100 things you are dying to know...

OK, maybe not, but my friend Kim did this cool blog where she tells 100 things about herself and I decided to "borrow" her idea. I challenge you all to do the same...

1. I am 31 years old.
2. When I turned 30, my feelings got hurt. I saw it as a threshold - when you're in your 20s any mistakes you make are chalked up to your youth, inexperience and (in my case) naivete. 30 meant I was a full-fledged adult with responsibilities and expectations. But you know, I was pregnant at the time, so a lot of things hurt my feelings thanks to overactive hormones.
3. Age is relative to me now. I'm still 20 in my head.
4. I hail from Pelahatchie, Mississippi
5. I still have to recite the M-I-Crooked letter-Crooked letter-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I-humpback-humpback-I whenever I spell out my home state...
6. I am a creature of habit and I find comfort in routines
7. My parents divorced when I was 5
8. My mom and I moved to Glennville, Georgia, where we lived until I went to college
9. I won the spelling bee in 3rd grade, but I can't spell worth a crap now thanks to spell check
10. I've won 4 beauty pageants in my lifetime - Junior Miss GA Sweet Onion Princess, Junior Miss Sweet Onion, Miss GA Sweet Onion and Miss Pinewood Christian Academy (and you thought I'd only won the one onion pageant - I am the onion queen who just couldn't stop)
11. I started modeling when I was 14
12. I was a finalist in Teen magazine's Great Model Search in 1992 - sort of my launching pad
13. I modeled during school breaks until I graduated high school in '95
14. When I told my agent that I was going to college she told me I was crazy
15. I took a hiatus from college after only one quarter to model full time
16. After 6 weeks of being a career model, I quit because knowing that my livelihood rested on whether I was having a good hair day didn't sit well with me
17. I've never regretted quitting, although I have wondered how far I could have gone
18. I was in Something to Talk About with Julia Roberts and Dennis Quaid when I was 17
19. I lied about my age to go to the audition (told them I was 22)
20. They lied about my age so that I could get the part (said I was 25)
21. Someone who didn't get the part ratted me out and my mom had to come with me to film the last scene
22. I was a waitress for a week.
23. I was the world's worst waitress. Ever.
24. I finished college in 4 years, despite going to an infamous "party" school and despite my modeling hiatus
25. My first job out of college was as a departmental assistant for a non-profit
26. I stayed there for 6 months, then left for a dot.com company
27. This was a huge mistake, the dot.com company didn't last long (we all know what happened to most of those companies) and I don't think I learned much at all from my time there
28. My third job out of college is my current job.
29. I love where I work
30. I love the people I work with
31. I love what I do
32. I worked harder the three months I was out on maternity leave than I ever have in my entire life
33. I actually looked forward to coming back to work
34. This made me feel guilty
35. My daughter is my world
36. In the words of Jerry McGuire, she "Completes Me"
37. I worry about being a good mom for her
38. I worry about raising her in a world infested with pedophiles, cyberstalkers and worse
39. I wonder how I will be able to protect her from all the evil in the world
40. I am sad that her childhood won't involve riding bikes with friends from sun-up to sun-down during summers as mine did
41. I hope that I will always make her proud to call me mom (or mommy, mama, whatever)
42. I hope she knows that I won't hesitate to go all "Chuck Norris" on the first boy that makes her cry
43. I am not kidding - I ain't skeered of a 4th grader
44. Want proof? I once broke a former step-sister's nose. (we were throwing apples into the apple tree to knock good apples down, and she was stupid enough to stand there and watch as a really big apple fell right on top of her face)
45. Biologically, I'm an only child.
46. I have a step-sister and step-brother who I do not refer to as "steps"
47. I love my family and friends unconditionally
48. I used to be a certified germaphob until I had Blair
49. Now I'm quite used to having puke in my hair, poop under my fingernails and dried boogers smeared on my pants
50. I still go through A LOT of Purel and GermX
51. I love food
52. I especially love fattening food
53. and candy
54. and chocolate
55. I hate exercising
56. I miss the days when I had to eat a lot of fattening foods to keep from being too thin
57. I miss the days when I had to eat a lot of fattening foods to keep from being too thin A LOT
58. I miss the days when I had to eat a lot of fattening foods to keep from being too thin A WHOLE LOT
59. I weigh approximately 25 pounds more now than I did when I modeled
60. I wouldn't mind losing 10 pounds, but I'm OK where I am
61. I voted for George W Bush twice
62. I'd vote for him all over again given who he ran against
63. I met Dick Cheney once
64. He was most unimpressive
65. I'll probably vote for McCain next month
66. I want really badly to support Palin, but she has really disappointed me
67. In our high school elections (where you get to "pretend" to vote on Presidential election day), I was THE ONLY PERSON IN MY WHOLE SCHOOL who voted for Bill Clinton.
68. I think I voted for him because I knew I'd be the only one
69. and I was a rebel
70. I am now the opposite of a rebel
71. I hate conflict, no matter who it is with/between
72. I avoid conflict at all costs
73. I hate that our society is so materialistic
74. I hope Blair is strong enough to go against the grain if she wants to
75. I don't recycle
76. But I know I should
77. I have two regrets in my life
78. I'm not telling you what they are
79. Fall is my favorite season
80. My favorite color changes frequently
81. I admire strength, humor, intelligence and loyalty in people
82. I question the character of people who don't like animals
83. Especially dogs
84. I love dogs
85. I like dogs more than I like some people
86. The beach is my favorite place to be
87. I wish I could scuba dive a lot more than I do
88. I wish I could live in a small beach town, or at least a small town
89. I know #88 will never happen
90. I hate that #88 will never happen
91. I'm addicted to Facebook
92. I love scary movies
93. But I hate real life violence
94. But I love to watch professional boxing
95. I've never been in trouble with the law
96. except for 5 speeding tickets
97. But that's just because I've never been caught breaking the law :)
98. I did inhale, Bill Clinton. And so did you.
99. I love mindless fun
100. I am a walking, talking contradiction and bundle of randomness.