And More About Me...

I saw this post over at the My Half Dozen Daily Blog and thought I would play along.  It's basically a question/answer thing that gives a bit of insight about the person so here's my answers:

• What is bothering you right now? It's taking SO long for the condo to close and I am getting more frustrated by the day!
• Do you like celebrity magazines? No. Hell no.
• When was the last time you were ill? Why?  A few years back, the first day we got on the cruise ship hubby and I both came down with the flu.  We were flat on our backs in bed for the entire week.  The good part was we had someone to cook and clean for us but we missed the entire cruise.
• Do you feel you belong in a different era? Yes, 1800's.  I like social rules and they were more defined back then.
• Who owns you?  Nobody really but hubby would come the closest.
• One place you would love to visit? Europe, we never get there, it's always Asia.
• Did you skip school? All. The. Time. But I showed up for the tests and did well so the teachers didn't care if I went to class or not.
• Ever played an instrument? No but I love to sing.
• Favorite alcoholic drink? None, I hate the taste of alcohol but if I HAD to drink it would probably be a strawberry daiquiri.
• Do you follow fashion? Not since I quit working and started traveling. Jeans...check. T shirt...check.
• What color are your eyes? Do you like the color?  Blue/grey. Yes.
• What is the furthest you have traveled from your home? How far was it?  Philippines.  I think it is like 6000 miles or so.
• What is the coldest temperature you have experienced? Where?  Skiing in the Cascades, probably around 10 degrees or so.
• What is the hottest temperature you have experienced? Where?  125 degrees in Death Valley. I had to get out of the air conditioned car just to see what 125 degrees felt like.
• List your three wishes.  #1 that I could help anyone who needed it, #2 that I would become a wealthy writer so I could do #1, and #3 that I could have let people in my life know how much I appreciated them before they died.
• Are you keeping a secret from the world? Yes.
• If you could go back in time and give advice to yourself 10 years ago what would it be? To go cash only back then, we would have been positioned much better for the recession instead of flailing about like most everyone else when the recession started.
• Have you changed in the past 10 years? Drastically. I think I am a much better person now.
• Is abortion wrong? I've never had to determine this for myself but I think in many cases, no (for people who use it for birth control, yes).
• Do you like long train/car journeys? Yes, I love any type of journey.
• Have you ever considered writing a novel? Yes, it's almost done.
• Have you ever punched someone in the face? No, I don't like to be mean to people.
• What is your sense of humor like? I find Frasier, Murphy Brown, and Who's Line hilarious.  Whatever kind of humor that is.
• Are you a good person? Yes.

Well, that's more about me!  If you do this list in a blog post, please link back to Moralia's blog so she can list it with the others.

25 Things About Me

Taking a cue from one of Betsy's recent posts, I thought I would share a bit about myself. A couple of times over the past few years, a blogger will start a "25 things about me" post then pretty soon everyone would do it and it actually ends up to be a pretty cool set of lists, kind of like a "carnival about me" in which you find out that your favorite bloggers really are the interesting, quirky people they appear to be. I'm not sure how interesting or quirky I am but here goes...

1. I have Asperger's Syndrome. I am not horribly afflicted but it is there.
2. I am also Face Blind to a degree. A nice researcher at Harvard is trying to help me recognize faces.
3. I can eat the same food every day for a month and it won't bother me.
4. I can sing in a half dozen languages even though I don't often know what I am saying since if I hear a song, I can easily learn it phonetically (see #1).
5. People think I am some sort of tech guru when in actuality, I just Google a lot.
6. My husband is 20 years older than I am. We are also an inter-racial couple (we didn't know we were an inter-racial couple until about eight years into our marriage when we saw a couple that looked like us on Oprah talking about their inter-racial relationship. Me: "hubby, did you know we are an inter-racial couple?" Hubby: "no, who said" Me: "Oprah" Hubby: "wow...I didn't know that" Me: "me neither. Shocking.").
7. I love coffee drinks like a coffee frapuccino or Baskin Robbins cappuccino blast but have never drank a cup of coffee--the taste is overwhelmingly strong.
8. I am child free by choice. I admire wonderful moms and find kids to be interesting to observe but just never had the desire to have my own children.
9. I hate drama in my life, I don't see the need for it. Either your life is generally good and happy or you change it to make it so. I don't understand people who need a constant flurry of drama to keep their lives interesting.
10. I don't drink, smoke, or use drugs. Ick.
11. The shortest job I ever had was three days. I had to sit at a desk and enter data into a computer. My co-workers told me not to work so fast or it would make them look bad. I thought if I had to work like that for the rest of my life I would want to slit my wrists eventually so I quit instead.
12. I feel more comfortable around people from different cultures than around whites--odd since I was born and raised in a very rural, all white place.
13. I can hear electricity. Usually if I am standing near a wall or any other place that there is an electrical current, I can hear it.
14. My purpose in life is to help people, I have known this nearly all my life.
15. I didn't finish college. I made more money with my own business than I would have made being a teacher which is what I wanted to be when I went to college.
16. I admire people who are successful in a variety of areas when being successful in any one area would have been a lifetime achievement for others. John Nance is a good example, he is an airline pilot, colonel, famous writer, sought after speaker, etc.
17. I love to read. All throughout school, instead of going to the cafeteria for lunch, I would hang out in the library and read. You can still find me at Barnes and Noble reading quite often.
18. I need to be at sea level, near the ocean, most of the time. It makes me happy.
19. I can be very social and outgoing if it is part of my job, but I generally like to be by myself or hang out with the hubby.
20. I have always worked, starting with working in the school cafeteria to get free lunches. I bought my first car at 16 and my first house at 19. I have always felt like an adult with adult responsibilities even when I was 12.
21. I wish I was artistic. I can barely draw stick figures.
22. People think I can do a lot of things (rock climb, speak a foreign language, ballroom dance, design a website, etc) but I am really not that talented. I am just always interested in learning new things and will try everything that comes along whether I am good at it or not.
23. I need to figure out how to be comfortable having money. My tendency is to spend it and I think this relates to when I was a kid. Any time I got money someone (a parade of adults who were way irresponsible with money) would borrow the money I had saved and never pay it back. I guess I feel like if I don't use my money right away, someone will take it away from me.
24. I have five step kids. Some I helped raise. Others that I continue to help today. Also 11 step grand kids and two step great grand kids (yikes!).
25. I can bake amazing things but can't cook to save my life.

So that's all I can think of about me. I hope others who read this will write their own lists and link back to their list in the comments because I find this kind of info fascinating.