Peer pressure leads to TMI

Alright, I've caved in; several of my friends have done the "100 pieces of heartfelt blah blah about me" and I have become a copy fuckin' cat.

Plus, I can't think of a topic more fascinating to me than...me. How many times can I use the word "I" in a single post?

So here goes a lotta somethin' or nothin':

1. I have a vagina. Really I do.
   
2. You won't ever see it here.
3. I have been a four-eyes since I was eight years old.
4. I now wear dark glasses 100% of the time because I get hellish migraines, and bein' surprised by bright lights is an easy trigger for that shit.
5. That was really not fun when I was onstage in the band. I learned how to not look directly into the stage lights.
6. If you shine a bright light directly into my eyes on purpose, I will kick your ass when my vision clears.
7. If I won the lottery, really won a huge amount, I wouldn't even pretend that I'd still work. Yeah, as if.
8. I've been told many times in my life that I could do much better at [insert task] if only I would apply myself and try harder.
9. Sometimes I follow that advice. Other times I just laugh and eat some more pretzels.
10. I love pretzels. Certain kinds. Not the big, soft pretzels, but the regular sized, curly pretzels. Not butter pretzels (retch). Made Rite pretzels, or Mr. Salty pretzels (do they still make those?).
11. I can't dance, not a step, but I love danceable music. 'Specially hard funk. Yowza!
12. I became totally stagestruck when, at the age of 7, I was taken by my parents to see a community theater production of Man of La Mancha. We went because Squirl was in the pit orchestra.
    
13. I was obsessed with Man of La Mancha for a couple of years thereafter, which my parents found both highly amusing and slightly alarming ; the main female character in the show is a low-rent prostitute who, at one point in the show, is gang raped by muleteers. Yeah, nice. Do you begin to understand my personality now?
14. I was also briefly obsessed with Fiddler on the Roof, which my parents found altogether more child friendly.
15. I took on the challenging role of Roo in a community theater production of Winnie the Pooh when I was 8. Squirl played Kanga. They were goin' for family lookalike realism, I guess.
    
16. I play piano and guitar with varying levels of harsh amateurism.
17. Nonetheless, I have some beautiful, kickass guitars that are much too nice for me
    
    
18. I studied cello in grade school, and was pretty good at it.
    
19. A month after I beat out all the older cello players for first chair, our district cancelled orchestra so that they could instead give extra funding to the football program.
20. I was so pissed by this turn of events that I switched to string bass and studied that for a couple of years.
21. At age 13, I was offered a spot playing string bass in the West Shore Youth Symphony. Being young and utterly stupid, I turned it down.
22. I still wonder to this day if I'd be makin' my living in a symphony now, had I only chosen differently. Yeah, that's my own footprint on my ass.
23. I never took school really seriously until I had to pay for it myself.
24. I took school way too seriously when I was payin' for it myself. Think sudden bursts of hysterical sobbing in the middle of exam crams. Think poor, bewildered husband doin' what he can to calm the hysteria. Think crazy bitch with puffy eyes acin' her tests.
25. That said, I don't like to cry, especially in front of anybody.
26. I have a collection of Babylon 5 figurines. I should do a photo session sometime.
27. I love Babylon 5 enough to marry it.
28. Some of my favorite movies are Clint Eastwood westerns.
29. Jim and I can sit and recite entire scenes from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, or High Plains Drifter, or The Outlaw Josey Wales.
30. I am slowly (?) becoming my mother.
31. My first three concerts, in chronological order, were the Beach Boys (with all three Wilson brothers), Captain and Tennille, and Tom Waits.
32. Things changed for me after I saw Tom Waits.
33. I got to see Frank Zappa three times.
34. I have no fashion sense or color matching skills.
35. I wear a lot of black, not only because I like it, but because it makes my decisions easier.
36. I'm terrible at returning phone calls.
37. I love my assless chaps.
38. Some days, my hair just goes on strike.
39. I can't drive a stickshift, and have zero interest in learning how.
40. If I could walk around all day in jammie pants and a wife beater, I'd go for it.
41. I'm just lucid enough not to try this at work, ever.
42. I really wish I could make money at this writing thing.
43. I know better than to think I could ever make more than pocket money in the music business.
44. I wrote a lot of songs before I finally admitted the truth of #43.
45. I started kindergarten three months after Jim graduated from high school.
46. I'm a happy, horny drunk.
47. I'm a decent singer, within my range, but I haven't seriously practiced in over a year.
48. Since I started to blog, I haven't really much given a rat's ass about playin' music.
49. I'd love to make time to paint again someday.
50. I like to paint with fluorescent watercolors; there will never come a day when I don't think black light pictures are groovy.
51. I used to say "groovy" to be stupid and irritate people, but I've come to really enjoy the word for itself.
52. The older I get, the less I mind tellin' people when they come off as ignorant fuckin' racists/homophobes.
53. I was raised Catholic, but rejected the church by about age 12.
    
54. I identified as an athiest for a few years, but I came to feel like that implied that I had some knowledge that I really don't. So call me benevolently agnostic.
55. I do believe in treating people with basic human respect...until a person specifically gives me reason not to.
56. I really hate confrontation.
57. I am not, nor have I ever been, the least bit athletically inclined.
58. I have always had theme songs for all my pets. Sometimes it's something I make up, sometimes it's adapted from another song, but they all need a song.
59. Given sufficient alcohol and encouragement, I just might make an audioblog of #58.
60. I never think I watch much TV, but by god, if anybody starts talkin' about commercials, I can jump right in and know what I'm talkin' about.
61. I've kicked my fair share of ass at Trivial Pursuit.
62. I have seven abandoned ear/body piercings.
63. There are several I really miss.
64. I won't get anything redone, except maybe my earlobes. I have no patience for healing times anymore.
65. I enjoy watching sports with Jim, but, that said, if sports disappeared from the planet tomorrow, I wouldn't be excessively bothered.
66. I've been called many variations on my name (Kathleen) including Katy, Kathy, Kitty, Kate, Kay, Katy Kat, and Kit Kat.
67. My name means "pure" -- I think that's pretty accurate, don't you?
68. I could never be in love with anybody who didn't "get" my humor and couldn't in turn keep me crackin' up all the time. Gut-wrenching laughter is right up there on my Playboy bio list of turn ons.
69. I got mad skillz.
70. I have some pretty sexy boots I will wear when I lose about 30 more pounds.
    
71. I don't know how long I've actually had it, but I noticed my first grey hairs in the last year or so. Actually, past grey and right to white. What the fuck?
    
72. I can be a real asshole when I stop smoking. Sorry, anybody who's crossed my path in the last week.
73. My prom date grew up to be very, very gay.
74. I swear it wasn't my fault!
75. I'm sure glad we didn't get married.
76. I failed the sewing portion of Home Ec in junior high.
77. I failed a semester of Phys Ed in high school because I wouldn't get in the pool.
78. I'm a bit afraid of water, unless it's in a tub or something.
79. I learned how to swim across the pool, in the shallow end, in order to pass the class and graduate. And I have not swum since then.
80. I have rosacea.
81. There are plenty of times I like to draw the entire room's attention to myself. While I'm eating is not one of those times.
82. I'm horrified to eat too close to small children, as they are never very discreet when it comes to flyin' spit and other bodily fluids.
83. I have never changed a diaper, and I intend to keep it that way.
84. With an older husband, though, that could change.
85. The only new car I've ever owned was my 2000 Camaro. I liked to refer to it as my midlife crisis car.
    
    
    


86. I talk to animals as if they have any fuckin' idea what I'm talkin' about.
87. I think Strangers With Candy might just be the funniest, sickest, wrongest show ever on TV.
88. I'm practically peein' my pants in anticipation of the fall 2005 release of the Strangers With Candy movie.
89. I love to be around people, but when I'm ready to be alone, that's it. At that point, do not crowd me, lest ye be faced with Belligerent Bucky.
90. I actually like to use the UNIX vi editor. I sometimes try to issue :wq and dd and cw commands when I'm in MS Word, much to my chagrin.
91. I'm pretty liberal, politically and socially. But I don't buy into any party line as a whole, whatever it is. I believe most issues are more complex than simple black or white, paper or plastic choices.
92. I don't feel sorry for you if you won't do a damn thing to help yourself.
93. I am thankful for all I have now, and always mindful that my macaroni and cheese days are not that far behind me, and could happen again at any time.
94. I don't think money buys happiness, nor do I think stuff is more important than people.
95. That said, I really like gettin' money and cool stuff.
96. I'm a very good tipper. I always figure, hey, that could be me. Glad it's not.
97. I think it's a horrid, half-witted idea to be rude to anyone who will handle your food out of your sight.
98. I walk extremely fast without realizin' it.
99. I had about a year and a half of French in high school. Of course, I only remember the dirty words and rude phrases.
100. That said, I'm told I speak French fluently (see #69).