Ravings of a BiPolar Gothic Witch
     Occasional commentary, observations and tidbits as well as other random thoughts

Here are 100 nifty facts about me that you never needed to know (but you clicked on the link so you are getting what you asked for!)
  • I'm 5'4" tall
  • My 2 oldest sons are now taller than me
  • I have 4 children from age 20-9
  • I hate being cold
  • My favorite Christmas present growing up was a Baby Tender Love doll
  • I read everything (even instructions you get with toys)
  • I have a sense of humor that very few people get (mostly just other geeky people)
  • I am very good at getting my way, except with my children
  • I played Pocahontas in 2nd grade
  • My favorite holiday treat is Kringla
  • I adore cats
  • I am a rabid photographer (just ask my kids and friends)
  • I am going to try to put my photography on canvas and have a showing
  • I think that the most important things in life are to learn , love and laugh
  • I am bipolar
  • I have lived in Iowa (Hubbard, Ames & Des Moines), New Orleans, San Diego, Illinois (Bloomington), and Denver
  • My favorite place was San Diego and I really hope to go back there
  • My favorite geographical feature is the ocean
  • I've lived in Denver for 6 years and never skied.
  • I am easily irritated by bad grammar and spelling
  • I listen to every type of music there is, and my favorite just depends on my mood
  • I belly dance, but have done ballet, tap, jazz, hula, and tahitian before
  • I sometimes enjoy embarressing my children
  • I have been a Wiccan High Priestess for 17 years, and have started 2 covens
  • I really feel best when things are very neat and clean, but housecleaning is the first
  • thing to go when I am busy (which is always!)
  • I've been divorced 3 (gasp) times
  • It would take more than anyone has to get me to ever marry again
  • A favorite thing to do is to dress up and dance all night
  • My second favorite thing to do is to ride on the back of a motorcycle that is going very fast with no helmet
  • I crochet and have even made things
  • My mother died when I was 10
  • We were very poor and she sewed all my clothes except for underwear and socks
  • I never knew my father but he apparently knew me
  • My only brother died when I was 31.
  • The places I want to travel to are Greece, Japan and South America, the Middle East and Australia, in that order
  • I have strong opinions and am not afraid to express them
  • My favorite city is San Francisco
  • I speak plainly and honestly, and as a result tend to piss people off
  • I don't smoke although I have in the past
  • The "hardest" drug I've ever done was acid (during college)
  • I graduated the first time around with a BFA in theatre, in directing
  • I don't get enough sleep
  • I spend too much time on the computer
  • I hate gory movies, but love suspense
  • I worked for the best company in the world while it existed, International Network Services
  • I love going to the zoo
  • I am a coffee snob
  • I make a mean pot of Red Beans & Rice
  • I once made Kumla, and you could have used the dumplings for baseball
  • When I was young my Grandma and her best friend had an open house "cookie day" and everyone in my hometown came (no kidding)
  • I named my daughter after Katherine Hepburn (but don't tell her father that)
  • I named one of my sons after Spencer Tracy (REALLY don't tell their father that - he thought I just liked the name)
  • There is a giant 4 inch snail that is in a tank at my son's doctor's office that scares me
  • I love surprises
  • I love astrophysics but am just not all that into astronomy
  • I can really be a blonde
  • My favorite sound is hearing one of my children (or more) laugh
  • I think the concept of swear words is stupid (it's the meaning behind them that sucks)
  • My biggest pet peeve is stupidity
  • I think dummy labels on things should be removed
  • My favorite game is Spite and Malice
  • I have houseplants, but only ones that survive well when forgotten for weeks on end
  • I got a Christmas cactus to bloom once
  • It still kind of hurts when I find out someone doesn't like me
  • I took 4 years of French in high school and still can read it
  • I had my daughter with natural childbirth
  • None of the boys would come out so I had C-Sections with each of them
  • I made all my childrens' Christmas stockings just like the one my Grandma made for me
  • I still have the Raggedy Anne and Andy my Grandma made for me when I was very little
  • I was raised in a town of 900 people
  • I threw the wildest parties in High School, even as a freshman
  • In HS, I went to Florida with my folks in winter, and got so sun burnt on the beach that my skin came off in patches instead of flakes
  • I have a really good sense of direction outside
  • I use a southern accent if I'm really pissed off
  • Purple is my favorite color
  • I hate dating
  • I like making people think
  • I hate prejudice
  • I talk ALOT
  • I want to write a book
  • I've had way more therapy then I want to think about
  • I made my very first real friend as an adult at age 42
  • I never had pimples growing up
  • I am almost entirely English
  • I love doing genealogy
  • I could be in the Daughters of the Revolution several times over, but never would
  • I am a really bad actress except during job interviews
  • I am lost without my IPOD
  • My totem animal is a wolf
  • I sang with the New Orleans Symphony Choir
  • I intend to live forever
  • My favorite movies are Serenity and LOTR
  • Watching any of the LOTR movies makes me cry every time
  • I am constantly amazed at the creativity and beauty in people
  • I am constantly dismayed by the cruelty and stupidity in people
  • At one time I made $90k doing IT networking but worked 80 hrs a week - which makes my salary more like $45k
  • I would never work that much again
  • I want to be a professor/researcher when I grow up
  • I have my great grandmother's wedding ring
  • My great-grandma, my grandma, my mother were all divorced
  • My grandma was the strongest woman I've ever known
  • Writing this list took me a long time

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