My Random Musings

So I'm copying CG's idea.

Sue me.

1. My favorite color is crimson.
2. I am currently sitting under my friends' bed.
3. Sometimes I wonder what I would have been doing right now if I hadn't have quit band at the end of 10th grade.
4. I am terrified of people I don't know.
5. For lent, I am attempting to give up stress.  (Can you really give up an emotion?  We'll see...)
6. I adore spontaneity.
7. My goal in life is to make a difference.
8. I don't care if I'm ever famous, I just want to be remembered for something. (Other than my laugh.)
9. I hate people touching my feet/making me touch their feet.
10. I may act goofy a lot and say stupid things, but I really invest a lot of thought into my friendships and look for opportunities to better them.
11. I look forward to Saturdays at midnight so I can see the new PostSecrets for the week.
12. I have 2 pet turtles named Vincent and Theo.
13. I also have a cat named Nermal. (The cousin from Garfield.  Anyone who knew that before I specified wins brownie points with me.)
14. Nobody loves Peanuts comics more than I do.
15. Music is the air I breathe.
16. Even though I never feel like I set a good example, I love God with all my heart and hope that I have helped others realize their love for him as well.
17. On that note, at one point in my life, I almost felt lead to be a youth minister.
18. I can only eat one food at a time.  No mixing of tastes!
19. I never do anything with my hair, but I am still obsessed with it.
20. I am ecstatic that Slumdog Millionaire and Kate Winslet got what they deserved at the Oscars.
21. I don't think it's possible for me to name my favorite movie.
22. I want to sneeze with my eyes open one day to prove everyone wrong.
23. A lot of Vaughns' weird outbursts make me feel better because now I know someone else has thought my thoughts.
24. I got 45 stitches when I was in the 3rd grade.
25. I HATE knowing change is coming, but most times, once it has happened, I'm okay with it.
26. My favorite word is conundrum and I get really excited when I find opportunities to use it in everyday conversations.
27. When high school was over, one of my saddest realizations was that I wouldn't really have anymore opportunities to wear fancy dresses.
28. When I am done eating and have leftover food on my plate, I make sculptures out of it so I will be less tempted to eat the rest of it later.
29. I hate Texas.  It's big.  Ugly.  And hot.
30. If I could live in my shower, I probably would.
31. My closet is categorized by type of clothing and then sorted in color order.  (Most of the time.)
32. I came to Commerce because of my 10th grade photo teacher Mr. Hale.  (I didn't even apply anywhere else.)
33. If I hadn't have come here, I would have loved to go to SCAD or CalArts or FIDM.  Dream big, right?
34. I went to Mexico for an hour and bought a lamp.
35. My family and I walked out to Ellis Island to find that the last ferry had left just minutes before.  I then threw a snowball at my dad's head and he yelled at me.  My mom and I laughed.
36. When I was 15, I was driving around Memphis and was about 8 seconds from being plowed over by a train.  We ate an entire bag of Reese's Pieces in celebration of our continuance of life.
37. I could probably hang out with Demetri Martin for the rest of my life and be okay with it.
38. When I am driving around listening to music, I pretend like whatever I see out of the window is the music video.  Sometimes it's amazing how well they go together.
39. I eat peanut butter with a spoon.
40. I suffer from a severe case of dry-wit/ sarcasm.
41. I think it's weird that I am at the age when my friends are starting to get married and have kids.
42. There is something about the number 42.  I'm pretty sure it follows me around.
43. I like playing games like soccer and racquetball but if I am exercising for the pure sake of exercising, I would rather shoot myself.
44. I wish I was born in the late 40's or 50's so I could have my prime years during the hippie movement.
45. I want to be friends with people I think look interesting.  I never have the courage to talk to them though.
46. I love chocolate and bread in a bad way.  You can't tell, can you?
47. After seeing Across the Universe with my friend, we attempted to steel a shopping cart but didn't succeed because it wouldn't fit in the back seat of my car.
48. My favorite food in the world is quiche.
49. I can't decide if I am like everyone else or if I am just so different that I blend in with everyone else who is 'different'.
50. I was a crayon for halloween one year.  (Purple or blue...I don't remember.)
51. I have absolutely no arch whatsoever. 
52. My favorite show in the world is Boy Meets World.
53. Now that I think about it, most of the shows I like to watch were on in the 90's.
54. A lot of people think I do drugs.  This is a falsehood. 
55. Before I die, I WILL attend an indie film festival.  Preferably Sundance.
56. My dreams are either super realistic or super out there.
57. Any time someone says a number, you can bet I am trying to divide it by 2 as many times as I can in my head.  It's a tick.
58. I love the 4th of July because of the fireworks.
59. I'm accident prone/ attractive to bad luck.
60. I only want to go to France to visit the Louvre and the catacombs.
61. It wouldn't hurt my feelings to study abroad in Italy or England for a semester.
62. My current favorite bands are tied between Bishop Allen, Idlewild, The Strokes, Eisley, and every song on the Spring Awakening soundtrack.
63. Oh, speaking of that, I hate musicals with the exception of musicals about musicals with the exception of High School Musicals.
64. I like to think that I have a pretty broad vocabulary.
65. If I wasn't going to be a photographer, I would either like to have been a model builder for movies or an English teacher.
66. I am attracted to crazy people i.e. Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, etc...
67. I have a deep-seated love for trees.  I don't think God made much else more beautiful.
68. The only sport I ever really played was soccer.  I wasn't very good, but I liked it anyway.
69. At my first home game, I was marching backwards and fell flat on my butt.  Fantastic!
70. I'm not short.  I'm fun size.
71. I'm a totally different person once you get to know me.
72. I'm proud to be from Mississippi, but you couldn't pay me to move back there.  Everything has just gone way down hill.
73. My birthday is 9/11, and I get really tired of people feeling sorry for me about it.  I feel terrible for what happened and all the families that lost loved ones, but I can't ever have a normal birthday again because people are always feeling down in the dumps on that day.
74. My grandpa's birthday is the day after mine.
75. I am a firm believer that God gives us road signs to direct us where we need to go in life.
76. As a family tradition, my mom and I always watch Sleepless in Seattle while wrapping Christmas presents.  My dad and I always watch The Grinch and Charlie Brown Christmas.  It's probably one of my favorite past-times.
77. I wish I was more interesting.
78. I had a lisp until like 2nd or 3rd grade.  I still have to think about how I say stuff sometimes.  (I should probably never read this sentence out loud.)
79. I hate disappointing people.
80. I barely ever paint my finger nails but my toe nails are almost always colorful.
81. My legs remind me of a short, inverted Mrs. Bellum from the Power Puff Girls.
82. For most of my high school career, I grew my hair out long in an effort to look more like Topanga on Boy Meets World.
83. I have double jointed toes and fingers.
84. I can't whistle.
85. I am never tan.  I go from liquid paper to red back to liquid paper with more freckles.
86. It makes me really mad when people don't follow through on their promises/ obligations.
87. I am terrified that I am going to be an old cat lady.
88. I'm all for saving the planet, but I hate that it has become a fad that people are only profiting from the merchandise sales with. 
89. I used to be convinced that Chester the Cheetah was a tiger and called Cheetos Tiger Chips.
90. When I was young, I would go into my back yard and gather all the empty terra cotta pots and put berries and leaves in them and mush them together to pretend I was Pocahontas. 
91. Both of my parents are teachers.
92. I'm pretty sure my dad came out of the womb reading a book.
93. I love saying inside jokes around people so they wonder about what is going on.
94. When I was a junior, I was tackled at a football game in front of both teams bands, cheerleaders, drill teams, and our school rowdy crowd.  It was the talk of the school for the next week.
95. I was runner up for Most Humorous.  I lost to a girl who apparently was neither funny nor popular.  Her mom was a teacher in charge of the polling.
96. I had a scottish terrier when I was young.  I named her Pertie because I thought she was a dalmatian.  She barked at water and our next door neighbor was a gardener.  There was much cussing.
97. My parents let me name our first beta fish.  I called it Soda.  In later years, we would come to have an aquarium of fish named after the cast of Star Trek.
98. I try to find God in most of my pictures.
99. One day I will compile a soundtrack to my life.
100. I have cute pinky fingers.

Tadah!