- 101 Things About Alska Du -

1.) My real name is Carla
2.) My name "Alska Du" or "Alska" is my pen name
3.) I've been using my pen name since 1999, online
4.) "Alska Du" is swedish for "Love You"
5.) I live in California
6.) I was born and raised in Ohio
7.) I have a daughter named Marissa whom I love to pieces.
8.) I love cats and kittens
9.) I love all animals, birds and reptiles
10.) I hate dogs though
11.) I love nature
12.) I hate the color blue, any shade
13.) I love the color green, any shade
14.) I love coffee
15.) I love StarBucks lattes, all of them! LOL
16.) I super dooper love drinking water
17.) I love butterflies, ladybugs and dragonflies
18.) I love all things magical, mystical, and fantasy (except aliens)
19.) I LOVE FAERIES!
20.) I LOVE all things romantic 
21.) I hate black n white movies
22.) I hate space movies
23.) I love classic rock, hard rock, metal, n big hair bands
24.) I even like reggea and SOME rap ... like M&M and snoop
25.) I don't like country music
26.) I have my ears pierced but I never wear earrings
27.) I want my belly button pierced, but I'm too scared to do it lol
28.) I am shy in real life
29.) I stick to myself cuz it's safer lol
30.) I hate people that lie
31.) I hate know it alls
32.) I take things to heart easily n quickly
33.) I am always on defence
34.) I am not a person that forgives and forgets
35.) I have 2 sisters and 4 brothers
36.) I miss my family and friends, they live in Ohio :(
37.) I love any italain food
38.) I hate seafood *gag*
39.) I don't eat breakfast
40.) I don't lunch
41.) I was born in June on a stormy day
42.) My mom almost named me Stormy
43.) She also had "Windy" (with an "I") picked out as a name for me
44.) I want to own my own coffee/bakery shop (some day, you never know) lol
45.) I was a bakery manager before I had my daughter
46.) I went to cake decorating classes
47.) I finished highshool
48.) Never went to college though
49.) I am not good in math lol
50.) I can't spell good lol
51.) I don't like change
52.) I love my boyfriend to pieces
53.) We met online in 1999 in my poetry group "Inkwell"
54.) But didn't meet in RL till 2002
55.) I moved from Ohio to California to be with him
56.) There's a 12 year differance in age between us
57.) I have always been into Art
58.) Even when growing up
59.) I took watercolor painting classes
60.) I no longer paint
61.) But I "pixel paint" on the computer now
62.) I am a very open minded person
63.) I don't judge anyone on their beliefs or lifestyles
64.) Though at times I am quick to judge, sad I know
65.) But not with the open mind stuff
66.) Like I can tell if you are fake n lie to make yourself better than others
67.) I hate that, thats when I am quick to judge grrr
68.) When I am mad, I cry
69.) When I am sad I hide away and stay away until I pull myself out
70.) I love reading anything by Christine Feehan
71.) I love reading romantic/sappy love poems
72.) And I write romantic/sappy love poems
73.) I write cuz I am sad or mad, or when I fantasize
74.) But I never write when I am happy and content
75.) I hate eMail because I get tons everyday (well over 200 of them) ugh
76.) I hate copycats very much!
77.) My biggest fear is death, either of loved ones or myself
78.) I find it hard to trust people, even my best friend
79.) When I was in 10th grade I was jumped by two guys, one broke my nose
80.) I think it was gang realated, I didn't know them, nor did they go to my school
81.) I was a good girl in school till I got into highschool
82.) I regret alot of things I did back then
83.) If I could start all over, I would, and do things differently
84.) I want to visit Itaily, Hawaii, and New Orleans
85.) I wish I had a vacation cabin hidden deep in the woods
86.) I have been to: Florida, New York, Pennsylvannia, West Virginia, Rhone Island, Georgia, and of course lol Cali, Ohio
87.) I love early mornings, its my quiet time alone
88.) I always have a millon thoughts, but can never grasp one
89.) I think it would be interesting to step into the minds of those that are troubled
90.) To find out why that are that way (like serial killers, bank robbers, even alcoholics etc)
91.) I am a strong believer of "there's a reason for everything"
92.) I love all things surreal, and can find the "real" in them
93.) I love anything thats paranormal, its very interesting to me lol
94.) I always want to know the "facts" of the fiction
95.) I listen to the lyric of a song more so than I do the music
96.) I love anything old (art, buildings, writings etc)
97.) I love the elderly, and their stories
98.) Some may say I am nosy, but I think of it as "interested"
99.) I hate gossip
100.) I hate drama
101.) And I believe all things good come to an end

Well, that's 101 things about me :)