1) The first car I was allowed to drive was a white, soft-top, 1992 Geo Tracker with a purple and pink splash decal streaking down both sides. Every time I passed another Geo Tracker on the road, I would put my fist in the air and declare “Geo Trackers unite!” It did not matter whether I was alone in the car or not.
2) I aspire to be a homeowner. A homeowner who has a lot of cool junk laying around... Like shrunken heads and incense and silk scarves! I want to be a homeowner who always has an open door. Not literally. That would kill me in heating costs. But you know what I mean. And I want to host weekly board game/burrito night where everyone is invited!
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3) The first R movie I ever sneaked into was Deep Blue Sea. It remains one of my all-time favorite movies. Smart sharks are awesome!
4) Whenever I eat an orange, I cut it so I can make a pretend dental retainer out of the peel.
5) I love being read aloud to. I think almost every bedtime of my early childhood involved one of my parents or my grandma reading to me. Book on tape is nice, but there is something comforting about snuggling up on the couch, closing my eyes and nagging the person who is reading to me to do different voices for each character.
6) I bought a Ronco fruit dehydrator. AND IT WAS NOT A WASTE OF MONEY!
7) I have been drinking coffee since I was about ten or eleven.
8) Famous people I have met (and can remember): David Sedaris (author), Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon front man), Tom Pease (children's musician... sort of like Raffi, except skinnier), Herb Kohl (Politician and guy who owns Kohl's stores), The skinny guy from American Pickers... Wow. I'm kind of lame in the stalking-famous-people department.
9) You know that thing about how if you take a loose eyelash and make a wish as you blow it away, you'll get your wish? Well, when I was little, I mistakenly thought that I was supposed to eat the eyelash to make my wish come true. I have eaten a lot of eyelashes in my time. This is probably gross to most people, but I don't even bat an eye when I get a hair in my food at a restaurant. Really, what's the big deal when I probably have a whole eyelash hairball stuck in some gastrointestinal cranny.
10) I bite my nails.
11) I keep a Sacajawea dollar in my purse at all times. Padre gave it to me for luck when I graduated from NMU.
12) My favorite color is pink. Blue, green and black tie for second.
13) I have never been cool, but I've always had enough friends to ward off anyone looking at me suspiciously and declaring “It's always the quiet ones.”
14) I have never found a pizza I didn't like.
15) My boss throws erasers at my head.
16) I had a crush on Sonic the Hedgehog as a little girl.
17) I have been pulled over by the police several times. I never got a ticket for anything, probably because the officers saw the look of genuine guilt, fear, panic on my face. Also I sweat a lot when I'm nervous. I did, however, get nailed for a parking ticket once. What can I say? I park where I want.
18) If I ever come into more money than I can use, I want to donate my zillions to space research and bio-domes on the moon and self-sustaining space ships and stuff like that. I am pretty terrified about the way we as a species have other interests in mind than our own self-preservation. Why are we squabbling about politics? There are asteroids out there that we need to knock off course! Asteroids! Moreover, we're nearly on the brink of massive pandemics and nuclear wars. We need to save and breed all of the smart people! We need to keep them in space bio-domes! We need to act now!!! Go Stevie Hawkins! Get on the shuttle!
19) When I was eight, I declared one night at the dinner table that I wanted to be a stripper when I grew up. Silence. I was watching a lot of TV Land at that time. I guess that is what I thought Barbara Eaden's job title was.
20) I want someone to buy me a teeth-whitening gift certificate for Christmas. Then I will have to stop drinking coffee and tea. :(
21) I wrote a novel that I will never show anyone. That is, unless I wake up one day and it suddenly transforms into something I'm not completely embarrassed about.
22) I have had this reoccurring dream since I was really little. I am Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. I go into a closet and through a knot hole in the wood wall, I see an eye. I somehow know it's the eye of Robo Cop (I have never actually seen Robo Cop.). Then I fall into a completely different world where mean claymation rocks with faces spit pebbles at me and tell me I'm stupid. I go down a manhole to escape the rocks. I find yet another world. I am a human game piece on a giant Monopoly board. The other game pieces are Santa Claus and the devil. I tell Santa I want to go home. He tells me I can, but I can never come back. Santa's voice echos and I am transported back home. Then that's it. Screwed up, right?
23) I have two big brothers.
24) My driving skills are substandard.
25) My biggest fear is heights. I stayed in the basement when my class took us to the Sears Tower. I'd rather eat spiders. Dead, non-poisonous spiders. But spiders nonetheless.
So, apparently, my fact-checker boyfriend informs me that Herb Kohl has not had a hand in the Kohl's stores since the 70's and was never the owner. My bad. Happy Brian? :P
ReplyDeleteWow, more than I meant to type, but here ya go:
ReplyDelete3) My first R rated movie in a theater was one I did not sneak into, because someone's mom took us. I was 9 and the movie was Hackers. WHY did someone's mom let us in to see that?!
5) Being read aloud to is the best thing in the universe to get me to sleep. It's like magic! Soooo soothing. I sympathize with this!
8) I live right outside of LA, so my list of famous people may be longer, but NOT more impressive than one that includes both David Sedaris AND Kevin Cronin! Niiiice.
16) Please tell me you had a crush on Trent, Daria's best friend Jane's older brother on Daria. PLEASE. I won't feel so alone.
Hmmm... I didn't really get into my love of socially-rejected weirdos until late teenagerdom. But when it hit me, it really hit me. Now I think Trent might be "my type."
ReplyDeleteI want to know your famous people! I forgot to say that I met MC Chris of high-voiced rapper fame.
He was just too cool for school at all times. Loved it!
ReplyDeleteUhhh, let's see. The thing is, that the ones you run into by accident are never the ones you are excited to see. Just stumbling upon them in public: Keifer Sutherland, Pink, Matthew Perry, Ben Stiller and his wife, Pam and Jim from The Office, Rainn Wilson, Chrissy from Growing Pains (yessssss!), Paul Kinsey from Mad Men, and that's all I can think of right now. Waiting to meet them at an event: Adam Clayton (bass player for U2) and Bono, James Marsters (Spike on Buffy), Joss Whedon, John Edwards... my brain is going dead. Lots of musicians nobody knows. Hah.
Wait! You mean you aspire to meet Joss Whedon or you did meet Joss Whedon? If it's the latter, am I wasting my time fantasizing about marrying him or is he really as cool in person as I hope he is?
ReplyDeleteNo, no. I met him at a thing about 6 years ago? (I think that's right; I think I was about 19.) I just think it's different when your PURPOSEFULLY run into a celebrity rather than when you just see them at a concert or a restaurant or something.
ReplyDeleteAnd... well. He was kinda sweaty and pressed for time. I have an awkwardly sweaty photo with him. And most anyone from Buffy and Angel (except, of course, Buffy or Angel). This was back in The Day. Most of the cast was nice, except Emma Caufield. Julie Benz was the nicest. Okay, showing the nerdy side. Again. Haha.