Five Unique Things About Me

1) I was attacked by a German Shepherd working at a vet clinic during high school and wound up with 40+ stitches on my face, as well as permanent scars.
2) Unlike most college students my first year, I lost the freshman 15 instead of gained, and unlike a lot of college students I know, I don't party or drink.
3) I don't have any tattoos, or piercings.
4) I'm training for my first half marathon and have raised over $1,000 for an animal shelter I'm running it for.
5) I can do the voice of Stitch from Disney's "Lilo and Stitch"

1. I don’t mind dishes its putting them away that I can’t stand
2. Coffee smell turns me on right now
3. I rarely sleep... I take naps
4. I like to dance when I drink...sometimes naked!
5. I could never get sick of that lovely sticky drink “SLURPEE”

1. I have traveled to visit many historic death sites: Ford's Theater, Dealy Plaza, OJ murders, Michael Jackson house, more.

love love LOVE this...(perhaps that makes ME unique?)

1. I traveled to Bermuda last year. (you must go some time...beautiful!)
2. I have seven older siblings and I am the youngest/only girl in my family....and no, I'm not a brat. although I did get my own room
3. I think I'm addicted to coffee!
4. I met Carrot Top at the airport.
5. I sweep my house when I get stressed out!

1. I'm a published author. I wrote a book in 2003 that is a study guide for special education teachers that went on to be published. Nope, didn't get rich from it...but I do get a very small royalty check once every three months (enough to go out for date night). It used to sell at book fairs in the State of Texas and educator conventions, but went on to sell on Amazon!
2. I'm very "graceful"...I broke my left foot 3 times, broke the right arm twice, had my right knee (ACL) messed up, and other bangs!
3. I have dyscalculia (or math disability). However, I was able to convince the powers that be with SAT's/ACT's/GRE's and even my college dean that math was useless - and I went on to earn 2 master's degree's...and completed all but my dissertation for my PhD - proving that those with specific learning disabilities CAN achieve a college education with a little hard work!
4. To piggy back on number 3 - I'm a high school drop out. I had teachers in Louisiana (back when I was living with my mom and step dad, before returning back to Texas) who thought I was lazy even though I had dyscalculia. They thought because of my last name I must act like my brother and cousins who were in high school before my time. Well, I dropped out - immediately moved back to Texas to live with family, got enrolled in a GED program at a local high school and earned my Texas High School Equivalency Diploma. Sure, I had to enroll in community college to get my foot in the door...but again, dreams are possible. GED doesn't mean failure...sometimes it's a means to an end.
5. My dad was truck driver...all my vacations as a kid were in that 18-wheeler. Yup, it would be our family you would see at Disney World with the 18-wheeler in the parking lot with 6 kids and a set of parents crawling out of - LOL!

okay. here's to another go.

1. I placed top 10 in an international talent competition when I was 16.
2. I have been acting since I was around 6, and have been in commercials for Disney, Sea World, and Typhoon Lagoon. I was also a principle model for a photoshoot for DisneyLand Tokyo, Japan.
3. I used to go to church with Kristin Chenoweth's family.
4. My friends/dance pals and I were selected to perform in the Citrus Bowl halftime show.
5. I absolutely hate Twilight.

1. I used to eat my Top Ramen almost raw, just enough water to soften it and down the hatch it went.
2. I have lucid dreams fairly often.
3. I can remember names very easy, I see you once and get your name, I'll remember you years down the road. It always amazes my customers.
4. I can remember when Carter was President. I'm 35 so I must of been 2. My parents were talking about him and it stuck in my head.


Ooopsie! I only did 4, lol.

Anyway, my 5th is that I sometimes get powerful feelings of deja vu...like seriously stop me in my tracks take my breath away. Kinda weird.

1. I am a synesthete - I have both grapheme-color and number form synesthesia.

1. I also have number form synesthesia.
2. I'm frightened of escalators.
3. I read magazines from back to front.
4. I recently got the Stargate Earth address tattooed on my forearm.
5. I amaze my customers because I know almost every item we have in my store and exactly where it is on the shelf. Even bosses come to me when they need to know if we have something, where something goes, or where to find something.

2. I have lucid dreams fairly often.

So do I. I always think it's funny when I find books about how to lucid dream.


P.S.

There is more than one definition for "unique", one of which is "unusual".

Well I consider myself fairly average, but here are my 5 things:

1. This year was the first time I've ever flown
2. I have recurring dreams (mainly that my parents would move without me, but one time they actually did!)
3. I am double jointed (partially due to injuries I have received over the years)
4. I don't eat seafood
5. I would rather go hungry than go without my coffee

1. When I was 16, I was bitten by a Copperhead snake.
2. I've had a crush on Jon Bon Jovi since I was 13.
3. I faint at the sight of blood.
4. I met my husband in college. We graduated from the same high school and never had one class together in four years.
5. I walked in on 2 men robbing our house when I was 12. I ran to a neighbor's house to call the police. They were never caught. To this day, it's hard for me to walk in to my house if I know no one else is home.

1) I am a true single mother(no help or involvement from the father) of an amazing 6 year old. Still I manage to be a full time student.
2) My daughter was delivered by the Dr. that delivered me and my 5 siblings. Also delivered at the same hospital as I was. We live in the house I grew up in. She goes to the same grade school as I did. Last but not least we had the same kindergarten teacher.
3) On my fathers side I have over 150 relatives that do not include husbands wives and most step children.
4) I've seen a colt be born and help a very little. Lol
5) Most people believe my daughter is my mothers before they know she is mine.

Let's see....

1. Though I no longer play, I used to be really good at the violin and cello. I'm talking winning a competition of 150 from ages 12-18 in Northern California. I was 14.

2. Even though I am often told otherwise (on the positive side), I find myself to be average.

3. I genuinely love kids and animals and think nothing of adding 5 extra kids and a great Dane (or husky once, lol) to my own 3 kids, Yorkie, and cat... For as long as 5 hours. That was 2 meals and a snack I prepared for them all, just them and me.

4. Somehow I lack the judgement gene. I accept everyone as they are and understand why they are the way they are. This doesn't mean I don't get upset with people, because I do... I just build a bridge and get over it quickly. My love capacity is *HUGE*.
This is what I love most about myself.

5. People seems to use me for a period in time when they need help, then they slip away. One time, when lamenting over this fact, I was told it's like a hand-up. They need the support and love of someone stronger until they can get onto their own feet, like a dehydrated person checking into the hospital for a coupe liters of interveinous hydration. I am okay with this. I have also met a TON of really super interesting people this way!

Bonus number 6! My dream car is a Volkswagon Thing. Preferably in white, but I'd take any color!

1. I was a professional in-home dog trainer in South Florida

2. I trained a dog for one of Bob Marley's sons in Miami

3. I work with troubled kids and I am a trainer in 4 different types of physical restraints.

4. I love 80's hair metal

5. I saved an 8-year olds life when I was 12. I was hiking a mountain when she ran by not looking where she was going and I grabbed the back of her shirt just before she would've gone off of a 75 foot ledge.

1. I can play the piano free style only
2. I am ambidextrous (both handed)
3. I'm self taught- crochet/sewing
4. I time myself when organizing things... (ok this ones embarrassing lol)
5. I can't do a cartwheel (have been trying to do one for years)

1. I am a synesthete - I have both grapheme-color and number form synesthesia.

2. I once gave myself a black eye while getting up in the middle of the night to look up a word in the dictionary (it's an obsession with me).

3. I don't care about the argument between unique/unusual here, even though I'm a word nerd - it's all about the fun of the list.

4. I also don't care that I can't come up with 5 things - apparently I'm neither unique nor unusual, so there you have it.

5. Oh, I forgot to add - I'm also ambidextrous, which can be quite useful....