Crazy Survey From Beerbah What Made My Head Explode

TEN Random Things You May Not Know About Me:

1. I can spell almost anything backwards (unless I can't spell it forwards).
2. I constantly play little number games in my head (with letters too).
3. I hate the number 5. It creeps me out.
4. I love to cook but I never do.
5. I can carry on a conversation in Japanese for about 5 minutes. This extends to about 5 hours if there's beer. And my english/japanese dictionary.
6. I always wanted to be a lawyer. I think I just like suits.
7. I used to be a clown. Professionally. Shut up.
8. I can't yell. Don't know why. Just can't bring myself to do it. I've tried. Except at concerts for some reason. I'm a freak.
9. I would trade just about any talent I have if only I could sing.
10. Knitting makes me nauseous. I've always wanted to be able to do it and when I was in Halifax my roommate taught me how but it actually makes me physically ill doing it. It's like car sickness. But yarn sickness. It's weird.


NINE Places I've Visited:

1. Tokyo
2. San Francisco
3. Los Angeles
4. Seattle
5. Yokohama
6. Prince Rupert (actually I lived there, does that count?)
7. 2 of the 3 largest Buddhas in Japan
8. The worlds largest UFO landing pad (St. Paul AB)
9. PEI


EIGHT Ways to Win My Heart:

1. Make me laugh so hard that it hurts.
2. Remember the little things, like how I like my tea or my favourite colour.
3. Be sweet. Holding doors, walking on the outside of the sidewalk, holding my hand.
4. Kisses. And lots of 'em. For no reason at all.
5. Surprise me. In a nice way of course. I'm not an easy girl to surprise.
6. Love my doglet.
7. Talk to me. Even if you have no idea what we're talking about.
8. Be confident and comfortable with yourself and with me.


SEVEN Things I Want to Do Before I Die:

1. Be in love with someone who loves me back, in the same way, at the same time.
2. Live in a foreign country again (Mexico, Paris, Ireland, Tokyo, England, Italy, etc).
3. Have kids.
4. Learn to surf (which would require that I hone the old swimming skills as well) or fight. Or both. How about surf fighting? Couldn't you just see me out on the water doing karate kicks on my surfboard? You're picturing me falling off my board mid-kick aren't you? Up yours.
5. See Paris.
6. Own my own little house with an art studio.
7. Write a book. A book that gets published and people actually read and maybe gets some awards or something. That would be great.


SIX Things I'm Afraid Of:

1. Rejection
2. Spiders
3. Being stung by bees (I'm allergic! I swell!)
4. Ending up lonely (not alone, they're too different things I think)
5. People I love dying.
6. Looking back and seeing that my life was a series of badly timed relationships, misalignments and missed opportunities.


FIVE Things I Don't Like:

1. The number 5.
2. Tomatoes (to eat, they're lovely to look at)
3. Liars
4. Plucking
5. Dentists


FOUR Ways to Turn Me Off:

1. I'm going to stick with Virve's answer here. Talking
down to me. Or to anyone.
2. Lies.
3. Bad breath.
4. Unwillingness to take chances and try new things.


THREE Things I Do Every Day:

1. Get a large steeped tea with 3 sugars and 1 milk from
Tim Hortons. The drive thru guy knows me by my order now
and teases me through the order box thingy. He thinks he's
sooo funny.
2. Snuggle my squishy doglet. She's just sweet. We also play
tag.
3. Obsess. Doesn't matter what about. Today it's my new
teaching job. Yesterday it was grad school. Tomorrow it
may well be aliens sucking out my brain. Could be anything
really. I'm an equal opportunity obsessor. Is that even a word?


TWO Things that Make Me Happy:

1. My little wiggly doglet who is always happy to see me when
I come home and smells like corn chips when she's sleepy.
2. Sunshine after days and days and days of rain.


ONE Thing On My Mind Right Now:

1. Running. I'm waiting for a sunny patch in which I can run without getting completely drenched. This is of course something I do to clear my head of all the other things that are on my mind right now. Yep. Obsessing. Not only am I an equal opportunity obsessor, I'm also a mutli-tasking obsessor.