50 Things About me

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One of the people on my f-list wanted to know more about everybody on their f-list. My profile is pretty explicit in the normal 'who am I?' way, so here I will make a list of 50 things about myself that aren't mentioned in my profile. This technically isn't a meme.

1. The only places I really feel at home is when I am walking around in the downtown core of larger cities like Toronto and Ottawa. I feel part of these cities. In smaller cities/towns I feel exposed and unwelcome.
2. Because of this one of my all time favourite songs is Under Bridge by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I can't get tired of that song.
3. I really hate the taste the following plants: of zucchini, olives, avocado, artichoke, squash (unless prepared as part of a dish as in butternut squash soup, casserole or pie), raw red peppers, kohlrabi, eggplant, turnip, beet, rutabagas, okra (I really hate Okra). I'll eat everything else with great happiness. I love salads.
4. I'm allergic to shellfish. Don't give me shrimp, lobster, clams or any of their chitinous relatives! My once breathing food must have owned a spine!
5. I have nasty scars on my stomach from a childhood operation.
6. I have a large scar across my right cheek from a laboratory accident involving exploding pressurized glass that just came out of an autoclave. At least it was sterile when it sliced me open right?
7. I empathize with hurt, starved or abused animals more than I do hurt, starved or abused humans. Its not that I don't empathize with humans at all, just not to the same degree. I feel guilty about this but in truth, animals have never hurt me, but humans have done so on more than one occasion.
8. My middle name is Aileen, which means that each of my names (First, middle, last) have six letters each.
9. My favourite colours in order of preference are aquamarine blue, baby pink and deep red. Yellow pisses me off.
10. When I was a child, I wanted to be a comedian. That dream was shot down by my parents who expect that I 'make something of myself'.
11. My resent my parents so very much.
12. Rap music makes me cringe. Not old school rap (I secretly enjoy listening to Kriss Kross in my spare time). The new crap. Half of these people cannot even rhyme, and let us not talk about grammar.
13. I want to slap the people who are responsible, and those who encourage the making of movies like 'The Anchorman'. They're torture. Pure torture. Why do you want to torture me with that crap?
14. I giggle like a child every time I see a groundhog.
15. I never crave salty things. If they made potato chips illegal it wouldn' t bother me at all.
16. If they made chocolate or coffee illegal I'd volunteer to suicide bomb the assholes in the government who passed that horrible, horrible blasphemous law.
17. I'm an atheist who was raised Catholic. If it wasn't for the Catholic School system, I'd probably still be a Catholic. The Catholic school system opened my eyes. I don't think they intended on doing that, but its true, they did.
18. I hate my hair. Its not curly, its not wavy, its just someplace in between. It won't stay put so no matter how hard I try I always look like I didn't brush my hair and that I just don't give a damn about the way I look. Yeah, I look like a bum.
19. People who complain at restaurants for little things such as 'there is too much ice in my water' or 'my meat lovers pizza has too much meat on it' piss me off SO MUCH. If they've brought you shrimp pasta when you asked for chicken then complain. That is a valid complaint. But shut the hell up if your free glass of water is full of too much free frozen water or something that is supposed to be meaty has the nerve to actually be meaty. You sicken me!
20. I feel sorry for children who don't have a pet.
21. I feel sorry for children growing up in small towns. Probably because I would be miserable in a small town, and I assume everyone else would be as well.
22. I feel sorry for children with bad names. Do your kid a favour and don't give him/her a name that ends in "i" or sounds like a baby's name. One day they will be 40 and your precious little "Chip" will be 200 lbs overweight and not-so-cute anymore. 
23. Also, I think people are insane if they name their children after produce/food or comic book characters. Name if you want to name your dog/cat/goldfish apple, kumquat, Kal-el etc. go ahead, but not your child. What is wrong with you?
24. My feet are so wide that most wide-width shoes still don't fit. Because of this, my baby toe is actually squished to the point that it is underneath my forth toe. Yes, I walk on-top of my baby toe. And still my shoes are tight.
25. I wear a size 8 in case you have some wide width shoes you want to donate
26. I will actually avoid talking to people who eat with their mouth open.
27. I judge people on LJ by their userpics.
28. I don't like to wear a watch. It gets caught in my latex/nitrile gloves at work and irritates the hell out of me!
29. I love to walk through the woods/forest
30. I would love to live someplace where it was summer all year round. I envy people who have never seen snow.
31. I always vote Green
32. A vacation lying on a beach all day is fricking boring. Let me go someplace with history or sites to see. A beach will only amuse me for a few hours then I'm all 'What the hell do I do with the rest of my week?'
33. I cannot hear very well at all if there is background noise (talking, music, shuffling, wind etc). If I seem to be ignoring you when you talk I'm not ignoring you. I just can't hear you! If I misunderstand something you've said its because I can't hear you. If you see me tilting my head to my good ear and leaning close I'm having trouble hearing you. Speak up! No, I do not have a hearing aide, and even if I was prescribed one I couldn't afford to buy one at the present moment in time.
34. I sun burn easily. If it wasn't for my freckles I could stand naked in front of a white wall and appear invisible.
35. I get lost very easily. Very, very easily. I need a GPS installed in my head that tells me where to go. I hope they invent this soon. I volunteer for the first operation.
36. Mushy stories in books and on tv make me ill and ruin a good plot.
37. I still can't find eye makeup that doesn't make me have a horrible allergic reaction. Really, after a few hours I look like somebody punched me in both eyes.
38. I'm really craving tacos. Right. Now.
39. I hate gum, it hurts my teeth.
40. I write (and pipette) with my right hand, but do everything else like a lefty. Including drive, eat and throw
41. I always put the toilet seat cover down before I flush
42. My blood type is O+
43. I have a very strange fear of phones. If I have to call somebody it takes me quite sometime to get the nerve to pick up the receiver. Give me e-mail or give me chocolate! (see I win both ways there).
44. I have all of my wisdom teeth. This is why I'm smarter than everyone else! (Ha ha, okay, just kidding obviously).
45. I'm a very light sleeper. If I don't wear ear plugs, I can't sleep
46. I hate cold drinks. Give me a warm glass of water and I'm happy. Give me cold water and I'll leave it on the table until it warms up.
47. I won't drink while I'm eating. I'll sip my drink before a meal, and then after a meal, never while I am still eating my meal.
48. Once I had an old woman ask me what nationality I was (after mistaking me for Portuguese) I said: "I'm an English-Irish-French-Polish-Canadian". She replied "You poor girl!". That pissed me off more than you could imagine. Its genetically healthier to mix it up a little, so there! You nasty piece of work!
49. Yappy dogs annoy me, but I still want one. A little Yorkie. They're so cute, and you can litter train them. Bonus.
50. I don't own a hippopotamus, but I do want one for Christmas.