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

[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.