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1. Besides having arachnophobia I also have xylophobia. My family and friends have found this quite humorous over the years. Wooden cooking utensils, tooth picks and popsicle sticks, all of these things give me a horrible sick feeling when touched or if I see someone with them in their mouth.  One of my previous bosses even got in on the action when he shared a family recipe with me.

2. The last time I had my hair cut or permed in a salon was in 1987, before that it was 1978. It just kind of freaks me out to have people I don’t know handle my hair. I’m sure there’s a name for that in the phobia playbook. Here’s the only photo I have from the 1987 trip. If you can’t tell, my hair is a deep burgundy or purple, which ever you prefer.

3. I hate to watch sports, but love the X Games. Winter or summer, it doesn’t matter. I have a odd attraction to Shaun White. Not a sexual one, more like a red headed step-son thing. When he wins it makes me proud!!?? Yeah, I don’t get it either.

4. My husband was staring at me in the dark one night while I was watching a video. When I asked him why he told me I was funny. I told him he should watch it and he said he didn’t share my “gagasm”. LOL Yes, I have a girl crush on Lady Gaga. I don’t feel the need to explain it, but will say, shes looking right at me in this picture and you can’t talk me out of it!!

5. I love to play backgammon. My girlfriend and I used to play for hours at a time back in the day. I miss that.

6. Speaking of games, nobody will play scrabble with me anymore. My husband, family and friends just say “you win” and refuse to play with me. I have always played games for the fun of it, not the win. I played chess with a friend of mine every time I went to his house and NEVER won. Same goes for my husband, I never win at chess with him, but I’ll play anyway. I don’t understand people who won’t play games just because they don’t win.

7. This next one nobody on the internet knows about me, but it will not be a surprise due to my grammar and punctuation problems. I only finished the 9th grade. Really only the 8th grade, but they passed me to get me out of that school. I made it through about 2 weeks of the 10th grade, but I had so many 8th hours that I just quit. The only thing I ever liked about school was math. Makes you wonder how I had a managers job and two assistant managers jobs, doesn’t it??

8. I have a lazy eye. It almost always shows up in pictures or if I’m high. Just one of the many reasons I hate to have my picture taken. Well that and I often have my mouth open because I’m talking. I can’t do the fake smile well either. Here’s a picture of my lazy eye and one with the fake smile. That’s my dad in the second picture.

9. Most people know that I collect unicorn figurines. I also collect owls, chickens and roosters and heart boxes. Oh I almost forgot, I collect dust too. With all those little knickknacks there has to be tons of dust. I found on the net a picture of the first unicorn I ever bought. It’s from Avon.

10. I was born left handed, but because of a freak accident at my grandmothers house with boiling water, I became right handed. I still do a huge amount of things with my left hand. Open bottles or jars?? Left hand. Pull tape off the dispenser?? Left hand. I even sweep with my left hand most of the time. I say most because I can do it both ways. There’s just a couple of things that I can think of off the top of my head that I can’t  do with my left hand. Write and eat with utensils. I call myself bi-handed.

If you’re reading this and nobody has tagged you yet, it’s your turn. Do it!! It only hurts for a minute.

Have a nice day!!!