My 101 things
- I was born in Peach County, Georgia
- My eyes are hazel, shifting from blue to green with my moods
- I learned to read and write by age three
- My first poems in collection were in many colors because I used colored pencils
- I had to use a first grade pencil in fifth grade because my handwriting had become so minute it required a magnifying glass for the teacher to read it
- I have been told I do not write my signature, I draw it
- I am a highly progressive Christian
- I am so liberal politically I am not sure I belong in any party
- The first serious lover of mine tried to shoot me at age thirteen by playing Russian roulette with a loaded pistol pointed at my head
- I love guns, but can not buy them myself due to my hospitalizations
- My Dad always told me that he was trying to teach me when he abused me
- I do not hate my Dad, he was sick and misguided, but I love him
- My first husband almost killed me, sometimes I still wonder what would happen if we met again
- My second husband is still a good friend of mine even though he does not see our son Alex as he should nor give any extra toward support
- My third husband said "Good-bye" so I have allowed him the freedom to move on without interference from me
- Jeff actually managed to break my heart completely, but I am surviving
- I will forgive anyone anything against me
- I can become highly volatile when angry
- I defend my mother and son like a lioness
- I love to collect things
- I have too many ink pens
- I read like books are on the endangered list
- I am a technology geek
- Even when life tries to take everything from me I refuse to give up
- Challenges make life interesting
- Change happens, I roll with it or it sweeps me away
- We have not had a vacation in ten years like Alex and I truly enjoy
- I really feel inadequate as a parent and a person
- My disease is a huge obstacle but I try to remember it could be much worse
- God is good and in control
- Blogging is amazing because I have made friends here just being myself
- I am too fat and will probably never be as thin as I would like
- Perfectionism does not begin to describe the standard to which I hold myself
- If survival of the fittest applied to all human beings in our society I would be dead by now
- If we lived in less enlightened times I would be considered demonic or totally deranged and would live my life sequestered from "normal" people
- I love the Rolling Stones
- Mick Jagger is one of the greatest showmen on earth even if he is getting somewhat older
- When I am angry I love to listen to Quiet Riot Mental Health loud
- Likewise I rock out to AC~DC when angry
- Music is a mood stabilizer for me
- I can not take illegal drugs so I use subversive music as an alternative
- I love to jump on the trampoline when I need to self-medicate
- I have a truly addictive personality and may become attached to anything
- Caring for others often comes in precedence to caring for my own needs
- I tend to be a deep thinker, but am not very rational
- My heart, feelings, and emotions rule my life
- If I believe you love me I will do literally anything for you
- Some think I trust too much and am naïve
- To my knowledge I hate no one living or dead
- I will never forget how you hurt me even though I will readily forgive you, this is to protect me from future abuse
- My son is one of the greatest people to ever grace this blue green planet and I believe one day many will know it
- Hot showers are a luxury I almost never go without
- I like fine scented soaps
- I will put health and dental care at a low priority so that I may have other things I enjoy
- My threshold for pain is very high
- Red, white, and black are my favorite colors
- My best nickname ever was "Gorgeous"
- Black and white is not my way of looking at life, there seem to me many shades of gray
- If I were an animal I would be a solid black Arabian mare
- Given more money I would try to do more good for others in the world
- No one should live one step away from poverty everyday
- I believe peace is attainable if we just look inside ourselves and act from love
- When things flow for me creatively all my poetry is done in one draft no corrections
- I am self-taught, education never helped much, my drive and hunger for learning is insatiable
- My libido is unlimited sexually, I come near being a nymphomaniac
- I will try anything that will not kill me, nothing scares me
- Sexually I am totally uninhibited
- I am addicted to Diet Coke in both regular and Caffeine Free varieties
- I only eat my steak medium rare or rarer, otherwise I send it back or do not enjoy it
- Bacardi 151 is my favorite liquor mixed with Diet Coke or in a Pina Colada
- I freely admit to liking my men tall and handsome and longer appendages are a plus
- I never knowingly plagiarize because I expect my own copyright to be respected
- I was a horticultural technician for sometime, but I never get plants of my own
- Once I had a photographic memory, now I do good to keep a plot more than a week in my head
- I have a hard time believing I have the ability to achieve anything
- I do love the people who consider me their own enemies
- I think if I had money to invest in the stock market quite probably I would easily become wealthy I have some sort of gift for it
- I have turned down some offers in my lifetime that would have probably changed everything in my life just because I had low self-esteem
- Computers are now approaching the abilities I imagined for them when I learned there were such things in elementary school
- I believe the work of Robert Heinlein is pure genius
- Lazarus Long is one of the great heroes of literature
- Part of my problem with living is that I am too creative, intellectual, spiritual, emotional, and unbounded to live within any sort of structure
- I burn bright like one who to tries to illuminate the whole world
- I would never be surprised to find I woke up after dying as a suicide, not something I relish, but something I realize happens to many others like me
- I am fragile, yet I am very strong, I survive
- Relentless could describe me
- Some people have called me a very good actress, I probably could make money in the profession if I was not so fat and unsightly
- I lettered in chorus three years in high school… could have been four, but I graduated early
- My church begs me to be in choir when I will go to church
- Organized religion is not my favorite game, too many hypocrites and judges, I think we all do well to remember we are each a sinner
- I will talk to and try to become friends with anyone if I am not too shy to interact at the time
- As best I can be I am honest with everyone
- Most people either love me or hate me, I tend to evoke strong emotion
- All three my ex-husbands still admit they love me very deeply, they just find living with me too difficult and call me high maintenance
- I have never slept with anyone who did not find it one of the sexual high points of his experience, I give my whole soul when I make love
- I almost never sleep behind a closed door or without a light in a nearby room when I am alone, I am afraid of being trapped and somewhat of the dark
- Scented candles are divine as a sensual pleasure
- Getting pregnant with Alex was a total shock as I had been reasonably active sexually from age thirteen with no real regular use of birth control, I was twenty-four and unwilling to abort what might be my only chance of having a child, so I fought for my babe from the moment I learned of his existence
- I actually see my disease as a gift at times because it is part of what makes me so unique, not too many can claim to be so deranged and still function within any normalcy
- Love is the principle purpose of all my life
- I hope when I die I am remembered fondly and with a big party instead of a dreary funeral