100 Things About Lori
1. I was born in early October.
2. I have auburn hair and freckles.
3. I’m almost 5’ 4”
4. My nickname is Lolo or just Lo.
5. I’m a watercolorist.
6. I was born and raised in California and have never lived any other place.
7. I’m married to an artist.
8. Our wedding reception was catered Japanese.
9. I love all music except Dixieland & Opera.
10. I’m a Graphic Artist for my 9am-5pm job.
11. I love to paint watercolors.
12. I love bright rich saturated colors.
13. I have a favorite paintbrush.
14. I like things symmetrical.
15. I love Japanese textile design and patterns in general.
16. I love kids, but wasn’t lucky enough to have any of my own.
17. I’m a talkative person and make friends easily.
18. I have one older sister.
19. I’m a better nurse than a patient.
20. I have a parrot, two cats and a Beta fish.
21. I use to be an antique dealer for 14 years.
22. I collect old wooden cigar boxes as well as other things.
23. I have over 100+ pieces of vintage white pottery.
24. I love the color red.
25. I love Peter Max 60’s artwork.
26. I garden when my bad back isn’t acting up.
27. I hate crafts that have bunnies, ducks or black & white cows on them.
28. I hate glitter and puffy paint on clothes.
29. I don’t have a dishwasher.
30. I’ll wait until I have nothing to wear before I do wash.
31. I cringe when I see plastic on lamp shades or furniture.
32. I don’t like politics or old war movies.
33. I get panic attacks....sometimes.
34. My favorite movie is “The Vikings” with Kirk Douglas & Tony Curtis.
35. I love B/W horror movies.
36. My first car was a yellow VW bug.
37. I type with one finger.
38. I love to cook
39. I get homesick and am not a very good traveler.
40. I sleep with 3 pillows and sleep much better during the day.
41. I love putting my feet in the cool corners of bed sheets.
42. I make my own perfume.
43. I love the smell of fresh cut lumber and a mowed lawn.
44. I love to laugh.
45. Some of my fave plants are fuchsias, Japanese maples and roses.
46. I’m not a clothes or shoe freak---I wear a lot of black in the winter and Hawaiian shirts in the summer.
47. I don’t like it when men wear pinkie rings or too much after shave stuff.
48. I love to buy handmade artistic purses, but carry big black leather one all the time.
49. I squeeze a pile of ketchup off to the side vs. putting it on my food.
50. I love antique mosaic jewelry.
51. I like cheese more than chocolate.
52. I absolutely LOVE mashed potatoes.
53. I amour champagne.
54. I love the ocean but hate seaweed.
55. My favorite cartoon when I was little was Fractured Fairy Tales, Peabody & Sherman and Dudley DoRight.
56. I don’t like close talkers.
57. I love having a big fire in the fireplace with all the lights off.
58. I love looking through old postcards and Victorian photographs at antique shows.
59. I love the smell of Pinon insence.
60. I used to have a reoccurring nightmare that I was buried alive in an earthquake.
61. Every Thanksgiving I smoke a Turkey in the BBQ.
62. I hate relish and pickles in general.
63. I took 5 years of tap dancing and was in 3 recitals. (when I was a wee laddie of course)
64. I can’t play any musical instrument.
65. I don’t like wallpaper or wall-t0-wall carpeting.
66. I love opals.
67. I still have my original Troll Doll, Barbie, Ken and Skipper Doll from the 60’s.
68. I saved reports that I did in grammar school and my old peachee folders.
69. I cried in the 2nd grade in front of the class because I couldn’t tell time.
70. I’ve never broken a bone.
71. I love hardwood floors with Persian rugs.
72. One summer I worked at an Orchid nursery.
73. I wasn’t ask out to my Junior Prom, and I really wanted to go.
74. I got a month of detention in High School for talking to much in French class. (I went to the Senior Ball with the guy I met in detention)
75. I love little old framed verses of poetry.
76. In the 70’s I did a lot of ceramics, quilting & stain glass but always hated macramé .
77. I used to paint watercolors with my Grandmother.
78. I bruise easily.
79. I like to plaster pictures and nicknacks on my bulletin board.
80. I still like to send handwritten letters.
81. I’m not athletic.
82. I collect kids sand pails to hold my colored pencils. and my watercolor brushes.
83. I’ve been on TV a few times with my Dad and Sister.
84. I’m not good with remembering to back up my computer files.
85. I don’t like gossip or negative people.
86. I don’t watch soap operas.
87. I can never remember jokes.
88. I have cute toes.
89. I hate fresh tomatoes, but like salsa.
90. After 12 years at my current job, I still really like it.
91. I’m a romantic.
92. I’m not a good summarizer.
93. I love deep red velvet.
94. I wish I knew how to speak a foreign language.
95. I’ve never had to go to the hospital.
96. I love the song “Feilds of Gold”
97. I laugh a lot.
98. I like to write with a fountain pen.
99. I need get rid of all the crap I’ve been hanging on to all my life.
100. I want to go on a vacation for a month and just paint, with some chilled champagne by my side.
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