50 New Things About Me

Looking back through my old posts, I realized it has been a while since I posted the first 100 things about me and since that time, I have changed a bit.  Here are 50 new things about me. Enjoy…

1. I play the piano.
2. I play the guitar.
3. I am a bit of a food snob.
4. I believe that if you don't use at least 1 lb. of butter when you are cooking Thanks Giving dinner, you are doing it wrong!
5. I love drinking water, but only if it is ice cold.
6. I have two cats, brother and sister, named Archimedes and Tigerlily.
7. One of my life's ambitions is to visit as many LDS temples as I possibly can.
8. I am the third great-granddaughter of Cheng Bunker, one of the original "Siamese twins".
9. I am an artist.
10. I love art history.
11. I love all history.
12. I love teaching.
13. I currently don't have a car, and get around by bus, walking, or rides.
14. The next time I move, my goal is to move to the beach.
15. I talk to my cats as if they can understand me…cause they can!
16. I have a couple steel plates holding my lower back together.
17. I have all the gear to be a roller derby rock star.
18. I was actually in roller derby until issues with my back no longer allowed me to continue.
19. I have started to get the hang of gardening, and so far the plant I get along with most is the tomato plant. Yumm!!
20. I love cooking with fresh ingredients, and will only cook with something out of a can if it is necessary.
21. I don't really like cooking a meal with a crockpot.  Again, food snob.
22. I love reading.
23. I actually like reading cookbooks.  I could be entertained with a new cookbook for hours.
24. I very strongly loath the Twilight series. If you need a reason, comment below, and I would be happy to fill you in on my opinion.
25. I have no problem (generally) trying new and even weird food.  After eating pig rectum, everything else seems pretty tame.
26. I ate pig rectum in Taiwan as, get this, an appetizer!  I also ate pig ear (with the hair still attached), skin, stomach, and many other weird body parts along with tofu that smelled and tasted like death.
27. My favorite fruit is guava.
28. I am the youngest of four children.
29. I have a horrible poker face when it comes to hiding how I feel about someone.  I'm working on it.
30. I am a Harry Potter nerd, and I'm not afraid of anyone knowing it.
31. I am an Anglophile, and not afraid of anyone knowing it.
32. One of my favorite tv series is The Vicar of Dibley.
33. I am a Whovian
34. I think Marcel Duchamp (the guy with the urinal) is one of the greatest artists of all time.
35. I believe that art should not be easy to understand.  It should make you think really hard and reach for understanding, otherwise, it is adding to the pile of garbage that makes you brain dead.
36. One of my favorite things in the world is getting to know someone, and leaving them better than I found them.  Anything I can do or say to make them feel better about themselves, is one of the greatest feelings ever.
37. I believe that everyone is creative…they just don't know it yet.
38. As a result of #37, it drives my nuts when people say they are "not the creative type". There is no "type".
39. Following this theme, another one of my favorite things is to do is to create.
40. I have quite a bit of art work around my house that is absolute crap, but it has sentimental value, so I haven't thrown it away…yet.
41. All of the art work hanging on my walls in my home (besides two large pictures of the temple) was done by me.
42. The first time I heard the story of Joseph Smith seeing Heavenly Father and the Savior Jesus Christ was some time between birth and kindergarten, and the second I heard that story, I knew it was true.  That belief has stuck with me ever since and is as strong today as it was back then.
43. In my lifetime, there have been three movies that I watched so much that I had the whole movie memorized: The Lion King, Newsies, and Pirates of the Caribbean.
44.  I secretly want to swim with sharks.  Sure, swimming with dolphins would be cool, but swimming with sharks, though admittedly unnerving, would be amazing also.
45. Unrelated to #44, I think being eaten by a shark would be one of the coolest ways to die.  Apart from being horrifyingly scared whilst being eaten by a shark, I have to think that there would be a part of me that would be thinking, "I'm being taken down by one of, if not the top predator in the world."
46. This may sound weird to real fish enthusiasts, but my favorite fish to eat is a nice rainbow trout.  Now, it has to be caught in the right conditions.  In a nice clear river or in a clean lake is best.  If it is caught in a muddy, swampy, I-dont't-think-so lake, then it's going to taste like the mud it came from.
47. Even as a kid, I never liked the taste of Spaghetti O's.
48. I never tasted brussel sprouts as a kid, and so, I just figured I didn't like them because all kids are supposed to hate brussel sprouts.  It turns out that I love them!
49. I very much believe that average people talk about people, smart people talk about things, and wise people talk about ideas.
50. I truly believe that forgiveness is not a gift we give others by forgiving them, but that it is a gift we give ourselves as we let go of the hurt and anger and let God fill that whole with his love and forgiveness for us.

Do any of these surprise you?  Let me know by commenting!