{"id":1609,"date":"2004-08-26T10:36:15","date_gmt":"2004-08-26T14:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2022-10-09T14:14:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T18:14:43","slug":"50-things-you-probably-dont-want-to-know-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1609","title":{"rendered":"50 Things you probably don&#8217;t want to know about me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one of those &#8220;things&#8221; that gets passed around. Let&#8217;s see how quickly I can fill it out.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n1. Your name spelled backwards.   Aliehs Neelhtak Yellamo<\/p>\n<p>2. Where were your parents born? None of your business.<\/p>\n<p>3. What is the last thing you downloaded onto your computer? Oh probably some jpeg of Cary Grant&#8217;s gorgeous mug<\/p>\n<p>4. What\u0092s your favorite restaurant? I&#8217;m broke.<\/p>\n<p>5. Last time you swam in a pool?  I have no recollection.  It was probably at my friend Mere&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>6. Have you ever been in a school play? HA!  More times than can be counted.<\/p>\n<p>7. How many kids do you want? At this point, I&#8217;ll be lucky to have one.<\/p>\n<p>8. Type of music you dislike most?  I don&#8217;t know &#8211; there&#8217;s great stuff in all types of music.  I don&#8217;t like anything that bores me.  I hate Creed.  I hate Jewel.  I hate phonies.  Period.<\/p>\n<p>9. Are you registered to vote? Yes.<\/p>\n<p>10. Do you have cable? No.<\/p>\n<p>11. Have you ever ridden on a moped? Yes.<\/p>\n<p>12. Ever prank call anybody?  I&#8217;m sure I did with Jen and Katy, my partners in crime when I was a little kid.<\/p>\n<p>13. Ever get a parking ticket?  Sure.<\/p>\n<p>14. Would you go bungee jumping or sky diving? I&#8217;d go sky diving before the bungee.<\/p>\n<p>15. Farthest place you ever traveled.  Ireland.  Well, had a layover in Heathrow.<\/p>\n<p>16. Do you have a garden? No.  But I have a ton of plants in my apartment.<\/p>\n<p>17. What\u0092s your favorite comic strip? Bloom County.  I love Calvin &#038; Hobbes.  Doonesbury.<\/p>\n<p>18. Do you really know all the words to your national anthem? The first verse, sure.<\/p>\n<p>19. Bath or Shower, morning or night? Shower in the morning.  Bath at night.  I am very very clean.<\/p>\n<p>20. Best movie you\u0092ve seen in the past month?  Howard Hawks&#8217; <i>Only Angels Have Wings<\/i>, starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur.  Great stuff.<\/p>\n<p>21. Favorite pizza topping? Pepperoni.<\/p>\n<p>22. Chips or popcorn? Chips.<\/p>\n<p>23. What color lipstick do you usually wear? I like deep dark colors.  Plums, reds, browns.  Very into lipstick.<\/p>\n<p>24. Have you ever smoked peanut shells? Uh &#8211; no, what are you &#8211; a freak?<\/p>\n<p>25. Have you ever been in a beauty pageant? No.<\/p>\n<p>26. Orange Juice or apple? Orange.<\/p>\n<p>27. Who was the last person you went out to dinner with and where did you dine? Went out with friend Jen to new restaurant in Hoboken &#8211; Trinity.  GREAT ambience, boring food.<\/p>\n<p>28. Favorite type chocolate bar? Can&#8217;t do chocolate.  It makes me nervous.<\/p>\n<p>29. When was the last time you voted at the polls? 2002, I think.  I remember setting my alarm to watch the returns coming in.<\/p>\n<p>30. Last time you ate a homegrown tomato? Maybe at my friend Beth&#8217;s house?<\/p>\n<p>31. Have you ever won a trophy? I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>32. Are you a good cook? I&#8217;m all right.  I have a limited repertoire, but it&#8217;s good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>33. Do you know how to pump your own gas?  Is there anyone who would answer &#8220;no&#8221; to this question?  Besides a woman from Riyadh?<\/p>\n<p>34. Ever order an article from an infomercial? No<\/p>\n<p>35. Sprite or 7-up? Neither.  Ick.<\/p>\n<p>36. Have you ever had to wear a uniform to work? I worked at Pit &#8216;n Patio &#8211; a pizza joint on the beach and had to wear a tan shirt and a white visor.<\/p>\n<p>37. Last thing you bought at a pharmacy? None of your business.<\/p>\n<p>38. Ever throw up in public?  Probably.  But I think I blocked the experience out.<\/p>\n<p>39. Would you prefer being a millionaire or find true love?  Stupid question, I hate that.  But I&#8217;d have to say true love.<\/p>\n<p>40. Do you believe in love at first sight? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=38149\">Unfortunately, yes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>41. Ever call a 1-900 number? No<\/p>\n<p>42. Can ex\u0092s be friends? Friends?  No &#8211; not best friends.  But my ex is definitely in my life &#8211; can&#8217;t be replaced.  But I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d ever just hang out with him, like I hang out with my girlfriends.<\/p>\n<p>43. Who was the last person you visited in a hospital? Jeez.  Maybe when Maria had Cashel &#8211; me, my mom, my dad, Maria&#8217;s parents were there &#8211; to watch my brother roll Cashel out of the delivery room, a small wrapped-up lima bean, with enormous staring eyeballs.  We all were weeping, and hugging and freaking OUT.<\/p>\n<p>44. Did you have a lot of hair when you were a baby? Sure.  White hair, about 4 strands, all of it in a ponytail on the top of my head.<\/p>\n<p>45. What message is on your answering machine? Nothing interesting.  Your basic message.<\/p>\n<p>46. What\u0092s your all time favorite Saturday Night Live Character? I have a soft spot in my heart for the geek noogie couple, played by Gilda Radner and Bill Murray.  You just don&#8217;t see character-driven sketches like that on that show anymore.<\/p>\n<p>47. What was the name of your first pet? Louisa May, otherwise known as Widdy.  The family cat.<\/p>\n<p>48. What is in your purse? Purse?  Ha.  It&#8217;s a knapsack.  And what&#8217;s in it?  Tooo many books.<\/p>\n<p>49. Favorite thing to do before bedtime? None of your business.<\/p>\n<p>50. What is one thing you are grateful for today? Just one?  I&#8217;d say I&#8217;m grateful for my health, for my family, for Cashel, for the fact I have a roof over my head.  I&#8217;m grateful for all of my friends, and for the fact that it&#8217;s been a mild summer.  I feel grateful to all of the people who read this blog.  I feel grateful for Dunkin Donuts coffee.  I feel grateful to our armed forces, for making sacrifices on my behalf, putting themselves in harm&#8217;s way.  I feel grateful that Maybelline has still not discontinued their &#8220;Berry Rich&#8221; shade, even after many years &#8211; it is my favorite lipstick-color.  I feel grateful for my obsessions &#8211; Nirvana, Cary Grant, Bogart, James Joyce, Central Asia &#8230; They have enriched my life.  I&#8217;m grateful for my relationship to my parents.  I&#8217;m grateful for my fabulous years in Chicago.  Etc, etc., and so forth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one of those &#8220;things&#8221; that gets passed around. 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