100 Things About Me

100 Things About Rachel

1. I’m a fifth generation Oregonian
2. I’m a picky eater – hate green peppers, raw onions, asparagus, oatmeal, pears….it’s a long list.
3. My favorite movie is “Harold and Maude”.  I’ve seen it more than 25 times.
4. I’m a voracious reader – or at least I was before I had kids – and I read very fast.  I love horror and SF and thrillers.
5. I hate playing boardgames and cardgames and really sports of all kinds.
6. I have a terrible sense of direction.
7. I am fluent in American Sign Language and worked as an interpreter for years.
8. My dh and I drove all over the country in our ’78 VW van before we were married.
9. I love baths and long, hot showers.  I like to read and talk on the phone in the bathtub.
10. My kids sleep with me but my dh gave up years ago as he is an insomniac…and he got tired of being kicked.
11. I’ve been clean and sober for almost 15 years.
12. I am a terrible stacker.  Every surface in my house is stacked with stuff and my desk is never clean.
13. I love “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and anything else Joss Whedon has written.
14. I have lived with my in-laws for almost 8 years.
15. I’m related to William Wallace.
16. My grandfather invented a tool they still use to circumcise babies.
17. When I was a kid, I always thought I would be a writer.
18. I still sleep with a baby blanket which I have to replace occasionally because I rub it to pieces.
19. I have one brother who is two years and one day younger than me and he is married to my best friend.
20. My parents divorced when I was 5 and my mother is now married to husband #4.
21. I almost always wear black.
22. I cannot resist fabric with circles, spirals, or stripes.
23. I am a total sugar junkie.  I love chocolate and donuts and cheesecake.
24. I hate to exercise and I never do it.
25. I talk a lot.  Rarely shut up in fact.
26. I learned to read when I was 3.
27. I love music.  Hate musicals.  Love to make mixed CDs and share music with other people.
28. I can tie a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue.
29. I never finished high school.
30. I have a big tattoo of a raven on my back.
31. I hate calling people on the phone and usually make my dh do it.
32. In middle school I was obsessed with all things occult and hung out in graveyards playing with Ouija boards, etc.
33. I started sneaking out of my house in the middle of the night when I was 12.
34. I have two girls and I’m still wondering when I’m going to stop feeling like the stand-in mom.  Do other people feel like grown-ups or are they just faking it?
35. The song I most often get stuck in my head is “If I Only Had a Brain” from the Wizard of Oz.
36. Almost all of my clothes come from Goodwill or my mother…or Hot Topic.
37. I love to give presents to people.
38. My whole family is incredibly non-plussed all the time and I almost never seem outwardly excited about anything. Drives my dh – who comes from an insanely demonstrative family – nuts.
39. Within 5 miles of my house there are roads with the same names as my middle name and the middle names of my 2 daughters – Shannon, Indigo, and Meridian.
40. I have lots of freckles and I always hated them as a kid.
41. My second toe is longer than my big toe.
42. I loved being a nursing mom because I finally got to have big boobs.
43. My wedding ring says “Love is all that matters” which is a quote from the first book I read out loud to my dh, Bridge Across Forever.
44. I saw the movie “Sex, Lies and Videotape” 5 times in the theater.
45. I have never read the Lord of the Rings books.
46. I really don’t like the Harry Potter books but I usually keep my mouth shut about it.
47. I love making lists.
48. I love collecting rocks at the beach.
49. I love popcorn with lots of butter and brewers yeast.
50. I’m a total control freak.
51. My favorite spices are dill and cinnamon.
52. I was a devout Athiest as a child although I was baptised Catholic (never went to church again after that).  Now I would say I am spiritual with pagan leanings.
53. I have bad TMJ and cannot chew gum.
54. I’m scared of heights.
55. I broke my tailbone when I was in high school.
56. I used to write poetry and have had some of it published.
57. My favorite color is purple.
58. My second daughter was supposed to be born at home but she had other ideas.
59. I started getting grey hair when I was 19.
60. I know the names of a great many plants and flowers.
61. I never could get the hang of french braiding my own hair.
62. I really don’t like being in crowds or big, noisy places.
63. I sleep with flannel sheets on my bed year round.
64. I have kept a journal since grade school and I still have all of them.
65. I taught myself to sew and quilt.
66. I hate wearing fingernail polish.  It feels like my fingers can’t breathe.
67. I’m a flirt.
68. I talk to myself in sign language.
69. I’m a very good speller.
70. I worked at Taco Bell when I was 16 and once closed the store in the nude.
71. I’m a lousy housekeeper.
72. The only other countries I’ve been to are Canada and Mexico.
73. My mother lost all the negatives to my wedding photos so I only have a few pictures.
74. I have lots of nicknames.  The most common being Rach, Rae and Roo.
75. I hate pink.  Even as a child I refused to wear it.
76. Love English.  Hate math.  Love sociology/psychology.  Hate science.  Love linguistics.  Bored to death by history and social studies.
77. Think my husband is the sweetest guy on the planet and am constantly amazed that he puts up with me.
78. Do not eat any kind of shellfish and can’t stand prawns. But I like sushi.
79. I’d like to homeschool/unschool my kids but I just don’t have the personality for it.  But really don’t believe in complusory education at all.
80. I am constantly buying books about spirituality, creativity, parenting and how-to do various art forms.
81. I still wear the black leather motorcycle jacket I bought myself when I was 16.
82. The first concert I ever saw was the Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams” tour.
83. The movie I saw as a child that gave me nightmares was the old black and white movie “The Beast with Five Fingers” where this disembodied hand is coming after people.
84. I am extremely sensitive to noises – especially scratchy, grindy, or wettish smacky sorts of sounds.  They make me want to start screaming.
85. I rarely wear makeup but if I do, usually only eyeliner and lipstick.
86. I never make the bed.
87. I love the smell of laundromats.
88. I love Art Nouveau.
89. If I was going to play an instrument it would have to be the cello – so sexy.
90. I love window shopping.
91. I’m not very good at making friends.  Strong, outgoing women intimidate the hell out of me.
92. I’m quite funny.  People used to tell my brother and I that we should be a comedy team.  And my oldest friend and I used to have people at the next table in the restaurant in tears.
93. I need a lot of sleep.  I need 8 hours but I’d prefer 10…or more.
94. I get extremely cranky and unreasonable if I am hungry.
95. All the furniture in my house was handed down to me by someone else.
96. I love office supply stores.
97. I am a chronic procrastnator and a perfectionist.
98. I am a total font slut. 
99. I believe you can never have too many black tank tops or short skirts or pairs of Doc Martens.
100. I believe in sychronicity and karma.

Comments

[Regina Walker]

Love the site!
Regina

[mousie/paisible]

somebody who dosn't like Harry Potter, so I'm not the only one!!sometimes you hardly dare say it, people look at you with huge eyes...I'm a terrible stacker too, and many other things in common...
but I can't tie a cherry stem into a knot though I tried hundreds times!!!
and big difference...no better not show my photo...
and you could be my daughter...think I'll adopt you and family...
as for the question: "do other people feel like grown-ups or are they just faking it ?" I never rely on those who say they are adults...A writer I love wrote a book whose title was: "the first time I was sixteen"...
I'll come back, and visit you again, love your blog...
see you dear

[Renita]

I am one of those outgoing strong women that you find intimidating, which I find awful , because I think you seem so super cool! :)
I have very much enjoyed reading this. Thank you! I might be brave and do the same.
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[sooz weissberg]

What an interesting person!! You're really a unique blend. Thank you for your wonderful artistic contributions to the world. Were you at the Art & Soul Retreat in April in Monterey, California? You look familiar. I read your interview on Artella so bopped over here to learn more about you. Glad I did. Thank you!