1. I had knee surgery at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto to remove a benign tumour in my knee when I was five years old. The scar looks like a smushed worm. It's on my left leg.
2. When I was a child, about five or six years old, I used to sneak into the bathroom and drink Kaopectate because I liked the taste of it.
3. I love cheese. On everything.
4. I hate ham. But I love bacon and I like sausage on bagels.
5. I was the editor of the Queen's University student newspaper in 1999-2000.
6. I have a scar on my forehead from picking a zit that wouldn't go away when I was in Grade 10.
7. I have a mole on my neck that I used to hate until my mother told me it wasn't a mole. It's a beauty mark. Then I thought it was pretty.
8. When I was a little girl, I loved watching beauty pageants. Once, during Miss Universe, you could call in and vote. I voted for Miss Venzuela who was wearing this stunning emerald green dress. She lost and I cried.
9. My favourite show when I was little was Laverne and Shirley. Now I love CSI. The episode with Nick in the Box by Quentin Tarantino was the best thing to ever land on TV.
10. My boyfriend has the spirit of a 16 year old in love.
11. I don't read enough, and yet I always have time for US and People. Bad.
12. I love tomatoes. I put them on everything.
13. I love Grease. There's a line in the movie when the boys are talking about a girl's jugs. When I first saw the movie when I was five, I thought they were talking about milk jugs. I was too young to understand.
14. I really miss my university roommates. We were close for four years and then everyone left and then I fell out of touch with them. Virginia, e-mail me would ya? Adria, we need to have dinner again. Shaun: I miss you. I need to meet your wife.
15. I love John Cusack, well, maybe not John Cusack but the way he makes women feel in all his romantic comedies.
16. Love The Mission.
17. Can't believe I sat through White Chicks.
18. Love falling asleep to the sound of falling rain.
19. Love sleeping.
20. Love raw cookie dough batter but don't love cookie dough ice cream.
21. Got stretch marks on my hips from when I was a growing teen but didn't get any new ones during pregnancy.
22. When I was a little girl, I made up my own swear phrase. I used to say "shoot and a shit and a pity pit pit" but under my breath so no one could hear me.
23. I love playing mini golf.
24. I think Kingston's Ryan Malcolm got a raw deal after Canadian Idol ended and he got dumped from Sony-BMG. The guy can sing. Anyone who saw him sing He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother on the show knows that.
25. I'm also biased because I dated his very sweet older brother for a year (after the show ended; no conflict of interest.)
26. Love Rockstar: Supernova. Think Ryan Star is going to win.
27. I once stole a little blue change bag decorated with beads from church when I was a little girl. I squeezed it in my hand until Sunday School ended and took it home.
28. My Grade 8 grad date got me an orchid for our prom. Everyone else had a carnation. I had an orchid. LOVED IT.
29. During Kingston's great Ice Storm in 1998, I was a Queen's University student. We had just gone grocery shopping and spent buckets of money so we came up with an ingenious plan. We took our food, put it in suitcases and duffel bags and put it on our roof. We had no power and we thought all the meat and cheese and stuff would stay cool up there. Well, in the craziness of the power outage, we forgot about it and couldn't figure out why our bedrooms stunk that spring when we opened our windows. My poor younger brother had to climb onto our roof and cut that bags down which were now full of decomposing slush that had once been boneless chicken breasts.
30. I once wrote a racy short story when I was a little girl. I don't remember much about it except 1) it contained the word "boobies" and 2) my mom said I shouldn't write such things at such an early age.
31. I love pineapple on pizza.
32. I always wanted to pierce my nose when I was in high school. My parents wouldn't let me. They said it would scar my skin.
33. I used to have a crush on the blond-haired dude on the cartoon Scooby Dooby Doo. I don't like blond men anymore.
34. I turned down a juicy editor job offer in Toronto because we had just started to aclimatize two children to the idea of the fact we could be a "family" and I decided I couldn't, right then, be selfish and move 250 kilometres away. Visiting on weekends just wasn't an option. I chose family over career. It was one of the hardest decisions I ever had to make.
35. I hate cheap people. I know a lot of them.
36. Nickname a boyfriend used to call me: "sleeping angel."
37. Nickname another boyfriend used to call me "buttons."
38. Nickname THE BOYFRIEND calls me "GG."
39. My brother is hot.
40. I was a guest on a Men TV show called Guy Stuff with John Moore on Global for five episodes. The shows aired this summer. I was afraid my parents would see them because we talked about some bad things: sex, condoms, the phrase MILF.
41. I turn 30 next year.
42. After I'm done breastfeeding, I want to get my teeth whitened.
43. Why? I smoked for more than a decade.
44. And now I have asthma and have to use a steroid inhaler once a day. It costs $100 per puffer. Thank god for medical coverage.
45. I want to go to Hawaii and stand in a waterfall.
46. I flew to England once to meet a boy.
47. I flew home to Canada without the boy.
48. I do not own an iPod. I'm the only person I know who doesn't have one.
49. I borrow the boyfriend's and put Joan Jett and Justin Timberlake on it. Ha!
50. I make a mean banana bread.
51. I eat veggie burgers now. One third the fat of regular hamburgers.
52. But I smear them in curry mayo or tzatziki.
53. I love the TV show, So You Think You Can Dance.
54. There was a boy in my elementary school named Scott who all the girls thought was the best dancer. I dated him at the same time as my friend Holly.
55. I used to wear a retainer. It was called a Bionator. It had a silver piece around my top teeth and a huge plastic part that wrapped around my lower teeth. It was to correct my overbite. I never wore it in school and I "accidentally" left it in a motel room on a family vacation when we were driving through Sudbury.
56. I want a bubble machine at my wedding.
57. I fear the grey hair.
58. I fear crow's feet.
59. My favourite spice girl was Ginger – Geri Halliwell.
60. My favourite Backstreet Boy was Kevin Richardson.
61. My favourite American Idol was Clay Aiken. I maybe, possibly, cried when he lost to Ruben Studdard. (Hey, it was a bad time in my life. I was getting dumped that summer.)
62. I played the oboe in high school for five years. I wish I had played in university. Giving up music is one of my biggest regrets.
63. I sang in choirs in high school for five years. I wish I had sang in university. Giving up music is one of my biggest regrets.
64. I have really ugly fingernails. They're wide and soft. And just plain bleh.
65. I get called a noob (sometimes spelled neub or kneub) by 13 year olds for being unhip when it comes to technology. (See No. 48 re: iPod.)
66. I love escargot.
67. Maybe I watched Laguna Beach and The Hills. Liked Laguna better.
68. Love the song Lonesome Road by James Taylor.
69. Want to go back to New York City to Broadway and see a show there.
70. When I used to get drunk in high school, I'd break out the robot dance. Think Styx-like dancing.
71. My mother is the smartest person I know.
72. My father is the kindest person I know.
73. My parents are impossible to live up to. They were the perfect parents.
74. The boyfriend and I have our own special little place known as "sketchy road."
75. My degree is in sociology.
76. When I get nervous, I pick the sides of my thumbs.
77. The boyfriend thinks I have a minor case of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. If I can't do something properly, I have to go back and do it all over again.
78. Speaking of that, sometimes I play this little game on the TV remote control where I touch each number, 1 to 9, and then do it faster and faster and faster again until I can't perfectly hit all the numbers. OK, weird, I know.
79. I switched to decaf coffee when I was pregnant.
80. Before I was pregnant I used to drink six to eight Diet Cokes a day. Now I drink six to eight bottles of water.
81. I hate water. Tasteless.
82. I love my knee-high black leather boots. I wear them every day in the fall and winter.
83. I love The Karate Kid.
84. Also love all sports movie where a kid from the wrong side of the tracks or a kid who needs some help gets a shot at fame through sport (or dancing) (Honey, Footloose, Rudy, Invincible).
85. Love Kevin Bacon (speaking of Footloose)
86. Love going to The Screening Room to see smaller, indie movies.
87. Kinsey was great.
88. Really liked Match Point - though a felt a little creeped out around the boyfriend when we got home that night.
89. Thought The Woodsman should be much darker.
90. First movie I ever saw with the boyfriend: Samsara (also at The Screening Room).
91. I'm a people-pleaser. I can't say no to anyone.
92. I want to eat a meatball sub before I die.
93. I signed an organ donor card this year because if someone else can be as happy as I am and as in love with another person and with life, then they can have my pancreas, kidneys or my heart if that's what they need.
94. Thanksgiving is my favourite holiday.
95. I loovvvvee instant stuffing - think Stove Top.
96. I love the the fair ride the Tilt-O-Whirl.
97. When I was a little girl, my parents would tell me to close the door or I'd let a draft in the house. I thought they were saying giraffe. I was sure I had a giraffe living in my backyard.
98. I want to see my name under contributors in a magazine one day.
99. I can't wait to wear my skinny jeans (size 10 is skinny for me) again. I'm aiming to lose the baby weight by Christmas day.
100. I think the baby is a boy. The boyfriend thinks it's a girl. Who will be right?....