25 things
Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.
The people I'd tag are reading it here on my LJ anyway. Now, let's see how random I can be...
- I like plans and schedules. I have to schedule time for spontaneity.
- My temper is way shorter than most people realize. I rant and scream and cuss at people a lot. It just doesn't usually get past my (clenched) teeth. Which is probably a good thing.
- Woodman's has had cheap avocados lately. I'm going to have one for lunch tomorrow. Yum!
- I would trade my next raise for an office or even a more private cubicle. I like my cube-mates in "the four-pack," but I'd get a lot more done with more privacy and less noise.
- Even having said that, I'm pretty happy with my job right now.
- I almost always have music running through the back of my mind. Currently it's my melodic-jazz playlist that I've been listening to all week: Marion Meadows, Rick Braun, Peter Kater.
- I'd hoped to finish my degree before Kat finished hers. Isn't going to happen, but I'm resigned to it. At least I'll finish it this time.
- I still regret not doing a hitch in the military. Maybe then I wouldn't have wasted those first two years of college the way I did.
- I've learned more about mindfulness and being in the moment over the past year than in the entire rest of my life.
- Chewing gum helps me concentrate on physical tasks. Sometimes it helps me with mental ones too, but not so much. Music and hot caffeinated beverages do a lot more in that respect.
- There's a difference between typos and ignorance of the language. Typos don't bother me that much when I know the person writing has a clue of the real spelling or grammatical rule. Ignorance annoys me tremendously.
- Most of what passes these days for comedy leaves me completely cold. Offensive doesn't equal funny in my book.
- I get to learn some basic plumbing this spring...the seal at the base of the toilet is starting to go, and the valve I'd repaired is about shot as well. So at some point I'll need to pull the toilet--might as well finish the trim behind it while it's out--and at minimum replace the seal. Depending on finances, I might just replace the whole durn thing with a reduced-water model.
- Money being tighter than I'd anticipated going into this summer, I probably won't get to gut the kitchen for ANOTHER year. (Grr.) But I can do a lot of small stuff piecemeal like shower doors and bedroom paint/light fixtures/carpet and such. Maybe the house roof. Oh, and definitely that back door.
- I don't like talking on the phone. For lots of reasons, mostly due to the fact that I process the written word much better than I do the spoken word. And I can't lip-read over the phone.
- I have the coolest dentist in the world. He plays bass for an otherwise all-female rock band. He doesn't lecture but he doesn't sugar-coat stuff either--just lays it out straight. And he doesn't believe in what another dentist once called "heroi-dontics." He knew Dan in high school so we can reminisce too. The last time I had a filling done, Doc Dave and his assistant started a water fight with the rinse pic--right over my chin. Like I said, he's pretty cool.
- I didn't manage to do anything on my "life issues" to-do list for 2008. Didn't do a new will or health care power of attorney, beef up my life insurance, find a regular doc and get a physical, get a safe-deposit box. Gotta do those this year.
- It's too bad David Weber's "Honor Harrington" series didn't exist when I was growing up. She's exactly who I always wanted to be. Maybe she would've inspired me to do better than I did, go farther, make some things happen.
- My only goal all through high school was to get appointed to the Naval Academy. When I found out I didn't make it (blew the physical fitness exam), it was too late to apply for any scholarships. So I decided to spend a year at community college, working out and working on my math grades (my weakest subject) so I could try again. By the time the year was up, I knew I'd never make it at the Academy--a year in the real world had changed me that much. I wonder what my life would have been like if I'd succeeded?
- The biggest favor my brother Tony ever did me was to introduce me to good SF. My first exposure was his copy of Poul Anderson's "The Earthbook of Stormgate." Followed shortly by Harlan Ellison, Anne McCaffrey, and Stephen R. Donaldson.
- Most of the time I can't think of anywhere I'd rather be than quietly home by myself.
- I remember climbing up into a pine tree (I was probably in 8th or 8th grade at the time, no more) with my sketchbook and Mom's copy of Gray's Anatomy. I learned a lot about drawing by copying the illustration of the bones of the hand.
- I'm fascinated by blood. Bones are pretty cool too.
- I've been staying up way too late again recently, and having trouble getting out of bed in the morning. I think I need to move the bookcases out of the bedroom--remove the immediate source of temptation...
- Some days I miss Papa Bear a lot more than other days. But that doesn't keep life from being good.
Going to bed now...