Post 25 mundane, pointless facts about yourself.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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  1. My chest & neck area turn red when I get upset and when I drink alcoholic beverages
  2. I rearrange the turkey on my sandwich because I’m picky
  3. I’ve visited Japan, Ireland, England and Canada
  4. I was in the US Air Force
  5. I can drive (and prefer) manual transmission cars
  6. I have three tattoos
  7. The first place I lived after leaving home was Las Vegas - that still seems incredible to me
  8. I loved The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  9. I didn’t like The Catcher in the Rye
  10. I have two giant, lovable dogs
  11. I love coffee but detest the Starbucks version of it
  12. I got married on the beach. We had a private ceremony, no guests. The people on the beach & hotel balcony clappped and cheered when we kissed. :slight_smile:
  13. I think I probably hurt a certain Doper, and if he’s reading this, I’m truly sorry, fwiw
  14. I once traded shirts with a biker in a bar, in front of everyone, after I “donated” my bra to the bar collection.
  15. I still have the biker’s (size XXXL) shirt
  16. If it was legal, I’d gladly kill my mom’s ex-husband - he needs it
  17. I voted for Clinton, then Bush, then Kerry and Obama
  18. I boycott Wal-Mart
  19. I’ve finally gone back to college now that I’m in my 30s
  20. I love my Mac and my iPhone
  21. My current favorite movie is Waitress
  22. I have a crush on Anderson Cooper - and Angelina Jolie
  23. I want to like sushi, but I just don’t
  24. My emotions run close to the surface
  25. Purple is my favorite color
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  1. I’m left-handed.
  2. I need driving glasses.
  3. I hate organic chemistry.
  4. I was born on a religious semi-holiday (St. Michael’s Day)
  5. I love to draw (and I’m not bad).
  6. I love to sing (and I’m very bad).
  7. I love my dog more than I love most people.
  8. I have a little nun figure made out of pipe cleaners that my best friend gave me for Christmas.
  9. When it comes to junk food, I have the self-control of a newborn kitten.
  10. I’m a brunette.
  11. I know a few words in Polish.
  12. Anatomy and the human body are fascinating to me.
  13. I love when it rains.
  14. I can’t stand superstitions, and my family has plenty (don’t throw your hair out of the window of a car, don’t put your hat on a table, don’t do laundry between Christmas and New Year’s, etc.)
  15. I love Frank Sinatra’s voice.
  16. I don’t want to have children.
  17. I cry at sad songs and movies but not at real-life tragedies.
  18. My parents getting divorced was one of the best things that ever happened to our family.
  19. I wish my brother would find lasting happiness in his life.
  20. Guys who wear glasses are exponentially sexier than those who don’t.
  21. I want to get a car.
  22. Taking a hot shower is one of the most enjoyable parts of my day.
  23. I love the Wally :smack: smiley.
  24. Fall is my favorite season.
  25. I’d like to try pot one of these days, just to see what the big deal is.
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  1. I am a Leo and a Rabbit, but I have always been very annoyed that both are my polar opposites.

  2. I once went at least 15 days without taking out my (regular) contact lenses, and my eyes were fine.

  3. If I fall asleep reading a book, whatever I’m reading morphs into one of a few Borges short stories.

  4. If I fall asleep listening to music, a similar thing happens, but I cannot recognize the piece of music that pops into my head.

  5. I have an irrational aversion to navy blue.

  6. My coloring is pale and washed-out, except for my eyes, which are very green with very dark lashes.

  7. All of my fingers are double-jointed like this except for my left thumb.

  8. I don’t know exactly what marijuana smells like.

  9. Today, every cold-weather accessory I wore was hand-knit by me.

  10. I didn’t feel like my Ipod was truly mine until I quit using a protective case and let it get scratched up.

  11. Had I joined the SDMB about five years ago, I probably would have become one of the resident Tolkien nerds. Now, I’m all burned out.

  12. Almost every year, my comfort reading includes the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, and at least two things each by Neil Gaiman and Neal Stephenson.

  13. I’m always on the lookout for authors named Neil, because I seem to have a good track record with them.

  14. I indulge a cyclical urge to let my hair grow long and then chop it off really short, even though I always regret the awkward intermediate stage.

  15. I have never dyed said hair. I’m too afraid of having non-matching roots.

  16. Although I love watching movies, I only own DVD, and it was a gift.

  17. I am 21 years old, and I have never been in a relationship. I am like a female version of Dr. Horrible or the lonely guys here who always start sad dating threads.

  18. I suspect that most of my problems are at least tangentially related to my horrible body image.

  19. I don’t like mildly sweet drinks. For example, I like girly sugary cappuccino confections, strong black coffee, and nothing in between.

  20. I don’t like any fruits or vegetables of Cucurbitaceae, Solanaceae (except the potato), or Prunus.

  21. I am a full-time student of neuroscience and a part-time sandwich maker.

  22. I keep my fingernails ridiculously short. If they get past 1 mm, they must be trimmed.

  23. I love personality quizzes and surveys.

  24. I am afflicted by the procrastination/perfectionism complex.

  25. The first of my wisdom teeth just emerged three days ago, and I barely noticed.

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  1. I hate olives. They taste disgusting.

  2. I am a better-than-average trombone player. I used to play bass trombone in jazz band (I’m * terrible *at improvising though.)

  3. Almost every single person in my family has done something horrible (not always to me) that most of the people on this board would consider unforgivable and morally repugnant. Attempted murder, child abuse, domestic violence, rape, suicide, etc. I love them anyway. I did the best I could with who I had. I know it’s hard to understand, so I don’t usually talk about it.

  4. I am a totally different person around my husband than around anyone else. I’m funny, confident, and quick-witted, but also arrogant, quicker to anger and prone to sulky tantrums. I’m trying to find a way to learn to be this person with others, but mostly I just try to project infinite lovingkindness and self-consciousness and whatever other banal, safe characteristics I’m pretty sure I won’t be hated for.

  5. My Mom has a degree in mechanical engineering. My aunt was a biology major in undergrad. I have a female friend who is an aerospace engineer specializing in jet propulsion. Every implicit association test I’ve ever taken indicates I have a subconscious tendency to associate women more strongly with careers in math and science. For those who don’t know about IATs, that is pretty much the opposite of the way most people score. I am personally not very gifted at math and science. In fact my basic arithmetic sucks and high school chemistry damn near killed me.

  6. I used to be a phenomenal singer. In eighth grade I was accepted into a competitive international choir program with no history of voice training whatsoever. I couldn’t even sight read. They offered me a full scholarship. I didn’t get to go. I was never so fulfilled as a singer than when I sang hymns in church choir, often at the mic. Most of that talent has been lost since I don’t sing much anymore.

  7. Earlier this week I helped an overweight homeless lady who was struggling to climb the staircase in the train station. Streams of people were literally shoving themselves past her as she struggled in obvious pain up the staircase. As I stood at the top of the stairs with her packages, encouraging her to keep going while everyone bottlenecked behind her, I had to analyze my motivations: do I want publicity? To feel powerful? To be needed? The answer is that I know what it’s like to hurt and I would want someone else there for me. I genuinely don’t understand why everyone else ignored her. I gave serious thought to whether I would have been willing to miss my train for her. (I didn’t have to in this case, and I honestly can’t say I would have been willing to miss it.) I think about that kind of thing often.

  8. I look forward to being old. Particularly because then I’ll have wrinkles. I love wrinkly things. I can’t wait to be wrinkly.

  9. I am extremely close to my Aunt, who is a combo mother/sister/best friend to me. She’s done so many beautiful and positive things that she is a miracle and objectively awesome. I pretty much worship her and doubt a stronger bond exists on this planet.

  10. I once took a difficult 17th/18th century philosophy course just for the hell of it, having no background in formal philosophy. Because of health issues, I had missed over one month of class and only read two of the assigned books (out of like eight.) The rest I skimmed in a cram session the night before. The day of the blue book exam, I had a panic attack and couldn’t understand the words I was reading for a full 10 minutes. Then I finally put pencil to paper. I ran out of time to answer the questions. I pulled an A- (curved… 84% on the exam) Every time I start to feel like an idiot, I pull out the exam and read my answers, which were almost completely regurgitated from my cram session the night before:

I barely remember what that shit means. But yeah. I did that.

  1. In a relate vein, I have never been turned down for a career opportunity that I wanted. I have always been hired after the first interview and I have been accepted into every college and study abroad program and research position I have ever applied for. This drives my husband (and others) absolutely freakin’ nuts. I think it’s partly just happy luck – two of my strengths are writing and being with people one on one, and job applications involve both. On the other hand, I tend to prepare for these things like crazy beforehand. When I really want something, I bust my ass for it. Still, I often wonder when the other shoe is going to drop. Eventually, some applicant will be a better writer and a smoother talker. Let’s just hope it’s not grad school…

I think 12 is enough.

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I also did mine on Facebook; I modified it slightly:

  1. I have three kids, all girls, ages 20, 13 and about-to-turn 11.
  2. I am 43 years old.
  3. I have been married for almost 16 years.
  4. My first marriage lasted about 3-1/2 years.
  5. I have been a stay-at-home mom for almost 14 years.
  6. I like to write, love grammar and spelling, yet love LOLCats.
  7. I love to cook and bake, and I’m pretty good at both.
  8. I need music in my life like I need to breathe.
  9. I wish I played musical instruments (mostly guitar, piano and sax).
  10. I love to sing, but am way too shy to do it in public.
  11. I am a Beatles FREAK.
  12. I believe most good music was made from the 50s to the 80s. The 90s sucked, but it’s gotten better.
  13. I wasn’t a dog person until Sandy came into our lives six years ago.
  14. I love cats; black ones are my favorite. It’s not home unless a black cat is curled up somewhere.
  15. I have a lot of anxiety; both social and general. It’s crappy.
  16. I have three tattoos and will probably get another someday.
  17. Only my ears are pierced.
  18. I obsess about my health.
  19. I am an atheist (thank you, Catholic church and fanatically religious mom!).
  20. I always feel my best when I’m at the beach.
  21. I hate winter with a passion and plan to move to Florida after the girls have graduated.
  22. I challenge myself every year to read 100 books. Last year I only made it to 80.
  23. I used to be a hard-core partier, but now only drink once in a while.
  24. The only occupation I ever wanted when I was a kid was to be a stay-at-home mom.
  25. I am a lot happier now than I ever was in my 20s and 30s.
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  1. I have a cat named Buddy.

  2. The cat’s real name is Andrew but nobody wants to call him that so I gave up.

  3. Snickers or Hershey Bar with almonds are my favorite candy bars.

  4. I do laundry every two or three days.

  5. I make outstanding chicken salad.

  6. My sister is a mortgage banker.

  7. I work out half an hour a day, five days a week.

  8. I sleep with the light on.

  9. I haven’t been to the movies in a year and a half.

  10. My favorite TV show is “In Plain Sight”.

  11. I almost never eat vegetables.

  12. Sometimes I buy my skivvies at the Dollar Store.

  13. My mom eats like a stevedore but she is really tiny and never gains any weight.

  14. I will have plastic surgery the minute I think I need it.

  15. I don’t like furniture that moves.

  16. I’m too impatient to ever suck on a hard candy completely before crunching it up.

  17. I lost 3 pints of blood once and almost died.

  18. On weekends during the summer I sell stuff at flea markets.

  19. I really hate to drive.

  20. I do creative writing as a hobby.

  21. I am a lousy cook except for chicken salad.

  22. I have a pierced belly button and one small tattoo.

  23. I don’t like anything crunchy in ice cream. In fact I only like vanilla ice cream.

  24. My hands and feet get cold a lot.

  25. I love scented candles. Yankee Candles are my favorites.

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Ok, I broke down and did this on Facebook the other day, so I will copy/paste here. May be kinda long. Enjoy!

(1) My boyfriend and I dated our senior year of high school, and then we were separated when he went into the military and I went to college. 12 years later, we reconnected and have been together ever since (going on four years now). I moved to California to live with him for 1.5 years, and then we both moved back to Virginia.

(2) Aside from my current boyfriend (see above) my only other long-term relationship was with my college boyfriend, who I dated for 9 years. Yes, NINE years.

(3) For a couple of years during college, I designed and sewed my own clothes. I looked like a hippie.

(4) In college, I was the school newspaper’s live music critic, so I got into local concerts for free, met lots of musician types, and wrote articles critiquing the music. It was really fun.

(5) Also during college, I was the vice president of the WVU Young Democrats. When Bill Clinton came to West Virginia, I got to shake his hand.

(6) In addition, I really wish I hadn’t slacked off in college. I was plenty capable of making straight A’s but I was too busy partying to worry about studying.

(7) Speaking of school, I would really love to go to graduate school. For what, though, I don’t know. I am interested in so many things.

(8) Speaking of which, I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. I have been a newspaper reporter, then an editor, then a legislative researcher, and now a web designer. But I still haven’t found the right fit yet.

(9) One of my guilty pleasures is watching Golden Girls, Prince of Bel Air and Roseanne on late-night TV.

(10) Speaking of which, I prefer to sleep with the TV on. Otherwise, I can’t fall asleep because my brain won’t stop thinking, worrying, analyzing, etc.

(11) I am a true night owl. If left to my own devices, I would sleep during the day and stay up all night. My friends and family hate it. I hate it too but I can’t help it.

(12) I am an internet junkie. I’ve been hooked ever since we got Compuserve and AOL in 1994.

(13) I taught myself web design, and now I do it for a living.

(14) I am really into researching my genealogy. I have my family tree traced back to my great (x16) grandfather who was born in 1459 in England.

(15) 101 of my Facebook friends are people I knew from elementary, middle and high school.

(16) 18 of my Facebook friends are my family members.

(17) I really wish I was more outgoing in high school, but I had self-esteem issues that prevented me from “putting myself out there.”

(18) This is probably a very controversial viewpoint, but I think many of society’s problems would be solved if all forms of birth control were free. The money we (as a society) spent would be trivial compared to the benefits (societal and monetary).

(19) I will not change my last name if and when I get married.

(20) I HATE the telephone, and I owe a lot of people huge apologies for not answering my phone or returning calls. But I just hate talking on the phone and I rarely listen to my voicemail. If it’s important, I wish people would just e-mail me or send me a text message.

(21) I get the world’s worst hangovers whenever I drink. That is why I hardly ever drink anymore.

(22) Speaking of drinking, one time, I got drunk and my cousin gave me a tattoo on my ankle, and I had no memory of it the next day. It is really ugly and I would like to get it removed. I don’t want a tattoo.

(23) I really love the great outdoors. One of my favorite activities is hiking, camping, and backpacking. However, I haven’t been in way too long, and that makes me sad.

(24) One of my hobbies is knitting. I designed my own scarf pattern and published it online, and the site gets an average of 200 hits per day. You can find it here: BrookeNelson.com - Brooke's Column of Leaves Knitted Scarf - Free Pattern

(25) I’m starting to get a lot of gray hair, necessitating me to color it, which I hate having to do. But it’s better than being gray at age 33.

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Okay, so far there’s not much in the way of mundane or pointless going on here. I’m seeing interesting and integral. Carry on…

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  1. I have all my baby teeth in a jar. (My mom collected them)
  2. I have a tattoo of an spider on my shoulder, whom I call Chip.
  3. I have 57 pairs of socks.
  4. Candles creep me out a lot.
  5. I am extremely short sighted and wear contact lenses since I was 16.
  6. I had my first smoke when I was 22.
  7. My waist size is 30 inches.
  8. I drank every day from when I was 25-26 and 3 months old.
  9. I watched my cat having babies when I was 8.
  10. I was in love with a 46 year old woman(she was too).
  11. I can wiggle both my eyebrows and raise them independently.
  12. I wrote my GRE but did not go to America.
  13. I have not changed my job in 5 years, but have worked in 3 places doing radically different work
  14. All my molars have fillings in them
  15. I make new friends every 2 years unintentionally. I have only 3 that I know since childhood
  16. I can touch my thumb to the back of my wrist.
  17. I like to see women wearing big boots
  18. I first had sex when I was 22
  19. I like to draw fictional antique maps
    20 I hate ankle socks, and if I happed to wear one by mistake I krrp pulling on them
  20. I can speak 5 languages decently
  21. I fiddle with my hair constantly when I am thinking.
  22. I have a heart shaped mark on my thumb
  23. My sister had a miscarriage when I went to see her after 2 years.
  24. I have had only 2 meals a day since 3 years (wake up too late for breakfast).
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If you’ve mentioned before that you went to WVU, I missed it. Another Mountaineer here! BFA 1980, MA 1982.

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  1. I grew up across the street from a potato farm.
  2. I was the youngest person ever to tend bar legally in New York State (on my 18th birthday)
  3. My grandfather was friends with Albert Einstein.
  4. My favorite meal as a kid was liver and lima beans. Still love it.
  5. The first computer I owned was a Digi-Comp.
  6. I’ve been a NY Mets fan since 1965.
  7. I had press credentials and walked out on the field of Yankee stadium for the 1977 All-Star Game.
  8. The only places I’ve traveled to outside the US are Canada and the Bahamas.
  9. I was on my high school tennis team.
  10. I started getting gray hair in high school.
  11. The first car I owned was a 1969 Chevy Nova.
  12. I’ve lived at the same address since 1979.
  13. My computer is in the basement.
  14. I met my wife at a creative writing class.
  15. I was tuckerized in a novel when I was in college.
  16. I haven’t shaved since 1994.
  17. “Chocoholic” doesn’t even begin to describe my passion for it.
  18. I grew up on showtunes and Broadway musicals, and still love them.
  19. I was one of the first people in the world to see “The Three Doctors” Doctor Who special.
  20. The three flavors I detest the most are coffee, beer, and coconut.
  21. I love to walk for exercise.
  22. I used to sail a sunfish.
  23. The best meal I ever had was at Kiku’s Japanese Restaurant in San Francisco.
  24. I love riding the subway/light rail.
  25. If I could live anywhere in the world, it would probably be Fredricton, New Brunswick.
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  1. I’m a Sagitarius
  2. I like cheese
  3. I’m double jointed
  4. I don’t much care for Lewis Carrol’s work - my username is based on something totally different
  5. I’m getting married to a man 12 years younger than I am
  6. I love the movie Pretty Woman
  7. I have four birds, two cats and a dog
  8. I love shoes
  9. I used to be anorexic
  10. Raw tuna is my favourite food
  11. Green is my favourite colour.
  12. I’m an excellent baker
  13. I have really dry skin on my feet.
  14. I live in Canada
  15. I spend and obscene amount of $$ on clothing
  16. I look a bit like Audrey Hepburn
  17. I can’t sing. At all.
  18. I can read French but not speak it.
  19. I collect art. I have tonnes of it.
  20. I have about 100 handbags
  21. I like to sleep in on the weekend
  22. I’m a good skier
  23. I’m really good at budgeting, even though I hate it.
  24. I like watching House.
  25. My job makes me crazy.
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  1. I like the rind on cheese better than the cheese itself
  2. I walk a mile to the train station each work day - and again on the way home
  3. I sleep about 4.5 hours a night
  4. I do not have any food dislikes that I can think of
  5. I can juggle (only 3 balls)
  6. I can play the blues harmonica
  7. I have never broken a major bone (might have cracked a toe once)
  8. I seldom listen to music, except by accident
  9. I like to read SF short stories
  10. I hardly ever stick at any hobby or pastime for very long
  11. I have a talking pet budgerigar named Caesar
  12. I have never been to America
  13. I have a scar on my scalp, put there by a falling teapot
  14. I don’t like sitting in the sunshine
  15. I seldom eat breakfast
  16. I like beer, but I have no real preference between types (lager, bitter, stout, mild, etc) or brands.
  17. I have lots of moles
  18. I used to often be told that I looked like Prince Edward
  19. I found it easy to give up smoking, so I find it hard to sympathise with those that find it hard
  20. I can voluntarily open my eustachian tubes
  21. I collect photographs of lost gloves (this is about the only exception to item 10).
  22. I love big thunderstorms (when I’m indoors)
  23. I am not really interested in sport
  24. I’ve never thrown a punch in anger
  25. I permanently stopped taking milk and sugar in my coffee, just to make it simpler
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Using the OP’s catagories:

  1. I’m an Tauras
  2. I was born in the year of the “Who Gives a Fuck.” That’s 1969.
  3. I am the oldest of three boys.
  4. I had my first sip of alcohol sometime during mid high school. Neither parent drinks to amount to anything.
  5. I had my most recent alcoholic drink a couple of minutes ago.
  6. I’m retired…
  7. Last rock concert that I’ve seen was Peter and Gordon sometime around1966.
  8. I was born in Sandy Hook, Kentucky.
  9. The farthest I’ve travelled away from home is Vietnam.
  10. My favorite vegetable is a whole lot of vegetables.
  11. Don’t do much with magazines but I do check out Flash Your Rack at fyr.com every day.
  12. I travel as much as possible. At the moment we are San Antonio, TX.
  13. I can snap my fingers. I can’t roll my tongue. I can wiggle my ears.
  14. I once ate two whole pizzas and went to the bathroom. But that wasn’t my strangest trip to the potty.
  15. I have posted on the SDMB for over a-pretty-good-while-now.
  16. Actually we have quite a lot, but everything is paid for.
  17. Ms Hook likes me in blue.
  18. I walk at least 3 miles a day. Everyday without fail, unless, of course, I don’t.
  19. My username is the town in Kentucky where I was born.
  20. I don’t exactly have a favorite comic book.
  21. Current earworm - the Tom Rush version of “These Days”. The last line is stuck in my head.
  22. I drink plain old Folgers coffee, black.
  23. I have been married for over 40 years.
  24. I once had my picture taken with Vada Pinson.
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I’ll give you ten.

  1. I’m a Gemini, born on D-Day

  2. I watched Stalag 17 late one night and decided the protagonist was the greatest character I’d ever seen. So that’s my doper name.

  3. I semi-voluntarily joined the Air Force and hated every minute. Joining the military is like marriage, and should never, ever be done for money.

  4. I was on Jeopardy a few years back and won $22k. Would have won much more, but I didn’t know Nixon shook hands with Elvis.

  5. My parents are pleasant people, but they lied to me about putting me through college and then lied about putting me through grad school. I wish I could forgive them, but I can’t.

  6. The last time I went out on a date was four years ago.

  7. My hair started falling out when I was 17. You can insult any other aspect of my life (mother’s promiscuity, penis size, etc.) and I’ll be cool, but say a word about my baldness, and that’ll hurt.

  8. I’ve written three published books. Techie stuff. I thought the third would bring me riches and fame. I was mistaken.

  9. I love corny 80s music. I attribute the impending fall of Western civilization to the fact that everyone else has become too hip for corny music.

  10. Ever since I read Freedom from Fear by David Kennedy, I’ve started to think that a good history beats any kind of fiction.

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I’m a new doper, although I’ve been lurking on and off for years.
I really appreciate the opportunity to contribute.

  1. I was born in Wellesley Hospital in Toronto in 1954.
  2. My Mother had five children. Three survived. Either way, I am the middle one.
  3. When I was an infant, I looked like Edward G. Robinson.
  4. I was physically assaulted when I was about two years old.
  5. Our next-door neighbor through all of my childhood was my Public School Principal.
  6. As a wee lad, I once lit my hand on fire trying to re-fill a lighter.
  7. My favourite piece of music as a child was Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.
  8. My first concert was actually a review: Flanders and Swann, “At the Drop of Another Hat” at the O’Keefe Center in 1962.
  9. I sang in the choir at church until I was about ten.
  10. I was bullied badly.
  11. I was and still am obsessed with trains.
  12. Until a few year ago, I had an “unhealthy” interest in my older sister.
  13. My Father landed on Juno Beach on D-Day.
  14. My Mother instilled in me, a deep and abiding reverence for nature, the earth and all living things.
  15. My first “movie-star” crush was either Haley Mills or Doris Day. I can’t recall the details.
  16. I did not do well in school. I never really graduated grade 9.
  17. I developed an early interest in chemistry, especially as it applied to loud noises, bright flashes and bad smells.
  18. My first eperience with recreational drugs was with LSD. I was in shop class. It was not great.
  19. I love Big-Band swing music.
  20. My first experience with masturbation was accidental. I was sure I was going to die.
  21. In the early 70’s I was on occasion, mistaken for James Taylor.
  22. The first time I got married, I was 18. That marriage lasted 12 years.
  23. I can send and recieve Morse code at 20 words/minute.
  24. I had an MI (heat attack) in 2001 and quad CABG (bypass) in 2007. I asked the surgeon if he would take pictures for me. He did.
  25. I run my own business.

I didn’t think I could think of 25 things but I ended up having to edit the list down.

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Let’s Go Mountaineers! I’m BA 1998. Nice to seen another 'Eer here!

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  1. I was born on a Saturday in May at 9:15 a.m.
  2. Today I sliced my right middle finger on a biscuit cutter. I was not making biscuits.
  3. I drink iced tea so much that at one point I believe it made me anemic.
  4. I bite my cuticles, especially when stressed.
  5. I wear a size 7.5 shoe.
  6. I’ve never had a hangover, which surprises me given my stellar alcohol tolerance.
  7. I live in a 200yr old fixer-upper house, a fact which both makes me proud and embarrasses me simultaneously.
  8. When I was about five years old I accidentally ate a marijuana brownie. It tasted like dirt. I spit it out.
  9. I am a night owl.
  10. I have trouble choosing window treatments.
  11. I can pick things up with my toes.
  12. I have fabulous eyelashes.
  13. I am not afraid of the number 13.
  14. When I was little I used to try to stay up until 10:10 so I could see the numbers on my digital clock.
  15. I enjoy using power tools that the average woman is supposed to fear.
  16. I prefer vanilla ice cream to chocolate.
  17. I would rather hang wallpaper than paint.
  18. I’ve never gone skiing.
  19. My hands smell like ham right now.
  20. I started reading “Little House in the Big Woods” to my daughters today.
  21. I kind of like Mondays.
  22. I can touch my nose with my tongue.
  23. I believe I have a better than decent singing voice, with room for improvement.
  24. I love the smell of hyacinths.
  25. I am allergic to mangoes (they are related to poison ivy).
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  1. I was born in July 1961, a couple of weeks before the President
  2. I’ve worn glasses since I turned 17 and I’ve never considered contacts
  3. The same year I got the glasses I got my first dental crowns
  4. My shoe size is 10
  5. I try to never live for long where I can’t have groceries & drugstore within walking distance.
  6. All through grade and middle school I was always the top of the class
  7. When I was 8 I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up
  8. I just got appointed to the same nominal title in the same organization as 16 years ago, only now it earns me 3 times as much.
  9. I am a Kentucky Colonel.
  10. The last three weddings I attended involved long flights.
  11. There seems to be a notch cut in my earlobe and nobody seems to know if that was congenital or an accident
  12. My favorite mixed drink is the Gin & Tonic
  13. I am the oldest of 3 siblings.
  14. I draw cartoons for fun
  15. Between 2000 and 2001 my income went down by 75%
  16. I have hearing loss above 3KHz and tinnitus in my right ear
  17. I am a lifelong fan of The Who. Which may go a long way towards explaining #16.
  18. I have a hard time keeping my surroundings neat
  19. I get anxiety episodes and can become quite agitated
  20. Size 34 jeans fit me right, but it has to be 36 with dress pants
  21. I am virtually debt free, but the market has set back my savings & investments by at least 6 years.
  22. I am single, never married, not dating, not particularly looking either as of right now
  23. I am right now about to look outside to see WTH has all the neighborhood dogs riled up
  24. I am devoid of any musical talent or skill, including not just instrumental skills but singing pitch and dancing rhythm.
  25. I have a number of other irrelevant pieces of information about my person and circumstances, but the OP asks for 25, so I stop here.
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  1. I’m 34
  2. I keep forgetting how old I am, so I had to think about that
  3. I’m a Scorpio
  4. I love coffee
  5. I was diagnosed with SIDS when I was 3 months old (obviously I didn’t die, so probably most convenient diagnosis)
  6. I write too much, hence the username
  7. I’m staring at a photograph of a castle above my fireplace
  8. I really enjoy running - it makes my body buzz
  9. I’m female
  10. Some of my friends admit they find me either scary or remind them of Karen on Will & Grace, just not alcoholic
  11. I love seeing the sun come up
  12. It was almost 60 degrees here in St. Louis today, though it snowed 6-8 inches on Tuesday
  13. I used to be an archaeologist
  14. My eyes are brown
  15. I think about sex a lot more now than I used to when I was younger
  16. Piggybacking on what Solfy said, I like Friday the 13th (the day, not the movie)
  17. When I was in 5th grade, I used to need perms or a curling iron for my hair to be curly. Then one day, my hair got wildly curly all by itself and I haven’t had a perm or needed a curling iron since (well, except for in the 80s when the claw was in style; I no longer have bangs, thank God)
  18. It’s very hard to explain to people what I do now that I’m no longer an archaeologist. And when I do, their eyes glaze over
  19. I really, really want a steak right now
  20. But I’ll probably have popcorn for dinner instead
  21. I get bored at work if I’m not forced to learn a lot at once
  22. I don’t like it when people don’t use their turn signals
  23. Even though I like being able to sleep in, when I actually do, it gives me a headache
  24. I get desperate for alone time, but when I get it, I get antsy
  25. The more I learn and the more people I meet, the stupider I feel