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25 random things about you; care to share?

Asked by Mama_Cakes2 (1446points) September 11th, 2010

I asked this in 2009

For those of you who aren’t on here, add your 25.

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Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

1. I drink hot sauce.
2. I did burlesque as Fury in NYC.
3. I have a tattoo behind my right ear.
4. I’ve had both of my nipples pierced twice – at one point, I had two piercings making an ‘x’ in each nipple.
5. I used to pour soup out of the window when I was little, if I didn’t want to eat it.
6. Crossword puzzles drive me crazy.
7. I want my children to take up skateboarding when they grow up.
8. I get crazy if the Yankees are in the World Series.
9. I used to think vegans were starved and sad.
10. I once walked as a model for the Russian Bride NY show here in Brooklyn.
11. I was with a heroin addict when I was younger.
12. I did naughty things with a guy in the middle of a ghost tour in Manchester while I was engaged to my ex-husband.
13. I am attracted to people who can step (as in on the Step Team).
14. I am directionally challenged but am not afraid to talk to any stranger to get directions.
15. I gave birth vaginally to my first son without contractions.
16. My brother used to do dark magick when I was a witch and I used to put binding spells on him to prevent him from hurting others.
17. I always had bad vision.
18. The doctors gave my mother a 5% chance that I would survive to birth and be born w/o major birth defects.
19. I did pancreatic cancer research when I was 16 – my mentor would later say that the world of science suffered a loss when the world of social justice gained a treasure – I respect this man above all other father figure – like people in my life.
20. I went to South Africa pregnant and without any vaccinations – because I wasn’t going to give up that opportunity for anything.
21. I used to get into cars with strangers that ‘wanted to give me a ride home’.
22. I used to deal.
23. I am more likely to give money to a homeless person if they’ve got a dog with them.
24. I’ve never looked back in terms of relationships except for that one person.
25. I write poetry.

Mama_Cakes2's avatar

Heh. I posted the question back then and forgot to add my 25. Will be back later after my nap.

ducky_dnl's avatar

1–25.) I can’t think of 25 things and that is top secret information. :P

…Perhaps later.

syz's avatar

All of my original answers still apply (especially #10).

truecomedian's avatar

25, 25, are you fucking kidding me. 25, that’s like no fun after 5 or 3. Here’s my version, three random things about me is:
1. I live in poverty
2. I used to have a genius I.Q. until I fried my brain on drugs
3. I re-broke my hand masteurbating

Trissinger's avatar

1 – I live.
2 – I breathe.
3 – I laugh.
4 – I cry.
5 – I sing.
6 – I dance.
7 – I rejoice.
8 – I wait.
9 – I work.
10 – I play.
11 – I write.
12 – I tickle.
13 – I hope.
14 – I pray.
15 – I listen.
16 – I talk.
17 – I learn.
18 – I teach.
19 – I discern.
20 – I trust.
21 – I care.
22 – I stretch.
23 – I fail.
24 – I try.
25 – I am.

Mama_Cakes2's avatar

1. I didn’t get my license until 21 because I was worried that I’d get into accident

2. I could easily have sex with a dude, but, emotionally, physically and sexually, I prefer the ladies

3. I was always the one in grade school who got in trouble for talking and disrupting the class

4. I confronted my (sexual) abuser at 21, came out to my family at the same time and a few days later, my grandfather died – into depression, I went

5. I have issues with trusting men and any immature, self-centered man reminds me of my father and makes me sick. I am working on my trust issues, though.

6. I have always been told that I look younger than my age. When I was about to graduate high school, people thought that I was 13. Now, 38, I have been told that I look younger than my girlfriend (30) and the average age I get is 27.

7. I have been told by many that I have a unique way of seeing the world.

8. I have been told that I have a heart of gold.

9. I have slate blue eyes and everyone else in my family has brown.

10. I am the queen of procrastination

11. I am compassionate towards others and often times I have been in other peoples shoes, so, I know what pain is like. I always think about that before passing judgement

12. I have always wanted to work with kids and have been told since I can remember that I would make a wonderful Mom and teacher. I ended being a teacher and have been having baby pangs like crazy (for the last year). I want to have a child before eggs shrivel up to the size of raisins. I am very maternal.

13. I love sex a lot and am very open and adventurous. I have a huge sexual appetite and luckily I have met someone who is the same way. I also prefer to be the dominate one when it comes to sex.

14. When I was 5, I got onto the school bus wearing a strawberry shortcake bikini and off to school I went. My Mom had to come to the school with a change of clothes..

15. I don’t do well with authority

16. I am feisty

17. When I fall in love, I fall hard and deep.

18. I am attracted with those with a great sense of humor. Really and truly, that is the number one quality that I look for in an individual.

19. I am a Jew lover

20. When I was in my early 20’s, I tended to date women 10 years older than I

21. I am a freak when it comes to music knowledge

22. I hated high school, as I had to play the part of the straight girl and dated many guys, even though I was crushing on my best friend

23. According to the girlfriend, people tend to light up when they talk to me.

24. Lately, I have had a lot on my plate with family and because of stress (and the person dumping everything on me), I have missed my period, and am going through a depression. Depression, because I feel that I am losing a loved one all over again (I already lost my Mom). Sometimes, I feel as though I am actor and someone gave me a shitty. shitty part (life).

25. I am supposed to be running errands and have responsibilities, but, the whole afternoon I have been watching Redtube.

tinyfaery's avatar

Here’s mine again, with some changes.

1. I went to a performing arts school for 3 years.
2. I have 5 cats.
3. I compulsively crack my neck.
4. I went on my first plane ride when I was 29 years old.
5. I have never been in a car accident. I have now been in 3 accidents. Don’t ask.
6. I have seen DMB 17 times. That number is now 21.
7. I do not want to have children.
8. I like Neil Diamond.
9. I have a penchant for existential philosophy.
10. I just bought a Mini Cooper.
11. I am a Buffyphile.
12. My parents kicked me out of the house when I was 17 years old.
13. I think rats and mice are cute.
14. I would love to live and work in Santa Monica.
15. I hate the smell of leather.
16. I never learned to type correctly.
17. The cat I saved from the streets last year barely let’s me touch her. Now, she let’s me touch her sometimes.
18. My favorite place is Disneyland.
19. In April, I will have been with my wife 8 years. In September we will have been married 9 years.
20. I abhor mayonnaise.
21. I eat more sugar than any 5 people should.
22. I have about 5 alcoholic drinks a year.
23. I am lactose intolerant.
24. I am more girly than I like to admit.
25. I tend to like animals more than people.

ucme's avatar

1. I can’t be bothered to list 25 random things about myself
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le_inferno's avatar

1. I am the only one in my family with red hair
2. I never kissed a boy or had a boyfriend until I was 18
3. I’m 19 now, still a virgin
4. I was lonely, insecure, and depressed through most of high school
5. I’ve used the Internet to express myself and find companionship when I felt I couldn’t otherwise.
6. I’m a psychology major with a double minor in Writing and Italian. Right now my ambitions are to become a neuropsychologist and one day get something of mine published.
7. I want to study abroad in Italy next year, I’m pretty good at the language and hope to get better.
8. I don’t have many friends, but I’m working on it.
9. I get annoyed by people very easily, but I’m working on it.
10. I have fairly high standards when it comes to genuinely appreciating people. They have to be intelligent, have a sense of humor, be able to see through people’s inane bullshit, have substance. In short, people who “get it.” I haven’t found many my age.
11. I’ve done things in moments of insecurity that I’m not proud of, but have gotten tremendously better with my confidence.
12. I’m not really athletic. I’ve never gotten seriously into sports, not big on exercise either.
13. I have a pretty wicked metabolism and don’t need to worry about what I eat. (Surely this won’t last, but it’s pretty great for now.)
14. I’m obsessed with macaroni and cheese, french fries, and Buffalo chicken.
15. I fucking love Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
16. I have a boyfriend who is 6’6’’ and I’m 5’3’’. It’s a little inconvenient.
17. Said boyfriend is currently studying abroad in New Zealand but I trust his fidelity completely, and it’s a good feeling.
18. I am good at making people laugh
19. I’m pretty damn skilled with makeup
20. My nails are almost always painted
21. I know almost every line to Home Alone by heart.
22. I get my period every 2–3 months instead of every 28 days…it pretty much does its own thing, so I have never got an idea about when it’s coming. It sucks a bit
23. I plan on getting married and having kids when I get older.
24. I have a soft spot for Frank Sinatra
25. I need to apply chapstick at least 3 or 4 times every day.

muppetish's avatar

I apologize in advance for the length of this post. It’s not interesting. Feel free to skip.

1. 12 April 2009 – I saw a photograph of my dad’s father for the first time in my life.

2. For my Arthurian Romance course, I wrote a 30-page script for an episode of The Storyteller that retold the Quest for the Holy Grail using Muppets. My project included a cast list with black-and-white photos, stage directions, and cheesy jokes. It wasn’t until after my professor handed it back to me with an A+ and a happy face on the corner of the front page, that I realized I had earned a passing grade for turning in fan fiction.

3. Up through high school, 90% of my wardrobe was purchased from thrift stores.

4. My financial aid covers all my student fees with a surplus of funds in my bank account.

5. I had my first job interview on Tuesday.

6. My kindergarten teacher told my mother that I was not emotionally ready to move ahead in school. She ignored her. My first grade teacher told my mother that I wasn’t challenged enough and belonged in second grade. She ignored her, too.

7. I opted out of the GATE program at my school because I was terrified of taking the bus.

8. There’s a boy who attends (unless he graduated this past year) the high school near my university. He is one of the sweetest boys I have ever seen and he has the loveliest freckles. I’d tell him, but he’d probably think I’m a nut-job-wacko-stalker.

9. My mother is convinced that I am going to marry a person of Asian descent. I don’t date people based on ethnicity or cultural affiliation.

10. I have spent so much of my life with my brothers, that we often think the same things at the same time, finish each other’s sentences, share the same opinion, etc. “I knew you were going to say that / do that” is one of our most commonly uttered sentences.

11. I didn’t realize this until someone pointed it out to me, but when I am relating a story about a conversation I had with someone, I adopt their manner of speaking. If someone asks me to do an impression, however, I will sound nothing like the person I am attempt to imitate.

12. I have not seen one branch of my father’s family since I was two, another branch since I was a freshman in high school, and I have yet to meet the majority of my mother’s family.

13. When I was two, I wanted to be a butterfly.

14. The best paper I have ever written was for a Shakespeare course. I had maybe a page or two written the night before it was due and stayed up all night finishing it. I had an 8:00 AM poetry class and napped in the library until class at 3:00 PM. Then I went home, wrote my Chaucer final, and went to the airport at 4:00 AM to head off to an English convention. I’m never doing that again.

15. I have never broken a bone.

16. I struggled with breaking from routine when I was in elementary school (especially waving goodbye to my father in the morning, checking the front door was locked at night, and washing my hands.) My night routine was especially intrusive. I don’t remember when I finally stopped.

17. I have fainted twice.

18. I purchase art materials even though I have minimal (read here: no) artistic talent.

19. I have, to my embarrassment, thought I lost my glasses while they were still on my face.

20. I hate it when one word hangs on a new line. I edit posts to make them fit.

21. Over-the-counter medication has never managed even the dullest pain.

22. I can feel my pulse throughout my body at all times of the day.

23. I have cried for 24 hours with few breaks between sobbing.

24. (I’m tempted to delete this entire post.)

25. Fluther, to me, is a living novel. I enjoy going through archived questions… the Jellies here are a diverse cast of characters.

phoebusg's avatar

I’d be very bored by after the first few. Talking about myself is not the most interesting topic (to me).

1. I’m a humanist.
2. A realistic idealist.
3. Lives to improve lives.
4. I believe in extreme honesty and follow it.
5. I am working on my first book and hope to finish it soon.
6. One of my life goals is enabling student-driven education and upholding freedom of information.

Too lazy to compose the rest, but feel free to stalk me and make your own list!
Phoebus G on facebook. http://phoebusg.com

chyna's avatar

I’m too boring to even post one.

ducky_dnl's avatar

Fine, I’ll answer this one truthfully.

1.) I’m 17 almost 18.

2.) I don’t understand the point of relationships.

3.) I’m scared of a lot of things but I hide it through humor.

4.) I have mini crushes on people, but when I think about it, they don’t mean much.

5.) I have a very bad opinion of myself.

6.) I was suicidal for a long time in my life. I still have urges, but I don’t act on them anymore.

7.) I have trust issues and I’m scared of men. :|

8.) Saying number 7 made me feel weird. Not a good weird either.

9.) People tell me that I’m a very happy person. Pfft!

10.) I loved one guy in my life and I didn’t get him. My faitytale was/is a nightmare.

11.) Yes. I am a very dark person.

12.) I like eating jalapeno peppers.

13.) This number is the day I was born. October 13th.

14.) I am infatuated with Sherlock Holmes.

15.) I have high standards when it comes to picking a boyfriend. I don’t settle for anything less than the best. These high standards make me seem like I’m always rejecting people, but what’s the point of dating someone I know I’m going to break up with in like two weeks?

16.) My favorite colours are blue and green.

17.) My favorite number is 2413. I usually put it in my photos and names and stuff. It’s my trademark. :P

18.) I get teased by my family a lot.

19.) I have been told I have depression, ptsd, trust issues, etc.

20.) I tend to be a logical thinker now-a-days. Ever since I lost my friend, I tend to look at things from a logical, rational point of view.

21.) I am straight.

22.) I have never been kissed.

23.) I hate 95% of the people I know.

24.) I can’t believe I’m doing this.

25.) I’m still in love.

I’ll give you a bonus one too.

…26.) 99% of the people that know me, have the wrong idea of me.

sakura's avatar

loving the fact that so many people are responding at the same time because they are all typing so much information!!

ucme's avatar

@ducky_dnl we share a birthday, useless piece of information but there you go

CherrySempai's avatar

Very nice question, I see it as a great challenge trying to come up with 25 things about myself. :)

1) I am a master at ping pong.

2) I count cards in Black Jack. (It’s not cheating. And it’s not like I can play for money, I’m 19.)

3) I have an extremely dry sense of humor. People online never understand it, unless they’ve met me in person before. It’s quite frustrating, really.

4) I abso-bloody-lutely love with Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory.

5) I hate being obsessed with things that other people are obsessed with. Maybe I just don’t want to conform, but really I’m conforming by trying not to conform…‘cause everybody wants to be unique. :) I can’t tell you how upset I was when Harry Potter got popular, I thought I had found a special book to be my own.

6) I am a Harry Potter fanatic. And that’s under-exaggerating.

7) I’m a double major in Accounting and International business.

8) I’m dying to buy colored contacts (I have the most boring brown eyes) but I’m scared of the contacts sliding into the back of my eyes. (I have 20/20 vision [apparently]).

9) I love commas and punctuation.

10) I love families. Talking about my family, learning about other people’s families, and being in a family.

11) 11 is my favorite number. 11:11 is a wonderful time for me. :]

12) I love interviews (kind of like this, haha) and look forward to jobhunting just so I can go to interviews.

13) I have a youtube channel where I make vlogs and make music videos that no one I know irl knows about, because I think that would be weird?

14) I’m slightly feminist, yet I hate how I’m one of the 3 girls in most of my business classes. “Pioneering woman” is not what I want to be remembered as.

15) I always want to do things the easy way, yet I enjoy it more during and after when I do it the hard/challenging way.

16) I used to think I was the biggest procrastinator in the world. Then, I thought, no I’m not. I just enjoy doing things later or right before they’re due. I don’t have to do them earlier so why bother. I like the pressure. ;]

17) I’ve always wanted to go to the WCG. (World Cyber Games) But my friends don’t play video games, and my parents would never approve, so I just haven’t.

18) I care what other people think. I base most of my decisions off what my mom would think, and that has stopped me from doing a lot of things that I would want to.

19) I want a 2010 Yellow Jeep Wrangler. It’s my dream car. (That’s why I find it ironic that my parents bought me a more expensive car when this is what I want. Oh well.)

20) I overuse the word “ironic,” and I mostly use it when it doesn’t fit. :)

21) I don’t drink. I don’t know why I don’t drink, but I just don’t.

22) I wish I were a good artist. Not even amazing or really talented, just somewhat good.

23) I pretend I’m a guy when I’m playing online games, because I do not like how most guys in games treat girls. It’s completely hypocritical of me, though, because I loathe when guys pretend to be girls just to get attention. :] Oh phooey.

24) I like to think I have almost perfect etiquette. It drives me insane when other people are lacking in etiquette, though.

25) I do gymnastics, and there’s nothing I love more. (Except maybe Sheldon. :])

Facade's avatar

1. I don’t really like taking photos but have recently become an aspiring commercial model. Stay tuned.
2. I have big hair.
3. I tend to analyze and criticize people, including myself.
4. I love chocolate Haagen-Dazs.
5. I have depression.
6. I don’t like to wear bright colors because I think they look cheap ( and I can’t afford the good stuff).
7. I did gymnastics for nine years. I also played soccer, volleyball, softball, swam, dove, and cheerlead.
8. As a result of my previous fact, I routinely pop every joint in my body throughout the day because they slip out of place.
9. I have a low tolerance for many things, including bullshit, ignorance, obnoxiousness, and stupidity.
10. As a result of my previous fact, I don’t have very, very few friends. Kinda sucks.
11. When I’m nervous, my vocal chords seize up, and my voice sounds extremely weird.
12. I have a laundry list of health issues, but I’m working on it.
13. I don’t have any dreams or goals. I just go with the flow, doing whatever comes my way.
14. I have a strong faith in God.
15. I forget that I’m only 5’1 until I look in the mirror. My boyfriend says it’s because I have a superiority complex.
16. I really like magic, musicals, and marijuana.
17. I probably smoke one averaged-sized joint in 3–4 days. Why people feel the need to get high on coke, heroin, meth, etc. is beyond me.
18. I work in a call center. I don’t like it.
19. All my life, I’ve tried to be like everyone else and fit in. I’ve yet to succeed at that.
20. Frasier is one of my favorite tv shows. I’m watching it now. I think it’s because I can relate to Frasier Crane so well.
21. I like women’s bodies and tend to stare.
22. I’m easily offended.
23. I can be pretty gross.
24. I cry a lot.
25. I hope you read this.

Sarcasm's avatar

01) Despite the fact that I know barely anything about them, I absolutely love foreign languages and outer space.
02) My dad tried to be an astronaut. Multiple times. I learned about this after I had developed a huge fascination for outer space.
03) I love science fiction.
04) The only class I’ve failed in college is a Computer Programming class. I’m not majoring in programming, but I am majoring in a computer-oriented field.
05) I took 4 years of Spanish in Middle/High school (Plus a year of being a TA). I’ve taken a year of German in college. When attempting to construct a sentence in either of those languages, I mix up words from the other.
06) I don’t love to read, but I am in love with libraries.
07) In 4 years of driving, the only ticket I’ve gotten is a parking ticket, I’ve been pulled over once (for a broken light), and I’ve never been in an accident.
08) My brother is the #1 reason why I avoid alcohol (he got arrested for public drunkenness). My sister is the #1 reason why I avoid drugs (I don’t like what she is).
09) The number of times I’ve been inebriated (in any amount) can be counted on a single hand.
10) I’ve never even touched a cigarette.
11) I’ve had breathing issues all of my life. When I was 6, they started telling me it was Asthma.
12) I care infinitely more about the wellbeing of animals than I do about humans.
13) The last time I can remember crying was in 3rd grade.
14) Never in my life have I had even the tiniest little bit of faith in the supernatural.
15) From 3rd grade until the end of my high school Freshman year, my best friend was extremely Christian.
16) In sophomore year, I was taking a medication, and one of its bad side effects (one of those “Stop using immediately if…” ones) was depression. I lived in a new town, I had no friends, I had terrible acne, I got picked on in school for multiple things, and I had some other issues. I never said anything because I desperately wanted to finish the medication. Luckily, my life brightened up in my Junior year when I went to a different school where I was accepted.
17) I don’t make friends. I’m too terrified of social encounters to even talk to people.
18) My closest (figuratively speaking) friend lives 3,000 miles away. She lives 20 minutes from where I lived as a kid.
19) I was born in Maryland, but never lived there.
20) I love it, but I don’t understand music one bit. I don’t know what a beat is, I don’t understand timings.
21) I have never danced.
22) I consider my political beliefs to be what Conservativism should be. Modern conservatives seem to be worried about the government getting too big and spending too money, but they seem to be all for spending trillions of dollars killing people across the globe, and spending billions of dollars for imprisoning non-violent drug offenders. Modern conservatives seem to want the government to stay out of our business, worrying about gun control, but they seem to be all for controlling what we do with our bodies, and whom we marry.
23) I’ve probably eaten fewer varieties of meat than most vegetarians. I’ve never had lobster, crab, shrimp, lamb. I’ve had fish fewer than 5 times. I’ve had steak once. I’ve had bacon, but never pork.
24) I spent 10 minutes reorganizing 24 of my facts to get them in an acceptable order. Relative to other posts I make, that’s a very short amount of time.
25) Drumroll please, we saved the best for last. I remain a virgin.

Is my post the biggest? I think my only competition is @Mama_Cakes

Mama_Cakes2's avatar

Number 26. First the first time (a moment ago), I did voice Skype with @tinyfaery. She was awesome and I definitely still have an innocent crush.

ANef_is_Enuf's avatar

I really can’t imagine anyone having the patience to read this, I’m pretty dull. But I’ll wing it.

1. My real name is Stephanie, Neffie is just a nickname that I’ve had since I was a little girl. It stuck.
2. I hate driving.
3. I collect blue and white china.
4. My pets all have really stupid names because we have had so many over the years that I started to run out of ideas.
5. I was diagnosed with body dysmorphic disorder in 2001.
6. I asked a question about self esteem shortly after I joined fluther which was actually quite deceptive. I knew that I had BDD, I just needed an unbiased perspective to help me decide whether or not to go back to therapy.
7. I really like to flirt.
8. I don’t care much for non-fiction books.
9. I was born 8–2-82 at 2 minutes to 2PM.
10. My dad’s name is Bob Barker. Not a joke.
11. I bake thousands of cookies every winter only to realise that I have no one to give most of them to.
12. Salad is my favorite food.
13. So much so that I won’t eat at a restaurant if they don’t have good salads.
14. I lost my virginity when I was 12 years old.
15. Most of my friends dislike my husband, but my family adores him. And so do I.
16. I am extremely sentimental.
17. I <3 Auggie.
18. I love polka.
19. I sometimes get a kick out of muting my headset on the Xbox360, coming in first place with a dramatic lead… and then turning on my mic to tell people that they got owned by a girl.
20. I push people away because I’m afraid they will ultimately hurt or abandon me.
21. My right leg is longer than the left.. so it always look like I’m swinging my hips when I walk.
22. I spend way too much time on my computer.
23. I love to create beautiful things.
24. I have always wanted to own chickens.
25. My feet have very high arches. As a result I have excessively supinated feet which makes for easily broken ankles. They were both broken at the same time 10 years ago.

Michael_Huntington's avatar

I’ll give you 12.5 facts and I’ll post the other 12.5 facts tomorrow. Deal?
1 I’m insecure about my looks
2 I have extremely low confidence
3 Currently obsessed with Arrested Development
4 I’m a huge fan of Maiden. Up the irons!
5 Although most of my favorite movies are horror/exploitation, I think the Seventh Seal is the best movie ever made
6 Haven’t failed a class. And I’m not going to start
7 Currently unemployed. Still looking for a job
8 Haven’t cried in ages
9 first OL friend is someone who posted on this thread. You know who you are.
10 Unlike most Asians, my weakness is math and science. But I’m still interested in those subjects.
11 I browse around sickipedia a lot.
12 I dislike going out to restaurants with my family.
13 I think “Heavy metal ham

AmWiser's avatar

1) I love tear jerker movies
2) I enjoy cooking
3) I met my husband on-line
4) I have been married 3 times
5) I love music
6) I’m running out of things to say
7) I don’t talk much
8) I love BINGO
9) I smoke
10) I love life
11) It took me 25 years before I got my ears pierced
12) I have 4 pierced holes in my ears
13) I have a tattoo
14) I am part of a 5th generation
15) I hate okra
16) I am not bug friendly
17) I am a middle child
18) I love to read
19) I just had a birthday
20) I have never had surgery
21) I wish I had went to college
22) I am retired
23) I was an auction junky
24) I am almost finished with this list
25) I am very humbled to know my Creator.

Fred931's avatar

1) I don’t like compiling very long lists
2) I can’t believe I’m already at number two
3) I wish I knew how to program and design 3D objects
4) I am the only person in my family who enjoys NASCAR
5) My parents don’t know I’m on Fluther
6) My parents don’t believe Fluther is “safe” for me
7) My grandmother could fix damn near any computer problem. If only she knew, but I’d have to tell her, and then she’d tell my parents I was on here, and then the apocalypse…
8) I have to go somewhere. Like right now.
9–25)

tedibear's avatar

We’ll see if I can come up with 25 things…

1. While I have 2 wonderful cats, I still miss the one who died a few years ago.
2. I used to teach school. If it weren’t for discipline issues and having to write lesson plans, I would go back to it.
3. I’ve been playing with different shades of blonde and red hair since 1981.
4. I’ve been friends with my bestest friend since 1977.
5. I still know my ex-husband’s social security number.
6. I love watching hockey but never learned to skate.
7. There is only one tree that I have ever been able to climb.
8. I could do a split until I was 30 years old.
9. I desperately need a vacation.
10. I love the internship that I’m doing.
11. I have lost 70 pounds. It took almost 2 years, but I did it. I’ve been struggling with the last 20 for over a year.
12. One of the best weeks I ever had was with two of my sisters, their husbands, my s.o. (now husband) and one nephew, cleaning out my parents house after my dad died.
13. Of all the things I don’t like about my face, I hate my nose the most.
14. As much as we’re going to need a new car soon, I’m really going to miss this one when it’s gone.
15. The Travelocity Gnome commercials make me laugh.
16. I worry that my taste in music makes me a dork.
17. I worry that I worry about being a dork.
18. I wish I could have met Richard Feynman.
19. I want to travel in space.
20. I pass out whenever I give blood or have an IV inserted. And no, I don’t watch!
21. I tremble after having to confront someone.
22. I want to learn how to waltz, foxtrot and polka.
23. I admire people who can fix things – cars, plumbing, electrical, doesn’t matter. If you can fix it, I think you’re cool.
24. I admire people who write well.
25. I’m stunned that I could do this whole list!

shpadoinkle_sue's avatar

1. I’ve broken my right foot two weeks after I broke my left hand.
2. I can play the drums.
3. My favorie color is aqua, not turquiose.
4. I collect shot glasses, but I don’t drink.
5. I can be bribed with mozzerella sticks or twinkies.
6. I have a crush on Gene Kelly, Jack Lemmon, and Steve Mcqueen.
7. I can sew.
8. I’m a dog person.
9. I read men’s magazines. GQ and Esquire, not the other kind. ;)
10. I think Stephen Colbert should run for president or Speaker of the House, at least.
11. I get paranoid about being bitchy or that I’m a nuisance to people around me.
12. I’m afraid of people in mascot suits.
13. I hate seafood.
14. I didn’t realize that fish sticks were made of fish until I was 10.
15. I love Billy Wilder films.
16. Lucille Ball is my idol and mentor.
17. I’m a night owl.
18. I’m awesome at tetris.
19. My favorite flower is the daisy.
20. My favorite snack are Wavy Lays with large curd cottage cheese.
21. I like history, astronomy, and literature analysis.
22. I vehemently hate the birthday song and I’ve been grounded for refusing to sing it.
23. I want to live in either Canada or New Zealand.
24. I wish I were better at relationships.
25. I watched Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back for 9 years before I got the “Marshal
Willenholly” reference.

tragiclikebowie's avatar

1. I have never broken a bone
2. I have never had a cavity
3. I was a virgin until my early 20s.
4. I play Dungeons and Dragons.
5. I play(ed) World of Warcraft for the better part of 5 years.
6. I had a poem published when I was 11.
7. I was diagnosed bipolar when I was 18, but never took any medication for it.
8. I am a vegetarian.
9. I know my way around an espresso machine and I hate people who don’t know what a cappuccino is when they order it. And then yell at me for doin’ it wrong because of their ignorance. It’s also annoying when I order a cappuccino and get a latte instead. I also hate when people say EXpresso and not espresso. I like coffee.
10. I like old things. Buildings, furniture, cameras, books, etc. I’ve started a small collection of old books which I hope to expand one day, and when I have my own place I want to furnish a lot of it with antique furniture.
11. I’m kind of a history buff.
12. I want to be a writer, but I constantly doubt my ability.
13. I’m terrified of being alone for the rest of my life.
14. I trust people to easily and tend to believe that when people say something, they mean it. Even though I’ve been hurt time and time again by this, I can’t seem to stop it.
15. I have a strong aversion to talking to people I don’t know in person or over the phone.
16. My canine (tooth) and first premolar in the top left of my mouth are reversed. My dentist thinks it’s the coolest thing.
17. I am an only child and an only grandchild.
18. My eyes are different colors, sort of. While they are both brown, my left eye is more golden and my right eye is much darker.
19. My first car caught on fire in a busy parking garage attached to a subway station. My friend drove out to get me, and while we were driving home there was a major snow storm. We had to push her car up a hill. A couple weeks later I totaled my rental in an accident involving black ice. I don’t have good luck with cars.
20. I played soccer for the better part of a decade. Sometimes I regret not sticking with it into high school and college.
21. I attended the Berklee College of Music for a year before I dropped out. This is something I also regret.
22. I learned to read when I was 2 years old.
23. I was at a college reading level by the time I was 10. I am convinced I had a larger vocabulary then than I do now.
24. I think about some pretty deep thoughts on a regular basis – the universe, the meaning of life, etc. This usually happens as I lie in bed trying to fall asleep. I can remember doing this since I was little – maybe around 4 or 5 or so.
25. I attended Catholic school for 8 years – from 5th to 12th grade. When I entered I was convinced I was going to hell and used to pray the rosary on a constant basis. My senior year of high school I decided to stop standing and kneeling during mass and one of my teachers accused me of worshiping satan.

ducky_dnl's avatar

Oh. Oh. I’ll give you one more. I wanted and still kind of want to be a playboy bunny. Is that bad? lol

kenmc's avatar

I’ll try this. I sincerely doubt that I’ll get 25, though.

01) I like studying things that interest me. I obsess occasionally and try to learn everything I possibly can about a subject. It’s been dogs, dinosaurs, drugs, cameras, writing, and currently I’m on bicycles.

02) I love going for walks. Its a form of meditation for me.

03) When I become interested in a certain author/musician/filmmaker, I try to take in everything they’ve done. Once I’ve experienced as much of their work as I can, I go through droughts of consumption of art.

04) I love my family, but I don’t like them most of the time.

05) I’d rather play an SNES than a PS3.

06) I want to take pictures for a living… Hopefully ending up working for the likes of National Geographic or model photography. All I want is to capture light bouncing of interesting/beautiful things.

07) Despite having a social life (well, on and off) I have only dated one girl. It lasted for a year and ended on bad terms.

08) I will never find happiness in my home town.

09) I like drinking more than I should.

10) I like writing, but I find myself totally unmotivated in that department.

11) Not being able to know what time it is when I want to know drives me crazy.

12) I drink a lot of water. Sometimes a gallon a day.

13) I’m not a big fish in a little pond. I’m a lobster in boiling water. If I don’t get out of my habitat soon, I’ll die.

14) I attempt to write poetry and I do it without flowery language.

15) I am almost 22, jobless, not in school, and living at home. aka, I’m a kind of a loser.

16) Occasionally, I become manic and can’t settle down.

17) Like a lot of people, I didn’t have good esteem growing up. I rather hated myself and my appearance. Its still is something I struggle with sometimes.

18) I find humanity to be beautiful. That shouldn’t need further elaboration.

19) Kurt Vonnegut is my favorite writer.

20) I can’t believe that I have gotten to 20 so far.

21) When I had detention in high school, I spent the entire time reading the dictionary.

22) I have watched the movie, Mean Girls more than any straight male should.

23) My idols are Jack Kerouac and Edward Weston.

24) I prefer tea to coffee. Actually, I prefer tea to a lot of things.

25) I love you all.

Well, I did it. I never knew I was so conceited~

shpadoinkle_sue's avatar

@boots I’d rather play a SNES, too.

RealEyesRealizeRealLies's avatar

1 – I love me.
2 – I love me not.
3 – I love me.
4 – I love me not.
5 – I lov…

rpm_pseud0name's avatar

Well damnit, I read the question & thought – no way in hell am I going to list 25 things about me. But, after reading through all the others I felt like I needed to contribute. So here goes. I’m about get personal, so hold on folks.

1. I cry every time I listen to the song, ‘Not Your Year’ by The Weepies.
2. I sometimes wish I had an incurable disease – so I could have an excuse for living recklessly.
3. I had a suicide attempt that was successful, until my room mate came home early & brought me back to life.
4. I am petrified of social groups consisting of people my own age.
5. Having grown up with no children around – I don’t know how to act around young kids, they make me very nervous.
6. My real dream job is to be a lowly errand boy for the staff of the show How I Met Your Mother.
7. Imagining that I know how to play violin causes a physical pain in my chest.
8. Writing this personal list is making my hands shake & sweat.
9. As stupid as it sounds to you, my biggest regret in life so far, is not going to a taping of the show Friends.
10. I took drum lessons for 10 years.
11. Despite being good at it, I hate playing the drums.
12. I once wrote an English paper on my old Underwood typewriter & mailed it to the teacher, when it was a requirement to be computer typed & emailed. I still got the A.
13. I have never hit anyone, but I have been hit a few times.
14. I have never broken a bone.
15. I have never won a sports trophy.
16. I won the grand prize in a school wide raffle. I was too chicken shit to go up in front of everyone in the school to accept the prize, so I gave my ticket to the person next to me. I didn’t care.
17. <—- Is my favorite number. On my first day of Kindergarten, all the desks were tagged with a name & number. My desk was #17 & I have always loved the number since.
18. This list is causing me to think about my past & about myself & it is very discomforting. I have spent years trying to suppress my childhood.
19. I have deleted this list & restarted it 3 times, because I don’t really want to post it. At number 20 now, so I feel like I have to finish.
20. I tell people I love the movie Casablanca, when I only like it a little bit.
21. Knowing I will never be the best in whatever occupation I choose makes it difficult for me to get up in the morning.
22. Simone_De_Beauvoir is the first gender non-conforming person I have ever met (online & in real life) She promised me a great big bear hug if I ever visit New York. One day, I hope to get that hug.
23. I secretly enjoy getting lurve on general questions. I like it when I provide the best answer.
24. I just highlighted this entire list to delete it again. I really am a chicken shit. Anyone have a set of big balls I can borrow? I think mine stopped producing testosterone years ago.
25. <—- Will be how old I am on the 12th of October.

DominicX's avatar

Knowing me, I’ll probably edit this a million times like I always do, but here goes:

1. I love classical music. I love it because it can convey deep and moving emotion without the need for words.
2. I’ve been to almost 20 different countries around the world.
3. I still sleep with a stuffed animal (while at home).
4. I have a fear of spiders and I’m quite claustrophobic.
5. I love gardens and flowers and anything to do with them; walking through a garden is one of my favorite things to do. I feel like there would be less stress and sadness in the world if more people learned to appreciate nature.
6. I question EVERYTHING. Nothing is immune from my questioning or criticism. :)
7. I used to be incredibly short and tiny.
8. Linguistics is my main passion in life, but I have no idea how it will tranlsate (hehe) into a career. I really do not know what I want to be when I grow up.
9. Melon is my favorite fruit; in particular: watermlon and cantaloupe.
10. Sometimes I just like to go on Wikipedia and read about anything. And I mean anything. Much of the time it’s history, but just the other day I was reading about what an “ester” was. Then after that I probably read up on Sophie Germain primes. I want to learn about everything, but I know it’s not realistic…
11. Sometimes I like to listen to cheesy Danish bubblegum dance music (like “Barbie Girl”).
12. I have synesthesia; I see single-digit numbers as having inherent color and I see a visual “map” of the numbers in my mind. Some letters and days of the week also have color.
13. I’ve memorized all the elements of the periodic table.
14. I know all the capitals and names of the U.N. member states and many additional names and capitals of dependencies and territories.
15. I have a very keen sense of direction and it’s unfathomable to me how some people don’t.
16. I love the wilderness and the outdoors; mountain biking in the woods is one of my favorite things to do.
17. I don’t like to “hate”. Even if someone really bothers me and other people would at that point say they “hate” the person, I have a hard time doing that. I don’t like to hate people.
18. I used to consider myself religious/theist but now largely consider myself agnostic. I see too many issues with theism. Issues that I can’t resolve.
19. I don’t think that just because something is “spiritual” and “personal” that that makes it immune from crticism. People often see this as me being “cold”. Maybe I am.
20. I have a very good relationship with my parents and my family.
21. I’m an extrovert and I enjoy people very much. I find people fascinating and I am always wanting to know more about them. (Hence why the answers in this question are so interesting to read). I find it difficult to label people as “stupid” or “sheep” or something like that. I think there is depth to everyone and people who don’t see it are just not willing to.
22. I can do backflips and cartwheels very well. :)
23. I hate pretense and hypocrisy more than anything else in the world. Sometimes I feel like I am surrounded by it.
24. I’m homosexual and I consider myself a pro-gay activist. I am staunchly anti-homophobia and if there is a “gay agenda”, you can bet that I support it.
25. I have OCD.

hug_of_war's avatar

1. I think people care way too much about sex.
2. Picking my nose is a form of catharsis for me
3. Seeing veins in people’s skin scares me
4. I haven’t had any real friends for 4 years.
5. I have 4 official diagnoses: asperger’s syndrome (mild autism), myopia (nearsighted), nystagmus (eyes involuntarily bounce), and strabismus (cross-eyed)
6. I very diligently count calories and plan out balanced meals in my efforts to lose weight
7. I enjoy lightly tugging (non-painful) my pubic hairs when I go to bed and have been doing this since I was around 12 (I’m 22 now)
8. I also like to grow out my pubic hair so I can feel them pricking through my cotton underwear
9. I pace when I’m excited
10. I hate anime with the passion of a thousand million burning suns
11. I don’t find beauty in the human body
12. Clementines make me happy
13. I can’t stand hair in my razor
14. I’m lonely
15. I hate my boobs
16. I am terribly frightened of flies
17. I don’t know why my boyfriend cares for me at all
18. I find apple fanboys insufferable even though I quite enjoy my mac
19. I like to draw geometric shapes, like 3-D looking cubes and triangular prisms.
20. Ground meat really freaks me out because it looks like big meat spaghetti noodles to me
21. I think it’s sad people only care about causes that directly affect them
22. I was born on a solstice.
23. Microbiology is the best class I ever took
24. I tell my family I don’t eat chicken but I really do.
25. I wish I could wear sweatshirts all the time but the weather and society don’t permit it

rangerr's avatar

1. I love Star Wars. It’s one of the biggest parts of my life. (I even got my own comic character. Knight Errant comes out October 13th! Shameless plug.)
2. I love the movie Labyrinth more than I love Star Wars.
3. I was born and raised in the country. I’ve been around a mass amount (usually over 63) of horses for my entire life. We just recently sold the family ranch, and I wish I was more upset than I am.
4. I have the same sized wrists as the one year old that I nanny for. I measured.
5. I haven’t told my parents that I love them in over 7 years. I refuse to consider my family a “family. We are essentially just housemates.
6. I tell everyone else that I love them. I do. I have a crush on the world. People are beautiful.
7. My GPA when I graduated high school was a .083.
8. I’ve been to 18 funerals in the past 10 years.
9. My biggest regret at this moment in time is that I really hurt the one person who has treated me better than anyone ever has. I’m not even sure how to apologize.
10. I drink more than I should sometimes and I’m a big fan of smoking pot.
11. I’m watching Lord of the Rings for the first time ever right now. I’m not sure what’s going on, but apparently Charlie from LOST is a hobbit.
12. I love space.
13. My biggest fear is whats in the dark. (Second place goes to puppets and dolls.)
14. I love being naked and I’m not too shy.
15. I drive very fast. My radar detector is my sidekick.
16. I’m a vegetarian, but I hate most vegetables.
17. I’m not very skilled at keeping my room clean. There are mountains of clothes everywhere.
18. My best friend lives 3,000 miles away, but I don’t know what I’d do without him.
19. I have trust issues that I don’t think I’ll ever work out.
20. My biggest goal in life is to be a good mother.
21. I prefer being around animals, kids and the elderly more than I do people my own age.
22. We have over 7,000 VHS tapes and 500 DVDs in my house.
23. I’m not proud of the city I currently live in. I don’t talk to anyone here, and I can’t wait to leave.
24. I currently have over 500 illegal fireworks in my closet.
25. I hate myself.

Corey_D's avatar

@hug_of_war In response to number 17, your boyfriend loves you because you are the most beautiful, wonderful, sweet, and delightfully quirky girl in the world and anyone would be lucky to have you.

le_inferno's avatar

@Michael_Huntington I’m honored to have taken your Internet friend virginity! Pretty sure you took mine too :D

KatawaGrey's avatar

1. I won a spitting contest when I was 11 years old.
2. I am an only child.
3. I am the child of artificial insemination.
4. I am also a vegetarian.
5. I was born in Seattle, moved to Colorado when I was 5, then moved to Connecticut when I was 9.
6. I didn’t get drunk until after I turned 21.
7. I love fantasy books like no other.
8. While at GenCon this year, I walked right by Wil Wheaton and didn’t say hello because I didn’t realize it was him until I had already walked past. In my defense, he’s at least a decade older than when I saw him on Next Gen and he’s got a frickin’ beard.
9. When I saw Van Helsing when I was 14 years old, I decided I wanted to work in film.
10. My personal hero is one of my best friends.
11. As of today, I have five holes in my ears, two in the left and three in the right. My momma has the same configuration of earrings in her ears. :)
12. I have a beautiful koi tattoo on the lower left my left quadrant of my stomach.
13. I drive a beautiful 2008 Honda Fit named Colonel Samantha Carter. I call her The Colonel.
14. My boobs are frickin’ huge.
15. I want to die covered with tattoos.
16. I am debating about getting my nose pierced.
17. I am deeply attracted to very short, muscular men.
18. Most of my erotic dreams are about women. I thought you’d all love to know that one.
19. My favorite movie is 28 Days Later.
20. The first person I fell in love with was my best female friend. She was 14, I was 12, and the relationship was completely non-sexual and non-romantic but I was in love.
21. My first kiss was with an English boy.
22. I believe that no man will ever be greater than my grandfather.
23. I am the only person in my family who gets freckles.
24. My hair is currently purple.
25. I find myself even more wildly attracted to attractive Asian men than I do to attractive men of other ethnicities.

the100thmonkey's avatar

1. I don’t buy the “I’m not that interesting” line – I’m interesting, and I’m going to write 25 things about myself. If you don’t think i’m interesting, it’s not my problem.
2. I have an arrogant streak that is more of a motorway.
3. I speak 2 languages well (English: native; Japanese CEFR B2)
4. I read 6 languages.
5. I believe that Italian and Spanish are dialects of Latin; they’re effectively the same language.
6. I usually leave ~90% of what I’m thinking out of what I say.
7. If my job wasn’t crucial to the company I work for, I’d have been fired months ago.
8. I have little respect for my boss. She lives in a fantasy world.
9. I have two children. They’re amazing.
10. I’m an English language teacher.
11. I should be working on my master’s thesis now.
12. I find academia unpleasant.
13. I used to listen to lots of hard house and techno in the 90s. I lost interest in it, but have recently rediscovered it.
14. I’m a determinist. I’m not a fatalist though.
15. I’m atheist. I’ve never believed, although both my parents do.
16. I’m very competitive – I hate it when my 6 year old son beats me at table tennis on the Wii, which he does. Regularly.
17. I can touch type.
18. I taught myself to write joined up because no-one else could.
19. I taught myself propositional logic at university because I missed 10 weeks of the course.
20. I believe Enlightenment philosophy started with Descartes and ended with Hume. Everything else is just a footnote.
21. I’m an empiricist of the verificationist stripe. truth isn’t truth unless it’s demonstrable. coherence theories of truth are just a cop out.
22. I’m prepared to cop out (sometimes). I’m comfortable with it.
23. I haven’t hit anyone since I was 13. I broke my hand doing it. Once was enough.
24.I’m left-handed and left-footed.
25. I’m ridiculously good at Mariokart on the SNES. I once took on all-comers for more than 12 hours and didn’t lose once.
25(a). I love fruit salads. I just wanted to add that.

TexasDude's avatar

1. I really can’t play fiddle all that well…
2. ...but I really am a good part Creole.
3. The other parts of me are Italian, English, and Scots-Irish.
4. Secretary of State Henry Clay was my great, great, great (however many times) uncle.
5. I’m also related to Peter Criss from KISS.
6. I am incapable of separating sex from love.
7. ...but I’m a huge flirt, dollface. ;-)
8. I used to be really, really, really depressed.
9. I also used to want to be a psychologist.
10. ...but I now know that history has always been my true love.
11. I have collected African tribal art since I was 6 years old…
12. ...and I’ve collected guns since I was 18…
13. ...and I’m a huge pacifist.
14. ....who’s also trained in martial arts.
15. I can’t sit still without having something to read.
16. If I believed in reincarnation, I would swear that I was Theodore Roosevelt before.
17. I have a massive collection of odd hats.
18. I carry a pocketwatch sometimes.
19. I used to build model railroads and I want to start again so badly that I dream about it.
20. Halloween is my favorite time of year…
21. ...and I hate Christmas.
22. I have saved lives before.
23. ...including my own.
24. The dentist is one of the few things that really scares me.
25. I would give everything I have to save someone else. Even a stranger. I have a martyr complex.

Arp's avatar

1. I like Iceland. A lot.
2. I am learning Esperanto ^_^
3. Vegetarian and future-Vegan (when I leave my parent’s house, so they don’t have to put up with it)
4. I will never give you up or let you down.
5. Still never kissed, or, honestly, held hands :\
6. Discordian (It’s a religion, ma’am)
7. I play the Prepared Guitar
8. Member of the VHEMT
9. Spend a lot of time in the Fluther chat (though everyone knows that, right?)
10. Huge Cave Story fan, one of the greatest game ever made
11. I don’t think humans are as unique as they like to think (also I am a hypocrite for saying that)
12. Audiophile, but not to the point where I won’t listen to anything other than FLAC
13. I use a Colemak keyboard
14. Linux user, huzzah

Ugh, nobody gives a crap anyways, I won’t do anymore :P

Michael_Huntington's avatar

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard 13 and 14 reminds me of a line from Strangers with Candy: ”“I know, I’m a pacifist. I pass-a-fist… get it?”

Sarcasm's avatar

I love how this question has consistently had 3 people writing responses, and had 5+ people observing all day long. It’s amazing to see how interested we all are in tidbits about each other!

anartist's avatar

@arp you should have finished! You left me short!

I once rode an elephant in the spec parade of the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers circus [red sequined skimpy and headdress, and you should have seen what the elephant was wearing]
2 I was at the helm when the tall ship Alexandria was piloted into harbor at Key West.
3. I spent a week on a battleship and got to fire the 16” guns.
4. I was sued for $10 million dollars.
5. When I was 10 years old, I rescued my friend from drowning without5 drowning myself.
6. I wrote a paper interpreting the art of Edvard Munch psychoanalytically, angering both my art history professors and my psychology professors.
7. I had night access to the Dumbarton Oaks library to work on my thesis and I used to spend some of that time looking up dirty words in all the foreign language dictionaries.
8. When I was about 4 years old, I used to suck the pimentos out of 10 green olives and then put them on my fingers and eat them one at a time.
9. When I was very small [about 2½ to 3] I knew where every toad, chipmunk and other critter lived in my back yard.
10. When I was a toddler I used to take off all my clothes and run down the street.
11. When I was 10 I believed in witches and the power of witchcraft.
12. I had three offers of marriage and accepted none.
13. I am a good cook, but am too lazy to cook.
14. I am, as it says on my Facebook page, a weather wimp.
15. I grew up with dogs but have had cats all my adult life.
16. I lost $49.00 in 5 minutes at the blackjack tables in 1981
17. I like 70–78-degree weather 90% of the time and violent thunderstorms, minor hurricanes, and blizzards the other 10 %.
I whistled Beatles songs to porpoises from the bow of a ship once and was told by a weathered sailor that that was bad luck
18. During my karate promotional exam [alt5hough I was not particularly good] I knocked out my instructor because I assumed he was going to block my punch. It made me a pariah.
19. I had a black widow spider on my leg once.
20 I used to climb on the roofs of my grade school, oblivious to danger, and walk down the steep slate to pick tennis balls out of the gutter.
21 I ate the parsley bouquets set on the tables in the restaurant where I took coffee with my Smithsonian coworkers.
22. I had an exhibition at a super underground gallery that was all silkscreened on the walls and painted over when the exhibition was over.
23 When I w2as young, I climbed trees and sometimes didn’t know how to come down
24 I envied my Catholic friends because their churches had pretty stained glass windows.
25 I found a copy of “Catcher in the Rye” in the basement when I was 10. I read the first line “I’m not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography or anything” and took it to my mother and asked her if it was a dirty book. She said “No, and maybe you are ready for it now.”

Arp's avatar

PART 2 (cause sarcasm made me)

15. My favorite animal is the Jerboa
16. I make music with samplers, and I am saving up for renoise
17. I have a bit more than a month (in continuous play) of music (mainly in flac) on my external hard drive
18. I program music using the visual programming language “pure data”, though it is not very good yet :x
19. I plan to make an album (or twenty) one day, I will let you know if I do
20. I type at around 100 wpm, and plan to reach to my goal of “as fast as I can think” one day
21. I am an avid listener at glitch.fm (come to the chat and say ‘hi!’) =)
22. I don’t enjoy sports at all (watching or playing)
23. I just recently told Ducky I like her :x
24. Love making art, but I just wish I was better at it
25. One day, I want a moog :P

gosh, that was more difficult than I thought it would be :\

TexasDude's avatar

@Michael_Huntington, that’s actually my philosophy… like Teddy Roosevelt said, avoid hitting at all cost, but if you have to, never hit softly

anartist's avatar

@Arp 23—awww, you and ducky! * sigh *

chels's avatar

1. I can spell “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” out-loud in under 30 seconds.
2. I’m super excited to get married in a few months.
3. I was in an outpatient program at a mental hospital.
4. I was the editor of my high schools Literary Magazine as well as a columnist in the school newspaper.
5. When I was in second grade, I scored way above all of the state tests in school and my parents got a letter from Johns Hopkins University asking me to take part in some study team.
6. None of my siblings are my full siblings. They are all half. Bryan and Ali from their dad, and Matt from my step-dad. I also have a half-sister on my dad’s side but I’ve never met her. This is probably because I barely even know my dad.
7. I was taken from my parents when I was a freshman in highschool due to abuse. My mom had to go to court to get me back and wasn’t even allowed to have visitation for a few months. When she got me back things were fine for a while and then the abuse started back up again.
8. I stress out really easily and get really bad panic attacks once in a while.
9. I always wear a cross around my neck, but it has nothing to do with religion.
10. I silently and sometimes out-loud judge people all the time. I can’t really help it. I guess it’s because it helps with my self-esteem.
11. I have CRPS.
12. I’ve been put on way too many prescription meds. When I was in middle school I weaned myself off of Zoloft which was making me crazy/suicidal.
13. I love making people happy.
14. When I was younger, I used to tell people that I was allergic to grape jelly so I didn’t have to eat it. I’m not actually allergic to anything.
15. I love observing people. I love watching the way people interact with one another. It’s really thrilling to me in a way.
16. I was in the play FAME in highschool. I played two parts. Hilary van Duren, a pretentious little ballet-dancing bitch (while playing her I got to speak in an English accent) and Shirley, a ghetto hip-hop dancer from the projects.
17. I’m genuinely happy for the first time in my life.
18. I was a cheerleader for 7 years and a dancer for 2. I only stopped due to knee problems.
19. I didn’t have to take gym at all in high school.
20. I truly believe in my heart that everything happens for a reason. I don’t think I’d be here if that wasn’t true.
21. I’m Greek, Spanish, French, and whatever my mom is. I’m pretty sure she’s just a mutt of an American.
22. I taught myself how to play piano by ear when I was about 7. I’m pretty rusty now.
23. I didn’t graduate high school with the rest of my class thanks to my mom. I had to do some stuff online a few months later to get my diploma.
24. I spent half the day in a holding cell at the police department in Seaside Heights better known as the Jersey Shore. The cops picked me up from a hotel I was staying at and kept me there ‘til my parents came to pick me up. The reason for this is quite a long story.
25. My mom and I are pretty close now. Even after all that’s happened.

tragiclikebowie's avatar

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard I think I just fell in love with you a little bit.

TexasDude's avatar

@tragiclikebowie, I just looked at your answers to this and you and I are remarkably similar

RealEyesRealizeRealLies's avatar

6 – I love me not.
7 – I love me.
8 – I love me not.
9 – I love me.
10 – I love me n…

TexasDude's avatar

@rangerr, you are really damn interesting, you know that?

filmfann's avatar

1: Writing that much about myself would bore me to tears. How could anyone else be more interested?

Berserker's avatar

Zombies. That’s all.

free_fallin's avatar

1. I sleep better when I’ve been able to speak to the person I love.
2. I can quote an xkcd comic for almost every situation.
3. I still get nervous going to the dentist. I’m not afraid of him, I am afraid of getting cavities because I’ve never had one.
4. Thanks to yoga, tennis and other exercises, I am extremely flexible.
5. I love cars.
6. I read a new book every week. I’m running out of things to read that I like.
7. I avoid confrontation when possible.
8. I love tennis and I even enjoy watching it on tv.
9. I will often use my laptop and netbook for work at the same time by splitting the articles onto each computer.
10. I watch a lot of movies.
11. Bill Murray is the best actor of all-time.
12. My dog really is my best friend and when she dies I will be devastated.
13. I always see the bright side to everything and I spend my time trying to help others see it too.
14. I bake my own bagels and harshly judge store-bought ones.
15. Thai and sushi are the best.
16. I have leaped into a romantic relationship for the first time and I am more excited than scared.
17. I got my dream job.
18. “For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.” – I live by this quote.
19. I do not fall in love easily. I dated my ex for a year before I fell in love.
20. Dexter, Weeds and Californication are my top three favorite new shows.
21. It has taken me forever to type these.
22. I’m going to annoy all of you with my incessant mentioning of the person I love.
23. You get automatic brownie points for quoting Noam Chomsky, Star Trek and Hunter S. Thompson.
24. I am not looking forward to my birthday this year.
25. I will likely be going to Hawaii this year.

Sarcasm's avatar

@filmfann It’s like reading a mystery novel that you wrote. Of course it’s not going to be exciting to you. It’s interesting to see what things other Jellies have experienced, and bits about their personalities. You get a newfound understanding of who they are.

Nially_Bob's avatar

I apologise in advance for the sheer intensity of mundanity depicted below.

1. I’ve had an interest in just about every field of study i’ve encountered except when they involve maths because I simply cannot understand anything remotely complex that relates to numbers.
2. I am incredibly disorganised and go to great lengths to try to work around this. If I were to feel as though I had to be somewhere I would immediately search my pockets, bag, wallet etc for a stick-it note reminding me.
3. Those i’ve asked have all said that my disorganisation is my worst trait.
4. I am indescribably dependent on human contact. Not in so much as i’m clingy as I need to be surrounded by people. If there’s no one nearby me I almost always take what i’m doing outside so there are people, or make a phonecall, talk online etc.
5. I’m the opposite of a picky eater, when watching reality tv shows where people are required to eat things such as bull testicles I wonder what it tastes like and where you could buy it. The only foods I dislike are mince meat and custard.
6. When people disagree with me in a debate or argument I place an arm on my right knee and lean on it as otherwise my leg visibly shakes with excitement.
7. I’ve long promised myself that if I came into a substantial amount of money (i.e. by winning the lottery) that I would pay off my debts then distribute it between my friends, family and the kindly people i’ve met in my life (online and otherwise) and give the rest to charity leaving myself with nothing as frankly I wouldn’t know what to do with it. I’ve always wondered if I would follow through with this promise.
8. I only wear my glasses when absolutely necessary because they make me feel vulnerable.
9. If I have free time while on my campus I usually walk into a random lecture theatre to learn but walk away only remembering a few key points regardless of how simple the subject is.
10. I hate dealing in absolutes which is why the majority of my sentences involve the terms usually, probably, possibly, the majority of etc.
11. I’m enchanted by green eyes. Someone could be the most deplorable person to ever exist but if they had green eyes I would still be engrossed in them.
12. I have an odd relationship with my family. I like them, admire them to varying extents, appreciate them raising me (my parents primarily) and would be upset if they died by all means. Yet despite this I could not see them for years and it would be of little bother to me. I have had surgery in the past and not informed any of them whereas I have done so with some friends. I am more willing to share the personal details of my life with a stranger than any member of my family.
13. I have very few problems with my appearance because when I was 14 I went through a brief phase of low self-esteem wherein I refused to look in the mirror. Upon forcing myself to do so I made a slightly confused expression and said aloud, “I’m pretty attractive, but not that attractive”. Ever since then everytime I have an issue with my appearance I do the exact same thing and it ends, just like that.
14. I’m sexually attracted to misanthropes because they’re so opposite in nature to me yet share the same desire to question conventions.
15. I could count the number of strong opinions I have on one hand.
16. One of these is on my disagreement with the concept of nationality. In spite of this the moment I meet a tourist I become a British stereotype.
17. I dislike the IQ test, not because I disagree with its validity or reliability but because I feel so much emphasis is placed on it that people lower/heighten their expectations unnecessarily to meet their IQ.
18. I once heard that the majority of people die within 10 miles of where they were born and though I have never affirmed this to be true I realised how much I would resent myself if that were me.
19. Though I once thought there was an exception, I have never hated anyone. Not because i’m especially compassionate but simply because it would be one less person for me to converse with and I adore conversations above all else.
20. I find it disturbingly easy to emotionally detach myself from any situation.
21. I’ve not had a headache in about 5 or 6 years.
22. My best friend once told me that one of the most upsetting moments for her was seeing me cry. Since then i’ve refused to cry in the presence of another person for fear that i’ll upset them. For that matter I find it difficult to cry.
23. I’m an avid “fight hobbyist” and practice amateur boxing frequently even though I dislike seeing people in pain. I’m not fantastically good at fighting but i’ve never stayed down and i’m proud of that.
24. I intentionally draw attention away from myself and try as best I can to be modest and polite because my ego tends to be all-or-nothing.
25. I have never been romantically in love. I find it difficult to conceive having a level of care for a person that I don’t already feel for most. This has unfortunately led to many of my relationships feeling like i’m with a friend I happen to have sex with.

Nially_Bob's avatar

Having quickly reviewed everyone elses replies I feel that my ‘random facts’ may be rather needlessly lengthy for which I apologise.

nailpolishfanatic's avatar

1. I am a pre-IB student and it sucks. Especially the Danish, Politics and blah!
2. I enjoy ALgebra, that’s the only part of math that I enjoy.
3. I masturbate to porn
4. I have been drunk all weekend – at home.
5. I think all the guys are hot.
6. Right now am obsessed with Damon from The Vampire Diaries – Ian Somerhalder.
7. I watch alot of TV.
8. fml
9. I enjoy doing homework if its something that I understand.
10. I enjoy shopping and trying on clothes.
11. I hate drama.
12. I judge people
13. I have enemies in my class.
14. I did smoke long time ago
15. I am a virgin.
16. I have a funky, curly, kinky, short afro that is really hard to maintain.
17. I love my mom so bad even though we fight alot.
18. I love my step-dad too
19. I don’t have a part time job.
20. I am addicted to the computer.
21. Most of the times I have a very dirty mind.
22. I am African – Zambian.
23. I’ve lived in Iceland and I speak Icelandic.
24. I am going on a camping trip to Sweden tomorrow.
25. I enjoy school and the bitch of our class calls me and my friends losers, but she’s the one who is a loser cause she doesn’t have loyal friends.

OpryLeigh's avatar

1. I’m a Gemini
2. I live in England
3. I love dogs more than any other animal
4. In a few days time I am going abroad for the first time in 6 years
5. My favourite place in the world is Loch Ness, Scotland
6. I am a trained Opera singer
7. I love Musical Theatre
8. Les Miserables is my favourite show
9. Barbra Streisand is my idol
10. I like to read but struggle to complete books
11. My favourite book is The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo I completed that one!
12. I live on the ground floor of a beautiful old Victorian house
13 I enjoy leaning about history
14. I worry about everything
15. I have a Cher doll
16. I don’t believe in marriage
17. Fish and Chips is my favourite meal
18. I want to go to Romania
19. When I was younger I told my mum that when I grew up I wanted to be a mermaid.
20. My favourite song is No One by Alicia Keys
21. My favourite colour is yellow
22. I’m very small
23. My favourite planet is Neptune
24. I would love to go up in a hot air ballon.
25. My favourite way to travel is by train.

RealEyesRealizeRealLies's avatar

11 – I love me.
12 – I love me not.
13 – I love me.
14 – I love me not.
15 – I lov…

ucme's avatar

1. I’m not good with numbers
5. Told you
3. I tend to repeat myself a lot
3. I tend to repeat myself a lot
6. Mi sppelin is emakulit
2. I’m no good with names
4. Good question @ucme
8. I get bored easily
9.

J0E's avatar

1. I’m very tall.
2. I consider myself athletic.
3. I’m terrified of spending money, even on the tiniest things.
4. I over analyze even the simplest things.
5. I lost my virginity this summer.
6. I never kissed a girl until this summer.
7. I never owned a video game system until I was 19.
8. I used to be so much different. I’m glad I changed.
9. I’ve failed 3 classes in college so far.
10. I’m definitly not a leader.
11. I’m secretive about my online life to my irl friends.
12. I have a girlfriend, and I’m kinda weird about people knowing about it.
13. I went camping with said girlfriend, over night, and my parents don’t know.
14. My parents are very catholic.
15. It bugs me that line 14 doesn’t start with an I.
16. I have OCD.
17. I have a severe lack of motivation, so much that it’s hard to do things I like sometimes.
18. I give up too easily.
19. I think I have a lot of potential in a lot of things, but lack the motivation to fulfill it.
20. I’m generally very optimistic about everything.
21. I’m not nearly as innocent as what people think.
22. I’m kinda scared my over protective snoopy mom will read this.
23. I like drinking with my friends, but I don’t get drunk. I’m an adult.
24. I’ve never done (or even been around) “recreational” drugs.
25. I wrote this yesterday, and it took me this long to post it.

chyna's avatar

1. I joined Fluther after my dog Lexi died in ’08.
2. My wardrobe consists mostly of black and I’m not goth.
3. When I was 5 years old, I had to sing onstage at church. I didn’t want anyone to look at me, so I pulled my dress over my head. (I’m still embarrassed about it.)
4. I’ve finally realized love doesn’t come to all. It’s easier now.
5. I’m obsessed about my weight, though no one knows.
6. I skipped school a lot in high school.
7. I jumped off a bridge on a dare.
8. I’m a terrible athlete, but I wish I wasn’t.
9. I’m a clean freak.
10. My toenails have to be painted, always.
11. I brush my teeth at least 5 times a day.
12. That’s all I can think of.

Michael_Huntington's avatar

sters” is the best song ever composed
14 First album I bought was Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”
15 I dislike the Halo games
16 I’m not athletic and I dislike watching sports
17 I prefer to work alone
18 I rarely ask for directions.
19 I prefer Megadeth over Metallica
20 I prefer Exhorder over Pantera
21 I prefer early Sodom or kreator over the big 4 of thrash metal
22 I’ve stopped drinking soda since February.
23 I sometimes browse ebay for some metal cds
24 I rage every time I see some non metal band’s albums in the “metal” section in a record store. GTFO NICKLEBACK. WHAT IS THIS SHIT, I DEMAND TO SEE THE MANAGER
25 I extremely hate online delivery limbos

filmfann's avatar

Alright, I will try this…

1. I joined Fluther at the urging of my first girlfriend. She has left, long ago.
2. My wife is deaf, and is getting a cochlear implant. I am scared this will change her.
3. I drove my 1982 Subaru for nearly a quater million miles, till it was destroyed when I was hit head on.
4. I had the worlds worst boss. He raped a co-worker, and gave another a heart attack on purpose.
5. I knew Tom Hanks in school. I was very close to John Gilkerson, who he mentioned at the Oscars. I have a puppet he made for me.
6. I am self taught on the piano, and though I don’t play well enough to impress anyone, i enjoy it.
7. I have wasted most of my life watching movies.
8. I even repeatedly watch films I don’t like, trying to understand why other people like them.
9. My daughter is a body piercer, and has mulitple tattoos. This wasn’t my dream for her, but I love her, and am very proud of her success.
10. I have problems with Schizotypal personality disorder
11. In college, I was remarkable at fencing, and was invited to the State championships.
12. My wife is a cousin of Marilyn Monroe.
13. I have trouble with self-hatred.
14. In elementary school, I love role-play. I still do.
15. My nickname, given to me by several unconnected people, is Superman.
16. I would rather be Batman.
17. I love puzzles. Sudokus, cryptic crosswords, and cryptograms are my favorite.
18. I beat the Wisconson State Monopoly Champion. I am that good at it.
19. I am a very careful driver, and leave lots of space cushion. This probably annoys people behind me.
20. I haven’t worn a watch in 25 years.
21. I don’t wear a wedding ring, but I offered to have one tattooed on my finger.
22. I have no tatttoos.
23. I love chocolate, seafood, steak, and chinese food.
24. I taught Arnold Schwartzeneggar the meaning of the word “cramp”
25. I solved a mistake in Newton’s Gravity theory. First to to this in the 400 years since it was published. I did this by looking at it as an accountant, and not a physicist.

RareDenver's avatar

1 I do not have a driving license
2 I give money to charity but never volunteer for anything
3 I have never been south of the equator
4 I have a metal plate in one of my legs
5 I watch a lot of movies
6 I love my wife
7 I like Banksy
8 My favourite band is The Stone Roses
9 My family moved around a lot when I was a child
10 I am an atheist
11 I wish I had tried harder at school and gone further with my education
12 I’m finding this list very difficult to write
13 My mother took her own life when I was 18
14 I actually quite like my job
15 I like to believe that the human race will one day colonise the galaxy
16 The injustices I see around the world play on my mind but I never attempt to do anything about them
17 I love electronic music
18 I’m usually too warm
19 I’m the younger of two brothers
20 My wife is the younger of two sisters
21 I don’t like coffee
22 I have a tendency to over indulge in the things I enjoy
23 Religion fascinates me
24 I think there is something fundamentally wrong with the society we have created but I don’t know what it is
25 I could try harder

Fred931's avatar

too many lists did not read

veileddarkness's avatar

1) My preferred method of inhalation is via my nasal passages.
2) I have an obsession based on the order in which I employ different shaped cutlery.
3) I have dreads.
4) When I was approx. 14 years old, it used to take me 55 minutes to clean my teeth.
5) It now only takes 20/25 minutes for me to cleanse my oral regions.
6) Currently, a small splinter of wood is residing within my right hand.
7) Presently I’m listening to Opeth.
8) I love nocturnal birds. XD
9) I do not like people; it is highly inconvenient therefore, that I am one myself.
10) My most highly thought of comestibles are bean sprouts and sweetcorn.
11) I got vertigo up a 3 tiered step ladder.
12) I’m a wimp.
13) I’m a hypochondriac: anti pathogen wipes are a necessity, health leaflets make me panic.
14) I’m a neopagan.
15) Winter and Autumn are my favourite seasons.
16) In the realms of crisps, my favourite seasonings are unknown.
17) I love trees! I live in juxtaposition with a Contorted Hazel named Prometheus.
18) I have an issue with the fact it is mandatory to possess innards.
19) I love taking insane wanderings in the imagination.
20) Even numbers feel awkward. 20 is in no way exempt.
21) I am yet to succeed in completing a Sudoku in it’s/ its entirety. (Colour ones are not a valid attempt.)
22) It took two incidents for me to retain information regarding the perils of ironing garments whilst wearing them.
23) I’m a pylon nerd.
24) I am now engaging in listening to ‘Throes Of Perdition’ by Trivium.
25) This list took far longer than is acceptable for me to compile.

JilltheTooth's avatar

1. I’m intimidated by everybody elses lists.
2. I was educated at a top-rated school and have magnificently under-achieved my whole life, yet
3. I am very happy with my life.
4. I am a single mother by choice.
5. It took me over 5 years to conceive my daughter because of provincial attitudes and infertility.
6. I consider her to be a miracle.
7. I love driving great distances.
8. I have never been a good sleeper.
9. I hate that I can’t reach stuff.
10. People say Katawagrey looks like me, which makes me preen because she’s so pretty.
11. I’ve had arthritis since I was 25.
12. I’ve traveled to many places, I think Fiji was my favorite.
13. I went sailing in Fiji with John Elway’s future in-laws.
14. My sister was an Air Force Nurse in Weisbaden Germany in 1981 and took care of the Iran hostages after they were released.
15. I’m a cancer survivor.
16. I can no longer argue well because chemo screwed with my short-term memory in 1999.
17. My favorite book is In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden.
18. I am right handed but I deal cards and peel veggies with my left hand.
19. I have 3 tattoos and am jonesing for another.
20. I only have one dog and no cats at the moment which is unusual for me, I usually have many.
21. I used to teach sailing.
22. I used to show dogs.
23. My nephew is a Marine in Afghanistan and I think about him every day.
24. I love getting older, maybe because at one time I wasn’t so sure I would.
25. I am amazed I came up with 25 things.

KatawaGrey's avatar

@JilltheTooth: I’m not. I’m amazed you had trouble. You are, by far, the most interesting person I know. :)

JilltheTooth's avatar

@KatawaGrey : OK, MyMouse, you get the pony. ;-)))

RealEyesRealizeRealLies's avatar

16 – I love me not.
17 – I love me.
18 – I love me not.
19 – I love me.
20 – I love me n…

le_inferno's avatar

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies Please don’t add another reply finishing off with 21–25 saying the same damn thing. We really don’t need that. Thanks.

rpm_pseud0name's avatar

@le_inferno, but I want to know how it ends.

rooeytoo's avatar

1. I am really cranky today because the welding class I wanted to take is already filled.
2. I love my mate but if he didn’t like my dogs, he would probably be the one to go.
3. I like most all artistic endeavors.
4. Woodcarving is my favorite.
5. I love to read but I often fall asleep.
6. I fell asleep at the sprint car races one time.
7. Actually I can fall asleep most anywhere except in bed.
8. My youngest dog is mostly dingo and it is illegal to own a dingo in the state where I live.
9. I have a great neice who just turned 14 and I love her. She is cute and plays field hockey.
10. Her dad was an adorable man and he died several years ago of cancer.
11. I met my mate in an on line chat room about 15 years ago.
12. I sold my business in USA and moved to Australia to be with him 12 years ago.
13. I have dual citizenship now and I love Australia.
14. When I was young I did all the right things, acquired the necessary letters after my name and joined the corporate world.
15. About 10 years later, I chucked it all in and went into dogs and have mostly been in the dog business one way or another ever since.
16. I hate having impressions at the dentist. I would (almost) be inclined to go toothless than have them.
17. I take drugs (xanax) when I fly or go to the dentist for impressions, hehehe.
18. I love to fish.
19. I live in the tropics.
20. I have been clean and sober since July 31 1990 6:59PM.
21. I think organized religion causes as many problems as it purports to solve. I DON’T NEED A MIDDLE MAN, if there is a supreme being, I will deal directly.
22. Tennis is my favorite sport to watch or play but I will watch or play just about anything. I have even learned to enjoy cricket!
23. I try to stay skinny so I run and swim and bike almost every day. I take my young dog with me when I run or ride, she is sleek and hard and fast and beautiful.
24.I have a fingernail that is almost ready to fall off. I slammed the car door on it (incredibly stupid thing to do) but it is still hanging by a thread and I am too chicken to yank it off so it is driving me crazy.
25. I might have to go to the doctor for a sore finger, how embarrassing is that!

Mama_Cakes2's avatar

@Leanne1986 I dig the fact that you can sings opera. Awesome.

veileddarkness's avatar

@Simone_De_Beauvoir I know, it was maybe just slightly excessive. :P

bob_'s avatar

1. I was born and have always lived in Monterrey, Mexico (well, except for a semester abroad during college).
2. I plan things, a lot. Sometimes obsessively. I get irritated/frustrated when things don’t go according to plan. I’m working on it. I have a plan. Oh wait…
3. I am very organized (read: borderline OCD) in some things (e.g., the bills in my wallet are sorted by value, and all face the same way), but very disorganized in others (e.g., my room is a MESS, and if it weren’t for Xobni I’d never be able to find something in my work mailbox; get Xobni y’all!).
4. I am color blind. I didn’t know what was wrong with me until I was like 12 or 13 and read about it in a magazine. In elementary school I once drew a green deer. Deer should totally be green!
5. I am flat-footed.
6. I speak 4 languages: Spanish (my mothertongue), English, Italian and (a very, very rusty) German. I am determined to recover my German, learn at least 2 other languages and lose my accent when speaking English.
7. I always did extremely well in school. I graduated summa cum laude from high school (IB FTW beeyotch!) and college.
8. I turned down (at the 11th hour) a partial scholarship to an Ivy League college. The cost-benefits analysis just didn’t cut it. I have never regretted it.
9. I am currently studying for the Level 1 CFA exam. It is no picnic.
10. I still live with my parents. I come and go as I please. I help with the bills (as well as lending my father $40k USD to help pay for my sister’s Masters; I get paid back this week, yay!).
11. My mother is the best cook in the world. I know for a fact that I’ll lose quite a bit of weight when I move out.
12. I will probably move out soon. I’m looking for a new job, which will most likely will take me to Mexico City. That’s where the money (i.e., Mexico’s financial sector) is.
13. Mexico City is also where my girlfriend is. Yay! She’s my high school sweetheart. We were together for 4 years, then broke up for a year, got back together for 3 months, broke up because she was to leave for 2 years, and now we’re back since a month and a half ago.
14. I’m not wild about pets, especially cats. I used to be afraid of dogs, but not so much anymore. Still can’t fully trust them: they’re all sons of bitches!
15. I am a tae kwon do black belt. I mean, sure, I was 14 when I got it, and I quit as soon as I got it (my dad wouldn’t let my brother and me quit before), but hey, it still counts.
16. You probably wouldn’t guess it by looking at me (I’m a large guy), but I’m an advanced spinning cyclist. I can “spin” for 2 hours non-stop. That’s pretty fucking tiring, though.
17. I like my steaks somewhere between medium and three quarters. My life would be easier if waiters knew their fractions, so I could order it 5/8.
18. My favorite ice cream is banana nut. My favorite Dairy Queen blizzard is Oreo with cheesecake and banana. I had one yesterday, yay!
19. My favorite alcoholic drink is whisky (with mineral water). My favorite beer is Heineken.
20. I am a very social drunk. I am much more reserved when sober.
21. I play the lottery, always with the same numbers. Yes, I know I’m basically throwing away money, I’m an economist, thank you. It’s all about behavioral economics. Besides, it’s just $4.50 for a biweekly (astronomical) chance of getting rich. Don’t be so cheap!
22. My favorite number is 144 (12 times 12). If restricted to digits, my favorite is 7.
23. The first thing that comes to my mind when I see the number 23 is Michael Jordan. Every freakin’ time.
24. I am very competitive, especially when playing board games.
25. I flag stuff here on Fluther. A lot. I’m not all that fond of the rules, but if they’re there, they should be followed. Obey the law!

OpryLeigh's avatar

@Mama_Cakes My family hate the fact that I am not using my “gift” to make a living. The truth is, I love singing, I especially love singing Opera and will continue my training but as far as a career goes, I’d rather work with dogs!

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