25 random things

I've seen this thing on Facebook about "25 random things about me."Nobody has tagged me, yet, because I have very few friends on Facebook. And I like it that way.However, I think it would be a good exercise for my own good self to come up with 25 random things about me, and put them here, on my blog, so perhaps I can attract some more comments like those last several spammers. Spammers, love ya! Keep coming back!So here are 25 (newly thought-up) random things about me:1. I got a major scald burn when I was 18 months old that put me in hospital for six weeks. I still have the scar on my left boob.2. 10 years ago, that left boob started sprouting strings of gauze. It was from the gauze bandages they put on my burn after my parents ripped off my synthetic shirt, and all my skin, after said scald burn. Of course I thought I had string cancer and ran in a panic to the doctor, who examined said string under microscope and told me: "it's gauze". Funny. I wanted to be in a medical journal because my boob was sprouting string. But my doctor just told me to get regular mammograms. How boring!3. I have an outrageous fear of the dentist. So outrageous I will probably die of a brain infection caused by abcessed teeth. Yet dentists, those barbarians, still refuse to make me unconscious before they stick their disgusting hands in my mouth and breath into my personal space with their intolerable closeness and make me gag on my spit. I would rather die, I tell you.4. I hate having my personal space invaded. And I don't like being touched. At all. To the point that I will suffer in pain before I will undergo a paid-for massage performed by a health care professional. How dysfunctional is that?5. I love dogs. Especially my dogs. Even though they are largely useless and perform no function except eat, sleep, pee, poop, and adore me.6. I would die for my son. Yet, I am mad at him 50 per cent of the time. But you cannot be mad at him, ever, or else I will rip your eyes out.7. I enjoy a nice salad with Catalina dressing and cheese.8. I have had 12 surgeries. Mostly for stupid stuff, but several of them were for interesting reasons.9. I am very interested in the Titanic, for some reason, and have read every book about it.10. I can, and often do, read a book in a day.11. I have an obsessive personality.12. I love The Globe and Mail Book Review on a Saturday. Even if I haven't read the book. The Saturday Globe, in fact, is one of my very favorite things, behind Coronation Street. I also enjoy Gawker dot com.13. My math skills are so poor I had to ask someone yesterday "what's six times seven?". I blame this on bad math teachers.14. When I was a kid I was considered academically exceptional, and put in advanced classes where we did nothing but go on interesting field trips and got read that book about The Lord of The Rings. I forget the name of the book but it sure beat Grade Five math class.15. My sense of humor can sometimes be offensive, but not to me. If you get me, you get me.16. I have a love/hate relationship with my family. I am proud of their incredible talents, of which they have many. And sad about their incredible social inadequacies, of which I share. Yet there is something in them that is me, and in me that is them. I can hate them, but you can't.17. I am emotionally sensitive.18. Boiled pigs feet is one of my favourite dinners.19. I used to think my boobs were my best physical feature, despite the scar and the string hanging out of it. As I get older, I think my best feature are the slanty eyes that I always hated during my younger days. Now, I think that slanty smile makes me look younger, almost childlike. Despite the wrinkles. I like that.20. I have always hated my hair. Hated it. But liked my freckles.21. I was in the PEI legislature the day it was bombed. It scared the shit out of me. I ran as fast as I could. I was standing right in front of a window that imploded, and I thought someone was shooting at us through the windows. Later, I felt I was very cowardly for being so scared and getting the hell out of there so quick and not being brave and helping the little old ladies out. Who knew the self-preservation instinct was so strong?22. I believe in God. And heaven.23. Not one day goes by that I don't think of my late mother, and miss her. I have her purse hanging on my wall. I have changed nothing in it. When you open it, you are in my mother's purse, circa February 28, 1995. With her wallet, her pictures, her drivers licence, her checkbook, her make-up, her reciepts. Everything. I will never change it.24. I have the gown that I, and my whole family, was baptized in hanging on my wall, in a frame. I will take it out of the frame and pass it over to my son, when he has a child who possibly needs baptizing.25. My son's dad built me a hopechest 25 years ago, when were dating. He was a carpenter. I had it in my living room. I loved it. When he died last week, my son asked if he could have it. At first I didn't want to give it up. He made it for me, I thought. But then I thought: what would my son's Dad want? My son picked it up last Friday. He broke into my house to get it, after I told him he could have it, but breaking into a house? That's why I'm currently mad at him. But you can't be.That's it. 25 random things.