25 Random Things

Facebook has this new chain-note, called "25 Random Things" and the person is supossed to tag 25 people or so with their all about me's, and then the lists will continue. I find these random lists about my friends pretty interesting, in the fact that they aren't 'random' and only my female friends have completed them, and I find them quite endearing because it shows how real and jumbled and wishful we all are.

Here's mine.

1. February is my favorite month--valentines day, the end of winter, my birthday on March 2nd, and I love the word, February...it sounds so nice.
2. I’m aware there are many different women I could become and the possibilities are vast and scary and strange and wonderful, and I’m not quite ready to become any of them quite yet.
3. My boyfriend is older than your dad.
   
4. I won’t share details, but you can ask.
   
5. I dream of starting a cottage industry where I could make soap, or dresses or honey and sell them at Saturday markets in a straw hat.
   
6. I want to learn to read Hebrew.
   
7. I’m a night owl, but when I’m on a schedule I try to wake up extra early to write for 1 hour before I have to start my day.
   
8. When I moved for the millionth time in May I accidentally threw out a giant bag full of swimsuits. Now I only have one red one-piece I bought at Walmart for eleven dollars and a hand me down pokadot bikini. It’s all I need.
   
9. I’m a water bug and you can’t stop me. I had to get four stitches on the bottom of my foot when I jumped in a river in Argentina with no shoes. I also contracted a serious Staff infection on my thigh from hot springs in N. New Mexico, combined with not taking showers! Ich.
   
10. I don’t shave my armpit hair, except when one of my brothers get married and I have to be a bridesmaid.
    
11. Mongolians are my favorite people, historically and culturally.
    
12. I’m part Mongolian. Did you know that?
    
13. I love love love Winnings Coffee Shop in Albuquerque, and I often think of it, miss it, and have anxieties about having to move away from ABQ permanently, because then I couldn’t go there anymore.
    
14. I’m learning to speak Mandarin Chinese, and it’s going okay.
    
15. I have no desire to learn the characters.
    
16. I prefer wine to beer.
    
17. I often fear other people will think I’m weird, and this contributes to my awkwardness in social situations.
    
18. I use bar soap, not ‘body wash.’ Almost always Sandalwood scented.
    
19. I like to take trains. I like bicycles more.
    
20. I remember my dreams and talk about them with others.
    
21. I feel like my life has been a series of ‘goodbyes.’ And there will be many more to come.
    
22. Since I live abroad, sometimes I worry about a family member dying, because then I’d have to fly home.
    
23. In addition, I sometimes worry I will die and this involves lots of paperwork and money and confusion. My fears of death in China revolve around food poisoning and motorbikes.
    
24. I wish I liked to eat raw tomatoes.
    
25. My favorite job has been being a Camp Counselor at Girl Scout Camp, but teaching in Inner Mongolia is pretty fun, too. I just wish we got to go on fieldtrips.