25 Random Things About Me

So this has been going around Facebook, but because blogs are way cooler, I am doing it here instead.
1. I hate yellow squash.
2. I am madly in love with Superman. And there are so few people out there who agree with me on the whole Superman vs. Batman.


3. I have always wanted to be a pirate.
4. I could eat raspberries and cherries all day long every day for the rest of my life and never get sick of them.


5. I am so so so scared of the dark. Okay, so you already knew that.

6. I love tulips. If you want to date me, bring me tulips.


7. I am obsessed with Australia!

8. My laptop is red, but I wish I had gotten pink, even though that would make me kind of Legally Blonde.
9. I wish I was Jane Austen. Or at least one of her characters.

10. I have this giant James Dean poster in my room at home.


11. I have been through 4 majors already: Biology (for Marine Biology), Physiology and Developmental Biology (for Pre-med), International Relations (so I could be like James Bond), and my current one is Humanities with and emphasis in English (no, there are no career choices for this one...)

12. I love mirrors. They add so much to a room. Especially the ones from Pottery Barn!


13. I love candles.
14. I have two pairs of warm, fuzzy slippers that are exactly the same.

15. I have 5 pillows on my bed.
16. My house has over 5,000 books in it.

17. I like to wear hair ribbons even though they make me look like I am 5 years old and headbands even though they give me a migraine.
18. I am lactose intolerant, and I can't even eat cream cheese without wanting to throw up, although I do it anyways.

19. I had plastic surgery when I was 5 because I ran into a brick wall and busted my head open.

20. I have a mysterious scar on my chin. It is quite thick, but no one in my family knows where it came from. I think it was aliens.

21. My birthmark is white.

22. I prefer dresses to pants any day!
23. I don't really like meat, but I will eat tofu raw and cold. Yum!
24. I love Origins!
25. I got into a car wreck over a month ago and I still haven't told my parents.

Spiders and Plumbing Monsters

You know how I like The X-Files? Well, we were watching them Saturday night, and it was really late. Heather fell asleep, and when it was over and I went to bed, I tried to get her to come to. I don't like sleeping alone. But she wouldn't come because of the sea monster in the plumbing. At least, that's what she said. But that was like, 3 episodes back. And it's not like we have a bathtub in our room. So she stayed on the living room floor all night and I wound up sleeping with the light on and the door open. Not because I'm scared of the monsters in sexfiles (our name for X-Files, not porn or a human sexuality movie) but because I would rather sleep in a room with a million spiders than sleep in a dark room alone. Yes, a million.

Light

Light has always played a very important role in my life. My mother is especially sensitive to light--our walls are yellow, the blinds come up as soon as the sun does, and there ALWAYS has to be a light on at night (bathroom, kitchen, anything). If the light goes out, or someone turns it off, then she wakes up immediately. And it isn't just physical light that she is sensitive to, but spiritual light as well.
I am not as sensitive to light as my mother is, but I have come to love it and crave it. I need sunshine to feel happy each day. Rainy days are difficult for me to deal with.
I have an obsession with candles and night-lights. There is something altogether spooky and yet so hauntingly beautiful about the dancing light of a candle, and something so comforting and magical when you look over at the night-light. I love to light candles at night and I had a pirate ship night-light that was fantastic. Unfortunately, it broke.




























In Poland (where my friend is serving his mission) there is a special tradition that they have--on Halloween night, or The Day of the Dead as they call it over there, everyone brings candles and lights up the graveyards. Aren't the pictures simply magical looking?