8 Random Facts

Because I love Maggie so much, and because I am challenging my irrational fear of creating boring tags, I'm going to post my random facts....

I'm not into rules today and I'm not tagging anyone else.  Bah!

1.  I pronounce "toilet", "tolet", to the amusement of one of my friends and all of her Bay City sisters.  I also have a potty mouth and sometimes choose consciously to use poor grammar if I think it will sound clever or funny.

2.  I was a vegetarian for nine years and now I'm not.  I do choose my animal products consciously and I think eating locally and organically is much more environmentally friendly than eating a strict non-animal diet from thousands of miles of away.  Hello, chard in my backyard.  Goodbye avocados from Chile in January.

3.  I think and speak at the same time, making me an annoying conversationalist at times.  This is how I learn my own opinions about things.  I have a secret envy for people like this who think and then speak. 

4.  I can curl up my toes and stand on them and even take a few steps, something my parents have talked about to their friends since I was about 4.

5.  I ran major production for several giant clothing companies for 11 years and never learned how to thread a needle on a sewing machine.

6.  Composting and earthworms excite me.  I hate to throw things away in a landfill.  I also loathe cheap plastic shit.

7.  It sometimes takes me over half a day to decide what I want to do with it.

8.  I think figs are sexy.  And Jack Johnson, too.