25 things you may or may not know about me
Mona posted her list the other day and asked some people to do the same. She didn’t ask me (I feel so betrayed!! :P) but I did it anyway.
- I can’t decide between creme brulee and cherry pie as my favorite dessert.
- I am one of the few women married to a geek who might actually out-geek her husband. I love gadgets and gizmos at least as much as Tad does, and I was a programmer before him (I got him into it).
- I am totally a night owl. If I had my way I would stay up till at least 1am every night and not get up until about 8am or 9am. But the rest of the world doesn’t work that way so I have to force myself in a mold that doesn’t fit.
- I am really a homebody. I could stay in my house for days and never get bored or have cabin fever.
- Born a US citizen, I’ve never been to Canada or Mexico but I’ve been to France, the UK and Australia.
- I am a Berry person, not a Citrus person.
- I can’t stand super spicy food. I like to savor my food, not be assaulted by it.
- I can bend the top of my thumb back at an almost 90 degree angle to the rest of it. I call it “Hitchhiker’s Thumb” and it totally freaks Tad out.
- I never tasted a beer until I was 27. It had always smelled and looked horrible to me, but that was probably because all I’d been exposed to before was yechy standard American beers.
- I am a crafter at heart without the time to craft. I have so many projects gathered on my todo list that I will never get through them all if I had 20 years of free time. But I probably have almost all the supplies I need, just in case that free-time opportunity knocks!
- I am compelled to arrange all the clothes in the closet by order of hue. It bothers me otherwise, even for Tad’s side.
- I scored a 5 (the best you can get) on the Advanced Placement Biology test as a senior in high school. I always loved science and can still tell you things like how respiration works through a cell membrane and what a nephron is.
- I have never had any other “real jobs” than as a programmer. My first programming job was the summer of my junior year in high school writing a catalog database application in DBase IV.
- I am addicted to boxes, containers and organizing supplies, yet I am still unorganized and have lots of clutter (and empty boxes!). Luckly the lack of implemented organization does not apply to my digital life, where I am pretty anal about stuff.
- I started a comic book with my best friend in high school. She wrote the story, I edited it. She sketched the characters, I drew the backgrounds and inked everything. She took a copy of our first page to a conference where Neil Gaiman was speaking and asked him to sign my #1 Sandman. When she gave him the page he said “Nice inking!”. Those two words still mean a lot to me!
- I really don’t like chocolate that much. I wil pick a fruity “treat” over a chocolate one any day.
- I am a font junkie. I can lose hours browsing and downloading them if I don’t already have one for the project I’m working on.
- I am allergic to cats so I don’t really like them that much. They LOVE me (I think they know I’m allergic and do it for spite).
- When I was a kid I won several contests for “top seller” for school fundraisers and girl-scout cookies (back when they let kids go door to door to sell stuff). By junior high I completely lost all sales ability.
- I played clarinet in band. I miss the euphoria of making music sometimes.
- During a particularly boring summer when I was too young to drive and too old to go to day camp, I watched “Back to the Future” twice a day and memorized the entire script. I could recite it on a whim for years later.
- I have two genetic oddities from my parents: a “double tooth” from my dad and a missing arch tendon in both feet from my mom.
- I am a good cook, when I decide to cook, which isn’t as often as it should be.
- I must do something creative on a regular basis or I am totally miserable.
- I find small dogs dressed up in clothes/costumes very entertaining.
