1. I'm allergic to dairy. It makes my throat swollen and sore. I developed the allergy about 5 years ago. Cheese and cream are the worst offenders. Some things are worth it (desserts, usually, as long as they don't have ice cream or whipped cream or frosting).
2. Even before the allergy, I never really liked ice cream.
3. I am savory girl all the way.
4. I can't eat sweet things for breakfast. They make my stomach feel funny.
5. I have six brothers.
6. And no sisters.
7. I love reading murder mystery novels.
8. I enjoy reading philosophy texts most of the time.
9. I kind of hate reading the classics.
10. I was almost an English major in college. I was one class and one exam away.
11. I ended up being a philosophy major instead.
12. I don't regret it.
13. I own a business with two of my brothers. I am in charge of the money and HR stuff.
14. I get along with all my brothers.
15. I am married.
16. My husband is from Israel.
17. I have been to Israel twice.
18. I have also been to China, Costa Rica, Panama, and Italy.
19. I hate white chocolate.
20. I have a whole drawer in my kitchen devoted to tea.
21. I hate onions.
22. No, no, you don't understand. I hate onions so so much. They are so gross.
23. This also applies to shallots and leeks. Gross.
24. As a kid I refused to eat garlic because a head of garlic looked like an onion. Later I was forced to taste one and fell in love.
25. I only wear heels for weddings or costume parties. But I own four different pairs of heels (Which is a lot for me).
26. In the winter I wear converse almost exclusively.
27. In the summer I wear flip flops almost exclusively.
28. I constantly feel cold. I am cold when the temperature drops below the mid 70s. So, it's a good thing I live in Southern California.
29. I have been internet famous three times.
30. The first,
The Lego Suicides.
31. The second,
Save Dakota (now clearly defunct, but for a few months it was IT, you guys. Mentioned on Defamer.
32. The third, for our wedding invitation, we were on
Offbeat Bride33. I have tried out for six different game shows, but never made it on. =(
34. I am an INTP. I tested as an E in elementary school, but I've become far more I as time goes on. I'm also becoming more of a J.
35. I hate being late. HATE IT. I hate it when other people make me late.
36. If I drink any form of caffeine after 3pm, I will have trouble falling asleep.
37. I love diet coke. Caffeine free diet coke tastes weird to me, though.
38. I didn't get my driver's license until I was 21 and had already graduated from college.
39. My first car had 200k miles on it. It was a red toyota corolla. I love it so much, even if it shook when it went faster than 75mph
40. My second car was a shiny red Honda Element. It was totaled when an older woman had a stroke and hit it from behind going 80mph. I was not in the car.
41. Once my Element was totaled, I immediately went out and bought another one. This one is blue, and I plan on driving it until it dies.
42. My husband and I bought a house together before we even got engaged.
43. I opted out of a wedding ring. My engagement ring is pretty enough on its own, and I like things to be symmetrical.
44. My purse looks like a boom box.
45. Growing up I played soccer, for at least ten years. I was captain of my high school soccer team, and the highest scorer. This sounds impressive until I tell you that we were the worst team in the league. We still had fun, though.
46. I was on the wrestling team my senior year of high school. Every boy I wrestled beat me, but I beat the only two girls I wrestled.
47. The first time I broke my nose was during a wrestling tournament. The blood eventually stopped, so I continued with the match, but, yeah, still lost. Shocking.
48. The second time I broke my nose was playing full contact football with 7 boys in the pouring rain, my freshman year of college. I dove for the ball at the same time as a guy on my team. His skull met my nose. I can still feel the fracture line.
49. I have never broken any other bone.
50. I have lost each big toenail twice. I also lost one of my little toe nails, but that was due to stubbing my toe really hard.
51. I stepped on a bee when I was four years old. It was the worst bee pain I have ever had.
52. I didn't learn to ride a bike until I was 7.
53. I still can't do a cartwheel.
54. I started kindergarten when I was 4. The school was convinced my mom was just trying to unload me on them, but my mom claims I was DYING to learn.
55. She also claims I came home the first day of school PISSED because they didn't teach me how to read.
56. I love love love reading. All my love I have been a crazy avid reader.
57. My mom was going to night school when I was in 4th grade, and I would read the same books she was reading. I pretty sure I understood a whole lot less, though. hahahah.
58. I tried to read
War and Peace in middle school. I made it about 80 pages in, realized I didn't know who the crap anyone was or what was going on, and gave up.
59.
Catch-22 is my favorite book ever written. I have read it about 16 times. I can make myself bust up laughing just thinking about it. The movie did a great job capturing the spirit of the book.
60. I went through a stage in high school where I would finish reading a book and immediately watch the movie. Because of this, I HATE LOATHE HATE the movie
The Shining. It was awful. Other movies ruined by this habit:
Jurassic Park, Silence of the Lambs.61. My college adviser was on a few episodes of Letterman.
62. I actually saw one of his episodes when I was 8 or 9, long before I dreamed of studying philosophy.
63. I once dated Rod Serling's great great nephew.
64. My brother Sky conducted my wedding ceremony.
65. I cannot touch my toes without bending my knees. I never have been able to. My current theory is that I can't bend my body properly. Because then it's not really my fault.
66. I have never lived in an apartment. I lived in dorms in college, and a duplex my first year out of college, but never in an actual apartment.
67. After I graduated college I moved to Santa Barbara for nine months. I pinched every penny, then took off to Costa Rica and Panama for three months, with everything I needed in a backpack.
68. It was an awesome three months. I used only my feet and public transportation, hiked some crazy ass hikes, and tried to learn to surf.
69. The last time I ever tried surfing, in Costa Rica and ever, I got in a fight with the surf board. I broke off two fins, using my thigh. I still have a scar. I never surfed again.
70. The husband and I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. He established that when we first started dating, and I got used to it.
71. I was born at home.
72. So were all my brothers.
73. My parents were major hippies. All of my siblings have nature names as well. They're both reformed hippies now, with real jobs, and retirement plans and stuff.
74. I cannot wear a watch. Every watch I've worn has gone all weird and shit on me. If I need to know the time, I just check my cell phone.
75. Also, I'm pretty sure street lights are more likely to go out when I'm around. I seem to notice them turning off with regular frequency. It makes me feel weird.
76. I hate talking on the phone. I've pretty much always hated it, even as a kid. I get distracted really easily, and if there is any background noise on either side, I can't hear well at all, so I'm left saying "what? what?" repeatedly, which makes me feel bad.
77. I shaved my head twice and my eye brows once. I shaved my head because I thought it would be fun (it wasn't). I don't know why I shaved my eye brows. The weird thing is, not everyone noticed.
78. I don't like the taste of alcohol. I only drink with the intent to get drunk, and I only do that once or twice a year, at parties. I also have the super human ability to taste the alcohol in anything, no matter how little alcohol there is in something. Super weak drink at the bar? Still tastes like nothing but alcohol to me.
79. Blackberries are my favorite fruit ever, but I cannot eat store bought blackberries. Store blackberries taste like dead bugs to me. Fresh off the vine home grown blackberries are AMAZING.
80. I curse all the time. All. The. Time. For no reason. My niece is now old enough to understand/repeat things, which makes it awkward to be around her. I am slowly getting better, though.
81. Past Halloween costumes have been: Tank Girl, Captain Save'a'ho, Captain Liberty (From The Tick), Chun Li, Deranged Tooth Fairy, and Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.
82. Costume parties outside of Halloween that my husband and I have thrown: Prom (x2), Song Title Party (I was a One Eyed, One Horned, Flying Purple People Eater), Alien Invasion Party (I was a space yeti), Invent Your Own Super Hero/Villian (I was Super Salad).
83. I love tea. I have a whole drawer in our kitchen devoted to tea, and that doesn't contain all the tea, since if it did, the drawer wouldn't be able to close.
84. I am sort of trying to learn Hebrew (it's HARD, you guys!)
85. I took three years of Spanish in high school, but I remember very little.
86. My fastest 5k was when I first started running. One of my brothers didn't think I could run fast, so my time was fueled with fear and anger. I thought I was going to vomit at the end. Instead I won first in my age group.
87. I don't like sugary cereal. My favorite cereal is raisin bran. My mom refused to buy us any of the "fun" cereal growing up, so I grew accustomed to the healthy stuff.
88. I grew up on 45 acres of mountain in Northern California.
89. We did not have electricity or indoor plumbing. We used kerosene lamps and an outhouse.
90. I learned to shoot a gun when I was 4, with instructions of how to deal if a bear wandered onto the land. Thankfully, I never used this knowledge, and once we moved off the hill, I never touched a gun again.
91. I own two machetes. One used to be my "car machete" when I made long driving trips solo. Now they both live in the house, so we're reading for when the zombies attack.
92. I went to China when I was 15, and boated down the Yangzi River before they dammed it.
93. In middle school, I went to the state science fair for a project based on worms' food preferences.
94. I am terrible at spelling. It does not come naturally to me. When I don't have access to spell check I limit my vocabulary, because there are certain words I cannot seem to learn how to spell.
95. I hate talking on the phone. HATE IT. I get distracted easily and can't hear and what do people talk about anyway?
96. In general, sometimes I have freak outs about what to talk about with people I only sort of know. The weather? Books? I have to make a mental list so there aren't any awkward silences. I don't mind silence, but only with people I know well.
97. My first car spent about 9 months painted as a pirate ship. The car was old anyway, and I thought it was hilarious. My mom finally washed it off the day she had to drive it, because she didn't want to be seen in public like that.
98. I skipped out on having to do anything in my 9th grade typing class because I discovered the teacher used the same chat room I did, and we'd both be there during class. His theory was, if I could keep up with that chat room (it was fast paced), then I could type just fine. Plus, it meant I wouldn't narc on him for being in a chat room when he should have been teaching.
99. I love cats so much. I want a dozen of them. As soon as we replace our back door to include a pet door, we're getting a cat and a dog.
100. I find myself hilarious. I have inside jokes with myself. Which is weird. And hard to explain to people why I am sitting in my car laughing so hard it hurts. I find myself waaaaay funnier than other people find me, but that's okay, because I have no problem laughing at my own jokes.
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