95 Facts About Me

1. I will be 42 in January 09.
2. I used to be in a punk rock band. I was the lead singer and we toured all over North America for many years.
3. I am a natural redhead and so is my husband. We have 2 red head boys.
4. I married the guitarist from my band. We have been together since 1992. We have only broken up once for about 2 hours. We have been married since 2000.
5. I am a leftie
6. I have a bunch of tattoos.
7. I worked in a law firm as an IT person for 7 years. I hated it and never regretted the day I quit which was 1/4/06.
8. I was a bartender for 12 years and gave it up to have a “career”. I gave up my “career” to be a bartender when motherhood became more important.
9. I love being a Mom.
10. I am thinking about becoming a lactation consultant. Nursing to me is more than feeding a baby. I love the social, spiritual and psychological benefits.
11. I wish I could wear men’s clothes. I hate women’s clothing. I also hate shopping.
12. I love motorcycles. I owned one for a long time. I sold it when I bought a house that needed rehabbing and had no time for it. My husband and I want to eventually buy new bikes and tour with them when we retire.
13. I have a bachelors of science in Kinesiology.
14. My husband never wanted kids and now says daily I am so glad we had a family.
15. I had 2 oppppss babies. I had no clue I was pregnant with my first. My friend Cecily had to tell me to test.
16. I have driven across every continental US state except for Kansas while on tour.
17. I have a real memory for directions and can remember how to get somewhere even if I was only there once.
18. I love “Survivor”
19. My father is 82 and is the 15th child of a family of 16 kids.
20. I loved being pregnant and had no trouble with a newborn. I find toddlers challenging, preschoolers can kick my ass.
21. I’d rather sit in my bed than sit on a couch in the living room. I think it comes from living in studio apartments and in group houses with roommates.
22. I booked my band’s first tour in bed naked with my partner.
23. The other tours I booked sitting at a desk
24. I became a sentimental mush when I became a Mom.
25. I am severely insecure and have low self esteem issues yet onstage seem like I could stomp anyone. I was most free in front of people screaming my head off.
26. My youngest is dairy, egg, beef, pork and peanut allergic.
27. The last movie I saw in the theater was Fahrenheit 911. We have few babysitters.
28. I was born in a hospital on Long Island whose parking lot ended at the bay.
29. I grew up thinking everyone lived near the ocean and had no clue how cool it was to be near the sea.
30. I hitchhiked across Europe in 1991 and went to Czechoslovakia when no one could speak English and drank 16 cent beers and stood in line for an hour to get one bunch of bananas.
31. I attempted suicide 7 times and almost succeeded once. The last time was in 1989.
32. My husband and I are both the youngest children and grandchildren in our families.
33. I have not eaten beef since 1986. I don’t like it.
34. I hate home decorating.
35. I like metal and punk rock music a lot. I have the musical taste of a 14 year old boy.
36. I am a pretty good cook.
37. I hate baking.
38. I rarely ever wear jewelry.
39. I am politically very liberal. Definitely, pro choice.
40. I married the perfect man for me. The longer we are together the happier we are.
41. My family is so crazy I really won’t get into it here.
42. I co-slept with both my kids. I am still sleeping with the youngest. The oldest permanently moved to his crib when the baby was born.
43. I have read blog’s for years. This is my first attempt at one.
44. My husband and I are true computer geeks. We have a network in our house and we log into a domain.
45. I love camping but have not been since my oldest was 7 months old. I am looking forward to them being old enough to go.
46. If I were rich and younger I would have had 4 or 5 kids.
47. I am weather obsessed.
48. I play the powerball when it goes above 75 million. I love to dream about what I’d do if I won.
49. My sisters are 13 and 10 years older than I am. Between my Mom and my sisters it is like having 3 Mothers.
50. I love summer. I love less clothes, I like the easiness of getting my kids dressed in the morning. I love getting them out all day everyday. When autumn arrives, and the leaves fall off the trees I count the months and weeks till spring arrives. I get excited about spring after the winter solstice because the days will get longer.
51. I love fancy restaurants I cannot afford. I also love good champagne.
52. My favorite color to wear is black. My wedding dress was black.
53. I can make a great Martini. I love to make them at work. I hate the way it tastes.
54. My husband and I still like to hold hands.
55. I spent most of my 20’s extremely angry.
56. I am a morning person. I can get more done before 9am than some people can get done all day. By evening though I am DONE.
57. I lost my virginity at 13.
58. I live in the North East of the US in a major city.
59. The last few months are the longest I have gone without a dog since I was five years old. My dog Phelix had to put down in May 2006. He was 15. I am ok with not having a pet, the boys are too young for a dog.
60. I have sadly not been able to finish a book since my youngest son was born. I fall asleep every time I try to read.
61. My husband and I quit smoking cold turkey together on January 7, 2000. We both have not smoked since. This is a big feat since both of us were working at bars at the time.
62. I like working non-traditional hours.
63. I like to shower. If I am tired, happy, upset, angry whatever I shower. It helps me think.
64. I like the taste of Red Bull. I only drink one each night that I work to help me stay up.
65. One of my biggest joys is family naptime on a cold winter day.
66. I hate doing the dishes and unloading the dishwasher. I don’t mind the laundry.
67. I know too many people who died too young from drugs, alcohol or a combo of both. It is the most depressing thing about working in a bar. I also know a lot of people who have gotten and stayed sober.
68. I worked as a stripper for most of my 20’s. I came out of that job relatively unscathed. It was quite interesting.
69. Our first house that be bought was a 7 bedroom, 3 bathroom Victorian. It was in need of a lot of rehab. We did all of the work and sold it for double what we bought it for 3 years later. It was going to be too expensive to heat without roommates. We bought a brand new house with only 3 bedrooms. I miss the old house sometimes.
70. My oldest son has ADHD and learning differences.
71. I love chocolate.
72. I was pregnant or nursing (or both) from December 2002 till december 2008.
73. Coffee makes me throw up violently.
74. My sister who is closest in age to me had non-hogins lymphoma. She had a bone marrow transplant in 1991. She is still cancer free.
75. I was a lifeguard in high school and college.
76. I am a planner.
77. I went to catholic school.
78. I talk to my oldest sister almost everyday on the phone.
79. I would change my sheets everyday if I had the time. I love flannel sheets.
80. Women who make the same mistake with men over and over and fool themselves it is out of their control drive me insane. You can say it is a pet peeve.
81. I drink gallons of iced blueberry herbal tea with no sugar.
82. Ol’ boys clubs drive me nuts.
83. Sometimes my spouse is a bit of a workaholic. He compromises by rarely ever working weekends.
84. I miss the rush of being onstage. It would make all my hair stand on end especially when the crowd was into it. Better than any illegal drug I swear.
85. Super Mom’s who never ever loose patience with their kids scare me. Sometimes my preschooler and toddler can really push buttons. They can fluster me especially when I have had no sleep due to work.
86. I have never had a cavity.
87. I am afraid of thunderstorms.
88. I like sex. My husband still thinks I am hot.
89. Friday night is date night at my house. We put the kids to bed and hang out. It is nice. We have been having Friday night date night for a long long time.
90. The labor and delivery nurse named my youngest. He was supposed to be a girl and only had a girl name. We would up with a boy and the nurse mentioned a name we would never have considered that we fell in love with on the spot. We would not have it any other way.
91. My desk is always a mess.
92. I love Christmastime.
93. I dream of seeing Australia and Northern Alaska one day.
94. My boys and I sing in the car all the time. It is really fun.
95. I love to sniff my boy’s hair.