Deep Six Come To Bare

The lovely Angella (who also has two l's!) from Dutch Blitz tagged me with a “six random things” meme.

1. I am not a cat person. When I was a kid, we had an old cat named Smudgie who used to spend all day sleeping on top of the deep-freeze in our garage. One day (I was about 5 years old and it should be noted that Smudgie was probably about 12 years old so she can't really be blamed for her reaction. Also? I have no memory of whether Smudgie was a girl cat or a boy cat. Strange.) Turtle told me that Smudgie really liked it when people blew in her ear. So I walked up to poor, sleeping Smudgie and blew as hard as I could in her ear. And then experienced the scariest 2 seconds of my life as Smudgie bolted straight up into the air while silmutaneously swiping my head with her claws. So while I can appreciate the cuteness of kitties in pictures, in person I do not love them.

2. I am always tired. I have got sleep issues so I rarely feel well-rested. You know how sometimes you wake up after having a bad sleep and you feel all out of sorts? That's how I feel after a good night's sleep. I feel weird and different and it always takes a few minutes to realize that I feel weird because I'm not mind-numbingly tired. I talk in my sleep, often, and sometimes I sleepwalk. S used to be amused by it but now it's just annoying because it disturbs his sleep. Sometimes, if I'm really stressed, I have seizures in my sleep. S really loves that.

3. I wouldn't say that I'm a big fan of musicals but I have seen my fair share. Cabaret is, by far, the best musical ever written. I have seen it live 4 times. I've seen the movie countless times. I own the Original and New Broadway Cast Recording sountracks. I can sing every single song (in my horrible singing voice) and quote a lot of the dialogue. Go on, test me.

4. I was in a music video. My friend was the director so he put me in it. It involved a lot of standing around looking solemn, which somehow translated into me standing around looking constipated.

5. I have 2 sisters and a brother. Growing up, I was convinced that I was adopted. They all got along really well and I felt like the outsider. My adoption theory was seriously flawed though, as my siblings and I look ridiculously similar. We all have light brown hair and blue eyes and are tall. There are slight differences - Westy is more blonde than brunette, Bow got my Dad's nose while the rest of us were blessed with my Mom's nose, Turtle's hair is a bit darker than the rest of us - but there's no mistaking that we're related (which isn't a bad thing now but caused me immeasurable angst when I was a teenager.)

6. I love peanut butter & pickle sandwiches. There's something about the sweet peanut butter (it can't be healthy, natural peanut butter, it's got to be the sugary sweet stuff) and the tangy pickles (garlic pickles, to be specific) that pleases me to no end.

Right, so now I need to pick 6 people to play. Don't worry, I won't call you an asscock this time if you don't play along: Tiny E, Bing, Trish or Cory, July Bug, Alice and Thomas.