I've been tagged by the lovely and talented Honglien123 to share 8 random things about me. I kind of feel like everything about me is random. I've already shared my dislike for pizza, my Q-Tip fetish, and my love for Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. How much more random can you get?
- I hate socks. I never wear them if I can help it, even in the dead of winter, and especially never to bed. I don't like having hot, sweaty feet. I think it's a hold-over from my Hawaii childhood.
- I wear perfume every day. I prefer floral scents with a hint of citrus.
- I have a "Carrie necklace" that I got during the SATS peak. It's ginuwine gold and says "Stefania" and the "i" is dotted with a diamond that you can only see if you look at it under a microscope. I ordered from a website in Florida (which I somehow found fitting at the time) and have worn it off and on continually since I got it. Even when it fell out of fashion, though they seem to be back in fashion now. I wore it when I taught and my principal once asked if it was a gift from my husband. I love that freakin' necklace.
- I hatehatehatehate the practice of men shaking hands with a woman by grabbing her fingertips and giving them a light squeeze. Or worse, a cursory wiggle. You know what I hate even more? When WOMEN do it. I admit that if a women does that to me in a social setting, I cannot think of anything else the entire time. And if I see the woman again, I purposely avoid her. Shallow? Oh, hellzyah, but I KNOW I don't have anything in common with a woman who gives a limpd*ck handshake. Does this limp hand treatment get passed down from mother to daughter? Are men really that afraid that they are so bionically-strong that they will crush a woman's hand if they try to shake it properly? If you do it: STOP. If I am extending my hand to you, shake it, for cryin' out loud!
I have a lot of reading-related quirks:
- I have to read every night before bed or else I can't fall asleep. Even if I am dead-tired and can barely keep my eyes open, I still flip open my book and read a paragraph before nodding off.
- I don't like reading library books because they are filthy, germ-ridden, staph-infected petri dishes of doom and I hate touching them. If I do read them, I never let them touch the bed and I wash my hands after.
- I try never to fold the corner of the page over to mark my place. I either use a book mark (usu. a movie ticket stub) or memorize the page where I left off. I still remember my elementary school librarian's admonishment not to "hurt the books" because "they are our friends."
- I alternate reading fiction and non-fiction books and if I read a particularly meaty fiction book, I follow it with something trashy and fun.
Eight things. Maybe random, maybe not, but there it is. Tag, you're it.
