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My name is Stephanie and I’m not good at writing “about me” pages.  So, here are 100 factoids about me:

1. The worst bike accidents I’ve gotten into have been as an adult, not as a child
2. I was born feet first.  My family blames my idiosyncrasies on me not getting enough air during the first minutes of life.
3. I don’t like chocolate.  I don’t like the taste or smell of it.  Some would consider me less than female for this trait.
4. I was a gymnast for 12 years growing up and ran a mile once a year for gym class and then only under protest.
5. I am apparently drawn to sports whose dress codes include tight clothing: gymnastics, horseback riding, cycling.  What gives?
6. I am considered the “young and hip” one at the quilt shop where I work part time.  This amuses me, but I am happy to fill that role.
7. I struggled with disordered eating throughout high school and college.  Shadows of that time still plague me from time to time.  While I try to deal with it gracefully, it doesn’t always happen.
8. I don’t like to admit to #7.
9. I live within a 2.5 hour drive of New York City but have never done the New York tourist thing.
10. I majored in English Writing in college, and minored in Economics.  Had I known what I know now, I would have switched the two.
11. While I don’t have a favorite author, my favorite books are The Power of One and The Namesake.
12. I take that back.  I’d say my favorite author is Chaim Potok.
13. My favorite movie is The Thomas Crowne Affair with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo.  I want her wardrobe from that film, designed by Michael Kors.
14. I raised a guide dog puppy for the Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation.  I cried when I gave her back to be trained as a guide dog.  But I was also relieved.  She was a handful and a half.
15. My guide dog puppy is now a working guide in California.  She takes her “person” to work on the bus every day.
16. I once really liked backpacking.  I now consider it “too hard”.
17. I still enjoy car camping.  Or anything with a campfire.
18. I really can’t decide if I’m a tomboy or a girly-girl.  Does such a person as a girly-girl tomboy exist?
19. Included on my “bucket list”: Gallop a Thoroughbred over carriage roads in upstate New York a la Seabiscuit:

20. I got a perm once.  Never. Again.
21. Every day as my sister and I left for school my father told us to “Try hard, be neat, have fun.”  It was very good advice, then and now.
22. The very best use of a bicycle is to ride to a bar, get whoppingly drunk and then ride home.  Make sure said bicycle is a cruiser and you can put both feet on the ground while still sitting on the seat.  Makes drunk biking  a lot easier!
23. If I were stranded on a desert island and could only have three foods, I would pick cheese pizza, Frosted Mini Wheats and skim milk (counting this as one food), and strawberry Whole Fruit bars by Edy’s.
24. Both my sister and I painted our bedrooms bright green.  We did not consult each other first.
25. I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.  I think about it almost every day.
26. I have tried yoga several different times, but can never seem to settle into it.
27. The two hobbies I would like to get into if I had unlimited time and money: photography and rock climbing.
28. I bought a new Honda Fit in February of 2011 because my 2001 Chevy Prizm died.  I miss my Prizm.  It was a good car.
29. When it was less than 6 months old, I rammed my Honda Fit into my fathers truck and caused $1800 of damage to my car.  Both cars were in my own driveway.
30. I have a tendency to be penny wise and pound foolish.
31. I am still searching for the perfect haircut, the perfect bed pillow, and the perfect recipe for oatmeal cookies.  I have already found the perfect running shoe.
32. I like to knit and quilt.  I swear I’m not your grandmother.
33. I don’t like coffee, although the smell of flavored coffee is really yummy.
34. I get suspicious of fitness blogger who never burnout, or don’t want to train, or never have a bad run.
35. I quite often wonder why I blog.
36. I continue to blog anyway.
37. When it comes to politics, I’m fiscally conservative and socially liberal.
38. I hate it when people say “I don’t watch TV” in order to make you feel inferior to them.
39. I realize these people cannot actually make me feel inferior to them.
40. I want to be a faster runner, but don’t know if I have the (proverbial) balls to put in the pain and sweat to do it.
41. I’m not sure if I like the kind of person I’d be if I don’t have the ball to be a faster runner.
42. There are days when I simply refuse to be in a good mood.
43. If you are unlucky enough to try to cheer me up on one of those days, may God have mercy on your soul.
44. I tried to watch Twilight.  I turned it off after 30 minutes.
45. I go through stages when I will read 3 books in a week.  Then it takes me 6 months to read a fourth book.
46. I keep a formidable potty library in my bathroom.
47. I vacillate between wanting a job to which I can wear jeans and a t-shirt, and wanting a job to which I would wear suits and heels.
48. No pants Sundays are good days.
49. I’m not embarrassed to admit that I like Smirnoff Ices.  Okay, I’m a little embarrassed, but I admit it anyway.
50. I sometimes make fun of people of whom I’m jealous.
51. I realize this is not a pretty side of my personality.
52. I’m still waiting for my 15 minutes of fame.
53. 53 – 100 will have to wait for another day…

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