100 things about me. Part I

Coming up with 100 random things about myself is easier than I thought! Stay tuned for numbrs 26 - 100.

1. I love to cook but can’t bake to save my life.
2. My middle name is Grace.
3. Growing up I hated my name. I was made fun of all through school, everyone called me Helena Montana. Now though, I love my name and think it’s unique and quite fitting.
4. I’ve written poetry from the age of 12 on. I’ve also written one (extremely awful) horror story and several erotic stories.
5. I’m extremely gullible and will believe almost anything; even if it’s something I know probably isn’t true.
6. 2 minutes after I got my driver’s license, I was in a car accident. It really turned me off to driving for a very long time.
7. I have never had a good Valentines Day. The worst was when I spent the night in the hospital with a concussion from getting hit in the back of the head with a stereo.
8. I actually saved someone’s life once.
9. I also had a near death experience where I choked on a Reese’s peanut butter cup and everyone thought I was joking. It was the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced.
10. I lost my first friend at the age of 13. He was hit by a drunk driver while riding his bike.
11. When I was in 6^th grade I drank a 20 ounce glass of what I thought was extremely bad tasting cranberry juice on an empty stomach, only to find out later it was homemade wine. I was almost expelled from school for showing up drunk.
12. I played the trumpet for all of one year. I was very good at it.
13. I used to be a pool shark, and have been banned from certain bars for hustling guys on the tables.
14. I love the state of Ohio and would move there if I could.
15. I have been engaged twice.
16. My first fiancé and I got into a huge fight because I insisted on having my guy friends stand up for me as “bridesmaids.” That was the beginning of the end for us.
17. I am hopelessly addicted to lip gloss.
18. I have an indented skull fracture. The look on people’s faces when they ask if I was dropped on my head as a kid and I reply in all seriousness that I was is priceless.
19. I got into trouble for the first time in school in the first grade. I called my teacher a bitch.
20. In first grade when everyone else was just learning how to read, I was already at a 6^th grade reading level.
21. By fifth grade I had already read To Kill A Mocking Bird, Pride and Prejudice, Damien, War and Peace and several other classic novels.
22. I was that dork who read the dictionary when she got bored.
23. I have a personalized autographed baseball at home from Lenny Dykstra, and I still have no idea who exactly he is, when he played, or what team he played for.
24. The first time I sang karaoke, I lip synched.
25. I can sniff out a car leaking anti freeze from four miles away. ( I also love the smell of antifrieeze. It's sweet!)