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I was tag for the 25 Random Things About You activity and decided to share it with the class. Nothing too bad, but still gives you a little slice of my life, dreams, and general randomness.

Here goes…

1.      I want them to bring back the banana seat bikes. I loved going doubles on bikes when I was a kid and those where always the most comfortable and cute.

2.      I fell asleep taking the ACT’s. Thankfully it was only the math section, because I really needed a good score to get into college.

3.      I have a recurring nightmare about pirates…

4.      Which I distract myself from by singing the Carebear song, I’ve been doing it since I was five.

5.      I’m addicted to eating peanut butter with my cereal. I take a spoon full of peanut butter (strait from the jar) then plunge it into my bowl of usually banana nut or raison brand cereal. Delicious.

6.       I love reading horror books but I’m pathetic when it comes to watching scary movie. I either have my hands over my eyes throughout the entire movie or I bravely watch it and then spend the entire night with my bedside lamp on. Soooooo sad.

7.      I have six piercing, all above the neck, thank you very much.

8.      …Anyea pierced my nose in her mom’s kitchen with some help from a couple of ice cubes and a sharp earring. She had to re-pierce it five times that day, each time the cartilage emitted a knuckle cracking pop. It was not a good day.

9.      I have a (ridiculously farfetched) dream to open a bed and breakfast where each room has a theme from a famous novel (i.e. Jungle Book= India, Gone with Wind= 1860’s South, ECT.) I would have a small book store, guest writers, conferences and a variety of unique foods.

10.  I love to bake and sometimes cook but only when it’s for others. It feels nice to cook something that people really enjoy (like cheese cake) and I always get a thank you.

11.  When I babysat as a teenager I would put the kids asleep with stories from Greek mythology. Last year, they told me they still remember the stories I “made” up.

12.  I am the BIGGIST procrastinator.

13.  I have three tattoos; one on each foot and one on my lower back (swear to god that I didn’t know it was a tramp stamp until after I got it.)

14.  I played a whore in my high school’s production of “Guys and Dolls.”

15.  I plan to eventually get a Masters in Library Science so that I can impart on young minds the importance of procrastination through reading.

16.  I took almost three years off from college to bum around New Mexico and Mississippi.

17.  I have been to fourteen countries and twenty-six states…

18.  But I’ve never stepped foot in the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean.

19.  I have been to the alien museum in Roswell, NM…I believe?

20.  I was robbed at gun point when I was a manager of a video store in Mississippi. It sounds a lot cooler when I don’t mention that I was watching Grey’s Anatomy on DVD (the second season had just came out) and I let a man (i.e. the guy who signaled the all clear) in right at closing so he could grab a “quick movie”, because I was going to finish the episode anyway. Baaaaad call.

21.  I love the children’s books The Velveteen Rabbit, Love You Forever, and The Frog Prince.

22.  After the movie store “incident” I worked as an overnight waitress at a pancakes house in Newton, MS for six months.

23.  I was a Girl Scout for ten years and chaperoned for another three years. It was all for the cookies.

24.  I immediately breakout singing anytime I hear a phrase that reminds me of a song I know, always off key and missing most of the words.

25.  I was born on the same day as one of my favorite authors, Madeline L’Engle (A Wrinkle in Time.)

Please entertain me with your randomness.