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101 Things About Me
…in no particular order…
1. My name is Maggie.
2. I’m a girl.
3. I’ve always been a girl.
4. I like being a girl.
5. Being a girl is complicated at times.
6. I have dark blonde hair and green eyes.
7. I was born in 1969.
8. I am a teacher.
9. I am a sister.
10. I am a daughter.
11. I am an aunt.
12. I have seven wonderful nephews.
13. I have two beautiful nieces.
14. I have two sisters.
15. I have two brothers.
16. My parents are still married.
17. My grandmothers are living.
18. My grandfathers have passed on.
19. I love my job.
20. I have been engaged twice.
21. I am currently single.
22. I have recently ended a relationship.
23. I am basically a happy person – although at times, it doesn’t seem that way. ;-)
24. I did my student teaching in Australia.
25. I lived there for four months.
26. I spent a week in New Zealand (on the way home from Australia.)
27. I am the world’s pickiest eater.
28. No, really, I am.
29. I can’t get enough of egg noodles.
30. I eat my cereal dry – most often.
31. I live in California.
32. I am from Wisconsin.
33. I was a nanny in New Jersey.
34. I sold books door to door in Michigan.
35. I am a college graduate.
36. I intend to return to college to get a Master’s Degree in Reading.
37. Or maybe Instructional Technology.
38. I began my college education with the intent of becoming a C.P.A.
39. Ironically, I never balance my checkbook.
40. I almost always know exactly how much money I have regardless.
41. I tend to have a few very close friends as opposed to many many friends.
42. I am usually well liked by my peers.
43. I have a dog named Lucky. He’s a beautiful and sweet black cocker spaniel.
44. I have a fairly good sense of humor. Thanks, Dad.
45. I have had three serious relationships.
46. I am not good at casual dating.
47. I am most often too sensitive.
48. I can cry at the drop of a hat when I am watching movies (or commercials, for that matter.)
49. I am a Lifetime Television (Television for Women) junkie.
50. I love going to movies. The theater is a comfort for me at times.
51. I have a semi-secret desire of becoming a “tutor to the stars”.
52. I live in the mountains.
53. I live in the desert.
54. My family does not know about my journal.
55. I would like to keep it that way.
56. I love contemporary Christian music.
57. I love pop rock music.
58. The Monkees are one of my all-time favorite bands.
59. I always liked Davy, but secretly had a thing for Mike.
60. I’m a sucker for accents.
61. My “ex” relationship-dude had a wonderful accent.
62. I really try to remain friends with all of my exes.
63. I would love to learn Italian.
64. And go to Italy.
65. And see Andrea Bocelli in concert, in his homeland, and understand every word.
66. I don’t like wine.
67. I would like to acquire a taste for wine; it’s romantic.
68. I’m a romantic.
69. I would love to travel.
70. I have a job that I love, but it doesn’t pay very well.
71. I am able to support myself, though.
72. I am grateful for my job.
73. I have a great principal.
74. I work with a great staff.
75. My job keeps me here in the hi-desert.
76. I get lonely.
77. I plan to make a list of all the places that I’d like to go.
78. I want to be married.
79. I want to have children.
80. I turn up the heat in the house without thought of cost; I want to be warm.
81. I nearly ended up in New Orleans.
82. Although I enjoy the N’awlins, I really didn’t want to teach there.
83. With the exception of the man that I just broke off the relationship, all of my ex’s are married or engaged.
84. That really bums me out if I think about it too much. * lol *
85. I want to travel the world.
86. I want to write a children’s book.
87. I’ve already come up with a story, but I haven’t yet developed it.
88. My sister and I started writing a book, but never finished it.
89. I want to lose weight.
90. Dark colors are my favorite – dark green, blue and red especially.
91. I love orange paper, markers, highlighters, sticky notes, etc.
92. It’s March and my Christmas tree stuff is still up, including the tree.
93. I do that every year.
94. I am so lazy!
95. I enjoy crocheting, but know only one pattern.
96. I own a 2000 Honda Civic, and I really like it.
97. I used to own a Yugo, but gave it to my Dad.
98. My parents own three Jaguars……………and a Yugo.
99. My parents ran a “weenie wagon” and I used to regularly help them. It was one of my jobs during college. (A lunch wagon that we used to take to auctions – selling food – It was made from an old Hostess truck.)
100. I have too high of expectations for myself at times.
101. I love my family, but choices that I have made have disappointed them greatly at times.
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