Looking over my 100 Things About Me from 2 years and 1 week ago, I see some things have changed. Others simply have not. Redux with current commentary.

1. I am STILL not actually a blonde.
2. I dyed my hair red for about 15 years. Yep, not having dyed it red in the last two years since I wrote this, it’s still true.
3. I will NOT eat oatmeal. I am a survivor of oatmeal abuse, so I doubt this’ll ever change. Really. Oatmeal abuse. Sounds silly. Gives you a lifelong terror of being stuck on a desert island with nothing but oatmeal to eat.
4. I am a compulsive reader. Check.
5. I’ve probably read more books than most people have read warning labels. I’m even more sure of it now. I’m amazed how little people read anything, when I simply can’t NOT read any words in front of my face.
6. I give people things quite often. Check.
7. I love cats. Yup. They keep me as sane as I am.
8. I eat at McDonald’s so often that it’s said it’s my kitchen. They changed the recipes for their burgers, fries, and sodas, so nevermind them. I haven’t had a McDonald’s anything in a year or so.
9. I think it’s stupid to sue McDonald’s (or any other restaurant) for getting fat on their food. Check.
10. I go nuts over people not taking responsibility for their own behavior. Yeah, especially when to my embarassment I realize I’m the one doing it.
11. I am a night owl who now lives on a day routine to be less nutso feeling.
12. I like blogs written by cats. Check.
13. I have stuffed animals and Kuan Yin and Ganesha on top of my monitor. I have a lamp and a quartz fetish of a penis on my monitor.
14. I no longer put little signs everywhere to remind me to think positive but I don’t remember why I stopped.
15. I seem to attract lunatics. Check. Like attracts like? The law of attraction a la “The Secret” maybe?
16. I love the thesaurus. Check.
17. I love the dictionary too. Check.
18. I am a chocolate fiend who doesn’t eat chocolate even close to daily any more.
19. My mother is one of my best friends. I guess.
20. I’ve never met my other best friend in person. Check.
21. I once left for a 3 day trip and ended up travelling around the western US for over 30 days. Check. Can’t exactly take that back now.
22. I got to see Halley’s comet from the middle of a desert in a snow storm. Check. See #21
23. I am arrogant and I’m also unbelievable shy and insecure.
24. I’m working on that. Sorta. Though mostly I’m just trying to survive these days.
25. I give to animal shelters monthly. This is on hold until I win the lotto or at least get a job or something.
26. I can’t stand groups. Check.
27. I simultaneously see myself as always too fat and 50 pounds lighter than I really am. Check.
28. I dislike using the phone. Check!!!!!!!
29. I am easily suckered by any man in my life. Check.
30. I have no sense when it comes to money. Check.
31. I learn about meds and ignore docs orders on them when doc is being asinine. Check. Asinine = Not willing to explain what they’re supposed to do and/or why they want me on them in the first place, in this case.
32. I no longer have a uterus or ovaries, for which I am grateful. Check.
33. I had a dog as a babysitter as a child. Check.
34. I learned to spit watermelon seeds at a church function. Still true. Haven’t forgotten and had to relearn this in the past 2 years.
35. I hang out with Quakers a lot, when I can. Oh hell, I don’t hang out with anyone much, but I do hang out with Quakers more than any other group of people.
36. I have four one yahoo accounts.
37. I can build a computer myself. Check.
38. I can change a tire, but I’d rather look helpless and get a man to do it, or call road service. Check.
39. I can give a cat a pill without bleeding. Usually.
40. I am a former card carrying member of the ACLU. They want money to give you the card.
41. I can make a rosary, a database, and fudge. Yup. I’m best at making the rosary, though.
42. I am attracted to men that are bad for me. Probably related to #15.
43. I find men that are good for me boring. No doubt related to #15 and #42 somehow.
44. Anesthesia makes me sick. I guess it still does.
45. I’m a cavedweller. More so now that I’m on trileptal and burn if I imagine sunshine too clearly.
46. I think pink hats for under 50’s are in direct opposition to the whole idea of red hats. Yup. Silly people.
47. Depression and Anxiety courtesy PTSD have been my enemies for as long as I can remember. Not sure I’ve ever been diagnosed with PTSD, but close enough.
48. I don’t find walking into walls fun. Still don’t like it. Gee, go figure.
49. I hate politics. Check.
50. I still think politics is at least a bit better than just shooting each other when we disagree. Check.
51. I keep 5 4 backups of everything on my computer ALL the time.
52. I actually have a plan of what to do in case of a fire. Yeah. New plan: Panic.
53. Ganesha is my buddy. I’ve lost all my faiths.
54. I tend to watch the same favorite movie over and over for a year month or so before I go on to a new favorite movie.
55. I stopped counting after I saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show for the 100th time in the theater. Check.
56. I blame my grandfather for giving me figure my grandfather gave me big nose genes on the inside to go with the small nose genes on that outside, resulting in a deviated septum.
57. I played Dungeons and Dragons for many years. Check.
58. I had a car named Hellfire. Check.
59. I am addicted to the internet. I guess.
60. I have seen my own death in a vision many times. Oddly enough, I had done this. The vision has vanished now, though. I wonder what that might mean.
61. I wrote my own book on Tarot card readings and never shared it with anyone. Check.
62. I have never found a religionous tradition or community or faith that suits me, but not for lack of searching. Check.
63. I have this apparently odd idea that I should be consulted before swarms of relatives are invited to stay for a day or a week. Check.
64. I really dislike men as romantic partners, for all that I love the idea of it. Check.
65. My best friend offline friend is not only a man, but he’s not the same race as me. Check.
66. Once upon a time, I wanted to have children. Then I realized I’d have to live in the same house as them and I got over the maternal urge. Check. But I’m still sad about it sometimes.
67. I did graphics and web design as a profession until the customers drove me crazyier.
68. Rock candy gives me the shakes. Check. Last time I had it, whenever that was, anyway.
69. I am extremely partial to Toyotas and Hondas and will only have a Ford if it’s given to me for free. Check.
70. I vote for more money for education even though I’ll never have children. Check.
71. I can’t stand people who don’t respond in any way to one on one communication in private. Check. Anything at all is preferable to total unresponsiveness.
72. I have a drinking straw with a plastic penis on it in my pencil holder. Check.
73. I stopped keep getting PDAs then going went back to notepads and purple pens.
74. I’ve driven from LA to Orlando in 72 hours straight by myself. Check.
75. I haven’t been asked if I’m male or female since I was in college. Check.
76. I’ve shot off a hand-cast cannon within city limits. Check.
77. I have a thing for office supplies. Check.
78. I have AA width feet. Check.
79. I am NOT a nature/outdoors type of person. Check.
80. I love quotations. Check.
81. I tend to be chameleon-like and appear to turn into whatever kind of person I hang out with. Check.
82. I believe in God/Goddess/All that Is/The Great Wonkentonka and I am an atheist. Go figure that one out. I can’t.
83. I did psychic readings for a living when I lived in Florida, and was good at it. Check.
84. I can’t stand my current last step-monster…um…step-mother.
85. I really liked my previous step-monster before the last one.
86. I get along with my father somewhat civilly now, which is a never-ending source of amazement to me.
87. I feel like I have the sex drive of a dead penguin. Unless, of course, I am having one of those times I want to screw everyone in sight.
88. I am allergic to penicillin. Check.
89. I guessed correctly that the most extreme hunter in the cat family was the domestic cat. Check.
90. I knew about the Priory of Scion before Da Vinci Code was written. Check.
91. I am no longer afraid of the dark. Check.
92. I startle easily and hate that. Check.
93. It took me 2 years after being mugged to start going out at night again. Check.
94. I am more bark than bite. Check.
95. When I bite, I bite HARD.
96. I was taught to tie my shoes by my kindergarten boyfriend while waiting in line for the water fountain. Check.
97. I quit school the first day of first grade because they didn’t teach me to read, but I was forced to go back. Check.
98. I quit high school at the beginning of my junior year and never did go back. Check.
99. I got my Bachelor’s degree anyway.Check.
100. I love wasabi, sushi, and okra.Check.

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