100 things about Kungfukitten

2002-10-03 10:45 a.m.

I'm jumping on the bandwagon. Here's 100 things about me. Join the Revolution.

1. I was born in Seattle Washington.
2. I grew up as a military brat living in California, Alabama and Texas.
3. I wrote my first full length novel in junior high.
4. It was called the summer of sweet revenge.
5. I still think it was one of the funniest things I've ever written.
6. I can do the splits with either leg forward but not center splits.
7. I have had two marriage proposals due to my lasagna recipe.
8. In junior high I took ballet, tap and jazz dance.
9. When I was very poor I weighed 104 pounds.
10. When I was depressed I weighed 162 pounds.
11. I have bridesmaid pictures taken of me at 162 pounds.
12. I weigh, right now, 132.
13. In college I read Anne Rice books and ran around in the woods wearing low cut blouses.
14. I also drank tequila straight and did primal scream therapy in the woods with friends.
15. I got married at the Church of Elvis to a nice guy named Bill.
16. I've never been legally married.
17. My first car was a bright orange opal manta.
18. My brother, my mother and I all look alike.
19. I've always wanted a nose job.
20. The best time of my life was age 17-22.
21. The rest of my twenties kind of sucked.
22. I'm determined to make my thirties a blast. So far so good.
23. I have a tattoo on my left inside calf of the cosmopolitan kitty from the sixties.
24. I can't wait to get another tattoo.
25. I love cats more than most people.
26. If my house were burning down and I had to choose between Simon or the cats it'd be a close call.
27. I grew up methodist, was wiccan in college and now think that Budhism looks pretty good.
28. My favorite band is The Damned.
29. Peter Murphy's voice makes me horny.
30. I spent a couple of years as a groupie for a band called Chapter Twelve.
31. Chapter Twelve was the chapter on human sexuality in our high school health textbook.
32. I used to draw a cartoon called Psychic Pigeon to amuse my friends in school.
33. My friend Angi and I wrote a soap opera for four year by passing notes between classes.
34. Angi has those notes in a shoebox somewhere in her house.
35. During new years 2000 Angi and I got naked and jumped into the Puget Sound at midnight.
36. Angi and I skinny dipped a lot in high school.
37. I used to drink in a graveyard.
38. I can't leave the house unless my bra and panties match.
39. I put on make up to go exercise.
40. I own over 20 pairs of black shoes.
41. In high school my dad kept trying to throw my stretch pants away because he thought they were too revealing.
42. I cry at sappy commercials containing animals.
43. My fingers are double jointed.
44. I started taking kung fu classes when I was 32 years old.
45. I've never hit anyone or have been hit.
46. I'm brave to the point of stupidity.
47. I have sprained my ankles 7 times.
48. I have never had a cavity.
49. I never had to wear braces.
50. I'm incredibly near sighted.
51. I had 20/20 vision until I went to college.
52. I don't like seafood.
53. I'm a wine snob.
54. My favorite hard alcohol drink is a vodka martini straight up with a twist.
55. I get horrible migraines and headaches.
56. Thanks to medication I don't miss out on many things now.
57. I'm afraid of flying.
58. I use the internet to procrastinate at work.
59. Hence this weblog.
60. I'm a registered voter for the new allaince party.
61. I have a birth mark on my back by my waist.
62. So does my brother.
63. I have season tickets to the symphony.
64. I starred in a movie in college...
65. Where I was beaten with a rolled up Playboy magazine.
66. I used to do singing competitions.
67. I spent a couple of years doing Theater Sports (think whose line is it anyway)
68. I have no problem with public speaking.
69. I want to be a doctor.
70. I also want to be a world famous science fiction writer.
71. I'm obsessed with eyeshadow.
72. I'm always suprised at how big my ass really is.
73. When I met Simon he was wearing a Trojan condom t-shirt.
74. I've always wanted to dye my hair black.
75. I've always wanted to pierce my nose.
76. The best concert I ever went to was Love and Rockets.
77. Where I dirty danced with a foreign exchange student named Hulken.
78. I've been told I'm a good kisser.
79. I read tarot cards.
80. Every December I run a pet food drive for the Humane Soceity.
81. My favorite movie is "A room with a view"
82. I have a Master's Degree in English literature, specifically Victorian and Medieval Lit.
83. I can kind of read Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin.
84. When I'm depressed I buy lipstick and underwear.
85. I like to dance but no one will go with me.
86. I want to visit England.
87. I have a stuffed penguin called Milkshake.
88. I took kung fu because I wanted to be like Jackie Chan.
89. I like to garden but I feel like I don't know what I'm doing.
90. I can't sew very well.
91. I've been working for the same company for almost 7 years.
92. I never thought I'd work anywhere for 7 years.
93. My shoe size is 5 1/2 or 6.
94. I've had long fingernails since grade school.
95. I love British Comedy to the point of obsession.
96. When I was a baby my grandfather would watch boxing with me.
97. I have the body of a 50's pin up girl.
98. Too bad it's the 00's.
99. I love apple computers.
100. I'm an ordained minister.

Hardy harr harr.

2002-10-02 1:10 p.m.

My coworkers are being funny today and sending me loads of silly e-mails.

Yep, that's our leader.

I don't get this one.

Yes sifu!

2002-10-01 10:36 a.m.

My kung fu instructor was promoted to second degree black belt this week. Now in class instead of shouting out "Yes sir!" we have to yell "Yes Sifu!" Of course this led to a lot of "Yes sir-er-Sifu!" last night. Between classes the advanced students presented him with a hand made sword. It was goregous and made locally which made it even more special.

It's dark and rainy outside. We even have a severe weather alert for frost tonight. I'm not ready for frost! I just got my order from Nichols nursery and haven't planted my winter crop of garlic, shallots and spinach.

Girlscout water.

2002-09-30 2:59 p.m.

Saturday afternoon I packed my car full of goodies and went to meet Simon and some friends at Lake Detroit. It's about an hour and half drive from Portland. The drive was nice but I have never seen so much road kill in my life. It was beautiful and sunny when I arrived. We paddled around the lake in a $15 rubber raft. Before it got dark Simon built a fire using his secret ingredient "girl scout water". He takes out a suspicious aluminum thermos and dumps his "girl scout water" on the logs, throws in a match and holy burning inferno, we got fire.

There were some 20 somethings in the site across from us who were drinking large amounts of wine coolers and playing Creed. Actually they only had one CD, the single of Creed's song of Arms Wide Open. Which they played over and over and over and over and over again. For about three hours. By the time we were all done with dinner we were all singing along with the songs and would groan and cry out in agony when the CD player started playing Creed's three songs again.

Once it was dark we stumbled our way down to the side of the lake to set up the telescope to watch the stars. While the boys set up the telescope, us girls lay on our backs on a blanket and tried to pick out constellations but the sky was dark and there were so many starts that we couldn't recognize anything. The sky was so free of light pollution we could actually make out the swath of the milky way. After feeling small and insignificant, as stars will make you feel, I stumbled across a zen moment.

I said "Hey, you know what would be perfect about now?"
"What?" All my friends asked.
"Some Creed!"

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