32. I’ve been playing bridge for 19 years and I still have to play in the Beginner’s Room at MSN Gaming Zone (I love bridge, I just play it badly)
33. I make the best banana bread I’ve ever eaten.
34. If the world ended due to a plague and I couldn’t live in my house anymore I would want to live in Spartan Village at MSU. I lived there in college. I liked it there. That is definitely my first choice in post-apocalyptic dwelling.
35. I collect bowls. I have four sets of day-wear bowls and a lovely assortment of serving bowls.
36. Interestingly, I do not own a soup tureen.
37. I’ve been taking my showers at night lately rather than in the morning.
38. I wish my fingernails didn’t grow so fast, I’m poorly skilled with an emery board. At 35 I don’t expect to suddenly get good at it.
39. My acne problems are inherited from my father who, in his mid-60’s, still has active acne.
40. I was thinking yesterday about what I would take with me if there was a plague and Hubby and I had to flee Lansing. The first thing that came to mind were my two good hair-ties. Long hair is a serious bit of work.
41. The latest book I’m reading is the Young Adult title “The Bee-Keeper’s Apprentice” by Laurie King.
42. Today I went clothes shopping for “professional” clothes – trying to step it up a notch at work after unpacking last year’s summer wardrobe and being underwhelmed.
43. I am really proud of my sock collection.
44. I’m considering throwing away my VHS collection of X-files complete with commercials. Pause for effect.
45. I recycle everything the City of Lansing collects plus cardboard plus phone books plus books plus of course returnables plus giving away stuff I don’t need rather than throwing it away.
46. I changed my mind. My favorite color is still plum/purple.
47. I don’t want to jinx it or anything, but I am actually growing living things in my garden. Some of them might be edible in a few months.
48. I have accounts/log-ins at WordPress, Blogger, de.li.cio.us, Furl, Second Life, MySpace, Ning, Flickr, Gmail, iGoogle, Bloglines, meebo, YouTube, wikipedia and a few other wikis, and a few others I can’t think of sitting here plus my own Web sites.
49. My favorite male authors are Stephen King and Michael Crichton and John Grisham. I could lie and say Chaucer and Shakepeare but I don’t re-read Chaucer’s canon annually.
50. My favorite female authors are Katherine Phillips, Gloria Naylor, Ayn Rand, Mary Wesley and a bunch more who only wrote one or two books.
51. I keep a broken clock on my desk because my grandmother gave it to me.
52. My great, great, great, great, great grandparents were Nicholas Schryer and Mary Eastwood. Their children grew up to be drafted into the Revolutionary War but the family fled to Canada rather than have the boys serve.
53. My great, great, great, great grandfather Simon listed “atheist” as his religion on the census.
54. My great, great grandfather Davison was brought home dead on a cart after an accident on the railroad where he was working to his pregnant widow who already had 4 kids at her skirts. She listed “washerwoman” as her occupation on the next census.
55. My great Uncle Frank lost the union dues money one night drunk in a bar. Never had any idea how it got away from him. Paid it back (and kept his kneecaps).
56. My great grandmother Emeline owned two millineries (hat making shops) before she got married. In that day/time it was the custom of employers to provide lunch to female employees. Being women, and immigrants, they swapped dishes and recipes from all over the world. My family still makes some of those swapped recipes today.
57. My uncle headed the team at AT+T that invented broadband. He had his home, a middle school and a high-school on optical fiber links to the Internet in 1993. My family is so cool.
58. Another uncle parked his bike on the frozen river at MSU, got a ticket for parking out of bounds, and beat it. Yeah, that’s my family, and my family is cool.
59. My mother’s wedding dress was above her knee.
60. I was named after Dostoyevsky‘s Sonya from “Crime and Punishment.” I highly recommend naming your kid after a classic. No one will ever forget their name.
61. Worf’s make-up took 2 hours. Adrianna’s (from Sopranos) took 4 hours. Just a little break there to talk about more television which has nothing to do with my feeling self-conscious for watching so much of it.
62. I don’t really like bagels. Am I still an American?
63. I really need a pedicure.
64. The tupperware tumbler I’m drinking out of is a 5 in recycling language.
65. My favorite carnival ride is the ferris wheel.
66. I have hammer toes.
67. I never could bring myself to throw out those old college books I couldn’t sell on Amazon. They’re still sitting right here. In big ugly boxes.
68. I currently have 5 Web administration clients if you don’t count my day job.
69. I have one tattoo.
70. My best colors are blue and pink
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