daisy chain

alright, i don't normally do this kind of stuff but since it's nate i haaaaave to.  so i got a message from nate (aka the teeth and / or the phantom pooper) saying he had given me the daisy award and to visit his blog for the deets.  in conclusion i must now share seven usual or strange things about me and then pass three other bloggers the daisy award... creating a never ending cycle of giving and receiving of daisies until the internet is just one giant daisy field.  or something like that.

1. i have a million dream jobs i would like to do: raising goats and making goat soap, radio dj, forest ranger, roller derby girl, author, painter, tap dancer, food truck owner, jungle cruise skipper and tons of other things.  i seem to be always coming up with something new to be when i grow up and i'm afraid there won't be enough time to do them all. but that doesn't mean i won't try.

let me milk you and make soap! please!

2. i have a long standing belief that i have a lisp.  everyone tells me i don't, but i don't believe them... so don't bother trying to fight me about it.

3. i read the harry potter series for the first time two years ago and quickly became obsessed.  and then i watched all the movies up to 7.1 (which was in the theater at the time). i have been to harry potter world in florida twice (once with friends and once by myself for christmas). i have been to a wizard rock concert. and i am in the process of reading the series for the third time.  i don't think of myself as any of the characters but several of my friends or not-so-much-friends remind me of the characters.  i had a roommate who i still swear was umbridge in the flesh.

omg, i love cats and being fake nice to people.

4. i have referred to myself as a gypsy since i was about 15.  moral of the story: be careful what you tell yourself.

they love gypsies in toyland.

5. i haven't eaten mashed potatoes since i was 4.  i had an incident that now makes that food look like puke to me and i have eaten them again.  because sometimes you make up your mind when you're 4 and you never change it again.  i actually am quite prone to dry heaving... usually from lack of sleep, too much excitement or one of my 3 trigger words (which all start with the letter s).

6. in general, people think i am pretty brave and fearless and i, generally, am.  except when it comes to anything that could potentially be physically dangerous.  like even a little bit.  when i see a spider or a lizard or a dust bunny that moves too quickly my lips instantly start to tingle.  which is my own personal version of my spidee sense warning me of impending doom.  i am also afraid of going under water, jumping off things, being too high in the air and pretty much anything else you can think of that might make a person hurt.  i'm not afraid of traveling alone or public speaking or giving away all my stuff and moving across the country.

back, you devil monster!

7. i have a long standing lie that i tell to people... that i met will ferrell one time when i was in new york.  that never happened.  but we did have some guy on the street tell us that will ferrell was filming a movie on top of the building we were standing near and that's why craft services was there.  and that's the truth of that story.  but i really did see meredith from the office on the subway in new york.  and mr schue really did make fun of me with his eyes for loving donuts in a museum in dc.

i swear, that's why we couldn't get a picture!

alright, i did it!  yay for me!  and now on to the tagging:

abby - she used to wear a cloak and was often subjected to my gypsy pounce.
brianna - she makes the best cookies... and anything else.
jessica - i once told her i hated all her shoes. and i did.