Meme
From iliana_1:
Write 25 random things about yourself then tag 5 people.
No tags, but snag if you like
1. When I was 7, I had a mullet. There's really no other way to explain that haircut. There was even a freaking perm in the back.
2. The first "short story" I let others read was 63 pages long-hand and was written when I was 11 about nuclear holocaust . I sent a copy to George HW Bush with a letter, basically asking him not to start WW3. I got a reply promising he would try not to, with a signed picture of him and Dan Quayle shaking hands. I still have both the letter and the picture. :P
3. In third grade, I won a poetry contest. I always suspected I only won because my subject matter was my then recently deceased father.
4. I got a C in Creative Writing my Freshman year of college. After the semester ended, my professor committed suicide. It was my lowest collegiate grade ever, and people wonder why I chose the anti-creative Journalism program for my major.
5. Growing up, I wanted to be a cetacean biologist. I decided not to at 17, when I accepted my hubby's proposal. He wasn't big on college and I wasn't big on living without him for three months every year to make a name for myself. I don't regret my decision at all, but I still love the sea.
6. Some people propose with fancy dinners or grand gestures. My hubby proposed in bed. He got a breathless "sure". The 13 years since have rocked, mostly because we've never taken ourselves seriously.
7. I can and have fallen *up* stairs. Many times.
8. I'm a chatty drunk. I don't just talk, I practically interview random people when drunk. My first Farscape con, I found this goth guy and proceeded to get his life story, and an odd education on the various types of necromancy, out of him before the hubby found me at the bar. The next year I got the life story of a SWAT team member attending his 10-year high school reunion at the hotel.
9. I grew up in labs. Not as a rat or anything, though I did have one or two as pets. My parents were biologists and taught at the local university, so I tinkered with cadavers, bunsen burners and pitre dishes from a young age.
10. After my dad died, my mom went into psychology. That's when I decided that only the world's most messed up people decide to help others through their issues.
11. I have total Flintstone feet.
12. I've been to all 50 states.
13. There's a 32-year gap between me and my oldest brother.
14. When I was five, I was absolutely convinced that I killed my best friend's rooster. I fed the thing grass and it died the next day. Looking back, it was normal grass, but I was totally convinced the poultry police were after me. That's twice as weird when you realize I grew up in a metropolitan area.
15. In elementary school, my friend's mom bought a Father Christmas made entirely of pasta for over $2,000. The thing was over seven feet tall and I still have no idea why anyone would pay to put it in their driveway.
16. Growing up, I always wanted one or two kids. I never once entertained the idea of getting married until the day I said "sure."
17. I never took a typing class because I was convinced I would never be a secretary. Now that you need typing for, oh, everything, I want to kick my stupid, point-making, 15-year-old butt.
18. I got a 96% on my series 7 exam.
19. The first thing I ever stole was a baby My Little Pony with a shamrock on its butt in first grade. I took it from the Lost & Found and got caught by my mom. That damned thing wasn't very lucky.
20. Sometimes, I can convince people to do crazy things no one should ever agree to. I got two totally normal, middle-aged guys at work to dress up as cheerleaders one year for a spirit competition and perform a cheer in front of most of the company. They even wore wigs with pig-tails. Sometimes that shit boggles even me.
21. I have an affinity for antique stores. Randomly browsing them is like therapy.
22. I am still totally, blindly, head-over-heels in love with my hubby. I suspect the only reason I ship fictional characters is because I lack angst in my own life.
23. I haven't spoken to the brother I grew up with in over two years. We have nothing to talk about and I'd probably just yell at him if we did.
24. My favorite food is marshmallow peeps.
25. I have a knee-jerk rebellious streak a mile wide. It's annoying as all get-out, especially to me.