1. My middle name is Lyn with only one ‘n’.

2. My mom was either going to name me James if I was a boy or Daria if I was a girl. Don’t know how Daria changed to Korey.

3. I am named after the female lead in the play Barefoot in the Park.

4. I love Wonder Woman.

5. When I was a kid, I had Wonder Woman Underoos, AND a plastic tiara, belt and wrist cuffs. I would pretend I was WW and jump off the couch and ‘”fly” into the dining room. I don’t know why I thought WW could fly. One time, I did this and lost my footing and slid nose-first into the dining room table leg. I blacked out and when I came to I was laying in a pool of blood. No major damage, but I never tried to fly again.

6. I’ve always been very thin, and it is not something I am happy about. Until I turned 30, I weighed around 88 lbs (I am 5′6″). When I hit 30, I gained an amazing 16 lbs within a 3 month period. I am now, after having two babies, around 110 lbs, and absolutely thrilled!

7. I am not thin because I was anorexic or anything – my dad is very thin too. Just genetics, man.

8. When I was in 1st grade, my teacher used to round up the whole class and take us all to the nurses’s office to “weigh Korey.” Yeah, no psychological damage from that.

9. I love watching medical operations on television. I once saw one where they took a tumor out of a woman that was the size of a grapefruit.

10. I am fascinated by tornadoes. I want to see one in-person one day. No, I don’t want to be near it, just see it from far off. I’m not stupid, just curious.

11. I am missing the tooth next to my left front tooth. When I lost my baby tooth there, there was not an adult tooth underneath. When I got braces, they just moved everything over and shaved down my canine tooth, so it looks like the 2nd tooth. Except it doesn’t, really. I also still have one of my baby teeth.

12. I am Italian, with a teensy bit Irish and English thrown in there. I wish I was 100% Italian.

13. I was born in Clearwater, Florida. I am the only person in my family that was born in Florida, and don’t think I’m not pissed about that.

14. The rest of my family are native New Yorkers.

15. We lived in North Babylon, New York (on Long Island) until I was 12 years old. Then we moved back to Clearwater.

16. My mom is a hairstylist and owned her own salon with my uncle.  And yet, I never think of my mother as a business owner.

17. My dad was a bus driver for the county.

18. I hate dark chocolate and white chocolate, which I think I remember reading is not really chocolate, anyway.

19. I have one sister. She is five years younger than me and always says I didn’t play enough board games with her when we were kids.

20. I don’t like board games.

21. I only had one date in high school, and didn’t go to my prom.

22. I love to sing. I am a first soprano who wishes she were a 2nd soprano, because I hate hitting all those high notes.

23. When I was in college, I used to take a nap between my 8am class and my 11am class. I missed my 11am class a lot. My 11am class was choir, so that made it even worse, because I really enjoyed that class. I finally stopped taking a nap in between classes, and that helped me not miss class anymore.

24. One time in college, I finished a term paper way ahead of time, and decided to go home for the weekend. On the way home, I realized that, although I had finished the paper, I had forgotten to turn it in. So I turned it in late and got a B, instead of an A.  (This story would have been completely different now, but in 1993, computers and cell phones were not really available).

25. I really like sangria, and a good madras.

26. A madras is orange juice, cranberry juice and vodka.  It’s hard to find a bartender who knows that.

27. I don’t drink much anymore because I get sick to my stomach the next day, and really, who likes that feeling?

28. I’ve never had my own pet – one that I chose myself. All our family pets were chosen by my mom, and the cats we had until recently were my husband’s and my sister’s. I hate cats.

29. I am allergic to mold (I think).  Update: I went to an allergist and found out that I am not allergic to anything.

30. Every fall, I get this annoying dry cough, due to allergies. It makes it difficult to get a complete sentence out without coughing. I have never found a medicine that will get rid of this cough.

31. I love television. I could go on and on, but I think that suffices.

32. I have the ability to grow my fingernails very long. But I have flimsy fingernails, so I try to keep them short.

32. I wear a size 3-3/4 ring. See #6.

33. I only wear one ring consistently: my engagement ring (I never got a wedding ring).

34. I love Broadway musicals.

35. I lived in New York between the ages of 28-29. I loved it there, and wish I could move back someday.

36. I had two different apartments in NY – one on Lexington Ave. and 91st St., and one in Queens.

37. During my senior year in college, I interned at One Life to Live in New York and HBO.

38. I worked on one movie when I lived in New York, a straight-to-video bomb called “Labor Pains.”

39. It is the only time I have ever seen my name in the credits.

40. I have really cut back on my red-meat intake. I am very proud of that.  This is not true anymore – I love me some beef stew!

41. I love pasta – it’s genetic, I think.  Update: I am on a new diet and have not eaten pasta in a whole month.  I don’t really miss it.

42. I had a great bed all through my life that I had to leave behind in New York when I moved back to Florida. My mom will never forgive me for this.

43. I was an 8th grade English teacher for seven months.

44. I hated teaching and will never go back.

45. I did, however, like the kids.  They are now all young adults, which freaks me out.

46. I have had many hairstyles in my life, thanks to hairstylist mom. I enjoy trying new hairstyles, because my hair motto is, “It will always grow back.”

47. My life motto is “Everything happens for a reason.”

48. My joke motto is “Carpe Turkum: Seize the bird.”

49. I hate it when people don’t know the difference between “two, too and to”.

50. I am a grammar nut.

51. I used to like Celine Dion until she became a chest-thumper.

52. My favorite book is Anne of Green Gables. It is also my favorite movie.

53. I always wanted red hair, like Anne in the books (or like Julia Roberts).

54. I am really bad at simple math.

55. I don’t know my seven times tables. Still.

56. I used to like to draw, but I was never very good at it.

57. I have horrible follow-through.

58. I am able to memorize dialogue from movies and television. I could recite some right now, if you like.

59. I am secretly very goofy.

60. I like to dance, but am not very good at it.

61. I am the most physically inflexible person I know.

62. I can’t touch my toes. Not unless I bring my foot up to my hand.

63. I have skin tags on my neck that drive me bonkers.

64. I once walked, nose-first, into a van.

65. I am knock-kneed.

66. I was born on Friday the 13th. I think it’s lucky. So my favorite number is 13.

67. My favorite color is purple.

68. I used to drag my sister around the house by her hair when she was little. She always called my mom to tattle on me.

69. I can’t swallow pills. I have a choking phobia.

70. I am going to go to a hypnotist to see if they can help me get over my phobia.  Update:  So far, no luck.

71. I used to have a bump in my nose. Now I don’t. You do the math.

72. I can’t eat more than two pancakes, but if you give me a Belgian waffle covered in fruit, I can eat the whole damn thing.

73. I want a British accent.

74. I am constantly worried that there is something in my teeth.

75. I once stole a Soap Opera Digest from a Blockbuster Video in New York, but didn’t know I had. I thought someone left it there by mistake (this was before Blockbuster sold magazines regularly).

76. I got married on October 8, 2004. My husband is wicked cool.

77. My last name is now something German. I’m still adjusting, although it’s been seven years.

78. I think I’m ready to have kids.  Update:  I have two kids now.  They’re pretty cool.  Most of the time.

79. After years of working in television, never doing what I really wanted to do, I am now doing what I’ve always wanted to do, by accident.

80. My husband has tattoos. I don’t. I don’t like the idea of putting something permanent on my skin that someday I may regret.

81. I have never smoked a cigarette.

82. I didn’t have my first kiss until age 20.

83. I love makeup – Bobbi Brown is my makeup guru.

84. I love fashion. I pride myself on being a trend expert.

85. I used to do a “Word of the Day” email at work that was hugely popular.

86. I used to have a Huey Lewis poster in my room in middle school.

87. I saw Huey Lewis in concert and he was awesome!

88. I once snuck into a movie at Disney World’s movie theater.

89. I started crocheting a blanket eight years ago, and recently finished it.  It’s very crooked, but it’s done.

90. I am the Self-Proclaimed Fun Captain at my job.  “Self-Proclaimed” because, honestly?  No one else wants to do it.

91. I have no understanding of football, but I am very knowledgeable about baseball.

92. I love to bake, and I am learning to love to cook.

93. I hate the loud noise dishes and pots and pans make when you are stacking them.

94. I also hate the noises some foods make in your mouth – like slithery potato skins or squeaky green beans.

95. My favorite curse word is MotherF—er, and I absolutely hate that word but cannot stop saying it.

96. I don’t do well with spicy foods, but I am trying to build up my tolerance.

97. I love pictures but hate taking them.

98. I am a good mingler.

99. I was a Resident Assistant in college, and it was the #2 best job I ever had.

100. I have never traveled outside of the US (except one weekend in Toronto where I never left the airport hotel, so that doesn’t count).  Update:  I have now been to Grand Cayman and Mexico.  Still, not cool like Italy.

101. I know all the words to Vince Fontaine’s speech in Grease.  C’mon, I dare you to test me.