>>stripped of natural charm

1) I enjoy making lists
2) I like the color red. My whole apartment would be full of red things were it not for my lack of finances.
3) Due to my propensity to change my mind frequently, it’s good that my apartment is not full of red things.
4) In college I took an advanced grammar class. For fun.
5) I still have a comma problem.
6) Sometimes I go back to previous entries and edit the commas away.
7) The internet has made it possible for me to meet some pretty amazing people.
8) Especially my boyfriend husband.
9) I worked in clothing retail for three weeks before I quit.
10) I’m a Christian and I write about God things sometimes.
11) My memory for conversational recall is extraordinary.
12) I prefer bare feet to shoes.
13) I regret 4 things that I’ve done in my past.
15) My sense of humor is sarcastic and pessimistic and usually involves just one sentence.
16) I think that’s part of the reason I got fired.
17) And also why I won a Senior Superlative in high school.
18) When I read a book I like, I find all material by that author and devour it.
19) Because of this, my personal library, while growing, is not as diverse as I’d like it to be.
20) My secret dream is to be an eye-doctor.
21) That will never happen because I hate college.
22) I admire those who have enough guts to do the really hard things.
23) My brother is the funniest person I know.
24) He’s one year and seven months younger than me.
25) But a foot taller and way more good looking.
26) Since moving to Oregon, I’ve lost contact with a lot of people.
27) This may or may not bother me.
28) I love seafood.
29) Especially shellfish.
30) The only beer that I’ve found that I can stomach is Newcastle.
31) Usually I drink vodka-crans.
32) But I can only handle 2 before I get drunk.
33) My alcohol tolerance is very low.
34) Bread is my weakness. I love bread.
35) I wish I knew how to cook one thing really well.
36) But most of the time I don’t have the patience for cooking.
37) I still give it shot sometimes.
38) I just realized that I’ve been talking about food a lot.
39) I’ve never been skiing or snowboarding.
40) I don’t care to try, either.
41) If a glass that I’ve been using has been sitting out for more than 4 hours, I get a new one.
42) The dishwasher is always running.
43) I’ve gotten really good at rummy and cribbage since moving to Oregon.
44) I will never get used to seeing the mountains every day.
45) I’m scared of driving in snow.
46) It doesn’t rain here as often as I thought it would.
47) Nor is it as hot as Oregonians suggest.
48) I care very little about Oregon football, much to the chagrin pretty much everyone I know.
49) If I had to choose, I’d choose the Ducks.
50) Only because Jason likes them, and I like to keep the peace.
51) Though I smoke, I hate smelling like cigarettes.
52) This is why I rarely go to bars.
53) And also because people at bars are generally looking for one thing.
54) I type pretty quickly and will often post long entries that I had only meant to make short.
55) This is also due to my frequency for tangentilizing.
56) My favorite Disney movie of all time is Cinderella.
57) I love to sing.
58) I used to be in three choirs and two worship teams.
59) I am currently in zero choirs and zero worship teams.
60) I’ve wanted to read the entire Bible, cover to cover, for years.
61) But because Numbers is so boring, I can’t get past it.
62) I recently discovered South Park.
63) I have watched every season except 5 on DVD.
64) I did that because I was unemployed.
65) The couch that we first purchased upon moving into our apartment cost eight dollars.
66) It smelled like an old woman.
67) I love the new couch. It doesn’t smell like an old woman.
68) Phrases I loathe: chit-chat, are you kidding me?, and do you know what I’m saying?
69) I learned to read before kindergarten.
70) The first two years of school were very boring for me.
71) I didn’t ride my bike without training wheels for a very long time.
72) I’ve never broken a bone.
73) I only have one cavity.
74) I still have my tonsils, my appendix, and my gall bladder.
75) My brother doesn’t have his tonsils, my mom doesn’t have her appendix, and my dad doesn’t have his gall bladder.
76) I have no desire to go to Germany, China, Spain, or Mexico.
77) I prefer cold weather to hot weather.
78) Tornadoes, threat of tornadoes, or even ominous looking skies, scare me to death.
79) I’ve never gotten stitches.
80) I’ve gotten staples, though.
81) That is a weird feeling.
82) My feet are magic sized and can fit into a child-size 6 to a woman’s 9.
83) New York City is severely overrated.
84) Even though I’ve been there more times than I can count, Disney World is still magical.
85) I probably won’t ever go to Disney Land because I’m afraid that I’ll hate it, and thus start hating Disney World.
86) My hair has never been long.
87) I’ve always wanted long hair.
88) With the exception of one time, I always sleep on the side of the bed that’s closest to the door.
89) I have a weird hearing problem.
90) I can’t tune out noises. Like, right now I can hear the hum of the computer and the typing of the keys, and people who hear normally would be able to tune out the humming computer.
91) My roommates used to pay me to write their papers for them.
92) My standard rate was 5 dollars per page. Ten for editing and formatting.
93) My services could also be rendered other ways. Like cigarettes.
94) That made me feel like I was in the slammer.
95) I’m looking forward to seeing the leaves change colors, instead of just falling off one day like they did in Florida.
96) It is likely that I will always spell “definitely” d-e-f-i-n-a-t-e-l-y unless there is a spell-check around.
97) I hate throwing up. I would rather poop all day than throw up once.
98) I haven’t wrapped my head around the fact that I’m a grown up.
99) I still feel really young some times.
100) Then I wake up and my back hurts for no good reason and I think “Shit.”