The Big 50

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things

 I'm having a bit of blogger's block.  I need to go do something exciting so I have something to write about.

A few weeks ago, I got spammed by someone with an email asking me to list 50 random and odd facts about myself and send it to all of my friends if I wanted to have good luck.  I don't do chain mail, but I could use some good luck.

So, here's a list of 50 random and odd facts about me.

1. I don't like mustard.  In any shape, form, recipe or brand.  Not on my food or in my food.  Not wet or dry.
2. GAIN is my favorite laundry detergent.
3. Pink is my favorite color.
4. I had my tonsils out when I was 6.
5. I can't sleep with the bedroom door shut.
6. I tell Abby "Mommy loves you. Be good. See you tonight." every morning before I leave.
7. I believe in true love.
8. Men whose names start with the letter "R" have played significant roles in my life.
9. I often wish I had a cool job like special investigator, FBI agent or forensics specialist.
10. I love the water but I don't know how to swim.
11. When I was a little girl, the one thing I wanted more than anything was a white canopy bed with pink frilly bedding.
12. I have a half-sister I've never met.
13. I broke my right ankle in 1992 falling down some stairs and now I'm afraid of going down stairs without looking at them as I go down them.
14. I love lying in bed listening to thunderstorms and watching lightning.
15. I could eat cantaloupe for every meal.
16. I had a psychic reading many many years ago and the lady said that the letter "K" would play a big part in whom I'd marry.  She also said I'd never have children of my own but that I'd help raise a daughter.
17. I'm superstitious.
18. I spent the night in an alleged haunted house but didn't know it until the person I was house sitting told me about it later.
19. I did not get my license until I was 17.
20. I'm afraid of snakes, knives and heights.
21. I slept with a night light until I left for college.
22. Hallmark commercials and movies make me cry.
23. I act a lot tougher than I really am.
24. I'm actually a pretty shy person.
25. I like daisies over roses.
26. I consider myself romantic but prefer song lyrics over poetry.
27. I'm a two-drink drunk.
28. I shoplifted some "googly eyes" from Woolworth's when I was a kid for a craft project I was making.
29. I prefer salty things to sweet things.
30. I screen all of my phone calls.
31. I prefer Coca Cola to Pepsi.
32. Clowns creep me out.
33. I hated my name when I was a kid because I could never find a pencil or ruler with it on it.
34. I had a crush on this guy in college and would leave notes in his mailbox, written in pink ink, telling him how much I liked him.  Then, later, we had a class together and I would purposely take notes using the same pink pen, but he never caught on.
35. I do not like gory movies.
36. I love old horror films from the 50s and 60s.
37. I love old romantic comedies from the 50s and 60s.
38. I know all of the words to the movie PRETTY WOMAN.
39. I think a sense of humor is far more sexier on a person than 6-pack abs.
40. I do not like "women's talk shows" (like the View.)
41. I sleep on the right side of the bed, on my right side.
42. I prefer showers to soaking in a tub.  I think soaking in a tub is too much like sitting in "person soup".
43. I was allegedly conceived at a drive-in movie theater.
44. I like seafood but I do not like fish.
45. I don't like mushrooms.
46. I have a hard time telling people how I feel about them.
47. I prefer the scent of men's aftershave over women's perfume.
48. Halloween is my favorite holiday.
49. 28 is my favorite number.
50. I like to make lists.