10:43 p.m. - 2005-06-29
My TMI post.
I stole this from Andria's* diary because I've never taken the time to put together one of those "100 things about me" lists.

1. What is the geekiest part of your music collection?
The first thing that comes to mind is PDQ Bach. For those not even geeky enough to know who/what PDQ Bach is, I have two words: Oedipus Tex. PDQ Bach is some fictional classical music composer whose latest works are uncovered (by album) by Professor Peter Schickele, and whose classical music is either so badly written as to make you laugh, or well-written and hilarious, as is the case with Oedipus Tex. It's an opera, of sorts, that closely parallels the story of Oedipus Rex, except Oed is a cowboy. My favorite part of OT:

[narrator] And as soon as he had plucked out both his eyes, he kind of wished he hadn't, and he cried out, to anyone who would listen...
[Oed] My eyes! My eyes! [pause} Now what am I gonna do for eyes?

The other geekiest part of my music collection is country music. I mean, I hate country music. I do. But for some reason (thanks Mom) there are songs from my childhood that I love, that I recently had to admit are folk/country. Baby steps.

2. what do you eat when you raid the fridge late at night?
If you see me raiding the fridge, slap my hand and give me a firm "No!"

But if you're not around, I'm probably grabbing a sugar-free ice cream bar.

3. What is your secret guaranteed weeping movie?
It's a Beautiful Life. Oh, my god, my heart breaks every time I watch it. After that, Dumbo.

4. If you could have plastic surgery, what would you have done?
If I knew it wouldn't hurt like hell, I'd see about getting my thighs sculpted. Otherwise, I'd just get a tummy tuck and even out the girls. I knew they were uneven before I got them pierced, but the rings hanging differently just sorta drives that fact home.

5. Do you have a completely irrational fear?
I've been irrationally afraid of spiders, but now I'm only mildly terrified of them. I'm able to calmly approach my husband and say, "There's a monster on the ceiling in the bedroom."

I also hate elevators. When Grandma was in the hospital, I had to ride the elevators a lot, so I'm not so bad with that anymore. In fact, in April of 2004, I took the elevator to the top of the Canadian National Tower in Toronto and didn't cry. Go, me!

6. What is the little physical habit that gives away your insecure moment?
I play with my hair.

7. Are you a pyromaniac?
Totally. Not so much lately, although the fascination is still there.

8. Do you have too many love interests?
No.

9. Do you know anyone famous?
KNOW-know? No.
I have, however, met:
John Glenn
John Flansburgh (twice)
Helmut Kohl
Moe Berg
Uncle Al

And my dad was the voice of the UC Bearcat Band for many years.

10. Describe your bed
It's an old cannonball poster bed that my mom picked up over 30 years ago in a thrift store. Last year I re-inherited it (?) and put a pillow-top mattress on it, so now it's really high off the floor and tall, too. For the first few months I had it, I needed a stepstool to get into it.

11. Spontaneous or plan?
Spont-frickin-aneous.

Oooh, that sounds obscene.

12. Who should play you in a movie about your life?
If I'm not around to do it, I think...hmm. I'd like a Muppet to do it.

13. Do you know how to play poker?
No. Canasta, gin rummy, rummy, cribbage, and Uno, but not poker.

14. What do you carry with you at all times?
Cell phone, day planner/wallet, and hopefully lip balm or gloss. If I don't have something for my lips, they're guaranteed to get all chapped.

15. What do you miss most about being little?
Lots of stuff. Being guaranteed weekends off, having boundless energy (while it lasted), spending summers swimming...

16. Are you happy with your given name?
I am now. I didn't know any Kristens for a long time growing up, so you could hardly find it on those personalized things that were so important: stickers, bicycle license plates, pencils. I'm happy with it now.

17. How much money would it take to get you to give up the Internet for one year?
Oh, since we're dealing in the realm of the impossible, I'll just say one hundred. billion. dollars. [pinky]

18. What color is your bedroom?
White. My curtains are off-white and green.

19. what was the last song you were listening to?
Some mashups I downloaded.

20. Have you ever been in a play?
Yes, I was in a church play about David & Goliath. I was a narrator.

21. Have you ever been in love?
Yes.

22. Do you talk a lot?
I have my days, but I think more than talking a lot, I tend to say too much. There's a difference.

23. Do you like yourself and believe in yourself?
Sometimes.

24. Do transient, homeless, or starving people sometimes annoy you?
Well, since you said "sometimes", I'm okay with saying yes. There was an article in the last couple of weeks where one of our news stations actually checked out some of the panhandlers downtown and at the river and found that they aren't as destitute as they want us to believe. That annoys me far more than just the existence of homeless people.

25. Do you consider yourself to be a nice person?
I used to be, until I had to start working for a living. My parents might disagree with that, since they spent so long supporting me (and let's be honest, I didn't want for much growing up). What I mean is that the jobs I've worked have done a number on my faith in humanity.

26. Do you spend more time with your girlfriend/boyfriend or your friends?
My husband is my best friend, so yes.

27. What is your ideal marriage location?
What the hell kind of question is that? Marriage follows you everywhere you go. Surely you've heard tell of the ball-and-chain correlation?

<3 I love you, Darren. <3

28. Which musical instrument do you wish you could play?
Any. I've tried my hand at piano and saxophone, and didn't particularly care for either. Maybe I'd like piano more if I tried it again now. Oh! Oh! Keytar. Yeah.

29. Favorite fabric?
A nice, soft denim, I think.

30. Something you love and hate?
My job.

31. What kind of bedding do you use?
Stuff from Overstock.com.

32. Do you tell your friends about your sex life?
No.

33. What's the one language you want to learn?
Russian.

34. How do you eat an apple?
I haven't eaten one since my surgery, but I think I'd peel it.

35. What do you order at a bar?
Jack and diet coke.

36. Have you ever pierced your body parts?
No.

I went to professional piercers.

37. Do you have tattoos?
No. I keep thinking about it, but haven't decided on anything yet. Wait, scratch that. The :D guy from the Yahoo messenger, I want him on my middle finger.

38. Would you ever admit to having done plastic surgery any kind if confronted?
Yes.

39. What's one of the "funniest" things you've ever done?
Seems like anytime I'm in a restaurant with my mom and my sister at the same time, funniest things happen.

Like sticking oyster crackers in my eyes and singing "The Sun'll Come Out Tomorrow".

Had to be there.

40. Do you drive stick?
Yes, and I miss it.

41. What's one trait you hate in a person?
People who live on soapboxes. In-your-face vegetarians fall into this category, and militant nonsmokers, and those people who refuse to talk to you because you shop at WalMart.

42. What kind of watch(es) do you wear?
I have a nice shiny watch that my mother-in-law gave me last summer, but I rarely wear it. Mostly, I check my cellphone to see what time it is. I have a philosophy about watches and sunglasses, though: I buy them as cheap as I possibly can, because I will inevitably drive over them.

43. Most frivolous purchase?
Cell phones. We've been over this.

44. Do you consider yourself materialistic?
Yeah, sadly. I could wean myself, but why?

45. What do you cook the best?
I don't cook. I can make things hot, but I can't cook.

46. Favorite writing instrument?
Um, I type everything. I'm not that picky about writing utensils anymore.

47. Do you prefer to stand out or blend in?
Blend in, but I have my days.

48. Would you ever go out dressed like the opposite sex?
Why not?

49. What's one car you will never buy?
An SUV.

50. What kind of books do you like to read?
Science fiction/fantasy, as long as it's not TOO dragony and wizardy. I don't read that much. I read for a living, so when I'm done working, I don't feel like reading stuff.

51. If you won the lottery, what would you do?
Pay my bills, my family's bills, and buy a giant mansion big enough so we could all live there without getting in each other's hair.

52. Burial or cremation?
Cremation. Make sure I'm dead first, pls. Kthx.

53. How many online journals do you read regularly?
Around 10.

54. What's one thing you're a sore loser at?
Bowling, especially when someone who's never played before kicks my ass.

You know who you are.

55. If you don't like a person, how do you show it?
I ignore them or avoid them as much as possible. If interaction is absolutely required, I try to be civil.

56. Do you cry in front of friends?
Yeah.

57. What kind of first impression do you think you give to people?
I'm not sure. I always thought I came off as an invisible person, because I've spent so much of my life being overweight. But then a friend at work once told me that she thought I was stuck up because I was so beautiful. See question #56.

58. What's one thing you like to do alone?
Use the bathroom.

59. Are you a giver or a taker?
A giver. I think.

60. When's the last time you cried?
I don't know the last time I had a real cry, but thanks to birth control, cat food commercials can bring tears to my eyes.

61. Favorite communication method?
Electronic: email, IM, text msgs.

62. How many drinks before you're tipsy?
Depends what I'm drinking. I'll go with three, just to make sure.

63. Do you think you're cute?
Irresistible, if I want to be.

64. Do you have problems changing clothes in front of friends?
Yes.

65. What's the most painful experience you've ever had?
Physically, it was the time I knelt on a nail and it pierced the ligament under my kneecap and I couldn't move anything for like 2 weeks without that knee hurting.

Emotionally, the thing that stands out as the most shocking, most heartbreaking thing was when our family cat, Camper, got hit by a car and died. That was uncalled-for pain, universe, and I'll be getting you back for it yet.

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