As Monica said, "baaa"

All right, all right. Since everyone & their mom is doing this "25 random things about me" bit on Facebook, I give in. I wasn't going to - but I got tagged by 5 people & clearly have no will power.

However, the beauty of being a blogger is that I've already done one of these, almost two years ago. In order to be fair, though, I've updated it with some new "random things," but boy howdy! It was nice to have some seed items to start with. ;)

1. I've always wanted to learn how to play the fiddle.
2. I think it sucks that you can no longer "run away to sea."
   
3. When I was 3 years old & staying at my family's house in Canada, my parents told me not to jump on the bed. As I was jumping on the bed (of course), I fell off and hit the side of my mouth on the radiator. I bled the entire 30-minute drive to the hospital. I still have the scar.
4. I pretty much know Braveheart by heart.
   
5. When I was little, I wanted to be a veterinarian, then a long-haul trucker, then a writer, then an historian. I stopped there.
6. I honestly think that kilts are sexy.
7. I accidentally killed one of my first pets - a gerbil named Garfield. I didn't give him enough water & he got dehydrated. It was very traumatic for little me.
8. My parents gave my sister & I the option of having braces. We opted for not. Our lower teeth are crooked now, but we don't care.
9. I have more clothes than I know what to do with, but since I'm a pack rat, I have trouble packing them up & shipping them off to Goodwill, even though I know that's the right thing to do.
   
10. I once spent a half-hour outside a White Hen Pantry in Cambridge, being talked to by an old homeless man. I had given him some spare change, he started talking, and I was too nice to leave.
    
11. My eyes are blue and I've always loved that, even when I hated everything else about my looks.
    
12. Our wedding list is already at 216 people. Yikes.
    
13. My first pet was a bunny named Jen. She was evil and used to bite my sister & I. My parents had to get rid of her.
14. My sister & I had two goldfish when we were little - Big Bird and Little Bird.
15. I once spent an evening reading Stevenson's Kidnapped at a hostel on a loch in northern Scotland.
16. The first time I ever got drunk, I was about 13 or 14 and I had one shot of rum.
17. The first time I ever got sick from drinking, I was 18. I had many shots of tequila and 4 Revs, which were horrible, blue-colored, caffeinated drinks. I threw up in the dunes at the beach. It was blue.
18. When I lived in Edinburgh & grew weary of the city, I used to go lie on the side of Salisbury Crags in the tall grass. I couldn't see or hear the city from there and I would pretend I was in the Highlands.
19. I have two birthmarks - one on my left thigh and one on my left bicep. When I was born, though, the doctors didn't think I had any.
20. I have a tattoo of a Scottish thistle on my lower back. I got the idea from one I saw on a guy's calf at a Scottish event in Canada. The day that I got my tattoo, a guy in the tattoo parlor had the same one. Besides my Scottish friend David, those are the only two people who I've ever seen with the same tattoo as me.
    
21. I talk to myself a lot. When I get caught doing so in my car, I usually start bobbing my head to make it seem like I had been singing.
22. The first time I went skinny dipping was when I was about 16, in a pond at a campground somewhere in central Mass.
    
23. When I drive my mother's car (a red Camaro) on the highway late at night, I sometimes pretend it's a fighter jet and I'm the pilot. I even do machine-gun noises.
24. I once accidentally dyed my stomach blue from wearing a hand-dyed blue tank top on a hot day. I then went to a party with my friends in Canada (wearing a bathing suit) and at the end of the night, all of their white shirts had big blue stains from my drunken hugs.
25. I believe in soulmates. Disgustingly cheesy, I know, but what else explains how The Boy & I went from first date to engaged in the life span of a coral reef goby?