Cause I'm Just So Stinkin' Interesting

I have been tagged recently by my gals Lis at La Mia Cucina and Lynn at Cookie Baker Lynn to do the 7 random things. I have actually done this before, where I revealed such embarassing secrets as my webbed toes and my short stint on Dancin' On Air. But since they find me so stinkin' interesting I will dig into my world and find seven more. But I think I am done after this. Now you will know everything about me except my bra size and social security number.

1.) I have hypothyroidism. I was just diagnosed with it two weeks ago. Hypothyroidism is where the thyroid gland in your throat doesn't produce enough thyroid hormones. It can cause fatigue, weight gain, cold intolerance, sore muscles, thin brittle hair. I have a mild case of it since I show no symptoms. Was going to go on a mild dose of the medicine, but found out I have an allergic reaction to one of the ingredients in the medicine after getting a splitting headache and insomnia from one day on it. So for now I am on no meds and just go every 3 months to make sure my levels don't get any higher. Fun getting old huh?

2.) My ears stick out. Along with the webbed toes this paints a pretty picture of me, doesn't it? As a girl, this isn't too bad cause you can cover them with your hair. But as a child I did get picked on when wearing a ponytail or my hair pulled back. I got called "Dumbo" many a times. My parents contemplated getting me the surgery to get them fixed when I was a child, but decided not to put me thought it. I rarely notice them now, and could care less about them when I wear a ponytail. Must be the reason I hear so well.

3.) I love to paint rooms. And am most proud of my dining room wall, which if we move, will make me the most sad in parting from my home. Check out my handywork. (Try to look around the cats and the cat tree, that was before we could move it into their room.) You may have seen it before in some of my other pictures. I did this in one weekend, with a tape measure, a level and a pencil. Takes a little bit of time but so worth it.

4.) I have a monsterous obsession with Halloween. So much I have a Halloween tattoo on my lower back. (The picture below is shortly after I got it, so it wasn't fully healed yet.) I was born in October, love the Fall, so I go all out when that month rolls around. It is my goal to make my house, the house on the street that all the kids stop by on Halloween and say "cool". My friends and I also host a huge Halloween party called Halloween Hangover that is the equivalent to the Super Bowl for us. I have a collection of previous costumes in the basement that I keep like a museum. It is not just a holiday for me, its a religion.

5.) I hate peas and I hate fish (love shellfish, just hate regular fish), so if you ever blog about it and I don't comment on it, don't take it personal. I also tend to not comment on other blogs when they make alot of regular food, unless its a BLT made on a waffle, or anything made with tomatoes, mozzarella and basil. I like to eat regular food, don't get me wrong, but I tend to gravitate on blogs to only the desserts. I call regular food what you have to eat to get to the dessert.

6.) My husband and I hate going to the movies. We have had free tickets to use at a theater now for 7 months and haven't touched them. We barely rent movies either. We just have this aversion to burning 2 hours of our life away when we feel we could be doing something else. But then the other stuff we do in place of it ain't that exciting either. Every once in a blue moon a movie comes out that we will at least rent, but to get us to go to the theater, now that would be an accomplishment. The last time I saw a movie at the theater was the new version of Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory.

7.) I'm afraid of armored cars. This all started when I got caught in the middle of a mall shooting in 1997. A man robbed an armored car and ran through the mall to get away shooting as he went. I spent a good portion of the shooting hiding along with 20 other people in the warehouse of Sears. Since then whenever we go to a place that has an armored car outside, I make my husband wait until it leaves before we get out of the car or go in the store.

1997 Mall Shooting


That ends that fun on a happy note.