Tuesday Randomness

It's slow at work today (don't tell the boss)... so I thought I'd post a list I've been casually working on for a while.  It's random things about me, issue 47.  Or something.

I expect you to share something too!

• I have no idea what pashmina (as in a pashmina sweater) is, but I sure think it’s a fun word!
• I have been known to buy self-help books and never finish them.  In some cases I never even start them.  Maybe I just like knowing they’re there?
• I am part Cherokee Indian.  I am also part Irish.
• My mother, at 5’5”, weighed 105 pounds until I was a teenager. What’s funny about that is she primarily sustained herself on Lay’s potato chips, peanut M&M’s, and Coca Cola.  On the other hand, I gain a pound if I even think of a bag of Lay's. 
• I love tomatoes and everything made of them.  Except tomato soup and V8.  Tomato soup and V8 are both just flat disgusting.
• I'm a total online video game nerd.  Some of my very best friends today, I met in online games ten or more years ago... and I have never met most of them in person.
• I LOVE to be in the water but I rarely go to the pool thanks to my refusal to be seen in a bathing suit.  I'm working on this.
• I lost over 75 pounds in 2007.  Then I hurt my back.  I've regained about 50 of it.  So I figure it's only a 66% failure. *cough*
• My dream job is to be a writer.
• My dream vacation involves traveling the US and Canada in an RV.
• I hate heat with a passion.  If it's over 70° and the sun is out, I'm looking for an air conditioner.  The sun feels like it's cooking me from the inside out and I can't cool off.  I've asked three doctors about this and they've all told me to avoid the sun or wear a hat.  (No, really, thanks doc! That was totally worth $150!)
• I'm 33 years old and I still occasionally go to elementary school playgrounds to swing.  (No, not when the kids are there, that'd be creepy of me.)
• I can clean my kitchen from top to bottom without missing a beat... EXCEPT the little traps in the sinks.  I nearly vomit if I have to touch them, even if they're totally empty/clean.
• Hubby and I met while working together, but quickly developed a very close friendship which mostly consisted of going out fishing (or ice fishing) until 4am several times a week.  Everyone thought we were, well, ya know... but we weren't.  Those are some of my very best memories.
• I used to drink three or four or six Cokes a day.  I loved the energetic feeling.  Then my heart said KNOCK IT OFF (atrial-fibrillation-what?) and now I don't do caffeine at all, except my hot chocolate!
• It took me three separate tries at college over a span of 15 years before I managed to finish it.
• I love to sing in the car!  I have been laughed at by strangers at many a red light in my time.  It's embarrassing, but I don't stop singing! 
• What's funny is that Aidan is beginning to "sing" in the car when I sing too.  It's the cutest thing ever.
• Did I mention I'm not a fan of heat?  It's 78° in my office and I still have an hour to go.  It's been like this for a week now.  Silly me - I thought I lived in Alaska, for crying out loud!
• I have a not-so-secret crush on Tim McGraw.  Mrowr.

Now, your turn!  GO!