100 Rubyisms

1. My favorite color is pink.
2. My parents gave me a ring with pink rubies in it when I was seventeen, I wear it every single day.
3. I don’t watch TV.
4. I didn’t own a TV all throughout university.
5. My friend introduced me to Grey’s Anatomy and that’s the only show I watch.
6. I guess I now watch TV.
7. I don’t like wearing pants and I hate wearing jeans. I am in skirts and dresses more than 90% of the time.
8. My inner child loves skirts that twirl.
9. I twirl all the time when I’m in a twirly skirt and nobody can see me.
10. The Toronto Maple Leafs are MY hockey team. I love Darcy Tucker dearly.
11. I don’t like M&M’s in cookies or in any form of baking because they crack and aren’t pretty and it makes me sad.
12. The little time I spent at convent school has left me with a healthy dose of Catholic guilt (and a deep abiding dislike of black mary janes…). I sometimes find myself saying the Hail Mary when I’m stressed. I’m not now nor have I ever been Catholic.
13. I love chocolate and I love just about every dessert with chocolate in it. I will find ways to add chocolate to things. I am morally opposed to vanilla with the exception of vanilla essence in baking.
14. I can’t blow my nose. I don’t know how. Its really frustrating. And dumb.
15. I love pecan pie. Real pecan pie made in the South, not this trash they make up here and try to pass off as pecan pie. I miss real pecan pie. And King Cake, sweet tea, po boys, crawfish, sno cones and fried oysters.
16. I really do think shoes make the outfit. Shoes make me happy. I love shoes. I got my first pair of “high heels” when I was four. They were kitten heels but the made the clicky sound and I wore them everywhere.
17. I used to be an only child.
18. Until I was thirteen.
19. Then I became a middle child.
20. I have two brothers.
21. I wonder what the birth order theorists have to say about that.
22. I always wanted a sister.
23. I love to read but I can’t put a book down until I’m done. Its problematic.
24. I won’t take public transit.
25. I can’t watch scary movies, I will be terrified out of my mind for weeks on end.
26. The first CD I ever bought was All 4 One.
27. I’ve never had chicken pox.
28. I have a freckle on my left wrist, it was how I learned to tell my left from my right.
29. Sometimes I still use it for reference.
30. I’ve never been able to do cartwheels.
31. Yo hablo espanol pero muy poco porque solo estudio en la escuela para dos anos.
32. I have no fears of being alone for the rest of my life but I am terrified of being lonely.
33. I have worked in IT for the last two years but I still have no idea how to use the call waiting feature on my cell phone.
34. I kinda thought Zinedine Zidane being able to knock Marco Materazzi out via headbutt was kinda hot.
35. Bollywood movies have, among many ridiculous things, instilled a need in me to dance in the rain wearing white one day. If I ever lose my mind and do it I’ll let you know how that goes.
36. Time of My Life from Dirty Dancing has been my favorite song since I was five years old. There are very few instances where blasting it much too loud and singing along do not create sheer happiness.
37. I believe in universal health care, every single person should be able to go to the doctor/dentist/optician etc when needed.
38. I know nothing about cars, I can check my oil and that’s about all.
39. I can’t parallel or reverse park.
40. I don’t have a birth certificate.
41. Sometimes a manicure and a latte really can solve everything.
42. In university, the boys in my residence woke me at 3am once to serenade me with a drunken attempt of Ruby Tuesday by The Rolling Stones. They messed it up and sang Ruby Soho instead. When I was seven the Stones played in my town. When they sang Ruby Tuesday I thought it was about me. It wasn’t.
43. I have no sense of direction. I even have trouble following GPS directions.
44. I went Greek in university and loved it. The rituals, traditions and symbols of my sorority are very special to me.
45. The parties were good too.
46. The first time I wore a toga I was so worried about it falling off I was fully dressed underneath.
47. I love long, relaxed, extended dinners with my friends when we’re just sitting around the table talking and bonding and sometimes its a five hour meal.
48. I love round dining tables because they are better for conversation as everyone can see each other. I like chairs to have arms so you can have somewhere to rest your arms besides your lap.
49. I love wearing red.
50. I think life is too short not to indulge in the little things like the best coffee or chocolate or whatever.
51. I love love love salty plain Ruffles chips and Coke.
52. I try to tell the important people in my life that I love them as often as I can because I think it is important to hear.
53. I don’t “save” things for special occasions, I don’t know if that chance will come so I use/wear it whenever I feel like it.
54. Shopping is like a sport.
55. I love poetry.
56. I tried to learn to snowboard in high school. It didn’t go so well.
57. The Fountainhead is one of my favorite books.
58. I don’t eat things as I’m walking around. When I eat I am sitting down.
59. When I was at Disney World I saw herds of people walking around eating huge Bones With Meat. I have no idea what it was, just a huge hunt of meat on a bone but I was horrified.
60. My closet is organized…my clothes are hung/folded by color/sleeve length/etc.
61. If that makes you think I am organized you’re very wrong.
62. I wanted to be a ballerina when I was little.
63. The only stuffed animal I have is a white teddy bear with a red bow tie that I got on Christmas from Santa when I was six.
64. Sometimes I still sleep with it.
65. I love football. I’ve been a New Orleans Saints fan since I was ten years old. Even though they’ve only made the playoffs once. Even through the years when they were so bad you had to wear a paper bag over your head when you watched the game. In your living room. By yourself.
66. I think Archie Manning should be canonized.
67. I “dated” Sam Mills III (son of Sam Mills II, one of the best linebackers the Saints ever had) in junior high. For like…two weeks.
68. I never cut my Barbie’s hair.
69. I press the toothpaste from the end of the tube.
70. I would love to adopt children one day.
71. I think its important for children to have a parent at home when they are young. Just having 1 kid is mean. Having 2 kids will make them competitive. Having 3 kids will mean there’s a middle one that gets picked on. Having 4 kids would be a nice even number and I like even numbers.
72. I cry at sappy movies and TV.
73. I cry when I’m really angry.
74. I cry at weddings.
75. I think we should stop caring about Paris Hilton and similar babbling fools and devote our time, energy and resources to causes that matter. Like the genocide in Darfur, the war in the Middle East, child labor in Asia and detainees held in Guantanamo Bay without cause or charge.
76.  No matter what I do in life, I hold on to one statement: “I’m going to be alright”.
77. When I love, I do it with all my heart.
78. I think glossy black grand pianos are beautiful.
79. I love daisies and calla lillies.
80. I am sarcasm personified.
81. I think the small things in life are as worth celebrating as the big ones. A new furnace is as much something to be happy about and celebrate as a birthday. Of course, you celebrate the birthday more.
82. Oddly enough I happen to be very impulsive…compulsive…AND a huge procrastinator. The irony.
83. I love coffee.
84. I tend to interupt people when they’re speaking and it annoys the living daylights out of me.
85. I am working hard at changing that.
86. I don’t like cheesecake but I bake them because other people do and they are pretty.
87. I love cupcakes.
88. I think birthdays should always be celebrated and remembered.
89. I was terrified of Cabbage Patch Kids as a child. It was the commercials.
90. A couple of my favorite movies: Steel Magnolias, Dirty Dancing, Gone With the Wind, Fried Green Tomatoes, Love Actually, The Italian Job, Ocean’s 11.
91. The first three months I had my Beetle I drove with my highbeams on. 
92. I didn’t know they were on.
93. I thought I just had really bright lights. 
94. I am an emotional eater.
95. I am never quite sure where my money has gone or how it has spent itself.
96. That’s right. Spent itself.
97. Majored in Psychology.
98. I think the inkblot test is nonsense.
99. I am not much of a carnivore, chicken or fish only. I love vegetables.
100. I don’t believe in soulmates.