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Weather Pixie
100 Things about Dawne
a.k.a. Pixie a.k.a. Dauthor
1. The "e" is silent!
2. Do not call me "Dawnie" unless we are related or I have signed official documents. Otherwise, you will be eliminated.
3. I'm not a morning person, I won't take grease out of your way, I don't lead an army of zombies, and I don't know Tony Orlando.
4. I am actually a night owl, and not old enough to justify knowing who Tony Orlando is.
5. "Pixie" is my real childhood nickname, given to me by a cousin. I was a diminutive child.
6. My middle name is Lynn.
7. I'm the oldest of 3 kids.
8. I did one of these almost a year ago, but lost it. Now I have to do the whole damn thing over again.
9. I read my first book at 2½.
10. I still remember it, too Inside, Outside, Upside Down by Stan & Jan Berenstain.
11. I can read backwards and upside-down - but not both at once!
12. I received a 4.0 GPA (that's straight A's for those of you playing along) my first 3 semesters in college.
13. I'm the only left-handed person in my immediate family.
14. One of only 3 left-handed people in my extended family.
15. I have a scar on my right pointer finger from where it was caught in a dead bolt.
16. I'm sort of double-jointed. I can move my left middle finger back and forth over the bone. It's a little creepy.
17. I blame it on "twiddling", a nervous habit I had for years.
18. I have one freckle on my right eyelid, one on the sole of my left foot, and a birthmark on my left thigh that I use to measure appropriate short length.
19. My ears are pierced only once. I thought about getting another set, but the first set is dead centered, so there's no more room.
20. I have no tattoos, and most likely never will.
21. I will most likely look 16 for the rest of my life.
22. When I was a child, I hated ground beef so much that I told people I was allergic to it.
23. I hate everything mint, except mint chocolate chip ice cream.
24. I hate everything grape, excluding jam, but including raisins.
25. I once ate a snail (as escargot, of course) and some eel (in sushi).
26. I'm deathly afraid of spiders and heights.
27. I can't swim, drive, or dance.
28. I've never smoked, done drugs, or voted.
29. Dr. Phil is the Devil. High School is Hell.
30. My favorite colors are pink, silver, purple, and turquoise.
31. My favorite number is 3.
32. Pepsi, not Coke (if I have a choice, otherwise, it won't kill me).
33. Cats, not dogs (although my family has one of each).
34. Silver, not gold.
35. I speak a little French, and know a little ASL.
36. I took Chorus in elementary and middle school, but can't really sing.
37. I'd love to be able to sing. Or act. Or both.
38. The only thing I love more in this world than music is writing.
39. I'm addicted to caffeine and 80's New Wave.
40. Not joking about either of those.
41. I've never been to a wedding.
42. I've been to 4 funerals.
43. I've never been to a concert - yet
44. The last time I was on a plane was when I was 4. I ate too many honey-roasted peanuts and drank too much apple juice, and puked when we landed.
45. I've never sailed anywhere, but I've been on several docked ships.
46. When I was 11, our moving van caught on fire, leaving us with no furniture.
47. A week before my 15th birthday, I had a seizure at the Boston Museum of Science due to strobe lighting and my allergy medication.
48. A week later, I played Truth or Dare for the first and last time.
49. All of my favorite TV shows are off the air.
50. I passed the halfway point of this list at 11: 57 pm, EST.
51. I've never left the East Coast.
52. Although I have crossed the Mason-Dixon Line at least 30 times.
53. I like to refer to it as the Duck-Banjo Line. Listen to a Northerner and a Southerner talk and you'll understand.
54. I'm a Duck, born to two born-and-raised Ducks.
55. But living in a Banjo state.
56. I'm ½ Scottish, ¼ Irish and ¼ English.
57. Which means I glow in the dark and have one hell of a temper.
58. I'm a Capricorn.
59. My kid sister's birthday has been the day before mine since I was 9, and I've always hated it.
60. Roughly 80% of the pointless online quizzes I take come out surprisingly accurate.
61. I'm a stickler for rules and correct spelling.
62. I'm painfully shy. People have asked me if I am actually capable of talking.
63. I have trouble accepting compliments.
64. Everyone tells me I look better in person than in photographs. I haven't decided how to take this yet.
65. I collect collections. To date, I have about 14 different ones.
66. I believe in ghosts, but I've never seen one.
67. I taught myself nearly everything I know about HTML and the Internet.
68. I can be "fangirly" when provoked.
69. My idol knows this and is currently hiding from me.
70. The only other thing I've wanted to be besides a writer is a teacher.
71. I prefer writing letters to phone calls.
72. I have horrible handwriting.
73. I read other people's 100 Things to get ideas from mine.
74. It made me feel inadequate.
75. I have low self-esteem.
76. I will not be associated with any political party or religious faith.
77. My policy on politics, religion, and sexual preference: Do what you want, but don't force it on me.
78. I tend to feel guilty a lot (should I have said that about Phil?)
79. I am NOT a "joiner". I enjoy being unconventional.
80. I'm very superstitious. I pick up pennies, cross my fingers when passing a cemetery, and nearly had an anxiety attack when my idol's picture slipped from my hands as I was taking it off the wall (that doesn't count as falling, does it?)
81. I'm going to get teased for admitting to having an idol twice - and I don't care.
82. I believe we all have an idol, even if we don't admit it.
83. I listen to music every single day, without fail, sometimes for hours on end. Can't get through my day without it.
84. One word - routine.
85. I want to marry a guy with weird, tousled, sometimes spiky hair.
86. Consequently, my celebrity crushes are John Rzeznik and Christian Kane.
87. If you don't know who any of these people on my list are, don't worry - I'll tell you.
88. On second thought, do worry I'll tell you - I love to explain things that I know well to people - to the point where they scream.
89. I worry constantly.
90. I am NOT paranoid! They ARE out to get me!
91. I have a very odd sense of humor, in case you can't tell.
92. I prefer going to the movies instead of renting videos.
93. Even though I have a bladder like a sieve.
94. I prefer eating out instead of being stuck at home.
96. I like making lists.
97. Except when they are about me.
98. There is a VERY short list of people that I would willingly walk barefoot through spiders for
99. I finished this list 6 days faster than the last one.
