Bluegrass Mama

1. I like to play on the computer.
2. Spider Solitaire Online Spades is my biggest computer weakness.
3. Next to blogging.
4. I love to read, especially murder mysteries.
5. I love libraries and bookstores.
6. I have a short temper.
7. It runs in the family.
8. I’m short
9. It runs in the family, too.
10. I’m the 4th of 6 children.
11. I have two older sisters, an older brother, a younger brother and a younger sister.
12. I loved having that many brothers and sisters.
13. I never wanted that many sons and daughters.
14. I cry more easily every year.
15. I can’t figure out if it’s from experiences, hormones, or both.
15. I have brown eyes, which are very nearsighted (but I had PRK on the really bad one).
17. My hair color varies somewhat.
18. It depends on which L’Oreal box I buy that month.
19. I have naturally curly hair.
20. I only came to appreciate it in my 40s.
21. I’m a Christian.
22. I only came to appreciate that in my 30s.
23. I have freckles.
24. I graduated from Colgate University.
25. I was a French Lit major.
26. I spent a semester in Dijon, France.
27. I hitchhiked from Dijon to Geneva, Switzerland and back again.
28. Don’t tell my kids.
29. I hate large crowds.
30. I love cats.
31. Most cats, anyway, and certainly our cats, Millie & Bootsies.
32. I think a good sense of humor is the key to a happy life.
33. I’m a lousy housekeeper.
34. I floss daily, though.
35. I love mocha fudge almond ice cream.
36. In fact, I love many flavors of ice cream.
37. Nothing with cherries, though. They seem like rotten spots.
38. I’m a baseball fan.
39. I think the designated hitter rule is a travesty.
40. I think interleague play should be reserved for exhibition games and the World Series.
41. I’m a traditionalist when it comes to baseball.
42. However, I did like the addition of the 3 point shot in basketball.
43. I’m old enough to remember basketball without it.
44. And when the players wore short shorts.
45. I frequently embarrass my children in public.
46. Because, hey, that’s my job.
47. I attended school in a two-room schoolhouse.
48. It even had "cloakrooms."
49. I’ve seen Niagara Falls when it was turned off by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1969.
50. Don’t worry. They turned it back on.
51. I’ve played the cymbals in Giants Stadium during a college football game.
52. I have visited Iceland.
53. OK, I had two airplane layovers in Iceland.
54. I once attended an all-tuba Christmas concert.
55. I ate Thanksgiving dinner at Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center in NYC one year.
56. It was a wonderful Thanksgiving.
57. I once met a stranger in a restaurant parking lot where she handed over a 2-day old baby to me.
58. She was a social worker and I was a foster mother.
59. I spent one of my birthdays in a state prison.
60. I was not an inmate there.
61. I love to act and once played the role of a 100+ year old woman.
62. I don’t miss upstate New York winters.
63. I miss upstate New York summers.
64. I have a powerful sweet tooth.
65. I would like to lose 15-20 pounds.
66. I can’t get motivated to do it.
67. It could have something to do with the sweet tooth.
68. I was named editor-in-chief of my high school literary magazine. It was in name only (to put on my college applications), since the advisor was really the editor.
69. My husband and I are right-handed, but both of our kids are lefties.
70. I made my own wedding dress, then later some maternity clothes, and then some really cute Halloween costumes for our son.
71. I don’t sew any more.
72. I love Broadway musicals.
73. I am very good at Boggle.
74. I am not quite so good at euchre, but I enjoy playing it.
75. I am a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
76. Phi Beta Kappa publishes a newsletter every bit as dull as you might expect.
77. I like to garden.
78. For one nice day in the spring every year. That’s enough dirt for me.
79. I love Brussels sprouts. I even ate them when I was a kid.
80. I love chocolate even more than Brussels sprouts.
81. When I was in high school, I could recite every network’s prime time lineup for each night of the week.
82. There were only 3 networks back then, because no one counted PBS.
83. Now I watch very little TV except for sports and don’t have a clue as to what’s on any given night of the week.
84. I sing alto, but I have to stand next to an alto who actually knows what she’s doing.
85. I spent my 21st birthday in Paris.
86. I love to take pictures.
87. We have very few pictures of me.
88. I always read the comics in the paper.
89. I rarely read the editorials.
90. I do read the news.
91. I failed my driver’s license test the first time.
92. I didn’t try again for 3 years.
93. I passed it that time.
94. I am very unathletic.
95. I still have my first teddy bear.
96. His name is Pinky.
97. I read the entire Bible in a year.
98. I married my first boyfriend.
99. Smartest thing I ever did.
100. He’s still my boyfriend.