My 12 Random Things...

So I heard there are a group of people...http://creatingthehive.com/...who are posting 12 random things about themselves and I thought I'd join in...


1. I LOVE Cinnamon! When I make apple pies (which doesn't happen too often) I always use about 4 or 5 times more than the recipe calls for--and I LOVE it! The smell of it is kind of an aphrodisiac to me for some reason...That might be MORE than you want to know ;o)

2. My favorite movie of all time is Forest Gump--First, it has Tom Hanks in it who I LOVE, and second, I love all of the history that's in it too--how Forest keeps showing up at all these random places.

3. I love to chew ice--always have. And I love my water to be AS COLD AS POSSIBLE, it even gives me a brain freeze sometimes, but I still love it that way.

4. My very first boyfriend's name was Chip--is that so very 70's or what!!!  Okay, I was only 7 years old and he might not of really be my "boy friend" but he did kiss me!

5. When I meet a man who has red hair, it just about makes me swoon. I LOVE red hair on anyone, but on a man it does me in and I'm in love...

6. I have a secret desire to become a vegetarian--I think I might do it soon too because I keep hearing more and more about the meat and poultry industry and it's starting to get to me.

7. I can't seem to grow my fingernails long. I have weak fingernails and they split and crack before they get very long. I've always been envious of people who could grow beautiful nails--not too long, but at least past their own fingers.

8. I've always crafted. I sewed in junior high school, learned to knit before I was 10, taught myself to crochet when I was in my 20's, and will try just about anything once--crafting-wise that is.

9. I used to bug my mother to have another child after me so that I could have someone to pick on. My brother's used to pick on me relentlessly as my mother started working when I started school and my brother's were much older and supposed to "look after" me. They used to force me to cook and clean for them. I used to want to have someone that I could boss around--how mean of me! I told my mom that I was sure we could make space in the attic for "her" as she won't be that big.

10. I collect Unicorns and snowmen. I only have about 6 unicorns but they are all special--I don't buy them myself. Snowmen I do buy myself, but they have to have a certain "look" about them but because I can't describe what it is--it's something that I think I can only see--when I see one I would buy one. I've stopped at about 30 because with all of the Christmas ornaments, etc I don't have enough flat spaces between work and home to put them all out. And I only put them out at Christmas time.

11. I wished I was born earlier so that I could have been an activist in the 60's for human rights, been around when Martin Luther King and Ghandi were alive. I know there are still so many human rights being violated all over the world, but the 60's were a time of revolution like never before and since and when I see movies and documentaries about that time, I just wish I was there and involved.

12. I could watch British comedies 24/7. I grew up on the "Carry On" movies, Doctor in the House, the Two Ronnies, etc. I love watching the old shows that are on PBS, Are You Being Served?, As Time Goes On, The Vicar of Dibly, etc., etc. And I watch them over and over and over again.