Sun 12.19.2004 @ 12:14 am

Okay so this is a list of, 100 Things About Me. The title is self explanatory. (It took alot out of me to finish this damn list) And if you're even remotely interested in reading this, I'm honored...Let me just wish you good luck.

1. I was born in Bogota, Colombia on April 27, 1983, and that now makes me 21 years of age.
2. I would like to stay 21 forever, in the physical sense.
3. My momma makes the best bacalo ever. Seriously.
4. I don't cook, except for three things. Eggs, Garlic Pasta (Al dente) with shrimp, and Bombitas
5. I'm in college studying communications with a parallel theater degree.
6. I love anything to do with art and the process of creating.
7. My favorite artists (in no particular order) are Gustav Klimt, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Matisse, Egon Schiele, Picasso, Dali, Mary Cassat, Edward Degas, Botero ... (actually this list would be much too long, I'll stop there)
8. I like comic books and I am not shy in admitting it.
9. The only sports I'll watch without anyone forcing me is Boxing and Soccer (during the World Cup only)
10. I love to read.
11. I don't idolize movie stars.
12. I love Jim Morrison.
13. Out of all the music genres I could not live without rock and roll.
14. My favorite rock and roll groups are (again in no particular order) The Doors, Janis Joplin, Cream, The White Stripes, The Black Keys, The Beatles, Chuck Berry, The Temptations (Mo Town is rock) ect...
15. Hayao Miyazaki is the best anime film maker period.
16. "The Grave of the Fireflies", a film by Miyazaki brought on the first asthma attack in three solid asthma free years.
17. I don't officially have asthma.
18. I often wake up at night because I have stopped breathing.
19. I plan to go to the doctor for this... I probably won't go.
20. I wear contact lenses.
21. Once I starts working I plan to save up for lazor-eye-surgery.
22. My favorite American decade is the 60's but I wouldn't like to have lived through it. Just kinda drop by and see the Doors play live.
23. My first language is spanish, but I'm more comfortable speaking english
24. I was never taught to read or write in Spanish.
25. In Colombia my parents enrolled me in an elementary school named, The English School. They were famous for having fully fluent spanish and english graduates. They began by teaching their pupils english first.
26. I learned to read and write in spanish on my own.
27. It took me a year to be fluent in english (I was seven).
28. I took 3 years of french in highschool.
29. I can count in french.
30. Am planning to buy some books and teach myself italian. I figure it'd be the easiest language to learn.
31. I really want an ipod.
32. I like poetry but don't love it.
33. I much prefer to write poetry than read it.
34. I like to surround myself with creative, interesting people.
35. But that's not a perequisite for being a friend. Besides everybody is interesting in their own way.
36. I cannot paint but I am decent with a pencil or charcoal.
37. I find strong hands to be sexy.
38. I find a deep voice to be very sexy. (take not my Morrison complex)
39. A friend brought me back from france some rocks from Jim Morrison's grave.
40. One day I woke up and the rocks were inbetween my sheets. To this day I have no idea how they got there. Safe to say I freaked out!
41. I wish I could sing like Janis Joplin.
42. I dislike girls who raise the pitch of their voice to sound more feminine.
43. I find myself speaking in a higher pitch now more than ever.
44. I am forcing myself out of that habit.
45. I like to sleep in the morning, not at night.
46. I like being alone alot of the time.
47. I got lost in the mall once while there was a bomb scare.
48. While everyone was rushing around all I remembered was my dad telling me that whenever I get lost to stay put and not wander around. I repeated that in my head over and over again until they found me. I was 4.
49. Ever since I was little I've thought about death and the passing of time.
50. I love going to old building and ruins. The thought of people having lived there hundreds of years prior freaks me out.
51. I have two dogs. A cocker spaniel and a german sheperd.
52. I love animals.
53. For most of my childhood I wanted to be a vetenarian.
54. I carry a zip lock bag with ham in my purse all the time just in case I run into a lost dog. It's easier for me to catch him.
55. I am not a vegetarian.
56. I am against animal abuse but I don't see eating meat as a crime. The abuse of an animal, even if you're going to eat him is wrong.
57. I hate lima beans.
58. I don't like eating soups, except for the potato soup in La Madeleine.
59. I love to travel.
60. I am mix of cherokee, mexican, white, asian.
61. My first name is Erika but I like to be called by my second name, Magdalena.
62. I can hold my tequila.
63. I am scared of the ocean. If you drown, no one will ever find you.
64. I want to scuba dive and swim with dolphins.
65. I dislike and would not swim with Killer Whales.
66. I am no longer afraid of death.
67. I was raised a catholic, and still am one.
68. We are not a family who goes to church every sunday but we have God in our hearts every moment of everyday and are conscious of that fact.
69. I can only do accents when I hear them.
70. I wish my Colombian accent was still there.
71. I love to act.
72. Whenever I get nervous I stutter
73. The doctors have said nothing is wrong with me, it's just that my brain works a lot faster than I can ever hope to get out of my mouth, thus the stutter.
74. I like to shop only when I have money.
75. My dream would be to earn enough money from acting to live comfortably.
76. My mom is the most beautiful person I've ever seen.
77. I wish I has eyes like hers.
78. I'm horrible at "brown nosing".
79. I'm horrible at small talk.
80. I hate living in humid places.
81. I have lived in Houston for the past 15 years, one of the most humid places ever!
82. I miss living in a place with mountains.
83. I have never been to the eastern hemisphere.
84. I change the way I dress when it becomes 'popular' with the masses.
85. I hate gossiping.
86. I have not yet fallen in love but I'm not in a hurry to.
87. I would like to have a child some day.
88. If I had enough money to be a proper philantropist (enough to make an actual difference) I would give my support to Unicef and the Aspca.
89. I love to write.
90. I am writing a book right now.
91. My favorite salad is the Chicken Ceasar Salad.
92. Astrologically I am between a Taurus and an Aries.
93. I can do tarot readings and palm readings.
94. So far I've been acurate on my readings.
95. I believe tarot and palm readings are games and should not be taken seriously.
96. When I was younger there was a time I was obssessed with the ouija board.
97. I won't play that game again.
98. I remember the first time I played Nintendo, I lost to a mushroom.
99. My first cartoon crush was to Lion-o from Thundercats.
100. A friend made the discovery that Lion-o looks like Jim Morrison.

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