25 things

this chain mail of sorts has been kicking around on facebook for a while now, and i've been tagged by multiple people. finally got around to filling it out. and forcing my friends to read my blog, at the same time. go me!

1. as a baby i pulled all the hair out of my head on one side. i was mostly bald through much of toddlerhood. people avoided my mother and i in grocery stores, because i looked diseased.
2. i'm lyrically devoted to the music i listen to. i have a terrible memory, but my memory for song lyrics is nothing if not impressive. i cannot listen to a song and not think about the words.
3. in the same vein, i'm acutely aware of voices. in highschool i remember specifically not liking certain gentlemen of the popular persuasion because of their voices, and i have been known to find people sexy for no reason other than their voice.
4. i do not have a favorite color, but i have a least favorite. forest green, the kind that the LL Bean logo is printed in. EW.
5. i really like making things. if i could make everything in my life from absolute scratch, i would. the closer to from scratch the happier i am. the one thing i've always really wanted to make and never have: shoes.
6. disney's "the little mermaid" was released on my birthday twice, when i turned 6 and 16. i saw it for my birthday in the theater twice, on both it's original and 10 yr anniversary releases.
7. i have only been to the west coast twice. once when i was very young, i learned to swim in a hotel pool in southern california, and once on a one night stopover in san francisco on the way to hawaii when i was in highschool
8. i'm a food snob, in a serious way. most devotedly for baked goods, and cheese. i'm also (recently) vegan. which poses serious issues. i'm working on making ammends with myself over that.
9. i spent a summer reupholstering couches for a crazy italian who was contracted through UNH. if you lived in the gables after 2004, chances are i made your couch.
10. i like to eat raw rolled oats. with a little honey and water. cold. and delicious.
11. i'm a fan of the beard. but not the goatee. and definately not the molestache.
12. i do not personally have a tmi meter. but i'm acutely aware of what i perceive as other people's tmi meters, and so have a tendency to withhold certain information. but if you ask, i'll tell (provided you genuinely want to know).
13. when i was less than 4 years old i tried to put old (discarded) house keys into an electical outlet, from largest to smallest. the smallest one JUUUUST barely fit. when my parents moved from that house there was still a soot stain around the outlet cover.
14. i've had stitches twice: once on my lip, which was slashed open on the hearth, and once on my eyebrow, which was smashed by a wooden baseball bat.
15. i briefly tutored statistics in college for athletes. i only took sociology stats once, and had no greater knowledge than that, and was embarrassed to inform my students that i wasn't a stats major...no, i was just a really big nerd.
16. i first started sewing by making clothes for my american girl's doll. she rocked some serious orange and white stripe denim bell bottoms.
17. i really love arcades. pinball is one of my favorites. i'm pretty bad at it, but i really, really love to play. i also love ms. pac man, and tetris. i'm oldschool.
18. i also really love bowling, and specifically candle pin bowling. i own my own bowling shoes. my highest score to date is (i believe) 132. if you're not familiar with candle pin bowling, that's a really good score.
19. i've been making a concerted effort to reduce the amount of "stuff" i own. one of the hardest things to part with: t-shirts.
20. i quit music (piano) lessons at a very young age (7? 8?), and have regretted it for the better part of my life.
21. i write on my computer exclusively on notepad. if the item i am writing needs formatting, i will later copy and paste it into word and format it after it is written.
22. i own a couch, a futon, a dresser, a kitchen cart, a dvd player/vcr, a tv stand, a tv, and a whole lotta kitchen supplies, none of which are currently in my posession.
23. there was a time when i could name the origin, insertion, and action of every skeletal muscle in the human body. i am saddened by the amount of knowledge i lose (and how quickly) when i stop actively studying something
24. i love size, color, alphabet, and pretty much every other form of ordering things. relatedly, i also enjoy putting puzzles together, and coloring mazes.
25. that's how old i am. i feel a lot younger than that, but i'm pretty sure no one feels as old as they actually are, except maybe people under 18.