100

Yes, here it is, post number 100. In celebration of this great event, I have compiled this:

A List of (100/2) Things!

There is no real order to any of this, so please, bear with me.

1. Today I went to my bank and got a cashier's check in the amount of $1900 and sent it in the mail to the company that has planned my NEW ZEALAND TRIP! Cashier's check? Yes. It saved me $50. Here's the plan: Portland - Auckland - Sydney - Auckland - Honolulu - Portland, October 15 through January 15. Soon. Very soon.
2. Two weeks ago I went back to REI. A guy who hadn't helped me the first time around walked up to me and said, "So, you're back." I had hoped that it had been long enough that I wouldn't be remembered. Hiking boots: check. Enough said.
3. Everyone's been making a big deal about that book A Million Little Pieces, but I don't think it's that great.
4. I've talked and talked and talked about it, but here's a summary for anyone who didn't know: St. Patrick's day, drunk driver, hit-and-run, my car doesn't drive, airbags are scary, might need a lawyer.
5. I promised Jack Saturn that we'd make it to dinner alive, and we did. It's a good thing I didn't promise him we'd make it back to NE without having to ride in a police car.
6. Rooftop shower at my youth hostel in Hawaii. You get clean, watch the waves and get a tan all at once. Hallelujah, Praise Jesus, Amen.
7. Jacques Cousteau is my idol.
8. The perfect sympathy gift right now would be a ride to Seattle to see Sufjan Stevens.
9. When I was five I thought David Bowie was hot. Beat that.
10. When people I don't know walk into my house, look at Kona and immediately say, "WHOA! That is the fattest cat I've ever seen!" I make a mental note to hold a grudge against them for at least thirty days.
11. My brother had to get stitches in his head four times before the age of ten.
12. I told a friend that I've been completely exhausted for about two weeks and he said that I might have mono. Now that would be funny.
13. I'm using my parents computer and my mom has the cursor programmed to be a conch shell and sailboat steering wheel (what are those things called?) and it's all making me completely insane.
14. Singing with Gena at the bar went well. For the last song she picked up her acoustic guitar and Gena, Jon Moore and I stepped off the stage to sing the last song. Every single person in the bar was silent and it was beautiful.
15. I can now count the number of couples getting married this summer on two hands.
16. Things to be thankful for: Friends with whom you can have joint custody of a completely wonderful book.
17. Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson is my new favorite.
18. Finding (100/2) things to list is harder than I thought.
19. A list of 100 would have been impossible.
20. Carmen O'Brien is the most photogenic person I've ever met.
21. Beware: I have the power to psychoanalyze you.
22. When I first became a nanny I didn't think that I'd end up actually raising someone else's children. It's terrifying.
23. I learn a lot from singing with Todd and Angie.
24. I will never raise mice.
25. I will never skydive.
26. I sing in the shower with my quiet voice.
27. I sing in the car with my loud voice (that's why I miss it so much).
28. I like buildings that don't have a 13th floor.
29. Once my Dad and my brother tricked me into watching Event Horizon. It's probably the most horrible movie I will ever see.
30. Last month in Seaside, Oregon in the middle of the night with a bottle of wine and Gena Gestaldi I saw Orion's bow for the first time.
31. When I was a kid my mom used to take me out to watch stars with a thermos of hot chocolate and a giant telescope. I would always fall asleep halfway through and snore like a bear.
32. I had hiccups in the womb.
33. Godzilla flavored shave ice is a bad bad bad idea.
34. What scares me the worst: airplanes.
35. What scares me the second worst: sharks.
36. What scares me the third worst: sleeping alone in empty houses.
37. Apparently children in Britain say things like, "Snow is my favorite and it is my best" which is so endearing it makes me want to live there.
38. I'm sick and can't smell anything, and in my profession, that can be a serious setback. For instance, Thiel had pooped in his diaper but I didn't know it until I went to change him out of his pajamas and found that the poop had squeezed out of his diaper all the way up his back, clear to his armpits. I had to hose him off. (Sick.)
39. If you ever go in a helicopter they might make you wear an awesome yellow fanny pack.
40. My parents' house is full of "collections." I will never be a collector.
41. I hate the word "poignant."
42. I am well loved.
43. My holga is the best thing that has ever happened to my photographs.
44. There are some boys who call our house the Vagistery.
45. Sometimes I drink beer with my Dad. Sometimes my Dad buys beer for Michael Whipple.
46. In New Zealand I am going to swim with dolphins. (They are a shark's natural enemy, so I should be okay.)
47. Dancing? Yes and yes.
48. I need a movie friend who lives in Portland.
49. We read every day.
50. I witnessed this child's entry into the world.