Random Things About Me

[same_sky]

I've finally compiled my list of forty random things about me. I'm sure you're all very excited. :)

1. I cannot sleep if my ear is uncovered.
   
2. I met my husband online, on a mud (online game) called DarkScapes.
   
3. I thought he was a pervert when we first met. ;) (Glad I was wrong..)
   
4. I always add a link when I mention DarkScapes because I designed the site and it's one of my favorites.
   
5. I'm (figuratively) blind as a bat--I've worn glasses since I was eight.
   
6. I made my dad sign a contract allowing me to get contacts as soon as I turned thirteen. I still have the contract, but have never had the contacts.
   
7. My older brother was killed in a car wreck when I was sixteen.
   
8. I still don't think I've gotten over it.
   
9. I was a member of the Academic Team in high school. I feel like a huge dork for admitting this.
   
10. I've been seriously propositioned by more people for a threesome than I have for conventional sex. I must seem like the swingin' type.
    
11. I'm actually not.
    
12. When I was little, I always wanted someone to play cow with me. When I was mostly grown, I made my niece, who was a toddler at the time, play with me. She was confused.
    
13. I have a Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts. I couldn't bring myself to be a business major, which was required by my college for all CIS students, so I created my own degree, with more IT classes than required by the actual degree.
    
14. They got the last laugh, though, as I've been unemployed ever since. :)
    
15. I don't really believe it's the fault of my college degree, I just said that for effect. That's something else I do sometimes.
    
16. The main thing I learned in college was that I like myself, flaws and all.
    
17. I have a secret Barbie fetish. My older cousin and I played with them up until.. well, we probably still would if we ever got around to it. :) We're talking serious dramas and lifelong characters.
    
18. I used to be embarrassed by that, but have since decided that it's not worth worrying over.
    
19. I have a very hard time with worrying. I do it compulsively. I'm trying to stop. I'm making some progress.
    
20. My favorite band is Counting Crows. I honestly cannot understand how someone wouldn't like them.
    
21. I was born here in Morehead, Ky. I've also lived for a summer outside of Detroit, two years in Columbus, GA, two years in Augusta, GA, and three years in Memphis, TN. A summer in Stockholm, too. Sorta.
    
22. I'm not an army brat--I'm a construction brat. ;) My dad was a superintendent for Holloway and built big bridges and roads and stuff.
    
23. Keith Whitley (he recorded "When You Say Nothing At All".. the original, GOOD version) was my second cousin.
    
24. I didn't really know him before he died when I was 9 or so, but he appears frequently in party pictures from my dad's youth.
    
25. Being around people exhausts me.
    
26. I would rather have one close friend than twenty unclose friends.
    
27. The smell of vanilla (in perfumes or candles or similar) makes me incredibly nauseous.
    
28. My uncle used to steal my nose when I was a little girl. I still don't care much for him.
    
29. I'm rather easily amused. I can spend hours playing with string. (I learned to tat last year and have been somewhat obsessive about it, although not so much recently.)
    
30. I had absolutely no interest in cooking until I got married, but now am quite into trying new things.
    
31. This is particularly interesting since I've been a notoriously picky eater and am just now trying and enjoying things I've always said I hated.
    
32. I will not, however, relent in my refusal to eat raw seafood. You gotta draw the line somewhere.
    
33. I get very freaked out if someone other than me or Magnus uses my computer.
    
34. I often refer to myself as Bitchy Pookums, and I often sign up for stuff under that name.
    
35. The name I use on muds is Kadi. I've been told it suits me, but I don't really think of myself as that anymore. My best friend called me Kadi, in real life, for three years, even though we met before I started mudding.
    
36. Magnus and I never directly call each other by our real names.. though we don't use Kadi and Yancey, either. Baby and love, that sort of thing.
    
37. I tend to procrastinate--there's a vacuum cleaner sitting unused in my livingroom right now, for instance.
    
38. I was always the overachiever in school, but I didn't necessarily care a whole lot about my grades, though they were always 3.5 and above. I honestly liked learning.
    
39. I'm extremely open-minded. I actively taught myself to be this way after having learned a completely different outlook, but now it comes naturally.
    
40. This will be pretty obvious to my faithful journal readers, but it takes me a very long time to get to the point. Any point. Sometimes I lose my point when going into six other points.

Comments

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

Great list! I really enjoy reading these things. Mike and I rarely call each other by our real names either. It's always honey or dear or something. I always get something of a shock if he says Carrie.

[totte.livejournal.com]

I've learned not to call my bug Kisha. Last time I did she came up to me with big puppy eyes and asked in a small voice if I was mad at her, which sort of became a joke, making it absolutely impossible to call each other by name now. Oh the hardships of marriage.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

It even looks weird in text when you write it. The whole thing is very weird.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I suppose it has something to do with talking to him with online names for so long, but also, I still can't pronounce his name exactly right. (And I think it sounds silly, anyway, when said the Swedish way.) :) I've threatened to rename him, but I guess that would be a little too weird to actually carry through with!