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December 05, 2004
Call me a copy-cat
1. I can drink a liter of water faster than you could ever imagine possible.
2. I spend most of winter freezing my butt off and wearing really ugly fuzzy purple pants in order to combat the cold that is constantly creeping into my house.
3. I made the pants myself.
4. My favorite colors are red and orange.
5. I like pink and purple too, but I'm picky about them.
6. and a lot of blues are nice...
7. I wore green a lot in 8th grade. I haven't worn it very much since.
8. The notable exception is my apple green coat.
9. Ok. fine. I like pretty much every color except yellow.
10. And teal. I hate teal!
11. And I never wear brown. I just don't feel right in it.
12. Last time I washed my slippers, they didn't want to dry. I put them in the oven. They dried. My oven smelled like leathery feet for days.
13. I do stupid things like that some times.
14. I just spent A LOT of money on yarn yesterday.
15. I can't even consider joining the YNBA, regardless of the size of my stash.
16. I feel a lot of pressure to finally come through with one of my ideas and use the yarn I bought.
17. I'm afraid of failing.
18. I hate making mistakes.
19. I hate being corrected.
20. I'm trying really hard to get over this.
21. Living in a foreign country and not speaking the language 100% fluently is forcing me to.
22. I love speaking French.
23. But I wish I didn't have an accent.
24. Or at least less of one.
25. I think the French aren't as rude as everyone says.
26. And I don't find French accents cute or sexy anymore.
27. I like sitting around in my pajamas.
28. I take REALLY hot showers.
29. I love baths.
30. Unfortunately, I don't have a bathtub.
31. I've been married for 2 months and 3 days.
32. People started bugging us for grandchildren AT the wedding.
33. They shouldn't hold their breath. It ain't gonna happen this year.
34. Seven of my friends had babies in 2003.
35. Hanging out with some of them gives me baby fever.
36. Hanging out with others makes me want to get my tubes tied.
37. I'm might be hard on my friends and family.
38. But I'm much harder on myself.
39. I don't like eating sweet stuff for breakfast.
40. I have a huge sweet tooth that must kick in around noon.
41. I don't like milk chocolate.
42. I love dark chocolate (preferably above 76%)
43. I rarely drink soda.
44. In the area I come from, we call it "pop"
45. I only started saying "soda" when I moved to NYC.
46. I hate cola
47. But I love the occasional cream soda, orangina or root beer.
48. Drinking pop makes me hiccup right after the first sip.
49. I need some new shoes.
50. I can't find any I really like.
51. I'm picky.
52. I love to cook.
53. It's practically impossible to cook in my kitchen. It's too damned small.
54. The first day I cooked in this apartment I burnt my hand, dropped a pan on the floor and melted a circle into the linoleum.
55. And I couldn't find the sugar at the super market, so I ended up taking sugar cubes and crushing them. (see number 7)
56. Frog thinks I'm a clutz.
57. He might be right.
58. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.
59. I hate the swarms of people in the stores around Christmas.
60. I work right behind one of the biggest department stores in town.
61. This makes me hate slow moving crowds even more.
62. Plus I don't like shopping very much.
63. Sometimes I wish I were wealthy so I could wear gorgeous clothes.
64. But I hope if I were wealthy I would do something more worthwile with my money than blow it all on couture.
65. I walk REALLY fast.
66. I wish I knit really fast.
67. One day when I was 15 or 16 I decided I wanted to learn to knit - just like that.
68. That night I went and bought crappy needles and some lousy yarn and got some books out of the library.
69. I taught myself.
70. The first thing I made was a scarf that was (unintentionally) full of holes and had wavy sides.
71. My mom could never figure out why I knit.
72. A couple years ago we got a copy of a letter written by my grandpa talking about how my dad's mom was a huge knitter.
73. I never knew her.
74. Now my mom thinks I knit because it's something in my blood or my genes or my soul that I must have gotten from my grandma.
75. I also sew.
76. And I dabble in quilting.
77. And I can crochet, but I'm not nuts about it.
78. I used to make Ukrainian Easter eggs.
79. And beads from sculpty.
80. And do pottery.
81. And make paper
82. And do about a zillion other crafts.
83. I love dogs.
84. I hate cats.
85. I'm really allergic to them.
86. I'm a libra.
87. So are most of my friends.
88. I don't like sandwiches so much.
89. I love traveling.
90. But don't get to travel as much as I'd like.
91. I think that kind of sucks since I'm sitting practically in the middle of Europe.
92. I hate talking about laundry and housekeeping.
93. I hate doing it too.
94. I think everyone should play these games - Europe, Africa, Asia, South and Central America
95. I usually spend my weekends knitting and listening to wnyc.
96. I'm afraid that makes me an anti-social loser.
97. The grey and rainy weather this year is making me really bummed.
98. I wasn't going to make one of these lists.
99. Then Julia said I should and I enjoyed reading Maryse's
100. It was harder than I thought.
Posted by kate at December 5, 2004 11:10 PM
