100 things about me...
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masterjamesslut... everything you wanted to know about me, but were afraid to ask...
1. i have 2 brothers, 1 younger and 1 older. the older brother died 3 days after he was born, so i never knew him.
2. i often wonder if my personality would be different if i had grown up with my older brother.
3. i spent 2 and 1/2 years living in kuwait, when i was in middle school.
4. my 1st boyfriend was in kuwait, in 7th grade... PDA was illegal in that country, so we never held hands or kissed.
5. when i was 4 years old, i wanted to be chinese. i'd spend hours in front of my mom's mirror, pulling at the corners of my eyes, thinking i looked so beautiful that way.
6. when i was little, i told my mom that when i grew up i wanted to be a dancer and smoke cigarettes. i accomplished both. *grin*
7. i've kissed a rock star.
8. i'm a huge animal lover. i will have pets until the day i die.
9. because i love animals, i feel guilty that i'm not vegetarian.
10. i think the best show on TV, hands-down, is "law and order".
11. when i was 9, i was in love with one of the guys from sha-na-na. i actually wrote a letter to them saying that i was very ill, in the hopes that they'd come and visit me. (i think i stole the idea from a Brady Bunch episode.)
12. i sang at carnegie hall when i was 19.
13. i lost my virginity at 20.
14. once a year, i get an uncontrollable craving for balogna and cheese sandwiches. i eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for about a week, then i get sick of them until a year later.
15. i have several friends who are/have been famous. one who is really famous right now.
16. my favorite author is douglas coupland.
17. my favorite bands in high school were menudo, wham!, and the monkees. (shut up, it was the 80s.)
18. i LOVE living in boston, but i should probably live in california. my dream home would be on the beach, but just a few miles from a major city.
19. i've travelled to 10 different countries.
20. i almost lost my virginity at 19 to a 27-year-old artist in a loft apartment in paris. like a good catholic girl, i said no. drat.
21. i've never taken a real vacation, like taking a week off and plunking down money to stay in a hotel and sip daiquiris on a beach.
22. i have one friend i'd like to break up with, but don't know how to do it without devastating the person.
23. i am deathly afraid of flying.
24. i spent my early 20s building a career as an actress, and worked pretty steadily.
25. i am in a movie with richard hatch ("apollo" from battlestar galactica) that is so bad, it never got released... never even went straight to video.
26. if i won the lottery and didn't need to work, i'd probably go back to performing.
27. i'd love to have a home with a full-on game room in it... pool table, bar, lounge area, even a full-size arcade version of "dance dance revolution"... *drool*
28. i love my job.
29. on the days when i don't love my job, i dream of selling all my posessions and moving to an island somewhere and becoming a bartender.
30. i own 28 bottles of nail polish. most of them have glitter in them.
31. i have more shoes that are just for dancing, than all my other shoes.
32. i was once so deeply in debt, i almost sold my eggs. (i had the application filled out and everything.)
33. i think my best feature is my smile.
34. i think my worst feature is my "ghetto booty".
35. my favorite perfume is Poeme.
36. if i could only listen to 3 bands for the rest of my life, it would be Jamiroquai, Simply Red, and Basement Jaxx.
37. i thought about becoming a nun when i was 14.
38. the oldest guy i ever dated was 19 years older than me. i was 18, he was 37.
39. 2 ex-boyfriends have contacted me, just months away from their weddings, and told me that one of their biggest regrets was not having made love to me while we were together. no, i didn't buy into it and sleep with them.
40. one ex-boyfriend told me just months before his wedding that he still loved me. he married her anyway. i never forgave him.
41. i went to bartending school. i can make hundreds of drinks, but when i'm in a bar and need to order, my mind shorts out because there are too many ideas to choose from.
42. i can sing "love will keep us together", by captain and tenille, in spanish.
43. one of my favorite memories EVER is from new year's weekend 2000... i went to a swing dancing weekend in a hotel, and we were supposed to have a huge snowstorm, so i brought my karaoke machine (a gag gift for my 30th b-day) to pass the time. we set up a bar in our room, and my roomies and i figured we'd get a few people in for a drink, a couple of songs, and a few laughs. instead, we had about 100 people in and out of our room in about 3 hours... people were lined up in the hallway, and standing on the beds just to fit. we had a blast, and the party became the talk of the weekend.
44. i have the unenviable distinction of knowing 2 guys who have gone to jail for murdering women.
45. one of those guys was someone i almost dated.
46. i've lost 8 pounds in the last 8 weeks. i have 42 to go.
47. i buy bridal magazines to comb the reception articles for party planning ideas.
48. my favorite colors are black and silver.
49. my favorite movie is "the commitments". close second is "rear window".
50. i used to be the vice prez of our local chapter of mensa.
51. there is a chapter about me in a weight loss/makeover book. i lost 15 pounds for the book, and gained it back within 2 years.
52. i hate one-night stands. i tried it a couple of times, thinking i was such the modern woman, and ended up feeling like crap.
53. i have never seen the movie "bambi".
54. every morning, i spend 1/2 hour playing gin online while i drink my coffee.
55. i hate winter.
56. i had a full scholarship to college.
57. i have had recurring nightmares since childhood, that i'm in an elevator that is shooting upward way too fast.
58. i also have recurring nightmares that my teeth are falling out.
59. one of my dreams is to perform a swing dance routine in a competition.
60. i make great omelets.
61. i quit smoking (i was a social smoker) after my mom's husband died of lung cancer.
62. i think kids are cool, but i don't want any of my own. i want to be the favorite aunt who sneaks my nieces and nephews $20 when their parents aren't looking.
63. i had my first "multiple O" at 11 years old.
64. i have yet to see a man who i think looks good in shorts.
65. i wish the low-rise jeans fad would go away.
66. i was a cheerleader for 5 years in school.
67. i've been drunk 5 times in my life. i hated every time.
68. i HATE washing dishes. close second is laundry.
69. i once flew to vegas to meet a guy from the internet.
70. i've had 3 psychic experiences in my life.
71. i have no political affiliation.
72. i naturally wake up with the sun. this sucks in the summer, when the sun rises at like 5am.
73. i once won a radio contest by answering the following question: "why can't the Go-go's have kids?" (if you know the answer, post it in a reply.)
74. i've never tried hard drugs. they scare the crap out of me.
75. when i was 6, i fell off my bike, right onto my 2 front teeth. jammed them right up into my gums, and had to have them taken out.
76. i sing at the top of my lungs in the car.
77. i love talk radio.
78. one of the nicest things anyone ever said to me, was when an older woman stopped me in TJMaxx a few years ago and said she recognized me. she had been sitting in the balcony at a boston pops concert a few months before, and had seen me dancing down on the floor way in the back, and actually remembered me.
79. i would love to take up painting again, but i don't have the patience.
80. my favorite candy is Skor bars.
81. my favorite popsicle flavor is grape.
82. i can't burp out loud.
83. i can't whistle either.
84. the best pickup line ever used on me was: "come home with me. i may be short and irish, but i have a big d--k." (no, it did not work.)
85. i think karaoke is a hoot.
86. i was invited to join a swinger's group. i chickened out.
87. i was once the "personal ad of the week" in the boston phoenix newspaper.
88. because of that ad, i got to be interviewed on talk radio... the topic was "why attractive single people like to use the personals".
89. my least favorite subject in school was history.
90. best book i've read lately: "Masters of Doom", about the 2 guys who created the game Doom.
91. as soon as i get home from work, i put my jammies on and stay in them for the rest of the night.
92. i contemplated marriage at age 24. i shudder to think of all the experiences i'd have missed if i'd gotten married back then.
93. the biggest source of stress in my job is driving all day. i get very angry at bad boston drivers.
94. i slept with a stuffed animal from the time i was born until i got my 1st cat at 24 years old. she's snuggled with me ever since.
95. my favorite thing in the world to do is dance. there is nothing like having an amazing dance with someone, where you are one with them and with the music. in some ways, it's better than sex.
96. one of my biggest pet peeves is bad spelling and bad punctuation. we have an amazing educational system in this country, so to me, bad spelling and punctuation is a sign of laziness.
97. i love to make out. LOVE it. did i mention that i love it?
98. if my apartment were burning down around me, i'd risk my life to save my 2 cats. i love them more than anything.
99. i have way too many leopard print accessories in my apartment.
100. it's taken me 2 hours to write this list.
masterjamesslut... everything you wanted to know about me, but were afraid to ask...1. i have 2 brothers, 1 younger and 1 older. the older brother died 3 days after he was born, so i never knew him.
2. i often wonder if my personality would be different if i had grown up with my older brother.
3. i spent 2 and 1/2 years living in kuwait, when i was in middle school.
4. my 1st boyfriend was in kuwait, in 7th grade... PDA was illegal in that country, so we never held hands or kissed.
5. when i was 4 years old, i wanted to be chinese. i'd spend hours in front of my mom's mirror, pulling at the corners of my eyes, thinking i looked so beautiful that way.
6. when i was little, i told my mom that when i grew up i wanted to be a dancer and smoke cigarettes. i accomplished both. *grin*
7. i've kissed a rock star.
8. i'm a huge animal lover. i will have pets until the day i die.
9. because i love animals, i feel guilty that i'm not vegetarian.
10. i think the best show on TV, hands-down, is "law and order".
11. when i was 9, i was in love with one of the guys from sha-na-na. i actually wrote a letter to them saying that i was very ill, in the hopes that they'd come and visit me. (i think i stole the idea from a Brady Bunch episode.)
12. i sang at carnegie hall when i was 19.
13. i lost my virginity at 20.
14. once a year, i get an uncontrollable craving for balogna and cheese sandwiches. i eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for about a week, then i get sick of them until a year later.
15. i have several friends who are/have been famous. one who is really famous right now.
16. my favorite author is douglas coupland.
17. my favorite bands in high school were menudo, wham!, and the monkees. (shut up, it was the 80s.)
18. i LOVE living in boston, but i should probably live in california. my dream home would be on the beach, but just a few miles from a major city.
19. i've travelled to 10 different countries.
20. i almost lost my virginity at 19 to a 27-year-old artist in a loft apartment in paris. like a good catholic girl, i said no. drat.
21. i've never taken a real vacation, like taking a week off and plunking down money to stay in a hotel and sip daiquiris on a beach.
22. i have one friend i'd like to break up with, but don't know how to do it without devastating the person.
23. i am deathly afraid of flying.
24. i spent my early 20s building a career as an actress, and worked pretty steadily.
25. i am in a movie with richard hatch ("apollo" from battlestar galactica) that is so bad, it never got released... never even went straight to video.
26. if i won the lottery and didn't need to work, i'd probably go back to performing.
27. i'd love to have a home with a full-on game room in it... pool table, bar, lounge area, even a full-size arcade version of "dance dance revolution"... *drool*
28. i love my job.
29. on the days when i don't love my job, i dream of selling all my posessions and moving to an island somewhere and becoming a bartender.
30. i own 28 bottles of nail polish. most of them have glitter in them.
31. i have more shoes that are just for dancing, than all my other shoes.
32. i was once so deeply in debt, i almost sold my eggs. (i had the application filled out and everything.)
33. i think my best feature is my smile.
34. i think my worst feature is my "ghetto booty".
35. my favorite perfume is Poeme.
36. if i could only listen to 3 bands for the rest of my life, it would be Jamiroquai, Simply Red, and Basement Jaxx.
37. i thought about becoming a nun when i was 14.
38. the oldest guy i ever dated was 19 years older than me. i was 18, he was 37.
39. 2 ex-boyfriends have contacted me, just months away from their weddings, and told me that one of their biggest regrets was not having made love to me while we were together. no, i didn't buy into it and sleep with them.
40. one ex-boyfriend told me just months before his wedding that he still loved me. he married her anyway. i never forgave him.
41. i went to bartending school. i can make hundreds of drinks, but when i'm in a bar and need to order, my mind shorts out because there are too many ideas to choose from.
42. i can sing "love will keep us together", by captain and tenille, in spanish.
43. one of my favorite memories EVER is from new year's weekend 2000... i went to a swing dancing weekend in a hotel, and we were supposed to have a huge snowstorm, so i brought my karaoke machine (a gag gift for my 30th b-day) to pass the time. we set up a bar in our room, and my roomies and i figured we'd get a few people in for a drink, a couple of songs, and a few laughs. instead, we had about 100 people in and out of our room in about 3 hours... people were lined up in the hallway, and standing on the beds just to fit. we had a blast, and the party became the talk of the weekend.
44. i have the unenviable distinction of knowing 2 guys who have gone to jail for murdering women.
45. one of those guys was someone i almost dated.
46. i've lost 8 pounds in the last 8 weeks. i have 42 to go.
47. i buy bridal magazines to comb the reception articles for party planning ideas.
48. my favorite colors are black and silver.
49. my favorite movie is "the commitments". close second is "rear window".
50. i used to be the vice prez of our local chapter of mensa.
51. there is a chapter about me in a weight loss/makeover book. i lost 15 pounds for the book, and gained it back within 2 years.
52. i hate one-night stands. i tried it a couple of times, thinking i was such the modern woman, and ended up feeling like crap.
53. i have never seen the movie "bambi".
54. every morning, i spend 1/2 hour playing gin online while i drink my coffee.
55. i hate winter.
56. i had a full scholarship to college.
57. i have had recurring nightmares since childhood, that i'm in an elevator that is shooting upward way too fast.
58. i also have recurring nightmares that my teeth are falling out.
59. one of my dreams is to perform a swing dance routine in a competition.
60. i make great omelets.
61. i quit smoking (i was a social smoker) after my mom's husband died of lung cancer.
62. i think kids are cool, but i don't want any of my own. i want to be the favorite aunt who sneaks my nieces and nephews $20 when their parents aren't looking.
63. i had my first "multiple O" at 11 years old.
64. i have yet to see a man who i think looks good in shorts.
65. i wish the low-rise jeans fad would go away.
66. i was a cheerleader for 5 years in school.
67. i've been drunk 5 times in my life. i hated every time.
68. i HATE washing dishes. close second is laundry.
69. i once flew to vegas to meet a guy from the internet.
70. i've had 3 psychic experiences in my life.
71. i have no political affiliation.
72. i naturally wake up with the sun. this sucks in the summer, when the sun rises at like 5am.
73. i once won a radio contest by answering the following question: "why can't the Go-go's have kids?" (if you know the answer, post it in a reply.)
74. i've never tried hard drugs. they scare the crap out of me.
75. when i was 6, i fell off my bike, right onto my 2 front teeth. jammed them right up into my gums, and had to have them taken out.
76. i sing at the top of my lungs in the car.
77. i love talk radio.
78. one of the nicest things anyone ever said to me, was when an older woman stopped me in TJMaxx a few years ago and said she recognized me. she had been sitting in the balcony at a boston pops concert a few months before, and had seen me dancing down on the floor way in the back, and actually remembered me.
79. i would love to take up painting again, but i don't have the patience.
80. my favorite candy is Skor bars.
81. my favorite popsicle flavor is grape.
82. i can't burp out loud.
83. i can't whistle either.
84. the best pickup line ever used on me was: "come home with me. i may be short and irish, but i have a big d--k." (no, it did not work.)
85. i think karaoke is a hoot.
86. i was invited to join a swinger's group. i chickened out.
87. i was once the "personal ad of the week" in the boston phoenix newspaper.
88. because of that ad, i got to be interviewed on talk radio... the topic was "why attractive single people like to use the personals".
89. my least favorite subject in school was history.
90. best book i've read lately: "Masters of Doom", about the 2 guys who created the game Doom.
91. as soon as i get home from work, i put my jammies on and stay in them for the rest of the night.
92. i contemplated marriage at age 24. i shudder to think of all the experiences i'd have missed if i'd gotten married back then.
93. the biggest source of stress in my job is driving all day. i get very angry at bad boston drivers.
94. i slept with a stuffed animal from the time i was born until i got my 1st cat at 24 years old. she's snuggled with me ever since.
95. my favorite thing in the world to do is dance. there is nothing like having an amazing dance with someone, where you are one with them and with the music. in some ways, it's better than sex.
96. one of my biggest pet peeves is bad spelling and bad punctuation. we have an amazing educational system in this country, so to me, bad spelling and punctuation is a sign of laziness.
97. i love to make out. LOVE it. did i mention that i love it?
98. if my apartment were burning down around me, i'd risk my life to save my 2 cats. i love them more than anything.
99. i have way too many leopard print accessories in my apartment.
100. it's taken me 2 hours to write this list.
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2. Of course it would, we are an amalgamation of our life experiences.
7. Who? Who?? :)
9. Don't feel guilty. I think plants are nice, but I still eat salads ;)
10. It is among my "gotta see" shows. Do you have a favorite of the franchise?
13. I don't remember how old I was, but probably around the same age.
15. Keeping it a secret?
23. If you wanna do #21, you better get over this one, eh? ;)
25. Do you have a copy? Can we see it? Pleeeeease? :D
34. I've never seen a full pic of you, so I can't agree or disagree :P
39. I don't know why, but I find this one funny. Geez, what a couple of jerks!
43. That would have been cool to see!
44. And that would be scary!
45. And that's even scarier!!
60. I'll have mine with ham and cheese, please :)
61. Good for you.
63. Indeed...
70. Intriguing statement.
74. The Documentary Channel up here was showing "Crank In America" this weekend. Scary sh*t, that stuff is.
76. Don't we all? ;)
80. MMmmmmmm... Skör bars :)
81. MMmmmmmm... graple :)
83. Pucker up! Oh yeah, you can try and whistle doing that too... hehe ;)
95. To this day, I still find it amusing that the choreographer for one of our high school productions was so amazed that I could dance as well as I did [it was a waltz]. As for it being better than sex... well, I was only in high school at the time... LOL
97. *ahem* Indeed... ;)
This was fun :D
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Date: 2004-07-05 06:55 am (UTC)10. i'm a big SVU fan myself. but that's because i have a schoolgirl crush on vincent d'onofrio. well, that and his character is brilliantly funny.
15. no, i guess not. let's see. in grade school, one of my good friends was aileen quinn. (she was cast as "annie" in the movie of the same name.) i was also friends with stephanie vine, who played annie on broadway and used to do a lot of TV work. in high school, i knew the band Ween through a friend of mine. i also went to school (and it was a tiny school) with amy locane... she starred in the first season of melrose place, as well as the movies "school ties", "airheads", and "cry baby". i knew one of the guys who was in the reality movie "the real cancun" (hee hee). as for the famous person i know now, i went to college and did theatre with maria bello. (starred on ER, is in movies like "the cooler", "secret window", "duets", "permanent midnight", etc. etc.) she's a cool chick.
23. i know, thank god for alcohol or i'd never be able to leave the ground. lol
25. i don't have a copy of the movie. it never even went to video, it was awful. richard hatch has it listed in his movie credits though, which cracks me up. here's the story: an artist gets turned down for a grant from the NEA. he then goes psycho, and proceeds to kill all the NEA board members one by one... using art supplies. i kid you not. i have a photo of one of the guys during a coffee break, he has a paintbrush through his eye. LOL
45. i know. he asked me out, i acepted (i'd known him for a while and had a huge crush on him)... then we found out we had a 24-year age difference and decided not to date. soon after, he started seeing someone else... and 6 months later, when she broke up with him, he stabbed her to death. made me not want to date for a looong time.
63. what can i say. i believe in being good to yourself. *grin*
70. i think i posted about them a couple of months ago in my LJ. i'll find 'em and post a link, if youd like.
sooooo??? your turn to do a list! wahoo!
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Date: 2004-07-07 02:43 pm (UTC)6. I need to tell you about the one time I smoked a cigarette.
7. I know a rock star, the drummer from the Dead Milkmen. His name is Dean and he used to also run the coffee bar in the Borders in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. I never kissed him, though.
18. California (the very concept of California) scares the living bejeezus out of me.
41. Other than ceremonial/religious wine, I've never had a drink, ever.
43. I waited out New Year's Eve 2000 at the drugstore I was running in Center City Philadelphia waiting for the computers to crash, because I was asked to. I left the company a month later.
48. Cobalt blue.
55. I hate summer, tolerate winter, adore spring and fall.
63. Had one when I was 24. Just kept going. Odd and freaky. Also not too damn bad.
89. I went to college to be a history teacher, and taught for two years in a reform school.
96. I was a National Spelling Bee semifinalist in 1983. I flunked out in the first round on a four letter word.
97. For hours, and being an end unto itself. Amen.
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Date: 2004-07-08 03:07 am (UTC)7. you know dean? the dead milkmen are one of my favorite bands. one of the best concerts i ever went to was seeing them at the TLA in 1989. how is dean doing since dave passed away? is he okay?
18. agreed. but god, it's gorgeous there.
97. *raises glass of non-alcoholic wine* cheers.