50 Things About Me

1. I was born in the year of the monkey.
2. I am a Capricorn and although I pay little attention to horoscopes fit the description to a ridiculous degree.
3. I can drive a motorcycle.
4. I am very handy and have replaced light switches in my home, amongst other repairs. It hasn’t burned down. Yet.
5. I have always hated clowns.
6. I am very good with language but a complete dolt at math.
7. Bullies make me very angry.
8. I'm 5' 1-3/4" but round up to 5' 2" because saying you're 3/4 of an inch is like saying you're 35 and a half.
9. The word most commonly used to describe me is 'patient.' Stop thinking 'mental.'
10. This being said, I have a very long fuse but there is a very big bomb at the end of it. Piss me off at your peril.
11. I like taking photos.
12. I took piano lessons for 7 years and voice lessons for 5. Can no longer play the piano (can still read music though) but can still sing. Rumour has it. See #13.
13. I love to sing, although am not impressed with my own voice. I did pass the audition for a choir, though, so may not be as bad as I fear.
14. The first album I bought was the Beatles "Twist and Shout." Yes, I am old. Shut up.
15. I have seen the Aurora Borealis.
16. I used to be married but got time off for good behaviour.
17. I am tired of being single.
18. I am afraid no man will ever love me.
19. I have never, ever had a one-night stand that was any good.
20. I chose my occupation because I couldn't find a job, couldn't afford university (yet) and I heard an ad on the radio. WTF - It pays the bills. Almost.
21. I am embarrassed that I never got a university degree.
22. At the end of my only year of university, my French prof told me I had a knack for languages and should pursue a career in that field. I did not listen. I have always regretted that.
23. I did not dare to try to enter a profession because I make mistakes. I found out too late that so do they.
24. I do not regret not pursuing the occupation I did one year of the four-year degree for, though.
25. Nobody wanted me on their team in school sports.
26. I can barely remember not having a cell phone, laptop computer, or digital camera although I am STILL constantly amazed by them.
27. I can’t help it. I love Wal-Mart. I know it’s uncool. I don’t care.
28. I put things off WAY past the last minute.
29. I would love to still be smoking but watched my mother die of lung cancer, so can't. Which is a good thing... the not smoking part, I mean.
30. I rarely watch TV. Sometimes documentaries or movies hold my attention but sitcoms don't anymore and reality TV is just stupid.
31. I like to stay up very late. Even if I am exhausted.
32. I don't like getting up in the morning. Mostly because of #31.
33. When I am alone, I prefer to have some background noise, like a radio or TV or CD. Total silence mostly weirds me out, unless I'm trying to sleep. I blame my mother because she always had a radio on in the kitchen when I was growing up. Okay, I don't BLAME her, but that's what created the preference. I actually get kind of antsy if it's totally quiet.
34. I am pathologically incapable of saying the correct direction the first time and will ALWAYS say right when I mean left, even though I know the difference and am thinking the right direction.
35. Oddly, this doesn't happen when I am stage managing and referring to Stage Right, which is my left or Stage Left, which is my right.
36. When I fly I am certain that I am living my last moments and try to comfort myself by convincing myself that surely God wouldn't let that cute little baby 3 rows up die in a plane crash and then remember that, "Oh. Right. Yes, he would."
37. Jkirlin has taught me The Great Secret. The Great Secret that I know is that your ability to see, hear, speak, desire, remember, be visually aware, eat, and live, is temporary. If I could choose to not know something it would be this. Curses on you, Jkirlin! (Not really.)
38. I have lost my ability to drink grown men under the table.
39. There are 5 clocks in my 8' x 10' kitchen. Not because I purposely put them there, but because every freakin' appliance you buy these days has a clock in it.
40. I'm just as content to be home on New Year’s Eve.
41. I am very near-sighted. And my eyes are too dry to wear contacts all the time, so I'm stuck with glasses most of the time. I don't really mind, but contacts are so cool.
42. I have both a terrible memory and a phenomenal memory. There is no accounting for what I will remember. I can remember the colour of a classmate's glasses from grade 4 but not to put out the garbage. I have not been diagnosed with any form of dementia. Yet.
43. I can be very funny. It is easier with an appreciative listener.
44. I used to be really shy. Now people laugh hysterically when I tell them that. I don't know when or why it changed, but I'm glad it did. I can still be very shy on occasion. Stop laughing.
45. I suffer from terminal low self-esteem, but am too stupid to let it stop me from doing things.
46. I have champagne tastes and a beer budget.
47. I love to read. I must read. My idea of hell would be a place where there were no books.
48. I leave lights on when I am away after dark. Not because I'm scared to enter a dark house, but just to possibly throw burglars off.
49. I borrowed/adapted some of these comments from Misty, petite anglaise and jkirlin. But only the ones that made me think, "Yeah! Me, too!"
50. That is all.