It took me awhile, but I came up with 50 more facts.
51. My first published work was a movie review of The Secret Garden in Penny Power magazine. I think I was about 10.
52. I've often thought Live Bait would be a great name for a band. Especially one that performs in rural areas. Imagine the free advertising!
53. The mascot of every school I've attended has been a person. Growing up, I was a Warrior, and in college, I was a Fighting Scot.
54. My car is missing a hubcap on the right front tire. It fell off the car on August 13, 2007, the day Stella moved in.
55. My toes are almost always polished, even in the winter, because I hate the look of my feet and think the polish pretties them up just a little.
56. I would like to learn some obscure sport and get an obscure country to send me to the Olympic games, just so I could say I am an Olympic athlete.
57. I have never read a book by Stephen King.
58. Although I love to make lists, I hesitate to compile a list of things I want to do "before I die." I feel like if I finish completing all the tasks, I'll have no reason to live. And if I don't finish, I've failed.
59. I hated my first name when I was little, but now I love it and can't imagine myself being called anything else.
60. Despite the fact above, I have always been a little put out that my name can't easily be shortened into a nickname. My mom has a cousin named Ericka who is called Ricky, but no one has ever thought to call me that. I don't think I would make a very good Ricky anyway.
61. I hate Times New Roman font. This comes from an English class my freshman year of college. I hated the class and hated the professor, who insisted that everything we do be printed in this font. So I therefore hated the font. My first job out of college was at a law office where my boss also insisted on the use of this font. I hated that job. It seems that the Times New Roman font is a representation of bad memories for me.
62. I do not know my blood type.
63. I was almost an exchange student to Russia the year after I graduated high school. Because of red tape and finances, I decided against it. I have mostly not regretted it.
64. I have kept a journal since the age of 14. I think I have filled more than 70 books.
65. Earlier this year, I submitted a play to a festival, and although it was not chosen for production, it was a finalist.
66. My locker combination in fifth grade was 32-16-38.
67. When I played Clue as a kid, I was always Mrs. White.
68. I have a thing for novelty songs and novelty tee shirts.
69. I hate volleyball. My eleventh grade year, thanks to a team of really athletic girls (with the sole exception of yours truly) for our school-wide gym class tournament, I had to play in front of the entire school. I won a tee shirt with a graphic of hands making the triangle to hit a volleyball, which, when I put the shirt on, looked like hands on my boobs.
70. I received my SAT scores in the mail the same day as that volleyball tournament.
71. My first 45 record as a kid -- besides the story ones ("when you hear this sound, turn the page") -- was Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon." Eventually, it got a skip in it, and to this day, I still sing it, "lovin' would be easy if your colors were like my dreams, like my dreams, like my dreams...."
72. I love office supplies. The Staples catalog is like porn for me. Okay, I don't love office supplies that much. But close.
73. My favorite work of art is Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks."
74. I always wanted to go to a party where there was a big sandwich (you know, like a three-foot sub). My sister fulfilled that desire at my bachelorette party.
75. I wore a wedding dress to my bachelorette party but not to my wedding.
76. I love containers almost as much as I love office supplies.
77. My parents planned to name my sister Erika. I sometimes wonder what I would have been called had they done so, especially because my mom has told me she was surer than sure I would be a girl and that Erika was the perfect name for me.
78. I knew the very moment I laid eyes on my husband that I would marry him, but we didn't start dating for two whole years after we met.
79. I wrote the obituary of the priest who baptized me.
80. I once received a callback for the part of a prostitute in a play. I was not offered the part, but when the director called to let me know, he thanked me for coming to the callback dressed for the part. I had not done so. Not intentionally anyway.
81. December 23 is my favorite day of the holiday season.
82. I hardly ever sleep through the night without waking up.
83. I can list all of the United States in alphabetical order and name their capitals. I can also list all of the U.S. presidents in chronological order.
84. I missed my class reunion two years ago because I had to perform that night in Grease, which begins at a class reunion. Another reason I missed that event was because they'd sent the invitation a week before, to my parents' house. Because, you know, I still lived there after ten years. Or at least lived close enough to get in time an invitation sent so late. Yeah, not so much.
85. The only famous person I have ever approached is Barry Williams. (Though it wasn't on the street -- he was signing books and CDs at a store one day when I lived in Pittsburgh, and I went there on my lunch break.) I even got a picture taken with him, just so I could say, "and here's me with Greg Brady."
86. I am not a patient person. Oh, I'll wait. But I won't be quiet about it.
87. My favorite donut is peanut butter cream-filled with chocolate frosting on top. I can't eat them anymore, but when I could...mmm boy.
88. I don't like ankle boots. I don't mind them on other people, but they feel funny to me. So I almost always wear the knee length boots, even with pants.
89. I don't care for fireworks. I don't mind watching them, but I won't go out on purpose to see them.
90. My mom thinks I look like Kate Winslet. Most other people say Brooke Shields or Joan Cusack. I don't think I resemble any of those people enough to really look like them.
91. I had a temp job working in the office of a Pop Tart factory for a couple of months.
92. I enjoy asking people random questions like, "if you had a person from each country of the world over for dinner, what would you serve so that everyone would feel welcome?" I find they are good conversation starters.
93. I love music from the 50s and 60s and would rather listen to it than the stuff that's out today.
94. I am not competitive, but I am a very sore loser. Just ask anyone who has ever played miniature golf with me.
95. Whenever I see a license plate from Pennsylvania (unless I am in Pennsylvania), I wonder if the driver is someone I know.
96. One of my favorite things to do when I was little was get the mail. Even now, when my mail is hardly ever that exciting, I still like to get the mail.
97. There are certain songs that will make me smile, no matter what, when I hear them.
98. I have never mowed a lawn.
99. I purposely didn't get too serious on either half of this list, because I find when I start speaking seriously about serious things, I go overboard.
100. It took me about two weeks to compile this entry. Kind of goes to show that even I can't think of that many interesting things about me.
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