25 Random Facts about Me

1. I once showed porn to my college class as a visual aid for a project.
2. I used to play Barbies with the mechanics at Sears Point Raceway.
3. I ditched naptime in preschool to go to the library with the older kids. The adults never knew I was unaccounted for.
4. I’ve had Chicken Pox twice.
5. When I was a baby, I cried all the time out of one eye. I had surgery at age 3 to fix the tear duct, but now the same eye rarely tears up.
6. I was born at home, not in a hospital.
7. I name all of my cars, but keep their names secret.
8. I gag after 3 bites of any seafood.
9. I have always lived by the ocean, but I hate the beach. Sand makes me feel dirty and I’ve gotten caught in the undertow of a wave 3 times in my life, so I refuse to go in the water.
10. I have strange phobias. I’m scared of ants, silverfish and getting my fingers sliced off when ice skating.
11. I know the floor plans of all of my neighbor’s houses within a 4 block radius because I used to play in them as construction sites. It’s weird if they think it’s the first time I’ve been in their house and I know where the bathroom is.
12. In high school, I used to sneak out of the house with my friend, but the only thing we ever did was drive all over the bay area with the top down and get Krispy Kreme donuts.
13. I’ve been to more high school dances than anyone else I know (literally hundreds), and I was an adult for 98% of them.
14. I was stood up for my own Senior Prom.
15. My mom sold my teddy bear at a garage sale when I was 5. She also slammed my hand in a car door and locked the keys in the car when I was a toddler. I like to think she was just getting me back for ripping an earring out of her ear when I was a baby.
16. I once broke into my old elementary school by hoisting myself through the window like I used to do at recess if the teacher locked us out. The alarms went off and I bolted.
17. My parents never enforced bedtime, so I used to stay up late watching Elvis movie marathons or take a 2 mile walk under the stars.
18. The most challenging thing I’ve ever done is hike 10 miles into the Grand Canyon with 35 lbs on my back and camp for 2 nights, alone. It’s also one of my favorite memories.
19. I’m horrible for starting books and not finishing them. In the last 5 years, I have started 15 books and only finished 3.
20. My dream is to travel into space. I used to want to be an astronaut and I regret not following that dream more. I am also obsessed with flying.
21. The most spontaneous trip I’ve ever taken was to Scotland. I completed the SAT at 11am, my mom asked if I wanted to go alone to see my sister, I went home to pack and left SFO at 1pm. It was also the shortest trip I’ve ever taken – 13 hour flights there and back and I only spent 36 hours in Glasgow. It was a month after Sept 11th happened. People thought I was nuts.
22. I got my tattoo when I was 18. My mom found out on Mother’s Day and cried. Then she tried to scratch it off. Because it was still healing, she messed it up and I had to get it re-done.
23. When I was 8, I was tested for Diabetes. Over the course of 7 hours, I had to do 7 urine samples and 7 blood tests. The results were negative.
24. I am not baptized.
25. In high school, I had to take summer school for Spanish because the teacher messed up my grade and left for a trip to Spain before he could fix it.