Wednesday, August 02, 2006

100 Things About Elaine

1. I LOVE chocolate.
2. Dark chocolate in particular.
3. White chocolate makes me gag.
4. I'm an actress.
5. I have a degree in theater.
6. I also sing and although I have a nice soprano voice, at times I feel like an imposter.
7. I can juggle 3 balls and used to be able to juggle pins.
8. I love peanut butter and fluff sandwiches.
9. When I was little, I was the only child out of 5 that had curly hair.
10. My hair resembled Shirley Temples.
11. I am the only sibling with brown eyes.
12. My mother had 4 children in 4 years - none of us are twins.
13. My brother was born in Sept. of one year, my sister - Sept. of the next year, my next sister - Nov. of the following year, and me the Sept. following that.
14. My sister and I are only 10 months apart.
15. I lost that sister 3 years ago this Sept. She had breast cancer.
16. My mother died of Colon Cancer 6 months after my sister - and three months after she herself was diagnosed.
17. I fell off a jungle gym when I was 6 and fractured my skull and had a concussion.
18.
I also have a younger sister. We are 4 years apart.
19. I can tap dance.
20. I'm the only female in my family that can drive a stick shift.
21. I learned to drive stick when I taught drama at a summer camp and they needed someone to drive the camp float in a parade. Talk about throwing me right in.
22. I only stalled out once.
23. I have a tendancy to always look a little dishevled.
24. One of my nicknames was "Stinky" when I was little - but I don't think it was because I smelled.
25. My other nickname is Lainey.
26. I don't like thin pasta like spagetti or linguini, though I will eat it.
27. I prefer pasta like penne or zitti.
28. I called pasta "macaroni" when I was growing up.
29. My family calls the red stuff you put on pasta - gravy.
30. I have since met people who also call it that.
31. I have 4 tattoo's.
32. I got my first one when I turned 40 - I'd always liked them and wanted one when I was in my 20's but thought, how would I feel about it when I was 40 - so when I turned forty, I said, I STILL want one.
33. They are addicting.
35. I want 2 more small ones.
36. I've been told I don't look the type with tattoos.
37. I wonder if that is a good thing or not, or a comment on my age?
38. I used to be a massage therapist.
39. I'm now going to school to be a natural health doctor - which is like a Naturopathic Doctor. Though in Maine, you can't be called that.
40. I've been married for 16 years and still love my husband madly.
41. I HATE hot dogs and baked beans, but had to eat it once a week, as a child.
42. I have never liked raw dough, even as a child.
43. I don't like to eat cookies right out of the oven.
44. If I want to eat one right away, I put it in the freezer first.
45. I don't really like warm chocolate, but like to drink hot chocolate. Who knows why?
46. I could eat Thai food every day and not get sick of it.
47. I have really long and skinny fingers.
48. I love monkeys.
49. My favorite stuffed animal is named Ugga Mugga. He is a monkey.
50. I've had him for 25 year.
51. I make up silly names for stuffed animals and my favorite name so far is a monkey called 'Chinga-hoo'.
52. I have been in two movies.
53. One is an original and I'm one of the main characters. The other is a sequel and a portion of one of my scenes is on tv in one of the scenes.
54. It is a REALLY cheesy movie.
55. It is a horror flick.
56. I hate spiders.
57. They scare me.