I was tagged on Facebook recently to write 25 random things about me. It took me quite a while to write this crazy thing, so I thought I would at least share it on my blog, so here goes.
25 Things About Me
1. I failed my first driving test. I backed my parents' minivan into a guard rail, with an embarrassing crrrrruuuunch during the test.
2. When my sister was around 10 years old (I was 19), she was always using the family video camera to make epic movies. She would beg me and our cousins to act in her movies. I kid you not, I star in “House Party Blob 4”, and yes, there were 3 other “House Party Blob” movies.
3. My first kisses (ok, they were only pecks on the cheek) were at the age of 13. I went to a large sleepover event with a friend's church youth group. We stayed up all night playing games. One was a kissing game. The chaperones asked for volunteers. I was one of the first people to raise my hand to volunteer. Volunteer girls were blind-folded, and one boy at a time would come and kiss each girl on the cheek. Then the girls had to guess who kissed them. The last boy who kissed us put on lipstick, so we all walked away with lipstick imprints, lol! a very strange game to play at a church event, I think.
4. I have always been fascinated by languages. I have taken classes in Spanish, French, Arabic, and modern Greek. The only one of those I have a high level of knowledge in is Spanish, but I know quite a bit of French. I've been making my boyfriend teach me all of the Polish and Romanian he knows as well. I know it's mostly useless and nerdy, but I like it. My original career plan was to be a Spanish translator.
5. My favorite animal is the cat.
6. My cat recently started coming home covered in red dirt. When she does this, she reminds me of the cat who came back from the grave covered in dirt in the book Pet Sematary.
7. My 4 year old can do a cartwheel, but I can't.
8. Most people cannot bend the top joint of their fingers backwards at all. I can bend the top joint of my pinkie fingers back at a 90 degree angle. One of my pinky fingers will not lie flat. It is always bent a little in the shape of a tent.
9. I am 5'8” and weigh 135 lbs.
10. When I was growing up, my mentally retarded cousin lived with my family for about 8 years, so he is kind of like a bonus brother.
11. When I was about 8, my best friend Samantha and I would have sleep-overs all the time. We had heard that if you wrote Bloody Mary's name on a mirror in red lipstick at midnight, she would visit you, so we tried it a few times, and shockingly, it never worked.
12. My aunt was killed in 1988 in a wreck involving a tractor trailer. She was pregnant.
13. The places I would most like to visit are Croatia and Cyprus.
14. I think fake fingernails are trashy. I think short, with no polish or clear polish looks the best on fingernails. I do like to keep my toenails painted Barbie pink though!
15. One of my favorite possessions is my sounds of nature alarm clock. I fall asleep to the sound of rain falling. My other favorite possession is my hair straightening iron. It is an absolute miracle. I used to hate my hair. Now I am very happy with it. There is no such thing as a bad hair day with those things. If I could marry my hair iron, I would.
16. I HATE when people tell jokes. I enjoy stand-up comedy, but I hate hearing regular people tell jokes. They are not the slightest bit funny, and they follow the stupid routine of a certain event happening 3 times.
17. I used to have a pet cockatiel named Caesar who would sit on my shoulder and could say several words.
18. My favorite food is French and Italian. I am a huge fan of fish as well, such as salmon. I love to absolutely drench fish in lemon juice. I love really good crusty bread and think low-carb diets are heresy.
19. I am always learning new things. The last 2 things I learned are playing the piano and belly dancing (not at the same time!) The next thing I want to learn is to play the guitar.
20. I was held back in kindergarten. I always felt that being held back gave me a significant advantage all the way through elementary school. I will never understand why a parent would want their child to skip a grade, but I suspect it often has to do with bragging rights.
21. Something I will never understand is why people still discuss whether or not the groundhog saw its shadow on groundhog day. No one actually believes that bs, so why waste your breath discussing whether the little charlatan saw his shadow or not?
22. A common age for children to say their first word is at 10 months. My son's grandmother taught him to identify all of the letters and numbers by 12 months old.
23. My daughter is 4. If you ask her math problems such as 8+9. She will give you the correct answer within 2 seconds. Sorry, I had to brag on my little ones just a bit :)
24.When I was 8, my family's home was robbed. The robber was the son of a family friend. He was convicted a few years later of murder for hire as well as animal cruelty for burning animals on a Satanic altar. He has since died in prison from brain cancer.
25. I am left-handed.
4. Volunteering-I know a woman who is an administrator for the local United Way. I told her about my problem of not knowing what to do with myself while being unemployed. Now I volunteer about 2 days a week. She sets me up with a different organization just about every time. Here are some of the things I've done:
