101 Things About Rae

102 Interesting (maybe) Facts about Me…credit goes to Lady in the Street (via DIAMONDKT) for the idea…and this was much harder than I thought it would be…

1. I seriously love surveys, whether you get them in email or someone fills them out on MySpace I will almost always repost or forward. Not entirely sure if that makes me a narcissist or not.
2. I am ridiculously cynical about guys’ intentions towards me on a regular basis…
3. …this is probably because I’m stupidly insecure and just don’t quite know how not to be.
4. I am also one of the few people I know that is super romantic and I want my life to end up like a romance novel in some way, shape, or form…2 through 4 seem to have trouble adjusting to each other in my life.
5. I love the smell of puppy** breath. I don’t know why, and most people think it’s gross, but I seriously sigh in contentment when a puppy breathes in my face (**Note: this means a dog under about six months to a year—actual dog breath is disgusting).
6. I have weird toes. My littlest toes piggy-back the one next to them—it’s genetic, but people are constantly telling me to “Put it back!” Sorry people, I can’t. (But I still love my feet).
7. I hate wearing nail polish. Even clear stuff, it just annoys me when it ultimately chips off.
8. I’m obsessed with making sure the little plastic rings are cut up from around six-packs of beverages. Whoever gave a presentation in my elementary school on the ability of those little suckers to get wrapped around bird necks and kill them—you’re advice stuck with me.
9. I have never been in a romantic relationship. Ever. Dates, yes. Never goes beyond that though.
10. I am determined to be an author, and think I have the cojones and skills for it—but shockingly I never started reading my chosen genre (romance) until a little over a year ago. Weird.
11. I like guys who look suspiciously like Highland Warriors—6’4 or more and 220+ pounds of muscle. Kilt optional.
12. I’m in law school, but instead of paying attention in class…I write my novels.
13. I am not one of those people who is good at pursuing what they love first and foremost above pursuing money—I respect those people and envy them, but I start to hyperventilate at the thought of being a struggling writer (hence—law school)
14. My least favorite word in the English language is “fat.” I’ve had it used against me a thousand and one (or more) times, and even when I hear it in the context of something that has nothing to do with calling me names, I want to throw up. I didn’t even like the use of “phat.”
15. I have this weird procrastination habit of imagining what I would do if I won the lottery—I’d pay off my parents’ and brother’s houses, set up trusts for them so they could live very, very comfortably off the interest, and build a house in Telluride that was big enough for all of my family and friends to come stay at during Christmas. I even know what kind of flatware I would purchase. Planning with what is essentially Monopoly money is the best procrastination technique on the planet.
16. I’m a singer. This means that a) I’m actually good at it, and b) I do it so much that I probably annoy people. I sing anywhere that music is playing and I (at least sort of) know the song…and sometimes I just sing to the songs stuck in my head—out loud. In the grocery store.
17. My favorite ice cream is Bubble Gum ice cream. The way to my heart is through bubble gum ice cream and puppies…I’m like a five-year-old that way.
18. The three of the 7 Deadly Sins that best describes me are: Lust, Pride, and Greed. I can’t tell if I’m going to end up in Purgatorial Terraces or in one of the Circles of Hell…
19. …and that I even wonder about the possibility when I’m halfway between agnostic and atheist probably makes me a complete Literature dork (thanks Dante)
20. I love dogs. I sometimes like cats, but I’m really a dog person…I actually got into an argument with my teacher in 4th grade, in front of the whole class, about whether or not dogs had the ability to make decisions. Her arguments were so specious about dogs blindly following commands (I have yet to have a dog that blindly follows commands, even after months and months of training they won’t do it unless they feel like it) that I couldn’t believe she was a teacher. Don’t get me started, I can take anyone down in this argument.
21. I’m not a Drama Queen, I do not thrive in a dramatic environment…but I have been known to like some drama in my life now and again. Sometimes it’s just a necessary evil, and some drama is good drama (although not nearly enough).
22. I think a man’s hands, forearms, and back are ridiculously sexy. I also really think an erect penis/cock/dick/insert-your-synonym here is sexy. So many women I know think cocks are “icky” and “funny-looking.” Are you kidding? They’re hot!
23. I drive my dad crazy by not answering the phone when I don’t feel like talking to someone. There is a reason caller-ID was invented, but he doesn’t seem to get that.
24. My mom is probably one of my best friends—she doesn’t get me as much as my best girlfriends do, but she’s darn close.
25. I like hanging out with guys better than girls, but I think I’d shock most of my guy friends if they knew how out-and-out raunchy I get with my two best female friends.
26. I’m sort of afraid of the idea of meeting new people on the Internet. I’m okay on blogs, because at least I’m feeling like I’m getting to know someone too, but I’ve had a number of guys contact me on MySpace (before I privatized it) about getting together—and then when I look at their profiles they have pictures of them with guns and their profile states, “I like guns.” I’m not sure, but I don’t think I just randomly look like an NRA member.
27. I love the idea of rough sex, but I have a terrifying, irrational fear of being tied up and then being either a) photographed or b) gang banged. I really seem to have a trust issue with the opposite sex.
28. I really love bullet points.
29. I fear kankles and horror films.
30. I think men who rape women should be castrated…and yes I did say that to the class at large in my Criminal Law class—not just at random, we were discussing something relevant.
31. I like affectionate guys who aren’t afraid to hug me when they see me, or kiss me when they want to. I don’t love long, lingering PDA make-out sessions on bus stop benches, but a hard kiss previewing what is to come, when we finally get alone, is delightful.
32. I love kissing and making out. I haven’t kissed a ton of guys, and unfortunately most of them were not good kissers—but one great kiss or make-out session can make up for a lot of the wrongs of kissing done in the past.
33. I listen to pretty much every kind of music. Except for Christian rock. I have Beethoven, Bach, big bands, and Biggie on my iTunes
34. I don’t really believe much in astrology, but I am a classic Aquarius—sexually adventurous and lusty, loyal, friendly, and prone to falling in love with my guy friends. It’s almost sad how predictable some of my traits are from looking at a general Aquarian description.
35. I think I come off a lot stupider than I actually am most of the time. I tend to babble at random, and at length, about nothing in particular. I don’t know if that means I’m vapid or it means that I just think too fast for my mouth.
36. I can simultaneously be known as the Comic Relief and the Mother of my group of friends…I don’t mind the former but I hate the latter and have been throwing that title off to whoever wants it ever since my sophomore year of college.
37. I might only be 23, but sometimes I feel like thirty is coming a little too fast for me.
38. I love to dance. Throw on some hip-hop and I am a happy camper. I don’t even need alcohol.
39. A guy that I knew from law school and I had never really hung out before, but did at the end of the school year last year, with a bunch of people. He danced with me a few times and when Shakira’s “Hips Don’t Lie” came on the speakers, I was ready to sit it out, but he made me get back on the floor and said, “You have to! This is your song!” It was probably one of the best compliments I’ve ever gotten.
40. I have a girl-crush on Shakira and Kate Winslet.
41. I wondered for a while if I wasn’t bisexual. Never a lesbian (see #22), but I sort of like watching girl-on-girl porn, and it’s hot to hear and see a woman orgasm. I don’t think I am bi-sexual, but I still think girl-on-girl is hot. Although, I also think guy-on-guy is hot too.
42. My dog is cooler than me. Not kidding.
43. I’m extremely independent and like being able to do things for myself, but sometimes the idea of a guy just…being a “guy” and being the leader in a relationship sounds so good it makes me want to cry…or come. Either way.
44. I like guys who could be the next Brawny man/mildly cavemanish…but not in the Al Bundy or psycho boyfriend ways. Full-on metrosexuals just aren’t that hot to me.
45. I’m fairly good about detaching myself from homeless people begging for money (not sure if that is good or bad), and will not always give change if I have it (although I will buy them food). But if that person has a dog with them, I will dig out dollars, or pounds, or Euros (depending where I am), and throw lots of them in the cup. I may be kidding myself, but I just hope they are feeding those animals something too.
46. I don’t love shopping for clothes and shoes too much, but I love going to the bookstore and Target. I could literally spend hours and hours at each and probably drop a thousand dollars in no time.
47. I still have all the Legos I used to play with growing up. My cousins and I had an entire Lego room in their basement and we combined all the Legos together. I have moved them across the country twice.
48. I am an English major, so Write, Review, Re-write has been burned into my skull…but I’m really bad at reviewing things that I have already written. I almost always turn in the first draft with no major re-writes. I’m a good writer, this I know, but when I don’t care about the subject matter it can get a little sketchy.
49. I get migraines about twice a semester…except I’ve also learned that this is the most brilliant excuse ever for getting out of class and it usually ends up being that I have a “migraine” three to four times a semester. Why didn’t I know this in undergrad?
50. I find toilet humor ridiculously funny almost always.
51. I rarely get embarrassed for myself, and have learned to laugh off most faux pas. But I get horribly embarrassed and red-faced when something embarrassing happens to someone else…particularly when I’m watching a movie and someone makes a fool of themselves. Watching Bridget Jones’s Diary is horrendously painful for me.
52. I still sleep with the blanket that I have had since I was a baby. It’s still in pretty good condition too.
53. I am a complete sheet snob when it comes to my own sheets. Most of the time they are no less than 600-thread count Egyptian cotton. But they can’t be sateen, just Egyptian Cotton. My friends think it is very amusing and refer to me as The Textile Queen.
54. I was a total Buffy the Vampire Slayer nerd. I even had a Claddagh ring (which Angel gave to Buffy) that I wore up until a couple years ago. And it was definitely somewhere I got some serious fantasies out of.
55. I love to travel. I have been to England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, France, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Iceland, the Netherlands, and Greece. Just in the last two years.
56. I have a Billy club in my car. My dad put it there, “Just in case.” Just in case what? I need to beat the shit out of somebody?
57. I have a total voyeuristic streak. It’s probably why I enjoy porn so much, but one of the hottest things I like to watch is a guy getting himself off. Male masturbation is so hot I get wet just thinking about it.
58. I really dislike hardcover books. Unless they are Harry Potter or law books I just can’t read them very well. I love the look of them on the bookshelf, but I am very unlikely to read them.
59. If Macaroni & Cheese (any brand) and all Velveeta cheese were taken off the market (so I couldn’t make the stuff too easily myself) all together, I would probably weigh twenty-pounds less by rote. That is, and always has been, my biggest food weakness—I crave it almost constantly (although it would probably be better for me if ALL pasta was taken out of the grocery store—just in case)
60. Williams-Sonoma Peppermint Hot Cocoa is about the best drink in the world. I know some women think chocolate is better than sex, and while I’m generally not with them on that, W-S Peppermint Hot Cocoa is pretty damned close to orgasmic for me.
61. I love musicals. Obsessively. I saw “42nd Street” on Broadway three times…in four days (not to mention I saw “The Lion King” and “Chicago” in those same four days). Oddly I only saw three total musicals when I lived four blocks from the theatre district in London—for four months.
62. I can read a 400 page book in about six hours. I think I average less than one minute per page.
63. I have recently decided that I should plan my wedding. No I am not even close to getting married, I just watch too many episodes of “My Big Fat Fabulous Wedding” and “Platinum Weddings.” I’m up to $800,000 in budget. Somehow I don’t think that will be happening.
64. I love Paula Deen from the Food Network. I always feel like she’s a bit drunk.
65. Venetian Carnivale masks are one of my obsessions.
66. I want to go to Vienna, Austria and attend one of the balls they hold there between January and April every year.
67. I love having my hair long, but I never wear it down, so I’m not entirely sure why.
68. I’ve had my hair just about every color under the sun, except for black and green (and it hasn’t always been every piece of hair—but blue, purple, pink, brown, platinum blonde, neon red, “natural” red, etc.)
69. I love panties. No I really love wearing panties. Thongs, bikini cut, hipsters, even briefs sometimes. I went through a phase of going commando all the time, which was fun for awhile, but I felt like I needed to wash my clothes five times more (it’s that “always on” thing—doesn’t make going commando the best idea).
70. I don’t drink much. Except when I live in England where my consumption of alcohol quadruples. Reason I don’t drink usually? Because I like to think I’m a badass and keep up with the boys that I drink with…and I can…until later when I’m throwing my guts up. I drank thirty Jello shots on my 21st birthday. Just think about that.
71. When I drink, I almost only drink rum. It’s like mother’s milk, I can’t even taste it when it’s half rum/half diet coke. My vodka HAS to be top-shelf (I can taste the difference), and I really only drink Patron tequila now. See…there’s a reason I don’t drink, it’s too expensive.
72. I hate reality TV, but I really love watching “Keeping up with the Kardashians” and “My Big Fat Fabulous Wedding” and “Platinum Weddings.” Some people are crazy, but I kind of want to be friends with the Kardashians. They are my kind of crazy.
73. I still think Disney is about the greatest thing around. Movies. Theme Parks. Whatever. I love it all.
74. I hate shopping for shoes, and generally for clothes (unless my mom is paying, in which case—very happy to shop), but find me a section with cute hats, sunglasses, and handbags and I will spend hours (although I don’t have a single handbag worth more than $150).
75. I’m sort of spoiled. Not princessy-spoiled, but I’m the baby of the family and the only girl. I was also the “good child” and my parents moved me across the country when I was 13 and 16, so they used to feel bad about that—and I might have milked it for all it was worth at the time.
76. I’m really NOT girly. I don’t get manicures or pedicures (although I do like getting them maybe once or twice a year), I don’t wake up to do my hair in the mornings (it’s always in a ponytail), I wear jeans and a sweatshirt 75% of the time, and if I feel like I can get away without make-up most days I will…
77. …but, I LOVE shopping at Sephora and Clinique, and 80% of my closet is from Nordstroms (and 5% is from Nordstrom’s Rack). So, when I do dress up, I look hella good.
78. I had braces on my top set of teeth when I was fourteen until I was fifteen. It fixed a diastima (small gap between my two front teeth) and turned a tooth that grew in crooked because I was too much of a wuss to pull the one out that it was growing in under. I have freaking gorgeous teeth though.
79. I think my breasts are too small for my frame. I’m technically in a D-cup, but my breasts don’t sit up against the cup, so I feel like I’m falsely advertising.
80. I love cooking for my friends. I used to make these fancy dinners for me and my roommates during my sophomore year of college. Although, I made a raspberry cheesecake which would have been a lot more complicated if I hadn’t assigned the de-seeding process to my roommate when she asked if she could help. :-) She wasn’t very amused after she began the process.
81. I drink plain sparkling water (think San Pellegrino and Perrier, except I buy the cheap versions). Almost exclusively now. I just like the bubbles.
82. My mom says I have an uncanny ability to look at a selection of items and pick of the most expensive thing. She calls it being spoiled. I call it good taste.
83. I could live off of cinnamon applesauce, dried cranberries, and sparkling water.
84. I have a ridiculously dirty mind. Whenever I get really quiet after someone says something that may possiby be construed as dirty in any way, my friends always look at me and say, “Rae!” Because I know their minds are as dirty as mine. :-)
85. I’m really good at imitating accents in whatever country I am in. I actually got mistaken for being French when I was in Paris for three days. Probably one of the proudest moments of my life.
86. In high school we sang “The 12 Days of Christmas” for our holiday choir concert and I was “5 Golden Rings” (which I had to be very diva-ish about)…the people who sat in front of my parents (who they didn’t know) said, “Now that’s entertainment,” to each other. My dad had to restrain my mom from leaning forward and bragging about me, or so he says.
87. I can sing all the words to “Holidae Inn” by Chingy and “What’s Luv?” by Fat Joe. And I have a little dance for one part of “What’s Luv?” that my friends make me do when I drink.
88. If I could find a man who would take care of me and love me unconditionally (basically if I could live in a Regency romance), I would probably take it. I think I would be fairly happy taking care of my kids and the house (okay, I might need a housekeeper—I hate cleaning)…as long as I was writing romance novels too. My aunt would die if she learned that.
    I love to drive. I will let almost no one else do it.
89. When I was five I accidentally stole a toothbrush. I promised my parents I could be super responsible and hold the toothbrush all the way to the checkout counter while we shopped—and within five minutes it got too heavy for me and so I stuck it in my pocket and told myself I would remember it. Guess what? I didn’t. My dad took it back and paid for it. I cried for hours because I thought the police would come take me away.
90. My neck and back are probably the most sensitive places on my body. Just imagining being kissed on either gives me shivers.
91. I’m sorry I just do not get the cuckolding fetish. That would kill my relationship if a guy suggested it to me.
92. I’m a “violent communicator.” Meaning I made threats about violence and such when I’m really angry, or say things like, “I would just die!” or “I could kill him right now!”. They are all completely empty threats, because I wouldn’t know the first thing about hitting someone or becoming violent at all, but I have one friend who believes in “non-violent communication” and I tend to make him very uncomfortable.
93. The friend in #93 was my first true full blown high school crush. And I crushed on him for years. He actually annoys me more than anything now because we are so different, but I think my best friends still think I’m in love with him. Which annoys me much more than he does.
94. I cried after I got my first (and only) speeding ticket. Luckily my best friend was with me and asked if I wanted her to cry with me—if that doesn’t scream best friend, I don’t know what does.
95. I overtip. Even if I had the crappiest service in the world I will always tip 10%. Mediocre to good service gets 20% and better than that tends towards the 30% mark. It drives me crazy not “having” to tip in most of Europe. I have to physically restrain myself or my friends just yell at me until I take my tip back.
96. I worked in a little Italian restaurant with the best fettucini alfredo in the world when I was in college. The guy used to be a mechanic for John Gotti, Angie Dickinson, and Frank Sinatra. Mob ties much?
97. I went to both of my proms (junior and senior) without a date. I had just moved to my schools right before them.
98. I like the idea of only having sex with the guy I marry.
99. I acted in a theatre troupe that did vignettes on domestic abuse, rape, and general violence when I was a sophomore in high school. We performed primarily for high school students, and it was probably one of the best things I’ve ever done in my life. It made me a huge advocate for domestic violence and rape issues.
100. I get wet when I smell a guy who smells good—I still love the scent of Old Spice on a man.
101. A guy who is willing to wipe away my tears instead of simply asking me to stop crying is pretty much automatic crush material.