25 random things

1. I am the middle child, 2 older brothers, 2 younger sisters.
2. I am sort of afraid of the dark. I sleep with the light on in my closet because I think something will come out of there.
3. Funnily enough, I'm a night person. I frequently see 3 or 4am.
4. I don't believe in welcome mats because you might inadvertently invite a vampire in. Or an escaped psychopath.
5. When I was younger, I used to draw an octopus on the margins of my books. His name was Pogita. Karla & Carlos used to draw them too.
6. I didn't like learning to read. My school had older kids [3rd or 5th graders] sit with us to help us sound out words & I felt she should just read to me.
7. I've eaten balut. Also, dirt, flowers, and ants.
8. My teddy bear's name is Chi Chi. He has a chocolate sauce stain on his butt; it had been my young quest to make him more realistic.
9. At age 9, I asked my mother why we weren't circus performers. I thought it was a pre-requisite to being Batman's sidekick.
10. I have an obnoxious amount of handbags. This encourages my thoughts on downsizing my material possessions.
11. I used to be fluent Italian, even took an Italian Cinema class. I dropped that course of study because I was already a double major. Sadly the old saying of if you don't use it, you lose it totally applies here. I can't even read my old notes.
12. What I went to school for has nothing to do with what I've been doing for the past several years. Also, what I went to school for was an interest embedded since I was 9. It was something shiny that caught my eye.
13. I am clumsy as hell.
14. I work well under pressure and crisis situations. Unless it directly affects me then I'm more of the frozen, oh crap variety. I'm not sure how I can improve that without putting myself in bad situations.
15. I quit smoking, so far so good.
16. I dislike liars. Your word is your honor and what good is life without honor?
17. My favorite color is red.
18. We used to have little pet lizards and I detested feeding them crickets. Mainly because the care book said we should cut off the back jumping legs of the crickets so that they won't attack the sleeping lizards.
19. I would like to run my own business someday.
20. I occasionally get bummed that teleportation is highly improbably because of the Heisenberg principle.
21. I like attending sporting events with family, mainly because it's better than watching it on the couch. Plus food eaten at arenas & stadiums are calorie free. haha
22. The last thing I split with my mother was a strawberry glazed Dunkin' Donut. We stop for DD on our way to the cemetery most of the time. I generally don't eat the strawberry glazed donut.
23. My family is populated by comedians. They're even funnier in tagalog.
24. I can be seriously un-motivated if I don't monitor myself. That was a nice way of saying "lazy."
25. I told my sister this should be a list of 25 people I'd like to see naked.

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"Just be yourself...unless you suck." - Joss is boss