because 100 things just proved too hard

1. elizabeth is my nom de plume
2. my real name is a diminutive form of elizabeth
3. also, my confirmation name is elizabeth which i chose for john the baptist’s mother
4. i was born in birmingham
5. my accent is from when i spent summers in albuquerque
6. i am irish, french and welsh
7. i tried to teach myself gaelic
8. i am married to a rockstar
9. well, he’s not really a rockstar, but he is to me. actually he’s a filmmaker
10. he speaks french fluently
11. it is hawt when he tells me things in french
12. i’m a sucker for an irish or french accent
13. the film background and his irish looks are why i fell in love with him
14. we got married exactly one year and one week after meeting
15. we have two dogs and two cats
16. one of my dogs is a retired racing greyhound
17. her race name is LD’s Pigaroo
18. we call her Molly Cate
19. the other is a corgi/australian terrier mix
20. her name is Cooper
21. she is my first love
22. i love cheese. seriously, my love for cheese is bordering on obsessive.
23. i have OCD
24. but it’s not a handwashing thing its more of a “everything in its place” kind of thing.
25. when i was three i broke my thumb. i was placed in a cast up to my armpit. to this day i still cannot bend my thumb all the way
26. my favorite books growing up were Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself and There’s A Monster At The End Of This Book
27. my favorite books now are any in the Harry Potter series.
28. my favorite color is red
29. my favorite band is modest mouse
30. i am a music snob
31. i grew up listening to chuck berry, the beatles, moody blues, and hank williams, sr.
32. as much as i hate to admit it i am emo
33. i am highly allergic to bee and wasp stings
34. if i am stung i have to use an adrenaline injection
35. i used to wear a medical alert bracelet but i thought it was lame
36. i do not tan, i freckle
37. i have two sisters
38. i call them my “sperm sisters” because we have the same father, but not the same mother.
39. i hope that i am as pretty as my mom when i become her age
40. my mom is my hero
41. she treated cancer patients for 12 hours a day for 25 years and still managed to raise a kick ass kid like me
42. my dad is the funniest man i know
43. i grew up fearing him but now i know that he was hard on us so we would not make as many mistakes as he did
44. i still screwed up a lot
45. i’m pretty hard headed
46. i’d rather learn something on my own than have someone tell me how to do it
47. my favorite soda is orange crush
48. i’ve always wanted to be a singer in a rock band
49. i sing at the top of my lungs when i am driving
50. my car smells like crayons
51. i am sarcastic bordering on bitchy
52. i once flipped a guy off and he broke my finger
53. i’ve been to the emergency room three times
54. i love horror movies
55. i know all the lines from Steel Magnolias
56. i swear like a sailor
57. i am extremely loyal to my friends
58. i am notoriously honest
59. i still sleep with the blanket i came home from the hospital in
60. i slept with a teddy bear until i was 23 years old
61. now he sits on my dresser
62. i am lazy
63. unless i am cleaning
64. my passion is graphic design
65. i love taking pictures too
66. i think all girls go through a photography phase. mine just stuck.
67. my dad is a photographer
68. this is harder than it looks
69. i wish i had stuck with my dance lessons
70. i took ballet, tap and jazz dance for ten years
71. my favorite was tap
72. i like making a racket
73. i make soundtracks in my head
74. i have been to more funerals than weddings
75. i find that incredibly depressing
76. i buried one of my friends on my birthday
77. my favorite quote is one i made up: “no matter how hard life is, no matter how bad things seem, always know that you were the fastest swimmer”
78. i think my most attractive feature is my smile
79. and my toes
80. i almost moved to nashville to go to art school
81. but then i met my husband
82. i am a pesimist
83. i am a smoker
84. i think i look better with glasses than without
85. i hate my nose
86. i’ve hiked the AT
87. i have canoed the cahaba, the ocoee and kelly creek every summer since i was five
88. i love my birks