I’m going to deeply apologize for this. We three had the intention of posting a collaboration project yesterday, but all of us failed to do so. Keep your eyes peeled for the mortification, it should be posted soon.

In the meantime, Ramona had posted a 50 Random Facts About Ramona yesterday. In the spirit of collaboration (without any actual collaboration), I present some random nonsense about myself. I had attempted 50 and found I could go a bit further. (A word of advice: If you’re trying to talk about yourself but seem to hit a metaphoric brick wall, imagine introducing yourself to a stranger. Little tics and quirks about yourself will arise and you’ll discover “you” things to mentally discuss.)

50(+) Things about Me:

1. Technology hates me. I’m technologically illiterate. IPods have been destroyed, tablets will never turn on, and don’t even get me started on what I’ve done to phones. I once had a phone that was lost for months. It had fallen between the cushions of my Aunt’s living room couch. In Oregon. Four months after our visit, the phone was mailed back to me, 2,600 miles away.
2. Phones love me. One spent a weekend on a rock wall on campus, toughing it out between a hurricane and an earthquake. It came back unscathed. And the countless times I’ve forgotten devices in my jeans pocket, only to find them dripping with soapy water after a run through the washing machine. Yeah. Technology and I don’t mix well.
3. I recently learned how to make kandii cuffs. It’s fairly easy and very calming. I love making handmade jewelry. I have a bead collection. And a shell collection. And a sea glass collection.
4. I also have a sticker collection.
5. And a temporary tattoo collection.
6. Needles terrify me.
7. Talking about blood or veins makes me nauseous.
8. I have a legitimate fear of dinosaurs. (Jurassic Park was traumatic as a kid.)
9. And taxis. (Watch The Bone Collector and you’ll catch my drift. Why the everliving fuck would you get in the car with A TOTAL FUCKING STRANGER. Taxi drivers expect payment, so you’re essentially telling them that YOU ARE CARRYING MONEY. WHY THE EVERLIVING FUCK WOULD YOU MAKE YOURSELF THAT VULNERABLE?)
10. I like lemonade and iced tea.
11. I don’t really like heavy soda. Coke and Pepsi and all that. Too sugary. But I do like Sprite and diet 7UP. And flavored sparkling water.
12. I’ve never been drunk. I may have gotten a teensy bit tipsy once, but I’m not sure.
13. The closest I’ve ever gotten to consuming marijuana is second hand smoke in a limo. Junior Prom and 24 kids are crammed into the largest limo on the island. Half the prom-goers decide to light up in the back. There were no open windows.
14. I wear a lot of fucking black, man.
15. I don’t want to say that I’m racist, but I’m physically more attracted to fair-skinned boys. It’s a subconscious thing. So many natives here speak Pidgin (which is just fucking ridiculous and I don’t understand a fucking word) and so I tend to relate to boys raised in an “American household.” I’m a stickler for good spelling and grammar and local boys just seem to lack the capacity to exercise that skill. It’s a matter of communication.
16. I want a kitten. A black kitten. With blue eyes.
17. Blogging may have saved my life.
18. Batman is my favorite superhero.
19. I fucking hate kidney beans. And bits of carrot (chopped into tiny pieces, shredded, ugh, I hate it, take it out of food, WE DON’T NEED THE GODDAMN CRUNCH OR COLOR, it ruins the dish). And lima beans. I’m very picky about my food.
20. I absolutely love the Harry Potter universe. But I’m a bit of a poser, I haven’t actually read all of the books (but I do own all the movies and I love finding random Harry Potter facts on the internet).
21. Cold feet are the bane of my existence.
22. I learned the word “humgruffin” the other day. It essentially means “terrible person.” I fully intend to incorporate it into my everyday speak.
23. My pupils are often dilated. It’s a little strange. My pupils will either be huge, with a very thin rim of hazel brown, or extremely small, like a teeny little dot in a sea of light brown.
24. I don’t like cold drinks. I prefer room-temperature.
25. There’s a possibility that I have exercise-induced asthma. I’ve never been tested because I don’t want to go through any rigorous testing. I’m incredibly lazy.
26. I am in love with Sudoku. I often use it to distract myself from things I need to suppress.
27. I love typing. I absolutely love the motions of my fingers when they clack against a keyboard.
28. I have trouble determining a song’s genre. I think my favorite genre of music is a sort of post-hardcore hard punk rock/light metal thing. I really don’t know. Bands like The Color Morale (my current favorite band), Get Scared, Crown the Empire, Sleeping with Sirens, Pierce the Veil, Halestorm, Falling in Reverse, Senses Fail, Evanescence, Paramore, Panic! At the Disco, and All Time Low.
29. I also enjoy artists like Ed Sheeran, Kina Grannis, He is We, Parachute, and Jay Brannan.
30. And I like country, too. The Band Perry is my favorite country band, but I also love Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert.
31. My first kiss was sexual abuse, so I don’t count it as my first official kiss.
32. I didn’t get my first official kiss until I was 21 years old (seriously, a couple of months ago). I didn’t kiss him back and I think that hurt his feelings a little bit, but I’m not comfortable with physical intimacy.
33. My first words after my first official kiss: “Oh dear god…” (If not kissing him back didn’t hurt his feelings, my reaction definitely did…)
34. I have a strange infatuation with dying my hair. A year ago, I first dyed strips of my hair teal. After that, it was all downhill. I’ve dyed it teal, blue, purple, blonde, black, magenta, Summer Haze (a sort of strawberry blonde redhead thing), and it’s currently a mix of brown and (faded) red.
35. I don’t wear hats because they don’t stay on my head. I don’t know why. I think my head might be oddly shaped.
36. I started crocheting a blanket about two years ago. I haven’t finished it. I’m not even close to finishing it. It looks like a scarf.
37. I believe that anime (especially good anime) is unhealthy. Once you open that door, you’re sucked into a black hole of Asian-ness. The obsession never really goes away.
38. I don’t watch cable TV. I prefer Netflix or Hulu because I like having all the episodes available at my fingertips, to watch at my own pace. Also, I’m really picky about how I watch shows. It has to be watched in order by episode and one after the other. I waste entire days this way.
39. I enjoy slam poetry. Sometimes. But I don’t like slam poets. I feel like I wouldn’t get along with majority of them.
40. I fully believed that I was a witch when I was about 10 years old. I even had a specialty, a superpower, you might say. It was a really stupid “ability.” My “power” was to control the wind. However, the wind would only do the opposite of what I said. If I wanted the wind to blow, I’d have to say, “Wind stop blowing” aloud. And, of course, it didn’t always work.
41. I named my phone Wi-Fi/hotspot “Dumbledore’s Study.” Its password protected, but if anyone can guess what it is, I would have no problem with sharing my bandwidth with them.
42. I don’t really like to wear sleeves unless they’re really baggy (like sweaters or sweatshirts). But I much prefer spaghetti straps to anything else.
43. I’m not very good at being anonymous on the internet. I’m actually fairly easy to find/stalk. I’m going to have to put a lot of work into keeping my identity a secret.
44. I could be a good cook if I wanted to, but I often lack the patience to put any real effort into cooking.
45. I went through clothes phases. As a child, I wore a lot of frilly dresses. As an adolescent, I wore a lot of ripped blue jeans. As a teenager, I wore a lot of dark jeans and cargo pants. I now wear a lot of dark skinny jeans, black high-low skirts, and black dresses (high-low or about mid-thigh length).
46. In Elementary, I was one of the smartest students in the school. I got fantastic grades and I spent most of my time reading. In the 6^th grade, my grades started to slip and, since then, I’ve been too lazy to bring them back up. Intermediate was spent on Academic Probation and bordering on expulsion (private school kicks you out if your grades are bad enough). High school wasn’t much better. I didn’t believe in homework and I hardly ever turned any in. My grades depended solely upon my test scores and my ability to cry on command.
47. I love cheesy jokes/pick-up lines. I find the wit clever and it always makes me laugh.
48. I don’t really care for sappy romantic movies. I’m not a fan of The Notebook or Titanic.
49. My favorite movie is Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog and I’m in love with Neil Patrick Harris (despite his homosexuality).
50. Figuring out 50 things about me was a lot harder than I thought it’d be.
51. I am not a great driver.
52. My car is incredibly illegal to drive (essentially everything but the insurance is expired).
53. I wear glasses often. My eyesight is not great.
54. I wore glasses often. I now limit its use to only when I drive. My grandma’s bitch destroyed them and they don’t stay on my face well. (Yeah, bitches be bitches.)
55. I don’t like to wear slippers. I prefer to go barefoot or wear boots with a bit of heel. Flat shoe soles make the arches of my feet hurt.
56. I’d rather be suffocating in the pressurized heat than shivering in the freezing cold.
57. I love to hold my breath and often forget to inhale. Being underwater calms me.
58. I cannot draw. I am a terrible artist.
59. Thesaurus.com makes all of my writings diversely worded and sounding infinitely more educated.
60. I like to paint my nails. It relaxes me.
61. I’m often caught biting my lip or my finger or my hand or my forearm or my tongue. I really like biting.
62. I just got contacts and I FUCKING LOVE THEM. I don’t know how I’ve survived without them.

And I believe that’s all for now. No doubt other quirks will surface and I’ll have the irritating need to update this post. I’ll do my best to refrain from doing so.