And if you want to check out the original list from waaaay back in November of 2005:
http://aleishaknight.blogspot.com/2005/11/100-things-about-me.html
1. I sang my first solo at church when I was five years old.
2. I wore the pink frilly flower girl dress that I wore to my Grandma's wedding.
3. After that, my parents had me perform in a lot of places.
4. I retired from my singing career at age 8 because my brothers made fun of me.
5. Part of me still wants to be a rock star.
6. Part of me still wants to be a ballerina, a movie star, or a figure skater too.
7. Sometimes when I'm home alone, I put my pointe shoes on and dance in my kitchen.
8. It's usually around Christmas, after I've watched The Nutcracker with my niece.
9. I'm not as flexible as I used to be.
10. I used to practice yoga a lot more than I do now.
11. One of my best memories is of meditating on Kaanapali Beach, Maui at 3:00am. (Ok, with the time change, it was like, 7:00am to me.)
12. I followed that up with climbing a volcano to watch the sunrise.
13. I listened to the Backstreet Boys' "Never Gone" album the whole way up. And I don't care what anyone thinks of that.
14. I still have a little bit of a crush on A.J. McLean.
15. I've always had a soft spot for the "bad boy" in all boy bands.
16. It's the muscles, tattoos, piercings, and creative facial hair.
17. When I was in third grade, it was all about Donnie Wahlberg.
18. A lot of girls at school didn't believe me when I told them that I was not related to Jordan and Jonathan.
19. For those of you wondering, I'm talking about the New Kids on the Block, and I didn't actually like their music.
20. But I enjoyed the Barbie-doll versions of them.
21. I would freak out if someone ever made a Barbie-doll likeness of me.
22. But an action figure would be cool. It would be like the She-Ra dolls, with combable hair and kung-fu action!
23. I had all the horses from the Princess of Power collection, but I didn't have any of the dolls?
24. No, I take that back. I had two identical She-Ra's. I wanted to be She-Ra.
25. But when I played with the boys, I was always Princess Leia or April O'Neil.
26. That usually meant that I got tied to a tree while they ran off and played without me.
27. I wouldn't mind learning how to handle a sword for real.
28. But I didn't take fencing in college because I thought I would look dorky in the outfit.
29. The only elective I ever took in college was web design.
30. Which is how I met Michael Carney, even though he lived across the hall from me, and all my roommates met him a week before when they played tennis or something.
31. I would have met him then too, except that I never showed up to college until the night before classes started. I'm a procrastinator.
32. I'll never forget the look of sheer panic on Mike's face when later that year, I asked him to take me on an emergency Kroger run because I'd run out of tampons. You'd think I was having a baby or something.
33. I think Jamie, Karen, Chris, Mike and I watched "Blue Lagoon" the night before. Which in my opinion, is the worst movie ever made.
34. Incidentally, I don't have a favorite movie.
35. But "Pride and Prejudice" is my all-time favorite book. I've read it more times than I care to admit.
36. Closely following are "The Giver" and "Jacob Have I Loved".
37. I also read a lot of books about the holocaust and slavery when I was in elementary school.
38. I was very passionate about human rights in 3rd-5th grade.
39. In 6th grade, I lost all interest in everything except boys.
40. But now I'm a proud member of the ONE Campaign to end AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa.
41. (Don't tell anyone, but I think I might still be more interested in boys...)
42. ANYWAY... on the last list, I promised an update on my experiences with ghosts, aliens, and yeti. I still don't believe in ghosts, I haven't been abducted, and I haven't run into any hairy monsters.
43. I even stayed in my Grandma's house for a week- before which, my aunt, uncle, cousin, his wife, and my Grandma all tried to convince me that they'd all seen ghosts there at night. I didn't see or hear a thing. And I think they're all crazy.
44. Although, when I was three or four, I liked to imagine that my Grandpa would come down from Heaven to kiss me goodnight when I stayed there.
47. During a really morbid phase in high school, I planned my own funeral. I still like my choice of hymns.
48. When I was a kid, vacationing on a beach in Florida, I had a nightmare about getting attacked by a shark and refused to go in the water the next day. The day after that, a girl was attacked by a shark on that very beach.
49. I used to have a serious fear of boats for no particular reason. One day it suddenly went away.
50. I hated the movie "Titanic". Ironically, the boat sinking was the only part I enjoyed.
51. I've always loved all other forms of transportation. Planes and trains really turn me on.
52. In high school, Karen, Jessica and I got bored in Calculus and made up a fake club dedicated to our love of flying. I made membership cards with cartoon pictures of us.
53. I drew a lot of cartoons in high school. My personal favorite was a book entitled "Justin Experiments with His Sexuality". Jessica and I made it for our Spanish buddy, Justin. I don't think he ever actually experimented with his sexuality.
54. I was a very snotty little teenager.
55. Well, I guess I'm still snotty, but now I cover it with a veneer of flirtation?
56. I'm honestly not sure if I'm really complicated or really one-dimensional.
57. I used to write songs, lyrics, and poems. They weren't very good.
58. I devote most of my time to reading instead of writing now. Someday, I want to have a little library in my house- with all my books and artwork. A nice place to curl up with a good story and a cup of coffee.
59. I LOVE bookstores. I love that I could never read everything in them. I love the endless possibilities, the new adventures waiting for me.
60. I've spent a lot of my life living inside of my own head because I'm frequently alone.
61. It bothers me a lot more than I've ever let on.
62. I had a lot of Pound Purries (they were stuffed cats) to keep me company when I was a kid. I still remember all of their names:
63. Snowball, Fluffy, Frizzy, Frisky, Fred, Creamy, Evening, Moonlight, Midnight, Otis, Tiger, Purr Purr, Warrior, Milo, and The Guy at the Lab (my cats and I solved murder mysteries!)
64. My true ambition in life was to be an archaeologist.
65. I gave up on that when I realized how much my schooling would cost and compared that to what my salary would be.
66. I'm slightly obsessed with Roman culture. I have a thing for relief sculptures. It's all about Trajan's Column.
67. I haven't been very good about taking the time to learn Latin. Believe it or not, I wanted to learn so that I could read classic texts in their original language.
68. I am such a geek!
69. Ha.
70. I'm kind of immature too.
71. It's no wonder I'm always confused. The fairy princess half of my personality doesn't mesh with the 13 year old boy part.
72. I secretly enjoy watching the Barbie movies with my niece. I always pretend that I don't want to get up and sing with her, but it's really fun! She likes the "Princess and the Pauper". I'm Erica because I'm a brunette, and she's Annelise because she's a blonde. :)
73. I've never really been to a "ball".
74. I went to my proms, but seriously, if they play "Tootsie Roll" it doesn't count.
75. Sometimes when I go to sleep, I hope for a second that this is all a dream, and that I actually live a much more magical life somewhere else. Someplace with a soundtrack written by Danny Elfman.
76. He's my favorite composer, by the way. I love "Ice Dance" from Edward Scissorhands.
77. I have a slight obsession with movie scores. I like that the music tells a story without saying a word.
78. My favorite artist is William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
79. Actually, my favorite myth is that of Cupid and Psyche too. (One of WAB's favorite subjects.)
80. I had an art professor who asked me to be a figure drawing model every day. They paid really well. I would have done if I didn't have to be totally naked.
81. I have a strange paranoia that if any naked pictures of me existed, I would invariably become famous and find them in a tabloid. The thought freaks me out.
82. Along those same lines, if I ever made a sex tape, my future children would invariably find it, watch it and be scarred for life. Oddly, that doesn't freak me out quite as much?
83. Ahem. I want to go parachuting. Just once. I don't want to press my luck.
84. Sometimes I feel like a used car that no one will buy. And dammit, I'm a great car!
85. I'm not very good at being patient.
86. I talk like a pessimist.
87. I have the heart of an optimist.
88. Oh, dammit, it's late and I didn't feel like doing this about ten bullet points up. I'll add more tomorrow. Maybe. :)
1 comment:
Um. #25 and #26 sum up my childhood.
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