by Cheryl C.
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December 19, 2005

100 Interesting Things About Cheryl C.

April 30, 2006 01:15 PM EDT (Updated: May 03, 2006 11:19 PM EDT)
views: 35 | rating: 9.5/10 (6 votes) | comments: 20
  1.  I can wiggle my eyeballs.
  2.  I can talk inside my mouth, like a bloated ventriloquist.
  3.  I can sing the French National Anthem like Carol Channing.
  4.  I am versatile character actress
  5.  My nephews grew up believing that certain Disney heroines were  inspired by me.
  6.  The Amazing Kreskin couldn't hypnotize me, and once dismissed me from his stage.
  7.   I cannot say the word "abominable"
  8.   I do not eat green leafy vegetables.
  9.   I love roller coasters.
  10.   I had 6 stepfathers (but not all at one time)
  11.   I've had lunch at the White House.
  12.   I dropped out of high school three times.
  13.   I returned to college three years ago to finally finish an abandoned BA.
  14.   I graduated with honors.
  15.   I'm allergic to bees and wasps.
  16.   I miss my former Mother-In-Law.
  17.   I prefer baths to showers.
  18.   I have a mellifluous voice
  19.   I coached a friend through her son's birth.
  20.   I excuse myself whenever I belch, even when nobody's around.
  21.   I snore.
  22.   I like board games.
  23.   I once built a house with my own labor.
  24.   I am not entertained by violence.
  25.   I make the best banana cream pie on the planet.
  26.   One of my sisters avoids me.
  27.   I haven't spoken to my birth mother since 1976.
  28.   I wish I had met my stepmother before my ninth year. 
  29.   Her trained contralto gives me goosebumps.
  30.   I feel pretty when I wear reds.
  31.   Johnny Depp looks like my dead brother.
  32.   I am a good driver.
  33.   I've only had one husband.
  34.   I do not drink enough water.
  35.   My purse has been snatched twice.
  36.   I keep a lot of other people's secrets.
  37.   I always open birthday and Christmas presents before I'm   supposed to.
  38.   I think Oprah has become annoying.
  39.   I think the president is drinking again.
  40.   I don't like cake.
  41.   I don't trust men from Kentucky.
  42.   I am CPR certified, and once had to perform the Heimlich maneuver on a restaurant patron who was choking in the booth next to mine.
  43.   My favorite restaurant, Euphemia Haye, is on Longboat key.
  44.   Barber's Adagio for strings in G minor makes me sob.
  45.   I can change a tire in less than 10 minutes.
  46.   I hate Daylight Savings Time.
  47.   I like to get away with stuff (speeding, skinny-dipping, etc).
  48.   Children like me.
  49.   I have a recurring dream about a cloud.
  50.   My best friend, Frank, thinks I'm impatient.
  51.   If he were correct, then he wouldn't be my best friend.
  52.   I would have liked being one of Ray Charles's Raylettes.
  53.   I can't do a cartwheel.
  54.   Or a backbend.
  55.   I hate my frizzy Lyle Lovett hair.
  56.   I am a skilled seamstress
  57.   I love cheesy post-modern sci-fi flicks with giant irradiated creatures or alien intruders.
  58.   I can't stand Jim Carey.
  59.   I hide an old Carpenters tape (the one with "Superstar")
  60.   I read "To Kill A Mockingbird" at least once a year.
  61.   I rarely remember to remove my glasses when I fall asleep.
  62.   I'm always searched at airports.
  63.   I love a good thunderstorm.
  64.   I still climb trees.
  65.   I like any old cemetery.
  66.   Former lovers always marry the next woman they meet after me.
  67.   I have never broken a bone.
  68.   I cried when Jack Lemmon died.
  69.   I once performed in front of Katherine Hepburn.
  70.   I haven't had an alcoholic beverage in over eleven years.
  71.   I miss drive-in movies.
  72.   I like to wear gloves to church.
  73.   I save cards and letters.
  74.   I have a natural sense of direction and time.
  75.   Fire fascinates me.
  76.   I'm afraid of injections.
  77.   Pink peonies are my favorite blossom, but camellias come close.
  78.   I stop for turtles, and sometimes help them cross the road.
  79.   My closets are black holes.
  80.   I sleep on my left side towards the door.
  81.   I use a recording of the ocean's surf as a lullaby. 
  82.   I pray before I sleep, and first thing when I awaken.
  83.   I especially like documentaries.
  84.   I cannot whistle out, only in.
  85.   I cheat on the New York Times crossword. 
  86.   I read obits first thing every morning--gives my day perspective.
  87.   I buy used clothing.
  88.   I have never used my Y membership in the four years I've had it.
  89.   I really need a haircut.
  90.   I'm embarrassed to be this overtly self-absorbed.
  91.   I love visiting New York City and the Hudson River Valley.
  92.   The SW coast of Ireland is the most beautiful place on earth.
  93.   I never root for the University of Florida (on principle).
  94.   I'm proud to be a journalist's daughter.
  95.   I once jumped-out of a moving police car.
  96.   My physical strength always surprises people.
  97.   I stay-up for meteor showers.
  98.   I identify with other outsiders.
  99.   My most prized possession is my Dad's antique oak chessboard.
  100.   I'm addicted to Blistex.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Comments: 20

Sandy (Site Psychic™) Knauer Apr 30, 2006, 3:02pm EDT
Cheryl, great list! Great combination of interesting facts and fun things. I feel like I got to know you well, although you didn't give away personal information.

We have quite a bit in common: 7,9, 15, 16, 17, 22 (Scrabble's my fav), 24, 34, 39, 40, 48, 53, 58, 63, 74, 76, 80, 84, 89 and 96

Thanks for participating - this is fun!
Cheryl C. Apr 30, 2006, 11:14pm EDT
Shucks, Sandy, you could develop a fair characterization from the hundred I posted. I'm no longer out of cat food--I'll edit later.
Faith H. May 1, 2006, 9:43am EDT
too interesting, Cheryl! wow. I'll have to dispute you on #25, that's my brag, but #66, yeah, what is it about us? Are we just the warm ups? or the spoilers?
Dawn M May 1, 2006, 9:44am EDT
Cheryl, that's great that you got to 100, and very interesting.
Stephen Schneider May 1, 2006, 9:59am EDT
Maybe it's that any other woman looks so wonderful afterwards? hehe
Great list Cheryl
Faith H. May 1, 2006, 10:36am EDT
Stephen, that is NOT nice. Your fan club may dissolve soon.
Cheryl C. May 1, 2006, 3:00pm EDT
Faith: Oh yeah, the pie is legendary. We're trainers, girlfriend. We must stick together against Stephen.
Cheryl C. May 1, 2006, 3:03pm EDT
Stephen: You may bite me. I'm boycotting your pieces today.
Cheryl C. May 1, 2006, 3:04pm EDT
Dawn: Thanks for taking the time to read it.
Gary W. Scott May 1, 2006, 3:14pm EDT
Cheryl, fun to read. Very interesting! Do my folks know all these things?
Cheryl C. May 1, 2006, 4:07pm EDT
They Probably know about 15% of it. Your folks think I make the best apple pie this side of the Mason-Dixon line. And they turned me on to the Burns Sisters, but that is another list.
Gary W. Scott May 1, 2006, 5:26pm EDT
Well, I'll have to try both pies sometime then! We won't be making our annual trek this year due to the family cruise, so maybe next year.
Carolyn Madden May 3, 2006, 7:45am EDT
omg omg i am wetting myself.. so much fun and nastiness and honesty and true insanity all wrapped up with such economy.. i'm gonna have to bite you as well cause i was thinking zactly what stephen was thinking. lol but only cause same thing has happened to me.. so many of the same things Cheryl. i am so glad i went back over the tag's articles once i thought i'd finished it.. Marvellous! Bravo!
Cheryl C. May 3, 2006, 8:44am EDT
Thanks Carolyn. Glad we can share this black comedy.
Cheryl C. May 4, 2006, 6:22am EDT
Thanks Wilhelmine.
Barbara Molloy Dutton May 4, 2006, 10:02pm EDT
i know this Hundred Item Autobiographer personally, and can attest to her veracity as to most of this list -- especially the pie baking (although it's been eons since i've tasted one - hint hint). She's a whirling dervish of creative energy, passion and wit. Stay tuned to this station.
Cheryl C. May 4, 2006, 10:07pm EDT
Barb! Did you give me a 10? Thanks for the props. Now post yours. Nobody will believe it. Was that you trying to call 25 points ago?
La Lady Lisa Westerfield Jun 28, 2006, 2:20pm EDT
A second, third, forth, this was a great list. Some of these things you have to include in a story somehow. Your brother looking like Johnny Depp made me pause. The part about believing the prez might be drinking again is something I've been thinking too. At some point I hope Laura divorces him and then writes one kick-butt book about her marriage.
Cheryl C. Jun 28, 2006, 5:50pm EDT
Yes, Lisa, an ex-first lady would sell about a bazillion books.

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