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100 Things about Melissa A.

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    1. When I interviewed with SitterCity, I knew if I joined I'd have to write this list
    2. I joined anyway
    3. hmmm, where to start?
    4. I grew upon a dairy farm in Upstate New York
    5. when I was 5 years old I was attacked by our rooster
    6. My Dad killed the rooster
    7. by the age of eight I was driving tractors, 3 wheelers, and our pick up truck
    8. my brother saved my life when my tractor came out of gear on a huge hill with a wagon full of hay behind it and everything went zooming downhill headed for a crash
    9. I still owe him one
    10. I had 27 "barn" cats collectively called the "Winkle Family".... dinkle-winkle, berry-winkle, mother-winkle, peri-winkle...you get the idea
    11. the 7 cows I owned were collectively known as "The Beans"
    12. Vanilla Bean, Coco Bean, Beans, Jelly Bean, Juju Bean etc
    13. my naming prowess has dwindled, I renamed my current house cats 3 times before settling on their current names
    14. Aoife and Buddy
    15. We live a few blocks from Wrigley Field in Chicago
    16. I lived in Ireland for 5 years before moving to Chicago
    17. I was Ireland's first ever "shooters girl" (a.k.a. chick who walks around selling shots in a tube in a nightclub)
    18. Shooters are still being sold in Ireland today (as far as I know)
    19. I hitch hiked from Galway to Waterford in one day to get to my cousins pub- it took almost 10 hours
    20. I drank 8 pints of Guinness in one day in that pub
    21. I was on the cover of the Irish Sunday Business Post in Ireland (similar to the Wall St Journal)
    22. no, it wasn't for the hitch hiking or the Guinness
    23. I lived in Scotland right after college, (prior to living Ireland), I had no money and played piano in a hotel bar to buy food
    24. every week the Scottish grocery store had a canned item on sale for only .10 pence
    25. that item was my dinner for each day of the next week... on a good week the item was baked beans, on a bad week it was spaghettios.
    26. I lost a lot of weight while living in Scotland
    27. I gained it all back
    28. I was home schooled for 4th-7th grade
    29. when I rejoined school I was part-time and became a brown belt in Karate and a cheerleader
    30. my brother and his wife live on a boat in Florida
    31. They have jobs, cars and a dog named Max, just no house
    32. I, on the other hand, get extremely seasick
    33. My husband had a boat before he met me
    34. it left soon after my arrival
    35. my husband was my next door neighbor
    36. He is the source of calmness in our house
    37. I am the source of flurry
    38. he first noticed me when I would sprint down the block in order to catch the bus
    39. the bus comes every 5 minutes
    40. I have been sleep deprived for the last 8 months
    41. my son is 8 months old
    42. sleep deprivation is the only thing I hate about motherhood
    43. my mother is a personal trainer
    44. she's totally cut
    45. we traveled to Egypt together several years ago
    46. She was offered 700 camels for me
    47. she declined the offer
    48. but considered it for a long time
    49. I've been to Thailand 3 times
    50. I'm dying to go to Italy and Greece
    51. I have been to more 3rd world countries than 1st world countries
    52. my favorite holiday is Easter
    53. I love the jelly beans, rabbits, eggs, the whole thing
    54. I like my Peeps 1 week stale
    55. I don't eat red meat (See numbers 11 & 12)
    56. I was a 2 time New York State Tae Kwon Do champion, bantam weight division
    57. I competed in U.S. Nationals twice
    58. I also competed on the Irish team in the European Open
    59. I'm a dual citizen of the U.S. And Ireland
    60. I own a car but like the fact that I really don't have to drive anywhere
    61. I can walk to almost everything I need
    62. I always feel like I have a lot to do
    63. I like organizing events
    64. when there is space and free time in my life, I fill it up
    65. I have a high energy level coupled with a low tolerance level
    66. I won 1st place in cattle showmanship when I was 12
    67. the judges checked to see if my cow's ears were clean
    68. they were
    69. I don't like to eat things that are in their original form when on my plate
    70. Anything that has eyeballs on my plate is definitely out
    71. I hate spiders, HATE
    72. When I was little I would cry if you said the word spider
    73. I frequently feel like I'm going to be stepped on when I am in a crowd
    74. I am mean to anyone that tries to wake me after I fall asleep on the couch at night
    75. I never remember being mean the next morning
    76. My husband and I got engaged off the coast of Prince Rupert Island while on an Alaskan cruise
    77. The captain of the ship said that if we had a son, we should name him Prince Rupert in honor of the occasion.
    78. we didn't name him Prince Rupert
    79. I like Johnny Cash songs
    80. I love chocolate
    81. Irish chocolate is my favorite because it has a higher percentage of milk
    82. My high school friends and I used to act out scenes from the movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
    83. I brought the movie with me to the hospital when I had my son
    84. One of my other favorite movies is Glenn Gary Glenn Ross
    85. I insist on having my bedroom closet doors closed at night because of closet monsters
    86. one of the reasons that I love my husband is that he closes them every night for me
    87. I've never actually seen a closet monster
    88. I still need protection from them because I know they are there
    89. The house I grew up in is over 100 years old
    90. it has 15 rooms, 2 staircases and a secret room in the basement
    91. The whole town knows that it's haunted
    92. My friends from college won't sleep in the back bedroom to this day
    93. When I was in college everyone called me George
    94. Most people didn't know my real name was Melissa
    95. I was 16 when I went to college
    96. I looked 12
    97. my braces didn't help
    98. I drove 23 hours non-stop to get to Mardi Gras, partied for less than 48 hours then drove home non stop
    99. My son Kyle likes to look under our rugs
    100. perhaps he's looking for rug monsters
    101. I thought I'd never make 100 and now I'm over my limit
    102. Did I mention I talk too much?