tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119107114870956192024-02-18T19:19:04.717-08:00and the duck said...all about meMaggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18010155174814652914noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11910711487095619.post-60910052754658297522008-02-12T11:20:00.000-08:002008-06-25T18:59:20.247-07:00<p align="center"><em></em><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEkNLz2vv1pVM662XBR7DlwFc-GlfdFDiXE6AOCmE2wfeJpIGec9dC0o2h8eUBlxBnxyobNlCDuuH0bFVdR8gLx012B4s_98_azwGIVVz-6nrtN-aILbeLvnF_1rVQSEFPtre0giKzzA/s1600-h/Maggie.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166176126790879586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEkNLz2vv1pVM662XBR7DlwFc-GlfdFDiXE6AOCmE2wfeJpIGec9dC0o2h8eUBlxBnxyobNlCDuuH0bFVdR8gLx012B4s_98_azwGIVVz-6nrtN-aILbeLvnF_1rVQSEFPtre0giKzzA/s200/Maggie.jpg" border="0" /></a> <em>Yep, that's me.</em><br /></p><br /><br /><p>1. I am allergic to pineapple. Weird, I know. And I don’t mean allergic “it makes my mouth feel funny” – I mean “if you give me something with pineapple juice, please have the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">epi</span> pen ready” allergic. </p><p>2. I am an oldest child – my sisters are 2 years and 4 years younger than me.<br /></p><p>3. Because he only had daughters, my dad would probably do almost anything for a grandson.<br /></p><p>4. I enjoy spending time with my extended family. Well, with my dad’s side anyway. My mother’s side has a few people who make me want to <s/>move to Siberia</s> <s/>get a new family</s> give me endless opportunities to practice being kind and patient.<br /></p><p>5. I am the happiest person that I know.<br /></p><p>6. Sometimes it takes work to be happy.<br /></p><p>7. I think that sometimes it takes work to be happy is a very important lesson. It is also sometimes a hard thing to learn.<br /></p><p>8. I don’t like to be cold (and I am cold all the time) but I love snow. I think it is the most peaceful thing on earth.<br /></p><p>9. I know things without being told. I don’t know how – I just do.<br /></p><p>10. Me knowing things without being told can sometimes be rather unnerving to other people. Sometimes to me too.</p><p>11. I am a total TV junkie.<br /><br />12. I love <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Tivo</span> – and I remember what I did without it. But I am quite sure that the discovery of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Tivo</span> has contributed to fact <a href="http://andtheducksaid.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-things-about-me-part-1.html">#5</a>.<br /><br />13. Going back to school was one of the scariest decisions I ever made. Before I decided to go back, I only mentioned it to one person. Even after I went back, it took me a while to tell people.<br /><br />14. Going back to school has been harder and better than I thought it would be. Sometimes the work sucks, but I actually like to learn. This makes me a nerd.<br /><br />15. I have an insane memory – especially for details. Names, birthdays, hobbies, places, favorites, or anything else that seems completely random is stuck forever in my brain.<br /><br />16. This is not to say that on some occasions I am not a total space case. Because sometimes I am a TOTAL space case.<br /><br />17. I am a little afraid that there <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">aren</span>’t 100 things about me period – interesting or otherwise.<br /><br />18. Adventures In Babysitting is one of my favorite movies. I have to watch it if I see that it is on TV.<br /><br />19. I love buying gifts for people.<br /><br />20. I also love wrapping gifts. With bows…the perfect wrapping job is not complete without a bow.<br /><br />21. I am creative, but not artistic. I think that there is a very large difference between the two.<br /><br />22. When everyone says that it <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">doesn</span>’t matter what other people think, I just stay quiet…because inside my head I am silently screaming “Yes it does! It matters a lot what other people think!” It might not matter to anyone else, but it matters to me.<br /><br />23. I am crazy organized…and I love it.<br /><br />24. Sometimes I am a little over zealous and I try to make other people organized like me. This <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">isn</span>’t very nice of me.<br /><br />25. I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">didn</span>’t decide to go back to school and not be a nurse because I hate nursing. I think that nursing is wonderful, it just <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">isn</span>’t what I want for me.<br /><br />26. My sisters are each very much like my parents. I sometimes secretly wonder if they had other kids after me because they knew that I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">wasn</span>’t like them and they wanted kids who were.<br /><br />27. I realize that #26 sounds crazy. But it’s still true.<br /><br />28. I completely lack the ability to say no. I am a yes girl.<br /><br />29. I love candles. Having candles makes me feel happy, because it is a nice little thing that I do just for me – I think that they are pretty to look at, and I love ones that smell good.<br /><br />30. I love to vacuum.<br /><br />31. Since I have been an adult, I have developed horrible insomnia. I almost never sleep through the night. I wake up by 5:30 am regardless of the time that I go to bed.<br /><br />32. I have gotten used to having precious little sleep, although there are the rare nights that I actually get several consecutive hours. After those nights I feel AMAZING!<br /><br />33. This list is taking a lot longer to write than I thought it would.<br /><br />34. I think that #33 is sort of a cop out, so now I will give TWO things to make up for it.<br /><br />a. I love the color red.<br /><br />b. I don’t understand why people have things (candles, plates, glasses, whatever) that they NEVER use. I understand that you might want to save things for something special, which I think is great, but I think it is tragic that people get so caught up in that thought that they never get to enjoy their nice things. Because in the end, they are just THINGS.<br /><br />35. I enjoy having nice things, but I am extremely <s>cheap</s> <s>thrifty</s> resourceful, and almost never spend a lot of money on things.<br /><br />36. I love to cook. I am also good at it, but this is not the reason that I love to cook. Well, not the only reason.<br /><br />37. I used to bite my nails.<br /><br />38. When I get stressed out about things, I returned to bad habit #37 without realizing it.<br /><br />39. I HATE to be late. The thought of not being somewhere on time makes me crazy.<br /><br />40. I love to people watch.<br /><br /></p><p>41. Sometimes when I watch people I make up little stories for them in my head like where they are going or what they are doing.</p><p>42. I feel compelled to sing along to songs on the radio, even if I don’t know all the words. </p><p>43. I love to make lists. More than that, I love the feeling of checking something off of a list when I finish it.<br /></p><p>44. I think that Caller ID is one of the greatest inventions ever. I will admit it: I screen my calls.<br /></p><p>45. I always wear perfume or a scent of some kind.<br /></p><p>46. I know that a lot of the things that are important to me are important to me because they were not important to my mother.<br /></p><p>47. I am totally aware that #46 makes me extremely passive aggressive. Case in point: I always thought it would be nice if she sent out Christmas cards, and she almost never did. I not only send them to lots of people, but I hand make all of my cards…and love it.<br /></p><p>48. If you had told me at 16 what my life would be like in 10 years, I never would have believed you.<br /></p><p>49. It might not be what I expected, but I love my life.<br /></p><p>50. I make my bed as soon as I get out of it <s>every day</s> almost every day.</p><p>51. Sometimes at night I have a very over-active imagination and can easily convince myself that the slightest noise is someone coming after me.<br /><br />52. I am very social, but I hate to be the center of attention. It makes me very uncomfortable.<br /><br />53. I am very bad at taking compliments. Very, very bad.<br /><br />54. I worry that #53 makes me seem ungracious, when this is not at all the case. The case is really just that I am a big dumb idiot who <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">doesn</span>’t know how to take a compliment.<br /><br />55. I don’t want to look like a slob, but I am quite sure that I do more often than I don’t. This makes me sad.<br /><br />56. You will almost never see me leave the house without at least a little bit of make-up, unless I’m going to the gym. This is not because I am crazy, simply because I feel better about myself with a little make-up on because I think I look better. I don’t care if anyone else thinks so or not.<br />57. I love photography.<br /><br />58. I have finally figured out that a cell phone is for my convenience and safety, so if it <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">isn</span>’t convenient for me to answer it, I don’t.<br /><br />59. Sometimes (although not always) talking to people that I don’t know makes me uncomfortable.<br /><br />60. The previews are my favorite part of going to the movies.<br /><br /></p><p>61. I can count on one hand the number of times in the last year that I have been to the movies. </p><p>62. I wish I were smarter.</p><p>63. I am terrible at lying, but I could probably be hired by the CIA as a human lie detector. Apparently being bad at lying makes me really good at knowing when others are lying.</p><p>64. I have a complete and utter phobia of the dentist. I can’t even talk about the dentist (or hear about one) for more than 30 seconds without flipping right the <s>%$(*$</s> heck out.</p><p>65. I am a talker. Seriously. I can talk about anything, to anyone. I don’t necessarily consider this a positive trait.</p><p>66. I embarrass easily. VERY easily. And this is no looking down at the floor type of embarrassment – this is turning BRIGHT RED embarrassment. Good times. Because nothing helps embarrassment more than when people notice that you are fire engine red and then stare at you more.</p><p>67. I have a high tolerance for alcohol…<em>a very high tolerance for alcohol</em>.</p><p>68. I tend to hold my liquor well. </p><p>69. Christmas cards are one of my favorite parts of the holiday season. I love <a href="http://andtheducksaid.blogspot.com/2007/12/crafty-tuesday-holiday-cards.html">sending them </a>and getting them and displaying them.</p><p></p><p>70. I used to go to Girl Scout Camp with my childhood best friend for a week or two every summer. I loved it. You would now <s>probably</s> have to pay me to camp.<br /><br />71. I look very little like the rest of my family. I used to wonder if I was switched at birth. I have decided that this is unlikely. But if it were true, I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">wouldn</span>’t be totally shocked to find out.<br /><br />72. I rarely cry. When I was younger I used to cry at everything – movies, books, etc. Now it takes a lot for me to shed a tear…a whole lot. And even then, it's more often out of anger than anything else.<br /><br />73. I am good at reading people. I can pick up on numerous subtle/unsaid things. And I don’t forget them. (<a href="http://andtheducksaid.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-things-about-me-part-2.html">see #15</a>)<br /><br />74. I am convinced that every detail in life ends up having a large impact at some point down the road. See <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289879/">The Butterfly Effect</a>…it’s like that.<br /><br />75. Sometimes I daydream about how the small decisions I made that day will make a big difference later on.<br /><br />76. I tend to censor things and put a lot of thought into things that I say to people who are close to me. Not because I don’t want to tell them the truth, but because I want to be sure that they hear it the way that I mean it.<br /><br />77. I am much better at making someone know what I mean when I write instead of talk. I get emotional and off track when I talk. When I write things down I have the option to delete things.<br />78. I am a big fan of email as a communication. (See #77)<br /><br />79. My mother used to tell me that I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">shouldn</span>’t live alone because if I were abducted or murdered it would take days before someone would notice. I told her that this was highly unlikely….but it did make me wonder how long it would take.<br /><br />80. I have very eclectic musical taste. And I highly enjoy classical music.<br /><br />81. My family got their first computer when I was about 6. We were the only people that I knew who had a computer, and we used to play the Oregon Trail from a big floppy disk. <em>I'm pretty sure if you went and looked, this very computer and floppy disk could still be found in my parents' basement.</em><br /><em></em><br />82. Everyone has heartbreak. I have been the one to be heartbroken and the one to break someone else’s. The latter was much, much harder.<br /><br />83. I am fanatical about correct spelling and grammar.<br /><br />84. I love to read.<br /><br />85. I am excellent at staying in touch with people, even if it is sporadic. I think that there is no better way to make someone feel important than to send an unexpected card or email saying ‘hi, I was just thinking of you.’<br /><br />86. I love making new year’s resolutions. And because I want to make sure that I keep some, I tend to make several resolutions, with the thought that at least one will be realized.<br /><br />87. Last year I made 2 pages worth of resolutions. And kept over half.<br /><br />88. Contrary to what you might think based on #65, I am fairly private. There are some things that I don’t talk about. Although I won’t lie about them when asked.<br /><br />89. People who say that they don’t have enough time make me crazy. Everyone has the same amount of hours in the day. Prioritize and do what you need to do.<br /><br />90. I love getting mail.<br /><br />91. When I first got an apartment, they informed me of the complex’s pet policy. I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">couldn</span>’t imagine why anyone would want a pet. I now have a dog and a cat. And fish. And I love them all. <em>Well, I don’t really love the fish, but I do like to see them in the tank. I think that counts for something.</em></p><p>92. I have pictures all over, of all different people and places. I smile every time I look at them.</p><p>93. I am a fastidious calendar keeper. I never make plans without checking my calendar, and the second I do make an appointment to do something, it gets written down. I carry my calendar with me everywhere…I love my <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">PDA</span>.</p><p>94. Emptying the dishwasher is one of my least favorite household chores.</p><p>95. I have a tattoo.</p><p>96. I love to scrapbook.</p><p>97. My handwriting is impeccable.</p><p>98. I am incapable of doing only one thing at a time.</p><p>99. I hate to have my feet touched, but I love getting pedicures.</p><p>100. New Year’s Eve is my least favorite holiday of the year.</p><p></p><p>And there you have it. 100 scintillating facts about me. Try not to get too excited.</p>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18010155174814652914noreply@blogger.com