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1. I was born in the middle of a flood in 1980.
2. My favorite color is grayish-blue and dark red browns.
3. I knit in public.
4. I prefer dpns to circular needles.
5. I have a cat named Stinker.
6. I have never had anything dry-cleaned.
7. I have never been married.
8. I have size 8.5 feet.
9. I learned to knit from the Reader’s Digest Complete Guide to Needlework.
10. I couldn’t figure out purling for years. One night I dreamt about it was able to purl the next morning.
11. I am right handed.
12. I am very near-sighted.
13. I bite my nails.
14. I inadvertently put my underwear on inside out about half the time.
15. I used to sport an awesome set of dreadlocks.
16. I love bad horror movies.
17. I love zombie movies.
18. Chucky terrifies me.
19. I love Audrey Hepburn movies.
20. I can read and knit at the same time.
21. I am allergic to milk.
22. My favorite board game is Scrabble.
23. I miss my mom.
24. I finally got my driver’s license after I turned 25.
25. I haven’t driven since I got my license.
26. I slept through the Northridge earthquake.
27. I was a preemie.
28. I am the fifth of the six children that lived.
29. I am decidedly untidy.
30. I have been one lousy class away from my associate’s degree for years.
31. I don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
32. I am right handed.
33. I got a C in Keyboarding in middle school. I should have flunked, but I really tried.
34. The only class I did flunk was AP Biology.
35. If I had passed AP Biology, it would have covered that last class for my AA.
36. I have never lived alone.
37. I cannot have children.
38. I avoid confrontation whenever possible.
39. I cannot sing, but do so anyway.
40. I have lived in California my entire life.
41. I like lima beans.
42. I used to be a photography student.
43. I am not photogenic at all.
44. I lived off chocolate-covered espresso beans and Mountain Dew in college.
45. I played the violin in elementary school and the cello in middle school.
46. I have been with my current boyfriend for three and a half years.
47. He won’t let me knit him a sweater; he’s afraid of the Sweater Curse.
48. I am prone to tummy ailments.
49. My hands and feet are always cold.
50. I can crack nearly every joint in my body.
51. I sprained all the fingers in my right hand playing softball in high school.
52. I attended six elementary, two middle, and three high schools.
53. My family moved around a lot when I was a child.
54. I haven’t seen anyone I’m related to in over a year.
55. I work for a telecommunications company.
56. I have been promoted three times in two years.
57. I’d like to be a writer someday.
58. I used to be afraid of knitting socks.
59. I am afraid to do anything until I actually do it.
60. I am chubbier than I’d like to be.
61. My body’s ideal schedule is awake at 10am, asleep at 2am.
62. I am funny. Honestly.
63. I am crazy good at remembering song lyrics.
64. I am horrible at remembering names/dates/titles.
65. I am a spatial thinker.
66. I can fix almost any problem if given time to think about it.
67. I have a moral objection to MySpace.
68. I used to think blogging was dumb idea.
69. I have been known to say stupid things.
70. I can cook, but I don’t do so very often.
71. I have a hard time keeping my houseplants alive.
72. I’m not terribly short, but I’d like to be taller.
73. I am a Class-A procrastinator.
74. I tend to obsess.
75. Noro is still my favorite yarn so far.
76. I like to knit socks on 2.25mm needles or smaller.
77. I use us15 needles for my favorite scarf pattern.
78. I mostly knit for others.
79. I am a Pisces.
80. I love cherry pie filling.
81. My knees tend to get achy in the cold.
82. I have never broken a bone.
83. I drink tea because coffee does a number on my stomach.
84. I miss having a little bit of outside attached to my house.
85. I walk to work every day.
86. I am very lazy, but I get a lot done once I get going.
87. I am easily discouraged.
88. I like teaching people how to do things.
89. I have trouble learning different languages.
90. My favorite ride at Disneyland is Splash Mountain.
91. I just want to be loved.
92. I am hard on my shoes.
93. I have only knit myself one pair of socks so far.
94. My hair is long and tends to frizz up.
95. I never remember to pack a lunch.
96. Ginger or Maryanne? Maryanne.
97. I hate to be ignored.
98. I’d rather do something by hand than figure out how to make the machine work.
99. I curse to make a pirate’s parrot faint.
100. This is my 100th post! Woo-hoo!