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The Herald of the Apocolypse ([personal profile] devilgrrl) wrote2004-01-23 03:11 am
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100 Useless Facts

1. My name means The Listener in Aramaic.

2. No one could agree on my name. My father wanted Amanda, my grandparents wanted Heidi, and my mother wanted Ariadne or Marishka.

3. I'm named after the character on Bewitched.

4. Both my parents are 5'7".

5. I inherited my great-gramma's lack of height: I'm 5'3".

6. I also inherited her bust: I wear a 36F. Them's big titties.

7. <-- is my favourite number.

8. I never had imaginary friends as a child.

9. <-- is the number of years difference in Steven's and my age.

10. You can get 7 out of all the digits of my birthdate (07, 18 , & 81).

11. I have never broken a major bone. I have broken my wrist and both ankles.

12. I never slept longer than 30 minutes at a clip until I was three, when I slept through the night once.

13. <-- is my other favourite number.

14. Despite being taught Hungarian as a child, I can only remember one phrase which means "Where is the dog?"

15. I've been to Europe, but never further than Florida here.

16. I am legally blind without my glasses.

17. I got my nose pierced at 17 instead of taking my SATs. My mom took me.

18. I do not have a corrective lenses restriction on my license because the Massachusetts DMV is run by monkeys.

19. <-- was the age I got my first tattoo at.

20. <-- was the age I was diagnosed with precancerous conditions in one lung.

21. I'm partially deaf to low level sounds.

22. My high pitched hearing overcompensates.

23. I only got one channel until I was 6 and we got cable.

24. I was born in Vermont and lived there until I was 16.

25. My favourite colour is purple.

26. I've been in 7 car accidents. None were my fault.

27. I have a small fissure in my skull from when I put my head through the windshield in my first accident.

28. I am terrified of bears.

29. I am allergic to latex.

30. My birthmark is a "witch's teat" below my left breast.

31. My tattoo means dragon in chinese. I once had someone read it on the back of my neck in a store.

32. I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which causes my connective tissue to be super-lax and makes me double jointed.

33. I need 7 hours of sleep to be functional.

34. I speak german and french.

35. I have an androgynous pelvis which means though I have birthin' hips, ain't no way a baby's head gunna fit through my male-size pelvic outlet.

36. I drive a standard.

37. I have a temper.

38. My hair is naturally auburn. It's darkened from reddish gold when I was a child.

39. I have a white streak.

40. I have no biological siblings.

41. My parents are divorced.

42. The loose crab on Good Eats' crab episode is amusing.

43. My rising sign is Gemini.

44. I'm allergic to citric acid.

45. I gave up drinking coffee a year ago, but still miss it.

46. I'm the 13th. generation off the Mayflower.

47. I'm severely dysnumeric, somewhat dyslexic, and mildly dysgraphic. S and E are the letters I'm most likely to mess up.

48. I use #16RG in Natural Instincts.

49. My IQ is above 140.

50. I failed gym in high school.

51. I am a soprano who can hit E above high C when I am in practise.

52. I wear a size 8½ shoe.

53. I love cherries: the fruit, the image, you name it.

54. I've read all of Les Misérables, as well as seen the musical.

55. Phantom of the Opéra and Memoirs of a Geisha are my two favourite books.

56. I've drunk absinthe in Spain.

57. I also took a mouthful of water from the Seine for $50. Absinthe was better.

58. I love sex. All kinds, all ways.

59. When I stress, I get patches of dry, scaly skin which itches and cracks if I don't watch it.

60. I have no toenail on my baby toes. Neither do my mom or gramma.

61. My best friend Dawn is like a sister to me.

62. I hate having my navel touched.

63. I'm terrified of shots and blood draws.

64. I used to work as a courier in Boston.

65. I have hazel eyes.

66. I don't wear foundation. Ever.

67. I've been to three other countries: Canada, Spain, and France.

68. I'm scared of committment.

69. !!! I graduated 69th. in my class.

70. I have arthritis in my hips and knees.

71. I know how to downhill ski, but I hate the cold.

72. <-- the year Steven was born.

73. I love airpopped popcorn.

74. Real butter makes me feel queasy.

75. I don't bowl well, but I like it.

76. I've been to more than 40 baseball games.

77. I've never been to a Red Sox game. In fact, I had never seen Fenway Park until 5½ years after I moved to Massachusetts.

78. Though I worked at a Lids, I only own one baseball cap. Steven bought it off the internet for me and it's an Arizona Diamondbacks hat.

79. I love hockey.

80. English is my favourite subject.

81. <-- the year I was born.

82. I can't cook, but I bake well.

83. All my bras come from England.

84. My all time favourite movie is Gone With the Wind. I've seen it in the theatre, complete with intermission, but I don't own it.

85. People say I look like Hedy Lamar.

86. I make tons of lists.

87. I have a scar on my left eyelid from my childhood cat.

88. Besides the normal pet assortment, I had rats and geese.

89. I hate decorating in black, even though it's one of my favourite colours.

90. I bruise easily.

91. Mornings literally make me nauseous.

92. I love raspberry jam, but it's hard to find.

93. I never paint my fingernails, always my toenails.

94. Sex is one of the only ways I can find to get out of a really bad mood.

95. I bake a mean apple pie.

96. I love tea.

97. I can tie a Windsor tie knot.

98. If I get married, I want to do it in Vegas.

99. I sleep on a waterbed.

100. I collect funky patterned socks.