25 things
Some of this you may know already…
1. The name on my original birth certificate was Christina Marie but my parents had it changed to Christina Dawn a few weeks after I was born because they were tired of people saying “What a nice Italian name!” “What a nice Catholic name!”
2. I first got drunk when I was 23, alone, on a bottle of peach sparkling wine
3. I have a tattoo on my lower back. I got it when I was 20, at the same time that my BFF Kim got her nose pierced. And of course she let that close up after a few months, but I still have a tattoo on my lower back. It’s in Kanjii (so 90’s) and is the characters for redemption, specifically redemption of sin. I copied it out of an English to Kanjii dictionary. I have also pierced the cartilage in top of my left ear, but let it close up. I still think about getting other tattoos even though I’m not stoked on the one I have any more.
4. I have been a model for a hairstylist’s portfolio. In fact, I will scan the photos for you. They’re hilarious.
5. I have 2 younger brothers, and 5 step-siblings
6. I have a very vivid memory from when I was a toddler of playing in the back yard with a bunch of black-widow spiders which I still think is real.
7. When I was in high school I was part of the Latin club even though I didn’t take Latin.
8. The longest road trip I’ve ever been on is from San Jose to LA via the 101. We used to fly everywhere because my dad was a pilot and we had a little plane. Then when I was older he also worked for United so we’d fly stand by. So I had/have little patience for a long-ass car ride.
9. I remember the first time I intentionally hurt my mother. I had sharpened the end of a candy-cane to an extreme point and asked her to hold out her hand and close her eyes and I poked her with it. I mostly did it to see what happened.
10. I have never had a dog but I have had a rabbit and over 10 cats (Freckles, Marmalade, Puff, Midnight, Oreo, Kipling, Pumpkin, Sister, Milo, Olaf… and some strays)
11. I never crawled as a toddler and had to go to a special summer school as a Kindergartner to learn to crawl and handle insects, dirt, water, etc. to improve my hand-eye coordination and reduce my phobias.
12. I didn’t used to always wash clothes from thrift stores before wearing them… and then some friends got scabies from Aardvarks on Melrose and I changed my ways.
13. Most of my music knowlege as a child came from visits to neighbouring grocery stores, drugstores, and Emporium Capwell. I used to refer to songs as “Payless songs” or “Emporium songs”. “Payless songs” were the actual easy-listening rock songs.. “Emporium songs” were easy-listening songs turned into Muzak.
14. re: #13 I used to live behind a shopping center which is why all my secular music memories are from there. Otherwise it was just classical, oldies, soundtracks to musicals, and Christian stuff.
15. I’ve been a lacto-octo ovo vegetarian since I was 15
16. My first car was a chocolate brown 1979 Volvo 240 sedan. It was the same age as me, and I still miss that car. Too bad the engine self-destructed less than a year after I bought it.
17. I used to have hair down to my waist. Ug. Never again. Having all that dead matter around you is not sexy.
18. In high school I exposed myself to a lot of music by checking cd’s out from the library. I think the best discovery I made back then was Portishead.
19. I’ve hit a squirrel, a pigeon, and worst of all, a cat with my car. The cat was the most terrible of all. It was a huge 8 lane road, late at night and I thought it was a paper bag. My friend Jimmy got out for me to confirm it was dead.
20. Seth told me I should have no trouble doing this because I’m “secretive”, but I’m having trouble getting past the 20 mark.
21. When I was in 1st and 2nd grade I called people “honey” & “honey-child” because my friend Willette did.
22. I have a strawberry port wine stain on the bottom of my right foot.
23. I used to do cat rescue in high school. It was the sort of thing where you keep the cats at your house and bring them to a fair every weekend until they get adopted. I can’t believe my mom agreed to that.
24. When I was a freshman in high school I wanted to be a tiger/lion trainer. I even wrote a paper about it.
25. When I was in 2nd or 3rd grade I pulled out all my eyelashes and eyebrows. I did it because I didn’t like the fact that I felt like I could see them all the time and I became obsessed with removing all of them. My first encounter with OCD. It really freaked my mom out.
Lazlo
Re: #15 — This is my first encounter with the term “lacto-octo” — I’d seen “ovo-lacto” before. It really makes it sound like you eat octopus, or perhaps drink octopus milk.
xie
you’re right- that is correct. i guess lacto-octo is a mis-nomer, which was how i read it back in the day.
Lazlo
Actually, something I read said both were right.
Mike W.
#25 was priceless.