More Than You Ever Cared to Know About Me

Well, here it is, the night before The Big Day, and there's a hint of that I'm-going-to-wet-my-pants feeling sitting inside of me that will not go away until tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. CST, at which time my next career move should be cinched. I have a quarterly review scheduled with my boss for this Monday, and out of respect for her, I will not announce any news to the Internet world until after our 9:30 meeting. So, to keep myself from going crazy thinking about all the what-ifs, and to give any faithful readers I have something to chew on for the next few days, here is one of the most in-depth lists I could ever create.

100 Things About Frema

1. I love spinach dip.
2. Even though it has negative gaseous effects.
3. My biggest food passion is all Luke's fault.
4. He's the one who took me to TGI Friday's for our first out-of-town date and he wanted to try the spinach dip and I was just trying to be polite.
5. I often try to be polite, but not about food.
6. I despise seafood, beans, squash, eggs, and anything that's not chicken, ribs, french fries, and grapes. And spinach dip, but we've already established that.
7. Babies make me cry.
8. I hope to have three kids one day.
9. I realize this is not entirely up to me.
10. I don't want to have one right this minute, but seeing happily married women with newborns triggers bad cases of baby fever.
11. Current favorite girls' names are Lydia and Charlotte.
12. Boys' names: Peter and Nathan.
13. I am the oldest of five siblings.
14. This means I try very hard to be a good role model and show my brother and sisters what you can achieve if you just apply yourself. Most of the time.
15. My first official leadership role was as president of the Chicago Chicks Club.
16. I made this club up when I was 10.
17. I also made myself the president.
18. I was also a snob. Very Babysitters Club/Kristy Thomas-like.

 

19. I don't always shower on my days off from work.
20. But I always make a bowl of spinach dip.
21. And watch soap operas.
22. For the most part, I lead a very simple life.
23. It will become even more simple once I finish my master's degree in June.
24. The degree will be in writing.
25. The first story I ever wrote was called We'll Never Eat Candy Again. It was fewer than 10 pages long but had a table of contents and "About the Author" section.
26. The longest story I ever wrote, at a whopping 154 pages, was called Love, Betrayal, and a Baby 2, inspired by hours of invested time in All My Children, General Hospital, and Melrose Place at the impressionable age of 13.
27. Yes, there is a part one.
28. Yes, there is a baby's daddy.
29. Yes, I still love it when people ask to read it.
30. I have written three songs in my lifetime.
31. One of them serves as the theme song to the Chicago Chicks Club.
32. Last summer I wore acrylic nails.
33. I don't anymore.
34. But they helped to break me of my nail-biting habit.
35. My childhood role model was Ryan White.
36. Now it's my dad.
37. He's worked at least two jobs for most of the 25 years he's been married to my mother, so she could stay at home with us kids.
38. I think the hardest jobs have nothing to do with sitting in front of a desk.
39. I want to be a stay-at-home mom one day, too.

40. I've always enjoyed taking silly pictures.
41. I have never enjoyed earrings.
42. My ears aren't even pierced.
43. Once, to impress a boy, I jumped from the middle of a going-up escalator.
44. I did not impress this boy.
45. But I did make him laugh.
46. And then went out with his friend.
47. Who was 18.
48. I was 15.
49. I have always dated older guys.
50. My dream wedding used to involve a cruise ship, enclosing my and my husband's wedding vows in a wine bottle, and throwing them into the ocean.
51. My dream wedding now involves fewer than 100 people and a gazebo.
52. I like to keep my life very scheduled.
53. I like to schedule other people's lives, too.
54. I'm organized like that.
55. I love clicky pens, Post-Its, college-ruled paper, and blank journals.
56. I began my first diary on Christmas Day when I was nine years old.
57. It was the same year that I read Paul Zindel's The Pigman. One of the best books ever.
58. I read all the time as a kid.
59. Reading allowed me to believe that mysteries could be solved in skirts, boarding schools were fun, and stories about lab rats could make you cry.
60. Reading Archie comic books allowed me to believe that teenagers never ventured past seventies fashion.
61. I wrote an Archie comic once.
62. They were on their way to a New Kids on the Block concert.
63. I also wrote a New Kids on the Block series.
64. The word you're looking for now is "imaginative."
65. And maybe "dork."

66. I believe in God.
67. I used to be scared of God.
68. My father's mother used to tell me stories about the Devil popping out of the ground and bathroom mirrors and dragging people's bodies into hell.
69. What the hell was my grandma thinking?
70. I still can't sleep with my feet uncovered.
71. The Devil could take it as a sign of my wickedness and drag me down next.
72. Clearly, covered feet are enough to keep me safe.
73. These fears did not prevent me from gobbling up scary movies.
74. To this day, after watching one of them, someone needs to walk me to the bathroom.
75. I'm no dummy.
76. I believe in the unknown.
77. I believe in eating a pint of ice cream in one sitting.
78. I believe this is why I have a gut.
79. It used to bother me much more than it does now.
80. When I was 12 and into self-help books, I read a lot about eating disorders and social justice issues.
81. I also made myself throw up for three weeks.
82. When my parents found out and took me to the doctor, he thought I'd been doing it for five or six. I was that good.
84. I think I did it more for attention than for anything.
85. When you're a teenager who doesn't wear cool clothes, doesn't smoke, has no boyfriend, and isn't allowed to visit friends without parental supervision, what else do you do?
86. High school was a huge turning point for me.
87. I am a big fan of single-gender schools.
88. Green and blue are my favorite colors.
89. If I had to pick one, though, it'd be green.

90. I am pro-life.
91. I still struggle with heels and eyeliner.
92. Nobody would ever describe me as sweet.
93. Or a bad-ass.
94. But I am cute.
95. I love to laugh.
96. I like to scribble when I watch TV.
97. I belt out Lionel Richie and Mariah Carey love songs in the car.
98. I am the twenty-something Angela Chase.
99. I cry at the drop of a hat.
100. And I love the sound of my full name.

Comments

[honestyrain]

i love reading people's hundred things. that was fun. thanks :)

[Anonymous]

Don't worry the job deal will work out just fine.

MGD

[Anonymous]

I ocassionaly read your blogs and find them quite entertaining. I liked your list today becuase ironically I could relate to most of them. (fyi, who knew someone else besides my best friend liked Cathy Dennis??) Anyways, best of luck on your interview today. :)

Mandy Meyers

[Luke]

I wasn't trying it; you were. I had the spinach-artichoke dip before.

[Sambo V.]

I think you're sweet! I also know it to be true that you and your younger sister (me) would stay up at night in our bunk beds and talk on our cool pink Barbie phones. Even though some may describe you as a dork in the pre-teen years, I do and still idolize you! Why do you think I ALWAYS wanted to tag along with you. To this day, the Love, Betrayal and a Baby Series ranks among my favorite books...I will add them to my list!

[Anonymous]

breain i loved your blog entry! it was really awesome and i even learned a lot about you!
i love you sister!
donna*

[Isabel]

Maybe you've already done it...but how about sharing your recipe for that spinach dip you keep bragging about!! :-)

[Marriage-101]

I totally relate to 70-72. My hubby thinks I'm crazy.