Life's Little Wonders (original) (raw)

1. I despise babytalk. I've worked with young children my entire life and I refuse to use it even on them. Unless you're a baby, there's no excuse. Hearing it makes me want to put my head through a wall.

2. When my brother and I were very little, my dad's stage manager thought we were so cute that she asked him if he would donate some sperm to her because she said we were the ideal.I always feel special when I think about it.

3. I love to stand in the rain and just let it soak me. I used to get time-out in elementary school for refusing to wear my sweatshirt outside on rainy days. I love the rain so much that I haven't voluntarily used an umbrella since before I can remember. The only way I'll do it is if someone is sharing theirs with me.

4. I wanted to live in a commune the moment I discovered the concept. I still absolutely do. Really really.

5. I literally grew up in and around theatre and have been watching my father perform since I was 4 weeks old. I still remember all his morning voice exercises he would do before work because I practiced them with him every day when he took me to school. As experienced as I am now, I still believe he is the greatest actor I know. When I was 2, he was supposed to be playing a mean, nasty character and when he entered the stage I yelled "There's my daddy!" from the audience and nearly made him break character. I still want to do it sometimes just because I'm so damn proud of him.

6. Sing and dance to Of Montreal with me and you'll capture my heart!

7. I occasionally slip into a southern accent when I'm very tired, but I've never been to the South.

8. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with cars and could name hundreds of them on sight. One day, my brother told me that I wasn't allowed to like cars because that was for boys, so I stopped. Now, I can hardly name my own car, let alone everyone else's.

9. One of my deepest fears is that my parents will refuse to come to my wedding, when and if that ever happens.

10. Wanting to show my Italian pride and not knowing that he was a fascist dictator, I used to walk around my private Baptist elementary school telling people what a great leader Mussolini was. I even wrote "Mussolini rocks!" on one of my notebooks. The sad thing is, I never got in trouble for this, but I got time-out for dropping my Bible or impersonating Rizzo from Grease (the latter of these was done far more times than I'd like to admit).

11. I'm really seriously going to stop eating meat soon. The feeling of cooked flesh rolling around in my mouth is starting to realllly gross me out. Plus, animals are cute and don't deserve to be raised to be killed.

12. I only cry when it doesn't matter. Give me a real tragedy and I'm stoic as hell, I may even laugh. It's not that I'm insensitive, just backwards.

13. I'm superstitious out of necessity. With luck like mine, every precaution counts. :p

14. Contrary to popular stereotypes, I strongly dislike softball.

15. I have never camped in anything other than a tent. In fact, I refuse to go camping unless it's happening the natural way. I'll set your RV on fire, man, don't test me!

16. Speaking of camping, i'm a bit of an honorary Boy Scout. I've been on countless trips with them and loved every second of it. On one of the camping trips, I learned to canoe-surf. If you haven't tried it, I will teach you!

17. My favorite colors when i was young were hot pink and sparkly purple. To an extent, they still are.

18. Do not try to top me in an embarrassing story competition. I will obliterate you. If you win, we have to be BFFs.

19. I am like a Harry Potter Encyclopedia. I constantly recieve random calls from people asking me to settle arguments about elements of the books because I am considered the ultimate authority. That being said, no one ever wants to see an HP film with me because I just sit there and rant the whole time about how they ruined the story.

20. I've always wanted to be in a Riot Grrl band.

21. I have an irrational bias against Steinbeck because my mom told me when I was little that The Grapes of Wrath was written about our family (she failed to explain that it was a similar story, not literally my family) and after bragging this to everyone, I searched the whole book for my relatives' names and found none. Severely embarrassing.

22. I love INTENSELY. If you can't take the heat, though, I'll tone it down so you don't have to get out of the kitchen. I'm also very accommodating.

23. I'm pretentious as hell.

24. I've dedicated my entire life from an early age to children and I plan to keep it that way forever.

25. I have always been a pacifist. There is never a good reason to fight or have war, and you will never be able to convince me otherwise. PEACE, damnit!