Sunday, August 19, 2007

Little Known Facts


I love the smell of new books

I secretly like Shake-N-Bake

yes I have peed in a pool

I hate raw tomatoes because they remind me of blood clots

I took a faceless photo of my boobs with the ER Polaroid and taped it on the Doctors locker...on a dare. A year later I found it in his bedside drawer while I was snooping & using his phone at a company party he threw. Apparently I was in his "Masturbatory Hall of Fame." I could never look at him the same again. And no, he never knew it was me.

I used to have a pierced belly button (Hey, it was the 90's)

I read the entire collection (33) of Nancy Drew books as a kid in one summer while eating only grilled cheese sandwiches.

I read 33 books on the Holocaust as an adult and cried every night for three months.

Lilacs and Astor lily's are my favorite flower. When I walk by them in NYC I wish they were for me just once.

I have kissed 6 different men from 6 different countries - and yes it's all the same.

Santorini Greece is my favorite place in the world - scatter my ashes

I once thought I had a miscarriage and saved "it" in a bag in my crisper drawer overnight (it wasn't...don't ask)

I have never had a one night stand.

Ever.

I have had three women proposition me - (I didn't) They are still my friends and are all straight.

I like to talk to cab drivers and I openly ask them about the towel wrap thingy. This mortifies my friends.

I love to dance and I secretly wish I was onstage in a musical

I got kicked out of the vatican for wearing mens boxers as shorts in 1985

I got kicked out of the Louve for eating M&M's and photographing the Mona Lisa - same trip

I can do the splits three ways

I am a good ice skater

I almost became Jewish, but didn't like the food

I made out with my cousin once

I bought a car from a priest and he ripped me off

I sold a car to a pastor and the check bounced

I no longer go to church but I believe in God

My parents hid us in the basement on Halloween. Swear.

I sometimes pray, mainly when I am scared

I am afraid to die

I have never watched a full porn show (just seconds) no reason, just haven't

I LOVE:

white wine

Irish Bars

being kissed - unexpectedly

thunderstorms at night

Sunday mornings in bed reading the newspaper with someone special

old bathtubs filled to the top with bubbles

vintage homes

glass front cupboards

black and white checked floors

laundry shutes

subways

the city and the wilderness - the same

water fountains

the sound of water

Diet Coke on airplanes (tastes better)

Phi-Phi Island Thailand

the ocean

magazines

WSJ and NYT newspapers only

CNN

dark roast coffee, cream, 2 Splenda, double cupped, Grande

a dogs face..any dog

rice

bagels with honey

organic pizza

eating strawberries naked

thick towels

500 thread count sheets

a mans neck

yoga

lakes and boats

front porches

old wood

vintage dresses

summer air

sun dried sheets

vanilla

old three strand crystal jewelry

writing reading writing reading writing reading.......

anything that shimmers (glitter, stones, water, a child's eyes...)


I DISLIKE


Toxic anything/anyone

passive sex

narcissists

mean spirited people

gossip and pride

the word wig-wam

people who stink on airplanes

whom ever leaves the empty half-half container at Starbucks and walks away

whom ever welds the carts together at the grocery store while I am asleep

one-ply toilet paper

cheap people who never pay for you

takers

uninformed people who think they know...

creamed corn

group exercises

narrow minds