25 things...

[BRWombat]

There's a trend around Facebook -- which for all I know may have started elsewhere or be well-known to everyone but me -- to come up with a list of 25 things that people might not know about you. I thought it would be interesting to see what the regulars here could come up with. Here's mine:

1. I have both danced in a tutu and dropped my pants –- repeatedly –- in front of paying audiences.

2. Because of my early years in southeast Texas and then near Golden, Colorado, just downwind of the Coors brewery, the two smells that remind me most of "home" are oil refineries and fermenting hops.

3. I can eat fire. Yes, flaming batons, inserted into my mouth, on purpose. Make sure my wife isn’t around if you want me to demonstrate –- she hates when I do it.

4. I spent a summer with the Continental Singers, performing 81 concerts in 11 weeks, traveling first coast-to-coast from California to Maine and then returning across the continent in Canada.

5. My two older brothers each were killed suddenly –- one by lightning and one murdered.

6. I’ve been stopped by the police several times, but have never received a traffic ticket.

7. My first performance with the Vocal Majority chorus was before my biggest audience as a performer – 9,000 to 10,000 people at the Pepsi Center in Denver in 2007. Before that, 8000 with the Continentals at the Long Beach Arena in California, 1981.

8. I can embarrass my children just by threatening to practice my VM choreography in their presence.

9. I was a complete nerd in school. I even co-founded a Star Trek fan club in Junior High.

10. I can quote extensively from Monty Python TV shows and movies. And often do.

11. I have never unintentionally broken any bones in my body. (The only breaks have had were done purposefully to rebuild my ankle in my September 2008 surgery; before that, none.)

12. I’ve had seven years of French class and can barely hold a basic conversation in French.

13. I stopped trusting the press in fourth grade based on a single photo caption.

14. I lived in Colorado for eleven years, and went skiing only twice –- once downhill, once cross country.

15. I’m not a pilot but have subscribed to Flying magazine for over 25 years.

16. I try to limit my friends on Facebook to people I actually know. Except for Jeff Dunham, who graciously agreed to be my token celebrity.

17. The only college sports I follow are Baylor’s, and the only pro team I really care about is the Dallas Stars.

18. I know and am friends with all my cousins on my mom’s side of the family. I don’t even know how many cousins I have on my dad’s side.

19. Although I’ve sung in church choirs all my life, in school through high school I was just in instrumental music – playing the violin.

20. I never drank coffee until Starbucks came along.

21. Going to law school was a last-minute decision. I sat for the LSAT as a walk-in, with no prep course, and scored in the 99.7th percentile.

22. As a college student, I was one of those rowdy basketball fans who sat behind the opponent’s bench and taunted them the whole time.

23. Most people can take Benadryl to calm effects from allergies, but not me. I am allergic to Benadryl.

24. I am distantly related to Judge Robert E.B. Baylor, co-founder of the university, and supposedly also to Jerry Lee Lewis, Mickey Gilley, and Jimmy Swaggart.

25. I once went to an R-rated drive-in movie – in a church van.

[LittleDollClaudia]

I'll be the first guinea pig for this one:

1. I have walked topless on a non topless beach. Huntington, to be exact.
2. I frequently quote random movie and TV shows.
3. Sometimes Jack and I have entire conversations based on above.
4. Jack and I have dressed as each other and gone out.
5. I still don't have a driver's license.
6. I am afraid of the dark.
7. Is a semi member of the SCA.
8. Jello tastes gross to me.
9. Likes to fight with wooden sticks at shinai.
10. Lived in a motel for over a year.
11. I have been to Knott's Scary Farm almost every year since 1990. This last year was my Sweet 16!
12. Rick Baker is my idol and I used to want to be a monster maker.
13.Almost got hit by a motorcycle while crossing the street at night.
14.Has a weird affinity for naming inanimate objects.
15.Secretly desires to have and learn to play bass guitar.
16. Have been with Jack for 7 years and still not yet married.
17. Has an extensive haunted house collection.
18. Cries at Disney movies and Disneyland firework shows.
20.Is an amateur photographer.
21. Learned to read at 2 1/2 years old.
22. My favorite book is Alice In Wonderland.
23. I have a spider tattooed on my ankle.
24.Is bi-polar and has not been on meds for years.
25. I know Cujo and Polar and met them at some theme park when we all worked there.

Wow, these are some odd things. Hope others add more!

[mechurchlady]

Takes notes and reads interesting info on people. Anyone have a regular popcorn?

[Whazzup]

This could get really interesting....... who's next?

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

This could get really interesting....... who's next?

You are!!!

[Purpura]

1) I've moved from Virginia to California
2) Mild earthquakes are fun. Whee!!!
3)Love Buildabears
4)Love chocolate
5)I like working at Disneyland
6) I have several alts on World of Warcraft on two servers
7)I don't like roller coasters, even if my husband wants me to ride on them with him.
8) I like to sew little dolls when the mood hits
9) I like the original band members of Queen and their songs.
10) I love my husband and little girl.
11)I love Christmas music at Christmas
12) Made up the joke with CBeilby and Churchy about NOTES!
13) Cbeilby and I got married on July 13,2002
14)Made the joke up with Churchy and Cbeilby about Regular, and Diet...I want a regular chocolate with nuts Churchy...
15) I love the peppermint cocoa they have at Christmas time at Disneyland
16)I know how to do the Macarena, and the Electric Slide
17)When I was in 6th grade I won a spelling bee
18) I can sign some American Sign Language
19) I have had feelings from Beyond wash through me at a Civil War site in Virginia. I had had the need for a ladies' room, but waited until I could get to a grocery store or someplace near the site. When I stated the intention that I was not going to defile some of the ground, a wave of gratitude passed through me. I have also felt something that came from my grandmother's funeral, though my family on the east coast and I were 2700 miles apart, and not in any physical contact or even on the phone. I had written a tribute to my grandmother, and I was given the gift of feelings from the group of people celebrating her life. Sadness, and happiness and pride all mixed together.
20) I don't like spiders but I do leave them alone
21) I was once in a Star Trek(Federation) fan club and then went into a Klingon fan club
22) My favorite Klingon phrase in English is Where do you keep the chocolate
23)I went to a few science fiction conventions over several years and met quite a few of the Star Trek stars, and a few of the Babylon 5 stars.
24)I've ridden on an elephant
25)I've tried to ride a carousel before my birthday ever since I was a teenager

[mechurchlady]

1) I've lived in Los Angeles County all my life.
2) Moderate to mild earthquakes are fun. Whee!!!
3) Love Buildabears and plushies
4) Love chocolate but am not supposed to have it.
5) I want to work at WDW.
6) I had to retire two of my favourite fairies today on http://www.fay-sim.com
7) I love roller coasters and would love to ride all of the ones that I can.
8) I like bluegrass music
9) I volunteered for the 1984 Los Angeles olympics
10) I have twice worked as a census taker.
11) I love Christmas music anytime of the year
12) My little toes are crooked.
13) I have a chocolate drop birth mark on the middle of my neck.
14) I am terrified of dentists.
15) I has SID/SPD and other neurovariations
16) I lettered in high school for something academic
17) I love onions and cooked bell peppers
18) I am descended from Peter Rambo and some of the earliest American Quaker settlers
19) I have rescued spiders from the sink and will not kill one as that is bad luck.
20) I have celiac
21) I graduated from high school with honors
22) My graduation ceremonies were at Excelsior high which was in the movies at Ridell High.
23) I am going to Disneyland finally and hope I do not have to take Calvin as I want people who will watch over me.
24) I got to touch a rhinocerous at the Los Angeles Zoo once.
25) I need an ECV because I damaged my knee really bad but was too afraid of a report on my medical record. I am on SSI and Social Security so I do not want a doctor to say the wrong things which might imply I can work when I am not able to. I avoid doctors.

[hhsrat]

1. I'm 26 years old.
2. I've lived in Michigan, New York, Florida, and The Netherlands
3. I'm a scuba diver, and have dove in Upstate NY in April, with a water temp of 39 F
4. I've been an ice hockey referee, including some time spent with the National Hockey League
5. If I can, I wear shorts anytime it's above 38 degrees (F). Unfortunately, my current costume doesn't have a shorts option.
6. I don't usually like to wear my watch on my wrist, it lives in a pocket, but I feel naked if I leave home without it
7. I'm the only one in my family that knows how to make my grandmother's cheese blintz recipe.
8. I've had my own website since 1995, when I started out with a very ugly badly designed page on Geocities. (bright cyan is not now, nor has it ever been a good background colour for a webpage) (I personally think my current version is much better, but I can't take any credit for the design, it's just a wordpress theme ... send me a PM if you want the URL (I know my identity isn't exactly a secret on this board, but I'd like to attempt to preserve some privacy if I can))
9. The most expensive item I own is my camera.
10. I say that (#9) because technically speaking, the bank still owns my car.
11. I've seen Illuminations and Wishes often enough that I can hear the music and visualize the explosions in my head.
12. I would love to get my fireworks certification, although I have no real desire to actually work with pyro on a daily basis.
13. I've worked at Walt Disney World for 4 years now.
14. My favorite food group is desserts.
15. I don't like to cook, but I love to bake.
16. I know the origin of the radio code 10-82.
17. I had my wisdom teeth pulled by an oral surgeon named Dr. Fear.
18. I used to play drums ... and still tap on pretty much any hard surface I can find.
19. I have a hard time sitting still for longer than about half an hour.
20. When I was at Syracuse, I was the announcer, scorekeeper, dj, penalty timekeeper, penalty box attendant, and net-pusher (so the net wouldn't get run over by a Zamboni) ... all at once
21. When I was in 7th grade, I did a report on the history and workings of a Zamboni.
22. I had someone offer to sell me their business when I was 22. (I didn't, and still don't have enough money to buy it)
23. I've been part of the crew for numerous television and stage productions.
24. Since 2001, I've been to all but 1 of the NCAA Division 1 Ice Hockey Championship weekends.
25. I like to re-write lyrics to songs. (examples are posted on the blog referenced in #8 ... again, send me a PM for the URL)

[Mayonnaise]

Ok, lets see....

1. I've lived in the same town my whole life, except 4 years of college half an hour away, during which I came back every summer to my home town.

2. I picked my college because I attended a daytime children's theater program there as a kid, and my mother worked there, and I was afraid to go someplace new.

3. There's a very good chance I'm moving to SOCAL within the next year with my SO.

4. I use the term SO (significant other) to describe my BF (boyfriend) because not all my SO's have been BF's.

5. I have ADD, but went off my meds Sophomore year of college because they were making me more high strung than I am naturally.

6. Naturally, I can be pretty darn high strung.

7. Although White, I'm also Hispanic.

8. I'm a Mezzo-Belter who's never had individual voice instruction. I did have group in the children's theater program tho, after age 13

9. Unlike many people I've done theater with, who by the time we open are chugging honey and throat coat like it's water. I've never hurt my voice, or if I have, it's never hurt.

10. My aunt taught me to sing "Doe a Deer" with prompts ("Do" "a deer a female deer") when I was 2, and "Castle on a Cloud" on my own when I was 3.

11. I've played male characters on stage 3 times. Twice after puberty. One wasn't human.

12. I'm not just an actor, I'm a techie. I've been on stage crew, an assistant master carpenter, received a special thanks in a playbill for another show for scenic painting, and am currently an Assistant Stage Manager.

13. In dreams, ice cream always tastes like wet sand to me. In life, I love it.

14. I'm Growth Hormone Deficient. If I hadn't had injections to supplement it, I'd have been 4 feet tall.

15. I have no proper fear of needles anymore, but I NEED to look when they're putting them in. Sometimes nurses have a hard time understanding that.

16. They like to get new nurses and med students to practice starting IVs on me and doing blood draws. In return, I critique their techniques.

17. To strange doctors, I look like I have tonsillitis all the time. My doctor knows they're just really that big.

18. I have Scoliosis, and wore a back brace for it for it from 14 to 17.

19. When I was 13, shortly after school ended for the summer, I tripped in the Kmart while carrying a 6 pack of IBC Cream soda, and landed hands first in the broken glass.

20. Less than a week after getting the stitches out, I tripped over first base playing kickball and blew out my knee. Spent the rest of the summer on crutches. First base was painted on the gym floor.

21. Though I would never join a social sorority, I am a member of the Alpha Psi Omega.

22. I have an Academic Letter from Junior High.

23. In school, I was in advanced classes and also went to the resource room. This lead to a lot of times where people would find out about resource and reply "But I thought you were smart!"

24. I will eat a bowl of Garbanzo beans for lunch, but not Hummus.

25. I have a large Café au lait spot on my left ankle.

8^)

[BRWombat]

These are awesome! Keep 'em coming! :D: