67 Things You Didn't Know About Me

(from 10 October 2006)

1. When I was little I didn't suck my thumb, I sucked my index finger. I have hand habits that echo that today.
2. I'm not ticklish, but that's a good thing. It enables me to be touched in ways you can't touch someone who IS ticklish.
3. I'm afraid I'll be a bad mother.
4. I'm afraid of what my dad's future holds.
5. I still want the guy I met at the DoIT help desk.
6. I want to be treated well, but I want to earn it.
7. I miss being in the youth symphony.
8. I hardly ever crave ice cream. Chocolate is a different matter.
9. I like it when a guy addresses a room full of girls as "Ladies."
10. I hate ignorance and intolerance.
11. I hate birthday attention.
12. I prefer crunchy peanut butter to creamy.
13. I'm a cuddle whore. For the most part, as long as what you're doing feels good, I'll stick around.
14. I know what house I want to live in when I'm older.
15. Since my parents got divorced, I havne't cared about any holidays.
16. I don't have a favorite movie, song, book, color, etc.
17. The prettiest word in the English language is "body."
18. Babies make me uncomfortable.
19. Toilet humor isn't really funny.
20. I dwell on things.
21. I hate the way I look in pictures, but not the way I look in the mirror.
22. It doesn't bother me anymore that I can't get a tan.
23. I hate when people over age 12 go to Wal-Mart to play in the toy section. Grow up.
24. Walking home alone at night scares me less than a third of the time.
25. There are a few people that I hope to God I'll still know long after college.
26. I had one of the greatest childhoods on record.
27. I wonder if I'm disinterested in my mother because she's disinterested in me, or if I just don't care.
28. I have trouble saying "I love you" to my family.
29. I also don't like hugging them.
30. My mom dropped me off for school once and just randomly told me I was pretty. I didn't know what to think. She told me the same thing for a week. I still don't know why.
31. I hated every minute of the mission trip I went on in high school.
32. Snowfall calms me to the core.
33. I think people should touch each other more.
34. I didn't kiss anyone until after my surgery. I wonder what it feels like with a normal tongue.
35. When I cry, I want to be left the hell alone.
36. I value friendships where silence isn't awkward.
37. I keep score, most of the time.
38. *omitted*
39. I can't feel part of my chin very well. Don't touch it, the sensation is weird/awful/gross.
40. I want to learn about fine beers.
41. I daydream almost constantly.
42. I eat apple cores and seeds.
43. I wish I knew how to decorate.
44. I wonder what happened to the rough patch of skin on my left ankle. All of a sudden it disappeared.
45. I don't do the "best friend" thing. That label is a dangerous thing.
46. My favorite part of the Bugs Bunny cartoon show was the background. Same with all the animated and clay-mation Christmas movies.
47. Sometimes my tongue cramps up and it makes it hard to talk for a while.
48. My sister says I have a lisp. I hope she's not serious.
49. I've never done a single drug.
50. I've smoked one cigarette. It was stupid.
51. I should stop slouching.
52. Sometimes I think that Mexican men hit on every girl because they see beauty in them all. But I'm pretty sure they're just that horny.
53. The more pillows, the better.
54. I love having my hair played with.
55. Head massages rock my world.
56. I care about what people think of me.
57. I'm attracted to more types of guys than you can shake a stick at.
58. I don't like red roses.
59. I miss elementary school.
60. I wonder how my life and personality would be different if my parents' lives had gone according to plan.
61. I think Asian women are the prettiest.
62. I only eat plain cheerios when I'm sick.
63. I think I lost the ability to learn when my parents got divorced. I shut down.
64. I want to eat buffalo meat.
65. I'm not really fascinated by bubble wrap.
66. I'm only Catholic on paper.
67. I just want to know that everything will work out.