Okay Squeaker. Here is a slight alteration. It's basically the same meme, that I filled out last night elsewhere, so for bonus, here's 25 things instead of 8!



Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose up to 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.


1. When we got our cats, I decided not to worry about their breed or looks, but just personality. I now know that I am a Maine Coon kinda girl, and I look forward to increasing our ranks just once more, with a big, fluffy, dog-sized cat. (Also, I really want EJ to have a dog, and we're talking about breeds in anticipation of getting one in the next few years).

2. I'm very anxious. I worry about everything, from getting the mail to writing this note.

3. I drink only milk and water, but mostly milk. The occasional root beer or sip of juice, sure, but milk is like my fine wine, it goes with everything.

4. I check my email about 30 times a day. Really. I punctuate my life with a surreptitious peek at the ol' iphone. I only get 1-2 messages a day, and 1-2 of those are spam.

5. I love to knit, but so far I have refused to learn any techniques besides knit/purl. All I can or am willing to make are scarves and blankets.

6. I bite my nails, chew my lip, and talk to myself. I get caught a lot and it's embarrassing.

7. I like my meals to be every-flavor-in-one-bite. If it's an expensive filet of salmon on a plate with creamy mashed potatoes and asparagus spears, I'll fight the urge to mash it all together in a big pile. Every bite must be uniform in sauce-protein-veg-starch ratios as well. I will painstakingly chop up every item into bite size pieces before mixing it all together if necessary. Scott finishes his meal before I take my first bite of salad fairly often.

8. My wedding rings don't fit on my finger anymore. I need to take them to a jeweler to be resized, but I can't admit that I won't eventually lose the weight and thus shrink the finger back down.

9. I can't eat masa or anything made with it. Tamales, corn tortillas, they make my gorge rise involuntarily. I can't figure out why. As far as I can tell, it tastes good. It smells good, it looks good, but my body rejects it outright. I forget a lot, because I can't figure out why.

10. I'm a little bit of a hypochondriac. Not go-to-the-doctor-a-lot bad, but I'm always assessing what malady may be causing my myriad discomforts.

11. I react well to emergencies, but I can't handle daily life very well. Frankly, I'm a wreck, but tell me my son just broke his knee, and I'm cool as a cucumber.

12. I wonder sometimes whether we are indigenous to this planet. As a non-religious person, it just doesn't seem to make sense. I mean, do we really fit in with the rest of the creatures here? Maybe there really were other intelligent beings/bipeds, but by our very nature we squeezed them all out. There can be only one?
*(Edit: Erica pointed out that we share 97% of our DNA with other Earthlings, and that's pretty good evidence that I'm on crack about that. But I stand by the second part of the question. I think we squeezed out the Neanderthals).

13. I sometimes wish our apartment would catch on fire, so that we could start over with no possessions. Maybe I'll auction it all off on ebay instead. (I mean Amazon)

14. My fear has kept me from advancing in my life. It is the handful of times that I faced up to my fears head on that have brought me all the pride and happiness that I enjoy today. There's a lesson there, but I'm too afraid to face it.

15. When other peoples' babies make extended eye-contact with me, it makes me feel special, like I'm a baby-whisperer.

16. My parents are still married today, after 17 years of being happily separated and at least 2 subsequent engagements to others.

17. I like to burp.

18. I love to cook, and experiment, but I suffer from that same lack of confidence which prevents me from improving as I should.

19. I love to read, but almost exclusively science fiction and some fantasy. I want to feel like Bastian in The Neverending Story when I'm reading, carried away to another world.

20. I have a fraternal twin brother. He's 8 inches taller than me, and though neither of us likes to admit it, I think we're very similar indeed. We never got along too well, but though we still don't speak much, I think we're on fairly good terms today.

21. I have seen the movie "Cars" 2-5 times a day ever since it came out on video, and not only am I not sick of it, I look forward to it every time, and mouth all my favorite lines.

22. I won my heat of the 200 IM at Sectionals in ....uh....1996 was it? 95? I still think about that pool, and walking around the corridors between events, sleeping in the gym, the bus rides... good times.

23. If I could take one thing to a desert island, it would be peanut butter.

24. I'm going to learn how to ride a unicycle this spring.

25. There is a grocery store on the ground floor of our apartment building. All I have to do is hop in the elevator in my jammies, and pick up some last-minute whatever, no car, no parking, no rain or snow. Sweeeeeet.