I am not entirely sure there even ARE 25 things about me, much less 25 things that anyone would want to know, but here we are nonetheless. Don't say I didn't warn you.
1. I go on food binge thingies where I eat the same thing over and over for days, or even weeks, at a time. I mean, I eat it once a day, but it's the same thing. Lately, it's scrambled eggs and cheddar cheese with sour dough toast. Once it was peanut butter and apple butter on a toasted english muffin.
2. I used to play the guitar really pretty well. Now I'm very rusty.
3. Although you'd never know it to meet me, I'm actually pretty shy. Shy enough that it's really an effort for me to go somewhere new if there are going to be a bunch of new people there. I don't know why this is.
4. I am going quite gray, and I don't mind at all. I lucked out and got a lovely silvery gray that I help along with (no kidding) blueing shampoo.
5. I've stopped shaving my legs, too. Don't see the point. I don't wear dresses, ever.
6. I am desperately trying to learn to be a good poker player--specifically, Texas Hold'em. So far, no luck.
7. I named my first dog after Donny Osmond's dog. My father refused to use the name.
8. I cannot do Soduko. I can't even spell Soduko. Sodoku? Whatever.
9. I once took an Ambien and had a long, excrutiatingly embarassing conversation with an old boyfriend, of which I recalled not a single word. I have never taken Ambien since.
10. I think I've got hearing loss, after having been married to a rock musician for years.
11. The frequency that is most affected happens to be the one that encompasses my younger daughter Lula's voice. I can't hear a fucking thing she says. She thinks I'm pretending. I'm not.
12. My grandfather was a famous sports writer, who hung out with Hemmingway.
13. My father wrote novels.
14. When I was 12, my mother and I took our clothes dryer apart and put it back together. We had one piece left over. It ran for another 14 years.
15. I've known my two closest friends since I was 13. They're still my two closest friends.
16. I have a tatoo.
17. I never graduated high school.
18. But, I scored in the 97th percentile on the GED.
20. I can't eat anything that looks like it did when it was alive. Soft-shell crab is an example.
21. I have interviewed a lot of famous people. Like Madona.
22. I met Bill Clinton once, while he was still President.
23. Phillip Pullman is probably my favorite author. Followed by Wallace Stegner.
24. I used to have a terrible bug phobia, but it just went away.
25. I like sneezing. It's like an orgasm for your nose.
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I found #14 particularly touching not to mention visual:
When I was 12, my mother and I took our clothes dryer apart and put it back together. We had one piece left over. It ran for another 14 years.
Lovely.
Good luck with the poker.
#21. I am once removed from Madonna, since I knew her first manager and first producer when I was in high school. When they discovered her, I thought they were crazy. I thought she couldn't sing, couldn't dance, and wasn't attractive. I often recall this when I need to remind myself about how wrong I can be.
#22. I once had a conversation with Hillary Clinton before anyone had heard of Bill (he was then governor of Arkansas).
Rated.
God I have so much fun with Texas Hold Em'. One trick I use (that doesn't always work out so well, but it's helped me get better at the bluff) is if I get a shitty hand I try to imagine I didn't even see the cards. I just try to use what's on the table.
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Mike, that series is just phenomenal. But I didn't care for the film at all.
Nan-bee, my mother is very cool like that. She thinks like an engineer and has never met a challenge she didn't think she could take on.
1. I once had pizza every day for 8 days, so I fully understand #1.
2. Nothing wrong at all with going gray. In fact, I rather like it.
3. I spent Christmas 1981 with an Italian girl who did not shave her legs, and no man in his right mind would have minded. She was beautiful (and probably gray haired by now)
4. I never figured you for having a tatoo!
5. #17: wow!
These stood out to me, but they are all very interesting!
#1 - me too!
#7 - What was the dog's name (and *why* donny osmond? ;)
#9 - scary
#14 - impressive!
Let's get together soon and see if we can remedy that #2 thingy.
Lonnie, absolutely! I gotta restring my guitar though. The strings are so dead it won't hold a tune, which makes me insane.
Rob, I still have trouble believing that "His Dark Materials" was intended for kids. It's the most subversive "juvenile fiction" I've ever read.
Procopius, yep. It's a stylized snake and it's on my shoulder and there is no deep meaning, although I've been trying for years to make one up. I got it with my best friend Kendra's now ex-husband Bobby Lee, who is the smartest person I've ever known and also bat-shit crazy but mostly in a good way.
Bobby removed the one he got that day himself. With heated up graphite. Which must have been excrutiating and I'm not sure why he did it (see the "bat shit crazy" thing above). His was a Chinese symbol that meant either "philosopher" or "dog" or both.
Your mom sounds great.
Thanks for sharing.
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Greg
#2 - same with me but with piano, my mother wanted me to be a concert pianist and forced me to practice ridiculous hours so the minute I got out of the house, I stopped. I really don't care either because all I learned was classical and cannot play by ear
#13 - My father wrote a novel when he was dying. He didn't finish. i was going to finish it but my mother has it so I guess I'll never see it again. It was about fratricide.
#16 - tramp stamp, tribal, lower back
#25 - I sneeze at least 6 times in a row. I cannot sneeze once. It used to transfer to the thing you refer to but not since SSRIs. Damn.
I like you list. I already knew I liked you and that you are a very interesting woman but you reinforced it.
number 15
I think that's cool about being married to a rock musician, though I offer my consolation on the hearing loss. That sucks. But I wish I were a rock musician, or was married to one.
Yeah, I hear stuff about that Ambien.
11-hilarious
14 & 15, very cool and definitely worth knowing
Imagine, my boring little list, getting all this attention! It's enough to make a shy girl blush!
Pudge does the Ultimate Grand Master Sneeze. He squenches up his whole little face then ACHOOOOO's, followed by riotous giggling and that BabySound that can only be described as, "Gheee!"
I love your 25 things, and I'll bet there are 25 million more that are just as lovable.
(thumbified with a Gheee!)
#14 is beyond cool- I wish I could do that
#1 - I do that too... for the past 3 months I've had a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast almost every day. I think my grandmother would be proud.
#2 - it's probably still there.. just needs the rust shaken off of it!
:-)
Eggs over easy & sourdough for me mostly
Gray--I'll go back to that again one day, I loved it! Makes life easier and it's so sparkle-y.
#*--only if they are very easy puzzles. Can't pronounce it correctly (or ninja, either), which annoys my kids.
And 14 is just awesome!
I just wanted to pop over and say I'm rooting for you in the job market, too! If I owned a company (or... anything), I'd hire you! Just to hear the Madonna stories.