I saw this over on Kittygory’s page last night, and it was a neat read as we’ve only recently connected here and I learned a bit more about her. Nice one Kitty!
I’ve made a few other friends here too, in the past couple of weeks… KK, Jan in Holland… so I figure stealing it and doing my own could be a good idea. (Or not as the case may be! I don’t think there’s anything too scary coming up. 
So here we go….
“I found this on a friend’s page, and took her up on the invitation to see if I could make my own list…
1) I have been a Registered Nurse for over 10 years.
2) I have broken my left wrist twice in one year, when I was 10, and spent April to September in plaster.
3) I have four gaps from having teeth pulled due to abcesses.
4) I have read eight books back to back in just over two weeks ~ Orson Scott Card’s “Ender” series of four, and four of the “Bean” spin offs.
5) I just Wiki’d Scott Card ad discovered there have been three more published since, yay!
6) I have cross-stitched several large pieces which I framed and hung up on my walls in England.
7) I have eaten homemade quince pie, made by our hausfrau, Ermi, when I lived in Berlin.
8) I have knitted several monkeys.
9) I have rolled my own cigarettes for over 20 years.
10) I have always been mad at myself for ever starting to smoke.
11) I have interviewed the band Sad Cafe for my school magazine when I was 16.
12) I have Ed “Stewpot” Stewart’s autograph.
13) I entered an Ed Stewart radio competition and won a pair of fluorescent yellow armbands. I still remember my winning poem.
14) I have watched my football team win the F.A. Cup Final at the original Wembley Stadium in London.
15) I have grown a garden full of vegetables.
16) I have learned how to can and freeze them.
17) I have no children.
18) I was born in Munster, Germany.
19) I have lived in three countries.
20) I have spent periods of time in three other countries with my first husband, who worked abroad in construction.
21) I have paid £25 to have IV valium administered, for a tooth filling costing £6.
22) I have never overcome my fear of dentists.
23) I have had a wild “pet” raccoon for a month.
24) I have won an Easter Bonnet Parade, despite the fact that the tie on my bonnet broke and I cried all through it.
25) I have blamed my brother for something really bad I did as a child, and let him believe it was him, for years.
26) I have been owned by many cats, at one point by five at once. Dizzy, Tabby, Shreddy, ClingOn and Sweep.
27) I have had a driving licence for over twenty years, but have only been a driver for a little under a year.
28) I have passed the US nursing exam, the N-CLEX, with the minimum of correct answers required and in just over an hour.
29) I studied for it every day, before or after my shifts at work, for eight months.
30) I have grown a pot plant from seed.
31) I have passed the beginners, intermediate and advanced RSA typewriting exams.
32) I have totally forgotten what RSA stands for.
33) I have played Eliza Doolittle in a school production of “My Fair Lady” and hated it.
34) I have started practicing singing “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” for my required “turn” at the family Thanksgiving get-together this year. *Rolls eyes*
35) I have visited Amsterdam three times, with three different men, at three different times ofthe year, and loved it each time.
36) I have visited Stonehenge.
37) I have made my own leather thong knotted bracelet.
38) I have two tattoos.
39) I have several piercings.
40) I have not watched television regularly since I moved here.
41) I have lived with a heroin addict.
42) I have escaped one relationship by packing my belongings and doing a runner while he was at work, after planning it for weeks. It was brilliant!
43) I have not had a bath for over a year.
44) I have dreamed about having a bath for over a year.
45) I have watched the sun set in a desert in Saudi Arabia.
46) I have ridden on the Peak Tram in Hong Kong.
47) I have eaten shark in black bean sauce.
48) I have had a lifelong dislike of raw tomatoes.
49) I have owned a camera for as long as I can remember.
50) I have owned goldfish called Benson and Hedges.
51) I have watched baby pigs being born.
52) I have met several online friends and hope to continue doing so!
53) I met my husband on Yahoo 360 in August 2006.
54) I have survived the US Immigration process!
55) I have worn glasses since I was about 5 years old.
56) I have a fear of becoming sick or having an accident without medical insurance.
57) I have had three written warnings in ten years.
58) I have not spoken to my father for some 15 years, nor want to.
59) I have one younger brother, no sisters.
60) I have celebrated Chinese New Year, in China.
61) I have been punched in the face by a patient at work.
62) I have held more than one patient’s hand as they died.
63) I have a fear of not being good enough.
64) I have an obsession with my home being tidy.
65) I have a hatred of soot.
66) I have never read the Bible, though I still have the copy my mum was given when she was at school, dated 1953.
67) I have gotten lost in a hedge maze.
68) I have done naughty things on top of Lime Street Railway Station in Liverpool.
69) I have a love of recipe books.
70) I have kept the first album I ever bought, when I was 11. “Parallel Lines” by Blondie.
71) I have strong memories of a bluebell wood, very close to home when I was very small.
72) I have grown up as an Army Brat.
73) I have stopped dyeing my hair after nearly 30 years of not knowing what it’s real colour was.
74) I once lost 1 1/2 stones (approx 9 kilos) by cutting my fat intake to no more than 30g a day and walking everywhere, in four months.
75) I have been a chewing gum chewer since I started my nurse training in 1995.
76) I have worked as a shop assistant, a waitress, a telesales rep, a care assistant and a registered nurse.
77) I have seen sights to make your hair curl when working with elderly/invalid clients in their own homes.
78) I have never been arrested.
79) I have been pulled over by the police here in Thornville, and totally flustered the officer with all my reams of English paperwork.
80) I have fixed a broken muffler with an empty can of peas, tin snips, and a couple of hose clamps.
81) I have had my photograph taken professionally after winning a “makeover” contest.
82) I have crocheted a blanket big enough for a king-size bed. It cost me twice as much to post it here for Shane as it did to make it.
83) I have been living a totally different life since moving here from England, in every way.
84) I have set myself a target of studying and completing 5 hours of Continuing Education for nursing, each week.
85) I have no desire whatsoever to join Farmville.
86) I have played squash in 140 degree heat in Saudi Arabia.
87) I have walked a mile in that same 140 degree heat, loaded with groceries and finding the taxi office closed, only to be told when I got back to the camp that they would have sent the minibus to collect me if I’d phoned them. I cried.
88) I have become friendly with a giant beetle then trodden on it by accident and killed it.
89) I have signed the paperwork allowing the hospital to turn off my mum’s life-support.
90) I have wanted to be an English teacher, a librarian, and a mounted policewoman.
91) I have served burgers & chips at half-time at a football match.
92) I have attended more funerals than weddings.
93) I have got drunk and climbed onto a restaurant table, singing along to “Don’t Stop Me Now” by Queen at the top of my lungs.
94) I have tidied my bedroom, then got stoned later and completely forgotten about it until I’ve discovered the lovely surprise of a tidy room when going to bed hours later.
95) I have collected empty glass bottles for recycling, and then not gotten round to taking them until they’ve become an artistic feature on the floor of my kitchen.
96) I have sliced the side of my tongue open, charging over a broken fence and screaming, hockey stick in hand, and running my mouth into the strand of wire that was still there along the top.
97) I have always loved “scenery” ~ sunsets, crowded cities, empty beaches. Everything.
98) I have never liked flashy sports cars. (Except red Mustangs belonging to Boo, of course. 
99) I have started knitting a shrug for Shane’s daughter for Christmas. It’s killing my wrist but it’s looking good.
100) I have managed to think of 100 things. The End.
How about you?
