My friend has a list of a hundred things about her on her blog. (Which I am really enjoying reading by the way.) It sounds like fun so here’s mine:
1. My middle name, Katreen, was my great-grandmother’s middle name. I have never met anyone else with it and I love it!
2. I still live in the town I was born in with several years away for college.
3. Though I wear a lot of color, my room at home is decorated in white with dark blue and deep red accents with a little bit of green. The theme is lighthouses and I created it to be a restful place for me. I am proud to say I did very well at it.
4. Needless to say, my favorite colors are deep blue (for that inner calm, for water) and deep red (for passion and fire).
5. It bugs me when people say “good” when they should use the word “well” as in “I am doing well.”
6. I love watching snow fall to the ground.
7. I love rainy nights with hot chocolate and a quilt.
8. I also answer to Roana (medieval reenactment) and Trina, a nickname.
9. I will sit down for any movie with Barbra Streisand or Shirley Temple in it.
10. I can write in Japanese, both Hidagana, Katakana, and some Kanji.
11. I can write and read Hebrew. (I’m still working on understanding it.)
12. I was born cross-eyed and have had two surgeries at Dornbecher as a child to correct it. If you know what to look for, you can still see it.
13. Because of my memories from the second surgery, I hated Portland until I was in my late teens.
14. I went through ten years of speech therapy to learn to speak without a Bronx accent (no one knows where it came from) and then, to learn to say my “r’s”. Sometimes, I will still say something like, “that wascally wabbit!”
15. I LOVE math! I thought statistics self-study was fun and I enjoyed helping my classmates when I took calculus in college.
16. I have a strong competitive streak. It’s a good thing they didn’t post grades at seminary.
17. I am stubborn, to a fault.
18. I fractured my leg jumping down from a fence right before starting the 8th grade.
19. I have been certified as an activity director and as a flagger, though I never worked as a flagger.
20. I am registered as an independent because I don’t like labels.
21. I look good in hats.
22. I wore overalls a lot as a child and I still do on occassion.
23. I had a cat named Emily who came to me when I was four years old and who died when I was nineteen. I still grieve for her.
24. I have three sisters and one brother.
25. I like cooking when I’m in the mood and I’m even decent at it but being single, noodles and sauce is usually dinner enough.
26. I love to read and have for a loooooooong time.
27. I started writing poetry in junior high, mostly as an outlet.
28. I have two published poetry books and one devotional.
29. I don’t really like reading much poetry though this may be changing.
30. I have three piercings. Two in my ears, one in my nose.
31. I have dyed my hair dark brown, red, and black and they all look natural.
32. I am Jewish by birth and enjoy being such.
33. I am also Quaker though I also like Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Protestantism, etc… Quaker is where I fit. Figure that one out. Oh, I also really feel akin to Native American spirituality as I’m Canadian Crow.
34. My favorite bookstores are Catholic and Eastern Orthodox.
35. I don’t like scary and/or violent movies. Harry and the Hendersons gave me a nightmare I will never forget.
36. I have a big, sassy mouth that gets me in trouble, repeatedly.
37. I have little patience for people who don’t tell the truth and who twist reality to their own ends.
38. I have little patience for people who use other people and who don’t choose to help themselves.
39. I like red wine.
40. I am fiercely loyal, to the end and also to a fault.
41. I have lots of get up and go.
42. I am a night person who wishes she was a morning person.
43. I would rather attend the theatre and eat ramen noodles than eat well and stay at home.
44. My “island home” is on Fox Island in Washington with my Aunt, Uncle, and cousins.
45. I tap dance as well as enjoy Irish and Israeli dancing.
46. I am not very good about being on time…
47. I love to-do lists. Completing them can be another story.
48. I am very independent!
49. My trust is placed very carefully and even then…
50. I am an extrovert who is learning to be more at ease with people.
51. My favorite book as a child was “The Three Bernstein Bears and the Spooky Old Tree”. I believe that should have told my mom something. I’m not sure what that is, but I’m sure there was some personality hint, or shout, in that choice.
52. I am a first generation college graduate on both sides of my family. This would go as well for my masters.
53. Writing makes my soul sing.
54. I would love to get into acting someday.
55. I can throw pottery on a wheel. Many of my family and friends have proof of this.
56. I am a tree climber. Nuff’ said.
57. I enjoy taking pictures and I have a talent for it.
58. I do not have a talent for bowling. I SUCK AT IT!!! (Even with the bumpers I am sorry to say.)
59. I don’t care to watch football or basketball or any such activity unless the person I’m with is someone I want to spend time with or I know one of the players. Like my cousin Chris who ROCKS!
60. I do like ice skating.
61. I have never been arrested but did have my ID checked in a graveyard.
62. I was 21 when I got my driver’s license.
63. I went for a week in England with a broken hand until it was time to fly home. Only then, did I get a cast.
64. When I broke my toe on a friend’s coffee table, I was so stubborn, she was sitting right there and never knew about it. Still doesn’t.
65. I love to sing and I have a good, strong, even pretty, voice.
66. I LOVE being on the stage.
67. I believe, “You can do anything you set your mind to.”
68. I want to jump out of a plane someday soon.
69. My general attitude is, “Sure, why not?”
70. I like wearing beautiful gowns.
71. I like wearing jeans and t-shirts.
72. My first miserable night after drinking alcohol was when I was 12 or 13 years old.
73. I melt when a friend I like uses a term of endearment.
74. Food is great! Yellow cake with chocolate frosting is great too!
75. There is a self-proclaimed cookie dough tax in my household. My roommate usually goes along with this.
76. I LOVE where I live. It is my first home in the truest sense of the word that I remember.
77. I have a fun sense of humor that surprises people because I usually come across as sweet until they get to know me.
78. I like holding babies and I don’t mind if they cry.
79. I am not observant. I am REALLY NOT observant.
80. I like surprises. (#79 and #80 go well together.)
81. My rebellious streak is long and loud.
82. I am a mystic.
83. I like looking up words in the dictionary to find out what it says they really mean.
84. I have tried a lot of things but never put the effort into them to be better – cross-stitch, crochet, beading, archery, pottery, make-up, piano, and violin.
85. I love the dark, it’s comforting. Except when I scare myself and run to the door.
86. I am happy having no pets of my own. They are too much work. Though I would gladly sing a different tune for Emily.
87. The most courageous thing I think I’ve ever done is facing my pain. It was also one of the most painful.
88. I used to day dream a lot but don’t let myself dream much anymore. (This is looking up a bit.)
89. I would love to live in a different country, Ireland, England, Europe, or some place in Africa would be fantastic.
90. I get grumpy and tired when I’m hungry.
91. My faith has been my own since I was a child.
92. I was placed in school a year early due to intelligence testing.
93. I give advice better than I take it.
94. I try to be an optimist.
95. I am shocked at how screwed up people can be.
96. I am so glad God does not leave me to be screwed up.
97. I am not afraid of heights but I do have issue, though not serious, with tightly enclosed spaces. I think I’ll get stuck.
98. I smile a lot.
99. If I ever did get a tattoo or another piercing, I already know what I would get.
100. I love Broadway!
This was fun!