Okay, I’ve stalled as long as I could. I’ve been “tagged” by 6 people now on FaceBook to list 25 random things about myself.
Oy! I despise these lists! When I first started blogging, I was totally game for these types of things but as time wore on, the bright and shiny newness of the Blogging world wore off.
Okay, so I’ve complained enough. Here we go. I will try my very hardest not to repeat anything from my 7 random things list or my 100 things list. Boy, this is gonna be tough….
1. I have extremely poor circulation. I like the Thermostat set to 75 in the house year round. If it drops below 60 outside, I’m “freezing”!
2. I have a scary numerical memory. I used to work at a Medical Clinic as a Floating Receptionist and I can STILL remember quite a few people’s house addresses and phone numbers.
3. I also posses a built-in “Celebrity Monitoring System”.
I will be watching a show or movie and recognize an actor/actress from a movie or show that was 30 years ago. I have an “eye” for it.
For Example: Mitch from Real Genius can be seen on Apollo 13, as one of the Ground Control
guys.
Benny, the wicked girlfriend from Pretty in Pink is Colonel Tigh’s wife AND the fifth and final
Cylon on Battlestar Galactica.
It is a gift. And a curse. I could go on….trust me!
4. I worked for 1 whole day at a local jewelry store. I quit the very next day. It was the most boring job I’ve ever had.
5. I HATE Avocados. I think they taste like earwax.
6. I LOVE Reality shows! They are appalling in absolutely every possible way and a prime example of the utter shallowness of the Human race but I can’t get enough of them!!
My favorites are (brace yourself) Dr. 90210, The Girls Next Door and Dog the Bounty Hunter.
7. I LOVE Dog the Bounty Hunter! I can’t get enough of it! I cannot explain it. The man is quite
possibly the nastiest looking creature on television and the soundtrack is some of the scariest music that I’ve heard but I just can’t get enough of that rush of adrenaline when they hunt down the “Bad” guys!
8. I touched Peter Murphy’s fingertip at a concert.
9. One summer when I was a teenager I lived on Cadbury Eggs. I would literally lay out in the
sun while eating one.
10. I yell and call people names in traffic.
11. I stole a toy from a store when I was about 4. My own mother even ratted me out. I didn’t end up serving any time though, so she’s off the hook.
12. I have a small piece of pencil lead in my left calf. When I was 12 years old, I was swinging my purse around and the pencil stabbed me right through the purse.
13. I’ve skinny dipped in the Columbia River with my cousins.
14. I played the Baritone in Third grade.
15. I hate to read. I am embarrassed to admit….I have read only three complete books in my entire life. A Wrinkle in Time, Love is a Mix Tape and The Princess Bride.
16. I sold a pair of my Slouch Grunge Gloves to Courtney Love.
17. I often ask someone a question and immediately forget the answer. It’s involuntary and extremely aggravating.
18. I am obsessed with Degrassi: The New Generation. A Canadian produced teen soap, if you
will. I watched the Original Degrassi series when I was younger and I am still addicted to the corny, teeny-bopper story lines. They air from 11pm to 3am on Fridays and Saturdays and I try my best to stay up as late as I can to watch every single one.
I am seriously contemplating getting Tivo just so I won’t miss them!
19. I love gore! Shows with actual medical examinations going on. Give me a man with a large
nail through his head, a chest being opened up on the table. A severed limb. I think I am the only one I know who gets a rush walking past a Hospital Emergency Room.
20. It’s been pointed out to me that I smell my food right before I eat it.
21. I am NOT a drinker. I hate alcohol. Unless it’s masked with plenty of coffee or sugary
accompaniments.
22. I LOVE brussel sprouts.
23. I got detention in Junior High on a regular basis for chewing gum and rolling my eyes in History Class. I was even forced to stick my gum on the end of my nose and leave it there for the rest of class.
24. I hate water. I have to add things to it to stomach drinking it.
25. I get asked regularly, “What are you?”. I am assuming this is due to the fact that I have an “ethnic” look to my facial appearance, due to being part Japanese.
But this actually comes off more as, “What planet are you from?”, “Do you breathe through
your nose or do you have hidden gills?” .
Ahhhhhhhhh…..All done. Finally. And I commend you for being able to sit through it all.
Hello???? Hello!!!!!! Are you still there?
Apparently, I am supposed to “tag” 25 other people I know now. But seeing as how I am quite fond of all of the people I know,I am going to refrain.
If this sounds like fun to you and you feel like wasting a half hour or so of your life, knock yourself out! I actually do find these a bit entertaining. Especially, when I find out new things I didn’t already know about my friends.
If you decide NOT to play, leave me a comment with 1 random thing about YOU. You know 25 things about me, after all. It’s only fair!
11 responses to “25 things….”
I love DOG the Bounty Hunter TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I have a piece of pencil led stuck in the palm of my right hand from when I was younger.
Ame~
Ooooh! That IS freaky!
I think it is hysterical how Dog and his family pray right before they go out to capture the “bad” guys. And yet, I really do believe that they are doing what they do because they care about people and about their community.
I can’t get enough of that show.
I love your answers! I have a piece of lead in my right hip from sitting on the silly pencil.
Heath has had dentention for chewing gum and talking too much! I don’t know where he gets it from lol
i did this on my facebook page a couple weeks ago 🙂 i just cut and paste. i’ve been told i should have included the gigantic crush i have on vin diesel.
1. i love a good drama or romantic movie, but will always choose comedy or action first if given a choice.
2. i love old muscle cars.
3. i have to call my husband to help me if i need to alter measurements in a recipe.
4. i’m an off the charts introvert – and if i say i’m too tired to go out, it’s b/c i really am. i’m completely drained.
5. i have no desire to go back to the real working world.
6. i’m finally making friends back home, but will never find friends like those i left in MD (and temporarily transplanted to State College)
7. i wish i had been less serious and had more fun when i was young.
8. i’m teaching myself to knit and sew and soon crochet….and i think i’m addicted.
9. i love to cook and seldom ever follow a recipe exactly.
10. when i bake there’s a 50/50 chance that the dish will catch on fire or explode.
11. i’m not perfect but am a perfectionist.
12. i’m smarter than some think i am, but not as smart as others think i am.
13. i can read, interpret, write essays on and discuss the heavy literary tomes but just prefer to bury my nose in juvy lit, young adult and historical fiction.
14. i wish i still had all the stuff i wrote in highschool.
15. i never practiced piano as much as i should have in college.
16. if we could afford it, i’d want to get my masters in creative writing but i’d probably get an mls instead. reality always wins out.
17. i’d like to have at least one more baby, someday.
18. i have a hard time with stress.
19. at nearly 30, i’m still trying to figure out the balance between not letting people walk all over me and coming off sounding like a bitch.
20. most people don’t know when i’m joking.
21. i can’t sleep without my husband.
22. i’m one of those moms who: gave birth to both my kids without drugs or an epi, insisted they room in (and they slept in my bed), begged to be allowed to go home (30 minutes after josh was born), nursed in public and would have nursed them till nearly 2 if other circumstances hadn’t prevented that. if i do it all again, i’d want to try a home birth and cloth diapers.
23. i don’t drink wine.
24. i gave up caffeine, for good.
25. my favorite part of sushi is the wasabi and pickled ginger.
@ Ame & Stacy~
WOW!! I'm really surprised by the amount of people (besides me) who can't manage to use a #2 pencil properly!!! 😉
Sarah~
I love #25! I agree. The pickled ginger isn't really a condiment to the sushi. It's more of the appetizer! 😉
I do #17 too. Or I’ll think to ask someone a question, and then think that I asked them and forgot the answer.
I never noticed that you smell your food before you eat! The things we learn about our friends. 🙂 I think that a random history thing about me is that when I was sixteen I got in an accident with an 18 wheeler and lost all feeling in my knees for about two years. Other than that and a couple scars on my face that most people don’t notice anymore, I was fine. I think the worst part was calling my mom on vacation at the coast to tell her that I had totalled her car and was in the ER. 🙂
I wish I could always watch TV and movies with you because I’m always asking, “Who IS that? They look familiar…” and no one ever knows. This list was fascinating. You came up with good stuff.
Random fact about me: I couldn’t tell time on a face clock until I was in high school.
Jen~
WHY, oh WHY do we do that???? It’s so frustrating!!! I make so many people mad when I do it, too.
Amy~
I’ve NEVER noticed ANY facial scars!
I am usually too busy admiring your flawless complexion. 🙂
Green Girl~
Yes, my Celebrity spotting abilities have the tendency of annoying me though because I recognize all these different people and then the person I’m watching the movie with say’s, “They were in what? I never saw that.”
Ooooohhh!! That’s so annoying! My special freak talent gone unnoticed! 😛
lol…I love dog too, and those prison shows (lock up and the like) my husband doesn’t get it bc I’ll be sitting knitting, watching felons on tv. *shrug* 🙂
You sold a pair to courtney love????? srsly? wowza 🙂
uhm…my 25 is on facebook. Random that’s not on that list…I almost ALWAYS have on 2 shirts, if I don’t have on an ‘undershirt’ I can’t stand it. I’m getting better…
I always rinse my cups before drinking out of them, just habit.
I smell my yarn 😉
Hmmm, just wanted to say congrats on the front page of Etsy…however, one random thing….
I love to sit around in my pj’s and sip (decaf) coffee on days when I don’t have to go to work.