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ladynorbertOr at least, everybody seems to want me to answer the memes, judging by how many times I've been tagged lately. So these are the two for which I've been tagged a lot.
List eight random facts about yourself.
1. Does the fact that I have a cat named Random count as a random fact, or is that cheating? Either way, it's true.
2. I have excessively distinctive hands, almost to the point where I wonder if they're deformed. I'm a nail-biter, which I know has something to do with why my nails are so oddly shaped, but the hands themselves even without the nails are weird. They're plump hands, but at the same time, they're really small.
3. I am extremely claustrophobic, to the point where just the idea of being in a small space gives me the shakes if I think about it too much. I read a Reader's Digest article once about two boys who were trapped in a cave, and I thought I might hyperventilate.
4. I'm very finicky about food textures. Depending on my mood, health, and even just the time of day, I will not eat something if I think it's going to feel "funny" in my mouth. This applies most often to breads.
5. If I have a headache, the idea of eating ham makes me sick. I don't know why.
6. I can't stand to eat breakfast within the first half hour of my waking up. My body does not want it. Given that this is usually the only chance I have to eat any breakfast, the result is a little unfortunate.
7. I get very annoyed by the commercials for the ABC Family network's original shows Kyle XY and Wildfire. They just try too hard to make it sound like what's happening in the next episode is going to have relevance to the viewer's life; I half want to write to them and say "You can't force me to care about these stupid shows!" Wildfire especially irritates me. They do that with their original movies too, to the point where I just want the movie to be over so I can stop hearing about it. (Although I didn't mind when they were advertising the one that had Stuart Townsend in it...)
8. When I brush my teeth, I wet the bristles and apply toothpaste, but then wet the toothpaste. I have an extremely dry mouth, and to use "dry" toothpaste -- even if it's a gel -- is uncomfortable.
List ten things that make you happy.
1. Chilling on the wonderful new sofa for a movie afternoon. If I didn't have so much housework to do, I'd schedule a marathon tomorrow. Maybe I'll have one Sunday after church.
2. Doing things with the youth group. I love those kids, especially Jesse, Libby, and Katie.
3. Winning at video games. I'm an old-school gamer geek; I still have a functioning NES and will occasionally play Zelda or Mario -- the originals, that is! Last year I sat down and played Zelda for the first time in at least ten years, and it took me all of three hours to beat it. I remembered where almost everything was...it was sort of scary. ;)
4. Pulling off something clever here at work, like yesterday's little adventure with soap.
5. Going to bed at night with the feeling that I did something in the course of the day to make someone else's life a little better. I don't have that experience every night, but when I do, it's very gratifying.
6. Getting a paycheck for one of my magazine articles. I love to write, but those things really do make me work for the money, so to see the fiscal result is nice.
7. New reviews for my fanfic.
8. Surprises in the mail. We had some yesterday, which are worth telling about; I came home and found, sitting inside the house, a large package covered in heart and Cupid stickers. It was addressed to Kevin. I asked him who was sending him such things; the return address was blocked by other mail. He just smiled and told me to take a closer look. Underneath his package was a similar one of my own, both from the same person --![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blcksunaphelion sent us each a box of candy for Valentine's Day. Good thing too; if anybody other than one of the kids had sent Kevin something covered in hearts, I really would not have been very happy. ;) I wasn't worried, because he left it sitting right there where I could see it, but it did give me a genuine WTF? moment at first.
9. Feeling well enough to climb a mountain, and actually going to do exactly that.
10. It's egotistical, but it honestly does make me happy -- seeing either myself or something of my creation mentioned positively in someone else's LJ.
I tag anyone who has not yet done these and would like to do them. If you've done one, I tag you to do the other.
List eight random facts about yourself.
1. Does the fact that I have a cat named Random count as a random fact, or is that cheating? Either way, it's true.
2. I have excessively distinctive hands, almost to the point where I wonder if they're deformed. I'm a nail-biter, which I know has something to do with why my nails are so oddly shaped, but the hands themselves even without the nails are weird. They're plump hands, but at the same time, they're really small.
3. I am extremely claustrophobic, to the point where just the idea of being in a small space gives me the shakes if I think about it too much. I read a Reader's Digest article once about two boys who were trapped in a cave, and I thought I might hyperventilate.
4. I'm very finicky about food textures. Depending on my mood, health, and even just the time of day, I will not eat something if I think it's going to feel "funny" in my mouth. This applies most often to breads.
5. If I have a headache, the idea of eating ham makes me sick. I don't know why.
6. I can't stand to eat breakfast within the first half hour of my waking up. My body does not want it. Given that this is usually the only chance I have to eat any breakfast, the result is a little unfortunate.
7. I get very annoyed by the commercials for the ABC Family network's original shows Kyle XY and Wildfire. They just try too hard to make it sound like what's happening in the next episode is going to have relevance to the viewer's life; I half want to write to them and say "You can't force me to care about these stupid shows!" Wildfire especially irritates me. They do that with their original movies too, to the point where I just want the movie to be over so I can stop hearing about it. (Although I didn't mind when they were advertising the one that had Stuart Townsend in it...)
8. When I brush my teeth, I wet the bristles and apply toothpaste, but then wet the toothpaste. I have an extremely dry mouth, and to use "dry" toothpaste -- even if it's a gel -- is uncomfortable.
List ten things that make you happy.
1. Chilling on the wonderful new sofa for a movie afternoon. If I didn't have so much housework to do, I'd schedule a marathon tomorrow. Maybe I'll have one Sunday after church.
2. Doing things with the youth group. I love those kids, especially Jesse, Libby, and Katie.
3. Winning at video games. I'm an old-school gamer geek; I still have a functioning NES and will occasionally play Zelda or Mario -- the originals, that is! Last year I sat down and played Zelda for the first time in at least ten years, and it took me all of three hours to beat it. I remembered where almost everything was...it was sort of scary. ;)
4. Pulling off something clever here at work, like yesterday's little adventure with soap.
5. Going to bed at night with the feeling that I did something in the course of the day to make someone else's life a little better. I don't have that experience every night, but when I do, it's very gratifying.
6. Getting a paycheck for one of my magazine articles. I love to write, but those things really do make me work for the money, so to see the fiscal result is nice.
7. New reviews for my fanfic.
8. Surprises in the mail. We had some yesterday, which are worth telling about; I came home and found, sitting inside the house, a large package covered in heart and Cupid stickers. It was addressed to Kevin. I asked him who was sending him such things; the return address was blocked by other mail. He just smiled and told me to take a closer look. Underneath his package was a similar one of my own, both from the same person --
blcksunaphelion sent us each a box of candy for Valentine's Day. Good thing too; if anybody other than one of the kids had sent Kevin something covered in hearts, I really would not have been very happy. ;) I wasn't worried, because he left it sitting right there where I could see it, but it did give me a genuine WTF? moment at first.9. Feeling well enough to climb a mountain, and actually going to do exactly that.
10. It's egotistical, but it honestly does make me happy -- seeing either myself or something of my creation mentioned positively in someone else's LJ.
I tag anyone who has not yet done these and would like to do them. If you've done one, I tag you to do the other.
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