About Me

1. I am an identical twin.
2. I used to be a radio DJ when I was in college.
3. I love Spongebob Squarepants.
4. I am left handed, and my twin is right handed. We're mirror twins.
5. I own my own karaoke machine, equipped with 2 mics, and a TV screen. I also have a catalog of over 2000 songs.
6. I have played the piano for my whole life.
7. I have an irrational fear of thunderstorms and tornadoes.
8. I am a Business Manager by day and a pianist on the weekends.
9. I love to perform in musicals.
10. I taught myself how to knit from a book and the internet.
11. I love to scrapbook.
12. I hate to cook.
13. I have a dog named Bella who is 2 years old and absolutely perfect.
14. Except that she chews all paper items and sometimes pees on the floor.
15. My first dog that was my very own was named Greta. She died two years ago at the age of two and a half. I miss her lots.
16. My nose is pierced. I wear a tiny little blue stone in it.
17.I would like a tattoo, but I can't think of anything I want tattooed on me. When I do, I'm getting one.
18. I met my boyfriend of almost four years (Jacob!) at a karaoke bar.
19. Jacob and I had mutual friends who were going to karaoke.
20. I got a perfect score on my SAT verbal in high school.
21. I did NOT get a perfect math score.
22. I call cute dogs "schmoos."
22. My dog Bella thinks her name is Schmoo.
23. If I could be anything in the world, I would be a Broadway star.
24. We have four bonsai trees. Jacob takes care of them, and he is great at it.
25. I'm a great speller.
26. Incorrect punctuation irks me. Especially misused apostrophes.
27. Misspelled words irk me too.
28. Sometimes my boyfriend purposely spells things wrong to irritate me.
29. I was raised Catholic.
30. I don't go to Catholic church anymore, but I think the services are beautiful.
31. I went to Catholic school from 3rd - 12th grade.
32. I had to wear a uniform for that long too!
33. I won the school spelling bee in 6th, 7th and 8th grade.
34. I went on to the Archdiocesan spelling bee all three years -- and I won second place all three years.
35. I still have my spelling trophies.
36. In grade school, the boys called me and my sister "dogs" and barked at us.
37. To get back at them in 4th grade, we brought dog food instead of cupcakes for them on our birthday.
38. I love writing code for web design. I'm getting better and better at CSS.
39. I smell my hand without realizing it when I'm concentrating really hard on something. My twin sister does too.
40. I have double jointed fingers.
41. I have a great phone voice.
42. I recorded the phone message system for the company I used to work for. Thus, if you call them, you get my voice.
43. They paid me extra to do this. I'm a paid voice actor!
44. I am an excellent typist.
45. I don't like George W.
46. I don't like it when anyone uses words incorrectly, especially when they're in a prominent position.
47. I hate scary and violent movies.
48. I love cheesy romantic comedies and musicals.
49. I love watching Friends and Sex and the City, and Law and Order (the regular show, and SVU, but NO Criminal Internet.)
50. I watch way too much TV.
51. I went to an audition for "The Real World" when they came to Athens.
52. I didn't get cast.
53. I am terrible with money.
54. I think about my salary in terms of how much yarn I can buy a month.
55. I can say the alphabet backwards.
56. I can say the Hail Mary in French. I can also sing the French National Anthem.
57. I drove to the Atlanta auditions for "American Idol". The line was 4000 people long, so I left.
58. I still regret that...because now I'm too old to try out. They raised the age limit! I can audition this year! I auditioned this year!
59. I might try out for Star Search, though.
60. I have colitis.
61. I have had stomach problems my whole life.
62. Therefore, I am not embarrassed at all to talk about my stomach problems.
63. Which means that at every job I have ever had, I have called in sick at least once with "explosive diarrhea". 90% of the times I called in, I did have it.
64. The other 10% I didn't. But nobody questions "explosive diarrhea."
65. I minored in French in college.
66. I majored in English.
67. I have a Bachelor's Degree.
68. I love chocolate, especially dark chocolate.
69. I hate soft drinks. I don't drink anything carbonated.
70. I have entered a karaoke contest dressed as Pat Benatar and sang "Hit Me With Your Best Shot."
71.I am obsessed with blogging.
72.I can play a little bit of guitar.
73.I love going dancing.
74. I don't like exercising (but I'm doing it anyways).
75. I have a lot of debt that I am trying to pay off.
76. When it's paid off, I'm going to buy myself something big and extragavant.
77.It may be awhile!
78. I love to learn new computer skills.
79. I am an Ebay seller.
80. I am also an Ebay buyer.
81. I think gay marriage should be legal.
82. I play the piano every Sunday at a church in town that welcomes the GLBT community. I have met some amazing people there.
83. I hate doing the dishes.
84. I smoke. I wish I didn't.I have now officially quit, starting mid July 2004.
85. I'm trying to quit.I did quit!
86.My dog sleeps in my bed with me.
87. I was born on July 13, 1978, five minutes after my sister Cathy.
88. We were supposed to be a 10-lb boy.
89. Instead, we were two 5-lb girls.
89.They had a girl name picked out, but my sister was born first so she got it. I didn't have a name for a few days.
90. I want to be a web designer.
91. I want to own my own yarn shop.
92. I want to foster doggies one day.
93. I am good at singing harmony.
94.I can sight-read music.
95. I am completely unathletic.
96.I love reading these lists on other people's blogs.
97. I have 'met' some really awesome people through my knitting blog, which I started in early 2003.
98. I moved to carrie.prettyposies.com in July of 2003.
99.I can't remember what I did with my spare time before I started knitting.
100. I love my life, my family, my friends and all my online friends. I hope to meet many of them one day!