This is not the first post idea I've stolen from , but she's awesome and she probably won't mind me nabbing another. Plus, did it too, and I loved both posts. It's all about 50 Little Things you might not know about me.
The only thing is that they always write about lots of things, whereas I mostly write about myself- so I don't know what you could possibly not know about me. We'll find out. I'm timing this post because I like to live on the edge.
- I don't actually like to live on the edge. I'm pretty much the opposite of a wild woman.
- I answer to any name. Literally, any name. I will answer to your name. I will answer when you are calling your dog. I will answer to names that sound like mine and ones that sound nothing like a name at all.
- I have a will that includes management of my online accounts and relationships. I have no money to leave people (anymore? yet?) but I at least keep a list of those who should be notified before a Facebook announcement.
- I am mercurial. I can be angry one second, and laughing the next. This tends to surprise people who know me mostly online.
- Mint toothpaste makes me gag. That includes kissing someone who just brushed their teeth with the stuff, and walking into a bathroom that smells like it. Strangely, I love real mint and even mint gum or candy. Also strangely, nothing else I can think of makes me gag.
- Most of my favorite product brands and television shows are made in London, or by Brits. It's not on purpose.
- I almost always have a beverage in my hand.
- I shave my finger hair.
- I look up the etymology, pronunciation, or uses of at least one word, every day.
- While I think everyone is very beautiful, I am attracted to very few. Awkwardly few.
- I am always reading.
- My wardrobe is very limited. I have noticed a trend called a "Capsule Wardrobe" that suggests you can make it 3 months out of the year with 33 pieces. Of course you can. I've done longer with less my whole life.
- I rarely eat Indian food.
- I will not bother a waiter if my food is cold or incorrect, but I will call them over to refill my drink or provide a straw.
- In real life, I talk about sex, and sometimes swear.
- One time I bit into a date full of live maggots. I still eat dates.
- I have never smoked cigarettes or tried any drug, excluding alcohol and caffeine. Caffeine I abuse wildly. My alcohol consumption, I can still count in sips.
- I take rejection ridiculously well.
- I listen to Christmas music all year long.
- I've never broken a bone.
- I've won a few dozen writing competitions, under various names. Though my writing has been rejected from hundreds and hundreds of websites, journals, magazines, newsletters, newspapers, and publishing houses- I've always placed somewhere in any writing competition I've entered.
- I rarely tell anyone my name, unless they ask.
- I can't vote. (Felon.)
- I regularly unfriend people on Facebook, for sharing or posting things that would have upset Dave, even though he's no longer here to upset.
- My arms muscle very easily. If you see them flabbing, you can be absolutely sure I haven't done anything more robust than hold a book for a week.
- I have no idea what I look like. In many pictures, I look very different, and I really don't know which is more accurate to you. I also forget that I'm brown.
- I wrote poems on nearly everything I studied, from prepositions and Greek gods to trigonometry.
- I speak really quickly. For years and years, faster than the faster talker in the Guinness Book of World Records. I think I was outpaced in 2011.
- I bite my nails.
- I'm a very good secretary.
- My morning yoga routine also combines pilates and kickboxing, which I've found to be the most anxiety-relieving mixture of movement.
- I get canker sores. They aren't herpes, contagious, or busted lips from an abuser I'm protecting. They're simple blisters that usually just pop up when my dry lips crack.
- I'm 66″ tall. When I started this blog, I accidentally typed 60″ in my about page. It's very confusing.
- I'll pick potatoes (in any form) over any other food, so I have to be careful on the order I eat. It's not uncommon for me to fill up on my fries and be too full to eat the entrée.
- I'd rather wear heels.
- I carry floss. Since you already know how amazing my bladder is, if I excuse myself to use the restroom, it's probably to floss.
- I apply industry or subculture terms to all circumstances. I have to explain the first time, but then there's a basic reference point.
- I'm one of six kids. The gender order is the same as the Brady Bunch. I'd be Jan.
- There are some people out there who think I'm a jerk.
- I can listen to two things at the same time, or one song on repeat. This drives other people up the wall.
- My bra strap is always falling down.
- Christopher Reeve was the only celebrity death that really knocked me senseless.
- I don't care for diamonds. I like color, metal, and movement.
- I don't dance. The closest thing you will ever see is the occasional slow dance with a toddler, or a twirl around in a foofy skirt.
- I love the zoo, but I'd rather not go with kids.
- Part of my parole is a 50 mile radius restriction. I am hoping my parole will be lifted on July 18th, 2016. That will be my real freedom date.
- I am counting May 6th as the anniversary of Dave's death, and the anniversary of my incarceration.
- Almost everything I own today was gifted. Thank you.
- I am prone to absolutely debilitating bouts of hyperbole.
- Cantaloop by US3 has been on every musical playlist I've made for myself since its release in 1993. I really have no idea why. I guess I love it?
Yikes! That was not easy. Your turn. Tell me things. I'm nosy. Oh, and the title comes from the name of my Spotify playlist...