List of Threes

Stolen shamelessly from another Blog I admire - but the answers are all my own.
Feel free to take and answer your own, too.

"List of Threes"

Three names you go by:
1. Mommy
2. Carolyn
3. Fart-face (you'd have to know my husband to know that this is a term of endearment and I do not have a flatulence problem!)

Three screen names you have:
1. cea9
2. Okaasan
3. c e anderson9

Three things you like about yourself:
1. I am a hard worker.
2. I can be funny (when I'm not being bitchy).
3. I have a knack for foreign languages.

Three things you hate/dislike about yourself:
1. I can be bitchy at times.
2. I tend to be judgemental or critical in nature (thanks for the genetics Dad!).
3. My current physical shape and size. I know it's temporary - but it's getting on my nerves.

Three parts of your heritage:
1. German
2. German
3. German

Three things that scare you:
1. Things that go bump in the night.
2. The thought of harm befalling my children
3. Random home invasion.
Can I have 4? I'm a really anxious person:
4. World opinion of the U.S. thanks to 8 years of Bush Administration (lack of) Foreign Policy.

Three of your everyday essentials:
1. Iced Tea
2. Pressed powder (e.g. Cover Girl)
3. Music

Three things you are wearing right now:
1. Goodwill Old Navy shirt (looks Asian-y, Black w/ Lotus flower and criss-cross Kimono(?) type stiching)
2. Black cardigan
3. Hand me down pants from my (now much skinnier) friend Angie.

Three of your favorite bands/artists:
1. Tegan + Sara
2. Razorlight
3. Snow Patrol...
but ask me again in 5 minutes and the list will have changed again.

Three of your favorite songs at present:
1. "Somewhere Else" - Razorlight
2. "Bam Thwok" - Pixies
3. "Since U Been Gone" - Kelly Clarkson

Three new things you want to try in the next 12 months:
1. Downsizing - my body, hours at work and clutter in the house.
2. Riding my bike on a more regular basis.
3. Piping Hot Binding - a new quilting technique

Three things you want in a relationship (love is a given):
1. Witty repartee
2. Intelligent conversation
3. Honesty

Three things you just can't do:
1. Run a marathon.. heck, run 1000 yards for that much.
2. Most sports. Basically anything requiring excellent coordination
3. Lately... can't seem to balance the checkbook anymore. Lost that ability sometime during my last pregnancy. Poof! Gone.

Three of your favorite hobbies:
1. Quilting
2. Reading (fiction / blogs/ trashy magazines)
3. Crossword puzzles

Three things you want to do very much right now:
1. Quilt
2. Read
3. Write

Three places you want to go on vacation:
1. New Zealand
2. Disney (with the kids)
3. Coastal South Carolina

Three things you want to do before you die:
1. Go to New Zealand.
2. Finish several quilts and publish a book.
3. See my children successful and happy as adults.