Let's talk about me

If you are reading my blog, chances are good that we are related. In which case, you basically know everything about me. Nonetheless, here is a list of some things I consider defining characteristics, just for fun.

• I'm left handed, which some scientists say is evidence that I was a twin; at least very early on in development. Too bad that didn't last, I would have liked to be a twin.
• I have hazel eyes. Not brown. Not green. Hazel.
• I don't like my food to touch, and I only eat one thing at a time (ie I eat all of my peas, then all of my meatloaf, etc).
• I am the third child of ten. Eight of us are girls, and two are boys.
• When I was little my dream for adult life was to get married, be a mom, a cashier, a secretary, an artist, and an actress. I wanted to live in a pink house, drive a pink car, and have a pink poodle. Most of those aspirations have changed.
• I am never bored.
• I hate raisins.
• If I could have one super power, it would be flight.
• If I decide I don't want to do something, you shouldn't try to change my mind because in the end you probably will, but I will be so grumpy and mean the whole time, you'll wish you hadn't.
• I like stories that end with a wedding.
• I eat all of the peel off of an apple before I eat the good part.
• Here are the shows I've seen every episode of: Saved by the Bell (but not the College Years), Party of Five, Freaks and Geeks, Gilmore Girls, Joan of Arcadia.
• I want to name all of my children after literary characters.
• The Cobb is the new Caesar.
• I like to dance, but only in the privacy of my own home.
• I love wearing red shoes.
• These are the movies I've watched the most times: Party Girl, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Circle of Friends, Labyrinth.
• I almost always remember my dreams, and I dream about everyone I've ever met. If we've spoken, I've dreamt about you. Common dream motifs: flying & saving the world (not at the same time). Most anxiety dreams center around being in plays and not knowing any of my lines.
• I'm terrified of cockroaches.
• When I take the sacrament, I can only eat a piece of bread that has crust on it. Twice I forced myself to take a piece with no crust (you know, so people don't think I'm weird), but it's just not the same.
• Some books I like to reread a lot: The Perilous Gard, The Girl with the Silver Eyes, Jane Eyre, the Anne of Green Gable series, the Betsy-Tacy books, His Dark Materials.