Facebook Plague

One of my friends on Facebook tagged me for the "25 Random Things" meme that's sweeping the site like the syph. Since I'm in a blog slump, I figured that I might as well cross-post it here so everyone can delight in the weird wonderfulness that makes me who I am.

1. I like to read. I mean, I REALLY like to read. As in the house could burn down around me and I wouldn't notice the smoke and flames if I was involved in a really good book.

2. I buck the stereotype that all women love chocolate. I prefer fruity treats to chocolatey ones. I'm looking at you, Laffy Taffy...

3. I love going to school. Well, the learning cool new things aspect of it anyway. I'm having a blast and a half in the nursing program this semester. That may change once things start picking up steam, but for now holy fun-ness. :)

4. I can burp like a champ. Think Booger in "Revenge of the Nerds". It either makes the menfolk run screaming for the hills or fall hopelessly in love with me. No middle ground whatsoever.

5. I am perfectly useless before my A.M. coffee fix. Boy Wonder has figured out that he shouldn't tell me things that are Vitally Important to the Balance of the Universe prior to my caffeination. To his credit, he has never used this to his advantage.

6. I have strong opinions on nearly everything and I'm not shy about sharing them.

7. The fact that I have managed to keep all my teeth after so many years of running off my mouth makes me grateful that I have a bit of "Bubbly", "Put On My Listening Ears" and "Respectful of Differing Beliefs" in my discrete me-ness to temper the "Let Me Share My Opinions With You Using This Here Sledgehammer!"

8. I started over completely friend-wise just over a year ago, and I've met some really great people following the Great Friendship Purge of Aught Eight. There's something deliciously refreshing and frightening about rebuilding what you know from scratch.

9. I greatly enjoy capitalizing words that don't really need to be capitalized and bestowing faux royalty titles upon my loved ones. Give me a few beers and ten minutes and you too can sound like a blue blood! A very silly blue blood, but royalty nonetheless. ;)

10. I lack the attention span to watch TV and movies. This is just as well because some of the chapters in my textbooks are like a hundred-plus pages and I need that time to read 'em.

11. Music is as essential to me as air. I'd rather buy a new CD as a treat for myself than just about anything else I could reward myself with.

12. I didn't believe in how people claimed to feel the Holy Spirit within them until I saw Tori Amos in concert. I can't say what I felt was a religious awakening but it was incredibly intense and filled with raw emotion. I left the auditorium thinking, "Yeah, THIS is what they meant when they made the word rapture".

13. I sing A LOT. I don't care if it makes me a tool, I adore karaoke and feel completely in my element when I have a microphone in my hand and some adoring public to clap for me when I'm finished. :)

14.The lone carrier of half my DNA is nearly fourteen, and I don't think I'll suffer from "empty nest syndrome" when he leaves. I love being his mom, but I'm looking forward to living life on my terms again when he's flown the nest.

15. Once upon a time I wanted four, five, maybe even six kids. Health and other personal issues have made me realize that having a singleton is in my best interest. Fortunately, many of my friends have kids I can love on to get my baby fix.

16. I want to go on a mission trip to India or Africa to care for orphaned children. My nearest and dearest seem to think this will result in my getting the four, five, even six kids I wanted once upon a time. ;)

17. I'm actually quite content being single. Life is less complicated when it's just you that you need to worry about making happy. This flummoxes many of the elderly women I care for, who seem to think that I'll simply wither and die without having a man to take care of.

18. The fact that I earnestly tell them I have my cats and dog to take care of means I'm well on my way to spending my golden years as the "Crazy Cat Lady" on "The Simpsons", doesn't it?

19. Oh yeah, and I knit. Game. Point.

20. I want to travel once I'm finished with school, and intend on spending my retirement in a silver Airstream trailer, making home wherever I choose to park for that day, week or month.

21. Every time I see an article about someone walking across the United States, it kind of makes me want to drop everything I'm doing and join them for part of their journey.

22. I have a great--great uncle who up and decided that taking off cross-country and not telling anyone where exactly he wanted to end up was a cool idea. My wanderlust makes me wonder if it's a genetic marker of some sort.

23. Another great-great uncle on my dad's side owned a resort in Green Lake. I guess Jean Harlowe used to vacation there. When he got drunk, he'd tell everyone what a "Bee-YOO-Tee-fol woman!" she was. My uncle Charlie used to drag out a monkey puppet and make it sing and dance when he had a few drinks in him. The preceding two facts lead me to believe that I am genetically predisposed to eccentricity and might as damn well just embrace it.

24. My brother and grandfather are the family members I relate the most to . My mother and I are so dissimilar that sometimes I wonder if I was switched at birth.

25. Icy cold, cheap beer and a plate of wings are a great way to end a day, however they don't lend to ending this entry gracefully. Oh well. Beer still good.

If you made it to the end, consider yourself tagged. Leave me a comment if you choose to do this so I can learn more about you! :)