101 Things you may or may not have known about me

1. I am 37 years old


2. I was born in July


3. I am a single mother of 3 wonderful children


4. I am twice divorced


5. I have not given up on the idea of love, romance, and marriage


6. I have been mostly single, (not in a serious relationship) for almost two years now.


7. I don’t count the time last year my ex-husband and I thought we could ‘make it work’


8. I was the first one to realize we couldn’t.


9. I left my ex-husband and filed for divorce because I knew he would never do it


10. I did not leave him for another man, no matter what he chooses to believe


11. I was 18 when I lost my virginity


12. I lost it to my sister’s ex gymnastics coach


13. He was 24 at the time


14. I went back to St. Louis from Hannibal, specifically for that reason


15. I never regretted it


16. I still have warm fond memories of that afternoon


17. I was celibate for over a year after losing my virginity


18. I have dated and been engaged to 3 men named Chris in my life.


19. I married two of them


20. I divorced them both also.


21. I was the one to end both of my marriages


22. I believe I am doing the best I can as a single mom


23. I miss being part of a couple


24. I don’t miss the bullshit that comes along with dating


25. I love my nephews more than I can put into words


26. I believe their love has healing powers for my heart


27. I have a college degree in business administration


28. I have never used it


29. I used to work at a car dealership


30. I met three of my closest friends while working there


31. All three of them are men


32. I have a special fondness for Dodge Durango’s


33. I also have a special fondness for Applebee’s


34. I worked at McDonald’s all the way through college.


35. I still like to eat McDonald’s every now and then


36. I love their McRib


37. I could walk in there today and get a job starting tomorrow


38. I have a belly-ring


39. I got my naval pierced as a symbol of my independence


40. I am still as in love with it as I was the day I got it


41. I drive a 93 Eagle Vision


42. I would rather drive a Dodge Dakota or a Nissan Xterra


43. My secret guilty pleasure is ‘Charmed’


44. I still exchange Christmas cards and pictures of our kids with my first boyfriend


45. My favorite drink is Captain Morgan and soda (Coke, Pepsi, Vanilla Pepsi)


46. I have a collection of 10 empty Captain Morgan bottles that I have drank with Knucklehead 2 in the year and a half we’ve been hanging out


47. I have saved every bottle we have emptied together.


48. I have a bottle of Captain Morgan in my refrigerator at all times


49. I have a bottle of Tequila Rose in my fridge that my ex husband bought for me on his 25th birthday


50. I don’t like Tequila Rose


51. My favorite beer is Mich Ultra


52. I was born in Parsons, Kansas


53. I love the Jayhawk (just the mascot, not any of the teams)


54. I have lived in a total of 18 different houses or apartments in my life


55. I have one brother, and one sister


56. I have one sister-in-law and one brother-in-law


57. I am the only of us kids to graduate from college.


58. I am a red-head by birth, a blonde by choice


59. My hips and thighs are bigger than I want them to be


60. My boobs are smaller than I want


61. I love baseball


62. My favorite memory from this summer is the St. Louis Cardinal’s game I went to with DJH.


63. I love to read.  My favorites are Nora Roberts, John Grisham, and Julie Garwood.


64. I have been on a first name basis with at least one ‘celebrity’.


65. I am afraid of heights, but love roller coasters


66. I love chocolate


67. I hate coconut


68. Every once in a while I actually CRAVE a margarita


69. I love the Harry Potter series


70. I am jealous of my sister’s relationship with her husband.  She has found the perfect man (for her).


71. I secretly worry there is no ‘perfect man’ for me


72. My heart has been broken by too many people who didn’t even know they were in a position to hurt me


73. I’m not entirely sure that is all their fault


74. I have people in my life who tell me that I am beautiful, and actually believe it


75. I have an incredibly hard time believing them


76. I think my nose is too big


77. I hate my eye teeth, they look like under-developed vampire fangs


78. My hair color and nails are both fake, I don’t believe that makes me a complete fake or fraud.


79. I like myself; there are just some aspects of my appearance I don’t like.  I change them because I can


80. I love E! True Hollywood Stories.  


81. I am not-so-secretly in love with one of my knuckleheads


82. I will not tell you which one


83. The best memories of my grandmother are of my trip to Kansas alone when I was in college.  I spent the week with my grandmother.  We went to a demolition derby and stayed up half the night talking like girlfriends.  


84. I miss her and am sorry she never got to meet two of my kids


85. I have finally found a way to forgive my father and have allowed him back into my life


86. I am glad I did that before it was too late


87. I am in awe of my youngest daughter.  She has a confidence and complete lack of fear (except when it comes to spiders) that amazes me.  


88. I pray I don’t screw her up and take those qualities away from her


89. Because my father was a preacher, I have seen how corrupt the Church and organized religion can be.  


90. I have faith, and believe in a higher power, I don’t belong to any organized religion or congregation.


91. I kill all flowers, including silk flowers.  I have a black thumb, nowhere near green.


92. I have a rose bush that survived longer than the marriage it was planted to symbolize.  It has survived because I basically left it alone.


93. I have learned more about myself sexually in the last year, than I did in the 20 years prior.


94. I will not swim in any body of water that does not have chlorine or a filtering system


95. I love a clean house, I just hate cleaning it.


96. My house is almost always cluttered, with that ‘lived-in’ look that comes with having 3 kids


97. I still wish I had my own horse and could spend hours riding through wide open fields.


98. I did own a horse for 3 months and rode him every chance I got


99. I love the taste of chocolate, and the smell of vanilla


100. I love Obsession for men


101. I completed this entire list in one sitting