100 things about me

1. i've deigned to do this meme, even tho it's a totally self-absorbed exercise, as i enjoyed reading tan's.
2. i'm wondering if tanya minds the nickname tan.
3. i'm currently wasting time while waiting for my support worker to show up or call - i expected to hear from her an hour ago! ...odd.
4. i just read the first three chapters of daniel - way kewl!
5. i think i'm more 'into' the music portion of a worship service than i am 'into' the sound board portion - i wanna play that funky music, man! but the sound stuff is pretty interesting too. especially now that i kind of understand what frequencies and amplitudes are, lol. do i have an aptitude for amplitude?

6. realizing what a stinkin' long list this is going to be!
7. hating the thought of all the bending over i need to do with laundry-doin' today - my back feels kinked. :S
8. felt so tired and worn out after this weekend, and headachey, that i didn't go to the memorial of a beloved brother last night. sorry honey-bea! love ya lots!
9. refusing to let guilt and condemnation in on that one!
10. pam helped me in the kitchen, and i finally threw out all those molding veggies and fruits.

11. i'm hungry. i'm not often hungry in the morning!
12. looking forward to eating some crispy voortman's chocolate cookies with homo milk, yum.
13. i love chocolate 'icy squares', yum.
14. last night i had some delish veggie soup pam made, with parmesan and toast.
15. while making toast, my toaster started smoking like mad, and i realized i still hadn't taken out the thin end-of-loaf sliver of bread that slipped down into the bowels of the toaster the last time i'd made toast....

16. i think i had a pet flea. just one. after i killed that sucka, i've gotten no more bites!
17. and no more spider bites either - it must have been a mutant flea after all, lol!
18. gee, i'm really hungry!
19. this morning i rescued some shorts that i had thrown in the garbage can and cut off the stinky elastic - going to make 'lint-free rags' out of the old yummy t-shirt knit material. coral with white polka dots, coming soon to a window near you. courtesy of a garbage-picker!
20. there was a dumpster diver in our dumpster last week, and i had a sour-grapes attitude for a while... i mean, it's private property here, ain't it? but gee, he's just trying to scrape out a 'living', if you can call it that. it's not 'my' yard, it's God's property - my pineapples are not my own... er, i mean, my bottles and cans are not my own.

21. oomph, i'm still really hungry! could it be because yesterday i only had a breakfast sandwich and fv from tim's for breakfast, then three cookies and milk for a late afternoon lupper, then an unexpected blessing of soup and toast.... then an ensure mom pawned off on me at the hospy? as pam said, that's not actually a lot of food for a whole day. i'm just not usually very hungry!
22. my head hurts. my back hurts. wondering where my worker is. i'm tired and this old bod wants to go back to bed. but i won't! i'm young and full of vigor, and today is a day of divine appointments, whoo hoo!
23. where's my tylenol?
24. my favorite version of spider solitair is in "absol free solitaire" - a free download. why do i like it? the cards get bigger or smaller to fit with the window - the bigger the better for me (within reason). most versions of spider, the cards are just too tiny on my 1280x1024 rez screen.
25. i played a fair bit of solitaire this last week, when i had no internet, lol. but mostly just wasn't on the puter as much!

26. altho i did type out the newest God-song i've got going.
27. brb - i'm going to phone and find out why my worker isn't here yet. ok, no i'm not - i don't remember the phone #, lol.
28. mickie brought me some scent-free natural kitchen soap stuff when she dinged out my house - i love it! no stinky fragrance when doing dishes! yay! thanks, hun. {{{hugs}}} and the 'bleach' stuff, too.
29. i found a big bag of bandana's i always intended on bleaching out - wonder if this new stuff will take out color, too? or will only chlorine bleach will do that (chlorine bugs my asthma)?
30. i must needs go get something to eat. will continue with this later.

31. i feel stupid now, lol - in the process of phoning my worker, i realized WHY she's not here yet - she doesnt come on mondays, she comes on tuesdays! WHACK!
32. i'm grinning like the village idiot!
33. i had a super healthy breakfast - milk and cookies and drugs. yum. (don't panic, drugs = prescription meds.)
34. one of my good friends works as a pharmacy tech in the pharmacy in the store i shop in allll the time. i can't wait till my current script runs out and i can take it in for her to fill! i think i have 3 or 4 more weeks, tho.... and i'm sooo frusterated with my current pharm.... grrr! :P
35. now i'm feeling a bit at a loss as to what to do now. all morning i've had a certain set of events expected in my head, and now there's.... nothing! well, i have some errands to do, but it's gonna take a while for me to switch gears. i feel soooo tempted to lay down and have a nap....

36. me so sleepy....
37. i am so behind on everyone's blogs. soon, i'll read up on them soon.
38. last night i turned off my norton internet security 2006 firewall, and installed good ol' sygate personal firewall. in less than a month i am supposed to resubscribe to norton, and i will NOT. that thing has been the worsted pain in the neck EVER. just don't know what to get for antivirus now.
39.i have yet to find a back scratcher that scratches well enough. i have an itch on my back right now that i can't reach (of course!) and have not backscratcher in sight, as they are all useless and prolly stuck in some box just to get them the heck out of the way....
40. the sun is shining, and the sky is blue, and it's beautiful! and it's -1 (celcius). apparantly -1 is a lot warmer in farenheit - something like 28 degrees f? whoa, steamy!

41. can i ever talk/write serious? nope. the english language is wayyy to much fun to not mess with, ha.
42. fyi, in case ya didna know, i don't capitalized anything (usually) unless it's in reference to the Deity - God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, etc. and sometimes for emphasis, GOT IT? .... and sometimes if i'm concerned a person may be so anal as to be offended if i don't capitalize their name i may go against my convictions and cap their name... but then i repent, as i have just gone against my convictions and thus sinned. whatever is not of faith is sin! and my conviction is that only Jesus is worth the honor of capitalizing their names - capitalizing 'james' or 'madonna' or 'frankenstein' would only be 'elevating' their names to the same level as the Name above all names - Jesus. and so would capitalizing 'i' in reference to myself - that's where it all started - i am so NOT worthy of the same honor as Jesus is in having His pronouns capitalized. ....is it that big a deal, really? nope - it's just a personal conviction. i don't care if you capitalize my name or not - just please don't be offended if i don't place you at the same level as God Himself. as for why i don't capitalize bible, but do capitalize 'the Word'? (hmm, should it be 'The Word'? lol)... well, the bible is a book that contains the printed Word of God. i don't honor the book of the bible (cover, pages, ink) any more than i would any other book - a dictionary say. however, the Word which it contains is life itself - and Jesus is the Word (john 1:1), and so i worship the Word, the Bread of Life, the Lord of Lords... and one way in which i do so, is to give Him and Him alone the honor of being capitalized. He alone deserves that pre-eminence!
43. thinking that was the longest point there is likely to be on this list!
44. i'm 32, almost 33, and feeling old - i don't like a lot of the 'rock' music out there these days. i'm more into the stuff of the 70's, 80's, and early 90's. yup, i'm past-dated! hahahahahaha....
45. only five more points to go and i'll take another break - my wrist is a bit sore. why? i don't know, it's not like i've been typing too much. oh wait, i do know why - cuz when i've been on the computer, it's mostly been playing solitaire, which uses a MOUSE. OUCH.

46. so why do i feel ok capitalizing MOUSE and OUCH? hey, don't be so legalistic!
47. i'm nearly out of black ink - BCI 3eBK (canon). note to self - God will provide in His time!
48. i want to write in big letters on my bedroom wall, "Lord, give me a hunger for Your Word"... then first thing in the morning when i wake up, i'll be reminded to pray for that hunger and desire to read His word in the morning. if i don't pray for it, i don't have it.
49. i like that new definition i read somewhere for asap - always say a prayer. is it urgent, needs to be done asap? well, there's never too little time to say a prayer. say a prayer asap - always say a prayer! whoo hoo! kewl eh?
50. bingo - here we are at the halfway point. i've got heartburn from my meds, and i'm burping and i feel like a water buffalo. but oh well, there's gotta be a guy out there somewhere who will fall in love with a christian water buffalo! lol!

51. ok, i'm back. it's not ten minutes past 1 pm, and i need lunch soon. i just typed the word fluffernutters, and it made me hungry for penut butter, lol.
52. i love the magazine 'real simple'. i just discovered their website, www.realsimple.com.
53. dogs are barking like mad outside right now, i wonder if there is a bear out there? .... and now i'm wondering what that has do do with me, i mean, this list is called 100 things about me, right?.... well, i guess it has to do with me becuase i thought it! lol.
54. too lazy thus far to get up off my ball (yes i sit on a big rubber ball as my desk chair) and look out the window and see if i see anything to bark at.
55. i did mom's banking today, what a load off it is to have it done. phew.

56. i wish everyone in the hospital had a room like mom's - private room the size of a 4-bed room, leather sofa and 2 leather recliners, lamps, kitchenette. one of the perks of having a 'terminal illness' and eligible for 'palliative care', i suppose - unfairly preferential treatment. it's awesome, but everyone should have a room like that, doncha think?
57. hoping soon to get up and go out, go see mom, go shopping for yogi pants, maybe get a hot smoothie from tim's for a treat. it's amazing how, for someone who never has any money, i never seem to go without. often courtesy of my dear maman. but ultimately, and undeservedly, from my Daddy God. thank You.
58. i hate the smell of rotting elastic. i hate the smell of fresh rubber bands. i can't think of an 'i love' to balance out the two 'i hates' on this mini list about stretchy things.
59. running out of things to say.... so i'll dig into the past a bit more... when i was a kid and i had to run in gym class i would get all phlegmy, and get a metallic taste in my mouth, and i'd often suddenly fall/lay down and not be able to move for a few minutes. my miserable gym teachers would call me lazy and chastise me. same thing when i played soccer (my soccer days didn't last long). never found out what that was.
60.thinking about my childhood is not so nice at times. i'm going to go now and go visit mom and do my errands and stuff. but first i'm gonna chat with mickie, and she just messaged me from ontario. kewl!

61. i'm going to try to be matter-of-fact the rest of this list and get it done with.
62. one of my favorite all time movies is 'strictly ballroom'.
63. one of my favorite all time quotes is 'a life lived in fear is a life half-lived' (fran, from 'strictly ballroom', ha!)
64. i couldn't get myself to like LOTR.
65. one of my favorite christian fiction books of all time is 'arena'... i forget the author. awesome christian sci-fi/fantasy adventure allegory. very kewl.

66. i just ordered voice mail, it should be active on my phone line on the 15th.
67. i can type quite fast, but not numbers.
68. i do more laundry than mom ever did!
69. i hate doing dishes.
70. i like the number 7, but not so much the number 70. 77 is kewl, tho. 777 is even better!

71. i just took some tylenol, and i can't remember if i took one or two x-strength ones.... so i can't take another one even tho my head is hurtin' bad. bah.
72. i have a memory like swiss cheese sometimes.
73. mom said tonight that today my unk said, 'that's a filiment of your imagination'.
74. using the word filiment in place of figment is call a malapropism. it's not (mal) appropriate (aprop) word usage.
75. mom always said i was destined to be 'verbose' because i have a large dip in above my top lip. she said my granddaddy always said that was what that dip meant - how well a person would be able to speak and express themselves. he was right - i never shut up, do i? lol

76. tonight i watched a show (at the hospy) about a little girl with primordial dwarfism. i wonder if that gene, or one similar, could be in my family, becuase evidently my grandma's dad's sister was only 3 feet something.
77. i like this number.
78. i repeat myself often, but i usually say it in a different way than i did the first time.
79. mom always said i would make a good teacher of complex issues, because i can iterate and reiterate things from so many angles people would learn it whether they wanted to or not.
80. but i'm too stinkin' impatient to be a teacher. at least at this point in my life. although i've gotten a bit more patient.

81. i believe in praying for patience. it's a fruit of the Spirit, so why would i hold back from praying for patience? sure it might not be easy, but i'm not in this walk for an easy ride, i'm in it to become more like Christ.
82. i watched dr. phil today, and they put a fat suit on a lady to help her understand how obese people are treated and how it makes them feel. i was complaining that they should have made the fat suit weigh something like 200lbs, so that they would also experience what it's like carrying all that extra weight on their frame. wouldn't you be tired if you carried an extra 200lb load every day, 24/7? i think so! maybe that fat person isn't so lazy after all, they're just tired!
83. ignorance and a lack of compassion makes me mad.
84. teachableness is absolutely and awesome trait.
85. if i ever get married, i hope my husband will be teachable and tender before God.

86. i do hope to get married one day, and have kids.... but only if that's also waht God plans for me. if not, then i won't. kinda obvious, right? yet not so easy to accept - but i will NOT pine for something God doesn't have in store for me. and at the moment i have no idea what God ultimately has in store for me in that department, so i'm just plain not gonna pine for it, period. no agenda but Jesus'.
87. gosh, this is getting close to done. i got my three pairs of yogi pants today, and mom's bins, etc. now i'm under orders to get my boots repaired (they leak), and got the unexpected ok to get some more hair bleach.
88. plan: a. bleach. b or c. dread the rest. c or b. dye it some demi-permanent funky color. God willing, of course.
89. i love the show miami ink. i'm planning on getting a ta... i never even considered it before, tho, becuase it's all controversial in christian circles, but the love of the beauty of many tat's was there, and as i've grown into the woman God has created me to be, that's something He basically said that i don't need to squish out to please others - He gave me the personality and aesthetic that He has, don't try to be someone i'm not. so i'm like, ok God, then does that mean i should get that tattoo i've been seeing in my head? yup.
90. don't beat me up for wanting a tat. if i'm not who God created me to be, then i'm being disobedient.

91. at night i generally get very little sleep if i don't take my night meds. they conk me out. i've been taking them for years.
92. i took naproxen (a prescription non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, similar to ibuprofen), which is very hard on the stomach, for YEARS, day in and day out. why? becuase i had so much joint pain. someone said i had 'growing pains', except they never stopped until the last few years... kinda.
93. i'm desperate to get to bed.
94. cuz i've already taken my night meds.
95. and i still need to brosser mes dents.
95. and i can get reaaalllly wobbly when they kick in.
96. the bathroom is at the top of my stairs.
97. falling down the stairs hurt.
98. so i don't want to do that.
99. so i'm going....
100. now! g'night all, love ya's! and a double portion of pork chops for ya tomorrow if you read this whole list, lol!