100 Questions Meme

I got this from keira­caitlin, but I did see it in ga_sunshine and star­rchilde’s jour­nals too. It got a LOT longer in the interim!

1. Copy this whole list into your journal.
2. Bold the things that you have in com­mon with me.
3. What­ev­er you don’t bold, replace with things about you.

01. I have made bad decisions.
02. I love Ital­ian food.
03. I’ve nev­er felt any temp­ta­tion to run away and join the cir­cus. They’re smelly. And I nev­er saw any books about a cir­cus. I don’t real­ly like circuses.
04. I like quite a few coun­try songs
05. If I’m ever rich, I’m just going to go to school and take what­ev­er cours­es strike my fan­cy. I adore learning.
06. Some­times I won­der if any­one under­stands. But then I fig­ure I’m prob­a­bly being melo­dra­mat­ic. And I know that I don’t let most peo­ple as close as they think they are, so how could they real­ly understand?
07. I hate not func­tion­ing as high­ly as I think I should.
08. I hate peo­ple who TypE LyKe D1s.
09. I also hate it when peo­ple use “how r u” instead of “how are you” And use the word “hun”. It should be “hon,” of course.
10. I am an excel­lent proofreader.
11. I’ve had sev­er­al operations.
12. I’ve nev­er bro­ken a bone. (Hmmm — does crack­ing one count? I’m not sure.)
13. I love not wear­ing shoes.
14. I detest conflict.
15. I wish I had more to give.
16. I’m not a mem­ber of the mile-high club.
17. I have done lots of vol­un­teer work.
18. I have a lot to learn.
19. I need to lose a good 15 pounds. (Actu­al­ly, that needs anoth­er zero on the end for me.)
20. I don’t know who Lewis Black is.
21. I love music.
22. I always wor­ry that I real­ly sound like crap when I’m singing, and every­one is just too polite to say anything.
23. I like the peo­ple I like far more than I actu­al­ly have the ener­gy to give to them—so I try to avoid inter­act­ing with the oth­ers so they don’t steal any of that energy.
24. It usu­al­ly takes me a while to process issues that are deeply emo­tion­al, then I do a core dump that can be very unset­tling for my SOs when they aren’t used to that yet.
25. I dream of hav­ing a just-for-fun bookstore/coffee shop/stitching nook—basically bait for meet­ing neat new peo­ple in the real world.
26. I have issues. Does­n’t everyone?
27. I love hear­ing new kinds of (good) music.
28. I’m shy sometimes.
29. I both want some­body else to “be the grown-up” and take care of things like mon­ey and bills and feel unsafe if some­body else is in con­trol of those things in my life.
30. I’m too ner­vous about most arts & crafts things to try them. I’m sure my efforts will be crappy.
31. I hate los­ing touch with peo­ple. Even if I don’t see them often, I want to know that any­one I’m fond of is still “there.” One of the things I like about the Inter­net is that it allows me to stay in touch with more peo­ple more easily.
32. I’m an infor­ma­tion junkie.
33. If I’m bored, it means I’m real­ly depressed.
34. I wish I had more time. I’m learn­ing to make bet­ter use of the time I do have.
35. I want more chil­dren, but I also wor­ry that I won’t be able to be a good par­ent to them because of my health.
36. I hate scrub­bing the cat box. Scoop­ing, scrubbing—the whole thing. But I hate the smell when it isn’t done more.
37. I hate clean­ing up gross stuff like mag­goty garbage.
38. I’m tired.
39. I’m seri­ous­ly con­sid­er­ing chang­ing schools and majors.
40. I think that there are peo­ple that need to just go away. Per­ma­nent­ly, in many cas­es. And I have to wish that kar­ma worked far more quick­ly and direct­ly for most of them.
41. I real­ly enjoy cre­ative and per­son­al gifts, even if they cost nothing.
42. I wor­ry ter­ri­bly when peo­ple I love aren’t get­ting along well (or well enough) togeth­er, and want to “fix it.”
43. I try not to focus on all the mis­takes I have made. Rather, I focus on the lessons learned and mes­sages received.
44. I want a new stereo. And lots of oth­er things. Real­ly a “home enter­tain­ment system.”
45. I’m not a patient per­son in gen­er­al, but I have absolute­ly NO patience with incom­pe­tence or will­ful ignorance.
46. I con­sid­er being a bitch to be quite the achieve­ment for me, and I’m very proud of it.
47. I have nev­er been water ski­ing or snow skiing.
48. I adore look­ing around and see­ing my home neat, clean, and uncluttered.
49. My car has no bumper stick­ers. (Because I keep want­i­ng to wait ’til it’s all clean, and then it got dinged and I want that fixed, and…)
50. I regret a few things in my life.
51. I like silence at times.
52. I’m the black sheep of my family.
53. I have good friends that I ini­tial­ly met online.
54. I think I’m get­ting over my per­fec­tion­ism. Well, to some extent.
55. Most of the time, it feels like every­body else is think­ing in slow motion.
56. I love to check things off on my to-do list.
57. I’d rather have very few clothes than put up with any­thing uncom­fort­able, or wear things I just don’t real­ly like.
58. In the last few years I’ve come to feel very self-con­scious about my accent which changes depend­ing on who I’ve been around.
59. I’m very orga­nized when I want to be.
60. I wor­ry about whether or not I’ll ever be able to work “nor­mal­ly” again.
61. I like peo­ple who know how to laugh.
62. I hide a lot behind humor.
63. I fear sub­stance abuse so much because of my fam­i­ly his­to­ry that I’ve had a very hard time accept­ing my legit­i­mate need for med­ica­tions that have a poten­tial for misuse.
64. I can be emo­tion­al. I don’t much like it, though.
65. I hate hav­ing any­one know when I cry.
66. But if some­one I love does­n’t notice that I’m cry­ing, I’m hurt. No, it does­n’t make sense.
67. I want more money.
68. I dream in col­or. I used to think every­body did. I still assume that peo­ple do unless they tell me otherwise.
69. I have two sib­lings. (Liv­ing ones).
70. I have a dark side. Again, does­n’t everyone?
71. I enjoy coloring.
72. I’ve recent­ly dis­cov­ered that I want a dig­i­tiz­ing tablet.
73. I’m much more dan­ger­ous if I’m very qui­et than if I’m yelling.
74. I’m not a spectator.
75. Affec­tion is not uncom­mon in my house.
76. I play RPGs.
77. I am far too defen­sive at times.
78. I hate answer­ing the phone, but I can’t stand hear­ing one ring unanswered.
79. I hate those stu­pid ani­mat­ed emoti­cons peo­ple use in email nowa­days. They can’t do that except in HTML, and HTML in email is EVIL!
80. I drool over gad­gets that I know I’d nev­er use, just because they’re neat.
81. I’ve nev­er seen Duran Duran in con­cert. I don’t want to and nev­er have. I’m not much for big con­certs anyway.
82. I hate it when girls walk around wear­ing next to noth­ing and com­plain when guys look.
83. I believe in love.
84. I don’t keep in con­tact with any­one I went to school with. I’d like to recon­nect with some of them, though.
85. I despise close-mind­ed people.
86. I am fierce­ly pro­tec­tive of my fam­i­ly and friends.
87. I’m even pro­tec­tive of peo­ple I don’t like if I think they’re being mistreated.
88. I don’t for­give easily.
89. I’m right-hand­ed. I think I was orig­i­nal­ly left-hand­ed but my first-grade teacher was the old-fash­ioned sort who forced every­one to write with their right hands.
90. I love the smell of bak­ing cook­ies. The smell of most any baked goods bak­ing is good.
91. There are oth­er, far more impor­tant things that I should have been doing with this time.
92. I love being organized.
93. There is not much on TV I like to watch. Even when there is some­thing I like, I for­get to watch it.
94. I feel guilty when I sit down with­out some sort of work in my hands.
95. I’m very sen­si­tive to smells.
96. I wish I had a house with land. A house would be a darned good start, though.
97. I’m a total fail­ure at tra­di­tion­al meditation.
98. I like to sur­round myself with beauty.
99. I can cross-stitch.
100. I like doing jig­saw puz­zles.

I was­n’t at all sure about these:
Most peo­ple don’t know how to take me at first. Did you know how to take me? Do you? Hell, I don’t know how to take me!
I am con­trol­ling in many areas of my life. I’ve actu­al­ly let go in areas in which I was far more con­trol­ling in the past.
I’m not as young as I look, or as old as I feel. God­dess knows I’m not as old as I feel, but I have no idea how old I look!