86 Things About Me!

1. Broken every finger and toe.
2. Tore cartilage off my knee cap and damaged every ligament in both knees.
3. When I was 10, I played hardball with the boys. I was the only girl in the league, and the only person to steal second base.
4. I have lived in six different houses, and seven apartments.
5. I can sail a small boat.
6. My parents gave me a BMX bike for my 5th birthday.
7. I am a BMX dirt jumper.
8. I used to race BMX.
9. I want to B.A.S.E. jump one day!
10. I have broken my nose twice.
11. I’m a pretty good kayaker.
12. I have a facebook account, but I hate facebook.
13. I love Criminal Minds, Heroes, Bones, and The Big Bang Theory.
14. I have been in love with Harry Connick Jr. since 1991 and he played the piano in Little Man Tate.
15. I was a piano prodigy until I quit Classical to play Jazz and then couldn’t find a jazz teacher.
16. I love juice boxes, Subway, peanut butter, and beets.
17. I’m close with my family, and I try to keep up with my friends.
18. I own seven leather Roots bags.
19. New York City is my favourite city in the world.
20. Galway is a close second.
21. I gave up on my dreams of being a screenwriter when I didn’t get into the York Film school.
22. I was accepted into the Toronto Film School, but it cost way too much.
23. Self-taught HTML coder.
24. Self-taught Adobe Photoshop.
25. My first job was at the Transportation Museum. I was seven.
26. I was the only girl to take Grade 10 AutoCAD, and I finished the course in two weeks.
27. I was given my first camera at age seven. I now own seven eight different cameras.
28. My first paying job was creating a website for a family-friend.
29. I met my best friend from high school in Art Class because I missed the day when we were assigned seats, so I just sat down next to her. We are still close.
30. I have broken my waist goofing off at school.
31. I broke my ankle skateboarding and never got a cast put on.
32. It took me one week to convince my parents to get me a BMX when I was five. But it took me over 1 year to convince my mom to get me a skateboard when I was nine.
33. I have never had a curfew.
34. I only had detention once, because my mom told them to give me one since I skipped so much.
35. I secretly love family dinners and all the drama that comes from them.
36. Often wonder what happened to my previous bosses.
37. I used to smoke in high school.
38. I was cut from the Tennis Team for purposely hitting a girl with a tennis ball. They should have cut her, we would have won.
39. I only have 4 cousins.
40. I dream of moving away and not telling anyone where I went.
41. The TTC has killed People Watching for me.
42. I can talk my way out of almost anything.
43. I can make people think I am right, even when I know absolutely nothing about the subject at hand.
44. I have a skill for always showing up at the right moment if I am running late.
45. I am a jealous person, but I learned early on that nothing good can come from sharing your jealousness.
46. If the USA had better health care, I would move there in a second.
47. I wish I became a grade school teacher.
48. I hate leaving voice mails.
49. I hate listening to voice mails.
50. If I find a show I love, I watch all the episodes more than three times.
51. I hate when women don’t vote. People had to fight to give us the right to vote. Who cares if it wont make a difference, think about what they went through for us!
52. I love to paint and draw.
53. I can play the harmonica.
54. I was picked to be on a USA kids game show. I never saw it on TV because it wasn’t aired in Canada.
55. I really like trips with my mom. I think they are what keeps us together.
56. I’m scared my grandfather will give his cottage to his girl friend and not our family. He sold it to my lair of an Uncle.
57. My grandmother passed away in 2004, I still cry.
58. I go to Starbucks with the thought of ordering something new, but my mouth just orders the same drink.
59. I hate when people can’t spell out full words when the short form is only one letter less.
60. I hate MSN smiley faces.
61. I don’t think my sister and I will ever be as close as my mom and aunts.
62. My heart breaks for my uncle, who treated me like shit as a kid, and now everyone treats him like shit. I hug him because I want him to know that someone forgives him.
63. I am afraid of people dressed up as the Easter Bunny.
64. I want to buy farmland and build dirt jumps and a foam pit.
65. I wish my mom let me race motorcross as a kid.
66. I have had over 5 concussions.
67. I have lost three family members to cancer. I have a fourth that is in Stage 4.
68. I often wonder if God is really there.
69. I miss the reassurance that church gave me.
70. No one knows my real IQ (but my parents) because I found when people know they suspect more from you.
71. Shopping is more fun when you have no money. You can try stuff on and never spend a cent.
72. Jeans shopping is hell.
73. I stopped growing in grade 9. I was 5’10″. I still am.
74. I won a screening writing contest when I was 16 years old. I beat ten 18 year-olds, but I don’t know the total number of people.
75. I can cry on cue. My parents hate it.
76. My cat Tiny is the love of my life.
77. I can make people laugh even when they don’t want to.
78. I think my smile alone reminds my mom why she loves me when we fight.
79. My dad and I have never been in a fight. Even when I hit him with the squash ball. Yes you are thinking the right place! Needless to say, we never played again.
80. I like that I can hold my education over my sister’s head when she thinks she is better than me.
81. I think more people would be happy if they stopped thinking about what others thought.
82. My answer to most things is: “What’s the worse that could happen? They say no?”
83. Baseball is my favourite sport to watch and play. But I have a temper when my team loses.
84. I regret more things that I did not do, than things that I did.
85. Empire Records is an amazing movie with a great soundtrack.
86. I don’t have the will power to lend out my camping tent.