100 Facts About Me

For the last few weeks, there has been a hashtag on Twitter called “100 Facts About Me.” This sounded like a good idea, especially because I don’t reveal that much about myself online or in person. Instead of clogging people’s timelines with 100 tweets each with a fact, I thought it would be much easier to post them all here at the same time. It took a few weeks to compile this list, so here we go:

1. I am cross-dominant. I write right handed, but cut with scissors and use a computer mouse left handed. I blame this on having a left handed and a right handed parent.
2. I have never dyed my hair
3. I have four neices and a nephew
4. When I was young we owned a cat without a name. My dad accidently ran over it. I wrote about this story for a school publication
4. I had a Beagle named Sassy until junior high
5. Sassy got bladder cancer and we had to put her down. I cried for days and played a lot of music in my mourning
6. I went to a Catholic school four blocks from my house until 6th grade. We had a horrific principal we called “The Nazi” and after her year of torture everyone left the school. Combined and very small classes forced us to close.
7. I then went to another school for 7th and 8th. I joined the church and they haven’t been able to get rid of me yet. 😉
8. My first job wasn’t until college at my school library. I worked there all through my years there.
9. I also worked as a hostess at a restaurant. One place I was only at for two months.
10. I then went to another restaurant and stayed there until it closed. My restaurant career lasted 10 months.
11. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is my favorite musical. Before I saw it the first time, I bought the CD and memorized all the words. At the show I sang along and still know all the words.
12. My first piano lesson was on November 14, 1989. It’s only slighty weird to me that I remember the date
13. The first time I saw Rent was in the movie theatre. I count that as a stage performance.
14. I saw Lion King an excessive amount when it came out on video. It is still one of my favorite Disney movies
15. I think new Pixar movies are their personal birthday presents to me. They always come out around my birthday
16. Dawson’s Creek and Felicity were my favorite TV shows in high school and college. They are still all-time favorites. I even had a VHS labeled and used only for those two shows.
17. I was obsessed with Jonathan Taylor Thomas in junior high. I blame my friend Kim for getting me started. That is one reason why I watched Lion King so much. 😉
18. My favorite all-time movie is Serendipity.
19. In 1998 I joined a online group called The Angels, from which my camp name came
20. I am extremely introverted, but you wouldn’t know it from how much I write online 😉
21. I am both the youngest and the only child. (Figure that one out!)
22. I have walked a half and full marathon. Many one day I’ll start running, but I doubt it…
23. I got my first iPod in 2006. I found SQPN early on and the rest is history… 😉
24. I am a converted live-tweeter
25. I have attended two CNMCs, but I doubt I will make it this year.
26. I am an Apple fan girl, but I don’t (yet) own a Mac. I am actively saving for one.
27. In my senior year of high school, I grew my hair out to the middle of my back. In the spring, I chopped it all off and have had short hair ever since.
28. In August of 2009 I read The Shack and it changed my faith life forever.
29. I worked at a Girl Scout camp for 7 summers. The skills and memories I have from there will last forever.
30. I became a TiVo user a year ago. I have not watched TV the same way since.
31. I have been an aunt since age 6.
32. For most of my life my favorite color was purple until a camp friend helped me embrace my love of pink.
33. I started taking organ lessons in high school and continued through college.
34. I only discovered the awesomesauce that is Veronica Mars, Firefly, Arrested Development and Freaks and Geeks years later on DVD.
35. I started watching Buffy and Angel on Christmas break. I am currently on seasons 6 and 3, respectively.
36. I have sung with the MSO Chorus since 2000. I have only taken one season off since then.
37. When I went to grad school in Chicago, it took me 3.5 hours each way to get there via car, train and bus.
38. I really enjoy Jamba Juice. Unfortunately, they don’t have it here, so I only get it once a year in Madison now.
39. Talking with people in person is a huge challenge for me that I have worked for years to overcome. I’m only now starting the realize how to manage it and why I do it.
40. Chadwick’s is my favorite catalog company.
41. Target/Best Buy/Kohl’s are my favorite in person stores.
42. People with poor spelling and/or grammar habits bother me.
43. I graduated from grad school last May, but unfortunately attended graduation alone.
44. I only got one C in my time in grad school – in my most challenging class.
45. Finding Nemo is my favorite Pixar movie.
46. Grey’s Anatomy is my favorite current TV show.
47. Glee is also a favorite, but it has fallen from grace with its inconsistencies
48. I still love most of its music and own all the albums they’ve released. I will eventually own all the non-album music from this season.
49. My knowledge of current pop music mostly comes from American Idol and Glee.
50. I discovered four of my favorite TV shows on DVD: Chuck, Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother and Friday Night Lights.
51. I started using Twitter on May 21, 2008. It has brought forth many fruitful relationships.
52. I direct two choirs at my church and accompany three masses a weekend.
53. I started podcasting in September with my friend Kien. Yet another thing to blame Twitter for (j/k). 😉
54. I started writing show notes in podcast episode 4. Kien does all the other work. 😉
55. I have been a GSPN.tv Plus Member since May of 2008 (I think)
56. I stopped using Plurk last Fall
57. For years my favorite font was Comic Sans MS. Now it’s Calibri
58. I don’t have cable and probably never will
59. In college, I had a terrifying event occur while driving to school. The engine blew on my Mom’s Nova
60. I totaled my next car (Escort) when I spun out on black ice on the freeway
61. I get super excited when I see actors from my favorite series in current episodes of other series
62. The Brahms Requiem is my favorite choral piece. I’ve sung it in concert probably multiple times over the years
63. I have abandonment/betrayal issues I have only started to work out
64. Big Bang Theory makes me laugh more than any other comedy series ever
65. My 10-yr high school and 15-yr elementary school reunions were organized exclusively on Facebook
66. The population of the school I teach at is mostly Hispanic
67. I got my first teaching position while still student teaching. I’ve been there ever since
68. A great tragedy occurred in my chorus in May of 2008. It was the one season I wasn’t singing
69. The car I drive now is a Toyota Yaris nicknamed Blue. Much improvement from the Escort
70. My parents bought me a used piano for my college graduation present. It replaced a very worn Wurlizter
71. I am a member of Milwaukee Orff
72. I have extremely dry skin in the winter. The only product that helped was Burt’s Bees Beeswax Hand Creme, and then I discovered Aquaphor Advanced Therapy
73. I have general and choral music education licenses
74. I graduated from Alverno College in December 2003 with a Bachelor of Music
75. I graduated from Catholic Theological Union in May 2010 with a Masters of Arts in Pastoral Studies
76. I earned two gold cups for piano competitions
77. I participated in Solo/Ensemble vocal competitions in high school and went to state for solos three years
78. I enjoy biking and walking for exercise, but I haven’t worked out regularly in 6 months
79. I set up wireless in my apartment for my TiVo on my own (mostly)
80. My parents took me camping in our trailer every weekend through high school
81. I attempted to start a piano studio last Spring. It didn’t go anywhere, but I have hope it will someday in the future when I have more time to dedicate to it
82. I’ve been working at my additional part time job for almost a year
83. I collect angels
84. I’ve only been to Disney World once, and it was in 4th grade
85. I auditioned for the choir director at my high school and did well enough to bypass being in Freshman choir
86. I earned honor cords for music in high school
87. I have been in the cast of two musicals and in the pit orchestra in another
88. Teaching music gives me much joy, especially when the kids cooperate
89. The two paintings I have in my apartment were gifts from friends. One was painted by the friend herself and one by a friend’s brother
90. I adopted two guinea pigs at the end of summer 2006. I found each of them dead in the cage (Rambo first, then Oreo) and they died within a year of each other
91. The current TV shows I most recommend are Chuck and Friday Night Lights for drama and Modern Family and Big Bang Theory for comedy
92. I’ve been blogging since March of 2008
93. I’m not very good at keeping plants alive. You have to water them, so that’s probably where it goes wrong 😉
94. I have been to one General Hospital Fan Club Weekend
95. I joined Weight Watchers in January of 2003. I have been a lifetime member since May of 2003
96. I had two wisdom teeth pulled within 6 months of each other
97. I make my own laundry soap
98. My family traveled to AZ in my senior high of high school for a surprise anniversary party for my grandparents
99. I am a soap opera fan. At one time I watched four of them, but now I’m down to one
100. I have never drank any alcohol