Downcastmysoul

I see this around the Web a lot so I guess I could try it:  it’s a list of 101 “things” about a blogger.  I guess it was a “meme” awhile back that a blogger was supposed to answer and send to his/her friends.  Well, the LOL cats are a “meme” too…

1. I’m not old enough to be a baby boomer and not young enough to be “gen-x”
2. When I was born there was no Sesame Street (yet).
3. I spoke before I walked.
4. I read very early.
5. I was not afraid of bugs until I was in my teens.
6. I had my IQ tested early and it was high (reason for targetting?)
7. I would eat fruit off of trees and wheat off of stalks…was not afraid of pesticide or poison
8. No one had a fenced yard when I grew up:  where I live now people either build huge metal gates to keep strangers out or none at all!
9. Gas was a quarter when I was little.
10. Cigarettes were too, but I didn’t smoke.
11. Coffee was too and you could smoke inside of the restaurant, and the store, and the movie theatre.
12. You were in deep trouble if you wore a plus size in those days:  the family members who had to wore the uuugliest clothes then.  There were “half” sizes.
13. I wore what would be a size 8 back then and now about a “4″, but was considered “heavy” by my mother. 
14. No one had a computer at home except random nerds.
15. I used to own “records”.  They got scratched, would warp in the heat and were a booger to carry around.  I don’t see why people complain about downloaded music.
16. We did not have cable when I was growing up and did not even have color TV until I was in high school.
17. Still, the news on the networks was better than you could get from all the crap out there now.
18. My first bike was purple with a flower seat.
19. I would sneak my mother’s makeup:  I had none of my own until about 11th grade.
20. There were no security guards in stores or malls back then.
21. It used to rain almost every day in the summer:  now, any rain is an event.
22. Summer was looked forward to, not dreaded. 
23. Only sailors and convicts had tattoos.
24. I have had my hair many colors, the only one I have not had yet is gray since I hide it, LOL.
25. My cars only had AM radio and I had to carry a boom box to listen to FM or cassetes.
26. I was deathly scared of computers until about 1990.
27. I’m still scared of computers and other technology in the wrong hands.
28. I’m left handed but do most things right handed.
29. I have one leg shorter than the other, and one foot is larger than the other by 1/2 a size.
30. I used to enjoy life before my targetting started.  I used to be a closet optimist.
31. Things started going downhill for me right around my 13th birthday.  Things let up for a few years, then the targetting started.
32. I once had a 25 inch waist..for 25 minutes.
33. I once tried to give myself a perm and the results were disastrous.
34. I can’t make myself throw up.  I threw up for the first time (naturally) in 8 years recently and do not want to repeat it for another 80.  I took Ipecac once and got the RUNS.  Never again.
35. I used to wear my father’s blazers to school in the 1980s…this was actually in “style” then.
36. Some jeans used to have waists near the armpit and were PLEATED.  I HATED those jeans worse than the devil and my mother liked them, of course.
37. I used to think the devil created the internet to destroy humankind until I discovered the internet was full of Christian sites.
38. I still think the cell phone is from the devil..it’s my perp’s primary tool.
39. I still can’t figure out why people don’t think for themselves…I think I must be missing something
40. I wish I hadn’t tried to please my college professors and thought for myself MORE BACK THEN.
41. I could never figure out why women went on a diet at age 13 and kept to it until they died.  Are we being punished? I thought my first diet was punishment for something I did “wrong” and therefore I was not allowed to eat like the rest of humankind.
42. I can’t stand skinny ass women who order next to nothing and sneak “tastes” off their boyfriend/husband’s/SO plates.  I hate you.
43. I hate skinny people who say “I am fat”…you aren’t fooling me.
44. When I was a young dieter of yore, there was only “fresca” and “Tab” to drink…the diet drink industry was in it’s infancy.  There was no “healthy” frozen dinners nor any “lite” entrees at restaurants.  Dieting was a lonely business when few were fat.  There was no “obesity epidemic” and fat girls were supposed to keep quiet and dissapear.
45. Cigarettes and black coffee were supposed to curb the appetite, but they just made me hungrier.
46. One “diet” place offered a “diet” of 500 calories a day…it’s a wonder they were not sued nor anyone died…smells like that fraud, kimkins.
47. Radio stations would play entire albums w/o interruption so the consumer could copy it on a cassette…no one got arrested.  It was the poor person’s record collection.
48. Concert tickets were about 10 bucks.
49. Movies were about 2 bucks.
50. Lines for movies used to go around the block…there were few video players, no dvd’s, and most people did not have cable.
51. There were no colored contacts, lasik, zoom whitening, lunch facials, botox, etc…you were pretty much stuck with what God gave you for looks unless you were fabulously rich.  Even liposuction did not come about until later.
52. I used to write letters on paper and send them with stamps.  I didn’t know what email was until about 1999 or so.  Letters were considered a very personal intimate mode of conversation. 
53. A long distance call was an event.  The world stopped if you got a “distance call”.
54. People still didn’t believe the victim, even back then.  It was easier to blame them even back then.
55. My mother got angry when I used cuss words.  Now, kids treat their parents like dirt and nothing is done because the parents are trash, too.  Try to raise a child right and CPS will be contacting you.
56. I had a curfew and I had to “call” if I was going to be late.
57. Nail polish came in only a few colors until the 1980s.
58. I was actually proud the first time I voted.  I doubt I will vote this year.
59. I used to think counselors and their ilk followed “confidentiality” rules.  LOL
60. I used to think that mental pills were invented to help people not shut people up.
61. I used to think that people cared about what I thought and not just to use it to target me better.  LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
62. I used to believe people and take what they said at face value
63. I used to think if you worked hard enough you would get your just rewards in life.
64. I had no use for people who believed in Hell, now I don’t know after being perped all these years.
65. Before gentrification “you just didn’t go” into certain neighborhoods.  Now, everyone lives everywhere.  One of the few good things on the list.
66. When I was growing up the drinking age was 18 and almost everyone smoked.
67. There was no reality TV..thank God.
68. I dream in color…I used to think only dogs dreamed in black and white.
69. I don’t like my dreams anymore since the perps took them over…I used to look forward to sleep.
70. My favorite color is ____  let the perps fill you in.
71. My favorite color is NOT black despite evidence to the contrary.
72. My favorite animal is the dog, followed by the cat…YAWN.
73. My favorite book was “I never promised you a rose garden”. 
74. My favorite flavor is anything with berries followed by grape.
75. I like dark chocolate.
76. Coke not Pepsi
77. I used to drink black coffee.
78. I do not know what the fuss is about Starbucks..if all of them dissapeared off the earth tomorrow I would scarely notice.  I used to LIKE the free coffee the grocery store had.
79. Favorite clothes…jeans, t-shirts…I think “dresses” expose more than pants.
80. Least favorite food:  Brussels Sprouts, Liver, Vanilla Pudding.
81. Meal if going to the electric chair….cheezeburger, fries, blueberry pie, cappuchino, arsenic cocktail
82. I never really liked television even when I was a child.  I used to vastly prefer the radio. Now I just go on the net for news.
83. I hate liars and hypocrites.
84. I hate diet food…any time a professional dieter says something is “delicious” I run.
85. I hate Ayn Rand..and love her too.
86. I’d like to talk to:  Abraham Lincoln, Ayn Rand, Jesus, my ancestors, Maya Angelou, Martin Luther King, the Old Sage that is supposed to sit on a hill, the fool who decided this location was good to build a city on….
87. I’d like to scream at….let my perps fill you in.
88. Favorite flower is the rose.
89. Favorite tree is any one that gives lots of shade and little pollen.
90. Favorite music, band, etc..yeah RIGHT…might as well feed myself to the perps
91. Hottest man living?  George?  Clooney that is.
92. I hate: people who lie to get me to do things
93. This was the year my perping really went out of control
94. I hate:  false hope, it always lets you down.
95. I hate: people who are only nice to you to get you to do things
96. I hate perp skits designed to get you to do things.
97. I hate:  people who listen to what the perps have to say about me and believe it
98. I used to think family had to stick together.
99. I used to think only “bad” people became homeless.
100. I used to think moving would get rid of perps.
101. I used to believe the government, my family, my few friends, and YOU.  No more.   I guess that’s 101, you didn’t want more, did you?