A meme, and some other stuff
Well first of all, it looks like I might be on the receiving end of a visit from my parents next weekend. My dad called me up just to tell me, or rather sing to me (tuneless singing, mind) that "Rita Is Coming." My parents are strange people.
And I've been putting off doing this meme, because I didn't have the sit down time for it. But I do now. So, tagged by maya, I present the 20 Random Facts meme.
1. The only pets I've ever had were some goldfish when I was two years old. Some of the fishies got sick and died, and had to be flushed down the toilet. This is actually one of my earliest memories, a fish swirling down the toilet bowl.
2. I'm an only child. In case it wasn't obvious from the contents of the post.
3. But, in my crazy imaginary world, I have an older brother. When I was younger (around 11 or 12), I came up with an entire back story of why the older brother (named Raj) did not grow up with me, but was raised by other people in our family, until one day he was sent to us.
4. I'm a big big dork. No, really, I am. I love watching those documentaries that come on PBS, the ones about outer space and the undersea world and volcanoes and stuff. Yesterday night, I watched an hour long show on the sun. Did you know the sun has solar flares that wreak total havoc on our satellite communications systems? These flares are called Solar Maximums, or Solar Max. The last big one caused billions of dollars worth of damage, and since then we've put 2000 additional satellites in space. Other suns apparently have super big flares, but our sun does not, which is good because it could destroy half the ozone layer at one time. Now do you believe me when I say I'm a dork?
5. But along side of the dorkiness, there is also extreme shallowness and superficiality. Especially as relates to shopping. I adore shopping; I can shop for anything, but most particularly clothes, shoes, handbags, jewelry, etc. Especially handbags. A girl can never have too many of those. Luckily for my pocketbook, since I buy so many bags, I keep a limit on how much I'm willing to pay for them. No Coach or Louis Vuitton for me.
6. I can also talk for hours about hair. Particularly curly hair, as that is what I am cursed with have.
7. I have lots of nervous fidgety habits. Like: I twirl my pens when I'm studying, I shake my legs, rock back and forth (which, by the way, is a sign of autism), and, when I'm alone and studying, I get one of those clicky pens and click it. A lot. These habits are all pretty subconscious, and they have the added benefit of annoying my mother to no end. My dad, who enjoys annoying my mother even more than I do, will start imitating my fidgety habits on purpose.
8. I like to annoy my mother. I particularly like to rub in the fact that I'm taller than she is. There are not that many people that are shorter than me, so I take advantage of this whenever I can.
9. I've lived in lots of different places within the States. I was born in Ohio, then I moved to South Carolina to Wichita Kansas to Corpus Christi TX to Houston TX to Dallas TX. For a while I almost moved to California, when my dad had a project out there. South Carolina was the prettiest place we lived; the town was right near the Appalachian mountains, and we had all four seasons. In the fall, the leaves would turn colors for a couple of months, and since there were giant trees, the effect was just amazing. And it always snowed in time for Christmas. But not so much that you couldn't get around easily. Texas and Kansas are tossups for the least pretty places to live.
10. I have two diaries; this one, and a handwritten one. There's different stuff in the handwritten one, it's messier, and a lot more angsty. And yes, believe it or not, I can actually do angst. However, the real angsty diaries got thrown away by my mom. I was never any good at hiding the ones I kept in middle school and high school. My mom would always find them, read them, and then yell at me, because all I ever wrote about were which boys I liked. And since Good Indian Girls do not look at boys until they find one to marry, this did not go over well with the parents.
11. I'm obsessed with office supplies. Particularly pretty colored pens. Not that I can actually do anything artistic with the pens; they just let me make my notes all colorful.
12. When I was little I'd get all my school supplies and lay them out on the floor and pet them, because they were so shiny and new.
13. I love the way new crayons smell. Also new books. However, I have never eaten a crayon (or a book).
14. I am a 'flexitarian'. Basically, I eat chicken and turkey and that's it for meat. I don't eat red meat at all, as it's bad for you. And I cannot stand the smell of fish. When I was three, my dad tried to force me to eat fish, and it made me throw up. Ever since then, the smell of fish makes me feel nauseated, and eating it makes me vomit. Yay food aversion.
15. I drink too much caffeine. That's my addiction, really. This past week, I polished off a 12-pack of Diet Pepsi in about 6 days. And I did not drink any water at all. My kidneys are going to quit on me very very soon. In order to prevent the quittage, I told myself that I wasn't going to drink more than one can of Pepsi a day for the next week or so. I'm fighting off cravings, now, and I'm really tempted to go and get some out of the fridge.
16. I had all these random facts written out on post-it notes all over my apartment to answer this meme. Whenever I thought of something, I wrote it down, because I thought it would save me time later. Now I cannot find a single post-it note.
17. I love post-it notes. All the different colors. But I only like the square ones. The rectangles are either too big or too small to be useful. The square ones are just right. My post-it note love almost rivals my colorful pen love.
18. I wear a lot of pink, although pink is not my favorite color, not by a long shot. It just happens to be the color that looks best with my skin tone. I also wear a good amount of pale yellow and orange. I hate yellow and orange as colors, though. Stupid brown skin.
19.I am painfully painfully shy in person. So if any of you meet me in person and I don't speak to you, it's not because I hate you. It's because I'm afraid of sounding like an idiot. That's what I like about the Internet, actually. I can rewrite and tweak and edit to my heart's content, before actually doing the posting. So I can get rid of the stupid-sounding bits. Some of them, anyway.
20. The WB is showing The Two Towers right now, and I'm watching it instead of the Emmys. Mostly because Orlando Bloom is very very pretty. Otherwise, the movies didn't have that much merit. The books on the other hand...loved those.
Hmmm...and I tag anyone who hasn't done this yet.
ETA: The tribute things on the Emmys are really getting me. Every time I switch over, it's a tribute to someone. First it was Johnny Carson, and now I caught the news one, where they had a tribute to Peter Jennings. *sniffle*
And I've been putting off doing this meme, because I didn't have the sit down time for it. But I do now. So, tagged by maya, I present the 20 Random Facts meme.
1. The only pets I've ever had were some goldfish when I was two years old. Some of the fishies got sick and died, and had to be flushed down the toilet. This is actually one of my earliest memories, a fish swirling down the toilet bowl.
2. I'm an only child. In case it wasn't obvious from the contents of the post.
3. But, in my crazy imaginary world, I have an older brother. When I was younger (around 11 or 12), I came up with an entire back story of why the older brother (named Raj) did not grow up with me, but was raised by other people in our family, until one day he was sent to us.
4. I'm a big big dork. No, really, I am. I love watching those documentaries that come on PBS, the ones about outer space and the undersea world and volcanoes and stuff. Yesterday night, I watched an hour long show on the sun. Did you know the sun has solar flares that wreak total havoc on our satellite communications systems? These flares are called Solar Maximums, or Solar Max. The last big one caused billions of dollars worth of damage, and since then we've put 2000 additional satellites in space. Other suns apparently have super big flares, but our sun does not, which is good because it could destroy half the ozone layer at one time. Now do you believe me when I say I'm a dork?
5. But along side of the dorkiness, there is also extreme shallowness and superficiality. Especially as relates to shopping. I adore shopping; I can shop for anything, but most particularly clothes, shoes, handbags, jewelry, etc. Especially handbags. A girl can never have too many of those. Luckily for my pocketbook, since I buy so many bags, I keep a limit on how much I'm willing to pay for them. No Coach or Louis Vuitton for me.
6. I can also talk for hours about hair. Particularly curly hair, as that is what I am cursed with have.
7. I have lots of nervous fidgety habits. Like: I twirl my pens when I'm studying, I shake my legs, rock back and forth (which, by the way, is a sign of autism), and, when I'm alone and studying, I get one of those clicky pens and click it. A lot. These habits are all pretty subconscious, and they have the added benefit of annoying my mother to no end. My dad, who enjoys annoying my mother even more than I do, will start imitating my fidgety habits on purpose.
8. I like to annoy my mother. I particularly like to rub in the fact that I'm taller than she is. There are not that many people that are shorter than me, so I take advantage of this whenever I can.
9. I've lived in lots of different places within the States. I was born in Ohio, then I moved to South Carolina to Wichita Kansas to Corpus Christi TX to Houston TX to Dallas TX. For a while I almost moved to California, when my dad had a project out there. South Carolina was the prettiest place we lived; the town was right near the Appalachian mountains, and we had all four seasons. In the fall, the leaves would turn colors for a couple of months, and since there were giant trees, the effect was just amazing. And it always snowed in time for Christmas. But not so much that you couldn't get around easily. Texas and Kansas are tossups for the least pretty places to live.
10. I have two diaries; this one, and a handwritten one. There's different stuff in the handwritten one, it's messier, and a lot more angsty. And yes, believe it or not, I can actually do angst. However, the real angsty diaries got thrown away by my mom. I was never any good at hiding the ones I kept in middle school and high school. My mom would always find them, read them, and then yell at me, because all I ever wrote about were which boys I liked. And since Good Indian Girls do not look at boys until they find one to marry, this did not go over well with the parents.
11. I'm obsessed with office supplies. Particularly pretty colored pens. Not that I can actually do anything artistic with the pens; they just let me make my notes all colorful.
12. When I was little I'd get all my school supplies and lay them out on the floor and pet them, because they were so shiny and new.
13. I love the way new crayons smell. Also new books. However, I have never eaten a crayon (or a book).
14. I am a 'flexitarian'. Basically, I eat chicken and turkey and that's it for meat. I don't eat red meat at all, as it's bad for you. And I cannot stand the smell of fish. When I was three, my dad tried to force me to eat fish, and it made me throw up. Ever since then, the smell of fish makes me feel nauseated, and eating it makes me vomit. Yay food aversion.
15. I drink too much caffeine. That's my addiction, really. This past week, I polished off a 12-pack of Diet Pepsi in about 6 days. And I did not drink any water at all. My kidneys are going to quit on me very very soon. In order to prevent the quittage, I told myself that I wasn't going to drink more than one can of Pepsi a day for the next week or so. I'm fighting off cravings, now, and I'm really tempted to go and get some out of the fridge.
16. I had all these random facts written out on post-it notes all over my apartment to answer this meme. Whenever I thought of something, I wrote it down, because I thought it would save me time later. Now I cannot find a single post-it note.
17. I love post-it notes. All the different colors. But I only like the square ones. The rectangles are either too big or too small to be useful. The square ones are just right. My post-it note love almost rivals my colorful pen love.
18. I wear a lot of pink, although pink is not my favorite color, not by a long shot. It just happens to be the color that looks best with my skin tone. I also wear a good amount of pale yellow and orange. I hate yellow and orange as colors, though. Stupid brown skin.
19.I am painfully painfully shy in person. So if any of you meet me in person and I don't speak to you, it's not because I hate you. It's because I'm afraid of sounding like an idiot. That's what I like about the Internet, actually. I can rewrite and tweak and edit to my heart's content, before actually doing the posting. So I can get rid of the stupid-sounding bits. Some of them, anyway.
20. The WB is showing The Two Towers right now, and I'm watching it instead of the Emmys. Mostly because Orlando Bloom is very very pretty. Otherwise, the movies didn't have that much merit. The books on the other hand...loved those.
Hmmm...and I tag anyone who hasn't done this yet.
ETA: The tribute things on the Emmys are really getting me. Every time I switch over, it's a tribute to someone. First it was Johnny Carson, and now I caught the news one, where they had a tribute to Peter Jennings. *sniffle*