26 random things about me.

Today is my 26th birthday. And since it's December 26th and I'm 26 today, here's a list of 26 random things about me. Try to control your excitement.

1. I'm an only child. I think that kind of accounts for some of my craziness.
2. When I start to get cold, the 2nd toe on my right foot goes numb. None of my other toes do that.
3. I usually require Junior Mints when I go see a movie.
4. When I was about four, I stuffed two Reese's Pieces up my nose. An orange one up one nostril and a yellow one up the other. I was just interested to see what would happen. To save you the trouble of doing that yourself, here's what happens -- Mom wigs out and calls my aunt who is a nurse, all the while throwing tissues at me and yelling, "Blow! Blow!" I didn't know what the big deal was, since I could still breathe through my mouth just fine. I'm pretty sure I didn't suffer any brain damage from that event.
5. My car is purple, and it's my fourth Grand Prix. It's also my 2nd purple car. It's "supercharged" and I have no idea what that means, except that it makes a cool "vrrrooooom!" sound that I like a lot.
6. Family Guy makes me laugh like a hyena. I think it's the funniest show ever.
7. I'm a big fan of alphabetizing stuff.
8. I realize that makes me kind of weird.
9. I try to make everyone I know read A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, because it's such a great book. For me, the beautifully written story inspired a great interest in India's culture, and the atrocities described made me very very very thankful to live in America. (Again.)
10. My first semester of college, in my first chemistry class of my life, I got a D letter at midterm. This was traumatizing since I graduated 1st in my class (granted, it was from a dinky high school at which a hamster could probably excel.) I ended up with an A, though, because I learned how to study.
11. I love the sound of junk going up in the vacuum cleaner, especially those plastic things that attach tags to clothes. Sometimes I drop them in the floor on purpose and then leave them there just so I can vacuum them up later, because my life is very sad.
12. I have a love/hate relationship with the non-word "irregardless". If someone says it to be funny, then it makes me laugh. If someone says it out of ignorance, then I hate that.
13. The first Bible verses I memorized were Luke 2:8-14, and I memorized them from watching A Charlie Brown Christmas a million times.
14. During my sophomore, junior, and senior years of high school, I kept the book and did the stats for the boys' baseball team. That was my favorite extracurricular high school activity.
15. I love photography, especially child photography.
16. I'm a Weight Watchers lifetime member.
17. I've been clogging since 1996, which makes me (wait for it) a clogger blogger. Hee.
18. When I graduated from college, I cut out letters and attached "Psalm 121:1-2" to the top of my mortarboard, because #1, I only graduated from college because of my help from God, and #2, He made heaven and earth, which I am even more certain of after getting a degree in biology.
19. The first week or so after I started college, I had my heart broken so badly that I didn't think I'd ever recover. But very soon after, I met Scott, who is my dream come true, and I healed just fine. And now, just the thought of losing Scott is more devastating than anything that the other guy could have ever done.
20. I can't pick just one favorite movie, but I love What's Love Got to Do With It, The Joy Luck Club, Clue, and Office Space.
21. When I hear It's Tricky by Run D.M.C., I must dance. Same for Faded by soulDecision and Let it Whip by The Dazz Band. I can't help it. I also must chime in on the 2nd "y'all" right before the end of It's Tricky.
22. I'm flat-footed.
23. The only alcohol I've ever had is one drink of champagne at my cousin's wedding. And I thought it was awful.
24. I taught anatomy lab for four semesters in graduate school, and it never failed to amuse me one of the male reproductive models was made by Bobbitt Laboratories. Heh.
25. My senior year of high school, one of my friends and I choreographed a routine to Thriller for the majorettes and cheerleaders to perform at our homecoming pep rally, which was the week of Halloween. We got some dry ice to generate some cool fog, and set small amounts in little containers all around the gym. But we didn't know that we had to put water on it. Duh. (See #10.)
26. I'm allergic to tree nuts -- not anaphylactic shock caliber, though -- they just make my mouth itch.