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bladesparkI watched this one wander across my friends list a few times. (It's really interesting to see how these things spread, since within the last week this has turned up on the journals of several folks who I know have no connection to each other other than me.) Now I've been tagged with it, so I shall go ahead and do it.
Well, some of you do probably know these. It's hard to come up with stuff nobody knows, because I tell the whole world everything.
10. I've lived in twenty-six different houses/apartments over the course of my life. And that is not counting visits, vacations, brief stays, etc., it counts only places where I've actually resided for more than a month's time.
9. I've never been to Canada, or Mexico, but I lived for a year and a half in Ireland as a missionary. (Okay, a lot of you knew that already, but I bet some of you didn't!)
8. I have both acrophobia and agoraphobia. That's fear of heights, and fear of open spaces. The heights is worse, I have "treed" myself before because I looked down and then froze when climbing something. But I challenge it constantly and love to climb trees, hike canyons, etc. The fear of open spaces only bothers me when there's nothing between me and the horizon, (trees, houses, mountains, and large hills are all sufficient to keep it from bothering me,) and even then it's more that I get realy tense and twitchy, rather than completely freezing up. But I have no desire to challenge or overcome this, I just intend to never live in a flat state. Give me mountains and valleys!
7. At one point in my life I wanted to change my name to "Cyrstal" becuase I thought it sounded neat and fantasy-like, and I didn't know anybody named Crystal, while I knew lots of people named Stephanie, and I wanted to be unique. Both of my younger sisters at some point expressed the same desire, the middle one even using Crystal as a screen name, but they'd never heard me, or each other, talk about it, all three of us hit on the name on our own.
6. I have no piercings of any sort, not even ears, and have no intention of ever getting any, although I'm not particularly bothered by needles or pain.
5. Speaking of pain, I am a masochist. No, really I am. Yes, like that. Mmmmmpain. (But there is bad pain and good pain. I once cracked my then-boyfriend up when I'd managed to accidentally injure myself by yelping "Augh, that hurts! And not in a good way!")
4. On the subject of boyfriends, I was asked out for the very first time in my life when I was 19. The askee was a 29 year old divorcee looking for a mother for his children, but I didn't know that until after the second date. There was no third date.
3. Every single male I have dated seriously (as opposed to dating to get to know, or dating just for fun) I have met on line.
2. When I was a very small child, any time I went to a public restroom, I would imagine that there was a little unicorn (my sort of imaginary friend at the time, though I knew perfectly well she wasn't real) perched on the top of the walls around the stall. To this day I have no idea why I only visualized the unicorn when I was using the pot, but that's the only time I ever pictured her as being present, though I made up stories about her all the time.
1. I've been an entrepreneur since I was very young. At the age of five I made a stack of drawings by tracing my hand onto paper and putting faces on each finger. I then went around the neighborhood selling "finger family" pictures for one cent each. My mother once said I could sell refidgerators to eskimos, but the funny thing is that I'm very big on the "soft sell" approach. I don't try to talk you into buying, I just make sure you know that I think what I'm selling is nifty and you can buy or not buy as you like. This worked when I was five, and seems to still work. But it means I can't sell anything that I don't think is nifty. This is why I failed at being a telemarketer.
And I shall tag Cajunfox, Kain, Keplily, Dexam, NSD, Rabbit system (whichever of you cares to answer), Thalass, Tieran, Urban, and xpieces_of_usx (whichever of you cares to answer.) Consider being tagged as an invitation, rather than a demand. Take part if you wish to, ignore it ifyou don't.
P.S. I have a cold. I think I've caught con crud. Bleah.
Well, some of you do probably know these. It's hard to come up with stuff nobody knows, because I tell the whole world everything.
10. I've lived in twenty-six different houses/apartments over the course of my life. And that is not counting visits, vacations, brief stays, etc., it counts only places where I've actually resided for more than a month's time.
9. I've never been to Canada, or Mexico, but I lived for a year and a half in Ireland as a missionary. (Okay, a lot of you knew that already, but I bet some of you didn't!)
8. I have both acrophobia and agoraphobia. That's fear of heights, and fear of open spaces. The heights is worse, I have "treed" myself before because I looked down and then froze when climbing something. But I challenge it constantly and love to climb trees, hike canyons, etc. The fear of open spaces only bothers me when there's nothing between me and the horizon, (trees, houses, mountains, and large hills are all sufficient to keep it from bothering me,) and even then it's more that I get realy tense and twitchy, rather than completely freezing up. But I have no desire to challenge or overcome this, I just intend to never live in a flat state. Give me mountains and valleys!
7. At one point in my life I wanted to change my name to "Cyrstal" becuase I thought it sounded neat and fantasy-like, and I didn't know anybody named Crystal, while I knew lots of people named Stephanie, and I wanted to be unique. Both of my younger sisters at some point expressed the same desire, the middle one even using Crystal as a screen name, but they'd never heard me, or each other, talk about it, all three of us hit on the name on our own.
6. I have no piercings of any sort, not even ears, and have no intention of ever getting any, although I'm not particularly bothered by needles or pain.
5. Speaking of pain, I am a masochist. No, really I am. Yes, like that. Mmmmmpain. (But there is bad pain and good pain. I once cracked my then-boyfriend up when I'd managed to accidentally injure myself by yelping "Augh, that hurts! And not in a good way!")
4. On the subject of boyfriends, I was asked out for the very first time in my life when I was 19. The askee was a 29 year old divorcee looking for a mother for his children, but I didn't know that until after the second date. There was no third date.
3. Every single male I have dated seriously (as opposed to dating to get to know, or dating just for fun) I have met on line.
2. When I was a very small child, any time I went to a public restroom, I would imagine that there was a little unicorn (my sort of imaginary friend at the time, though I knew perfectly well she wasn't real) perched on the top of the walls around the stall. To this day I have no idea why I only visualized the unicorn when I was using the pot, but that's the only time I ever pictured her as being present, though I made up stories about her all the time.
1. I've been an entrepreneur since I was very young. At the age of five I made a stack of drawings by tracing my hand onto paper and putting faces on each finger. I then went around the neighborhood selling "finger family" pictures for one cent each. My mother once said I could sell refidgerators to eskimos, but the funny thing is that I'm very big on the "soft sell" approach. I don't try to talk you into buying, I just make sure you know that I think what I'm selling is nifty and you can buy or not buy as you like. This worked when I was five, and seems to still work. But it means I can't sell anything that I don't think is nifty. This is why I failed at being a telemarketer.
And I shall tag Cajunfox, Kain, Keplily, Dexam, NSD, Rabbit system (whichever of you cares to answer), Thalass, Tieran, Urban, and xpieces_of_usx (whichever of you cares to answer.) Consider being tagged as an invitation, rather than a demand. Take part if you wish to, ignore it ifyou don't.
P.S. I have a cold. I think I've caught con crud. Bleah.
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