100 things about me

1. I collect antique plates and hang them on my living room wall.
2. Also I like Milk Glass.
3. I have the best living room furniture ever--a matching, antique, burgundy mohair/velvety chair and couch.
4. I love yellow and green, which is something I would never have expected going to a "green and gold" high school.
5. I still find the colors of my alma mater appalling; equally gross are the colors of my college alma mater: brown and gold.
6. I make all of the food we eat with the exception of cold cereal, some bread, pasta and junk food.
7. I love vegetables.
8. I only sort-of like most fruit.
9. My children would live on peanut butter and jelly and fruit if I let them.
10. Sometimes I do.
11. Because I'm tired of hearing them (read: Olivia) complain about what is actually for dinner.
12. If I could, I would never leave my house.
13. I do not like feet.
14. My feet are always cold.
15. I am not ticklish.
16. I am not fond of nicknames.
17. I hate stupid nicknames.
18. I just hate stupidity, actually.
19. And lying.
20. But sometimes, exaggerating is fun.
21. I do 12 loads of laundry a week, mostly on Friday and Saturday.
22. In the summer, I only do laundry on sunny days so I can use my clothesline.
23. There are a few things I should cut out of my life.
24. Use of the F word is one.
25. Duct taping my children to their beds at nap time is another. (Just kidding. We are out of duct tape.)
26. I wish I was ambitious enough to clean my house regularly.
27. But I would much rather mess up my kitchen.
28. I like my Alpha Male. A lot.
29. I like that other people think he's hot. HA! I win! So back off already.
30. But even though you're hot, you still need to manicure that beast you call beard. Really.
31. I enjoy sarcasm.
32. I am sarcastic to God, and he understands and loves me anyway. Cool.
33. I am sarcastic to my Alpha Male. He says, "If I said that to you, you would cry and cry." He's right, I would.
34. Then I feel like a jerk.
35. I do not understand lots of things.
36. Even though I am super smart.
37. For example, why do children not go to sleep when they are tired?
38. Also I don't understand why people think highly of me.
39. I am just doing my job, people.
40. Most of the time, at a less than mediocre pace.
41. And I am often Not Nice.
42. Very Not Nice, and I find it difficult to like people.
43. I like movies, but it stresses me out to go to the theatre. Especially movies that are suspenseful or kinda scary.
44. When we are rich I will own every movie made by Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, and Cary Grant.
45. And I will watch them while my maid cleans my bathroom.
46. Sometimes I get migraines, and I have to go to bed. For the day.
47. Sometimes I get an attitude, and I have to go to time out. With coffee. Then I have to come out of time out. For the day.
48. I wish I had a quarter for every time I've been asked, "Is that your real eye color?" Yes. It is.
49. I was adopted.
50. It makes me nuts when people say my kids look like someone else, or ignore how they share features with me, because I have nobody else.
51. I have a sneaking suspicion my adopted father could be my biological father. Neato, huh?
52. I don't know what color hair I have. But some are shimmery.
53. I really like when it's superdark brown.
54. People have wondered if I'm a natural redhead. I am not.
55. I like food.
56. Meat, pasta, dessert, I love it all.
57. But I really like food best when I make it.
58. I never order food that I can cook. It's always better at home.
59. I require a lot of sleep.
60. I don't get lots of sleep, that is why I'm a little crabby, I think.
61. Some would say I am just naturally crabby.
62. My goal for this year is to freeze or otherwise preserve enough food to last the winter, and only grocery shop for fresh fruit and possibly butter and olive oil.
63. Butter should be its own food group.
64. I have an iPod. It is broken.
65. I want an iPod that is not broken.
66. I love the Dixie Chicks because they are incredible musicians.
67. I also love the Jayhawks, the Aquabats, Johnny Cash, the Black-Eyed Peas, and Cake.
68. I like Oldies that were on the radio when I was a kid, all that pre-1970's stuff.
69. I love 20th century classical music, especially Bartok, Bernstein, Copeland, and Ives.
70. I also love Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Vaughan-Williams, Respighi, and Bach.
71. I studied double bass with a guy who was the assistant principal of the Cleveland Orchestra, but primarily with Henry Peyrebrune, who is one of the kindest and loveliest people I have ever known. Also lovely are his wife Tracy and their children.
72. Orchestra was one of the only classes I enjoyed in college.
73. I have a (useless) degree in Music Education.
74. If I had not moved back to New York, I would have gone to graduate school in Cleveland.
75. I'd have a Masters of Social Work and a JD.
76. Instead I married J.D.
77. I'd have been a real punk-ass lawyer.
78. I like to play in the dirt.
79. I love tulips, lavendar, and daisies. They are happy fellas.
80. I plan to landscape my entire yard because I'd rather pull weeds tham mow. Also, flowers are prettier than grass.
81. I love home-canned tomatoes. I have an entire cupboard dedicated solely to home-canned tomatoes and tomato sauce.
82. My right hand pointer finger turns grey when I'm outside in winter, even when I'm wearing gloves.
83. I have nightmares about having my teeth knocked out.
84. But mostly I don't dream.
85. I am never making rice on the stove again. No. Sir.
86. I used to be a Republican, but I switched to Democrat to vote against Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Presidential Primary.
87. I do too much because I'm afraid of what will happen if I stop.
88. Actually I don't know how to stop.
89. I love my little family more than anything.
90. And you know I love me some good, strong coffee.
91. I really, really, achingly want to have another baby.
92. But that would be it. That's unless I had a baby for somebody else, but I'm almost to the point where they would call me a geriatric pregnancy, and I am not really into being referred to as 'geriatric'.
93. I have very few friends and I like it that way.
94. I like Alpha Male's friends (except one who is an ass, but I tolerate him because I love Alpha Male.)
95. I hope to like my children's friends.
96. I think I am a little much for most people. They just do not know what to do with me.
97. I love to wear jeans and a long-sleeved t-shirt or sweatshirt, but I like to dress up once in a while.
98. In my mind's eye (or in the nightmares where I am getting my teeth knocked out), I have really long hair.
99. I believe I am called to be a servant to those in need, but I draw the line at becoming a perpetual pack mule.
100. I believe the greatest thing I can do in my life is to raise my children to be honest, hard-working, God-loving adults.

There it is, my 100 Random Facts about me. Hope you've enjoyed today's exhibits of the Pamela Dayton show. Consider yourself tagged. I offer you the first Dayton Time Contest. Send me your 100 Random Facts about you by posting a comment (or emailing me, if you must). I will have one of the shorties select the names of two people to receive a yummy loaf of homemade bread, because I am acquiring mad bread skills, so believe you me, it is a prize you will be receiving. You can choose from Maple Whole Wheat, Sourdough, Plain Old Boring Sandwich Bread, or Pumpernickel. If you live far away, I will package it well and send it off. Contest ends Sunday night, March 9th, at 10:00 p.m., or by the time I check in Monday morning. Whichever comes first.