The Rules:
- Come up with 25 things about you, it does not matter what you pick as long as they true.
- You then have to tag 25 people, including the person who tagged you.
I'm ignoring the second rule. If you want to post about yourself, I'd be glad to read it, otherwise you wouldn't be on my friends list.
1) I had two full sets of adult teeth. One full set was pulled once.
2) I juggled fire with a guy on a unicycle in a street performance in Victoria, BC, Canada.
3) From the age of about 6 or 7 on, I went to and from school alone and spent the afternoons alone until my mom got home from work. I read a lot and had a particular fondness for unexplained phenomena (ghosts, Bermuda Triangle, UFOs, etc). One day, I was reading a book on ghosts that had pictures. One of the pictures showed an 'apparition' coming down some old stairs. At the top of the stairs was a dresser with an old, porcelain basin and pitcher. Our house looked exactly the same - stairs, dresser, and porcelain basin and pitcher. I wouldn't go inside the house until my mom got home. To this day, I sometimes still get nervous on stairs.
4) The news came to interview me once for being a good student. I was skipping school at the time.
5) I'm a hopeless Romantic.
6) I never consumed a full alcoholic beverage until I was 30. I still haven't smoked, other than hookahs.
7) Other than one time in first grade, I've never struck someone in violence. That time I don't remember, but my dad said that I told him someone was picking on me and he told me to hit him. Apparently they had to pull me off the kid the next day.
8) I have very small wrists and fingers for my size.
9) When I was really small, I drank gun cleaning fluid, ate potting soil, and swallowed a quarter. All at different times, of course.
10) I have recurring dreams that I can fly if I concentrate.
11) I can't stand sarcasm.
12) I am atrocious at Scrabble and crossword puzzles, though I have a relatively expansive vocabulary.
13) I used to weigh about 300 pounds (vs current 195).
14) I can't stand talking on the phone, and phones ringing make me cringe.
15) If I don't get enough sunlight, I am unable to sleep before 4 or 5am.
16) When I was born, I was horribly jaundiced and either had a blood transfusion or almost had one.
17) I once went three days with no food or water and three more days with only water. I don't recommend it.
18) I want to believe, ala Fox Mulder. This does not mean what most people say. It's not that Mulder, or I, believed all the wacky theories he put forth; it's more that he wants to find something out there that is true, and keeps looking, throwing out weird ideas and trying to prove them true. It's more an ongoing search for something to believe.
19) Chocolate, cheese, and wine are some of my comfort foods. There are a few other alcohols that are up there as well.
20) One day at the pizza store, I pulled a pan out of the oven and it slipped out of my grips. The pizza was cooking at 750 F. First the metal pan hit my arm and flipped over, dumping the hot pizza onto my arm. Then the sauce from the pizza drenched my arm. My entire left forearm was swollen at least one inch. The next day, it was completely healed.
21) I'm a pacifist.
22) Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Batman are my idols.
23) I like blades (knives, swords, axes), nice clothes and accessories (tailored suits and shirts, nice watches, ties, cuff links), and extreme weather (snow, ice, rain, wind, lightning, thunder, frogs).
24) I love traveling and meeting non-Americans, probably because I love to learn new perspectives and cultures. I plan on leaving the country in about a month, or less, and never living in this part of the country again, or maybe even anywhere in the States. Who knows, I might not ever settle anywhere!
25) I can kill you with my brain.
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