1. I never, ever, ever forward, take part, engage in, or otherwise acknowledge chain letters, forwards, here is a bunch of random stuff about me lists, or anything resembling the previous especially as they relate to on-line social networking groups.
2. Sometimes I do things that are unexpected, just so I don't feel trapped by mediocrity.
3. I want to design my own runway show made of all recycled materials with girls and guys of all sizes and have a crazy party to celebrate afterwards, inspiring everyone to start making their own clothes and stop buying anything new.
4. I want to sing/scream/play in a band again. It was one of the best times of my life. Thank you Ashley for lying that I could sing.
5. I want to write and illustrate a children's book that gets read a thousand times, even by adults, (but especially nephews and nieces), which inspires people to live amazing lives for God and compose music to be listened to while reading the book.
6. I want to write a song and create a music video for it. I have a white satin strapless dress that I want to run through a forest barefoot in. My vision also includes lots of mud(possibly in the form of a bath), a little bit of the color red and flying(probably done by birds).
7.I want to blow someone's mind away by giving an amazing gift. My brother is in Kenya right now and this is one of his recent stories(For the complete post go here):The afternoon had another similar project visit/audit. We had the honor of planting a tree at the project and doing another home visit. At this home, the child was not there (she was at the project) so we met the mom. She was a very young mom, had three kids, was very shy, and expressed her shyness through laughing. I asked a few questions which were translated back and forth. At the end we were about to leave, she stepped away from the 6' by 6' main room of her simple mud house with a tin roof that we were in (not owned but rented,) to a side chamber that was about 2' by 3' in size. She came back with a bag of raw peanuts which she set in front of me. I was told that she wanted to give me a gift. I was struck very hard by this act of generosity. This woman who has in material terms as close to nothing as you can get was giving me what amounted to her an enormous amount of food. The American in me felt overwhelmed and of course didn't want to take something of such value from her. My Kenyan partner sensed this and told me in no uncertain terms that I absolutely HAD to accept the gift, there was no choice. The mom jokingly added that I should give some of the peanuts to President Obama as well. Two very obvious characteristics, cultural and otherwise of Kenyans exhibited by this and many other examples: 1. They are extremely generous. At all of the home visits to children and families in poverty, they insisted on serving tea and/or food or in this case giving a gift. 2. They are extremely welcoming to visitors. It was described to me at a church we went to on Sunday that Kenyans view visitors like "water in a river, flowing one way." the water will not likely return so you as the host must be sure to welcome them warmly in the chance you get.
8.I want to either live in a hut or build a dome home, live in community or in the ghetto, live recklessly abandoned or not at all. (If it's off the grid that makes me even happier.)
9. Why on earth did I pick 25? I have homework to do! I procrastinate with almost everything. It has nearly been my undoing an unspeakable amount of times.
10. I want to speak at least three languages fluently before I'm 30.(Maybe a new language every decade?) (Hearing people speak other languages results in three things: exciting me(If you KNOW what I mean), long bouts of daydreaming, tinges of uncontrollable jealousy.
11.That being said I have studied the following languages significantly: French, Mandarin, ASL, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek.
12. I want to work on a Bible Translation Project. I think it is incredibly important for everyone on Earth to be literate and to be informed enough to make their own decisions.
13. When I'm overwhelmed I hide in bathrooms and think about the hundreds of other people who sat there before me.
14. Speaking of bathrooms, I've been known to squat in most public restrooms and have been 'discovered' unexpectedly in the process by someone who decided to yank the stall door open.
15. I'm training for a triathlon. (Mostly mentally right now;-) I want to canoe the mississippi, bike from coast to coast and hike the pacific crest trail.
16. I enjoy mime, being a mime, practicing silence, and secretly *heart* all monks. As a side note I also heart most men wearing kilts.
17. I absolutely love baking (as well as most foreign cooking) and creating time-consuming, delectable, never before made recipes that probably only I appreciate. Most of the time I'm not half bad. Presentation is important to me.
18. I absolutely love being for the most part vegetarian. It has made my life simpler, less smelly and I'm even more excited to eat than before. (Which I didn't know was possible.)
19. I think I am fat most of the time even though sometimes I tell people I know I'm not. This is only because I had food allergies/eating problems when I was a younger and weighed 130 lbs when I graduated high school. Now I weigh 170 lbs and while I love my body I will always be envious of other people who are probably too skinny and reflect on the days when my acne wasn't as bad and people would tell me I could have been a model.
20. I'm excited to die, just not anytime soon. Even though I know I will probably regret it, I hope I will live to be a healthy 100 years old. If I do, I plan on spending a significant amount of time streaking, laughing, singing, and interrupting people's lives to make them think differently and not take themselves too seriously.
21. If I have a terrible, awful, no good, rotten day I will do one or more of the following: eat an entire carton of blueberries, take a hot bath with lavender with candles lit while playing my favorite music (probably kevin prosch, sigur ros, waterdeep), reading my favorite book and drinking some delicious wine, lay down in the middle of field and yell until the sound of my craziness makes me break out in a fit of laughter, go swinging in the dark, or drink something with baileys in it.
22. For approximately 14 and 1/2 years of my life I was pursuing being an astronaut.
21. When no one is home I walk around the house in high heels. I secretly like wearing them, but I don't wear them in public because I can't walk very well, I think they are a dumb idea, and I don't like towering over everyone. (I feel like they're looking up my nose and that it makes them uncomfortable.)
22. I wrote a song the other day. I do it from time to time. I have instrument ADD though. One day I'll play piano, then guitar, then banjo, maybe mandolin, and even drums if I feel a little crazy. It means I'm pretty bad at just about all of them.
23. If I could have been, I would have been an ballet dancing opera singer who did comedy routines. (equally good at all of them and equally entertaining to experts from all disciplines.)
24. I hate almost all bright colors. They give me a headache.
25. I desperately want a goat! or two. And a massive vegetable garden. Woo Hoo! I get tingly just thinking about it.
WOW! I never knew half of those wonderful things! Thanks for sharing them. I wish that I sometimes knew myself. I have spent my entire life hiding behind a "front". I have always done what i thought was expected of my by whom....I don't know....just whomever was suppose to do the expecting. I never knew what I had until it was gone...it makes me appreciate more of what I have now. Some day I will try to write 25 random things about me...maybe...it is pretty scary just thinkling that I might do it.
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