This list in the place of an actual entry

[tsaiko]

1. I have a scar on the side of my head where one of my friends hit me with a golf club when I was four.

2. My eyes are blue. Like clear, clear blue. When I wore contact people would ask me "Do you have contacts?" and even though I know they were really asking "Is that your natural eye color?" I was always stumped as to how to answer truthfully without having to do five minutes of explanation.

3. I have lived exactly four years of my life without owning a cat. Those four years were in college.

4. I have freckles across my nose. My mom always told me whenever I complained about them that they would fade when I got older. I now know that is something you tell kids to make them stop whining.

5. I can play the trumpet with my toes. No seriously. (No jokes about being flexible please :P).

6. I collect foreign/unusual coins, jewelry boxes, books, and unicorns. Despite the fact that I have well over a hundred of each of these objects (that is not an exaggeration), I will never cease to be pleased when I get another and will want with a burning passion if I see one I don't have.

7. I have cared for and/or owned the following animals: cats, dogs, an indoor rabbit, a hamster, a tarantula, iguanas, snakes, and Madagascar hissing cockaroaches.

8. I cross my little toes and my little fingers without realizing it. I'm double jointed in my little fingers and crossing them is actually extremely comfortable for me. It use to drive my mom nuts when I would read with them crossed.

9. When I was five, I read an entire dictionary. No, I don't know why either. I will also read cereal boxes, directions for electronics, school notebooks, diaries, or anything else left lying around in my presence that had words written on it.

10. I am allergic to a preservative they put in orange juice and, to a lesser extent, pineapple juice. I can't drink bottled/cartoned OJ even if it says "100% natural" or something similar. I can however drink fresh squeezed orange juice. Every time I mention this people act like I have suffered a horrible tragedy my entire life. Either that, or they tell me when I'm pregnant I will have to drink OJ (like it is the only source of vitamin C or folic acid on the entire planet -_-).

Comments

[rackhamrose.livejournal.com]

Re #10: You're not alone! I have the exact same problem with OJ preservatives, as does, I believe, my mom.

*commiserates*

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

You and your mom are like the second and third people I've ever encountered EVER who have the same problem. The first person was a relative of one my bus drivers and she's the one who finally clued me in that it was a preservative.

*commiserates too*

[oninobara.livejournal.com]

...do people ask you about orange juice when you have colds, too?

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

Yes!

"I'm sick."
"You should drink OJ."
"I can't. I'm allergic to a preservative in it."
"Can you drink fresh squeezed?"
"Yes..."
"Then squeeze yourself some."

Because when I'm feeling sick the thing I want to do most is squeeze 10 oranges just to make a glass of juice. No thanks. I'll stick to vitamin C fortified apple juice.

[reeology.livejournal.com]

Strawberries have more vitamin C than oranges.

Thank you, Snapple. <3 I knew obsessing over Real Facts would come in handy some day.

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

I did not know that. o_O

Only problem is I don't like strawberries (which almost makes me a pariah in my family). ^_^;;

[reeology.livejournal.com]

*gasps* Even the chocolate-covered ones?

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

Yes.

I'd probably peel off the chocolate and just eat that. ^_^

[itlandm.livejournal.com]

People spontaneously discuss your pregnancy with you??
Just when I think I know a foreign culture...

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

In America this is a common thing if you are young and female. People will randomly tell you you'll make a good mother, you'll need to do this during pregnancy, and ask you when you plan on having kids.

If you are pregnant, you will be assailed by every story or bit of urban legend anyone can think of dealing with pregnancy. Strangers will come up to you and try to touch your stomach without permission.

Once you have kids you will feel it necessary to dispense advice randomly because you've been through it and of course people will want to know every single detail about your pregnancy.

These are exaggerations, but not by much.

[moonwiggle.livejournal.com]

I used to draw freckles on my nose with felt tip. You're a lucky, lucky woman.

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

Trust me, I'd scrape mine off and give them to you if I could.

I ♥ that icon.

[siha-chan.livejournal.com]

POMEGRANITE JUICE ^_______^!!

The best you can drink for anti-oxidants, though not good for vitamin C. But then again I usually just go for the vitamin C pills when I'm not feeling good. ::shrugs:: Warning, may take getting used to.

[sheltem.livejournal.com]

... but they may have the same perservitives. Who knows.

Also Tsaiko, I want proof that you can play with your toes. PROOF DAMN YOU!

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

That would require me actually finding my old trumpet, which I'm not allowed to bring to the apartment because Miome would kill me.

Girlfriend v/s Sheltem.

Sorry, you lose.

[sheltem.livejournal.com]

::cry::

[roland-deschain.livejournal.com]

I used to love OJ,
and now I barely ever drink it.
It's more acidic than coffee.

People can be so "Duhhhh"
;)

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the acidity doesn't do much for me either.

And I can't stand coffee. Never have been able to.

[shoujo-inc.livejournal.com]

Madagascar hissing cockaroaches?
You would actually *keep* them? you have an impressive animal portfolio