25 Things

OK, so here goes nothing ... 25 things about (or at least tangentially related to) me.

1. I've been making silly lists for years, but this is the first time I have ever filled out a meme.
   
2. I lack favorites. No favorite color, number, movie, song, band. Nothing really.
   
3. My friends have been arguing about who gets to stand where in my wedding party for approximately 5 years. Alexa and I are leaning towards just doing 1 best man and 1 maid of honor just to piss them off.
   
4. I've had lots of nicknames in my life, but they aren't worth listing here.
5. I played soccer in high school for 3 years, but was only ok at my best. I scored one goal. A penalty kick that I hit straight at the goalie and dribbled through his legs.
   
6. In high school, I used to drive Alicia and our next door neighbor to school. Even though I was driving, my mom somehow dictated that we had listen to my sister's bad music 2 days a week. Fortunately, my mom never made a ruling on who controlled the windows, so I would turn on child-lock and roll down their windows in the middle of the winter to try to enforce good musical taste.
   
7. When bored on car trips, I would call Ben, Helen (as in Keller) and try to convince him he was deaf, dumb and mute.
   
8. My cousins Amy and Lisa CLAIM that I once peed in the tub when we were taking a bath together when we were little. I have never seen or heard convincing proof.
   
9. I've been to Vegas once (lost $300). It was depressing. If I ever go again, I pledge to remain intoxicated for every moment I am there.
   
10. My lowest grade ever was a 42 on my Spanish final my junior year in High School. And now I am living and Chile and (kind of) speaking the language, so suck it Ms. Rodriquez (which is almost definitely not my teacher's real name).
    
11. In my senior year in high school, I took molecular biology with my sister during the last period of the day. We just sat around in the class and did nothing, so eventually, I stopped going. Alicia went every day. In the end, the teacher gave me an A, because I was a senior, and Alicia a B, because she wasn't. It was one of the happiest moments of my schooling career.
12. Movie Miscellany: I like the idea of Will Farrel, but have never really liked one of his movies. Until yesterday, I thought Penelope Cruz was in Spanglish. Also, I think Adam Sandler is a really good serious actor, seriously. One summer in middle school, I watched Major League nearly every day. I think I could still very nearly recite it from memory.
13. I've seen every episode to date of 15 TV shows: Arrested Development, Sopranos, The Wire, 6 Feet Under, Deadwood, Freaks and Geeks, Rome, Mad Men, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Damages, The Office, 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother and Veronica Mars.
14. There are apparently only 13 things to write about, because I am running out of gas here. Uhm, I now like the kind of music that I used to freeze my sister for listening to in #6.
15. Re: #8, places it is ok to pee: Women's Bathroom (if men's is occupied), my parent's front yard (at night), large bodies of water (oceans, lakes, etc). Places it is not ok to pee: Bath tub, shower, swimming pool.
16. I've been to approximately a dozen Pearl Jam concerts in my life and once shook Eddie Vedder hand at a Mudhoney concert in Chapel Hill. He said, "Hey, uh, good ta see you." I very rarely listen to Pearl Jam now, but still like them. Also I was taken aback today, when I found out that Eddie Vedder married a model and has an incredibly cute toddler now.
    
17. I lied in #1, my favorite word in Spanish is "desafortunadamente". I use it at least twice a day, here in Chile. Also, I thought that someone's older brother ("el hermano mayor") was the head of a town's government and treated him with a little too much respect for approximately 6 hours until Alexa informed me that I was (and am) a moron.
    
18. The hour it took me to run the last 6 miles of the marathon, were probably the most painful hour of my life. I finished the race in 4:01, 1 minute over my 4 hour goal, but I was too tired to care at the time.
    
19. I hated the taste of diet soda for 25 years, now I have to force myself to stop drinking it. In fact, I used to be a pretty picky eater. Now I will try almost anything. I still hate concentrated doses of pickle, bananna, mustard, mayo and ketsup, but thats about it though.
20. I've been in 1 true wreck (rear-ended someone when I was 16) and one or 2 fender benders (all before I turned 20, I think). Once, I got stuck in a ditch in one of Alicia's friend's front yard and when the friend called her mom, she said "Don't worry he called AA." Instead of AAA.
    
21. I once traumatized a very-sleepy Trafton for life by walking down my hall in college in nothing but a soaking-wet t-shirt at 4:30 in the morning.
    
22. I got laser eye surgery a few years ago. It's not the cakewalk everyone says it is (I walked around with a patch over one eye and one lens in my glasses for 10 days), but it was still absolutely worth it.
    
23. I've got great friends. Seriously, I do. They are so great that they will put up with the next item on this list.
24. Superlatives:
    Scariest --- I mean "Most Exciting" Driver - Alisha, hands down.
    Most likely to live in a hut - Sasha.
    Most ammusing person to live in a hut with - Also Sasha.
    Cruelest - Ted "Talk to your air conditioner" Zarzar
    Most offended by lesbian jokes and therefore most likely to be called a lesbian - Hi, Cuz.
    Most likely to have been seen naked by me - Ah, the Dubs.
    Most likely to simulate a sexual act - Roni
    Most likely to marry Spawn-creator, Todd McFarlin - Merl!
    Most likely to actually be in our wedding - Gotta go with Claire
    Most likely to be ignored midsentence (through no fault of my own) - Susan
    Most likely to not get too pissed off when I steal his change - My good ole' Roomie
    Biggest Ovaries - Not even going to justify this by writing the name down.
    Most likely to become wealthy by selling his soul to The Man) - See Ovaries, Biggest.
    Flukiest Fantasy Baseball Win EVER- ...
    Most likely to enter an old folks home at age 32 - ...
    Best Photographer - Actually, it's Ovary boy, I think.
    Person who I felt bad for, and had to write a non-sarcastic superlative - ...
    Easiest to write fake superlatives for - Jonathan Crisp.
    
25. Rapid Fire Grand finale: I'm a dog person with 2 cats. I've been to 6 continents, but have no intention of going to Antarctica. After 2 drinks, I tend to become egotistical and speak Spanish only in the first person present tense. I used to like crowds and roller-coasters, now, not so much. Like Debbie, I've got 2 degrees and no idea what I want to be when I grow up. I have no memory of dressing in drag when I was little, but I did. I'm really glad I managed to finish this up.