July 31, 2007

  • I dare not defy the Mighty O'Melay

    (tagged by Tabitha)

    8 Random Things:

    1. The main reason I prefer driving over taking public transportation (other than motion sickness and convenience) is so I can sing out loud to the radio/ CDs.

    2. I prefer to sleep with pajamas on, as opposed to in the buff. And it's not a modesty thing, I just feel more comfortable wearing PJs. Ditto for underwear.

    3. I *hate* the taste of alcohol. Very, very rarely I find a drink that I don't mind too much (Boston Beer Works has a Blueberry Ale I like), but even then I usually would rather have an iced tea or a soda. The other thing that reinforces my dislike of alcohol is that the first effect I feel is dizziness, which I don't particularly enjoy. Add this all together and it means that I have only been drunk once in my life.

    4. I was way into astrology when I was a teenager. In college, I took an experimental design course and we did a project having to do with the accuracy of astrology and in the course of doing that experiment, I read that essentially every other study that's ever been done about astrology has shown it to be BS. And now I believe astrology to be BS. And yet, I think I very much fit the description of a Cancer.

    5. I love the water, but the ocean scares me. I didn't want to go see Titanic because sinking into the middle of a vast, freezing cold ocean is one of my greatest fears. When we flew to NZ, I just mentally had to try and not think of the gigantic ocean that sat sloshing below the plane waiting to swallow it up. I don't know how I feel about going on a cruise. We'll have to cross that bridge when we get there. I feel better about being in warm waters.

    Okay... three to go... I can do this...

    6. I tend to have relationships where I am either primarily the listener (most of my relationships, I would say)  or the talker (fewer and farther between, tend not to last as long) with very few relationships that strike a balance. And, actually, my DH is only exception to this rule I can think of right now. And I think it stems from my relationship with my mom, she is definitely the talker in our relationship, though it is more even now than it used to be.

    7. I'm not a huge fan of silence. I often turn the TV just to have background noise.

    8. When I was a kid, I developed the ability to wake myself up out of nightmares. I found that if I woke myself up and went right back to sleep, the nightmare would continue, so I would make myself sit up and I would hold my eyelids open and count to ten, then go back to sleep. It always worked.

    I would tag people, but I think mostly everyone I know has been tagged-- but if you are a regular blog reader of mine and you want to do this meme, consider yourself tagged.

Comments (2)

  • that's a handy nightmare trick! kudos to childhood you.

    <3

    here's a weird fact about me: when i get tagged/ receive chain letter, i simply cannot stop the cycle. i am very superstitious. over the years i have gotten better at hiding it. i credit this to my great-grandmother Ethel, who was also deeply superstitious.

  • Hey, I agree totally about the silence thing.  My dh's best friend's wife can't stand noise, so we don't spend much time at eachother's places.  lol.  She is always turning my tv off when she comes over.  Drives me nuts.  I can't think when it is too quiet, especially in the city where you get sudden, startling bursts of noise from the outside instead of the predictable tv noise.

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