Here's my list of 50 Interesting Things...I think...maybe...Ha!
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| This is me in a really big chair...carry on |
1. My struggle with infertility has revealed creativity and strength I never knew I possessed and I'm grateful for that gift.
2. I'm intimidated by large glasses of water or too much of a type of food on a plate.
3. I only have one best female friend.
4. I'm very outgoing but very few people know the real me.
5. I suffer from sleep paralysis when I don't get enough sleep or am under extreme stress. My brain is awake and active but I can't move my body or speak.
6. I have a sarcastic sense of humor.
7. I have an eclectic taste in music...I listen to EVERYTHING.
8. I'm a pop culture junkie.
9. Sometimes I walk down the street like I'm in a music video when I'm listening to music. I'm sure it looks very strange.
10. I love books that are a part of a series...Twilight, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, the Hunger Games.
11. In college I worked as a writing tutor and a library clerk.
12. I studied Italian as my language in college.
13. When I was a kid I had dreams of singing and dancing on Broadway. I took voice and dance lessons as a child.
14. I LOVE any movie/show that has dance in it...ballroom dancing, Step Up movies, So You Think You Can Dance. The only one I won't watch is Dancing with the Stars.
15. I took a solo trip to Rome, Florence and Venice when I was 26. I would love to visit Australia, New Zealand and Bali.
16. I've started and abandoned writing a few books and once had a book deal for a young adult novel that fell through. I need to get back on that!
17. I love action/disaster movies and romances.
18. I'm afraid of roller coasters.
19. I don't polish my nails because I hate the look of chipped nails.
20. One of my favorite TV shows is Supernatural.
21. I studied at Spelman College during an exchange program in college. One of the best esteem building experiences I've ever had.
22. I taught myself how to swim on vacation when I was 17.
23. My favorite sports in the summer Olympics are diving and gymnastics. In the winter Olympics, figure skating.
24. I was hit by a car when I was 12 and broke my right arm.
25. I'm seriously nearsighted and have astigmatism. I wear my glasses everyday, all day and wore contacts for the first time during the week of my wedding. I haven't worn contacts since my wedding day.
26. Only my husband knows about my blog.
27. When I met my husband I didn't know anything about where his family was from..the Dominican Republic. I was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica and emigrated when I was 4.
28. I was a Spanish scholar in high school but can barely communicate well in Spanish with my in-laws or my husband.
29. I started jogging/running to combat/control my depression.
30. I love decorating my house but don't have the motivation to follow fashion.
31. I majored in journalism in college and worked as a magazine writer for two years after college before switching to medical advertising and communications.
32. I'm a big believer in self-help and have seen four therapists in my life so far at different points.
33. I like eating more than I like cooking.
34. I love seafood, especially lobster and sushi.
35. I'm a news junkie. I watch CNN and Al Jazeera America all day.
36. I met my husband on MySpace.
37. I don't know how to drive.
38. I have a masters degree in social work.
39. I take the lead in home improvement projects. I love putting furniture together. I think I was a construction foreman in my past life.
40. I have a photographic memory.
41. I have a black thumb. I've never been able to keep a plant alive.
42. I'm only 5 feet tall.
43. I was bullied in middle school.
44. I was my high school valedictorian.
45. I won a borough-wide spelling bee in middle school.
46. I'm a Gemini.
47. I'd like to think that I do things on a whim but I'm really a planner.
48. I have trouble making decisions because I tend to overanalyze things.
49. I'm really, really, really bad at any kind of advanced math and rely on my husband to measure and calculate things. I didn't learn how to read an analog clock until I was 12 and dread playing any game that has to do with money, like Monopoly, which I haven't played since I was a child.
50. I love animals.
This was awesome!
ReplyDeleteYou're much shorter than I thought! I was bullied in middle school too. And I love writing. A book deal? Stores? Do tell!
Haha! Yeah man I'm seriously short! I hate that we were all bullied but you know what I bet we're stronger because of it. More than anything it made me not willing to take ish from other people in my life. Lol Writing truly is a passion of mine; a true, true passion. Ahhhh...the book deal....long story short...I joined a writers workshop in my 20s and started writing a young adult novel, the instructor happened to work for scholastic and expressed interest in editing and publishing it but then she left the job and the book died...whomp whomp..
DeleteI so have that sarcastic sense of humor down packed! I like to think it encourages good writing. Love the walking like you're in a music video and I was also picked on and bullied in middle school.
ReplyDeleteI love a sarcastic sense of humor! Ha...the more sarcastic the better. I literally pretend I am the singer, singing the song in the music video when I'm walking down the street. I think I like to mess with people a bit around what they consider "normal" behavior. I love these random posts, we should do more...I was amazed at all the things about me that I thought of after the fact!
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