25 Things About Me....

So, I've gotten some e-mails from people doing this "25 Things About me," and it got me thinking. Please forgive me for this self-indulgence and feel free to simply skip this entry. Though I must warn you, Hadley will be doing one later, once she gets her turn on the computer. Her snood obsession is getting out of control... Ok, here it goes. Heck, I might even learn something....


1. I have developed survival plans in case zombies ever attack. My most likely to survive plan involves a panic room with year's supply of food (how long it will take the zombies to starve to death) and an armored tank in the shape of a winnebago.
2. The longest I can swim underwater is 2.5 lengths of a 25 yard pool.
3. The three middle of toes on both of my feet are semi-webbed. I think it really came in handy for those 2.5 lengths.
4. Ever since college, I've made my dad preface any message he leaves on my phone with "Everything is fine." He sounds so serious whenever he leaves messages that it tends to enhance my exaggerated nervous state.
5. When I'm taking notes in class, each day has to be in a different ink color than the previous class (and preferably the past couple of classes), so that I can keep the days separated. If I don't have a pen, I usually ask to borrow a pencil from someone because that way they won't give me the same color I used the day before.
6. One of my goals is to taste every flavor of sorbet out there, which I've learned is a never-ending task. Whenever I'm at a restaurant, even if I absolutely have to have something on the dessert menu, I always ask what the sorbets to see if I haven't had one.
7. I have a habit of naming things which I think I got from my father. For example, my computer is Eldrick the Wise, my driver is Dancing Matilda, my car is Susie (or, since she's new and improved with a younger engine: Susie Vader)
8. My favorite book genres are at complete odds with each other: historical fiction and chick literature.
9. I'm married to a Canadian chemistry teacher turned cabinet maker named Charlie Brown. And no, he does not come in cartoon form.
10. I am a very beverage-oriented person. I have to have something to drink with me at all times. I also like to have a lot of ice in my drink, which I know I got from my mother.
11. I really really don't like the coffee. I drink black teas with two splendas and a splash of milk, though my absolute favorite tea (of the moment) is TAZO berryblossom white tea.
12. For some reason, if Gilmore Girls is on TV, I have to watch it. Even though I never watched it when it was actually on, I have seen every single episode and yet I keep watching...
13. When I can't fall asleep, I have three methods to try and fall asleep. 1) I think of a 7 letter word and then try to create as many words as I can using those letters (i.e. friends: fin, fins, rend, fiend, etc.); 2) I count to a hundred on my fingers; 3) I play a golf course in my head (this is really Charlie's, but I stole it as a last resort)
14. With the exception of very few things (dover sole, scallops, the red snapper I caught myself deep sea fishing), I hate seafood. The texture, the fishiness, all of it. However, I like some types of sushi (tuna, california rolls, bagel rolls). Weird, I know -- you try and figure it out.
15. I do very little in terms of cooking in our house. Charlie does most of the cooking. Let me put it this way: if you came over to our house, you would want Charlie to make the meal.
16. Charlie and I have a 3 year old black lab who sleeps on the bed between us.
17. When I was younger and my brother had moved out of the house, I had big plans for making my bedroom, Jeffrey's bedroom and the bathroom we shared into one big "suite." All we had to do was the knock down some walls and put up one door. What was the big deal? Apparently, it decreases the value of the house.
18. While I'm sleeping, I like for the room to be really cold but I want to be bundled up with blankets so that it's nice and toasty under the covers.
19. I'm making a scrapbook for our engagement/wedding. I am not a very artistic person at all, but hand me a pair of patterned scissors and some press-on graphics and I am Martha Stewart.
20. I begin listening to Christmas music the week of Thanksgiving. I love being "festive."
21. From kindergarten to law school, every school I've attended has had green as a school color.
22. I have no facebook, myspace, friendster, etc, etc. accounts. Now, the whole thing has just gotten too big for me to handle and I am completely and utterly intimidated by it. Am I judged by the number of friends I have on these websites?
23. From age 8 until about age 14, I spent 75% of every summer in swimsuit. It was the first thing I put on in the morning and I often slept in it (after spending the night out 3 nights in a row, you run out of clean clothes).
24. I can put together any type of IKEA furniture known to man. In another life, I must have been Swedish carpenter.
25. Sometimes, I look around and wonder how I ended up here: 26, married, in law school, with a lot of my goals accomplished or on their way to being accomplished. It makes me feel very lucky! Now, if I could only break 100.