100 Things About Me
- I was born with Strep thoat and given antibiotics when less than 24 hours old.
- The end of my right index finger was cut off by a door in the third grade.
- My birthday is 9-11.
- I had rhuematic fever in the third grade (all of it), my teacher brought my assignments to the house. The doctor also came to give me shots daily for awhile.
- I had it again in 7th grade and as a senior and one other time since then.
- I also had to take speech therapy, couldn't pronounce my 'r's.
- I (still) drive a '71 VW bus.
- I was the school disc jockey for all the dances.
- I have no children.
- I married for the first (and only) time when I was 42.
- I love textiles.
- Some would call me a bag lady...I love bags, blankets, belts, baskets and beads.
- I know how to make pineneedle baskets.
- The first computer I ever used was ours in 1998.
- I taught myself, from online tuts, all I know about hand coding.
- I have never used a wysiwyg editor.
- I have owned 3 VWs.
- I weighed 100#'s until i was 36... it's all up scale since then.
- I love movies.
- I am a cat person. The cat in my life is named Kaya.
- Virgo/Leo rising/Gemini moon. Dragon.
- I felt liberated when i turned 50.
- My favorite scent is white sage, with New Mexico cedar running close second.
- I have never colored my hair.
- I was voted 'best-dancer' for the high school year book.
- I have contact (rarely) with only one person who I went to highschool with.
- I graduated in the top 10 (only 80 kids!) in 1970.
- Sex, drugs and rock and roll was the anthem of the time, mine was God, Love and LSD, with lots of rock and roll in the mix.
- I moved out of my parents home a couple days after graduation, when i was 17.
- My second car was a new Chevy Nova in 1971. It was fast.
- My third car (in 1979) was a '73 VW beetle, light blue.
- I drove it during the 1980 blizzard to Boulder, Colorado, finally leaving Michigan.
- I figured from the time i left home until i moved to where i am now, I had moved, either from house to house or location to location every year and a half.
- I have lived in this one room house for 12+ years, 11 with my husband Russel.
- I know how to live in a small space ... thanks in part to living for years in VW buses.
- I own an 18 foot tipi...used it as a summer home on the land where we are building our house.
- I know how to crochet, the last thing i made was a baby blanket, about 5 years ago.
- I have hooked rugs and made crewel wall hangings.
- I do beadwork...mostly with seed beads in the peyote stitch for necklaces.
- I love flannel and real cotton chenille.
- I belong to the Native American Church, although i haven't sat up in quite awhile. (No, I am not a Native American.)
- I know how to read maps, AAA trained me well.
- I have worked in or managed 4 natural foods stores, the first one in the mid-to-late 70's.
- I quit eating meat in the early '70s (I think '74), this was in part due to a PBB scare in Michigan's beef and dairy.
- I started eating fish again, in '82 (health reasons) and chicken & turkey (husband reasons) in '92. I still haven't touched beef. I have never eaten pork (with the exception of bacon occasionally in a resturant).
- I love to swim in rivers with lots of granite rocks, like the Yuba River.
- My favorite summer fabric is woven rayon batik dyed from Bali.
- I wear dresses, causal, sun, lounge... flowing comfort.
- I have driven from Michigan to Colorado to California and back several times, differents routes, always in VW's.
- I couldn't do that now, not in a VW anyway... i need more comfort.
- I do fly, but really don't like it at all. It hurts in many ways.
- I spent 2 weeks at a beach town in Argentina by myself. I do not have good spanish. It was fun.
- I have been to the highest lake in the world, Lake Titicaca in Bolivia.
- 3 months in South America wasn't enough time, not even.
- 3 weeks in Guatemala was way too short.
- Did I mention i love textiles? Bolivia and Guatemala have some of the most impressive textiles, I have several boxes full. Now with digital camera in hand, I plan to photograph them.
- I haven't worn makeup since 1972.
- I am allergic to penicillian and sulfa drugs, due to over use when younger.
- I have had long hair, to the middle of my back, since 1970.
- My sister died at 31, in 1981, of cancer.
- My mother felt guilty, and her cancer which was in remission, came back. She died in 1986.
- I miss having a sister (we were never close) and a mom.
- I like my Dad.
- My husband and my father are both Sagitarians.
- I love cheese.
- I tend to 'tell it like it is' ... being diplomatic is something i have yet to learn.
- People ask me to 'pack' for them... i am very organized.
- I have studied and practiced astrology, palmistry, and the tarot.
- Also herbology, iridology, shiatsu massage, reflexology, and macrobiotics.
- I started seeking out ORGANICALLY GROWN food in the early '80's.
- I have been to 3 Rainbow Gatherings.
- I have been to hundreds of concerts.
- I have seen Bruce Cockburn at least 20 times, with more to come.
- I felt the Loma Prieta Earthquake, I lived in San Anselmo in 1989. Rock and Roll.
- I am a good friend.
- I never went to college.
- I finally pierced my ears around 1985 ish, professionally. The first time in the the '60's was with ice - a needle- and a potatoe! I passed out. I wore earings for about 7 years, now the holes have closed.
- I love succulents..non spiney cactus.
- We are building our house off the grid. But we will have alternative power sources.
- I am loved and I am told I am loved daily by my husband. :)
- I use (not intentionally) malapropisms.
- I also tend to use/create mixed metaphors.
- I like to garden.
- I am self-conscious in front of large groups, mostly.
- I can be judgmental & critical, especially of myself.
- Tact, I have very little of it, but I am working on it.
- I don't laugh enough.
- My husband says I have no humor.
- That's not true, I just don't laugh at his jokes!
- I need 9 hours sleep to function well.
- I want to learn how to take great pictures with my digital camera, Canon G3.
- I sleep on my left side mostly.
- I love Reggae, roots reggae.
- I love mountains, wish I lived at a higher altitude.
- I am honest.
- I want to learn php, more css, and lots more web dev tools.
- I like to walk.
- I love my husband and my cat.
- I need to love myself more.
- It took me way to long to complete this list!
