50 Things

The list virus: It's going around..and I'm a big copy cat. Yes. Yes I am. All the cool girls are doing it.. and besides, anything good I've ever said was probably stolen anyway..

50 things about me (more than you ever wanted to know):

1. I hate my middle name, which was my grandmother's first name, and she, incidentally, didn't like it either.

2. My mother wanted to name me Babette Marie. Babs for short. My father wanted to name me Angel. Guess who won. And, also.. Babs?! WTF?

3. I've been fired from 2 jobs and forced to resign 2 others - in the last 10 years. Not an authority issue, more of a this-job-sucks-and-I-have-a-bad-attitude sort of issue. Yeah.. nice. I'm working on it.

4. I'm afraid of water I can't see thru for no apparent reason.

5. I've had very deep, happy, movie-type love twice in my life and even tho they ended, I'm still good friends with those exes.

6. I've been an extra in an independent movie.

7. I've waited on Helen Hunt and Matthew Broderick (when they were dating), as well as Joe Cocker, who called me 'love', shared an elevator with Lorenzo Lamas (who is actually, really hot and way tall even if not the most incredible actor ever..), Keith Richards brushed by me in Vegas, and I partied at Wesley Snipes' rented bungalow (and by bungalow, I mean fucking AMAZING pad) in Vancouver, BC til the wee hours where I also saw Vin Diesel, and then I shook Wesley's hand and he smiled at me and said 'Thank you for coming.' He's much much shorter in person and not a good dj. Don't hire him for that.

8. I went to Norway on foreign exchange for a year after I graduated high school and cuz I got into trouble 2 different times - once for riding in a boat with a bunch of drunk friends (a big no no there) and the second time, for skipping school and lying about it, I was sent home after 2 1/2 months.

9. I had a drink thrown on me in a bar after I had a large group of complete drunks kicked out for throwing ice at me and being complete asshats. My attitude and sharp wit, not to mention their idiocy, may or may not have had something to do with that.

10. I've wanted to change my last name to my birth mother's for at least six or seven years.. and haven't because I don't want to hurt my (adoptive) mother.

11. I can't not bite my nails unless they're manicured every week - which is expensive people.

12. Fuck is the best cuss word ever - in my opinion.

13. I don't think I could live without hummus, peanut butter, Thai food, Mexican food, or chocolate.

14. I really am within six degrees or less of Kevin Bacon. More like one actually.

15. I have three pairs of jeans. Yes, really.

16. I'm actually fairly ashamed to be an American currently.

17. I'm really hoping the Mariner's don't completely suck this year.

18. After moving anywhere, I always have about four or five boxes that I just don't know what to do with and that sit for a minimum of six months out in the open, in a state of half-unpacked. I really suck at that.

19. I can't watch horror movies - I was scared to death after the stupid Blair Witch Project and The Ring.

20. I hate to lose.

21. I was a cheerleader in high school - and have pictures to prove it - but quit when it stopped being cool - tho I think that was always the case. It just took me two years to figure it out. Still, I was always on top in the pyramids so shut it.

22. I won second place in our high school talent contest my senior year with 3 other ex-cheerleaders making fun of cheerleaders in a little number we choreographed to 'Oh Mickey.' Let me tell you, it was awesome. Treena, Kari, and Megan - you better back me up.. you were all there. Wait.. Treena.. weren't you in it with me or am I totally wrong?

23. I won second place (are you seeing a pattern?) in my grade school's spelling bee ONLY because we ran out of time and the official was hurrying and didn't define the word 'reign' after giving it to me, so of course I spelled it r-a-i-n. Um, yeah, then he defined it and the other kid won. Bastards. I'm not bitter tho.

24. I stole a really expensive office chair from one of my jobs that laid off its entire staff when they went bankrupt and finally sold it this year for $300.. and it made me really happy.

25. It doesn't take a lot to make me happy.

26. I also stole nail polish when I was 12 or 13 from the store where my own mother worked.. and was caught. Was so grounded.

27. I've wanted to be the lead singer in a band for as long as I can remember.

28. I had braces for 4 1/2 years. FOUR AND A HALF YEARS PEOPLE!

29. For any wound, injury or little hurt I ever had when I was a child, my grandfather would always say I'd be alright by the time I got married.. and I didn't find it funny til much later.

30. I can still fit into my prom dress from my junior year.. and it's actually a little too big.

31. I was painfully shy til high school.

32. Tho I can't stand Britney Spears, I have to admit I still really like 'Hit Me Baby One More Time' and 'Toxic.' I still like 'Genie In a Bottle' by Christina too.

33. I believe in some form of higher power, tho not necessarily God, plus angels, ghosts, life after death and reincarnation.

34. I don't, however, believe in a hell or the devil. I think we create those things for ourselves while we're alive.

35. I'm pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-whatever the fuck you want to do with your life as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else and you don't try to tell me what to do.

36. I believe in soul mates, but don't think it has to be in a lover/husband/partner-type.

37. My longest relationship was one year. Yes, go ahead.. cry.. send money. Or chocolate. Or wine.

38. When I was little, I thought I'd grow up to be a waitress, a librarian, or a nurse and my brother would be a fireman and we'd get married. Um.. ew.

39. In second grade, my best friend, Laura Gillette, and I shared a boyfriend, Sean Dewey, who would put his arms around both of us during show and tell.

40. I met Luis, from Sesame Street when he took a directing class one year at my college, Southern Oregon.

41. My birthday is my favorite 'holiday'.

42. I'm afraid of dying - especially being stabbed or being completely deformed and harmed in some sort of awful car accident.

43. I was a virgin until I was 18.

44. I hate being cold.

45. I'm always cold.

46. Anything carbonated gives me ever-lasting hiccups.

47. I can get rid of hiccups every time by eating a spoonful of peanut butter.

48. Of the many pet names given to me, my favorites were from my father: Suzie-Q, and various lovers: Kitten, Boo boo, and Babygirl.

49. I've been in A Midsummer Night's Dream three times and played a total of five different parts inlcuding one lead (Bottom).

50. I talk in my sleep.

Phew.. that was much harder than I thought.. Who's next?