100 Things
March 19, 2006
1. I cry when I pluck my eyebrows.
2. Teenagers make me nervous.
3. I left home at 14.
4. I like the white cheddar powder I put on my popcorn, more than I like popcorn. In fact, I’m not sure I even like popcorn.
5. I stopped getting so many migraines and illnesses once I started seeing a chiropractor.
6. I love walking.
7. I reported my mother to Children’s Aid for abusing her boyfriend’s daughter.
8. We don’t speak anymore.
9. The daughter is fine and was removed from the home.
10. I don’t have any regrets about doing this.
11. I am terrified of earwigs, but my Papa taught me to chop the head off a snake with a shovel, and I have no problem doing that. We had to protect my Granny’s garden!
12. As a toddler, I used to unscrew the rungs of my crib and escape, when I was finished napping.
13. Before braces, the kids used to call me Bucky the Wonder Horse. Thanks, Michael G., you asshole.
14. Our dog makes me safe at night.
15. My worst fear is someone breaking in while we’re home.
16. I co-manage a Mom’s MSN group.
17. I support Perverted Justice.
18. My fave shows include Survivor, CSI, Law & Order, and Desperate Housewives.
19. As a child, my fave shows were Dukes of Hazzard, CHiPS, The A-Team and Casper the Friendly Ghost.
20. My oldest son had Kawasaki’s Disease at 3 months of age.
21. He still has anuerysms as a result.
22. My kids are my life and I love being a Stay-at-Home-Mom.
23. When they get older, I want to go back to school, then work for Children’s Aid.
24. After being through my childhood, it has always called to me, and likely always will.
25. I have a younger brother (same Mom as me), and a younger sister (same Dad as me).
26. I haven’t seen the sister since she was little.
27. My Dad is hiding from her to avoid paying child support. He did the same thing to me, and we don’t speak after I called him on it.
28. I sometimes think my parents shouldn’t have bothered having me.
29. I’m glad they did. Though I’m also glad I’m nothing like them.
30. I’m ashamed that my parents are such losers.
31. I’m trying to teach my boys about doing the right thing, all the time.
32. I had Post-partum depression after having Thomas.
33. Before I had PPD, I used to think it was in people’s heads. Now I know it’s real.
34. I love coffee and must have it every morning.
35. I hate tattoos.
36. I swear alot in real life. Lately I’ve had to be careful because Thomas is repeating everything. EVERYTHING.
37. I’m in true love with the internet.
38. I also am in true love with my husband, Daren.
39. I know it’s forever with us. No doubts, whatsoever.
40. My husband is my best friend.
41. I married him for the sex.
42. I later found out he was amazingly special and fell in love with him.
43. I fall in love with him over again, every day.
44. We are finished having children.
45. Daren changed careers about 2 years ago. The first year was the hardest, but we’re getting back on our feet now.
46. Daren plays hockey 3 nights a week; I like the quiet.
47. I work on the nights he is out.
48. This is my business.
49. I love my business and my customers are amazing and fun.
50. Dylan is named after my brother, and has Daren’s middle name.
51. Thomas is named after Daren’s very best friend, Daren’s father and Daren’s grandfather.
52. Daren’s best friend and his wife just had their first baby and he shares Daren’s middle name as well.
53. I am typically a happy person and my moods are steady now that I’m done with PPD and the drugs.
54. I really didn’t like the drugs they put me on. They made me gain 60 pounds. I’ve lost 22 of those pounds and I’m working on the rest.
55. Every Thursday night, we make baked nachos and watch Survivor.
56. I love salad, vegetables and fruits.
57. I don’t have a strong temper anymore.
58. I look great in hats, so people tell me, but I don’t own any except for a winter hat. Half the time I shove Daren’s hat on my head instead of looking for mine.
59. I have curly hair. It used to be straight but after I had the kids, it went curly. I love it.
60. I don’t like soda.
61. I’m Canadian, so I should be calling it pop.
62. These are some of my favorite blogs.
63. My blogroll is too long and there are some there out of obiligation.
64. I need to shorten it to the ones I actually read.
65. I bought my own domain about a month ago and I have no idea how to use it.
66. I’m only doing Blogger blogs at my business now because I don’t want to make anyone wait longer than I already have.
67. I like making up things to see if people will fall for it.
68. Daren and I met at work.
69. He told me there were cameras in the lights and that’s why we couldn’t kiss at work. (That wasn’t true, and no, I didn’t fall for it.)
70. We made out in the electrical room once.
71. We broke up 100 times before we decided this was forever.
72. I asked him to marry me. I got down on one knee, and had a ring and everything.
73. I go after what I want.
74. Daren is a huge procrastinator.
75. He probably still wouldn’t have asked to this day. Kidding.
76. I’m impatient, but not in a cranky way. Like in an excited way.
77. It’s taken me 3 days to get this far on this list.
78. I find myself thinking about my kids alot.
79. I would die for them.
80. I have planned out senarios in my head of how I would get them safe if someone did break in. I’m neurotic like that.
81. I have a wild imagination.
82. Dylan says to write that I’m a great Mom to him and Thomas. That brought tears to my eyes.
83. He also said I’m good at helping him with his homework.
84. I tutor my friend’s daughter in math.
85. I enjoy helping people.
86. I often stay in my jammies until Thomas goes for his afternoon nap.
87. I’m too paranoid to leave him alone while I shower.
88. I have exema on my hands.
89. I’m happy to be over 30.
90. I love cigarettes but I don’t want to be a smoker.
91. I struggle with it every day although I quit in October 2005.
92. I smoke when I drink.
93. I only drink every few weeks, if that.
94. I don’t like beer, nor do I like the taste of alcohol.
95. My in-laws are more like family to me than my own parents.
96. I feel blessed in every aspect of my life.
97. I am grateful that my adulthood is one million times better than my childhood was.
98. I hate when people blame their current problems on their childhood.
99. I do believe everyone has choices.
100. I have no regrets.
May 7th, 2006 at 6:06 pm
[...] I dreamt of my mother the other night and I can’t get her out of my head. She arrived at my house, with jet black hair, begging forgiveness and I wanted nothing to do with her. Makes me question numbers 7 through 10 here, but then maybe it’s my mind’s way of saying you have to forgive her for this to move on. As there always is, there was a bit of humour glossing over the hurt, as she was valley-girl like and looked much like Joan Jett, which she did when we were kids (and Joan Jett was cool). I remember she would come to the apartment complex park to kiss us goodbye before heading to wherever, and my brother’s friends would say how pretty she was. Looks aren’t everything, boys. She’s a screaming banshee when she’s drunk and her nails are too long. [...]