25 Random Things

Waldo with his look-a-like cousin, Maldo

Well, Lainie challenged her blog readers to list 25 random things about themselves. If you aren't sleeping by number 8, you drink way to much coffee.

1. I got the vacuum cleaner out to do the rugs, got sidetracked doing something else so I left it out, its been in the hallway so long now, the vacuum cleaner needs dusting.

2. I have no children and it looks like I never will.

3. I enjoy watching cartoons on TV instead of prime time shows. Thomas the Train, SpongeBob SquarePants, Sitting Ducks and Fairy Odd Parents are my favorites at the moment.

4. I used to think the original Star Trek was a really cool show but I never saw it before it was syndicated and re-aired.

5. I am diabetic and look longingly at ice cream and candy bars. If I splurge on ice cream it HAS to be the original Bryers -

6. I work for my brother as a computer consultant and think any job that takes more than 3 months to complete is really, really boring.

7. I'm single and live alone. I normally sleep on the sofa - I guess I figure its good training for when and if I ever get married since I figure I'll be in the "dog house" most of the time.

8. I enjoy foods of all kinds and am not afraid to eat something new (remember Marmite?) I just can't eat massively spicy food - like "real" Indian curry.

9. I completely wear out my shoes every 3 or 4 months or so.

10. When I was young I thought being a forest ranger would be the coolest thing in the world to be...until I learned how much they just sit around most of the time.

11. I can still belly laugh at the memory of my then new sister-in-law throwing bread to some wooden ducks in a pond and watching her growing increasingly alarmed and upset when the ducks wouldn't eat the bread.

12. My elementary school was torn down and made into a parking lot that I park in now and then when I do work for Merck and Co. in West Point, Pennsylvania.

13. I wish I had a dog today.

14. I packed up all my vinyl records (albums) and took them to the thrift store and ditched them there last week.

15. I enjoy science fiction movies. I'd rather read fantasy like "The Hobbits" than watch the movie though.

16. Someday I hope to take the perfect, National Geographic quality, picture of a squirrel. I can die happy after that.

17. If I could retire today, I would sell everything I have and move to some place in the Florida Keys and basically be a hermit.

18. Lainie, I never could see the point of sham poo when there is so much real poo around.

19. I rarely take things completely seriously (see #18).

20. I think nearly all athletes, singers, and other entertainer professionals are massively overly paid.

21. I've been watching a TV show called "Spain, On the Road Again" lately and have enjoyed watching Claudia Bassols and Gwyneth Paltrow eat, while I wish I was as free-spirited and successful as Mario Batali.

22. I only do jigsaw puzzles while rocking on the houseboat.

23. My ears ring nearly 24/7 and the tinnitus drives me batty (battier?) about half the time.

24. My definition of success is owning more than one pair of underpants.

25. I want to be cremated and have my ashes thrown in the river in Valley Forge National Historical Park - doing that will probably be illegal, but then, I won't care.