Think you know me? Here’s a  list of completely random and meaningless facts about myself. Why? I have no idea. Just felt like sharing something light hearted. 

1. I HATE Twizzlers. I hate all things licorice.  And I am very happy that neither Rye nor the kids like Twizzler’s either. We throw them out when they come into the house for Halloween.
2. I always wear black. Not often, not sometimes, but every single day, something on my body, top or bottom  or both, MUST be black. If there is no black, I am not comfortable.
3. I have not seen my natural hair color since I was 16. Oh, I see roots, but only enough to know that there is gray in there. I could not live without Clairol.
4. I used to be a Deadhead and went to a huge number of Grateful Dead shows on the east coast; Hartford, Nassau, NYC, NJ, SPAC, Albany, Maine from early ’88 to ’91; good chance I was there.
5. I can cook, sew, knit,  bake, clean, garden, decorate, write, reupholster, paint, build things, etc. I can’t buy stuff if I can make it myself.
6. I have been: an art major, a nursery school teacher, a professional food sever, an interior design, a kitchen designer, an internet marketer. I never thought of myself as a writer. Never imagined being a writer. Funny how life is like that.
7. I am actually shy in public.  Still hate calling folks on the phone. Was painfully shy as a child and still have to put myself “in mode” when I am with a large group of people, but have no trouble online obviously!
8. I was raised an only child, but I have a brother! I was almost 12 when he was born, so completely different experiences.
9. I love Lego and we still have a collection with pieces I played with when I was kid.
10. I can’t stand the small of asphalt. Hate it.
11. I adore the smell of wildflowers on the breeze when driving though the Hudson Valley.
12. MTV changed my life when I was 14; Adam and the Ants.
13. I can drive in NYC like a champ. I give the taxi’s a run for their money for fun.
14. I don’t have a passport and have never been out of the USA except for a one day cruise to Jamaica when I was 18.
15. I used to be punk once. Or goth. Or hardcore, depending. Shows, clubs, etc. Yup. that was me in the 80’s.
16. I grew up in suburban Massapequa Park Long Island; home of the Buttofucos, next to the Amityville Horror. We used to go to Amy Fisher’s father fabric store in Freeport and I went to high school with  Baldwins.
17. I have waited tables on a lot of famous people. Mandy Patinkin and Diane Weist were the nicest. I once made Greg Kinnear drink a “GTO” (gin and tonic with a splash of orange juice) rather than just a G&T and he liked it!
18. I dislike celery, cucumbers, and green peppers. They repeat on me too much.
19. I do not exercise at all. Ever. I do not diet either. Please do not hold that against me. I refuse to buy low fat, fake sugar, anything.
20. I am stupidly attached to my “things”. I collect tons of stuff; vintage cocktail shakers, Pyrex, Fiesta wear, mosaic tile trivets, paint by numbers, weird kitschy stuff. Most of my things are bought from garage sales, flea markets, free or picked from garbage.  Or they are hand me downs which I consider family heirlooms.
21. My retirement plan is based off of an Airstream RV dream and taking social media on the road. . No 401Ks here.
22. I do not have a spleen anymore, but my tonsils grew back.
23. I am terribly afraid of heights, or rather, being up high with no boundary to an edge.
24. I cry when I am frustrated. I also cry when I am happy.  I cry at mushy commercials. I am a sap.
25. I am stupidly, crazily loyal to a fault. And probably trust people more than they should be trusted, so I get hurt deeply because I allow bad behavior  to go on too long. Then I am done with you. Unless you hurt the people I love; then you have a much shorter rope to hang yourself.
26. I must have coffee. My coffee cup is huge. I hate drinking plain water, so I drink XXX vitamin water.
27. I talk too much, too fast, go off on tangents. Sometimes it annoys people. I don’t ask questions often enough about other people. I tell anyone, anything and just assume that people will tell me what they want me to know. Sometimes that comes across as self absorbed.
28. I have seven tattoos?  Yup, seven and I am not done yet.
29. I hate folding laundry.  I really hate matching up socks. But I love weeding. Go figure.
30. I can’t swim to save my life. As in, I would drown. So I hate being in water if my feet cannot touch solid ground and I dislike getting water in my eyes.
31. I love things that sparkle; glitter, rhinestones,  sparkle vinyl, sparkle paint, but only silver based. I don’t “do” gold.
32. I have a problem with Halloween. Or maybe it’s more like an obsession.  I liken it to # 14; the whole goth punk thing. This also directly caused #33.
33. I lived with a broken arm for two years. As in completely broken left humerus. During that time I worked, rode a bike, vacuumed, went food shopping,  laid a 400 square foot blue stone patio by hand, and carried laundry baskets up and down two flights of stairs. Now I have titanium and screws and a big scar and a piece of my hip bone in there. It still hurts.
34. While I might wear black  very day, my house is VERY colorful and full of  stuff. Not cluttered, but I have a lot of stuff.
35. I can’t stand people touching the bottoms of my feet. And do NOT put anything between my toes.
36. I curse like a truck driver most of the time.
37. I read really, really fast and am great at remembering facts, but super lousy with names.
38. I am a lousy typist. I still look at the keyboard most of the time.
39. Chocolate is necessary often.  However I a prefer vanilla ice cream and I don’t do fruit and chocolate together; nuts, caramels, toffee, are fine.
40. I use to play the viola. Badly. See #46.
41. I can have super neat handwriting, but often I can’t read my own notes.
42. I watch Law and Order when I am depressed and hiding from the world.  I don’t like horror movies with blood and gore and we don’t watch sitcoms at all here.  Actually, I have weird ass taste.
43. I am rather thrifty all around, but a terrible food snob. Meaning I will happily spend money on a delicious meal.
44. I, or errr, my children, have pet rats.  I have always had pet rats and encourage them to have pet rats.
45. I have an excellent eye for color; meaning I can match without samples, and pick paint colors perfectly.
46. When I was three I lost the tip of my left pinky finger. It was repaired, but has nerve damage, that hindered #40.
47. If I don’t have my glasses or contacts on; I am legally blind. Now I have to wear reading glasses too.
48. Speaking of eyes, mine are naturally brown, but I have been wearing green shaded contacts  for 20 years. But I tell everyone they are fake like my hair. Defeats the purpose, but I hate lying.
49. I married my first husband three months to the day that I met him; I made my second husband wait 8 years before we made it legal. I overcompensated a bit.
50. I’m pretty much an orphan myself. My mother passed 18 years ago, and I haven’t seen my father in 25 years. Most of the time I am ok with that.
51. I refuse to guess at stuff. If you want me to know; you tell me. If you don’t, I won’t bother caring. I refuse to worry about things that are not conveyed as an issue to me and I cannot read minds.
52. I don’t send Christmas cards and I refuse to go to baby/ bridal showers.
53. I LOVE avocados.
54. I can’t play video games because I cannot master how to make my guys jump.