21.5.08

100 things

1. My name is Brook.
2. I love to sneeze.
3. I don't usually know what to do with my free time.
4. I enjoy naps.
5. I love my husband.
6. I wish I could travel all the time.
7. When I was four, I would wait for the mailman every day.
8. When I get my associate's degree, I will have been going to college for eight years, thirteen semesters, one hundred and forty four credits, and a lot of money.
9. I have gone to college at six different campuses and four different schools.
10. I work at a dentist office and I like it!
11. I also work at a gift wrap store at the mall (I like that too).
12. I like to learn.
13. I'm afraid of grocery stores.
14. I love my family!
15. My family is in Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, and California.
16. I have lived in California, Pennsylvania, Idaho, Washington, and Utah.
17. I want to move to Delaware.
18. I have been to Germany, Austria, Sweden, Holland, Canada, and Mexico.
19. I have not been to these states (as far as I know) Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Lousiana, and Tennessee.
20. I make lists.
21. I think hair dying should be illegal.
22. I like chocolate peanutbutter icecream and mint chocolate chip.
23. I like going to concerts.
24. I love to hear Linwood sing.
25. I don't like to run, but I'm trying to.
26. My life has not turned out as I planned, its better.
27. As far as I can tell, Obama is our best presidential candidate.
28. I don't like animals, but I don't think that makes me less of a human.
29. I've played the trumpet, piano, french horn, and mellophone.
30. I will never own a new car.
31. My only budget plan is to hide as much money as possible in a savings account.
32. I prefer people to be sincere and rude rather than insincere and nice.
33. I think I'd enjoy cooking and baking if I had a kitchen larger than a closet.
34. I don't like standing in line for food.
35. I can't wait until I have a yard and a driveway.
36. I like to sing but I'm not very good.
37. I read CNN.com every day at work.
38. I think I'm very patient.
39. I wish wireless internet was free (should I move to Philly?).
40. I just went to the bathroom.
41. I like watching documentaries.
42. I have a lot of lofty goals.
43. I had a good conversation with a Jew this morning.
44. I like to be educated and informed but I also appreciate my ignorance.
45. I can't say no to Mary Kay people but I REALLY wish I could.
46. I'm still smelling the first customer's cologne and its giving me a headache.
47. I like to make things.
48. I'm stubborn.
49. I love Wild Oats pizza.
50. I have three brothers and two sisters.
51. My favorite shirt that I had when I was little said, "I'm entitled to be grumpy!" I didn't really know what it meant but I loved it.
52. I stapled myself with a staple gun when I was 11. I've since had a slight aversion to staple guns.
53. Halloween used to be the only time I saw cowboys, then I moved to Utah.
54. I go to a few MLB games every year.
55. I floss my teeth almost every day.
56. I get really anxious before I fly.
57. I've decided that 57 is my favorite number because of Heinz.
58. I get anxious about a lot of things and can't breathe.
59. I love to throw stuff away but I need to learn how to recycle.
60. I don't like to take drugs, not even Tylenol
61. I need to get my wisdom teeth pulled (and one day I'm going to get them out at work when things are slow...if I'm feeling brave).
62. I have fond memories of breaking into places covered in No Trespassing signs. My mom says I get that desire from my gramma.
63. I want dreadlocks.
64. I got married in Washington D.C.
65. I only apply for credit cards to get the initial discount at stores and then cancel them. Currently I have none.
66. I'm afraid of guns.
67. I wear contacts and I won't get Lasik for many reasons.
68. Once I either sprained or broke my ankle and it didn't heal right so I don't balance well on my right foot.
69. I like being suprised, but I don't like anticipating suprises.
70. I am a good driver.
71. I don't like public bathrooms. (who does?)
72. My name is Brook Elizabeth Haglund Biddulph, Elizabeth Haglund is my middle name(s)
73. I really like avacados.
74. If it takes you five minutes to read this, then it took me 1,728 times as long to write it. (I've been adding things for six days now.)
75. I always order water when I go out to eat.
76. I have 11 nephews and five nieces....soon I'll have twelve nephews!
77. If somebody offers me money, I take it.
78. I like to watch Jeopardy!
79. I have a lot of gray t-shirts.
80. I just learned that its okay to spell it grey or gray.
81. I can't possibly finish this list...
82. I run and camp once a year.
83. I like Mitch Hedberg.
84. I used to quote movies all the time.
85. I've always wanted to do cool tricks on BMX bikes.
86. I want to buy a bike.
87. I love rain and I really love thunderstorms.
88. I keep the tips I earn in a pile by the bathroom sink. (There isn't much there, it isn't worth trying to steal.)
89. Magic confuses me.
90. I spend a lot of time on hold.
91. When somebody dies, I don't like to say they passed away, I say they died.
92. I count in my head a lot.
93. If I'm not counting, I'm usually keeping a beat in my head (and often tapping my toes).
94. I don't think I have any sort of regional accent except for my bad grammar that I learned in Pittsburgh.
95. I like to memorize things that will never be useful to me.
96. I know that I have too many clothes. I need to purge the closet.
97. I'm almost always tired.
98. I used to have more friends.
99. Speaking of friends, Linwood and I both had best friends named Taylor.
100! If I had a band, I would call it Cicada Army, I don't have a band so I just named my blog that...I like to think of band names.

15.5.08

Alphabet of Drugs

I had this idea when I was watching TV last night. I didn't think it would be too hard to come up with at least one drug name per letter. In fact, it was pretty easy.

Ambien
Boniva
Cymbalta
Darvocet
Excedrin
Fosamax
Glucagen
Heparin
Imitrex
Junior Strength Advil
Keflex
Lunesta
Midol
Naproxen
Ortho Evra
Paxil
Questran
Reclast
Soma (Brave New World)
Triaminic
Unisom
Viagra
Wellbutrin
Xyzal
Yasmin
Zantac

Now I know my Ambien, Boniva, Cymbalta...