Random Facts

RULES - Post rules before giving the facts - Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves - People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules - At the end of the your blog you need to tag three people and list their names - Leave them a comment on their blog, telling them they have been tagged and not to forget to read your blog.

1. I can't stand people eating while on the phone with me, chewing with their mouthes open, or talking with their face stuffed full of food. Oh yeah, and smacking their food. It makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and I can feel my blood pressure rising.

2. I'm allergic to mushrooms. That's pretty much it. Well, shrooms and penicillins. These items don't make me stop breathing or anything. I just get some nasty hives from penicillin and a horrible stomach ache from mushrooms. Mom always tries to make her green bean casserole in a way that my brother and I can eat it (he's allergic too), but she forgets that cream of mushroom soup is the same as using regular mushrooms. Sigh.

3. I love movies. At one point in my life I wanted to make them for a living. But, life changed and I needed a job that is much more stable...and has benefits. I've settled on something second best, but maybe not. I don't actually get to do any real editing much anymore. I guess that's a reason I'm in school for my MBA with an emphasis in marketing.

4. I'm terrified of spiders. Well, not terrified of them, they just give me the ebbie-jeebies. Like the other day when I was taking a shower, I saw a spider fall into the bathtub. I was out of that shower so freaking fast, standing there dripping water all over my warm marble floor while I decided what to do next. I can't just let it go down the drain...what if it crawls back up? That damn Itsy Bitsy Spider song ruined me for life.

5. I rarely like going home to my parent's house for any extended period of time. I feel like such an outsider down there. I worry about my mom worrying about me; what's going through her mind.

6. I am not a religious person. I have a hard time believing that there is some higher power out there who is in control of my life, my destiny. Some omnipotent being who created the universe with a thought. Perhaps religion is a human condition brought about to help us feel like we're not alone, like someone is watching out for us and we're not on a run-away train barreling down a mountain; to help us cope with the loss of loved ones by believing that we will see them when our time comes and live out eternity with them in some other place.

7. I stay up way to late for no reason at all and suffer the consequences in the morning when I have to go to work. I say to myself, "why do you do this all the time" but I rarely change. I mean, look, it's past midnight and I'm still writing this post. There just aren't enough hours in the day.

8. I hate leftovers. Except for pizza. Other than that, not a big fan. I think it has to do something with growing up in a house where you were always wondering what was growing in the refrigerator. Haha. But seriously, the mixing of previous meals into a "new" meal is repulsive. Just don't tell me what you did, and I'll be fine.

Here is where I break the rules. There are very few people I know who blog, one of them, Carrie, has already filled out this survey. So I'll tag Nick, but he said himself that he hasn't updated in a long time. I'll also shoot one over on Elizabeth. I'm sure she'll do it (she better!)