Was it last year that the 25-things-you-don't-know-about-me meme was running rampant? I got tagged who knows how many times, and opened up a new blog entry to write my exciting facts every few tags, but never got anywhere. But, here we go:
- I am terrified of dancing. Right after moving to California from Hawai'i in junior high I got to experience my first school dance. I'd danced in some form for most of my life, from ballet, to jazz, to hula, but never anything like this. "Freaking" was totally new to me, and being 12 years old I couldn't really work my hips--I didn't have any. When I finally thought I got the hang of it, some random girl gave me stank eye and told me I couldn't dance. The fear set in and I've been horrified of dancing ever since (even though I've been told when I loosen up--i.e. get REALLY drunk--that I can dance like a pro).
- I love playing poker (particularly hold-em). That's why I keep away from playing. :P
- If I ever go back to college I want to study paleontology. I was one of those kids obsessed with dinosaurs, and it's stayed a kind of secret passion. On a roadtrip with my dad when I was about 7 I gotta watch and *help* on a dig in Wyoming and I was smitten. I still have the fossil claw from that day somewhere. Later when Sue the T-rex (the most complete t-rex fossil ever!) came to the Bishop Museum in Hawai'i, my class got to help maintain the exhibit and work with Sue Hendrickson up close and personal with the fossils. Awesome. I would LOVE to take off to the Gobi desert or somewhere and dig up ancient history.
- Even better than being a paleontologist would be being a camp counselor all year long for a living. I love kids, I love being outdoorsy and adventurous, and I could do with a year long tan. From 12-16 I backpacked at least 2 days a month every month, and I miss it. Now that we live out at the foot of the Sierra Nevada I really want to involved with girl/boyscouts again, just on the grown-up end this time. :)
- I've had at least 10 cats in my life, not including kittens and the cats my parents had when I was a baby.
- When my hair grows out and sees the sun...I'm a blonde!
- I like shooting with oldschool Canon Rebel DSLRs--I don't feel bad breaking them!
- Juice is one of the the greatest discoveries mankind has ever made.
- I'm nowhere near fluent in Japanese, but I can understand most things said to me (or said on TV or whatever) pretty well. When it comes to speaking it though I freeze up with stagefright. Lame.
- Bite your elbow, I dare ya. Can't? I can!
- I have chemical burns from my ribs down to right past my knees. They came from a doctor freezing off so chicken-pox-like disease off me and going overboard with his liquid whateverthefuckitwas.
- Speaking of doctors, I've been hospitalized for appendicitis multiple times. I still have my appendix of course. Good job guys!
- I have an inability to take anything completely seriously. This sometimes becomes a big problem. Oh well!
- ChocolateCoveredKittens turned five years old this past March. :) Though I was on my first xanga for a little bit before that.
- I'm lactose intolerant. I pretend like I'm not most of the time, and it is so worth it.
- Right around the time BF and I got together I almost moved to Anchorage Alaska to intern at a kennel. I was really into mushing (damn you Jack London), and after getting the chance to go in Minnesota I wanted nothing more than to build a connection with a team of those amazing dogs and live out in no man's land. Man, I have some bizarre aspirations. I'm one of those annoying assholes who's all about having wild experiences to write home about.
- Dream car? Street legal trophy kart.
- I've had 5 cars, and have driven NONE of them. I've only ever driven other people's cars, and mine have always turned into rent/clothes/camera money. After selling my project truck that I finally got running this past winter, BF bought me an F150 while I was outta town a few months ago (thanks babe!) but the transmission died right before I got back. We currently have 5 cars and only one runs, and that's the farm truck, yuck.
- I'm very small. 5'4"/5'5", size 0, 23 in. waist, 105-110 lbs. I'm teeny. In typical pro-ana fashion however HW: 125, but I was thinner than I am now but much more muscular. This was back when I'd run 3-8 miles a day, weight-lift, hike, and bike. Ah...one day I'll do that again. But only for one day, then back on the couch for me!
- I could eat ramen and/or saimin every day, yum! One of the worst parts about living out in the middle of nowhere is the lack of Japanese food--seriously! Just means I gotta learn how to cook more I guess.
- I cut my own hair. Other people touching my hair scares me, since it's so thick and curly. Not to seem racist, but all those Asian hair stylists in San Jose had NO idea how to cut hair like mine! I shoulda found some chick named Shaquisha or something, she's know how to handle the kinks and curls. Out here in Aryan farm-girl city is just as bad.
- I've seen multiple kinds of therapists since I was 6 years old, form my parents' divorce to alcohol addiction and depression. Awww!
- Sometimes I think I'm jealous of my baby brother (baby being sophomore in high school). Maybe jealous isn't the right word. Maybe it is, whatever. He's so....normal. He's popular at school, he skateboards and plays guitar, he's cool. The closest I came to cool was looking hot in fishnets and having drug hookups. What a winner!
- Away from that sad vein--I love to bake! Especially brownies, they're so versatile. Fruity, creamy, whatever you like you can get in a brownie! Best kind of mind numbing zen activity I know.
- My initials are REB. Weren't my parents clever? :P
Comments (11)
geez geez geez, you are tiny! i wish i could understand even a wee bit of japanese, and i love love LOVE ramen. i think i'll go make some right now, even though i'm having pho tomorrow, haha.
too many carbs taste too good.
I cut my own hair, too. No one EVER knows what to do with the curls and such. Also, I loved this. It's so utterly you. Duh, I know. But the quirks facts are very interesting.
Oh, and I have a noodle recipe, if you want it. They go great in whatever soup. They never quite look pretty, but they taste wonderful!
This was great! That is funny about the dinosaurs.
My sister cuts my hair. Usually when she's half-asleep; it's the only time she won't freak out about how much pressure it is.
Your measurements sound like mine, 'cept I'm probably an inch or two shorter, and weigh 5-10lbs less.
@lesbianswearplaid - No fair! I wish we had pho around here. Send me some? :P
@Blue__Summer - Whoa, the profile picture tricked me! You've got those pretty curls, damn you, not the kind that pile upward into a faux-fro. Yours are long though, so they get weighed down...I'm working on that one. The longer the hair the easier to cut it too. My short cuts always looked butchered, every mistake and uneven spot was noticable. Yuck, short hair was just ugly period.
Hit me with it! No promises I'll make any though, haha, I'm queen of lazy. I wouldn't even mix chicken bouillon with water last night for dinner. Laaaaaazy. Unless they're chocolate cake noodles, then I'm on it. :P
@SpongeBobScaredyPants - It's not funny! Dinosaurs are heavy duty serious business!
@Kestryl - Breakable! It's the boobs, I swear! I keep meaning to weigh them, people always think I weigh like 90 lbs., so I bet the jugs weight at least 5-8 lbs.
@ChocolateCoveredKittens - My initials are A.S.A.P. Gotta thank my pops for that one. I also have to see you bite your elbow, i refuse to believe this is possible until I see it.
@cheesebadger - If there's enough demand maybe I'll make a video.
Yeah, but can you really trust Asians in San Jose to do anything, anyway?
THERE I SAID IT
If we had known each other in highschool we'd be bffs. you're like my much more sexy (and atheletic...I'm NOT!) twin/soul mate. lol
:P
I think the same about my own parents. My name is Jennifer and my initials were JEN.
Hospitalized for appendicitis multiple times and still have your appendix? Jeeze! That sounds like torture. I was hospitalized for appendicitis ONCE and I could have died!