Lisset

Ever wonder what a crackless crackwhore thinks? Wonder no more!

I talk about just about anything and everything. I thought about putting a TMI alert up, but it would be rather redundant seeing as I have a public blog with a subtitle "Bitches and Moans - Consequences of Terminal PMS"

I will share is whatever I want to. I will talk about whatever I want to. I will blogroll who I please. I could care less about who has linked to me or how many hits a day I get, but I do like to see what it is that brings people here (google search perverts) and how far-reaching.

I've already stated that I was born in New Orleans, I call Texas home, and I'm currently living and working in the Middle East.
I have a job that allows me to travel to different places. (I have now divulged that I'm in the Navy. Yippee.)
I have a laughable love life that gives hours of entertainment to others. (I've given up on love. And sex.)
I have a wacky sense of humor. (Still have that, except while I'm on my period. Or waiting for my iPod.)
I also have a bad temper when pushed too far. (Still have that too. In spades.)

100 Things (in progress)
1. My real name wasn't Elisabeth. (That would be an S, not a Z.) My name is hard to pronounce and spell, and it is so unique. I picked Elisabeth because I wanted to remain anonymous and I didn’t want to be Googled by people who do know me. (Or get dooced. Can you dooce a military member?) I also couldn’t think of a pen name that would sound cool. But Lisset is a dimiuative form of Elisabeth in English, so I'm wasn't technically lying about my name. Call it a form of nickname.
2. My favorite color is purple. I’m not as obsessed by it than I used to be.
3. My bedroom is black, silver and maroon - no purple
4. People don't believe me when I tell them my age. They like to argue with me and tell me that I MUST be younger. If I’m going to lie about my age, don’t you think I would say I was younger, not older?
5. I’m not a morning person, even though I was getting up at 4 in the morning to go to the gym. Now I can’t seem to get out of bed before 5.
6. In June 2005, I will have spent the past 14 years in the Navy. I said my first oath during the Gulf War. I tried to sign up before I even started my senior year, but the recruiter was a dick and told me I was too pretty to be in the service and I should just get married, stay home and have babies. Obviously I was a little more determined to join.
7. I have three tattoos. I want more.
8. My ears are pierced thrice, and I’ve had one in the cartilage, my belly button and a tongue ring.
9. I was married at 19, divorced at 24 - no kids.
10. The date my divorce was final is the exact same date as when I got married, five years later.
11. I own five wigs. A black one, a blonde one, a red one, a renaissance one, and a hot pink one, just for fun.
12. My favorite dress is one given to me by a drag queen.
13. I got my driver's license when I was 29.
14. I had a Japanese DL before I had an American one.
15. No one believes me when I say that I've never done any illegal drug in my life because I am such a natural goofball.
16. I was born blonde, and was so until I turned 19, and have always had dark eyebrows - now my hair is naturally reddish-brown. I colored it red for 6 years, now it’s back to the red-brown.
17. I was a goody-two-shoes until the Navy corrupted me.
18. I’ve never been arrested.
19. I’m a techno-geek - I love electronic gadgets.
20. I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
21. I’m four classes shy of my college degree.
22. I sleep naked, except for that “time of the month” but even then, I always sleep topless.
23. I love to cook, but find it hard to cook just for one person, therefore there is never food in my house. I live on either fast food or pasta and butter.
24. I like to cross-stitch and sew and do all sorts of crafty goodness.
25. I have a bad temper when I’m pissed. If I get really pissed, I am very quiet, so stay FAR away from me.
26. When I was in kindergarten, I broke a 7th grade girl’s nose. She was almost 6 foot, and I was only 6 years old. She called me “Honkey” which I thought was a bad word.
27. I had lymph node cancer when I was three and almost died from the adult doses of chemo they gave me. I still have a 4-inch scar on my neck
28. I have a scar on my left ankle from when I went backwards, head-first through the back window of a hatchback when I was 11. I also have several small scars all over my body from the shattered glass.
29. My dad makes cases for bands when they go on tour. He still has the gong from the Beastie’s Boys’ License to Ill tour.
30. I met Miles Davis before he died and have been in Lou Reed's apartment in Manhattan.
31. While delivering a case to Debbie Gibson in Atlantic City with my dad, I was mobbed by her fans that had mistaken me for her (I looked like her then, but not intentionally) and had to be rescued by her bodyguards.
32. I’ve been on 3 Gulf deployments in 4 ½ years.
33. I spent 4 years in Japan, and I used to speak the language fluently, not so much anymore.
34. I’ve danced on top of a bar in Hong Kong – both in 1999 and 2001 – in the same bar.
35. I was on my way from Hawaii back home to San Diego after a 6-month deployment when 9/11 happened. We pulled into port on the 15th – quietly with no fanfare and manning all our weapons.
36. It was while in Hawaii that I went to a girly bar for the first time. One of my friends bought me a lap dance. I was a little uncomfortable and asked her if she had a lap dance routine, or did she just do whatever felt right. We spent the entire dance talking about other things not relating to strippers, all while she danced.
37. I like going to stripper clubs because I like to watch the guys drool all over themselves. It’s hilarious.
38. I swear a lot and use the word “fucking” as an adjective all the time.
39. My favorite foods are Japanese and Mexican.
40. I have over 600 CDs, and that doesn’t include the CDs I’ve ripped onto my PC.
41. My birthday is January 3, 1973. The doctors told my mom I was to be born Thanksgiving Day, 1972. It took 20 minutes from the time she walked into the hospital until I was born.
42. My eyesight was horrible (20/200) until I had LASIK in 2001. Now it’s 20/15.
43. I totaled my brand new car 7 months after I got it, then bought a new one almost just like it (which I haven’t totaled yet) and I have a paid off new car on my credit report.
44. I weigh 195 lbs, but I don’t look like it. I think the extra weight is from my 40DD chest and Beyonce bootay and the fact that I’m 5’8”.
45. I love to two-step, but I never go out dancing.
46. I'm scared of heights, and I have had to go about 10 stories up the mast to fix equipment on a yardarm only a foot wide.
47. I’m a packrat. I can’t bring myself to throw stuff away, especially if I paid for it. I just found some bill stubs that were dated 1994.
48. I used to collect cows. I still have all my Mary’s Moo Moos. But I stopped collecting them when everyone bought me everything cow related. I told my parents to let everyone know that the next cow item I received would go into the trash after I got a cookie jar AND a chip bowl that mooed constantly.
49. I tend to be a messy housekeeper, but all my dishes are clean and all my crafts are organized. And I fold my socks, but not my underwear.
50. I hate regular underwear. I wear thongs because I cannot stand having VPL (Visible panty lines)
51. I don't drink caffeine constantly, but if I don't have at least one cup of coffee or one soda, I will get a caffeine headache.
52. I smoke way too much, but a lot less than what I used to. I know I need to quit, but I can’t seem to.
53. I think I'm borderline agoraphobic. I have no problem with staying home and not leaving my house. In fact, I prefer it. I can't stand crowds of people. If friends invite me out, most of the time I come up with an excuse because I don't want to leave. But I don't get that gripping fear that most agoraphobics get when they have to leave their house.
54. Though I've never been diagnosed, I have a slight case of dyslexia. When given a phone number aloud, I will write it down wrong. I have to ask them to repeat it multiple times. I get “p” and “b” and “d” mixed up. I learned how to speed read when I was younger so I wouldn't get stuck on any one sentence.
55. I admit that my mind is in the gutter quite a bit. I'm not sure that I could do anything about it. I think it's the way my brain is wired, or it might just be the Navy's fault.
56. I hate talking on the phone. I can't do anything when I'm talking on the phone. I have to keep my hands busy. I tried using a headset, but you can hear everything in the background. Like me typing on the computer.
57. I had a boyfriend that I met on the internet. It lasted for seven months, until he slept with another girl he met on the internet.
58. I use a lot of sugar in my coffee. But I only use one package of sugar substitute in my iced tea.
59. In order to fall asleep, I have to have some sort of noise. My stereo has a timer, so I fall asleep to music.
60. Back when it first came out on video, I watched the movie Clueless everyday for a month straight as soon as I got home from work. I needed some mindless entertainment that made me laugh. It was a really crappy month at work.
61. I’m addicted to HGTV, Food Network, TLC and the Discovery Channel. That’s what I call reality TV.
62. I wanted to get into forensics way back before CSI ever came out when I started watching the Forensic Files on Discovery.
63. I’ve been practicing Wicca since 1996, two years before Charmed came out.
64. I’m so used to living alone that I’m not sure I could ever live with anyone again.
65. I have been in the following countries besides the US and Mexico: Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Thailand, and various Middle Eastern countries.
66. I have lived in the following states for a month or more: Texas, (of course) Louisiana, Florida, Illinois, Virginia, and California.
67. I’d rather be cold that hot because I can put on more clothes, except for my hands. I hate when my fingers are cold.
68. I collect electronic gadgets. I don’t know why. I’m like a ferret with shiny things. I have two digital cameras, two portable CD players, two MP3 players, an iPod, a video camera, a PDA, and probably more assorted things that I can’t remember at the moment.
69. I still giggle and snicker at this number.
70. I have a horrible memory. I forget the littlest things. I have to remember to call my friend S tonight to remind him to bring my CD case to work tomorrow. I'll probably forget.
71. I am a very impatient person when it comes to certain things. Things you'd think I was impatient about I'm not. I tend to be really early for things I have to attend, or a little late for things like parties. Mostly because I have to talk myself into going.
72. I have a ton of games like Balderdash, Outburst, etc. I love having game nights, but most of my friends don't appreciate anything where they can't get drunk. (Why are these people my friends? Okay, I lie, these people can't really be called friends.) My favorites are Catchphrase and Curses.
73. When I go visit my parents, my mom and I will spend hours playing a card game called Hand and Foot. It uses four decks of cards. She kicks my ass every time, though I throw a good one in every now and then. She hates that.
74. Even if I had all the money in the world, I'd still want a pick-up truck. But I think I'd splurge on a wicked cool paint job.
75. I like dark chocolate better than milk chocolate. In fact, if I have to eat milk chocolate, I can't eat it plain. It has to be with peanuts, cookie wafers, etc.
76. Some of my favorite movies: Someone Like You, Spaceballs, Big Fish, The Harry Potter series, anything with Jay and Silent Bob.
77. I have the annoying habit of making jokes at the most inappropriate times. Like at a funeral or any other event that should be somber and serious. I can't help it. It's the way I deal with situations that are uncomfortable for me.
78. I'm scared of ending up alone. I don't necessarily mean sans man. I mean ALONE. I joke about being the crazy cat lady at the end of the cul-de-sac, but I really don't want to end up like that. When I die, I want someone to say something nice about me besides the fact that I loved cats.
79. I collect weird things, and my family totally enables me. I collect interesting bottles, and I shit you not, last Christmas I got a total of twelve of them as presents. I mentioned I like fairies, and I'll get them in every form between charms, to one of my favorites, a hand made stained glass one from a cousin. I'm scared about telling them of my watch collection. I own over twenty, and all the batteries are dead. Remember the cows?
80. I have a beauty product fetish. I have tons of hair products that I don't use, as well as makeup that I don't wear. I don't wear makeup except for special occasions. I really want to try MAC, but I'm a little scared since it might be a waste of money. I think on the inside I am a glamour girl, but on the outside, I'm just too lazy to make an effort. Though I have been told by many people that I don't need makeup. It may be a compliment, or it may just be a nice way to say, "Honey, you should just give it up and quit trying."
81. Two things I hate talking about – Religion and Politics. I think these subjects are like your sex life and you should really leave them at home. (Personal blogs excluded of course. I’m talking about real conversation that isn’t inside the senate or a church.)
82. I am old school when it comes to manners. I still say yes/no ma’am/sir. I get really irritated at the lack of respect and consideration by others in public.
83. I think cell phones should be illegal in public. I think if there is even a remote chance that someone else might have to suffer due to some asshat talking on their cell phone, the cell phone user needs to excuse themselves and leave. If the call is an emergency, then use the text message feature. Nextel phones should be not be used by normal people. I don’t want to hear YOUR side of the conversation; much less theirs along with that annoying fucking beep noise.
84. I have a thing for fairies and dragonflies. I have a fairy tattoo between my shoulder blades. I want a dragonfly tattoo next. Hey, it’s better than the cow fetish I used to have.
85. I’m addicted to manipulating things on Photoshop. I love making little icons and such.
86. My interests change quite a bit, mostly because I get bored easily. Unfortunately they are sometimes expensive habits. Smoking is not a habit I've gotten bored with yet.
87. Getting bored with things also includs my hair. I've grown it out and cut it too many times to count. Like last week I cut it on a whim in my bathroom.
88. I really hate thinking of these things. It's all good until I have to write them down
89. I like wearing baggy clothes. It has nothing to do with the fact that I think I way a little more than what I should, it's all about comfort.
90. I own about 30 pairs of shoes. That's not counting the 20 pairs I threw out before I left San Diego. Most of them are still packed in a box.
91. I really want to learn how to knit, but I don't think I have the coordination to do it. Or the patience.
92. Ignorant people make me cranky. So do people who think that they know it all and try to convince everyone else.
93. Sometimes I buy movies on DVD and never watch them.
94. I cannot stop playing World of Warcraft. It doesn't help that all my coworkers feed my addiction. Two of them come over on a constant basis, hook into my network, and dork out with me.
95. I love bacon. And technically, it's illegal here.