words for snow Tastes Like Lime Jello - Feels Like Love

Suzie and Tim met in a small Italian restaurant in Pittsburgh's south side. If life were a romantic comedy they would have known right away that almost four years later they would be engaged in the same restaurant, but it isn't. So they didn't. Instead, they spent the night talking about guitars and politics and Einstein. They became good friends after that night, and eventually they figured out that although she sometimes worries too much about things, and he sometimes doesn't worry quite enough, together they worried just about the perfect amount. This was great, so they got married.

He is a graphic designer, and she's a family physician who works in a very small town in the boonies of western Pennsylvania. Because of their diametrically opposed places of employment when they married, they reluctantly live with the Republicans and soccer moms in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. They love music and baseball and live with their three cats, Muncie, Gatwick and Garbo and a big yellow dog named The Yaz. In 2004 the Red Sox miraculously won the World Series and they had a surprise miracle of their very own. On August 3, 2005 they added a new member to their family- a perfect little girl named Josephine Elise. Tim now does freelance work and stays home with the offspring. Josie mostly giggles and drools more than your average baby, but we like her a whole lot anyway.

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1. I was born October 22, 1972.
2. Until I was around six I thought I was born on the 27th, because I had misheard the number.
3. I met my husband in a small Italian restaurant on Election Night 2000.
4. He stopped me from getting in a bar fight at three in the morning after they announced Bush had won the election and some knucklehead started singing.
5. He proposed to me in the same restaurant, on his birthday.
6. I wasn't expecting it all.
7. He got down on one knee, and when our waiter realized what was happening he made an announcement. Everyone started clapping, It was like a scene out of Moonstruck, really.
8. I'm not Italian, but he is.
9. My husband is the kindest person I've ever met.
10. I'd be much, MUCH smarter if I didn't have so many song lyrics stuck in my head.
11. My cat Muncie has been moving around with me since I was nineteen years old.
12. So far he's stuck with me through five houses, four cities and three major relationships.
13. Muncie was named after Muncie, IN after the PBS station that Bob Ross broadcast from.
14. I watched a lot of Bob Ross in college.
15. I have two other cats, Gatwick and Garbo.
16. My dog is named The Yaz after Carl Yastrzemski.
17. Go Red Sox!
18. When I retire I plan to take welding classes and make really huge metal art.
19. I don't remember deciding I wanted to be a doctor- I think I was around four.
20. I graduated from medical school when I was twenty-five.
21. I'm now a family doctor in a small town about thirty miles outside of Pittsburgh, PA.
22. I love Pittsburgh.
23. The first baby I ever delivered was in an elevator.
24. I was a medical student at the time, but it was just a coincidence- I was visiting a friend three hundred miles from my school.
25. I'm the least germ-phobic person you'll ever meet.
26. My favorite ice cream hands down is Swenson's Swiss Orange Chip.
27. I can only drive a car with a standard transmission. Automatics scare the hell out of me.
28. I love to travel. I've visited seven countries since graduating from high school.
29. My wallet was stolen in a gas station in Oklahoma, which was unfortunate, as I was driving across the country by myself.
30. That sucked.
31. I was a strict vegetarian for over ten years.
32. But it's been too hard living in Pittsburgh.
33. I have never had anything pierced, not even my ears.
34. I do have a tattoo of a sun on my right ankle, though.
35. I am deathly afraid of touching cotton balls.
36. The first crush I ever had was on Johnny Carson.
37. Until March of 2004 I had never broken a bone.
38. I slipped on the ice and fractured my tailbone
39. You may not think that is a real bone, but tell that to my butt.
40. A week later I went blind in my right eye.
41. I had detached my retina as well.
42. I had two surgeries, and I still have only partial vision in that eye
43. Luckily, I have a back-up eye
44. I could live on asparagus, Bing cherries, watermelon, dark chocolate and lobster.
45. I am a Lumberjack and I'm OK.
46. I have a degree in Zoology, with a minor in Greek and Roman Art.
47. Yep, it's a pretty useless degree.
48. I lived in five different houses in high school.
49. I lived in the same house for three years when I was a resident. That was actually the longest I've ever lived in one place.
50. I was an Army brat growing up.
51. It made me loathe rented houses and white walls.
52. One year after buying my first house there is nary a white wall to be seen.
53. I was a late bloomer.
54. I'm claustrophobic.
55. I love to dance.
56. I've taken many dance classes, but it hasn't made me any better at it.
57. I don't care, I dance anyway.
58. I took three years of Latin in high school.
59. What was I thinking?
60. I'm too stubborn for my own good.
61. I'm a heat producer
62. Spring is my favorite season.
63. I don't know a single thing about computers.
64. Luckily, with Tim around I don't have to.
65. I honestly believe that chickens and pigeons walk that way just to make me laugh
66. There is a pair of nail clippers in every room of my house, my purse, my car and office.
67. I'm too obsessive. If I have a hangnail I will pick at until it bleeds if I can't remove it right away.
68. Tim had never tried sushi before he met me. Now he likes it almost as much as I do.
69. My grandmother, mother and niece all have the same middle name that I do.
70. For the past four years I've always had an orange purse.
71. For the first twenty years of my life I always had an orange toothbrush.
72. I can't afford to be picky about toothbrushes now, because I only like the hard bristles and they are getting harder to find.
73. I know they are bad for your teeth, but they don't feel clean when I use the soft bristled brushes.
74. Almost every item of clothing I own is black, tan or white.
75. I get teased a lot for it.
76. At one point I had over twenty black skirts.
77. Traveling is easier when all of your clothes match each other.
78. I love to wear Doc Martins, because they make my feet look big.
79. I have small feet.
80. I only recently got over my fear of the dark.
81. I love to read, but I couldn't tell you my favorite book.
82. But maybe I'd say One Hundred Years of Solitude or The Once and Future King, if I was pushed.
83. Everyone says I laugh like Scooby Doo.
84. But I don't think so.
85. I was the champion Cribbage player of my medical school. For what that is worth.
86. I can take any combination of food and make it into a casserole.
87. An Officer and a Gentleman and The last Unicorn make me cry every single time I see them.
88. I don't like beer.
89. I do like vodka.
90. My drink of choice is a Grey Goose martini up, dirty, dry.
91. Tim and I eat at our local pub every Thursday.
92. If we miss a night they call us at home to make sure everything is ok.
93. When I was in high school I wanted to be Natalie Merchant when I grew up.
94. I obsessively fact check historical films and novels.
95. I am completely fascinated by Elvis impersonators, people who weigh over five hundred pounds and giant squid.
96. No, really. Think about those squid. The ocean is so big that we have never seen one alive. How do they find each other? It must be very lonely being a giant squid.
97. I don't approve of wearing holiday themed clothing unless the said clothing is a scrub top or tie.
98. I am the WASP poster child. Tim's Italian family scares the heck out of me most of the time. They grab me and kiss me and yell a lot. My family only does that if they have been drinking.
99. I've had the same recurring nightmare since I was five years old.
100. Apparently I'm really boring. Sorry.

1. I was born on December 20, 1974 in a very small town in Florida
2. My family's always been pretty good about not lumping birthday gifts in with Christmas gifts
3. I'm an only-child
4. I am the only only-child out of my entire extended family
5. I have no tattoos or piercings - I have nothing against them, they're just not me
6. I'm horrible with money
7. I don't have any credit cards for just that reason
8. I don't smoke although almost everyone in my family does
9. I've always wanted to learn to play the trumpet
10. I take very long showers
11. My middle name is Albert
12. My Great Grandparents on my Father's side moved to the US from Ireland
13. My Great Grandparents on my Mother's side moved to the US from Italy
14. My Great Grandmother lived to be 98 and refused to speak English
15. My mother was a French professor
16. She passed away in 2000 and I think of her every day
17. My father was a helicopter pilot in the Marine Corps
18. He's retired, remarried and now lives in Spain
19. I do not have the gift for languages that runs in my family
20. My parents met while attending Clarion University in the 60's
21. I went to Clarion myself from 1993-1998 (yes, that's five years)
22. In 1993 I had the same "Introduction To Logic" professor my mother had almost thirty years earlier
23. I was a photography major in college
24. I used to be able to identify Kodak films by taste
25. I had a weekly radio show on the college station for four years.
26. Between kindergarten and high-school I attended eight different schools
27. I'm very accustomed to being "the new kid"
28. My family completely terrifies my wife
29. From ages 2 to 6 we were stationed in Hawaii
30. I refused to wear shoes that laced up for a year when we moved back to the east coast because I forgot how to tie them
31. Pittsburgh is the farthest west I've lived within the continental US
32. When I was 13 I met Jimmy J.J. Walker at a Mexican restaurant in Jacksonville, North Carolina
33. When I was 18 I tripped over Dennis Miller at the Sheraton Station Square in Pittsburgh
34. I've worn the same brand and type of shoe for over 15 years (Brown Doc Marten's 8053)
35. My current pair I've had for about two years
36. I have no idea why three of these so far have involved footwear
37. My favorite restaurant of all time is Smithfield's Chicken & Barbecue
38. To spite my wife's claims that I'm too old to enjoy them as much as I do, I am not ashamed to admit that I'm a huge fan of the Harry Potter books
39. I drive too fast
40. I have the first five Van Halen albums on every media they were released on: vinyl, 8-track, cassette and cd
41. I've been an Apple user since third grade
42. MAC OS 9, in my opinion, is the greatest operating system ever developed from a functional GUI standpoint
43. I am not a morning person
44. My soft-drink of choice is iced-tea, (sweet-tea if you've got it - those of you south of the Mason-Dixon will know what I mean)
45. I was a pizza-hut delivery driver all through college
46. I was never offered sexual favors in return for free pizza
47. At the time I was driving a 1974 VW Super-Beetle
48. The master cylinder cracked and I had to drive it for a few weeks on deliveries without brakes, using the hand brake to stop
49. I lived and worked in Reading, PA for just over a year after college
50. I don't read as much as I'd like to or probably should
51. I was a huge fan of the show Mad About You even into the Mabel years
52. I live in a constant state of writer's block and hate writing anything because of it
53. I prefer the soft cloth mouse pads to the hard plastic kind
54. I worked one summer as a rides operator at Hershey Park during college
55. And spent way too much time here - I got to name a route they were putting in
56. The previous summer I worked as a cashier at K-Mart for two weeks
57. I couldn't take it so I quit and got a job working for a family friend who was an independent contractor
58. I've never completely broken a bone that I know of
59. I was on a little league team for two years that lost every game we played
60. My knees crack very loudly when I crouch down
61. I love dry cereal and almost always have a box next to my desk
62. I twist my hair ocasionally when working and often end up with "hair horns" I have no idea are there
63. I am a procrastinator
64. I really enjoy watching movies over and over again
65. My favorite cartoon as a kid was DangerMouse
66. I won first place in my seventh grade talent show
67. I hate ketchup
68. I don't think I could honestly tell you my favorite song, book or film - there are just too many.
69. I can't sing
70. I am a self proclaimed x-acto ninja
71. I am an awful dancer
72. I don't talk to anyone I went to high school with
73. I'm madly in love with my wife and know how lucky I am to have her
74. I try but honestly, I never eat leftovers
75. Atomic age science fascinates me
76. I can snap with both hands but only wink with one eye
77. It was my goal last year to become a "scotch snob" and while I may not be a snob yet I'm fairly well versed and have a decided favorite
78. I'm a firm believer in and proponent of web standards
79. I'm a curmudgeon when it comes formatting coding and scripting and insist on hand coding everything
80. I constantly lose plastic battery compartment covers
81. I love lemon and will put lemon juice in just about anything
82. I've been playing guitar in bands since high-school
83. I'm still holding onto the belief that Brini Maxwell is a woman
84. I talk to myself in the car
85. I can't blow bubbles while chewing gum
86. The Gilmore Girls is one of my secret guilty pleasures
87. I failed an english class in college because of Major Dad re-runs
88. I'm not bad cook
89. I love to grill and usually do so all year long regardless of weather conditions
90. I never keep up with correspondence even via email - I almost never write anyone back
91. I will use any amount of bleach to ensure my whites are white
92. I think my one and only super power is the ability to understand people with heavy accents
93. Other than my wedding ring, I don't wear any jewelry
94. I have a very low tolerance for musicals and period movies
95. I prefer snack foods that crunch
96. I firmly believe that I can eat more than 25 hot dogs
97. I have a birthmark on the inside of my middle finger on my right hand
98. I do not have a green thumb
99. I think I may be partially dyslexic - I invert numbers all the time
100. I was ranked #2 in the world at online miniature golf for a few months

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Inspiration I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.

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