Midlife’s A Trip

In Celebration of My 100th Blog Post

Posted on 01. Apr, 2008 by Karen in Family and Friends, Reflections

Last week I did my 100^thposting here on Midlife’s A Trip.  Although this milestone slipped my mind for a few days, I realized that I should really celebrate the fact that I stuck with my new skill of blogging and didn’t give up putting my thoughts on the written page.  But instead of writing something deep and meaningful in honor of this auspicious occasion, I thought it’d be fun to just tell you a few more things about me—how about 100 J

1. My favorite holiday is Christmas.
2. My birthday is June 8^th.
3. I am the oldest child of 3 children in my family.
4. I tell everyone that my sister is the oldest.
5. There’s a movie about the year I graduated from high school—1969.
6. My 40^th high school reunion is next year (OMG).
7. My favorite dessert is a Sanders hot fudge cream puff.
8. My shy cat is Coco Puff.
9. My wild cat is Bijou.
10. Both of my cats are Bengals—they have spots like a leopard.
11. We always had dogs when I was growing up.
12. I’m arachnophobic.
13. I love to garden.
14. I want to be a good knitter by the time I have grandchildren. 
15. I love blogging.
16. A year ago I didn’t know what a blog was.
17. The “Wizard of Oz” is one of my all-time favorite movies.
18. I was a flying monkey in my elementary school’s production of the Wizard of Oz.
19. I wanted to snatch the ruby slippers off the girl who played “Dorothy” in that play.
20. My first car was a red Pinto that luckily didn’t blow up.
21. The hottest car I ever had was a lemon yellow Camaro with a black vinyl top that I wrecked in a snowstorm.
22. Spring and fall are my favorite seasons.
23. In high school I wanted to be an artist until I realized I just wasn’t that artistic.
24. For years I wanted to be an anthropologist and majored in that freshman year of college.
25. I have a BA in psychology and a JD.
26. Yes I’ve heard the joke about the attorney and the sharks.
27. My favorite color is red.
28. My living room is painted red.
29. I have ruby slippers—actually red sequin Converse sneakers.
30. On the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator I am an ENFP—extrovert, intuitive, feeling, perceiving. 
31. My personality type is rare—only 7% of the population.
32. My blood type is rare too—A negative.
33. I have a Facebook page.
34. I can’t sing except in the car when the radio is turned up loud and then I sound great.
35. I love to read.
36. I read very fast.
37. I took typing in junior high because my dad insisted—what a visionary.
38. I love Tom Bihn bags.
39. I’m a Gemini.
40. I used to have Barbie dolls, a Ken and a Midge.
41. My best friend, Joyce and I met 50 years ago.
42. I have a 32 year old son, Charles or “Chip”.
43. I have a 4 year old niece.
44. My father is deceased and my mother is 88 years old.
45. I used to watch the Mickey Mouse Club show every day when I was a kid—with my Mouseketeer ears on.
46. The first time I stayed up all night was to watch the election coverage when JFK became president.
47. I remembered exactly what I was doing when I heard that JFK was assassinated.
48. I heard Martin Luther King, Jr. first gave his “I Have A Dream” speech in Detroit in 1963.
49. I wanted to go to Woodstock but my mother had a fit when I asked.
50. I saw the Beatles live on their first world tour.
51. I saw Jimi Hendrix in concert in 1968.
52. I have seen every episode of the original “Star Trek” series at least twice.
53. My favorite science fiction movie is “Aliens”.
54. My favorite TV series were Frasier, Sex in the City (1^st season) and the X-Files.
55. I’m a “Today Show” fan.
56. I meditate.
57. I do yoga.
58. I’m a night person.
59. I have traveled outside the U.S. to France, Spain, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Bermuda, the Bahamas and Jamaica.
60. My favorite vacation spot in the U.S. is Martha’s Vineyard.
61. I hate the smell of gasoline.
62. I have hot flashes.
63. I have been married twice.
64. Both of my husbands were named “Charles”.
65. My friends don’t let me talk to men named “Charles” anymore, except of course my son.
66. I want to be cremated.
67. I was in an earthquake once.
68. I always cry during the last scene of the movie “The Color Purple”.
69. I speak enough French and Spanish to be conversant when I travel. 
70. I took German in college.
71. The only instrument I ever played was violin and I was awful.
72. I took ballet lessons for years.
73. In my first dance recital, I had a black and gold sequin bumblebee costume.
74. I love Motown music.
75. When I was growing up, the Supremes lived on the next street over. 
76. I’m allergic to scallops.
77. I had blue “cat-eye” glasses when I was young.
78. I had LASIK eye surgery 8 years ago and every morning I can see the alarm clock is a miracle.
79. I love bookstores.
80. I have to have popcorn at the movies.
81. I love to tell stories about anything and everything.
82. I’m 5 feet 4 inches tall, hopefully not shrinking.
83. I have a great sense of humor.
84. I believe in past lives.
85. I’m a liberal Democrat.
86. I’m spiritual and attend a Unity church.
87. My idea of going camping is a Holiday Inn.
88. The only time I ever had a nickname was in college when everyone called me “Twig” because I was pretty thin. 
89. For breakfast at home, I like oatmeal with raisins. 
90. My power animal is the turtle.
91. I collect small decorative boxes.
92. My favorite bagel is salt with lox cream cheese.
93. I don’t drink coffee anymore because the caffeine makes my eye twitch.
94. I am a professional life coach working with people in midlife.
95. The last movie I saw was “Tom Clancy”.
96. I have a grandmother hope chest.
97. I believe in the law of attraction.
98. I will be 57 this year.
99. I’m very talkative and love to make people laugh.
100. I used to have a Ouija board.

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