God, this took forever to write. But here it is....
6. I learned how to spell my last name by singing the letters to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Club song.
10. My dad ran the officer’s club when we lived in Mayport and I learned how to mix drinks by reading his bartender drink cards.
11. The first field trip I went on in elementary school was Independence Hall in Philadelphia PA.
12. I have a scar on my upper lip from when I cut it open on a cabinet door when I was 5.
13. When I was 10, my younger sister broke my left arm.
14. My left arm is about an inch shorter than my right arm.
15. I learned how to ride a bike on a boy’s dirt bike.
16. I learned how to drive on a stick.
17. I failed my driver’s license road test the first time I took it.
18. I love going on road trips.
19. I hate to fly.
20. I often need cocktails to be calm when I am flying.
21. Whenever I fly, I buy the latest issue of In Style magazine for my reading pleasure.
22. I have been to 23 states. You can check the map out
here.
23. I want to go to a Denny’s in every state.
24. I also want to visit every MLB stadium.
25. When I was in Honolulu, HI, I hiked up Diamond Head. (I thought I was going to die!!!)
26. I was in NYC less than two weeks before 9/11.
27. The only picture that was taken of me while I was there was at the Statue of Liberty with the Twin Towers in the background.
28. I was the photography editor of my high school newspaper.
29. I didn’t go to my high school prom.
30. Instead I went to San Francisco to visit my best friend.
31. I worked for a photography company after college and subsequently went to more proms than I can even count, taking pictures of drunk kids.
32. I’ve known my best friend since we were 14, for a total of 18 years.
33. Of the 18 years I have known my best friend, we have only lived in the same city for 3 years.
34. My best friend currently lives in Norway.
35. I currently have 5 tattoos.
36. I got my first two tattoos in Haight Ashbury in San Francisco.
37. I got my first tattoo because my best friend and I wanted to mutilate our bodies together. (He got a nipple ring.)
38. After my first two tattoos, I didn’t get another tattoo for eleven years.
39. My first online name was spyderlyn.
40. The spyder came from the spider that is tattooed on my left breast.
41. My other tattoos are the eye of horus on my left shoulder, the Chinese characters for Water Rat on my right shoulder, a yin/yang with the sun moon and stars on my left leg, and the double happiness symbol with a lotus on my right leg.
42. I want to get one more tattoo – five bats which represent the five virtues – long life, riches, love of virtue, health and natural death, surrounding the symbol for longevity.
43. I won the award for “Most Interesting Life Experience” at my high school reunion. Something about getting filmed at Mardi Gras doing unspeakable acts.
44. I am a huge sports fan and listened to sports talk radio 24/7 for many years.
45. My favorite sports talk radio host is Jim Rome. I went to a couple of his early tour stops.
46. I regularly beat the guys in the company football pool.
47. My favorite pro sports teams are the San Francisco 49ers and the L.A. Lakers. For college, I like Pac-10 teams and LSU.
48. I have seen the Smashing Pumpkins perform live more than another other band. 6 times – Bing Crosby Hall, Aztec Bowl (Lollapalooza), Soma (Morena), Sports Arena, Spreckels, Open Air Theatre.
49. Siouxsie comes in next at 5 times – as Creatures at the now defunct Iguana’s in TJ, Devore Stadium (Lollapalooza), Shoreline (Lollapalooza), Civic Center, and California Theatre.
50. My favorite artist is Picasso.
51. The first time I saw a real Picasso was at SF MOMA.
52. My favorite Picasso painting, “Night Fishing in Antibes” was used on Peter Murphy’s “Deep” concert tour t-shirts. (Yes, I have one.)
53. I met Francoise Gilot (Paloma Picasso’s mom) at a book signing for her Matisse/Picasso book.
54. I have been a member of the SD Museum of Art since 2000.
55. The wallpaper on my computer is a print from the SD Museum of Art’s collection – a print from Masami Teroaka’s L.A. Sushi series.
56. My license plate holder says “I’m not crazy, I’m just singing”
57. The first song I ever sang at karaoke was B52’s “Deadbeat Club”.
58. At karaoke, I love to sing songs a little differently than what comes up on the screen. I am the queen of dirty lyrics!
59. I can sing “Hopelessly Devoted to You” in tagalog.
60. I changed my major at UCSD four times.
61. In college, I studied to be a teacher but after student teaching decided it wasn’t for me.
62. My first job was at Sea World.
63. I have only worked for 4 different companies in my entire life. (Sea World, Bank of America, the photography company and the computer software company I work for now.)
64. I love crunchy peanut butter. The Corvette Diner has a peanut butter hamburger and it is my favorite thing to eat there!
65. I love raw carrots, but I won’t eat them cooked.
66. I am allergic to curry.
67. I hate condiments, especially ketchup.
68. I like dark chocolate better than milk chocolate.
69. My favorite flowers are calla lilies.
70. I hate red roses because when my sister was a florist, my job on Valentine’s week was to strip all the roses of their thorns.
71. I hate writing with blue ink.
72. My favorite color out of the 64 count Crayola box is periwinkle blue.
73. But my favorite color is purple.
74. I still buy all my pencils at the Hello Kitty store.
75. My favorite Power Puff girl is Buttercup.
76. I collect M-n-M dispensers.
77. I also collect magnets, shot glasses, mint boxes/tins, and slinkys.
78. I’ve been a subscriber to Rolling Stone since 1996.
79. My favorite book is J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in Rye. The main character reminds me of my best friend.
80. If I ever have a son, I want to name him Holden Trent.
81. Holden for “Catcher in the Rye” and Trent for Trent Reznor of NIN.
82. If I ever have a daughter, I want to name her Hadley Sabine.
83. Hadley for Hemingway’s first wife and Sabine for the title character in Nick Bantock’s “Griffin and Sabine” books.
84. I am not a label whore, but I do love fine leather goods. Which means I have a bunch of Coach and Dooney and Burke purses and accessories.
85. I love jewelry, especially stretchy bracelets.
86. My ears are pierced 4 times on each side.
87. I rarely wear all 8 earrings. Usually, I wear 3 earrings on each side.
88. I am an insomniac and rarely sleep for more than 4 hours a night.
89. I drink my coffee black with no sugar.
90. I have been going to bars since I was 18. (My older sister gave me her ID in exchange for a Kama Sutra book.)
91. I track the number of alcoholic drinks that I consume each year.
92. The most I ever drank was the year after I turned 30 – 910 total drinks.
93. That averages to 2.49 drinks per day.
94. I liked Cosmo martinis before SATC made them popular.
95. The character on SATC that I am most compared to is Samantha.
96. My favorite bar in San Diego is the Lamplighter – cocktails and karaoke.
97. To celebrate 10 years of going to the Lamplighter, I made a picture collage, which is hanging on one of the walls of the bar.
98. I have really nice fingernails.
99. But when I get nervous, I bite my left thumbnail.
100. When I die, I want to be cremated and have my ashes thrown off the Golden Gate bridge on a full moon night.
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