50 Things About Me

Ok, so I stole this idea from David who stole it from Thursday. It is also featured on Marty's blog. It's a shameless copy of someone else's idea, but it seemed like fun and I really want to be part of their club. They went with 100 but I'm not really that interesting. So, here you go, 50 pointless factoids about sheltered little ole me:

1. As a kid I was the finickiest eater in all the land. I wouldn't touch a vegetable. I lived on mayonnaise sandwiches, pb&j (grape jelly only) and hot dogs with the ends cut off (because they look like bellybuttons). My mom thinks it's hysterical that I'm now a health conscious vegetarian.
2. I have a tendency to ramble on and on.
3. I grew up in a house where I wasn't permitted to be loud. Children were to be seen and not heard. I now speak REALLY loudly if I'm not careful.
4. Chocolate is a food group in and of itself.
5. I enjoy the sound of horse hooves galloping and the sound gravel makes when tires drive accross it.
6. My dad's house, which I loved more than any home I've ever lived in, was razed many years ago to become a parking lot for a Moose Lodge. I've never driven by because I think I'd get too emotional.
7. I love dogs. I want a Weimereiner someday.
8. I didn't vote in a presidential election until a few years ago because I never felt informed enough to make such a huge decision.
9. Sometimes I think that the sound leaves make when blowing in the wind is the same sound rain makes when it falls on the roof.
10. I used books to escape my reality during childhood. I still do it to this day.
11. One of my guilty pleasures is Dirty Dancing (the movie!)
12. I've never actually danced dirty.
13. I smoked pot once. I got all paranoid and actually started to worry about Homeland Security-no joke. Won't ever touch the stuff again.
14. When I eat cooked eggs the whites and the yokes have to be mixed together. Otherwise they're just disgusting. And who the hell was the first person to smell a hard boiled egg and say mmmm...smells good lets EAT that!
15. I've hated churches since I first stepped foot into one. Even as a child I felt oppressed and wanted nothing more than to get the heck out of there A.S.A.P.
16. One of my biggest fears is getting fat.
17. Soy dogs aren't as bad as I thought.
18. I don't have any wisdom teeth. They were cut out of my head.
19. Red Wine Only.
20. I once puked the brussell sprouts that my mom was making me eat back onto my plate. She didn't make me eat them again. HA!
21. I became environmentally concsious when I took 8th grade Earth Science. From then on I became somewhat of a radical recycler.
22. I loved hiking when I was a kid. My dad bought me the coolest pair of pink hiking boots ever!
23. I used to love watching my grandparents get sloppy drunk on Saturday nights (Martini nights at their house).
24. I used to sneak into my sister's room at night because I was afraid the boogy man would get me, and I figured I'd use her as a sheild.
25. My family used to gather in the bathroom and wave goodbye to my sister's poo while she was potty training. Otherwise she wouldn't go.
26. I resented the fact that my sister broke my whole Black Beauty play set.
27. I once worked in a restaurant where I had to wear a t-shirt that said "Former Contortionist"
28. I have a black thumb. I kill plants.
29. One of my toes faces the wrong direction.
30. Sangria, guacamole, and chimichangas are all proof that Mexicans make damn fine cuisine.
31. I get sad every time I see road kill.
32. One Thanksgiving I drove my car into a ditch full of cow manure in order to avoid hitting a cat. That was fun.
33. One day I want people to look at me and think, "That's a classy lady."
34. I always have a problem with the word dearth. I think it means an overabundance.
35. The first movie I ever saw on a VCR was 'Ferris Beuller's Day Off'. My dad rented both the player and the movie.
36. I also saw 'Amadeus' on that player and was so scared I couldn't sleep. Check the opening scene. It's awful.
37. I used to watch 'Friends' all the time. I liked it. I thought it was funny. I refuse to be ashamed. Same goes for Will and Grace.
38. I could never choose a favorite song, artist, or book. I simply like too many to choose.
39. I love photographs. My apartment has pictures of friends and family all over the place.
40. My first camera was a Fisher Price camera with disposable flash cubes. Remember those?
41. I LOVE the smell of basil. If good pesto wasn't so expensive I'd eat it all the time.
42. Crossword puzzles are stupid.
43. I don't have cable television because I have no will power and would spend too large a portion of my life planted in front of the boob tube.
44. My dad used to call the television a boob tube. Cracked me up every time.
45. Eating ice cream makes my stomach hurt. That doesn't stop me.
46. I am my own worst critic, and I'm a control freak.
47. I procrastinate more than anyone I know.
48. Some guy in a grocery store parking lot once asked me if I would give him a $20 bill for 20 dollars in food stamps. He was holding a case of beer.
49. On my first day of work in a grocery store a guy came through my register with 2 cases of beer and an economy size box of condoms. He was gross. I seriously considered asking him what his plans were for the evening.
50. I was annoyed when my mom made me start wearing bras at 13 years of age.

There you go. If anyone has a burning desire to read 50 more factoids about me, let me know and I'll consider expanding my list to its intended length. If not, I totally understand. That's a lot of useless info.