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Fun facts! 1) When I was in college, I was in an episode of Dawson's Creek.
2) I'm a certified scuba diver, though it's been forever since I've had a chance to go diving
3) I'm training to run a marathon this fall
4) I picked MSU to win the NCAA tournament this year...and they lost their first game. sigh.
Let's see another 4:1) I won a blue ribbon at the Illinois State Fair for crocheting and afghan where every square was different; there were 48 squares.
2) When I was a kid, I used to get sick a lot. When I was a junior (in high school), I missed more school than I attended. Fortunately, the principal of my school's wife, was my dad's secretary so they knew I wasn't faking and let me pass to the next grade (I had all As and Bs).
3) I have enough yarn that I could probably open my own knitting store. It is stashed throughout the house so it doesn't seem like a lot ;-)
4) I love to track my book stats --- I have a spreadsheet where I track where the book came from (TBR -- means I owned more than 6 months, bought, library) and format (audio, ebook, DTB). It's been fun to watch the trends. Last year, I read 10 more books from the TBR than I bought --- at that rate, I will read all the books I own in 100 years :-D.
1. I have an adorable cat name Ohno. He drools a lot, but is super awesome. 
2. I recently acquired a youtube addiction. I'm constantly watching game play throughs, makeup vids, and whatever else crosses my path.
3. I love playing board games but I don't get to play very often. I recently picked up Arkham Horror and really need to schedule some play time sometime soon.
4. My favorite cartoon character is Stitch. So much that when my fiance proposed he proposed with a pile of stuffed Stitches and the ring box was the experiment pod that Stitch came in.
Karen ~ I LOVED Dawson's Creek! How awesome! I don't remember much about it now, like individual episodes but I loved it overall and watched it religiously when it was on. I always preferred her with Dawson. :) Very neat!! We also got certified to scuba dive, let's see it would have been in '05 or '06. We loved it, but just couldn't afford to do anything with it. The training / certification is all we were ever able to do with it. JoLene ~ That's neat how you track your books. I know of a few others that use spreadsheets to track theirs as well. I'm pretty plain and just use GoodReads. I do monthly swaps where we swap our reading log, so I do have to write down what I've read for that. It gets a bit much if I don't keep up and have a heavy month.... which reminds me I should really get started on March's log. :D
My 4 (was gonna be 9 for the day but figured y'all were getting sick of 'em. :)1 ~ I don't have any/many fond memories of childhood. My best memories of the earliest age are when I was 15/16 and I hung out on Saturday nights at the local radio station. A bunch of college people hung out there during the shows Sat nights, and I ended up hanging out there too after meeting some of the DJs. I was the youngest one there, but they always made me feel welcome and it was a ton of fun.
2 ~ I (like Lauri I think it was) have also had penpals on and off most of my life, starting after camp when I was in my pre-teens. Probably through my life I've had more than 50, not many really but that's because I'm a LONG letter writer. My letters are usually no less than 8 pages, typed, and have been over 30+ pages typed. My closest pal I've been pals with over 15 years now and we've never met in person, though we want to!
3 ~ I hated high school, with a passion. My favorite class was "Peer Counseling". I remember doing it exactly once, the rest of the time, for 2 years, we just goofed off and did absolutely nothing. Teacher was great, but she was so stressed about other things, we just had free reign. I did enjoy the newspaper and yearbook somewhat.
4 ~ My Hubby proposed to me probably 50 times? It became a running joke, I don't even know or remember why. Every park, every outing, just everywhere, He'd do it serious, silly, or cute. I said yes every time except one when I think I was mad at Him and He only did it to try to make me smile. :) At one point, after we had a really rocky patch, He hadn't asked again until an anniversary weekend to the beach. There He proposed for the final time, while were were swimming in the ocean, and that's the one I consider the official one. :)
Jex ~ Ahhh, that's so sweet how he proposed! I love cute proposal stories!!
1. When I was in high school the Lord of the Ring movies came out and my dad was obsessed. I saw "The Fellowship of the Ring" 13 times in the theater.2. Josh Groban is my favorite singer and has been since I was 16 going on 17. I have been to 2 concerts and am going to a 3rd this summer. At the last concert I was in the 2nd row!
3. I teach at a church program 1 year olds. My classroom is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (I have a Loompa Land and the bulletin board where I put all their art work up on says "Come with Me, and You'll Be...In a World of Pure Imgainaton- it has a chocolate waterfall with the green hills covered with candy and everything).
4. My favorite movie is either "The Wizard of Oz" or "Mary Poppins"
4 more fun facts about me, let's see...1. I tried out for American Idol when I was 16. It was an amazing experience (I met a few people who were super musically gifted,) but I don't think I'll ever try out for a singing reality show again. The whole process is a bit of a joke, really.
2. I'm very much a sensationalist. I love rollercoasters, and I went parasailing, and I really want to go skydiving at some point, if I can afford it.
3. Even though I can't see colors, they still mean something to me. Colors bring up certain emotions to me. For that reason, my favorite color would either have to be brown because it reminds me of earth and nature and hard work yielding reward, or blue because it's cool and watery, and it reminds me of the ocean.
4. Because of the screenreader that I use to read, and the speed at which I listen to it, I can read a 300 page novel in just under 3 hours. This means I can pretty much finish an average novel in a day, easily. It's a good thing I finally decided to be active on goodreads. On my own, I was starting to run out of things I wanted to read. Now a whole world of new authors and series and genres and everything have opened up to me. Plus, I just realized about a month ago that the Kindle app for iPhone has been made accessible for the blind. This, even more so, opens up the avenue of indie books to me, which is one of the most exciting things ever.
Stephanie (R-A) wrote: "1. When I was in high school the Lord of the Ring movies came out and my dad was obsessed. I saw "The Fellowship of the Ring" 13 times in the theater.2. Josh Groban is my favorite singer and has..."
Another huge Josh Groban fan here! He's been one of my absolute favorites since I was in middle school. I've wanted to go to one of his concerts for ages and ages now. Maybe one of these days...
Another FOUR FUN facts about me:Well, let's see if I can think of anything I haven't yet mentioned. . .
1. I sleep in a sleep cap. I buy/wear the brand (I get them at Walgreens) that is marketed to African Americans. The "white" ones are always lacy, and I find them to be too scratchy. While the "black" ones are smooth nylon with just plain elastic colored to match the cap.
Anyway, WHY do I wear a sleep cap? A few years ago (probably 10 by now), I was awakened way-too-frequently to find "spiders" crawling way too near my face to be comfortable. (I once screamed and fell out of bed trying to get away from one of these phantom spiders; broke my dresser, as the top drawer had been slightly open and I sort of landed on it when I flopped out of bed.)
It didn't take too many of these types of nightmares before I realized that the "phantom spiders" were my "little wispies." (Little wispies is the name I give to those hairs that are too short to be captured when I put my hair up for the night.) The sleep caps keep my little wispies contained, so I don't wake up to see phantom spiders very often any more. (Though living in Tucson, land of "giant" t-spiders, I do have them sometimes even with the sleep caps.)
2. My hair is waist length. I've been trying to grow it ever since I got back from my year-abroad in Russia, so for almost 20 years. I want to be able to sit on it. But I think waist-length or to the top of my butt is as long as it grows. It reaches that point and just sort of stops. I wear it up, day and night, everyday. I haven't worn it loose and down in eight to ten years. (Perhaps not coincidentally, I think I started wearing the sleep caps to bed around the same time I stopped wearing my hair down and loose.)
3. I also wear sandals - no socks - when I leave the house...no matter the weather. I haven't worn closed-toe shoes or trouser socks since the winter of 2008-2009 in Seattle, when we had snow on the ground and I dug out my winter boots to walk the two miles downhill (and up) to (and from) work (we had enough snow - maybe three inches, lol - that the city sort of shut down, so the buses weren't running their normal routes). When we had snow my last winter in Seattle (2012-2013), I just wore my sandals (I have a really nice pair of Dansko sandals) whenever I needed to go outside (which wasn't often as by then I was disabled and unable to work).
4. On Halloween night of 2002, I stepped off a curb in Seattle and felt like l had stepped on a knife with my right foot. In 2003, I saw several foot specialists to try and identify what was wrong. Nothing worked until the third and final foot doctor I saw: he was a surgeon. He confirmed that my X-Rays were inconclusive, but he suspected I had a Morton's Neuroma. He said Morton's Neuromas could either be a "big" bundle (not his term, lol) of nerves somehow visible in an X-Ray or a compressed bundle of nerves that couldn't be 100% diagnosed until he operated and got into my foot to see.
So on one of our visits, he gripped my foot and did something with his fingers to press on the spot where a Morton's Neuroma would be. I almost passed out from the pain. So he was 99% sure I had a Morton's Neuroma and scheduled my surgery.
Ordinarily, such a surgery would have been done after giving the patient a local anesthetic. But on "that" day, I told the surgeon that he could either put me fully under or I'd pass out. And given my reaction to his "foot manipulation," he agreed that a general anesthetic would probably be best.
(A side note: this surgeon was not a "people" person; his bedside manner was almost universally acknowledged as being horribly awful. But with me, he was kindly and solicitous. Probably because I almost passed out on him, but still...kindly and solicitous. On this same day, before he came into my room to "torture" me, I could hear him, through the wall, "talking" to a male patient. He was sooo not happy with that guy. I gathered from what I could hear that the patient hadn't done what the surgeon had recommended, and the surgeon was not sympathetic to the pain the guy was having as a result of failing to follow instructions. So by the time he came in to me, I was sort of cowed internally but I put on a strong "face" and he talked to me with politeness and respect and, later - after the "torture" - with kindness and solicitude. I wish I could remember his name, but he's become "Dr. M" in my memory. . . OH WOW! You guys! I just remembered his name! As I was typing that it floated into my mind, and a web search shows me that I was correct! I'm so happy! Thank you thank you thank you!)
The anesthesiologist who put me under was Australian, I think. And I have to say, if you ever have to go under a general anesthetic, having a guy with a voice/accent like that talk you under is definitely the way to go. ;-) When I woke up, I was told that I did indeed have a Morton's Neuroma, it had been the compressed kind.
My Dad had flown up to be with me immediately before and for a week or so after my surgery. We spent that week playing monopoly and watching Disney animated classics. It was wonderful and this painful time for me is now one of my most treasured memories. :-) It was one of the very few times I had alone with my Dad after I became an adult. He's now deceased. :'(
So that's four new "fun" facts about me. Sorry they're on the long side. I have trouble being brief. ;-)
another FOUR FUN facts 1. I was a DJ for my college radio station. My show was called "The Playlist" because the music I played was so random it was like "putting your playlist on shuffle." I played poetry recordings, Hawaiian music, rap song backing music without lyrics, the gummi bear song, country, classical, heavy metal, opera, etc. It was so much fun. I was stopped in the halls once and asked if I would be bringing my show back that semester, but I couldn't due to student teaching. But it felt good to have a fan. :-)
2. I edited a cookbook for the church women's group.
3. I have had a couple poems published in a national publication.
4. I have been to Canada and Mexico, both as a result of being a Girl Scout.
@Jex --- you better schedule about 6 hours to play Arkham Horror the first time. I recommend trying to play with someone who already knows how to play. We actually now play Elder Sign a lot more because you can teach it fairly easily and play in 2 hours.@Rylie -- that's very cool about auditioning for American Idol. I would love to sing --- and in fact, I sing often, but no one else wants to hear it :-D
@Karsyn -- great proposal story.
@JoLene - I've played it before, it's just been awhile. It's definitely a long game though.
1. When I was 19 my friends and I got really into swing dancing, and got to perform at a wedding show and also at Disney.2. I am taking a class on serial killers and mass murderers this semester.
3. I've met Hulk Hogan when my family and two kids I were babysitting spent a day being extras in McKinsey's Island (And I've never watched it)/
4. I got married in Vegas on the rooftop of the Platinum Hotel at Sunset
Wow...this is hard and I am waay late But here goes anyway!1) when I was young, one of my dreams was to be a professional singer/actress. I really thought I was THAT awesome! (I work as an office assistant now). That didn't exactly pan out...
2) I love Broadway musicals. I played in 'Jesus Christ Superstar' in high school. I still know all the words to every song.
3) I believe my brain is almost filled up exclusively with parts of books and movie and song quotes. My whole family speaks in movie quotes!
4) I work on a hospital campus that has a lot of wild chickens. Every morning I do my own 'Animal Census' where I count the chickens as well as cats, mongoose, cattle egrets, peacocks and 'other' animals.
Wacky enuff for ya?
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