RANDOM FACTS

For some strange reason, I seem to do some of my best thinking in the shower.  For this reason I always keep a pen and a pad in the bathroom–so I can snake my arm out of the shower and write down the plot/scene/conversation ideas that come to me while the water pours down.  I'm not sure why ideas come to me in the shower.  Maybe it's because of the "white noise" provided by the running water.  Or maybe because, except for the white noise, it's quiet–no phones, no tv, no one talking to me.  Just flowing water which seems to encourage my thoughts.

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lots of ingenious stuff going on in there!

Something I thought about while in the shower yesterday was based on an article I read in US Weekly magazine.  It's called 25 Things You Don't Know About Me ("me" being whatever celebrity is featured for that week).  The current issue told me 25 things about Travis Barker, the drummer for the band Blink-182.  I learned some pretty random stuff about Travis (who, admittedly, I knew very little about before reading the article). For example–he's color blind.  And a vegan.  And left-handed.  His favorite movie is True Romance (I found that surprising), and he runs between 4 and 7 miles daily (I found that exhausting and admirable). 

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So this got me to thinking that by simply listing those 25 facts, I learned quite a bit about this guy who I didn't know at all.  Which got me to thinking that it might be fun for us all to toss out a few random facts about ourselves in order to get better acquainted.  How about five facts?  Since it's my blog today, I'll start.

1) My favorite movie is Some Like it Hot.

2) My former dentist was a murderer and is now in jail, convicted of killing his girlfriend in 1990 and his wife in 2004. (totally gives me the creeps to think about it!)

3) Cary Grant gave me his autograph–in a coat closet.

4) The first "grown-up" book I read was Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

5) My favorite vacation is the beach, and my favorite beaches are on Bermuda.

Okay, there are my five random things about me.  What are your five about yourself?  If you can't think of five, share less.  If you can think of more, share on!