Who Am I?

I don't do the Weekend Assignment or the Saturday Six. My journal is for me to write what I want. If I want homework, I will go to law school. I still might do that, but who knows.

However, a long time ago I wrote out a list about myself. The lists are going around again. I am too lazy to find mine and have no idea when I wrote it anyway. So I am going to do one again because I feel like it. I had promised myself that today I would do all of the things I have been putting off. Now that, I don't feel like doing.

1. I procrastinate. Badly, sometimes. I have missed going on trips because I waited too long to order tickets. I still haven't posted my pictures from Toronto in April. Surprisingly, I did get some from Montreal in March posted.

2. I have two beagles and one very old cat. The beagles are the sweetest dogs in the world. Anything spoiled that much should be sweet.

3. I have one daughter, age 25. She is a mystery to me.

4. I divorced when my daughter was young, 20 years ago, and have not remarried.

5. Other than my ex-husband, I never lived with a man. I spent all my weekends with one for several years, but we maintained two homes and stayed in our own homes during the week.

6. I was a Children's Protective Services Worker. Nothing shocks me any more. I have seen it all and heard it all.

7. I am 5' tall. My feelings are hurt when I hear people joke and say they are afraid of midgets. I am taller than a midget, but close enough that I find it hurtful.

8. I am a self-recovered anorexic.

9. I am a cheap drunk.

10. While I can sometimes appear flighty and silly, I do have a master's degree in business administration.

11. I really do want to go back to school.

12. Being retired means I can do everything "tomorrow."

13. I can't sing. At all. Ever.

14. I used to teach judo to teenage boys. Breaking up fights between them was always a good way to get respect from them. I miss martial arts.

15. I also took aikido, karate, and some other forms of martial arts.

16. I broke a bone in my hand falling over my daughter's shoe. Had I let go of the pizza box and broken my fall properly, I would not have been injured at all. I fell forward, but landed on my back safely. (other than the hand)

17. When told to move the shoes, my daughter put them at the top of the stairs. After I almost took a header down the stairs, I told her I was changing my will. She put them away.

18. My mom tried to kill me. Twice.

19. My brother and I, plus one of his 5 children, have reddish-brownish-goldish hair. His was curly, mine just has body. His son's hair is in between. No one else in the family has this color hair.

20. My mom's mother, my mother, my daughter, and I all have the same middle name. My mom paid me $100 to do it.

21. I don't like gender roles, although I also don't like to take out the garbage. Since I live alone, I do all of it.

22. I like to assemble things. I also like to repair things. I like tools and I keep them in good shape.

23. I love to travel, and will go almost any place at least once. However, I am not good on road trips. After an hour, I want to do something else. That is bad when I am driving alone.

24. I hate bees, wasps, hornets, and most yard work. Maybe I will stop hating the yard work if I can ever get to to a stage where all I need to do is "putter."

25. I want to learn to golf, but don't want to spend a lot of money on lessons until I can find out if my shoulders are good with the movements needed.

26. I like to dress up girlie rather than wear jeans and t-shirts, although I do both.

27. I love shoes and purses. Also lingerie. I think it's because I can get those things in my size without a hassle.

28. I volunteer teach computer classes to senior citizens. It is rewarding, and I learn from every class.

29. When I travel, I like to walk the cities as much as possible. This was difficult in Montreal in March. It was really cold.

30. I hope to live in Florida some day. I get a few weeks of Florida weather every summer (I live in MI) and I bask in it like a lizard on a rock.

31. I have had skin cancer twice and pre-cancerous things removed at least 3 times.

32. I had Botox done on my forehead a few weeks ago. It was worth it for the entertainment value alone. If anyone wonders how it came out, my doctor said the one wrinkle is gone (I had only one) and it's now "perfect."

33. Like Mrs L, I like younger men. I am 55. Most men are younger than I am anyway, right?

34. I never, ever wanted to be a social worker. It was an accident that lasted 27 years.

35. I like to bake cookies.

36. I am often alone, but I am never lonely.

37. I do not watch television, but I read a lot of books. Usually maybe 5 a week.

38. I went from legally blind without correction to normal vision with Lasik. It was like a miracle to me. I wore contact lenses for over 30 years.

39. I had years of ballet, but refused to go on pointe. It is a good thing I refused, since I found out later I had a congenital foot issue that caused 3 nerves in my right foot to be seriously crushed, requiring surgery. I had the strength and was ready for the toe class, but refused.

40. I am afraid of bridges, except in Florida. I can't explain that.

41. I live in Michigan, and if I never see another flake of snow in my life I will die happy.

42. My older beagle snores loudly. She also has a damaged disc in her neck and requires medication at times. She tells me when she needs it. If I miss the signal, she is in a lot of pain.

43. A year ago my white blood cell count was very, very low. My doctor told me I could be at serious risk from a bone marrow or blood disease, but I had to wait 3 months for another blood count. Those were some long months. The count went back up to low/normal.

44. I want to go to law school and get the degree, but I don't want to work as a lawyer.

45. My daughter can't plan past dark. I plan my entire life out.

46. I might marry again, in maybe 20 years.

47. I think women's rights have come a long way since I was young but I wish they had never needed to. How did we let ourselves be second class citizens to begin with?

48. I have a major case of insomnia. I have always had it. I need 9 hours of sleep, but have gone years with 4-5.

49. Decorating bores me. I am like a guy on that topic. A very straight guy.

50. I walk a lot. I walk the dogs 4 miles a day when the weather allows, and up to 15 miles a day over all. It's a rare day that I don't walk 5 miles or more. I don't mean throughout the day, I mean specifically on a walk for distance. I don't count walking around the house or doing errands.

51. I do not feel I have any talents at all. I do not excel at any one thing, or any few things. I can kind of do many things.

52. My mother was a fundamentalist baptist and did not accept evolution. I am an atheist.

53. My parents felt that girls didn't need to go to college, but that I should maybe go to a secretarial school to perfect my typing and filing. Perhaps a little bookkeeping. I was to marry, have 3 children, and never work unless my husband died. Then I could work until I remarried. I had to work a long time to pay for my degrees myself.

54. My mother didn't want me to have long hair, because it would attract attention from her. At age 14, I threw something back at her that she had always told me. I told her a woman's hair is her crowning glory. She did not make me cut it off again. I promptly grew it down to my hips.

55. It is important to me to be a good friend.

56. I am a good neighbor too, since I carry poopy bags when I walk the dogs. It's always Baby. Molly is totally a lady.

57. I used to make all my own clothes. I designed them, too. I had no choice. I was short, skinny, and petite clothes did not exist. I enjoyed it.

58. I listen to current music. I like the Killers-type music, hip hop, rap. Sometimes this embarrasses my daughter, but at least we don't argue over radio stations in the car. My music taste is too urban for some of my nieces.

59. I maintain a 4 bedroom house on a large lot in the suburbs on my own. I have no idea why.

60. I can multi-task very well. My mind does it all the time. I can't stay on one track in my mind. I have to have more than one going at any given time.

That will have to do. Any more and I will be getting into the more personal stuff, lol, and that goes in the other journal.