I’m currently a housewife living in the San Francisco bay area.  I say currently because I do work, just not right now.  I’m 35 and I’m married to Doug.  We own our own home here and are looking toward retirement in about 10 years whereupon we will move to Kentucky and live outside of the People’s Republik of Kalifornia while drawing his pension from California.  :D Doug and I love to travel and do so whenever we can.

We have two cats--Teddy Cheddy, a nearly 20 lb. cat who is not really fat, but just big.  Teddy thinks that he’s a dog because he fetches and barks at things in the yard.  Teddy Cheddy BIG PINK PUFFY HEARTS his mommy and I BIG PINK PUFFY HEART Teddy Cheddy.  And Heidi who living with her is like living with an angsty teenager.  She doesn’t like anyone or anything anywhere for any reason.  She lives to bitch about something because her life is sooooo hard laying around all day in a sunny window being fed the best cat food and having a fountain from which to drink.  The kitties have three...yes, three...cat towers from which they can laze for hours on end.  The even have their own television and DVD player that plays a “Mewvie” of squirrels and chinchillas and birds hopping around the television screen.  You could say they are slightly spoiled.

We also have Buddy the Beagle.  Buddy came to us from Taiwan, China as a rescue.  I still don’t know why they are rescuing dogs from China, but I suppose maybe because they don’t want them to become lunch.  Anyway, Buddy is currently in queue to attend obedience training and perhaps agility school.  He is such a cute little guy.

I grew up in a normal family with normal (well almost normal) parents and siblings.  We’re all pretty successful in our own rights.  My brother is an engineer and my sister married well.  LOL My mom once said that Todd (my brother) would make his money from his hands, that I will make my money from my mind, and that Sarah (my sister) would marry well.  And you know what?  That is exactly how it has happened.

I’m a pretty nerdy person.  I embrace my nerdiness fully.  I may seem bitchy, but really, I’m a fair flower of the south, a delicate petal.

On to the 200 things about me.  Wow, what a long-ass list.  I wasn’t even done.  Grab a cuppa and “enjoy” the read. LOL

1. I was born in California, raised in Kentucky, live in California now and can’t wait to get back to Kentucky.
2. I think California is a miserable place to live now.
3. I loved living in Arizona.
4. But I’m not sure I’d want to move back
5. I hate being hot.
6. I hate being cold.
7. I wish I had more patience.
8. I judge people too quickly sometimes.
9. And when I’m wrong, I feel bad about it.
10. I’m introverted.
11. But I have tendencies to be extroverted at times.
12. I love watching movies.
13. I don’t really like going to the cinema.
14. Because I don’t like being around others.
15. I sometimes do stupid things.
16. Okay, I do stupid things a lot.
17. Luckily, I haven’t killed or maimed myself permanently yet.
18. My birthstone is garnet.
19. My favorite flower is carnation.
20. I was born in January.
21. That makes me a Capricorn.
22. But I’m not completely all Capricorn.
23. I don’t have a drive to compete in the business world anymore.
24. I admire people who do.
25. I don’t clean bathrooms.
26. I don’t clean the cat litter pans.
27. I don’t like to cook.
28. You’d think I was lazy.
29. But I’m not.
30. I’m a night owl.
31. I don’t require much sleep.
32. My signature fragrance is Issey Miyake.
33. I wear others sometimes but I always go back to Issey.
34. My favorite colors to wear is pink or white.
35. I love my Levi jeans.
36. They make me almost appear to have an ass.
37. I guess I got tits instead of ass.
38. Don’t know why they couldn’t have divided that evenly.
39. I hate my nose.
40. And my chin.
41. I’d totally have plastic surgery on them.
42. I’d also get botox.
43. And lipo on my thighs and tummy.
44. I wouldn’t get lip injections because then I’d look like someone punched me in the face with a brick.
45. I lie and say that I’m 5’6”.
46. I’m really only 5’5”.
47. My shoe size is US9.  EU40.
48. Yes, I have long feet.
49. It is due to my (in my opinion) disproportionately long toes.
50. My hair color is (supposed to be) black.
51. But currently it is dark copper with blonde highlights.
52. I have blue eyes.
53. No one else in my family has blue eyes.
54. I have the whitest skin ever.
55. If it weren’t for my black hair, people would think I am albino.
56. Okay, maybe not that white.
57. I do have freckles to break up the whiteness.
58. I don’t tan or burn in the sun.
59. I’ll probably end up with skin cancer at some point.
60. I have two nephews.
61. They’re really awesome.
62. I’m not at all biased about that.
63. I park my car in the garage on a rug.
64. I love rugs.
65. I don’t care how expensive they are.
66. My lucky number is 27.
67. I love to sing.
68. I can play the piano.
69. I studied voice and piano in college.
70. I can also strum a few chords on the guitar.
71. But I have long nails so I don’t practice it.
72. I had major surgery in 2001 to replace my deteriorated disks in my back with bone.
73. They sliced my neck open like a turkey and went in from the front.
74. I’m not convinced that it is totally fixed.
75. But I hate Kaiser Permanente so I won’t go have it checked.
76. I bitch a lot.
77. I know you’re not surprised by that.
78. But I’m a happy person!
79. When I bitch, I’m laughing at stupid people really.
80. My heritage is a lot mutt. However, the Tafoya family comes (originally) from New Mexico but my dad was born in Texas. The Bates side is from England. So far as I can tell in my heritage, I have Mexican, Native American, English, Irish, (another tribe of) Native American, Spanish, and just general mutt.
81. However, I identify myself as an American.
82. I don’t need a qualifier.
83. I am proud of my other heritages.
84. But I am most proud to be American.
85. I love America.
86. I’m not ashamed of that either.
87. I believe in God.
88. But I’m not religious really.
89. I grew up in a religious family.
90. I even went to a religious college.
91. I love the ocean.
92. But I don’t want like to swim in the ocean.
93. I’m a geek.
94. The jury is still out on whether I’d like to have children.
95. I’m afraid I’m getting too old for it, though.
96. I love my kitties.
97. I love my doggies.
98. I’m afraid of dogs though.
99. I love expensive purses like Louis Vuitton, Coach, Dooney & Bourke, and others.
100. I like shopping.
101. But I’d rather shop for house items than clothes.
102. I do like shopping for shoes.
103. I have a lot of shoes.
104. I don’t drink alcohol.
105. Very often.
106. I will drink good margaritas.  And gin.
107. I don’t like the feeling of being drunk.
108. I don’t just have a black thumb, I have a black arm.
109. Every living plant that I touch turns to dust.
110. Except these roses.
111. And English lavender.
112. I love chicken.
113. But I’m allergic.
114. Yes, allergic to chicken.
115. I still eat it.
116. I don’t eat pork.
117. I won’t eat broccoli.
118. Or cauliflower.
119. Or dairy.
120. Except cheese and butter.
121. I won’t touch milk.
122. Except sometimes I have a craving for chocolate milk.
123. Nothing else will do until I get my chug bottle of chocolate milk.
124. I’m very picky about food.
125. No, I mean really picky.
126. Really, really, really picky.
127. Do you NOT understand how picky I am?
128. Glad we got that settled.
129. I’m a complete germaphobe.
130. I realize the term isn’t germaphobe.
131. But if I said Mysophobia, you wouldn’t know what it was.
132. I go to extreme measures sometimes.
133. I realize that it is completely irrational.
134. I don’t care because I HATE GERMS.
135. I’m not crazy.
136. It just seems like it sometimes.
137. My list is getting really long.
138. And I have more to put on here.
139. I like being married.
140. But I loved being single.
141. I liked the ability to pack up and move when I got bored.
142. Can’t do that when you have a partner to consider.
143. Doug and I have been married 5 years.
144. We had an AWESOME time at our wedding.
145. There was no stress.
146. Well, except when my cousin opened the door while I’m standing in the changing room naked at the church.
147. Yes, people were in the vestibule right outside the changing room.
148. I don’t have an accent.
149. Well, I don’t have a strong accent.
150. I’ve lived in many parts of this country.
151. I’ve lost my Kentucky accent.
152. Though I now doubt that I ever had one.
153. That is, after listening to my sister.
154. Who has the thickest Kentucky accent that sometimes I can’t understand her.  LOL
155. There are still words that I cannot pronounce without a Southern accent.
156. Like drawer.
157. I pronounce it drawah.
158. I don’t think I will ever get hard R’s down at the end of words.
159. I have a Hyuandai XG350L.
160. It is loaded with all the options.
161. I can’t figure out how to work the wipers when it rains though.
162. I usually end up shutting off the lights or putting on the signal.
163. It has heated seats.
164. I love having a warm butt.
165. I love pizza.
166. Pizza Hut pizza is the best.
167. But we haven’t got Pizza Hut out here in the West.
168. We have crappy places with yucky crust and no flavor.
169. I got food poisoning once from Pizza Hut.
170. I don’t care, I still eat there.
171. I love sushi.
172. I don’t know why they sometimes make the rolls so big that you can’t fit them in your mouth without a crowbar.
173. I’m not into fast food.
174. But I will eat McDonald’s if that is the only option.
175. I detest Boogar King.
176. I hate it when people call my town ‘quaint.’
177. Yes, it is quaint.
178. And cute.
179. And picture perfect.
180. But I don’t want you tourists here.
181. I’d prefer you spend your money and go home.
182. But this is an expensive place to live.
183. No, if you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
184. I have a small mouth.
185. It is still LOUD, but it is small.
186. So small that all my adult teeth wouldn’t fit in my mouth.
187. So I had some of the rear ones pulled so my teeth wouldn’t crowd.
188. My teeth are perfectly straight.
189. I’ve never had a cavity.
190. I love playing my Wii.
191. But I’m not good at it.
192. I don’t let that put a damper on my fun.
193. I love traveling.
194. I don’t want to get old.
195. I like to do paper crafting & scrapbooking
196. Even though I don’t take good pictures.
197. I should totally learn how to improve my photography skills.
198. Here is a partial list of things that scare me: Clowns, Pantomimes, Puppets, Cows, Chickens, Birds, Open Closet doors, Creepy bugs, Vermin, Dogs, Germs, Scary people, Blood, Other bodily fluids and excretions.
199. Here is a partial list of places I’d like to visit or re-visit: Russia, Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, Germany, England, Scotland, Czech Republic, Japan, Australia, Seattle, The Yucatan, Belize, USVI, BVI, Kentucky, Hawaii, Ireland, Greece, Korea.
200. Here is a partial list of things I’d like to have: more money, new bedroom furnishings, a Ducati (my brother has one and it looks AWESOME!), a large motorboat, a new giant LCD TV, new dishware (Fiestaware because it is so colorful, though I wish they had square plates), another Roomba so I can run them both at the same time, complete sets of Lismore Waterford, a new laptop (OMG, I know we already have 4 computers, but I want a new laptop of my own so I don’t have to share), new lamps for the bedroom, a tiara, subscription to Martha Stewart Living, a kick-ass DVD collection, my own DDR (so that I could play on it and the kids wouldn’t make fun of the fat, middle aged lady on the DDR at the mall, not that I would ever get on one in public!)