I have enjoyed reading some of your blog posts with your lists of 100 things about yourself and I had to make one. It was fun!
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I go by Cynthia at work and Cyndi everywhere else.
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My middle name is Ann. Kinda boring.
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I was supposed to be born on Christmas but lucked out and came on New Years Day. I love it and I hate it.
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My favorite color is red. I LOVE red!
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I don’t like blue much. It’s my least favorite color.
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I was a redhead for a long time but my hair was (naturally) sort of going blond for a few years until I had my daughter. Now it gets darker auburn every day.
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I’m the oldest of four kids.
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I’m the only one of my sibs and both parents without blue eyes.
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I am also the oldest among all my cousins.
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I’m not bossy. I’m supposed to be bossy because I’m the oldest.
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I have one daughter, Julianne, who will be 15 in May. She is my favorite thing.
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I have a little, fuzzy, gray llasa-poo, Abby, who turned 6 in January. She’s my baby.
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Julianne was Miss Missouri Junior National Teenager last year.
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I’m not proud or anything but she also models a little and is on pages 107 and 111 of the current St. Louis Bride magazine.
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My next favorite thing is books. I love to read. I will read almost anything but I love mysteries the most.
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My favorite authors are Agatha Christie, **** Francis, and Sue Grafton.
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I read the entire Sherlock Holmes collection in a couple of nights last summer.
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My favorite TV show is Gilmore Girls. I miss it!
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I have four of seven Gilmore Girls seasons on DVD. Julianne & I watched season 5 the last couple of nights on her laptop in my bed.
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I love chick flicks.
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I’m sort of obsessed with everything to do with the whole English tea ritual.
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The top shelf of my pantry is piled and crammed tightly with all tea and coffee. Mostly tea.
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I collect teacups.
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Nobody ever buys me teacups.
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I can almost quote the whole movie The Jerk.
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I’m a Christian.
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I went to a Southwest Baptist University for 2 1/2 years but have no degree.
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I am extremely hard-of-hearing. Have been since I was very young. I knew I needed hearing aids in middle school but I didn’t know I was missing anything and didn’t want one. I found out, though, a couple of years ago that I am really, really, [I]reeeeeeeeeeally[/I] bad about ignoring people and never understood why folks at work were always mad at me. I don’t know how hard it is to say someone’s name before you launch into a conversation, but whatever.
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I got a hearing aid when I was 38. I only wear it when I have to be able to get along with folks–mostly at work. I’m so afraid of wearing it out and not being able to replace it.
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I can’t sing. It’s bad. Real bad.
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I played a trumpet for six weeks in middle school. The band teacher finally kicked me out. It was bad. Real bad.
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I love counted cross-stitch. I learned it in middle school in the 4-H club.
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I also learned to sew in 4-H and then more in Home Ec class.
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My parents split up when I was going into 6th grade.
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My mom moved us into a mobile home that my grandparents put in for us on their property in Ironton, MO.
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I have also lived in Port St. Lucie, FL and Princeton, NJ and Roxboro, NC.
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I was engaged once for 14 months.
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I am way too independent for my own good. Ask the ex-fiance.
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Julianne wants to sing Miss Independent at my wedding. If I ever have one. Neither of us is holding our breath.
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I am still very much looking forward to meeting someone and starting a family. I want the whole picket fence American dream thing.
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I didn’t learn to drive until I was 22. Nobody would teach me until I bought my own car.
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I was extremely shy in school. I never talked. I have never met anyone ever as shy and quiet as I was.
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My friends now think I lie about #42. “You’ll talk to a tree.”
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I love running into folks from high school because it’s fun to see their faces when I TALK! After 23 years they are still shocked.
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I have always been independent. Why, I even went to my proms alone. I was too shy for anyone to ask out but I was not going to miss my proms! Even now I will go to a movie by myself if I want to see something.
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I call my computer Sven.
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I love Sven.
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Sven & I have a wonderful relationship. We never get tired of each other. We play Sims for hours and we play Poppit and Mah-Jong and card games and we make things in Print Shop just because it’s fun.
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My favorite computer card game is Spite & Malice.
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I have a single mom board at yuku.
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I don’t fit in well on most mommy boards (I work and I don’t coddle) and usually drop off of them after a short time–before I open my mouth too many times and hurt feelings.
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My first post on one mommy board was in a thread entitled, “Need recipes for a two-year-old”. I was the first reply and I said that I don’t follow a recipe exactly, but I like to marinate the two-year-old in some white white and olive oil and then place him under a broiler. That went over real well.
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I just learned to knit this winter from my mom. I have been asking her to teach me for years but she didn’t do it until she saw me buy the “I taught myself knitting” kit at Wal-Mart!
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The first project I started was a cranberry Wool Of The Andes knitting bag that I am still working on. It’s HUGE. I plan to felt it and then hand-felt a design on it.
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I also have a much smaller bag (but not small) on another set of needles. I want to felt it, too. It is Lion Wool in Autumn Sunset.
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I knitted a whole skein onto each bag yesterday. I felt so productive!
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The first project that I finished was a scarf for Julianne made of Chocolate Mint Peaches & Cream yarn. It’s long, all knit stitches, and fringed.
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I have Lion Wool in four colors that I want to make myself a hat/scarf/mitten set out of for next year.
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My three coats are red, black, and brown so my Lion Wool for my set is black, red, brown, and winter white. I figured I couldn’t go wrong combining those colors!
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I used to have a shih-tzu named Katie.
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Katie was my first dog and I had never trained one before and I worked two jobs back then and never got her housebroken. Katie has lived with my cousin’s stop-mother-in-law since Christmas 2000 and has not had one accident!
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Oddly, Katie & Abby have the same birthday! Not the same year.
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For Abby’s fourth birthday we had a sleepover. Abby’s favorites of Julianne’s friends came over with gifts for her. We ate pizza on frisbees from PetSmart that doubled as party favors.
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Abby is a people person. She does not care for animals at all. Any of them…I don’t know how that’s a fact about me.
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I love soda. I drink colas way too much. I’m trying to cut back.
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I avoid artificial sweeteners so I don’t like diet drinks.
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I was the fifth baby born in '67.
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I like coffee and I love tea but they make me crave soda.
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Since about Thanksgiving I eat cottage cheese almost every day. Suddenly I can’t get enough of it. If there is none in the house it’s all I can think about. I didn’t even know I liked the stuff!
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I am a Southern Living at HOME consultant.
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I used to be a Tupperware lady. I have TONS of Tupperware.
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I have read a lot in the last few years about the chemicals in plastic and I’m purging it from my kitchen. Last week I threw out three big trashbags full of plastic from my kitchen. I didn’t tell anyone until after the trash ran.
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I have had a lot of jobs over the years. Mostly I’ve been an administrative assistant but have had many odd jobs in between office jobs or as a second job. I have been a tour guide at Busch Stadium, a cocktail waitress, and a concierge.
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I love my baseball Cardinals almost more than life.
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I eat too much chocolate.
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Lately I eat more dark chocolate than any other kind and everyone buys me dark chocolate when they buy me gifts.
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I hate white chocolate.
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I eat a lot of fish. I love fish.
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I love salads, too, but hate iceberg lettuce.
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I’m a natural fibers [B]freak[/B].
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Cashmere is proof that God loves me.
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My favorite clothes are flannel pajamas and that’s all I wear at home.
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I like socks a lot. I’m always sock-footed. Even in summer.
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I’m always cold.
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I graduated in '85.
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Dogs are my favorite animals.
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I told Julianne that I’m going to get a show dog after she leaves home to keep me busy on weekends. It’s not realistic but it’s fun to talk about.
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I’m completely fascinated with Scotland.
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I was a travel agent for a long time.
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I’m very much turned off by men who are picky eaters. It’s my quirk.
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I also don’t like when they are apathetic–don’t watch the news or read the paper and have no opinions.
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I tried knitting with looms. It was fast but I didn’t like the look of the stitches.
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This is #93. I had my daughter in '93.
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I eat cottage cheese with salsa for lunch most days. At least it’s good for me!
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I love Middle Eastern food.
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The food I crave most frequently is Mexican.
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Autumn is my favorite season.
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I love to grow heirloom vegetables.
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I also love to grow flowers and prefer English cottage ones.
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I’m odd because I don’t love the beach. It’s beautiful but I don’t like quite that much sun and have never loved the water.