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I don't feel like writing about Lilith or my party or any of that stuff right now. I'm going to tell y'all some random type facts that you may or may not know depending on how well you know me, but even if you think you know me really well I guarantee you won't know all of the following cuz there's at least one that I haven't told anybody. So there.
1) My cat's name is Crackers. The people at the Humane society named her that, and I kept it. She is more than a little crazy- she won't go near anyone but me and my mom and my dad and Henry and Rene, and she won't let anyone but me and my mom pet her, usually. And she bites. All the time. Not hard, tho. And she has a tattoo that says "HS" ...it's in her ear. 2) I own a pair of red sunglasses I wear when I'm driving, and they were picked out by my ex-psychiatrist. Yep. My shrink picked out my sunglasses. That's cuz we were at Office Max and he was there too and he's friends with my mom and they were talking while I was looking at sunglasses and he told me to try on the red pair, which I never ever would've tried on otherwise, and I did and I actually liked them. 3) My Teddy Bear cross-dresses. I didn't realize this, my mom and Rene pointed it out to me. It never occured to me when I bought Teddy his pink kitty outfit with the ruffles that those weren't boy clothes. I just thought they were cute. But Teddy's pronoun is always "he" so I guess that makes him a boy, and I guess the fact that he likes wearing pink ruffly clothes makes him a cross-dresser. This truly never occured to me until it was pointed out to me. 4) I don't shave. There is no political statement behind this, it just takes too much time and I hate the way my legs feel when I shave. So I don't. And I'm only very rarely self-conscious about it. 5) I am a compulsive saver. My income consists of my $10 weekly allowance, and whatever I can make baby-sitting for $2 an hour and mowing the lawn for my dad. But in the past year and a half or so I have put over $1,000 in my savings account, and I never feel quite right spending a lot of money if I haven't put some in there in a while. 6) I am terrible at procrastinating. Even when I have something that's not due for a week, and I could put it off for two days without having any trouble getting it done on time, and I still have to do it early. Otherwise I'd be in bed trying to go to sleep and end up panicking about it. 7) I have spent my whole life collecting things, and I never willingly get rid of anything. Consequently I have enormous collections of Legos, nail polish, beanie babies, action figures, comic books, magazines, pictures of Ani and Sarah Michelle Geller, tapes of My So-Called Life and Buffy, bootlegs, Care Bears stuff, 8-bit Nintendo games, etc. etc. etc. 8) As you can see by 5, 6, & 7, I tend to be more than a little compulsive... I also tend to obsess about things, and those two qualities combined I think give me a tendency to get depressed... and not just a little bit. I have been hospitalized three times for depression, and I have been on anti-depressants for a little over three years. 9) You all know I love Ani... I don't think you could've gotten around that fact and still made it to this page. She is my idol. I would love to be just like her. What you don't all know is my other music tastes... lately I've been mostly listening to chick singers... Ani DiFranco, Sarah McLachlan, Paula Cole, Tori Amos, Liz Phair, Soraya, Alanis Morisette, etc. But really I do like other music. I love Blessid Union of Souls (and have for about three and a half years) and I love Bon Jovi's Crossroads cd, and I like Meatloaf and Barenaked Ladies, and I like the Goo Goo Dolls "Iris" song, and I grew up on Gordon Lightfoot, so I do like him some, especially the record that my mom played every Saturday morning while she dusted. :-) 10) Spring is my favorite season. Every year when the snow starts to melt, I walk around our yard twice a day practically, looking for Crocuses and Daffodills and the buds from the Hyacinths and Tulips, and leafs on the Lilac trees, and our creek is filled with red Trillium, which is an endangered species but they're beautiful, and always out for Mother's Day. I can name every flower in our yard, creek, and woods, and tell you whether or not it's edible and if it is how to prepare it. And I can do the same for the trees and almost all the bushes. Learning that stuff was an obsession of mine in 5th, 6th, and 7th grade. Ever after I read "My Side of the Mountain," about this guy who runs away from home and lives inside a huge burned out tree living off the land. 11) I get obsessed with learning about things quite a bit. And once I do, I tend to read everything our library has on the subject, and that's usually not enough so I go to other libraries and book stores and read all those books too. And then, I'll stop. There is no rhyme or reason to it. I think the first time it happened was when I discovered Helen Keller when I was little... I read every biography our library had of hers, (except her autobiography... I was 7 or so, I think, and couldn't understand it.) and then I also read the biographies of her teacher (Anne Sullivan) and of the person who invented Braille, and of some other person who was blind and deaf. I think the next time it happened was when I learned about praries and fronteirs. That probably happened when I read "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder. So then I read every book by her, and about her, and every book I could find that involved covered wagons and praries. I loved Caddie Woodlawn. Most of what I read during that phase was fiction, but I figure it was pretty close. Other topics I've immersed myself in: orphans/orphanages Medicine, especially pediatrics Psychology, especially abnormal psychology physical and mental disabilities- the different kinds, causes, results, stories of people who have disabilities, education of people who have disabilities, etc. etc. Genetics Alternative Schooling, theories of education Toy collecting computers and the internet, including word processing and all that stuff, and more recently HTML ceramics- how to make clay, throw it, fire it, glaze it, etc. ...and those are all the ones I can think of right now. The biggest ones were Edible Plants, Psychology, and Disablities. And they happened in that order. Computers has been the only that's actually lasted over a really long period of time... I've been working on this one for five years now, I guess. And that is all I feel like talking about right now. |