- I can lick my elbow.
- Not quite so "humanly impossible," is it?
- I'm a complete artistic mess, with the exception of my cd collection, which is color-coded, alphabetized, and sorted by genre.
- And of course: the cds are all straight in their cases, let's not forget!
- I eat lemons.
- When I was little, I used to tell people my favorite colors were rainbow, clear, silver and gold.
- I had ALL my bases covered.
- I also told people when I grew up I wanted twelve kids (six girls, six boys) but I wasn't getting married.
- I'd rather buy old used clothes than brand new ones.
- Some of my internet friends are the most important, true-blue friends I have.
- I'm asexual.
- Romantically speaking, I prefer fictional people.
- I have to keep my toenails ubershort.
- I can't stand it when they're long enough to scrape my socks or sheets.
- LISTS! I love lists! I make them for everything, and I'm the most disorganized person you'll ever meet.
- I have been known to write book reports and research papers for fun.
- I like to go to plays by myself.
- Anytime I see something cool, my first thought is automatically, "Now, how could I make one of those?" and I immediately form a plan.
- I'm scared to death of knives.
- And, ironically, love horror movies.
- When I was two, I used to pretend I was a grandpa. I had the walk, the talk, the accessories...
- I also used to pretend to be Clara, of "Heidi" fame.
- If anyone's interested, little child-sized rocking chairs are EXCELLENT for Clara-ing yourself across the carpet.
- It's such a dramatic scene, it's the only one you'll ever want to play. I'm serious. You'll get REALLY good at dragging yourself across the carpet and up into your tiny chair...
- My first favorite words: Animated & nonrefundable.
- My first favorite phrase: "So be it."
- I didn't know how to pronounce "vagina" until I was twelve or thirteen.
- I accidentally discovered it at a sleepover, and pretended I knew it all along.
- I always pick truth because dares make me nervous, but I can never think of good truths to ask people.
- My favorite activity with my first boyfriend was playing Skip to my Lou.
- Granted, we were two or three at the time.
- One of my most traumatic dreams was when I was 7 or 8: A robber broke into our house and stole my address book and my wind-up baby and drove away.
- When I was little, I used to wish I'd been born black. I was ridiculously jealous of black people for their gorgeous skin.
- I eventually discovered that we're all the same.
- It's 2009, and I'm buying videos and cassette tapes. On purpose. For my long-term collection.
- The fact that I'm even THINKING about a long-term media collection is a little weird.
- I still live at home, with no end in sight at this point.
- I can't even get a job at McDonald's, for gods sake.
- I'm twenty-one years old and I have no idea how to operate an iPod.
- Yet I'm constantly planning out how to sort my mp3s on my far-off-future potential iPod.
- "We're gonna need a bigger boat."
- I don't like money.
- I want to eat all kinds of tropical fruit all the time.
- I'm an Elvis FANATIC.
- When I open a stick of gum, I have this personal rule that I have to fold it into a heart shape before I can chew it.
- I want one of those alarm clocks that makes bird sounds.
- I can't, however, vouch for it's wake-me-up power.
- When everybody was learning Spanish, I opted for French.
- I buy things from old people at garage sales (movie cameras, pillowcases, tea tins...)
- They laugh and give me odd looks.
- I'm trying to teach myself shorthand.
- I would like a typewriter. I'd type my whole NaNoWriMo on it...
- I like my hot chocolate warm, not hot.
- I'm just not into burning myself, that's all.
- I like my toast LIGHTLY toasted, or as my mother says, "warmed bread."
- I'd rather shoot film than digital.
- I like cuckoo clocks, even though they break all the time.
- You know those "which celebrities do YOU look like?" websites where you put your picture in and they analyze it and show you pictures of the celebrities who look the most like you?...Most of my matches are male. And I'm not.
- I refuse to wear socks to bed, even if it's freezing cold in wintertime, even if we're camping in Santa Claus weather. No. Nonono.
- I like the way pumpkins look, but I don't want to eat them.
- Ditto cherries.
- I name EVERYTHING. But then I'm too attached to ever get rid of it.
- I was always secretly scared of somersaults.
- Seriously! I bet people have broken their necks doing that before!
- If I get to bed before 1:30 in the morning, that's early.
- I remember this dessert we used to get back when I had a lunchbox..*siiigh* No one else remembers it, but I still think of it fondly and I would gladly eat it again, if they were still being produced.
- Remember? Fundamiddles! :)
- I know my shoe size in womens, mens, AND kids. And I own shoes in each.
- I constantly plan out my wedding, but I don't want to get married.
- I'm very shy, but very loud.
- I do my eye makeup with Crayola markers.
- How the hell else are you supposed to get neon yellow?!
- I like to watch movies by myself on Sunday afternoons.
- I don't consider a taxi to be an actual taxi unless it's a car--NOT a minivan--and yellow.
- I keep a running list of my Facebook statii.
- Made-up words definitely have a place in my vocabulary.
- "Hice," anyone? Ex. Full hice. Plural of "full house."
- The more outlandish the outfit, the more happy I'm likely to be with it. :)
- I like baking and HATE cooking.
- When I accomplish something--painting a room, sorting a bunch of books, whatever--I have to go out and pretend like I've never seen it before, then come back and admire my handiwork as if I were just seeing it for the first time.
- When I was little I called actions "noctions." Everyone always said Wanna go to a noction? or so I thought. :)
- I HATE talking on the phone. I will go to great lengths to not have to speak to anyone on the phone.
- I'll pick up a book that I've read 10 times or more and start rereading it when it's time to go to bed.
- I speak in different accents at random times.
- Many of them come complete with full-on personalities. With names.
- I want a house with a library.
- I like to read Shakespeare.
- Not so common for my age group. No.
- Once I thought the zombie apocalypse was starting. I was literally going into panic mode.
- I hate showers.
- I can't swallow pills.
- I would ten times rather have Magic Stars than Lucky Charms.
- Sometimes when I'm really upset, sitting under a table helps calm me down.
- When I was little I used to get depressed when I realized that I was actually not going to become Pocahontas when I grew up.
- I wear clothes meant for little children, and clothes nobody's even looked at for decades.
- I want to make a silent film with this vintage movie camera I bought at a yard sale.
- I have a form of synesthesia..When I hear music, I see colors.
- My sister has a different part, the kind where you mentally view the calendar as a circle, like a clock.
- When people sneeze, I say, "Kihe, a mauliola" (Hawaiian for "Sneeze, and may you have a long life").
- I think I want to live in a treehouse someday.
- I obsessively collect banana stickers..since I was four or so.
- I can yawn on demand.
- When I have to drive across a bridge or something and there's a car coming the other way across it at the same time, it scares me to death.
- I can move my eyes independently.
- I have a mole in the exact center of the top of my left foot.
- I have a mole on my right arm that looks like a number 2, in a typewriter font.
- Every time I set foot in a bathroom, I check all possible cubbyholes for Norman Bates. Impossible cubbyholes, too--cabinets, wherever.
sep 16 2009 ∞
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