1. I have had a piece of graphite embedded in my palm since the 1st grade. I was playing a game of pull-your-hand-away-before-you-get-stabbed with Lisa and Nathan, and I lost. I was convinced that I was going to die of lead poisoning, but I didn’t tell the teacher for fear of punishment.
2. I can’t stay awake long enough to watch an entire movie at home. I try to conceal my fatigue from my husband, but my right leg will involuntarily twitch as I’m falling asleep and I’m busted.
3. I cheated on a spelling test in the 3rd grade. I wrote the word “special” inside my desk before the test because I couldn’t remember how to spell it. I consider myself a decent speller now, though I routinely struggle with the words “camera” and “sandals”.
4. My mom had to take me out of the theater for almost every Disney cartoon because they made me sob hysterically. I can still remember the anguish I felt during Cinderella (when the step-sisters tore her well-deserved, beautiful dress off), Dumbo (when people/animals made fun of his ears) and The Fox and the House (because the animals were living in poor socio-economic circumstances). Why did she keep subjecting me to the Disney misery?
5. I have a history of running into objects while riding my bicycle. In the 3rd grade, I ran into a mailbox (ouch). As a junior in high school, I ran into a Doberman Pincer dog (double ouch).
6. I have a major Post-it® fetish…the flashier, the better!
7. I didn’t talk to anybody at school my entire pre-school year. The teacher told my mom that I played with only one girl and that we never talked to each other. I’ve made up for it since then.
8. I have all 39 books in the Trixie Belden series. Trixie Belden mysteries were published between 1948 and 1986…they are similar to Nancy Drew, but much better. I completed my collection in 1999 thanks to the advent of Ebay.
9. I make backwards timelines to help keep me get to places on time. I also make them for weekends when I don’t have to be anywhere at a specific time. That might be a little abnormal. Here is a sample:
7:00 a.m.- Arrive at work6:40 a.m.- Leave home6:00 a.m.- Shower and get ready5:45 a.m.- Leave gym
5:00 a.m.- Exercise
4:50 a.m.- Leave home
4:40 a.m.- Wake-up
10. I was a Brownie for three years and I never earned a single patch (I was just in it for the uniform and the snacks).
11. I love the smell of chlorine, paper fresh off the ditto machine and Noxzema. I hate the smell of watermelon.
12. I recently learned that I have been mispronouncing “dynamo” for years.
13. I can’t remember the lines to any songs, so I make lines up to go with the music. I prefer to sing the wrong words quite loudly.
14. I hike four excruciating miles (elevation change of 3,700 feet) to the top of Mount Si every time I visit Aunt Linda in Seattle. My muscles ache for the rest of the week, but it’s worth it.
I still get a big kick out of #1!
Hey! My husband has a piece of pencil lead embedded in his temple. I thought he was so unique! And now this…..
Some of the Disney animated features are tough. Dumbo was a killer.. so don’t blame you a bit. What I couldn’t take is Old Yeller. Devasting..
Dumbo should have its very own sob rating to protect sensitive children (and adults.) I recently listened to Alison Krauss’ Baby of Mine from Dumbo and teared up a bit.
Great list of 10 random facts. Your blog is very entertaining!
Thank you
I had to laugh! Backwards timeline. I’ve never met anyone who does this beside me. That’s how I am never late. I am convinced everyone else is doin their lists backwards. So funny. (I just don’t get up at 4:40… um, yeah. I sleep in.)
I receive an enormous amount of flak from my husband over my backwards timelines. It’s good to know there’s another backwards person. One time I laminated my timeline.
I have a piece of pencil embedded in my side - where my luv handles are now - from when I was playing football during recess and was jabbed by another kid who had a pencil in his pocket. 7th grade I think. I can still see and feel it, but only cause I know it is there.
And they always talked about the dangers of scissors. What about pencils?
I totally have graphite in palm, too! Mine came courtesy of Peter, my next-desk neighbor in the seventh grade. He had some anger issues and stabbed me mid-temper tantrum.
I like to think that he got some anger management training somewhere along the way, but probably not.
That’s just a little bit crazy. These days he might be stabbing with something worse!
Holy Toledo. That looks flashy and yummy. Too bad it’s out of stock!
You’re in luck. Amazon has it. Oh, check out my DQ blog. Certainly you would appreciate it.
I’ve always been scared of Dumbo. The scene when he gets drunk and there are loads of pink elephants, thats frickin scary.
I’m not sure if I made it that far…depends if the ear-teasing preceded or followed the drunk elephant scene.
Yes, I have graphite just below my knee. I was at my cousin’s birthday party and knelt forward to pet her rabbit.. it was weird how the pencil just hung there.. I was like 7 or 8 and it’s been there for 30 years now. I never told anyone until I was an adult; I got into an argument with my sister about whether there was any lead in pencil lead. She just couldn’t believe I didn’t tell anyone before that. That was nearly 20 years after it happened.
#1 is #1. I laughed.
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9. Backward lists! I do that ALL the time and now I’m getting my kids to do it!
(found your blog after seeing that someone came to mine from here - so glad I did!)
I can’t wait to pass on the timeline torch!
(Thanks!)
I love this list and thanks for inspiring me - I re-did my 100 Question Challenge and posted it as a page on my site…re-worked and updated for 2008…
I always do backwards timelines.
It makes total and absolute sense to do so! You need to start at the end to know where (and when) to begin.
I too have a piece of lead in my palm. I would sit at my desk and drop the pencil, eraser side down, and as it bounced, I would try to catch it.
Worked most times, but then of course, once I jammed the thing in my palm and my teacher wouldn’t let me go to the first aid clinic. It’ll be there when I die it will.
Your teacher wouldn’t let you go to the first aid clinic? That sounds slightly negligent…and now you must live with the consequences of your game forever. Which I guess isn’t a big deal, since I don’t think there are any negative consequences…at least none that I’ve been able to directly tie to my injury.
I enjoy your blog. The way you write keeps me interested the whole way through!
I have given up watching Disney films also. They do always make me cry as well.
Thank you very much. My imp seems to be pretty sensitive about animals and people crying, so I think I’m going to have to protect her from Disney too.