what can i say for myself

two of my friends posted lists about themselves on their blogs recently, and it's another icepocalypse wednesday in atlanta, so i thought it only necessary to copy them stat. 

nicole, this list is for you. :)

1. i can't whistle. 

2. i once (twice, sort of) went blonde. it wasn't pretty. especially the nearly 3 years it took for it to get healthy again!

3. i didn't have dolls growing up; i had an imaginary pet wolf. named vicious, naturally. 

4. in college i had 4 different majors. afterwards, i started 2 others and applied to 3 different graduate programs. 

5. i have traveled to 5 continents. 

6. i first wanted to be an actress, then a gymnast, then a pilot. now i'm none of them—or all three, depending on how you look at it. 

7. i have a talent for ordering the right food at restaurants. i know, my skills are hard to come by.

8. grocery stores and airports are two of my favorite places. 

9. i have perfect vision in my right eye. 

10. i learned to drive on a stick shift, and i prefer it. 

11. i often don't know what i feel until i write it down.

12. i have to stop myself from obsessively tidying up. 

13. we had a TV the size of an envelope growing up, and i only remember watching two things on it: the 1992 presidential elections and the winter olympics. i wish i could still say that.

14. i had a natural (drug-free) childbirth. i'm (really) not sure i'll do it again. 

15. i can't sleep if my feet are hot. 

16. i used to have a phobia of wearing green. 

17. i don't have a middle name, which i always thought was really unfair. 

18. i'm woefully ignorant about pop culture, music, and politics. (see #13)

19. the second year of Bible school was the happiest year of my life. 

20. i've wanted to write a novel for the past 8 years. i'm, er, still working on that.

and a bonus one: 

21. i don't think i applied myself seriously to anything in my life until i became a mother.