25 Things About Me...

25 Crucial Things About Me (I may expand on some of these later)

1. I read Get Fuzzy and Zits every single day before I even bother to check the news.
2. My husband’s parents once accused me of killing their beloved African Grey parrot by boring it to death with several hours of reruns of “The O.C.”
3. I once spent like $300 on a ticket to a Paul McCartney concert and I sat in the second row off to Paul’s right. At one point, all the people around me sat down so I stood up and danced and Paul gave me a thumb’s up.
4. One time at a Red Sox game, I dropped a foul ball and my husband yelled at me harshly. And then everyone booed me.
5. I can sing almost every single Beatles song from start to finish because I always listened to the Beatles while working on Nintendo games such as Zelda: A Link to the Past and Super Mario World for Super Nintendo.
6. President George W. Bush once used my right shoulder as an armrest.
7. I’ve eaten at Guapo’s Mexican Restaurant at least 200 times, which means I’ve probably spent about $5,000 there.
8. John Negroponte has introduced himself to me at least eight times in the past two years, while never once remembering that we’d already met.
9. I can do loads of Sudoku but still have problems with crosswords, which is embarrassing for me because my dad went to the National Crossword Championships.
10. I’ve been working on a book for three years and I really would like to get it published.
11. I once witnessed a private conversation between Bill Clinton and Anderson Cooper while waiting for an elevator.
12. I have a great desire to audition for American Idol, yet I never do and then I regret it when I start seeing all these horrible people make it to Hollywood. I’m sure I’m just as good as the horrible people.
13. I think I missed about sixty days of my senior year of high school. What a waste of time that year was since I still managed to graduate with like a 3.89.
14. I am great at growing orchids.
15. My husband and I may have been in a weird Japanese movie that was shot on the waterways of Venice. When the cameras were pointed toward us, we waved our arms and shouted a lot.
16. One time, I was wheeling three cases of beer through the hallway at work and I ran into Condi Rice. She looked down at all the beer, looked back up at me and said, “Happy Holidays!”
17. I’ve been to the ER several times in my life. Once when I was really little, I ate a red crayon, pooped it out and my parents rushed me to the ER because they thought I was bleeding internally.
18. Another time I went to the ER was because I had been practicing to become an Olympic diver. I pretended that a dining room chair was the board and I was working on my front dives. Then my dad suggested that I try a back dive and I practically split half of my eye open. I still have a nasty scar. And I think my mom kicked my dad out of the house until my eye was fixed.
19. Another time I went to the ER was because one Saturday night in college, I decided to build my own computer using various parts. Somehow while putting it together, I managed to slice my finger wide open on a computer component. Every other kid in the ER that night was drunk and need their stomachs pumped and all the doctors made fun of me because I had injured myself on a computer.
20. The most recent visit to the ER was because one day at work, we finally got some very important letters signed by the Secretary and I ran in my high heels to pick them up. Then I went to run back to my office and fell down a flight of stairs with the letters in hand. I crumpled the letters on my fall, but they still were mentioned in the following Monday’s Washington Post, which wasn’t really worth it in the end. But it’s a neat story to tell.
21. One of my favorite pastimes is making models of the Starship Enterprise with modeling clay.
22. Once while running a ½ marathon, I was passed by an old woman who claimed to have bronchitis. I still had a respectable time though.
23. One time my former boss decided to introduce me to Bill Frist. I told her that I enjoyed reading about the Senator’s open heart surgery on a gorilla. When I finally met him, my boss told the Senator that I had a huge interest in heart surgery and would like to speak to him about it. Yeah, I don’t know ANYTHING about heart surgery.
24. I once met George Lucas, and we was wearing white jeans. Yes. White jeans.
25. When I was younger, I wanted nothing more than to become a Cracker Barrel manager. I think I may have missed my calling…