1. my name is erin.
2. my favourite color is pink.
3. my birthday is july 30th.
4. i am a classic leo. i hit almost all of the characteristics to a t.
4. i have a younger sister 21 and brother 13.
5. i currently live in ireland, though home is new jersey.
6. i love sports. i cheered (grades K-2, 7&8), softball (3-8), basketball (3-8), field hockey (5-12), ski raced (9-12), track (9-12) and rowed (4 years in college).
7. though i've always played sports, my actual athletic ability is questionable. my hand eye cordination is almost non-existant. i'm pretty sure in the 5 years i played basketball i scored 10 points total and i only got on base in softball once i was taught how to bunt.
8. i understand the sports though, and get all the rules and strategy behind them... that's why rowing was perfect for me. i was the coxswain, so i steered, motivated my rowers, called the races and was the 'brains' behind the boat.
9. i sometimes act like a t-rex.
10. in college my friends freshman year named all my accents.
11. i have a weird memory, i can remember dates, places and people no problem. but give me a list of 40 vocabulary words, and i'm screwed.
12. when i was bored in college classes i would make lists. states, presidents, countries in europe. state capitals, counties in ireland...
13. i've been blogging since 2001. first on free open diary - though some of these were lost, when the server crashed and like 1% of their stuff was lost, and i was one of the people who lost everything (luckily i had saved most of them), then onto live journal in 2004, and on blogger since 2007.
14. i still sleep with a stuffed animal. his name is bunny and i've had him since i was about 6 months old.
15. one of my favourite things to do is drive. just put in a cd, roll down the windows and drive on little back roads, singing out to my heart's content.
16. when i hear songs, i relate them to certain people, events or memories.
17. i absolutely love children's books. my favourites are eloise, make way for ducklings, if you give a mouse a cookie, and anything dr. seuss.
18. i was the dumbest smart kid in college. at graduation those who graduate with honours are in ranked order, after that it is alphabetical.
19. i am an amazingly picky eater. i have gotten better as i've gotten older, but my diet is still mainly carbs.
20. at home i currenly have 6 cats and a dog. throughout my life we've had 11 cats. i am quite allergic to them. but it doesn't stop me from cuddling them.
21. i was a camp counselor for 5 summers - 2 girl scout camps and a day camp. and i taught at 2 academic summer camps.
22. one of my nicknames is speedy. i was called it for 4 summers at girl scout camps.
23. my other nickname is my last name. for most of hs and college more people called my by my last name than my first.
24. i love national parks. i've been to great smoky, zion, bryce canyon and the grand canyon so far. my goal is to go to all of them. my favourite is zion.
25. i also want to go to all 50 states.
26. so far i've been to - nh, vt, ri, ct, ma, ny, pa, nj, de, md, va, wv, nc, sc, fl, ga, tn, oh, mi, ca, az, nv, ut and dc.
27. i also want to travel to all 7 continents. so far i've only done north america and europe.
28. there also isn't a country i don't want to go to.
29. so far i've visited the us, canada, ireland, england, scotland, wales, northern ireland, germany, france, greece and spain. (italy february 2009)
30. the first broadway show i saw was rent.
31. for both my junior and senior prom, i asked my date to go. they were my co-captains on the ski team.
32. my favourite city is new york city.
33. my favourite number is 33. 3 and 9 also work.
34. my favourite alcoholic drink is a cosmo. i also enjoy sex on the beach, guinness, and wine.
35. in college i won an oreo stack eating contest. it was on the bus on the way home from my last college crew regatta. i think it was 12 double stuff oreo sandwhich. (12 fillings inside 2 cookies)
36. my senior crewies are some of my favourite people in the world. we shared 4 years of sweat, hardwork, tears, teamwork, memories, laughter, rowing, and friendship. i would do anything for these girls.
37. i've never had my hair longer than my shoulders. it is usually just below my chin.
38. i used to be obsessed with beanie babies. my favourites are erin the bear (duh), speedy the turtle, pinky the flamingo, quackers the duck and seaweed the otter
39. i am absolutely in love with gmail. i currently have 38 labels, and they are all colour coded.
40. i've read all the baby sitters club books, and owned about half of them. i used to pretend i was stacey.
41. one of my goals is to hike the entire appalachian trail. all 2170 miles from georgia to maine.
42. i refused to read harry potter until the summer of 2002. when at camp a friend gave me the first book at camp. but she had gone through the book renaming everyone after camp people. she was harry, i was hermione and my best friend was ron. so i was reading about basil, speedy and ace. i became hooked, but i was confused most of the 2nd book, because i dodn't know their actual names! i read the first 4 books within 3 weeks. i then got 5/6/7 the day they came out.
43. i love my sorority! i can't wait to be closer to an alumni chapter. i am currently in the uk chapter and met up with sisters living in europe twice and i'm going to london in march again to see them again.
44. i love taking photos. i've been doing a photo a day project since july 31st, 2007.
45. my twin isn't really my twin. she is my other half. we met working at gs camp in 2001 and have been inseperable ever since.
46. my core group of friends from freshman year of college were still my core group senior year. i love all our worch girls photos. from the mud fight to birthday balls to crazy theme parties to graduation.
47. i love all things chocolate except chocolate ice cream.
48. i've only ever worn clinique happy.
49. i relate everything in life to friends episodes. i'm also slightly obsessed with the show, know every episode and could kick your butt in friends trivia.
50. most of the places i've been in ireland, it has been for hiking. donegal, connemara, dingle, wicklow, all over co. kerry, west cork, some in co. waterford & tipperary.
51. i majored in history and american studies with a secondary education certification at wac.
52. studying abroad in ireland in 2005 was a major life changing experience. it changed what i wanted to do post-wac and introduced me to my academic interest - irish american domestic servants.
53. my first boyfriend got my hooked on country music. and now it is mostly what i listen to.
54. i love wearing high heels or flip flops. i hate socks.
55. my favourite season is summer. i hate being cold.
56. i am a romantic at heart. i love chick flicks and chick lit.
57. facebook has become my lifeline while living abroad. i love being able to see what everyone is up to.
58. i love peanut butter, mint and chocolate together - ie, chocolate chip mint ice cream with reeses pieces.
59. i'm always reading. ususally some random chick lit, but i read anything and everything.
60. in college i drank at least a can of coke a day. and i was on a permanent sugar high just to stay awake most days.
61. in ireland i traded the coke for tea. i'm addicted to barry's tea. i probably have about 4 cups a day.
62. i've been watching/following days of our lives since i was 9.
63. i wish life was a musical. how much fun would that be? always breaking into singing and dancing!
64. i cry a lot. any little thing can make me start tearing up. books/movies are the worst. i cry reading pretty much anything. nicholas sparks/cecilia ahern books are the worst.
65. i have my masters in history - specifically on the irish diaspora. i wrote 21,000 words on irish domestic servants in the us and great britain.
66. i've only had 3 boyfriends.
67. i am an overachiever. i was in nhs in hs, and 2 different honour societies in college. i was also in about a million clubs in hs, and on the exec board for most of them at one point and 2 year captain of the ski team. i also held 3 positions in my sorority and was captain of the crew team senior year.
68. i'm short - 5'1'' and i absolutely love it.
69. i prefer only using lower case letters. especially on my name. i've been writing my name in lower case letters since i was 16. i've only recently started (sometimes) signing my name with a capital letter.
70. i actually had a professor write on a paper- are you e.e. cummings? - thank you clayton.
71. i love abbreviating words.
72. i want to go back to college for my PhD is history one day.
73. i still have not gone to coyote ugly. it is on my list of things to do. when i was 15 we made plans to have my 21st birthday there.
74. instead i was in dc visiting one of my berries on the way home from north carolina and we went to the natural history smithsonian so i could see the t-rex, and then the american history one and then just had a nice lunch. my first legal drink in the US was a strawberry dacquri.
75. my first beer was my freshman year in college - the first night of college at talbot.
76. i love getting letters in the mail.
77. i hate snow, but love skiing.
78. i love italian food. but i'm not a big fan of marinara sauce.
79. my favourite sandwhich is pb&j. but only grape jelly. runner up would be grilled cheese.
80. i have a slight obsssion with crutons.
81. my college roommate freshman year keeps me sane, even from 3000 miles away. we write each other amazingly long emails. we word count them... i'm not kidding.
82. i love making mixed cd's.
83. i wear pearls pretty much every day.
84. the best decision i ever made in my life was to go to wac. those 4 years were absolutely amazing and i learned so much about myself and had some amazing opportunities.
85. i once opened a bottle of champagne using a sword from the war of 1812.
86. i set my alarm clock to go off at either a :7 or a :3.
87. i've been wearing a silver aids awareness bracelet from the body shop since i was 14. i have only ever taken it off for sports.
88. i want to run a marathon.
89. i am extremely ticklish. like you touch me and i'm spasiming.
90. my toe nails are always painted red. and they have been since i was 16.
91. i love to-do lists.
92. i tore my acl playing field hockey right before my senior year of high school.
93. i have to shower in the morning. it wakes me up.
94. i love finding new blogs to read. when i find one i like i read their old entries.
95. when i was younger i hated my name. i absolutely love it now.
96. i am so glad i decide to move abroad after undergrad.
97. working in an office has made me realise i don't want a desk job. i need to be active and constantly doing something different.
98. my first concert was the beach boys when i was 7. i've also seen 3 doors down, oar , something corporate, rascal flatts (2) and snow patrol.
99. the fastest i've ever ran a mile was 7:15 my junior year of hs for field hockey.
100. i only write in black ink. i hate pencils and blue ink.
101. the most played song on my itunes right now is taylor swift's - a place in this world. i've played it 541 times since jan 8, 2007 (when i had to reinstall windows on my computer)
so there you go :)
101 things about me.
if you want to know anything else, just ask!
The abfab Pam - Relish gave me this one. Pam and I have bonded over Irish experiences and I looove reading her blog. She has recently written about a few hilarious childhood and adult experiences that have had me laughing.
