100 things

Well, since I did jump on the blog bandwagon I figure why not embrace it fully. Even if it means partaking in what may be one of the most over done postings – 100 things about me and/or my life.

Who started this crazy exercise? Anyhoo…here goes…

1. I was born and raised in New York
2. Rockland County to be exact.
3. I lived in Manhattan for 3 years
4. I moved to Washington, DC after graduating from college
5. I bought a house in Northern Virginia when I was 23 and sold that house last year
6. I’ve been married for 5 years
7. I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina
8. I used to live in Lima, Peru
9. I will move again in 18 months
10. I want to live in Africa some day
11. I don’t really have a desire to live in Western Europe
12. I don’t want to return to living in the United States just yet
13. My husband works for the U.S. Government
14. We travel and live overseas because of his job
15. I don’t have a job
16. I’m a SAHM (stay-at-home-mom)
17. I have two children
18. Abigail is 4 and Owen is 2
19. I’ve liked the name Abigail ever since I learned about Abigail Adams in an American history class.
20. Abbey speaks English and Spanish, Owen doesn’t speak (at least not yet)
21. but i think it’s pretty amazing that he can recognize and say all the letters in the alpahabet
22. I have two brothers
23. I’m a fraternal twin
24. My name would have been Jennifer had my twin brother been a girl
25. His name would have been Nicole had he been a girl
26. Had I been a boy my name would have been Andrew
27. I’ve always liked the name Andrew and all nicknames associated with it
28. I don’t like being called Nicky and/or Nick or any other shortened version of Nicole
29. Only my father can call me those names; and maybe my friend Michelle 🙂
30. I was born 13 minutes after my brother
31. I was breech
32. The doctors had to turn me around
33. My twin brother’s name is Mark
34. Mark is gay
35. He just got “married” in Wisconsin. And no, gay marriage is not legal in Wisconsin
36. I’m okay with the fact that he’s gay
37. I’m not okay with how he told me that he was gay
38. When I was visiting him in Washington, DC during our junior year of college I asked him who he was on the phone with and he said it was his boyfriend and that we were having lunch with him tomorrow right before I was to get on the train back to NY
39. I told my parents my brother was gay
40. Once he came home from college to visit and he left on his bed a book on how to tell your parents your gay
41. When my brother went to the airport I gave the book to my mom
42. She thought it was about me
43. She was okay with that
44. She cried when she found out it was my brother
45. I’ve been to a gay club
46. I didn’t like the club
47. I didn’t like the fact that no one was looking at me – not good for someone with low self esteem
48. I used to have short hair
49. Now my hair is long
50. I feel sexier with long hair
51. I have two Siberian huskies
52. I used to be terrified of dogs
53. I’m obsessed with sudukos and crossword puzzles
54. My parents introduced me to sudukos
55. My mother-in-law bought be a suduko book for Christmas. It’s addicting
56. I started doing the NYT crossword puzzles to get through a Intro to Microeconomics class at Barnard
57. I graduated from Barnard College in 1999
58. I graduated summa cum laude, phi beta kappa and with departmental honors
59. I’m proud of myself for that
60. I was a big nerd
61. I was good at college; I miss being good at something
62. I transferred to Barnard sophomore year
63. I went to Ursinus College freshman year
64. I probably chose to go to Ursinus because my parents didn’t want me to
65. They wanted me to go to Syracuse University
66. I didn’t fit in at Ursinus. It was way too preppy and conservative.
67. I drank too much to get through freshman year
68. I pledged a sorority at Columbia University. I deactivated within 6 months
69. I attended AA meetings for a about 5 months
70. I stayed sober for an entire year
71. I didn’t drink on my 21st birthday
72. I only drink wine and beer now
73. I am particularly fond of the Argentine malbec wine
74. I love living in Buenos Aires
75. I speak spanish (though not as fluently as I would like to)
76. On some days I speak more Spanish then English
77. I feel very accomplished when I do this
78. I was in a bicycle accident when I was 13
79. I have scars on my knees that are black because of the pavement that I slid across
80. I’ve never gotten back on a bicycle
81. My daughter is learning to ride a bike
82. I would like to complete a triathlon
83. I need to get over my fear of riding a bike
84. I recently ran a 10K race
85. I finished in 1 hour 3 minutes
86. When I was in high school I played field hockey and softball
87. I was pretty good at field hockey
88. I hated high school
89. I hated myself in high school
90. I had a big nose in high school
91. People called me “nostrils” – that wasn’t very nice of them
92. In elementary school a kid that went by the nickname “Moose” made me cry on more than one occasion because he made fun of my nose – something about being able to fit peanut M&Ms up my nostrils (stop laughing…it’s NOT funny!)
93. I had to have surgery on my nose when I was in college (for reasons other than cosmetic)
94. It was a good excuse to have it cosmetically altered as well
95. I still don’t like my nose
96. I had a tumor removed from my neck 5 years ago
97. It was a pleomorphic adenoma
98. I used to suffer from panic attacks
99. I take Zoloft
100. I don’t have panic attacks anymore