Meme Du Month

I am so behind on memes! You have all been doing this for years. Here is an old meme:

TEN Random Things You May Not Know About Me:
I was born with an extra thumb that was cruelly taken from me at 2 months. I'm allergic to egg whites, penicillin, and sulfa. My first act as a fertilized egg was to divide incorrectly, leading to a simple sacral dimple. I took fencing in high school and disarmed my opponent while he was laughing at how awkward I looked. I Delivered singing telegrams in a superhero costume and balloon boobs. I suffer from cankles. I can't swim. I was supposed to have been named Amy Faye until my Aunt Carleen dismissed the idea. I don't like my vibrator. Oh wait, you already know that. I went to a grade school without interior walls. I taught high school English for one (count it! one! how many is ooonnnneeeee...) semester.

NINE Places I've Visited:
London, Maui, Toronto, Cancun, Detroit, Chicago, Orlando, San Francisco, Washington D.C

EIGHT Ways to Win My Heart:
Dance in the living room with your mother. Clean up my messes. Be embarrassingly honest. Tell me I remind you of Jane Eyre. Laugh at me. Volunteer information. Buy me pastry. Be hard on me.

SEVEN Things I Want to Do Before I Die:
Visit Mission Control in Houston (or else let it go already). Have a legitimate reason to wear 18 button gloves. See King Tut's death mask again. Go back to England with an appropriate wardrobe. Visit the coast of Maine. Build built-in bookshelves and a window seat. Learn to dance.

SIX Things I'm Afraid Of:
Snake tongues. (I'm cool with snakes until they flick their tongues). TV snow. Getting water over my head. Mirrors. (I didn't look directly into mirrors until I was 12. I always sneaked a hand in first, then the arm, then I could look at myself). Dark alleys. Random natural disasters.

FIVE Things I Don't Like:
Getting my teeth cleaned. Exercise. Nagging. Officiousness. Country music.

FOUR Ways to Turn Me Off:
Whine. Rant. Grab. Vegetate.

THREE Things I Do Every Day:
Sleep. Eat. Pick at my cuticles.

TWO Things that Make Me Happy:
Independence. Toast Racks. (A silver rack just for your toast!)

ONE Thing On My Mind Right Now:
There's just one more day before the Chemistry project is done!

Comments

[Rebecca]

OMG! Just like Jane Eyre! And Gary is so Edward de Fairfax Rochester! Gasp!

[TheQueen]

High school boyfriend Joe? St. John Rivers. Unquestionably. All about the praying.

[Amy K]

Be still my heart! All of these Jane Eyre colloquialisms are making my night! :) Have you read the Fforde books? Thank you for visiting my blog. I am looking forward to being a regular here.

Do you have a dog? You know, a "Pilot"? ;)

[TheQueen]

No fForde books; I'll have to look in to those. And Mac is a sad, sad excuse for a Pilot.

[Zayrina]

How interesting, I have tvsnowaphobia too, as well as a fear of odd channels that show up when the clouds are just right. I should say WERE just right, rarely have snow or odd channels these days of dish. I thought I was alone in my freakish fear.

[TheQueen]

Zayrina - What would cause this? Fear of the unknown (what comes on after the signal goes out?). I imagine there was some Outer Limits episode with a creepy Brigadoon tv station.

[Zayrina]

I dunno Queen. I have a feeling it likely had to do with my older brother. I recall him pretending to turn into a werewolf multiple times scaring the living shite out of me and leaving me with an abnormal fear of things werewolf well into my adult years.

It is a weird phobia to be sure though. My ex found my reaction fascinating. Current beau is not aware of it. TV snow inside a stopped elevator (doors closed) would surely do me in.

[TheQueen]

Zayrina - after some research, this fear is shared by you, me, and Paracetamol Boy (some message board). There must be more of us out there!