Blatherskite

This is something that people in the knit blog world have been doing. I did this and posted it on Black Sheep and thought I would also post it here on Blatherskite, as well. Enjoy! Or skip it. I’ll understand if you do 🙂 .

1. I was born in Spokane, WA in 1969.
2. I ‘m a runner.
3. When I was a kid in grade school I used to belong to a rotary track club and in the summers would compete with other track clubs in Eastern Washington.
4. I was a fast runner. I kicked ass in the 100 and 50 yard dash
5. My relay team in my age group was the 4th fastest in the nation
6. The track coach at my junior high (Evergreen) was stoked when I entered 7th grade because I was going to be on his team. I didn’t join because I was intimdated by the class bully. That was the end of my track career
7. I have always wanted to run a Marathon. I might some day.
8. When we were little, my mom would put on the album “Saturday Night Fever” and we (me, my younger brother, my mom, and our neighborhood friends) would disco dance.
9. My brother, me, and our neighborhood friends *loved* to put on old records and dance. Once we were dancing to my mom’s vintage record, Elivis’ Blue Suede Shoes. (She let us play her vintage record collection all the time). One of the neighborhood kids kicked his foot and his shoe went flying off his foot, across the room, and landed square in the middle of “Blue Suede Shoes.” The record cracked and was ruined. I felt horrible. My mom cried. But she still let us listen to her records. I have a cool mom. (As I type this, I am realizing the irony of the situation)
10. I went to high school at Roger’s in Hillyard. Hillyard is the part of town on the “wrong side of the tracks” in Spokane. Literally (and figuratively). In the old timey days it was a rail road yard.
11. I was a “Duranie” in High School. I have since learned that I drove my friends nuts. (OMG. The latest Duran Duran song is playing on the radio right now…whoa…)
12. People have told me that I look like Princess Diana.
13. The first concert that I went to was SammyHagar.
14. I once owned a Ratt t-shirt.
15. I was in Shiverson Jazz Chior at Rogers High School
16. I worked at Baskin and Robbins while I was in High School
17. I was a nanny for most of my twenties. My first nanny job was in New York.
18. I lived in New York for a year.
19. One of my good friends from Spokane died in a car crash while I was living in New York. It was a very difficult thing for me to deal with.
20. I have lived in the Bay Area since 1990.
21. My first job in the Bay Area was in Los Gatos. I was a live-in housekeeper. I had that job for two years. Two horrible years.
22. When I was a nanny in Menlo Park I lived across the street from Joe Montana. I worked in that job for four years. That job was really great.
23. I met my husband at Skate Church.
24. Oh yeah, I was a born-again Christian for awhile (shudder)
25. For two years I didn’t watch television or go to the movies. All I did was read the bible. When I finally came back to ‘the real world’ I felt like I had emerged from some weird alien spaceship or something. I feel like two years of pop culture have been lost…
26. During this strange time I belonged to a pentacostal church where they spoke in tounges and “prayed in the spirit”
27. I spoke in tounges
28. I regret the day my best friend from Spokane came to visit me and I took her to church on a particular day when we were “praying in the sprit.” When I was done praying there was a little note on the pew saying that she was at the park across the street. She was really cool about the whole thing. But to this day I am embarrased. I haven’t spoken to her for about 6 years. I really, really miss her. I hope that our not speaking to each other is not the result of my one-time weirdness
29. My husband and I had been best friends throughout that whole ordeal. We both got out of that together. We have been though a lot of weirdness together. He will always be my best friend.
30. The evening I met my husband I knew I would marry him someday.
31. We got married in Reno at the “starlight chapel“. Just the two of us. It was hella cheesy. We wouldn’t have it any other way. It was awesome. When I said “I do” I felt like we were spritually bound together. Seriously. I had a spirtual experience when I said “I do.” Even in that cheesey Starlight Chapel.
32. I got my B.A. at U.C. Santa Cruz (A.K.A. Uncle Charlie’s Summer Camp).
33. I was an American Literature major.
34. I took a class called “The Films of John Carpenter.” You know, John Carpenter of “Halloween” fame.
35. The professor who taught that class was a renown Chaucer expert.
36. I didn’t take the Chaucer class. No. I took the Films of John Carpenter.
37. I got through college as a literature major without taking a single Shakespeare class.
38. I did take a class on Dante’s Divine Comedy, so all is not lost 🙂
39. I love poetry.
40. I secretly wish I was a poet
41. My husband is a fantastic poet. I am envious.
42. He used to write me poems. I loved it.
43. My favorite poet is Anne Sexton.
44. I love punk rock music.
45. deep down inside I will always be a punk rock girl.
46. I hurt my knee slam dancing. I like to say things like, “Yeah, I’ve got an old mosh pit injury” to be funny.
47. My favorite band is Green Day. This could change at the drop of a bucket. But I realize that there is not a single Green Day song that I don’t like, so I guess they are my favorite band.
48. I want to learn how to play the electric guitar so I can rock out when I come home from work.
49. My husband wants to get a keyboard so that we can jam together.
50. My all time favorite song is Baba O’Reilly by the Who.
51. I LOVE WILLIE NELSON.
52. When we were little, my younger brother and I would dance around the house to my mom’s “Willie and Family Live” album. “Whiskey River” will always be seared into my consiousness.
53. I have a tatoo of a serpant eating it’s tail on my right shoulder blade
54. I got this tatoo in downtown Hillyard
55. I love old movies.
56. My favorite movie is the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
57. I love Hitchcock films.
58. I love food. Especially Mexican food. My mouth waters when a commercial for Mexican food comes on. I literally drool.
59. The only food that I hate with a passion is black licorice. I can’t even smell it. My husband LOVEs it
60. I have dreams of opening a yarn store.
61. I have dreams of living on a farm with sheep and alpaca.
62. I talk in my sleep. No, that is an understatement. I hold conversations in my sleep. At least acording to my husband.
63. I knit.
64. I’ve been knitting since 1996, but still consider myself a newbie.
65. I can (barely) spin yarn. I would like to get better at it.
66. I would like to learn how to design my own sweaters.
67. I’m not a big fan of Christmas
68. I am deathly afraid of heights. I break out in a cold sweat and everything.
69. Parties make me nervous
70. My idea of a good time is staying in with a good movie and ordering with Pizza with my honey.
71. My favorite trees are Redwood trees. I am mesmerized by them. When I go for walks in the forest I am in awe of how old they are and how long they have lived on this earth. I honestly feel that they should be treated with the upmost respect.
72. I love going for hikes in the Redwood forest.
73. I love the ocean.
74. I live blocks from the ocean.
75. I go running on the beach every other morning
76. I’m a librarian
77. I went to library school at San Jose State University
78. I am the web master of the San Jose State School of Library and Information Science Alumni website.
79. The best novel I have read in the past year is Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.
80. I don’t know if I can put my finger on my all time favorite novel, but I really, really liked the House of Mirth by Edith Wharton.
81. I am essentially a cat person.
82. I love dogs, too.
83. It warms my heart to see a dog playing and running on the beach, chasing birds.
84. I also love to see a kitty lounging in the sun.
85. I don’t have a cat or a dog.
86. I would love to have a kid and buy a nice house, the kind with a white picket fence around it.
87. I am coming to the realization that if I want these things I will need to move out of the Bay Area, if not California.
88. When we get around to having kids, if we have a girl we will name her Athena, after the kick-ass goddess in the Odessey.
89. If we have a boy he will be named Cyrus. We just like that name.
90. I think the scariest movie I have ever seen is The Ring.
91. The Exorcist comes a close second. I saw parts of that movie when I was a kid and I’ve been fucked up ever since.
92. Because of the Excorcist I have an irrational fear of getting possessed by the devil.
93. You will see my husband’s and my name in the credits for a Real skateboard video – The Real Video. We had nothing to do with the production of said video. We were just in the list of people that the skateboarders thanked. We were thanked by Salman Agah, pro skateboarder and someone we were once good friends with. (we were also friends with Shawn Mandoli, who also appears on that video).
94. I am an intuitive person. Sometimes too intuitive.
95. I voted for Kerry in the last election.
96. I am devastated that Bush won.
97. I have always dreamed of going to Italy.
98. I have all of the details of my trip to Italy already planned out.
99. I am a pisces.
100. I am a middle child.