading.

75. I am short.

76. I don’t really like being the center of attention, although I admit that sometimes I am show-offy.

77. Public speaking makes me extremely nervous.

78. I have been a bridesmaid twice, and I enjoyed it both times.

79. I registered as a Republican when I was 17, but I don’t think I have ever voted for a Republican candidate. I officially changed parties when I was in about 23.

80. I have one son, born in November 2008.

81. My parents’ divorce was made final right after my 20th birthday.

82. I love receiving snail mail.

83. I just joined Facebook. It’s kind of weird.

84. I only stay in touch with one person from my extended family.

85. I am not very good at home decoration things. I’m not horrible, just not good.

86. I am also lazy about home decoration. We repainted a room six months ago, and I still haven’t rehung any of the pictures.

87. Just thinking about certain episodes of The West Wing makes me cry. Like the one where President Bartlett calls a ship that is stuck in a hurricane and talks to the young sailor. That’s one of my favorites.

88. When I speak, I tend to trail off at the end of sentences pretty frequently.

89. One of the best parts about having a baby is that you can dress him in cute and/or funny outfits.

90. I have never gone skydiving or ridden in a helicopter, and I don’t want to.

91. I am becoming more and more like my mom as I get older.

92. One of my favorite expressions my mom used to use was calling all kids Charlie Brown.

93. I am really bad at remembering names.

94. One summer, my family stayed at a dude ranch in Colorado for a week, and Chris Matthews and his family were there too. My parents said he was obnoxious.

95. I was obsessed with politics before the recent presidential election, but now I’m over it.

96. I don’t have any pets, and I don’t want any.

97. When I was growing up, my family had a Westie, which is a little dog that looks just like a Scottie, but it’s white.

98. I was five when we got her, and I wanted to name her Maria Theresa.

99. My mom said no, which was a good choice. She named the dog Pippin.

100. It took me a long freaking time to come up with these last 20 things.