Can I have a drumroll please....

100 Things (with special "surprise" guests)

I know it is old. I know it is tired. But I'm doing it anyway. In honor of my 100th post; 100 things about me. Except I couldn't think of 100 things, so this will be a family project. My nearest and dearest each submitted 25 things. After extracting promises that I would NOT censor in any way. Any editorial comments will be italicized. The first 25 are mine, the next 25 are the Saint's, the next 25 are Precious Oldest's, the last 25 are Precious Youngest's.

1. I do not own a pair of Crocs or a pair of Uggs


2. I DO own 47 pairs of shoes, many of which sport heels high enough that folks feel compelled to ask "How can you walk in those"


3. That number does not include boots or athletic shoes, entirely separate categories in my mind


4. When I'm at home I rarely wear shoes


5. I seldom see movies made from books I've enjoyed because they are almost always a disappointment


6. I have degrees in English and Art History


7. I prefer the ocean to the mountains


8. I like gardening and having my hands in the dirt


9. I love to cook


10. I love our back yard, it has a fantastic patio and deck


11. I like living somewhere that has a change of seasons


12. I hate the short days in winter


13. I love my husband, he is a good man


14. Traveling makes me constipated


15. I used to say I love to travel, but I really I just like being in other places - not the actual travel


16. I learned to ski before I learned to ride a bike


17. I love summer days at the lake with my family and friends.


18. I didn't learn to water ski until I was an adult


19. I have been to Canada, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Mexico


20. I want to go to Brazil, Egypt, Greece and Spain


21. I am constantly awed by my daughters who are are wicked smart and very funny


22. I enjoy, in this order, Irish Whiskey, Tennessee Whiskey and Bourbon. Yet I can't abide Scotch Whiskey


23. I am a registered Republican


24. was married in 1985. I weighed 108 pounds. My wedding dress still fits


25. I am Catholic. I go to Mass. Even on vacation


26. I was a debater in high school


27. I go to the gym at 5:30 AM, 5 days per week, every week of the year


28. My only interest in sports is college basketball


29. I am more Irish than almost anyone I meet


30. I like my steak rarer than any red blooded American


31. I think a day that starts with champagne can never be bad


32. I never belonged to a Sorority, and every one who knows me is shocked (not people who know me, people who've recently met me)


33. Home grown asparagus and tomatoes are my favorite vegetables


34. I puked from conception to delivery (every freakin' time damn it)


35. Ireland and Italy are two of my favorite vacation spots - so far


36. I like to sunbath European style


37. Manhattan - Jack Daniels - straight up. Three cherries.


38. I can kick your ass on snow skis


39. Van Morrison rocks


40. As does ABBA


41. I would live in New York City or San Francisco in a minute


42. I go to church every week


43. My parents let me go to England for a summer when I was 17


44. I have been to the church where my great-great grandparents were married (Ballinrobe, County Mayo, Ireland)


45. Recipes are for Sissy's


46. Blogging is therapy


47. Family dinners are important


48. I love to read


49. Winter darkness sucks


50. I shave my legs every day


51. She is only 29 years old… kind of.


52. She claims that her favorite color is yellow, but 3 rooms of the house are green, green, green.


53. She loves the smelly dog more than she lets on.


54. Her first job was as a milkshake on a street corner. Almost like prostitution, but BETTER.


55. She loves her gardens; roses are her favorite.


56. She suffers greatly when she has to vacation without her favorite cabana boy—my father.


57. If you’d like to be put in the hospital, talk to her before she’s had her first cup of coffee in the morning.


58. For a very long time, she was a Nancy Drew fanatic.


59. She hates winter more than just about anything in the world.


60. She likes the black jelly beans the most.


61. Despite her best efforts to prove us otherwise, she really does know the difference between Facebook and Myspace. (Myface, my ass.)


62. She relentlessly captured the annual “first day of school” pictures that will last only until her daughters round them up and BURN THEM.


63. Her high school Oratory speech that got her to State? Totally about STDs. Classy broad.


64. She reads Sue Grafton novels like there is no tomorrow. (I also OWN them all)


65. She was once offered $20 if she wouldn’t kiss the Blarney stone.


66. Her favorite band to “rock out” to remains, unfortunately, ABBA.


67. She is the reason that her favorite daughter is an English major.


68. Every year, she cheats and listens to Christmas music before Thanksgiving.


69. She still doesn’t know how to use anything on her cell phone but “Talk”.


70. She guesses at the plots of movies (OUT LOUD) before anyone else can even absorb the current scene… She should be ashamed that they are often correct. (What? I'm brilliant)


71. She will never stop scaring the crap out of my boyfriend. (Not just the current one..ALL of them)


72. She could be a thousand times better than Rachael Ray if she had her own cooking show.


73. She was drinking Cosmopolitans way before “Sex and the City.”


74. It is impossible to beat her at Scrabble.


75. SHE REFUSES TO LET HER BELOVED DAUGHTERS READ THIS BLOG.


76. The boys we bring home are greatly afraid of her (and may they REMAIN so!)


77. We're more like best friends than mother and daughter


78. She used to collect roosters and the ones that she has are displayed "proudly" in the kitchen are far above eye-line


79. Her collection of Santas and Snowmen are obnoxious and she's very picky about where she places them, but she really doesn't notice when we move them around much


80. She's very good at water sports like skiing and knee boarding


81. One of the only movie candies that she accepts are Good & Plenty


82. She has a crazy boss who's daughter should make her appreciate her own much more


83. She uses Clinique "Happy"


84. She was an English major and hopefully I will break the trend


85. She hates the stupid damn dog


86. She bites her fork when she eats and trust me, its really annoying


87. She's a BIG COOK


88. She absolutely hates camping (just that there's no room service)


89. She's very good at being boat candy


90. She enjoys Ben Folds and has been to two of his concerts


91. At Elders concerts she pretends she can Irish dance and bounces around obnoxiously, usually hurting her bad knee (Whaa? I can too Irish Dance)


92. She has a bad knee from a skiing accident caused by one of the youngest male cousins, though she went many many years being a great skier without injury. Actually, she was bragging about that just before it happened...


93. She did girl scouts and was our troop leader


94. She likes to pretend the sun room is her lake house and that the lawn mowers are just Sea-Doos


95. She has very small ugly step sister feet


96. She often takes trips to various countries leaving her children at home alone and sad


97. The good thing about these trips are the shot glasses she brings back for her children (classy, right?)


98. She's having a secret love affair with Horatio from CSI Miami


99. Her dance moves to ABBA'S Dancing Queen are sensational and really turn heads


100. She often uses "E.V.O.O." much to the dismay of the sister (she hates the phrase, not the oil!)