For the sake of full disclosure, I wasn’t sure if I should post this under my cartouche blog or as O'Really? (for those 87 people that are still in the dark, I write under both names here on OS).  And then I figured that it didn’t really matter which blog I used,  because my response to heidibeth’s open call is kind of like a six of one, half a dozen of the other and merges both of my personas and writing sensibilities into one.  I think.

Here’s my dirty dozen:

When I was in my 20’s, I broke up with a man I was living with in Athens, Greece when he finally returned after having gone missing for a week without any explanation.  I found him (drunk) in the bar across the street from his restaurant, which I had been running on his behalf.  In a matter of 15 minutes, I told him to find someone else, ran to the apartment, packed up my shit and threw the keys to the restaurant, his apartment and car into the sewer and watched them float down the street.  The keys, that is.  I couldn’t throw his apartment and car into the sewer.  That would have been way too great!  It was the only set of keys that existed.  You could say that I’m …………..

I dream in color and multiple languages.   I utilize the different languages I speak for various aspects or functions of my life.  I cook in “French”, generally count in Greek and clean/organize in Hungarian.  I write (mostly) in English.  I have sex in my imagination ...............

I have had 23 legal addresses in nine countries on three continents.  I had only two up until the age of 18.  I can remember all of them.  I probably …………….

My nails and hair grow really fast.  On a completely unrelated note, I broke my right foot four times in less than two years. Otherwise, I’m ……….

My sense of taste and smell are highly developed.  I won a blind taste/scent test when I was in fifth grade.  Take that Top Chef.  I can duplicate just about any recipe after tasting it once from pure memory.  Except………….

I can do fairly complex math in my head but I can never seem to find my glasses.  By all accounts, I’m just ……………

I have a secret desire to try standup comedy.  I would just prefer to do it by sitting down.  I think I am funnier than john blumenthal…………..

When people first meet me, they think I am a therapist, an attorney or an executive of some sort.  I’ve also been asked (on more than one occasion) if I’m single a ……..

I’ve been told that I give great advice, dinner parties, massages and presents.  I’ve also been told I give great……….

I’ve seen, done and been to ……….

I know, I’ve tried or have met….....

And, in spite (or because) of all that,

I remain extremely …………