100 Things ...

1. I don't have my driver's license.
2. I am a grammar fiend.
3. I have 4 cats and a dog.
4. We lost two of our cats to illness and I miss them terribly.
5. I'm easily distracted when I don't want to be doing something.
6. My daughter is the greatest joy I could ever imagine.
7. And she amazes me with each new thing she learns behind my back (or so it seems).
8. I stay up way too late putzing around online nearly every. single. night.
9. I love chocolate, but I love vanilla ice cream more than chocolate ice cream.
10. I miss New York City more than my words can define.
11. I really miss the pizza and bagels, not to be confused with a pizza bagel.
12. I wish I had enough money to take my entire family (parents, Brother/SIL/niece and me/hubby/child) on a cruise to somewhere to celebrate my family.
13. I've never been to Barcelona but it's at the top of my list of "must sees" for my life.
14. I love to speak Spanish.
15. I'm fairly fluent in American Sign Language, but I'm really out of practice.
16. I am a licensed clinical social worker in the state of North Carolina.
17. I haven't worked AS a social worker since 2006, in the state of New York.
18. I miss working.
19. But not the office politics.
20. I miss helping people the way I used to and hope to get back to it someday.
21. I can knit a basic stitch but really wish I knew what I was doing and could make something besides a sort of scarf.
22. I love to read and devour books.
23. I crack my knuckles regularly. It's an awful habit and I've taught my daughter to tell me to stop doing it when she hears me.
24. I lost my virginity in another country.
25. I miss my best friend from back home and truly wish she lived close enough that we could walk into each others houses without blinking.
26. I hope to someday find that kind of relationship where I am currently living.
27. I am Jewish.
28. My father was born in Germany and lived in Israel as a young boy, and me, I hope to someday get to visit Israel.
29. I hate guns and violence.
30. I was once in a hold up at my Uncle's pharmacy.
31. The man came close enough to look at the chain on my neck.
32. I was stupid enough to take my mini-wallet out of my pocket and hide it in my boot.
33. All I can remember from that day was praying my brother would not walk through that front door.
34. I fell out of a moving car once.
35. And all I remember from that moment was pushing my brother off of me and back into the car so he wouldn't fall out, too.
36. I saved my brother from a guy trying to steal his bike once.
37. I love my brother to pieces and would protect him with all that I am.
38. Although I did lock him and his best friend out of my parents' house once.
39. I was with my best friend, who was my brother's best friend's sister. We kind of got in trouble for that.
40. I love polar bears.
41. My husband and I got engaged near the polar bears at the Central Park Zoo.
42. I do not eat beef or pork.
43. I do eat chicken and turkey.
44. I do not eat fish, especially shrimp. Blech.
45. I have never been to Disney with my family.
46. One of my dreams is to get my mom there someday.
47. I have been parasailing.
48. It was the most relaxing moment of my entire life.
49. I have donated my hair several times.
50. My all time favorite movie is Dirty Dancing.
51. My fave line from that movie is "I carried a watermelon," - Surprised you, didn't I?
52. The TV show I have been watching my entire life is General Hospital.
53. The best book I read in 2010 was The Help.
54. I read about 60 books in 2010.
55. I probably saw about 4 movies.
56. I love movies, I just don't get to see them anymore.
57. My fave trilogy is Ocean's Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen.
58. George Clooney is #1 on my "list" and will be for a long time to come.
59. Mark Wahlberg comes in a close second.
60. I love FRIENDS.
61. My brother, husband and I quote several episodes to one another regularly.
62. I named my daughter after my maternal grandfather (and hubby's maternal grandmother) and my paternal grandmother.
63. I would swear that I knew her name long before she even existed, I just can't find the notebook I know it is written down in. (Yet!)
64. I have kept journals for most of my life.
65. I once suffered from such severe foot pain I could barely walk.
66. Acupuncture saved me. Many times over.
67. I miss my friends from work.
68. I also miss my best guy friends from back home.
69. I believe men and women can be just friends. (see #68 - I have at least two of them)
70. Prior to becoming a social worker I worked in Tax Publishing for 9 years.
71. I met my closest guy friend on Halloween, at work, when I offered him candy corn.
72. I was dressed as a cowgirl (I think ...).
73. I met my husband at work when he started his job working for my then boyfriend.
74. My ex and I and my husband and his ex once went to Atlantic City for a weekend. Together.
75. I am such a good friend I took my husband's ex to Fire Island with me one Fourth of July weekend so my not-yet-husband (or boyfriend, for that matter) could spend time with his brother ...
76. My hair has never been dyed.
77. Or cut shorter than my chin.
78. I used to wear overalls to work.
79. Not just when I was dressed as a cowgirl.
80. I don't know how to make matzo ball soup.
81. Or challah bread.
82. But I should. Especially down here in NC.
83. When I lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and worked on the [lower] West Side I took 3-4 trains to work.
84. I love How I Met Your Mother.
85. And Rules of Engagement.
86. ER was one of my favorite TV shows EVER.
87. I also love NCIS.
88. I could watch the movie Dodge Ball over and over again.
89. And I have.
90. I could eat pasta {with sauce and shredded mozzarella cheese} for dinner every night.
91. But I don't - though I probably did when I lived by myself.
92. My husband and I danced to three special songs at our wedding.
93. Wonderful World, by Louis Armstrong [first dance]
94. Grow Old Along With Me, Mary Chapin Carpenter [second dance - but it was the 1st song we ever danced to together at a friend's wedding]
95. Don't Wanna Miss a Thing, by Aerosmith [spotlight dance]
96. I danced with my father, mother AND my brother at my wedding, as well.
97. Separately. (Sunrise, Sunset; You Light Up My Life; Stand By Me)
98. I am newly addicted to my in-chair back-rub provider.
99. And the Wii Fit.
100. And now I'm ready for bed.

101. I'm linking this up with Shell to Pour My Heart Out in the AM. And I thank Fadra of all.things.fadra for lighting a fire under me tonight to get this list done. Even if it is a bit half-a$$ed of me. Hope you enjoyed getting to know me a little bit better!

**And yikes, it took me like 40 minutes to write this list! I'm truly going to bed now!**

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