1. I was in a plane accident/"crash" 2. I was thrown from a car and had zero broken bones 3. I apparently have 9 lives? (I can't think of a third thing)
1. I love mustard on my toast. Really I love mustard on most anything. 2. I failed my driver's test 3xs. (Which is weird because my tractor backup skills are great....suck it DMV!) 3. My ex boyfriend in college was an Abercrombie model. Who was in Minister School. Who liked the ladies a little too much. We had a ton of fun though. Sneaking into an all boys dorm at a church college is still one of my lifetime highlights...lol.
Mine are lame, but it is all I have off the top of my head.
1. I've never eaten a hot dog. 2. I have clubbed thumbs. 3. I sleep in a bra.
Do you have any desire to ever try a hot dog?
My dad has seen several people choke to death on them (working in healthcare), so he told my mom that he didn't believe in divorce, but he would divorce her if I ate one. It was probably the biggest rule growing up. They told me so many gross things to make me not feel bad that I couldn't have one that I have never had the urge.
I actually have three non-negotiable foods I don't eat: hot dogs, beans, and mayo.
1. I have double jointed arms. 2. I have an irrational fear of fish touching me. I can't snorkel. I can swim in a lake, river or ocean as long as the water is kind of dirty so I can't see the fish. Beautiful clear Caribbean or Hawaiian water? Nope, because I can see the fish. 3. I like all my breakfast foods separate. No eggs in my pancakes, no syrup in my sausage, please. I'm that obnoxious person at brunch asking for separate plates.
Post by humpforfree on Dec 14, 2015 19:55:49 GMT -5
1. I had open heart surgery at 5 months old & was born with 7 heart defects/abnormalities. 2. I've never seen any Star Wars 3. Cotton makes me gag. Well, really I have several sensory sensitivities (newsprint, wet/dry things...), but cotton (balls, the loose end of a qtip, dry towels, etc) is by far the worst.
2. I have an irrational fear of fish touching me. I can't snorkel. I can swim in a lake, river or ocean as long as the water is kind of dirty so I can't see the fish. Beautiful clear Caribbean or Hawaiian water? Nope, because I can see the fish.
Omg yesssss. Once I went snorkeling with my dad in the Caribbean and got out after about 2 minutes, crying because there were so many effing fish, even in the shallow area. On our honeymoon I got H a snorkeling excursion, but I stayed firmly at the top of the water plenty far from the coral or whatever everyone was going to, tyvm.
1. One of my eyes is darker than the other. My favorite thing is when people notice it and ask if I knew. 2. I have synesthesia and see music as lines, shapes and colors. My mom has it too but sees numbers and letters as different colors. 3. I tried Dr Pepper for the first time in college. I've never had Mountian Dew.
1. I can't even look at a picture of a stingray without crying. 2. I have a somewhat eidetic memory. I would memorize where facts would appear in a textbook and then mentally pull up the page during an exam. I can do this with Excel spreadsheets too. 3. I attended a program that taught high school and college-level courses to elementary school children. My interests were mainly in writing workshops, though I took history, performing arts, and physics courses too. I started publishing short stories around fifth grade.
Post by Velar Fricative on Dec 14, 2015 20:15:24 GMT -5
1. I just started driving a car this year. I'm 33.
2. "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" producers came to my middle school to test my class. Top scorers would make it onto the show. I was horribly sick the morning of the test and couldn't take it the day of. I took the test later on that week and would have been top scorer #2 (the four top scorers made it onto the show). I'm still bummed about this.
3. I think tomato sauce is disgusting but I looooove ketchup (and tomatoes in general).
1 - I have 1 brother, 1 half brother, 5 step-brothers, 6 step-sisters. I'm the oldest. 2 - I lost my virginity on Easter Sunday. 3 - I hate country music but love to wear cowboy boots and dresses during the spring/fall.
1. I wear old lady nightgowns to bed. Most of them actually belonged to my grandma. I am constantly mending them. Esp the ones she made herself.
2. I have had insomnia my entire life. My mom can remember me being stressed about bedtime as a toddler and telling her the pictures wouldn't shut off. I assume I was telling her how my brain is always going and going fast.
3. I hate open concept to the point where I often try to convince H to add walls downstairs. Our house isn't even that bad with the openness. Still to much for me.
1. I was a sleep walker as a kid and would scare the crap out of my sisters standing by their beds. I once fell down a set of stairs and kept sleeping.
2. For a while I worked with someone with my same first name and maiden name. We later discovered we lived a block away. Super weird. We still keep in touch.
3. You can tell me any word and I can tell you how many letters it has in a split second. It's a useless gift, lol.
Post by closertofine on Dec 14, 2015 20:49:24 GMT -5
I've read or listened to the audio books of the Harry Potter series over twenty times. I resisted reading them for years thinking they were some stupid kids' books, so I only started when OOTP was already out.
I can talk in front of thousands of people (and have) about myself or "real life," but ask me to act, and I completely freeze and cannot do it.
I can touch my tongue to my nose due to a tounge tie that was clipped.
I knocked out my front tooth at 13m old and was without it until I was 7-when the dentist had to cut my gum and pull the tooth down. I'm 33 now and am finally getting the discoloration on it fixed in January.
I hate being touched unless it's by close friends or family. Hate it. It's a running joke at work.
I baby teeth until I was 30. They finally had to be pulled and 4 dental implants put in their place because I was missing permanent teeth.
I held 3 local titles and competed in Miss Colorado twice to go to Miss America. I did not place
We moved from FL to CO after my parents went to aspen on a ski trip. After we moved it took 10 years for them to go back because they realized how far away we lived.
I attended 11 schools from kindergarten through grade 12, but got all three of my university degrees from the same school
I regularly travelled by myself, across multiple continents, by myself. My longest/most complicated trip was as follows, over the course of 4 days: - Dhahran to Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Riyadh to Paris, Paris to Montreal, Montreal to Toronto, Toronto to Vancouver. Pick up all my stuff in Vancouver then - Vancouver to Seattle, Seattle to Chicago, Chicago to Washington DC, Washington DC to Milan, Milan to Rome. I was 14 at the time and I had never been to Italy, and I didn't speak a word of Italian.
If I could only do one kind of exercise for the rest of my life it would be hot yoga. The hotter the better.
2. I have a phobia of uncovered mattresses and pillows with no cases. I always have two pillowcases on my pillows, one going each way, so there is no chance I will encounter a bit of bare pillow
3. I'm a freakishly fast reader - like, can read a 500 page book in a few hours.