| 1. | My nickname is Hunny. That's cuz I'm as sweet as hunny... |
| 2. | And cuz Pooh and Hunny go together like Kanga and Roo, like Christopher and Robin, like Ee and yore like... |
| 3. | My real name means "free." I'm named after my great-grandmother (my mother's paternal grandmother). |
| 4. | I like writing letters to and receiving letters from my penpals all over the world. I currently have penpals in the following countries: Hungary, Australia, Morocco, Lithuania, France, Kyrgyzstan, the U.S., etc. |
| 5. | My eyes used to be brown but now they're actually dark green with a reddish ring. Unless you're staring at my iris up close, they still look brown. |
| 6. | I'm a wanna-be polyglot. |
| 7. | J'ai etudié français au lycée, mais je ne me souviens pas beaucoup de ce que j'ai appris. Je ne suis jamais allée en France, mais j'espère y voyager dans l'avenir. |
| 8. | Español es mi tercer idioma. Estoy mejorando mi vocabulario en leyendo los libros de Harry Potter en español. |
| 9. | Mokausi lietuvių kalbą. Ji yra labai sunki mane, bet aš ją noriu gerai kalbėti nors mano geriausia močiutės tėvai buvo iš Lietuvos. |
| 10. | Back to English. After improving on my precarious grasp of French, Spanish and Lithuanian, I hope to learn Latin, Italian, German, Russian and lots more! That way, when Mike and I travel the world, we'll be able to actually communicate with the people around us. |
| 11. | Even though I'm right-handed, I sometimes write using my left hand so I can improve my left-handed handwriting. |
| 12. | I can solve the rubik's cube pretty quickly (in about 1-2 minutes), but I'm no speed cuber.
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| 13. | I like to do all sorts of "artsy fartsy" things, like drawing and painting. |
| 14. | Cycling is my favorite sport. |
| 15. | I used to race with the UCSD cycling team, but it took up too much time. :-( |
| 16. | The longest single-day bicycle ride I ever did was 120 miles from Ramona to Borrego Springs and back. It was actually a damn fool ride to go on alone, especially during the peak of summer, but I was lucky and didn't get run over or worse... |
| 17. | In speaking of damn fool things to do, I once pet a moose. I stood on our truck to pet it (this was when we lived in Alaska). It's hair was all coarse and scratchy. Moose are like very large cows, only even more stupid and less predictable. |
| 18. | I like cooking and baking. |
| 19. | While fighting insomnia, I'll sometimes mentally recite Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott." I'm usually asleep before I even get halfway through it. |
| 20. | Over the course of my life, I've been to a lot of pow wows, since my Grandma Julie used to be on the Indian Housing Board for San Diego. To me, pow wows smell like leather and Indian fry bread. |
| 21. | When I was a kid, my hair was straight as a board, but at 12, it started growing in wavy.
First I had one wave, then two, until all the straight hair finally grew out. |
| 22. | Sometimes my hair has a coppery look to it. Maybe Mike and I will have a red-headed kid. Hey, it's possible! ;-) |
| 23. | I am already 25 years old. Where has all the time gone? I feel sooooooo old, but am (hopefully) less than a quarter of my way through life. |
| 24. | My brother Daniel is always pestering me to learn Perl, since he is a Perl programmer. |
| 25. | I have five fingers on each hand and five toes on each foot. Wow. |
| 26. | I was born in the contiguous U.S., but I was not born in a state. Where was I born? (See #97) |
| 27. | I like to write. Who knows? Maybe I'll get published someday. I'm mid-way through writing a children's book. |
| 28. | My great-great-grandfather Charles K. Holmburg used to own and edit the "Escondido Times" way back in the 1890s. He turned it from a gossip column into a real newspaper. The "Escondido Times" later merged with/absorbed "The Advocate," forming "The Times-Advocate" which later turned into today's North County Times. |
| 29. | Genealogy is one of my interests. I figure that if I start on it now, I'll have actually gotten some substantial research done by the time I die at the ripe old age of 130. |
| 30. | My Pooh Bear has encouraged me to have courage around computers. Now I can even program a little bit. Html-ing is fun. |
| 31. | When I drink coffee, I take it black. |
| 32. | While on Maui, Mike and I switched from drinking soda to drinking unsweetened iced tea. That way, we were able to limit our aspertaine intake (in case it does turn out to have negative side effects) without giving ourselves cavities from too much sugar. |
| 33. | My favorite color is cobalt purple: Visualize cobalt blue or emerald green, then just insert purple instead. |
| 34. | I've been an unrepentant bibliophile since reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland while living in a foster home when I was eight. Before that, I read a lot from my World Book Encyclopedias and loved fairy tales, but was too impatient for novels. |
| 35. | I love the cartoon movie "The Last Unicorn." I've seen it over and over and still like watching it. The first time I saw it was at the Boy's & Girl's Club of Escondido when I was five years old. |
| 36. | I collect picture postcards, especially postcards of scenic places. |
| 37. | "Samoas" are my favorite type of Girl Scout cookie. |
| 38. | I think canned oysters, sardines, and anchovies make a yummy snack. |
| 39. | I try to limit my soy consumption, since the isoflavins in soybeans may be detrimental to cognitive function by aging the brain. The jury is still out, but I'm the cautious type. |
| 40. | Someday I'd kind of like to have an African Grey Parrot, but they need a lot of attention. It's kind of like having a kid who never grows up and moves out, but who always finds ways to get into trouble. |
| 41. | I love my Pooh Bear oogles and oogles. |
| 42. | I give good back and foot massages. My great-grandmother was an expert at Swedish massage. |
| 43. | Mike and I like putting together jigsaw puzzles. |
| 44. | I know how to make Lithuanian Easter Eggs. |
| 45. | Did you know that the capital of Qatar is Doha? |
| 46. | I like going to Dave & Buster's with Mike. It's like Chuck E. Cheese's only for grown-ups. |
| 47. | When I was a little kid, I liked reading the Serendipity books and Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit books. |
| 48. | If Mike and I ever have a bit of land, I'd like for us to have Nigerian Dwarf milk goats and Araucana chickens for eggs. It would be especially amusing to have a little Pembroke Welsh Corgi sheepdog to watch over our goats. |
| 49. | I used to have a paper route when I was nine. |
| 50. | My friend Liz and I like going on hikes. We especially like the Iron Mountain hike, just east of Poway. |
| 51. | On a recent trip to Disneyland, I spotted the following Hidden Mickey:
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| 52. | I collect obscure words. Here are some of my current favorites: coruscate, matutinal, boustrophedon, eremitical, famulus and even nous. To me, a truly delicious word should be absolutely incomprehensible to the uninitiated. |
| 53. | Herbal tea is good. |
| 54. | I've only seen one total solar eclipse, but hope to see the one that goes over Easter Island in 2010 with Mike. |
| 55. | I lost my first tooth when I was four and my last one when I was ten. By my sixteenth birthday, all four my wisdom teeth were already coming in. |
| 56. | My eyes are very sensitive to sunlight, even though they're brown. |
| 57. | Interestingly enough, my eyes are darker than those of both of my birth parents. My mother has teal blue eyes and my father's are definitely hazel, not brown. If you look closely at my eyes, they're a combination of green and a red ring, but from far away they definitely look brown. They used to be a true brown but have been getting lighter and lighter since I was ten. Weird, huh? |
| 58. | I'm a Gemini. Since there's no reason why astrology should be accurate, it is annoying how, in some ways, I totally fit my sign. My guess is that since I've always known how Geminis are "supposed" to behave, on some level I've probably been subconsciously seeking to fulfill societal expectations. On the other hand, the people around me largely knew how Geminis are "supposed" to act and could be the ones who (subconsciously, of course) created my personality by treating me in a way that brings out my Gemini-ness. On the other hand, there's always the "fallacy of positive instances" explanation, claiming that there is no real correlation between me and my sign at all. Then there's also the possibility that there is a correlation between my personality and being a Gemini with Leo-rising, born in the Year of the Horse, balanced with my moon in Libra. Okay, I'm done. |
| 59. | James K. Polk died on my birthday, only just a few years earlier, of course. I could say that I was born on the anniversary of his death, but who celebrates deathdays anyway (not counting Nearly Headless Nick)? |
| 60. | Mike and I each have long tongues.
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| 61. | I am fascinated with indigenous peoples all over the world, as well as obscure minorities like Gypsies, the Ainu, Picts, Basques. |
| 62. | I love the smell of the Sweet Alyssum. It brings back all the good memories I have of living at my Grandma Julie's house. |
| 63. | I'm a member of the Green Party. At least, I am at the moment. I change political pursuasions more often than some people change their underwear. |
| 64. | Did I mention that I'm a Gemini? |
| 65. | I would like to get a second pet chinchilla as company for the one we currently have. |
| 66. | When I sit in front of the fire, I tend to put my feet closer to the flames than others think is prudent. Once, when I was younger, I melted the rubber bottoms of my favorite slippers that way. |
| 67. | I used to want to be an Archaeologist or an Astrophysicist, but didn't realize that I actually had a bright enough mind to make either dream a reality. Back than, I could barely tolerate the thought of enduring four years as an undergraduate, much less attending graduate school. |
| 68. | I also used to want to be an Animator but got discouraged because of advice that I should get a Liberal Arts education and not the B.F.A. that prospective animators usually get. |
| 69. | I get bored easily, but keep myself entertained by thinking, thinking, thinking.
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| 70. | Some people have a sweet-tooth. Others have a fat-tooth. I have both. |
| 71. | I do eat my vegetables too, in case you're wondering. |
| 72. | My favorite place at UCSD is the Geisel Library. |
| 73. | I'm myopic. No matter what opthamologists say, I think it was from the dozen hours daily I used to spend reading when I was younger. I'm not kidding, I used to read all the time. |
| 74. | I like dancing. Mike and I did Lithuanian folk dancing for a while. As a kid I was in a tap/jazz/ballet performing group and also did folk dancing for several years. I'd like to take some hula and Irish step dance classes once I have a real income to burn. |
| 75. | I can do the splits. |
| 76. | My Great-Grandma Emma (my father's maternal grandmother) had black hair that went down to her knees. It was black because she was part Hunkpapa Sioux (you know, just like everybody and his brother). My hair was at my knees but then I cut it to my waist. It's been growing (albeit slowly) ever since. |
| 77. | My brother Gio and I were adopted by my aunt and my uncle when I was eleven years old. |
| 78. | I've liked to draw since I could hold a pencil. By the time I was four, I would draw for hours and hours at a time. The art I do now isn't even that great, but if you had shown it to me when I was a kid, I wouldn't have believed that I would ever be able to create it. |
| 79. | I still like to climb trees. |
| 80. | I love getting letters in the mail, especially when they're not bills. |
| 81. | Whenever I am feeling really sad, I watch The Postman and then I realize that things could be much worse (and even if they were that much worse, then they could only get better). |
| 82. | From elementary through high school I was nearly always the fastest female runner in my P.E. classes. I still jog, but I don't have the right body to really be competitive at running. |
| 83. | I love my Michael very much! |
| 84. | My father says I look like my mother and my mother says I look like my father. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? :-) |
| 85. | I participated in a study and got the following pictures of my brain:
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| 86. | I have three middle names. |
| 87. | People always give me jewelry. If I had half as many nice outfits as I have nice necklaces, I'd be quite the stylish individual. |
| 88. | My first kiss was for a school play. |
| 89. | I prefer to get a good night's sleep, but isolated occasions of sleep deprivation give me this strange clarity of thought. |
| 90. | I used to have a box turtle named Robert. One day when I wasn't there, he ran, er, walked away. |
| 91. | If I had money to burn (that I was not allowed to spend on humanitarian works) and if Mike and I already had our dreamhouse, I think I'd like to get an Audi TT Roadster. |
| 92. | I can't stand the taste of tap water. I have to drink bottled water, or else I just don't drink enough. |
| 93. | Christmas is my favorite holiday. I love Christmas music, lights, decorations, smells and foods. |
| 94. | I was a ten-month baby (meaning that my mother was pregnant for ten months). My dad and some of my uncles were also ten-month babies, so maybe it's genetic. |
| 95. | I love rainy days. |
| 96. | I love snow. Sadly, it almost never snows in San Diego. |
| 97. | I was born in Washington, D.C. |
| 98. | Lithuanian beet soup is one of my specialties. One of these days I'll document how I make it and write down the recipe. (Usually I just make it by instinct without consciously thinking.) |
| 99. | I like pretty stationery. |
| 100. | Someday, it would be nice to get a full-sized loom and actually learn how to weave. |
| 101. | My favorite ice cream is Chocolate Malt Crunch, followed by Strawberry Cheesecake in a close second. |
