100 Things About Me

1. I was born in Chicago, and have lived there all my life until now.
2. I have two sisters, Claudine and Fatima
3. I had a rabbit named Luscious (R.I.P) and a dog named Ewok. They didn’t get along too well.
4. We lived in Long Beach for a year.
5. My favorite job was was sorting out invoices with my roommates at a liquor distributor. free booze.
6. I like flying United, because O’Hare is a hub, but I LOVE the ATA biscuits.
7. I was born with a full head of hair.
8. I played with a swing band called ‘The Mood Swings’ in high school.
9. Our drummer moved on to play with the Mighty Blue Kings.
10. I’m a Gemini, and everything they say about them is true of me.
11. Something went wrong with the epidural when I gave birth to my son - I had to pretend to push because I couldn’t feel anything
12. I’m easily brought to tears by Disney movies and Extreme Home Makeover.
13. There were two consecutive days in my life where the only thing I ate was my roommate’s cheesecake.
14. I want kids so I can take them to Disneyworld and squeal with happiness when they meet Piglet.
15. I drive a 2000 Honda CRV and beat my husband when he says the newer model is nicer.
16. I was a smoker. For a year. And a couple months after that. And every once in a while.
17. I have almost every book that Anne McCaffery has written.
18. I’ve been collecting comics since 1990.
19. Three of my most expensive comics where shredded into a nest by my rabbit.
20. I can never make up my mind.
21. I’m allergic to penicillin.
22. I’m almost legally blind without my glasses.
23. My first time in a college club, I danced so badly that a girl took me aside to teach me how to dance.
24. Before we started dating, I tried setting up my husband with several other women
25. I carry my camera with me wherever I go.
26. All my fingers (except thumbs) are double-jointed.
27. My parents hid my Nintendo controllers for me when I was a kid because I played so much. So I borrowed my friend’s extra controller.
28. I work with boys, most of my friends are boys, when I hang out with girls, I punch them on accident.
29. My ears are lopsided.
30. Clinique Days are my shopping weakness. Any day can be my shopping weakness.
31. It’s easier for me to chat with people on the computer than it is to talk to people in person.
32. I’m eyebrow deficient. One tweeze and they’re all gone.
33. I never ever ever ever want to go back to school again.
34. People say I’m outgoing, but in reality, I’m incredibly shy and freak out in social situations.
35. I’m not competitive, but I don’t like to get beat.
36. The reason I don’t sing is because me and my sisters were doing karaoke and my dad told me to quiet down and just let my sister sing.
37. I’m a lipstick/lipgloss fanatic.
38. I say ‘you know’ and ‘like’ at least 5 times a sentence when I talk.
39. People say I have a Chicago accent.
40. I travel all the time, but I’ve never found a place I love more than Chicago.
41. I was drum major and president of band council in highschool.
42. Wesley Snipes and I danced salsa in a club in Chicago.
43. I always wear cheap watches, sunglasses, earrings and rings because I always lose them.
44. I wanted to be a fashion designer when I was in 8th grade.
45. I don’t take compliments well, I don’t think people are telling the truth.
46. My mom always told me to smile with my mouth closed. Only in highschool did I figure out I looked better with an toothy smile.
47. I still have my lower permanent retainer even after the fact that I got my braces taken off in highschool
48. My youngest sister beats me. Literally.
49. Together, we harass our middle sister, like flinging single grains of rice at her.
50. I babysat an iguana named Alonzo for a year.
51. I can easily pick up most objects with my toes.
52. “Exorcist III” is the scariest, most disturbing movie I’ve seen.
53. I’ve thought of creating a section of my website to critique the tiramisu I’ve had during my travels.
54. I have really bad hearing.
55. My memory is even worse.
56. I went to Catholic school for 12 years, four years at an all girl high school.
57. Sometimes I can be seen as snobby, but it’s because I don’t know what to say.
58. I type fast, but only when I look at the keyboard.
59. I played softball in 7th grade.
60. My 8th grade volleyball team was 2nd in the city.
61. I love the color purple.
62. I’ve had my webpage since 1994
63. It was called “Christine’s Purple Passion”
64. Someday I want to go to Athens
65. In college, I hosted an event called Spam-apalooza
66. Our wedding pictures were taken at Wrigley Field in Chicago, home of the Chicago Cubs
67. The quickest breakup I’ve had was in an elevator, from the 2nd to the first floor.
68. I love to eat.
69. I’m afraid of the dark.
70. Xena: Warrior Princess and the X-Files are my favorite TV shows ever.
71. I can fall asleep anywhere, but never get enough time sleep.
72. Sometimes I care too much about what people think and how people feel.
73. I got a perfect score playing solo clarinet at a competition when I was in 4th grade.
74. For some strange reason, I get what I want, with positive and negative results.
75. I’ve been criticized for being to peaceable and trying to create a happy world around me.
76. I call my Olympus Camedia C-750 “Cammie II”.
77. I have not found anyone who can beat me at Tony Hawk Pro Skater III.
78. High school friends called me “Q” because I was always asking for quarters to make phone calls.
79. For a while I thought my dad worked for the Filipino mafia.
80. I don’t know how to cook.
81. I’m the comedian in the family, but in reality, I’m just a dork.
82. When I’m depressed and traveling, I shop
83. In college I was in an improv comedy group called Motu Tsunami
84. I hate wearing socks.
85. I’m very close with my cousins in Chicago
86. I did one show with the Chicago improv group, Stir Friday Night! when one if their cast couldn’t do a show.
87. That was the first time someone asked me for my autograph.
88. I love to drive on Devon Ave. after a snowfall to see it clinging to the trees.
89. I’ve dislocated my shoulder twice - once when skiing, the other at Disneyworld
90. I don’t like drinking pop out of a can. I like it in a cup with ice.
91. When I was little, I often had recurring dreams about sharks in my bathtub
92. I like helping people with their websites
93. When it comes to work or doing favors, it’s hard for me to say ‘no’
94. I’m a hotel snob - I need to get that free shampoo and conditioner.
95. It’s easy to win my first level of trust, getting my complete trust is near impossible
96. It’s because I think everyone is conspiring against me.
97. In my last semester of college, I went to the bars every Thursday night except one.
98. My license has been doublechecked at bars more after I turned 21 than when I used other people’s ID’s before I turned 21
99. I had really bad acne as a teen, so when I get a zit now, I freak out.
100. I’ve been told I’m a great hugger.

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