25 Random Things About Me

After being tagged by a few of my few of my Facebook friends (Janet, Dave and Katelyn), I'm game to play, too.

1. Some of my ideas about how to spend a Saturday were formed by a late 1970s McDonald's commercial I saw as a kid with a bunch of girls going to the mall. (I think it was titled, "Saturday Shopping Spree.")

2. I love books as much as I love people. My idea of great fun browsing the library or a bookstore. (In fact I spent Friday evening at the library, and it was awesome.)

3. I've always thought it would be cool to own a bookstore.

4. Or a cool cafe that serves breakfast and lunch and allows creative types to hang out.

5. Some things on my life list:  travel to India, write a song, build something with my own two hands, have a second home on water and learn to read auras.

6. Yeah, and about that aura part. I'm fascinated by things like past lives, Akashic records, quantum psychics, parallel universes, tarot and pretty much anything that falls into the category of "New Age Spirituality." 

7. I have not eaten wheat, sugar, cheese or anything fermented (including beer and wine) for more than four months as part of a candida cleanse eating plan. Surprisingly, this actually hasn't been hard at all.

8. My Kolbe A Index profile is "quick start, fact finder," entrepreneur type. My Meyers-Briggs is ENFP.

9. Learning, exploring and researching are big passions of mine. 

10. I intend to write a book of poems, a book of short stories or a novel in the next five years.

11. I have a tendency to quit things. (See Kolbe Index profile in #8).

12. I'm a little OCD about whether an object on a table or on the wall is in proper alignment. It will bug me something fierce if it's off-kilter.

13. When looking at photographs of kitchens with a shelf of cookbooks, I will sometimes look to see if they have a copy of the book I wrote about ice cream. (Lame and vain, I know.)

14. Someday I'd like to live in New England, the Carolinas, California or Oregon. 

15. I sometimes wonder how I managed in the days before Google, iTunes or email. 

16. I want to have a small farm with chickens, goats, geese and alpacas. But I want someone else to take care of the animals. I just want to enjoy them.

17. I also want to have a loft in the city. 

18. Yeah, I play that City Mouse, Country Mouse thing pretty much down the middle.

19.  I'm big fan of the Oscars and love the red carpet show as much as the actual awards portion.

20. Needless to say, I have been on a major movie-going kick of late. In the last six weeks, I've seen: The Wrestler, Slumdog Millionaire, Doubt, Milk, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Gran Torino and, um, Twilight. (Three times I've seen two movies in one night — bliss!) Tonight, we're going to see The Reader and Frost Nixon.

21. About Twilight, I starting reading the book during our holiday vacation and read it and Eclipse in two days. Book 3, however, I'm still on. 

22. I got pretty lucky in the husband department.

23. I got very lucky in the child department, too.

24. My most direct experience of God comes when I am in nature.

25. I love the act of making lists, more than following them.

Tell me, what are 25 random things about you??