what are you doing here?... this is Part Three of 202 Things with Nicim... unless you've read Parts One and Two, you're way ahead of yourself... so what you need to do before you get lost in the babble is go back to the beginning and start at number one... after all, that's how these lists are done, you know, 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on... whoever heard of started at #63?...

go ahead, start at the beginning, this will be here if you're still awake and interested after reading the first 62...


and if you have made it through the first two parts of this revealing madness, then you are ready or not up to:

63. If there�s a fireplace, I want a fire.

64. If there�s a candle, I want them lit.

65. I own Waterford crystal glasses, and use them even when company isn�t coming over.

66. I�ve been to Ireland, Scotland, England, France, Belgium, Amsterdam and India.

67. I want to go to Italy, Greece, the south of France, and see the Egyptian pyramids.

68. When I travel, I want to experience the history and culture first hand.

69. I could spend a week in the Louvre � every year.

70. Years ago, even when I couldn�t really afford it, I bought season tickets to the theater because it made sure I would go. Now I have tickets at The Kennedy.

71. The first play I ever saw was �Cinderella� at The Muny, the outdoor theater in St. Louis. They brought a real carriage and four horses onto the stage.

72. The first grown-up play I saw was �Marat/Sade�.

73. Chanel No. 5, Aliage, and Georgio are my preferred scents, but Mr. Lucky is allergic to scent so I put them away.

74. Give me tiger lilies, daisies, mums or daffodils over roses.

75. Weeping willow trees make me nostalgic � there was a huge one in the back yard of the house I grew up in.

76. I lived eighteen years in the same house as a child, then moved 22 times in the next twenty-five.

77. Finally having the courage to walk away from a relationship that had been over a long time is what made me realize I was ready to fall in love again.

78. When I was 16 a dog bit me in the face. I still have scars on my upper and lower lip. I sometimes wonder if people think it was a harelip.

79. I don�t like hot, spicy food.

80. Cats are better than dogs, but both of them can sleep with me at night.

81. I�d rather sleep with the windows open than the air conditioner.

82. My mother believed her children should try everything at least once. Thus, I had tap and ballet lessons as a child. And trampoline, bowling, archery, piano, flute, guitar, swimming, tennis, roller skating, and a year at a �modeling� school that taught me how to get out of a car without showing my undies.

83. I sat first chair in the high school band playing my flute.

84. I�ve been without a piano for so long my hands have lost their coordination for difficult pieces, but I can still read music and play a little.

85. My guitar is in a corner and most of its strings are broken � but I keep thinking someday I will have time to pick it up again.

86. I�ve always wished I had the partner support to work full-time as a volunteer for worthy causes. I am really good on committees.

87. When my mother died I didn�t cry.

88. When my father died, I couldn�t stop crying.

89. Someday I�m going to write a novel.

90. I still want to go to college.

91. I haven�t figured out if it�s better to know a little about a lot of things, or a lot about a few things.

92. I started biting my fingernails when I was ten, and saw my cousin do it. I stopped several years later when, on the first day of school, I noticed that a girl I hated had stopped biting hers and she had beautiful hands.

93. I smoked cigarettes from the time I was 15 until I was 34. Michelle asked me to stop for her birthday gift and I went cold turkey.

94. I can�t stand the smell of cigarette smoke.

95. I eat to live, not live to eat. But I absolutely love the taste and texture of food.

96. I am never warm enough in the winter, usually because I�ve never been able to afford to keep the thermostat at a comfortable setting.

97. Given a chance, I�d climb on a motorcycle and go riding.

98. I�d rather go sailing than do almost anything.

99. I�ve gotten more awards and compliments for my swing dancing than anything I�ve ever tried.

100. A kiss is one of life�s greatest pleasures.

101. I know it�s better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.

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