25 more random things about me

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It was so much fun the first time, I thought I would add some more. Enjoy!

1. My lips used to get so chapped when I was little I had a chapped lip ring around my mouth. (Yep, I was that kid.)

2. When I was in second grade my sister said my legs were hairy so I shaved them.

3. I have given 4 eulogies, 4 maid-of-honor speeches, 2 anniversary speeches, read numerous birthday poems at surprise parties, gave 3 benediction speeches at athletic banquets, and read a poem at my cousin Matt’s “mattman” Bar Mitzvah.

4. My favorite number is 13 and I secretly get upset when a building doesn’t have a 13th floor.

5. I used to think that the “wind chill factor” was really the “wind shield factor”.

6. I cried when the tree in my front yard got chopped down.

7. When I was 5,  my brother pulled down my pants (underwear and all) in the middle of a super market. Years later he had the same thing done to him by his wife. (Thank Annie!)

8. I witnessed a shooting while walking to a class in grad school. I dove under a car and stayed there for an hour until a cop found me and said it was OK to come out. Nobody got hurt.

9. One of the only times I ever cut school, my principal pulled up to the take-out window at Taco Bell right behind us. We didn’t get in trouble though.

10. I have worked for two principals who got arrested; one for child molestation and the other for cheating on a state test.

11. I predicted my sister would have 2 daughters in a short story I wrote in high school.

12. My nephew Nicholas saved my life.

13. I have a scar right by my nose from my second bike accident. My friend Bill says it looks like a booger.

14. I had the chicken pox two times.

15. I am pretty sure my high school boyfriend dated me because I had cable.

16. I wrote a seven page rant about how much I despise mayonnaise after one of the most interesting nights of my life in Amsterdam.

17. I got my ears pierced when I was 3.

18. A few friends and I found Playboy magazines in my dad’s car and we made a song about it to the music of “Do Wa Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Do”.

19. I made tapes for both “Star Search” and ” The Real World” but never sent them. I am pretty sure I erased them. At least I should have.

20. I tried out for a Broadway group called “Tada!” when I was 9. They loved my dancing but my singing left much to be desired. (I sang Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All”)

21. I was 11 when my writing first got published. I wrote a letter to the Editor of the “Levittown Tribune” about a 3-year-old girl named Marissa who had diabetes. I wrote a song for her to Whitney Houston’s “Saving All My Love for You”. (OK so I liked Whitney Houston…who didn’t? It was the 80s!)

22. I made a stuffed bear in Home Ec. in 7th grade and got a C on it. It’s heart was sewn on upside down and the seam in the back made it look like it had scoliosis.

23. I was nominated for “Most Innocent…NOT!” in high school. I lost by one vote.

24. I once met Robin Williams on the street and took a picture with him. I sent it as my Christmas card that year.

25. My 6th grade teacher used to give us really hard bonus words on spelling tests. If we didn’t spell the word correctly we had to write it 100 times. (I now know this was his way of giving us busy work while he played his “Buttons and Bows” record.  Also, doing this now is called CORPORAL PUNISHMENT!) This is why I know how to spell Czechoslovakia, Cincinnati, Albuquerque, Yugoslavia and Okeechobee. Thanks Mr. Harling!

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