100 Random Things

100 Random Things About M.L.

Last update: February 2013

1. Current TV/video obsession: Supernatural, Arrow, Elementary, Leverage, Nikita, Being Human.

2. I’m an Aries, but I’m on the cusp so I exhibit a lot of Pisces tendencies as well.

3. For those of you who are into Myers-Briggs personality type…I’m an INFJ. If you read a detailed analysis of the INFJ type, I’m pretty much a textbook example.

4. When I was little I was terrified of space aliens and Bigfoot. I was convinced either or both would climb through my window at night and carry me away.

5. Cooked zucchini is one of my favorite vegetables. Raw zucchini grosses me out.

6. I love snow. However, we get some pretty hard winters where I live, so my favorite season is summer…short-lived though it may be here. Give me the sun and heat, baby!!

7. I’m a Mac girl. I have an iMac, a MacBook Pro, and an 11″ MacBook Air. I LOVE my Air in particular. Best. Laptop. EVER.

8. I’ve been…a preschool teacher, bookstore manager, bank secretary, retail clerk, BLS (Basic Life Support) instructor for docs and nurses, office temp, plant waterer (No kidding! In college I got paid to water all the plants in the biology department labs over holidays.), business owner twice (two very different types of businesses), a writer, an editor, and an accountant.

9. If I hadn’t become a writer I would have been either an archaeologist or a paramedic.

10. I’m a Usui Reiki Master/Teacher, a Karuna Reiki Master, and a Sekhem Reiki Master.

11. I read my first romance novel at the age of 12. It was The Flame and Flower by Kathleen Woodiwiss.

12. I’ve been in 45 of the 50 states.

13. I’ve been to Mexico, Canada, and several countries in Europe.

14. The most beautiful place I’ve ever seen: snow-covered Pike’s Peak on a cold, sunny winter day.

15. Second most beautiful place: Canaveral National Seashore in Florida.

16. The most fascinating place I’ve ever been: Venice, Italy

17. But my all time fave, fave, FAVE vacation… Walt Disney World!

18. Movies about invading aliens…between War of the Worlds and Signs I thought Signs was by far and away the better movie. Independence Day, however, stands in a category of its own because of the humor. One of my fave scenes in all movie history is from Independence Day when Will Smith is dragging the dreadlocked alien across the desert and swearing at it. LOL!

19. My husband is my best friend and a physics geek.

20. My current gaming passion…Plants vs. Zombies. Yeah, I’m obsessed.

21. Have I mentioned I’m a gadget girl? Kindle, Kindle Fire HD, iPad, Nexus 7, iPhone… Uh, yeah.

22. I was valedictorian of my high school class.

23. I got a C minus on the first paper I wrote in college.

24. I’m a Broncos fan. Not as hard core as my mom, though!

25. My checkbook cover is pink with Hello Kitty on it.

26. If someone gave me a choice between coffee, tea, or hot chocolate, I’d take hot chocolate every time. Well…unless one of my choices was Starbucks Chai Tea, then I’d make an exception.

27. The one food I absolutely couldn’t live without: Queso dip and tortilla chips. Okay, I know that’s two foods, but you just can’t have one without the other.

28. I didn’t start writing for money or fame, and still don’t. I write because it feeds my soul. Because I love to tell stories.

29. I love Snoopy.

30. I have a not-so-secret addiction to buttered popcorn and juicy pear Jelly Bellies.

31. I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It’s still my all time fave TV show. I only discovered it on DVD after it was already off the air. I own all 7 seasons of Buffy and all 5 seasons of Angel.

32. Spike or Angel? Definitely Spike. Love those beautiful eyes, the cheekbones, and that he’s quirky and imperfect. And him being a total bad boy who’s really a sensitive poet underneath doesn’t hurt either. I’m a sucker for sensitive bad boys.

33. Music artists/groups I never get tired of listening to: Bon Jovi, Goo Goo Dolls, Barbara Streisand, Fleetwood Mac, Pink.

34. I’m a Harry Potter fan.

35. I’m probably one of the few grown women HP fans who didn’t fall in love with Sirius Black. I’m in love with Harry first and foremost and always have been since he was way too young for me to be crushing on him. Not sure what that says about me. LOL!

36. I have a pendulum. It works wicked well. I use it often.

37. My fave oracle/tarot deck: Goddess Guidance Cards by Doreen Virtue. That’s what I use the most often. But I’m a collector of Tarot and other assorted card decks (I have around two dozen).

38. My first car was a used 1973 Mustang Mach I, red with a black stripe.

39. I have 9 tattoos. One on the inside of my ankle and leg (baby dragon and flowers), one on the outside of my calf (the mama dragon and more flowers), one in the center of my upper back (a fairly sizeable Celtic design based on a beautiful piece of art by Welsh artist Jen Delyth), one on my left inside wrist (the Japanese Kanji for love), one on my right upper arm (2 dolphins), one on my upper chest (get your mind out of the gutter…above *those* parts) of the old man in the moon, one on my left shoulder of an Amy Brown boy fairy, and my newest two are a frog fairy on my left calf and a weeping willow tree on my lower back.

40. I love the ocean.

41. But I also love the empty stretch of desert between the Arizona border and Barstow, California.

42. I love the Colorado mountains best of all.

43. I prefer silver jewerly to gold.

44. I love action movies.

45. I have a B.A. in English. And started working on my masters in Anthropology/Archaeology but didn’t finish because I became a writer instead.

46. My favorite subject in college was Greek. It was also the hardest subject I’ve ever studied, and that’s including organic chemistry.

47. I’m right-handed.

48. Fave movies: All the Harry Potter movies, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Hobbit, How To Train Your Dragon, The Matrix, Jumping Jack Flash, Independence Day, Twister, Notting Hill, Spiderman 2, Moonstruck, Batman Begins, the new Star Trek movie…and the list goes on. I love movies in general. It’s hard to pick just one.

49. I have 2 dogs, 3 cats, and around 20 fish in my house. My kids still want a bird, a hermit crab, a turtle, and a lizard. Think they’re going to get any of those things? Hehehehe! They like to dream.

50. I love dolphins and polar bears.

51. My favorite desserts are chocolate cake ( brownies will work, too, but they have to have nuts in them), and my mom’s homemade banana pudding with vanilla wafers.

52. I make damn good margaritas. I’m famous for them. Really!

53. After seeing The Hobbit I’ve developed a total addiction to Richard Armitage (Thorin, Guy of Gisborne…any character he plays in any movie/TV series is fine ’cause, damn, he’s fine! )

54. When I was a young teenager I wanted a horse.

55. My dad got me a motorcycle instead. I was a speed demon on the thing. I wrecked it several times, even had an imprint of the handlebars on my chest once. To this day, I still love to ride motorcycles.

56. I sleep under a down comforter year round.

57. I drive a black 2008 Toyota 4Runner.

58. Thanksgiving (U.S.) is my favorite holiday. Followed by Yule/Christmas.

59. I’m the youngest in my family.

60. I’m a slave to the Weather Channel online. I keep the page open and look at the forecast and the radar several times a day.

61. I’m a movie cryer.  It doesn’t take much and I’m all leaky.  Happy, sad, sappy…anything that pings my emotions gets me started.

62. I spend too much money shopping online.

63. I’m a homebody. Even though I’d consider myself well-traveled, I love, love, love to stay home.

64. I’m a night owl.

65. I want to learn to climb. Always have.

66. I like to shop at thrift stores.

67. I’m a pack rat. I save everything.

68. I played the flute from 4th – 10th grade. I still have my flute and can still remember some scales.

69. I also play the piano, but don’t do it often enough anymore to be decent at it.

70. I’m allergic to cats and pine trees. Therefore, naturally, I have three cats in the house and I live in the middle of a pine forest.

71. I love roller coasters!

72. My paternal grandmother was an amazing psychic, and I often have experiences myself.

73. I use magick nearly every day in my life…for healing and for protection of my home, travels, family, and self.

74. My standard uniform for day and evening wear: jeans and a T-shirt (or in the winter, jeans and a sweater over a T-shirt). I’m very low maintenance when it comes to clothes.

75. I hate to dress up. I only do it if I absolutely have to. Please see #74.

76. I haven’t had on a pair of pantyhose in about fifteen years. Maybe longer.

77. Although the length of my hair varies depending on my whims, I usually keep it fairly long. I keep it long so I can wear it up. Most of the time my hair’s twisted in a knot on the back of my head. It probably is right now.

78. In high school I played varsity basketball, volleyball, and ran track.

79. Fave chain restaurant: Olive Garden

80. Fave classical music composer: a toss-up between Bach and Tchaikovsky.

81. What I’m most most proud of: My children and the intelligent, free-thinking, creative young people they’ve become.

82. My favorite pieces of art I have hanging in my office are a purple and teal pentacle my amazing artist friend Tara painted for me for my birthday one year, a pencil drawing of a nude warrior woman battling a dragon that my niece Erin regifted to me for Christmas (it was drawn by a friend of hers), and my tattooed wolfman picture (he reminds me of Oded Fehr with much longer hair).

83. Fave movie theater candy…Whoppers or Junior Mints or Hot Tamales.

84. My fave colors are violet and turquoise.

85. My one vice I haven’t and probably won’t give up anytime in the near future in spite of generally healthier habits? Mountain Dew. Not diet. The real deal.

86. I have moon, sun, and stars rainbow beads hanging in the doorway of my office.

87. I wear a sterling silver Ygdrassil ring on the middle finger of my left hand.

88. I absolutely HATE to grocery shop. It’s torture for me!

89. I have a dried-corn bag–one of the ones you heat in the microwave, then put on your aches and pains–but I heat it up every night before bed and use it as a foot warmer. Even in the summer.

90. I hate to wear shoes. I go barefoot as much as possible. When I have to wear shoes, in the summer I wear flip-flops, and in the winter I wear Ugg books (cause you can wear them barefoot with no socks)

91. I have a phobia that I’m going to leave my car doors unlocked when I’m out at a store, restaurant, etc. Probably 7 times out of 10, when I stop some place, I’ll get a few yards away, then have to go back to check the doors to be sure. 99% of the time they’re locked. I know this. But I still feel compelled to check. Um…okay, this sounds a bit obsessive/compulsive, doesn’t it?

92. I’m a Chap-Stick addict. Average number of times I apply lip balm each day? Probably 50 or 60. Hmm…that might be obsessive/compulsive, too, huh? But I never have chapped lips!

93. I bowl on a league every week. We won’t discuss my bowling average, however. LOL!

94. Number of DVDs and Blu-rays hubby and I own: Somewhere around 600.  Now we buy less discs and download or stream.

95. Number of aquariums I currently have up and running and do all the maintenance on in my house? 4 (45 gallon, 30 gallon, 20 gallon, and a 1.5 gallon).

96. My perfect pizza: sausage, mushroom with extra cheese and extra mushrooms and red pepper.

97. I have four piercings in my left ear and two in my right. I also have my nose pierced.

98. I make my own candles.

99. I like dragons.

100. And last but not least…my absolute fave thing to do in my free time is make pottery on the wheel.