100 Random Things About Me

My sister Sarah has one of these on her blog so I thought it would be fun to steal the idea...

1. I am a direct desendant of Marquis De Laffayette
2. My Great Grandfather on my Mother's side fled to this country after bighting off a Swedish nobleman's finger in a bar fight.
3. He became a wilderness guide in the north woods of Maine.
4. My Great Grandfather on my Father's side was the first banker to give away a toaster with a checking account.
5. I called him Poppy and he was my hero.
6. His daughter worked for Jim Davis and Charles Schultz.
7. She raised my father, her son, in a house named "The Setting Sun" in Yonkers, New York.
8. My father was in a vigilante gang called The Cruisers.
9. The Cruisers had a bad run in with the Tanglewood Boys so my father went away to college in Maine to become a Merhcant Marine. He brought the last non-incinerated Cruisers' jacket with him.
10. He was second mate on an oil tanker. He sailed around South America a lot and got to learn Spanish guitar from his shipmates.
11. When I was a kid I thought he was a pirate.
12. He met my Mom while he was in Maine.
13. She has a sister that I only just found out about last year.
14. The sister stole all of her Barbie dolls twenty years ago.
15. My mother's name is Syndi.
16. It is spelled that way because she was named after her older brother Sydney, who died as a baby.
17. My mother had 4 babies and I was the second.
18. She started at 19.
19. She has the amazing ability to reason with children of all ages.
20. When we were kids she was incredibly crafty and creative in order to give us everything we needed on a small budget.
21. She is still incredibly crafty and creative but now it is for her own enjoyment.
22. My mom is a tough cookie.
23. As a result my sisters and I are also tough cookies.
24. I dropped out of High School when I turned 16.
25. As a result I have had many good times and many bad times, but I think I've had more of each than most.
26. My first job was as a Subway Sandwich artist.
27. It was the best job I ever had.
28. My boss was a dirty old man and he was one of my best friends.
29. He would wake me up every morning and ask me what I wanted for breakfast.
30. We danced to old timey music when it was slow.
31. We fought like cats and dogs when we were mad.
32. Everybody thought he was my Dad.
33. He is retired and now sailing all over the world with his wife, who he stills calls "my honey" or "my bride".
34. I worked for an S+M group for free beer when I was 17.
35. I never performed any S+M, nor had S+M performed on me during this time.
36. I had a boyfriend who thought he was a big rock star.
37. It turned out he was just a big cock.
38. I'm on my fifth and what I hope to be my final boyfriend.
39. I have known him for 11 years.
40. We have been dating for 6.
41. He is my perfect match.
42. He is the perfect mix of manliness and sensitivity.
43. He is one of the best people I have ever known.
43. I fell in love with him without knowing it.
44. I discovered this after I broke up with him 2 days into our relationship.
45. I thought I would break his heart and I did.
46. While he was gone I realized how much I loved him and was broken hearted to know I had lost him forever both as a friend and a boyfriend.
47. I thought he would never come back.
48. I was wrong.
49. He said that he didn't want to lose having me in his life just because he couldn't have me the way he wanted me.
50. Then I kissed him. :)
51. My first love was a boy named Anthony from Yonkers.
52. I was 13.
53. People think kids that age lack the ability to love deeply.
54. People are wrong about a lot of things.
55. We were together on and off for two unforgettable years.
56. We broke eachother's hearts.
57. It's a long story but one day I will write a novel about of it.
58. I think when you truly love someone you will never stop even when you decide that you are better off apart.
59. I used to think that this meant you would never truly love another person.
60. I was wrong.
61. Some people think I'm a know-it-all.
62. I disagree.
63. I have mulitple best friends.
64. For this, I consider myself lucky.
65. One of these people is my younger sister, Heather.
66. She is 18 months younger than I.
67. Mom and Dad say she was a "pleasant surprise".
68. When we were kids we played Barbie games that lasted for months.
69. Sometimes during these games we wouldn't speak.
70. We still knew what the other's barbie was saying.
71. When she went to college I cried a lot.
72. We had never been apart for more than 2 weeks.
73. Now we live far apart.
74. Sometimes we still know what the other's barbie is saying.
75. I like to sing but I'm nothing to write home about.
76. I like to draw but my talent is inconsistent.
77. I am my craftiest under pressure.
78. I have written countless stories but none are finished.
79. Right now I am writing a folktale about a girl named Ryoko who makesa deal with the moon.
80. I intend to have my sister finish this one.
81. I think this is a clever idea.
82. I like to come up with ideas for inventions and businesses.
83. My father and my boyfriend share the same hobby.
84. I am fully confident that one of us with hit paydirt sooner or later.
85. I would tell you some of these inventions but they are all CLASSIFIED.
86. I have an overactive imagination.
87. Some people think this is paranoia, but I disagree.
88. A couple of months ago I thought I might be in trouble with a vampire mummy.
89. I have been terrified and enthralled by aliens from the age of 6.
90. I have a similar complex about sharks, but aliens definately scare me more often.
91. I like to stand up for people I work with.
92. I have discovered that this is not a popular trait in a corporate environment.
93. This had the opposite effect when I worked at independantly owned businesses.
94. I am liberal to the point that you could begin to consider me a socialist.
95. My parents raised me in such a way that I am still disgusted and confused by the existence of racism and bigotry.
96. From 5 years in a japanese restaurant I can speak enough Japanese to get around a grocery store.
97. I can speak enough Spanish to usually know the general gist of a conversation.
98. I've traveled a lot, but not nearly enough.
99. If I won the lottery I would share the wealth, but leave just enough(invested wisely) for me and my honey to never work again and instead travel all around the world with my buddies.
100. I can have a good time anywhere as long as I have a friend along.