Cranky Mommy

I first did a “100″ things list for my old blogspot blog, several years ago. Here’s my new list of 101 Things About Me (not looking at my old one):

1)I’m very average in height (although some people think average is pretty short… 5′4″ is average female height).
2)I have to shop in the petites section for pants.
3)I am a pretty normal weight.
4)I have never dieted.
5)I do make an effort not to bring things in the house that i will binge a on, unless it’s a special occasion.
6) I frequently don’t capitalize in emails.
7)I’ve been married since 1998.
8)Being single sucks (unless you are trying to make decorating decisions about your house).
9) I have very olive skin and I look even greener in the winter. My son is green, too. My husband is very pink.
10)I am always cold. I tell people that I am “thermostatically challenged”.
11)As a consequence, I am never sure if I am overdressing or underdressing my son in the wintertime.
12)My son was born in 2002.
13)I think he is exceptionally cute but I am totally biased.
14)I am not having another one.
15)I think there is nothing wrong with having a singleton. I’m one.
16)I do end up playing with him a lot though, because he is a singleton.
17)I am especially not religious, and I don’t think I believe in God.
18)The irony of that is that I am married to a guy who is very into many religions and has practiced too many to mention.
19)This means that I have had to make effort to be particularly tolerant of religion, despite the fact that that it is unnatural to me.
20)My husband is over 15 years older than I.
21)My husband and I say that we are each other’s flukes because we aren’t usually into older/younger people.
22)I have 3 grown stepsons, all in their twenties.
23)The oldest stepson is a hipster guy who produces music for famous people in New York City.
24)The middle one works with Microsoft Exchange and has more Dave Matthews Band recordings than anyone that you have probably ever known.
25) I don’t get Dave Matthews Band.
26)The youngest stepson is a drug addict. I think he will be one for a long time, but who knows.
27)Since my husband has 4 boys, I suspect that he only makes boys.
28)I always wanted a girl but the moment I got pregnant, I didn’t care what the gender was.
29)I told my husband I was sure we were having a boy before we had the ultrasound. I was sure, but I had a 50% chance of being right.
30)I’m impatient. Very.
31) I think it is a worse sin to be a passive-aggressive dilly-dallier than to be impatient.
32)I used to be late when I was younger, but I am rarely late now.
33)I’m very liberal. I’m a registered Green and pretty much a socialist.
34)I live a fairly conservative lifestyle, as I think parents should.
35)Conservatives have almost always tended to like me. I can’t figure that one out.
36)If you are conservative, I forgive you. I think you are out of your mind, but I forgive you.
37)I think George W. Bush is the worst president since, well… that Native American killer Andrew Jackson.
38)I had a history teacher in high school that was obsessed with Andrew Jackson. I have tried to block that class out of my mind.
39)I don’t like history classes very much. Not visual enough.
40) I grew up in a small town in southern California.
41) I miss the warm weather and the backyard pool, but not the traffic and smog.
42)I lived in the Atlanta suburbs from age 16-18.
43)I hated it then, but I like it better there now, things have changed.
44)I am not into southern culture.
45)I did like going to a Waffle House late at night after a show when I lived in the south.
46)I came to Baltimore to go to art school at MICA.
47)The school really kissed my butt to get me to go there. Someone from admissions drove me around in a car and gave me a personal tour.
48)I’m sure my lack of ambition is a disappointment to them, but they got their money and I’m sure they don’t remember me now.
49)I majored in sculptural studies, but I did a lot of painting too.
50)I had a blast when I was in art school.
51)I still make art but I am not into the business end of it… promoting myself.
52)It is hard to find time to make art when your primary job is MOM.
53)I am not particularly cool.
54)That is fine though because if you are trying hard to be cool at age 35, your priorites are probably in the wrong place.
55)I think most music got worse after 1993. I could blame Nirvana for this, but I won’t.
56)I like a lot of different kinds of music, but I don’t like New Country, Heavy Metal, or most mainstream pop music.
57)I like old school punk rock a whole lot. I also like some folk, retro/postmodern , progressive, ska, noise, no wave, new wave, etc.
58)My husband was a punk rocker starting in the late 70s.
59) He has no tattoos. Neither do I. Or piercings.
60)I dyed my hair red for 9 years but stopped dyeing it after I got married.
61) I have mental health issues and I am fine with it.
62) I’m not sure it is wise to broadcast the details of your mental health issues all over the internet, so I will leave it at that.
63)I fear my son doesn’t have those issues, or addiction either, but there isn’t much I can do about that.
64)He’s already got my allergies and my husband’s allergies, and he is only 3.
64)I don’t have any food allergies, except soft shell crab. I ate it once and had a rash that looked like i was bleeding into my skin.
65)My son will probably be allergic to milk until he is 8.
66)I complain about that a lot, since I am worried about him accidentally eating it and because it makes cooking and baking complicated.
67)I don’t eat red meat, chicken or pork.
68)I do eat fish.
69)I feel guilty about eating fish, but not guilty enough to stop eating fish.
70)This past year I bought a half a chicken for my son to eat, and he ate very little, but I ate the rest, for the first time in years.
71)I got chicken out my system for probably the next 5 years.
72)I am a far from perfect person, or mother.
73)I do the best I can at that, though.
74)I nursed my son for 19 months.
75)That is partially why he is allergy to dairy is so bad, because I ate dairy while I was nursing and I should have had a dairy-free diet.
76)I am exceptionally clumsy, but I have never broken any bones (yet).
77)I gave myself a black eye once, bending forward too fast while sitting on the toilet and whamming my eye on our bathroom vanity.
78)I’m sure the neighbors didn’t believe that one.
79)My son gave me a black eye once when he head-butted me.
80)I bet the neighbors didn’t believe that one either.
81)My mother gets black eyes by merely rubbing her eyes.
82)My parents are very nice people, and they will be married 40 years in 2006.
83)They have the best marriage of anyone I know.
84)I have a lot of individual friends, that hardly know each other. I rarely hang out in a group.
85)I had to distance myself from a lot of people I was friends with when I was younger, because they would have dragged my down.
86)I don’t regret losing those friends, but I wish they would have gotten their acts together instead.
87)When I was in my early 20s I lived on a purple school bus for several months with a couple friends and hangers on.
88)The bus also had several chickens and a big dog.
89)The big dog was not mine, nor was the chickens. Nor was it my idea to have chickens on the bus.
90)I like to bathe every day, which was not going to happen living on a purple school bus.
91) I have a very sensitive sniffer and I hate body odor. I really don’t care how people look, or dress, but I do care how they smell.
92)I think from living on the purple bus, I am sick of hippies.
93)Hippies / New Agers and Religous Conservatives both have a dislike of science, something which I like very much.
94)I am a negative, glass-half-empty person. I see it as a positive because I when something goes my way, I’m happily surprised.
95)I have a very black sense of humor.
96)I almost never wear pink. It makes me look greener than I am.
97)I like drab and dark colors, and black.
98)I used to wear a lot of silly vintage dresses with bright paisley prints on them, in my early 20s.
99)I suspect I could write 200 things about myself.
100)Writing 101 things about yourself is very-self absorbed.
101)Having a Blog is self absorbed.