About Marci

Not just bananas…
This has got to be the absolute best place on the net to read and comment about baking, booze and butts. Oh, and sometimes sports. Whether you get more sports than booze (or butts) depends on the season, how stocked my liquor cabinet is and how many weeks since my last date. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll get it all at once. That, my friends, is what is called a good day.

“Baby Banana” came from…
I guess Buggie is the only one that knows what that is all about.  I’ll tell the story if you want me too, but I really don’t think it would retell very well. It was one of those punchy, teary-eyed laughter moments that barely make sense when *you* think about it, much less when you explain it to others. So it’s a nickname of sorts. And it makes for a good semi-anonymous blog identity.

Marci came from…
Minnesota.  Hence all the love for the MN teams.  It’s been a long time since I lived there, but I claim all sports allegiance to the state from whence I came,  allowing only the Nats, the Cubs and few others to garner legitimate cheers from my corner of the world.

100 Things (circa late 1995)…

1. I claim all professional sports allegiances to Minnesota teams that were there when I left the state (Vikings, Twins and North Stars … while I appreciate the Wild and the Timberwolves, and will root for them on occasion, I feel no responsibility towards them nor do their wins or losses affect my moods).
2. I have a sort of compulsion to exercise
3. My eye color matches my hair color and I think this is really cool
4. I am really drawn to the color orange. It makes me feel sated somehow
5. I’ve been told (by those with foot fetishes and those without) that I have really cute feet
6. I love coffee, but do not have an addiction. No, really.
7. I want a dog desperately
8. I love handbags
9. It is generally a fruitless endeavor to speak to me before 10am if you are looking for some sort of response
10. I love to travel. Plane trips, car trips, train trips, boat trips…I like it all. Chances are if you are going somewhere and there is an acceptable reason for me to tag along, I will try to go with you.
11. My could-be-attainable-someday dream job would be running the event operations of a pro-football team
12. If I could do it all over I would consider the following professions; dessert chef, pro/amateur sports trainer, or forensic scientist
13. If it paid more AND I could do it all over again, I would consider being a elementary school teacher. But I think I am slightly too materialistic to be a teacher in the real-world.
14. Chicago is my favorite U.S. city
15. I love to bake. Cooking is nice, but I really dig baking. If I am stressed, I’ll bake all kinds of stuff. If there is an occasion, I’ll bake. My office mates love me for this
16. I tend to over-explain things
17. I have only lived in two states — Minnesota and Virginia
18. Favorite alcoholic beverage, Grey Goose and vodka. Actually this is an inside joke (I really tried to order that at a bar once or twice), so I do love my vodka. Actual beverage of choice would be Chopin and soda
19. I don’t have to shave my legs. I mean, not that any of us *HAVE* to (screw society!), but really I don’t. Sometimes I get longish/darkish hairs and I pluck them out, but I don’t shave. My girlfriends all hate me for this. I thank my mother and her Ojibwe genes.
20. I am trying to be succinct here, it’s not working…I am not so good at that
21. I love frozen treats on sticks
22. I am good / decent at a lot of things
23. I am afraid that I will only ever be “good / decent” at many things and never really excel in any one thing
24. I am a little afraid I’ll never find “the one”, but it’s not something that bothers me (much)
25. It doesn’t bother me much because I tend to take a rather Buddhist attitude toward love
26. I am more afraid that my quasi-Buddhist attitude is a coping mechanism rather than the deep-down truth
27. I have horrible grammar skills
28. I learned more about English grammar in the 8 years of Spanish I took than in my entire elementary and high school education
29. I love flowers
30. But, I am not a fan of roses
31. I am enamored with the moon and the sky
32. I am not easily offended or insulted
33. I used to be extremely uptight
34. I like myself a lot more now that I am more easy-going
35. I crave organization, but I don’t think I am that good at it
36. Some have called me a perfectionist, and I used to argue. Now I agree.
37. My memory is terrible unless there is a story or a feeling attached to the thing I am trying to remember
38. I am a terrible joke-teller
39. But I am generally quick with a quip
40. People tell me I am funny, but a lot of the time I don’t see it
41. I cannot carry a tune.
42. I love to sing in the car…this is the ONLY time I sing. Unless it’s “Happy Birthday”.
43. I want to be a soccer mom someday. Meaning, I want to have kids who play every sport known to man and I want to be *that* mom that screams and roots and makes snide comments about the opposing team.
44. I am not a fan of suburbia
45. This is mostly because I hate to drive
46. I am allergic to bananas
47. I don’t know if I am really open-minded or too damned chicken shit to take a definitive stance on anything
48. I love cheese
49. Actually, I love all dairy products
50. I bring my lunch with me everyday to work
51. I VERY rarely eat out
52. I own my own condo and that has made for a HUGE sense of accomplishment for me
53. I love playing interior designer and thinking about how I’d like each room to look, but I am afraid I am sort of haphazard in my thinking.
54. I like to sleep with the window open in the dead of winter
55. I just hate when the bedding is “tucked in”
56. I don’t get sick very often, like germs just don’t stick to me
57. I have one younger brother and one younger sister
58. They still live at home, I’ve been out for 11 years
59. I have one living grandparent, she’s a spunky 83 and a crazy Twins fan
60. I have no tattoos, although I do want one
61. But I do have freckles and if I connect some of the dots I am sure I could draw something fairly interesting
62. When I was little, I had a sprinkle of 5 freckles on my thigh that I used to “connect” into a house (a square with a triangle on top)
63. I’ve never broken any bones other than my fingers
64. My mom had to call the ambulance for me when I was 9. Since it wasn’t anything major, they gave my parents the choice of taking the ambulance to the hospital or driving me themselves. My parents scooped me up and stuck me in the station wagon and followed the ambulance to the hospital. I was sad I didn’t get to ride in it. I am still sad I didn’t get to ride in it.
65. Bennigan’s was my college experience. I went to GMU. All the things you learn at college, I learned at Bennigan’s. Damn, that was a corrupt place. I wouldn’t change it for the world.
66. I was the geek that liked school — all of it. 2nd grade, 10 grade, and college…I loved it all.
67. I am sometimes really quiet, but I think a lot and sometimes I forget to SAY what I am thinking…
68. I go through 3 pairs of running shoes per year
69. For the past couple of years, my legs/feet have averaged over 800 miles/year.
70. Barring future injury, I will run a marathon within a year
71. I don’t own a microwave
72. I haven’t had cable television in over four years, not even basic!
73. I am sucker for dimples and great skin
74. I frequently have trouble sleeping — I hate this, because I love sleeping
75. The government’s Food Pyramid is pretty close to what I eat every day
76. But I eat ALL the time, it’s almost comical how many times a day I eat.
77. I don’t keep bug spray in my house, but hair product and foaming upholstery cleaner do the same job
78. I sleep with a fan running at night for the white noise
79. I’ve only been dumped once, but it was pretty much the suckiest thing ever
80. I was diagnosed with gum disease at 30, but I beat it! Woo!
81. “Poop” is funny
82. Is it apparent yet that I have a pretty juvenile sense of humor?
83. I put myself through college and graduated debt-free
84. My wrists are pretty small, I can wrap my my thumb and pinky around with much ease
85. I’ve only ever colored my hair once, and had highlights twice. Hairdressers before and after have been convinced that I color my hair on a continuous basis.
86. I have TMJ
87. The first piece of furniture I bought was a king size bed
88. Generally speaking, I am not a fan of talking on the phone, I’d rather look at your face while speaking.
89. I am prone to burning myself. Chances are, if there is something hot, I will find a way for it to sear my skin — it’s a talent really
90. Favorite all-time vegetable? Spinach
91. I have a “maiden name” even though I’ve never been married. My not-biological-dad adopted me when I was six and gave me his last name, it’s even on my birth certificate.
92. I am SUCH a procrastinator
93. I would have to say that most, if not all of my joints hyperextend. I think some call this “double jointed”, but it just means I look weird when I lock out a joint.
94. I can sometimes go days without uttering a word.
95. I love kissing, it’s one of my favorite activities really
96. I am extremely good with money. I’ve never really had any major debt in my life (you, know except for my mortgage). I think it comes from all those years of being really uptight.
97. I’ve been told that I intimidate guys. I don’t get it.
98. I cried when I got my temporary veneers, not because I was glad but because I was scared
99. I love attention, but I am shy
100. I am horribly self-conscious, but less so now than in the past
101. I am terribly loyal, once you are ‘in” with me…it’s probably forever (The only reason I say probably is because I can think of one person that isn’t, but it’s his own damned fault)

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