the revenge of 100 things about shivery, part 1

well, it's been nearly a year since i made the grand list that is 100 things about shivery. so, i figure that in honor of slightly off celebrations of anniversaries (this being my 599th entry and all), i was going to write the sequel. so here it is! 100 things about shivery, 1 year later. (please note that i have not actually looked at the original 100 things list since i wrote it. so it will be fun to see what remains and what has changed).

1. shivery is a professional redhead.

2. shivery is an aspiring rock star.(see figure 1)

3. shivery hates her job with a violent, burning, fuzzy purple passion.

4. shivery has officially vowed never to try and date bartenders again. ever.

5. if shivery were a comic book character, she'd be shelley from this strip

6. in approximately eight months, shivery will be a comic book character.

7. if shivery were to develop a crush on the physical manifestation of a comic book character, it would be jack knight of starman.

8. shivery has a penchant for black boots.

9. shivery can't decide which era it was she should have been born in.

10. shivery used to be punk rock.

11. shivery used to be an opera singer (amateur)

12. shivery has an unhealthy addiction to diet vanilla coke (that's right, ask your doctor if DiVaCo is right for you)

13. shivery smokes american spirit lights.

14. shivery loves red wine, apple vodka and jack daniels.

15. shivery seems to be a magnet for the attentions of married men. particularly married men who live in other cities. it's quite strange.

16. shivery seems to be utterly incapable of dating within her age bracket.

17. shivery wishes a pox on the house of sally sue.

18. shivery has a serious love/hate relationship with the MTA.

19. shivery would describe her style as: cybervictorian androgyne supervixen. except for the fact that she really likes wearing girly things. and that kind of knocks out the androgyne bit.

20. if shivery were to distill the woman she wants to be when she grows up from a combination of three television icons, they would be dana scully, lorelai gilmore and sydney bristow. with maybe some bubbles thrown in for good measure.

21. shivery does not have her own pair of aviator sunglasses. yet.

22. shivery is looking forward to the return of warm weather, and with it the return of sunday brunch.

23. shivery needs a haircut.

24. shivery is entirely too fond of sushi.

25. shivery has a box of towels under her desk, as well as a pair of boots with a busted heel that she somehow never quite gets around to repairing.

26. shivery's favorite member of r.e.m. is (was) bill berry. the man with the unibrow that just won't quit.

27. shivery loves eddie izzard.

28. shivery also loves judd nelson, but not in that way

29. shivery has still not heard from bumbershoot or north by northeast.

30. shivery thinks that cary grant is hott.

31. shivery is a pisces.

32. shivery's wondertwin is roos.

33. shivery calls this one biscuit

34. shivery makes a wicked goat cheese and cranberry risotto. the pumpkin one ain't bad, either.

35. shivery's guilty pleasures include: internet window-shopping, avril lavigne (shut. up.), kiehl's lip balm, mint chocolate cookie ice cream, anything involving peanut butter.

36. shivery enjoys both boxing and kickboxing.

37. one of shivery's favorite things to eat (that makes most other people ill) is brown rice with rice vinegar, brewer's yeast and parmesan cheese. it's much less disgusting than it sounds, we promise.

38. shivery is a much happier monkey since she bought a pickup for her guitar.

39. shivery misses her electric guitar.

40. shivery really needs to go to her optometrist. almost out of contact lenses. very bad.

41. shivery hates her doctor. almost as much as she hates her job

42. shivery is waiting for her UK passport to be processed by the government.

43. shivery actually owns a copy of "growing up brady," the memoirs of barry williams--greg brady himself.

44. shivery has been developing the very disturbing habit of going to bed very early.

45. shivery rediscovered a long-incommunicado cousin through this diary.

46. shivery's top googles are: shivery; naked office; trapped in time.

47. shivery is suddenly very intrigued by cowboy bebop.

48. shivery is bound and determined to learn to fight with either a quarterstaff or a broadsword. come hell or high water.

49. shivery (heart)s emo. (as does the lovely miz i.)

50. shivery is very, very sad that she needs to find a new regular bar.

and that's the first installment! we're accepting suggestions now for the second half of this litany. which will be episode 600 of this tome.

stay tuned!