Seven Weird Things Meme

My thanks to mom at Outside the (Toy)Box for tagging me for this meme, thereby getting my blogging arse back in gear:

1. I have a freakish aversion to hearing any sort of food chewing. That is, not only can I not stand what I've always known as "smacking" - talking with ones mouth open - but I literally cannot stand to be in a room when I can hear someone chewing, crunching especially. I have to walk out of the room. Even when it's my husband, and he's eating cereal for breakfast...I just have to go somewhere else. The worst: I can't stand to be heard chewing either. If I think someone can hear me, I'll usually just not eat or wait until I can be in a room alone.

2. I'm 6'2", which is kinda weird in its own right, but even more unusual is that when I was playing basketball in high school, I was still a really fast runner. As in, I could run the 100-yd. dash in the same time as the fastest girl in the school (who was like 5'3" and so quick that her nickname was Bunny).

3. I have been to the emergency room several times for the same recurring problem: having things in my mouth that don't belong there (yes, I know how that sounds). Things like rat poison (when I was 5-ish), a piece of a live Christmas tree (when I was 8-ish), and super glue (when I was 11-ish). Yes, I swallowed super glue, and with teeth glued shut, simultaneously fought back the vomit that was trying to come up in my throat! A lovely image for you, I'm sure!

4. Ever since forever, I have the most memorable dreams. Whether they're good or bad, or just plain weird (which is usually the case), I remember things vividly: color of carpet, what people were wearing, word-for-word conversations, etc. There's even been one instance of a dream about a place that had closed down before I was born. Somehow, I dreamed about the interior of a hotel in my hometown - describing its curtains, seat arrangement, paint color, entry doors, everything - but my mom told me that I couldn't have dreamed it because the hotel closed before I was born.

5. I've kissed a girl. With tongue. And I wasn't drunk or tricked into it or anything. It was...not like kissing a guy, and oddly enough, I missed the facial hair.

6. Despite being what many would consider a radical feminist - I'd identify as pro-sex, pro-choice, etc. - I've had plastic surgery. It was one of the best decisions of my life, and my only regret was that I didn't do it sooner.

7. These are multiples, but they're all in the same category of concert/quasi-brush-with-fame things: I've touched Garth Brooks's inner thigh (a long story); I've gotten a guitar pick from Ted Nugent; my uncle was in the movie Top Gun; when I was a junior, I set a record for most points scored in a single basketball game, and the local radio station and newspaper ran stories on me.

Now, I tag whoever has the time to complete this meme and has some really weird, random stuff that I've never heard about!!