I have been tagged by the Naim! This means I have to write 7 random/weird facts about me. Even though it may be the same as some of the 100 things I have posted somewhere…out there!

1. I don’t drink.
   The one fact that many of my friends know. Drink as in alcohol. I have had sips here and there, but barely a full drink. At first, it was the morality that got in the way…but once I got over it. I still wasn’t interested. I never felt like I was missing anything despite following friends to bars and accompanying coworkers to the local happy hour. Somehow, I never liked the taste and often opted for the non-alcoholic drinks—telling bartenders to fill a glass wit tonic water and declare that I was drinking gin and tonic. I would joke that it was jenn and tonic. There are times that I know life would be easier to have a social lubricant, but after an hour or so in the company of people who had several drinks…I too become a little wilder than normal and can fake my stumbling pretty well.
2. I love to plan.
   When I was a kid, I would plan out family vacations, dictating where we would visit. The transportation it would take. Now years later as an adult, I can’t help but also take charge of planning trips, planning parties, planning reunions. It’s almost in my blood. If I am not at the helm, I am very near it…sometimes so much so that someone will eventually hand the reins to me.
3. I almost never use any acronyms or slang when speaking online.
   I admit that I like to be coherent in English. I see slang and acronyms (except for btw and brb) to not effectively deliver what I want to communicate. In almost teasing lightheartedness, I declare wut in presence of an unexpected situation. I tend to spell out everything in im and in email. Although there are times that my language will stoop into what is now known as LOLZ CATZ language. I learned that way before all you wannabes!
4. I used to host an online radio talk show
   It was called Screw Those Idiots. I hosted it with a guy I met online (of course) who lived in Eastern Washington. Having never met him in person…being the day before podcasts, he hosted a winamp stream on his servers. Using a headset through my computer, we discussed topics from horrible bloggers to the state of the internet. We had approximately a total of three shows usually consisting of criticizing someone or some culture. We made phone calls to people for interviews. At the time, I had some stake in an online community and received much backlash for critiquing a fellow blogger who I felt wasn’t attempting to convey anything beyond what she ate for breakfast and how sleepy she was. The show ended when the guy—a high schooler then—came out of the closet and his parents kicked him out of the house.
5. I had headgear as a kid
   I only wanted to be accepted as a child. When given the (death) sentence of headgear in middle school, I decided that I only wanted to wear it at night and on weekends to avoid any public embarrassment at school. Fortunately, in less than 6 months my teeth were corrected and I didn’t have to wear that horrid thing anymore.
6. I make prints of my digital photos once every year.
   Physical media I feel is the best marker of memories. There are digital photos sure on Flickr, but it’s not tangible. It’s not always present. It’s lost within the screen, behind windows and websites. Every year, I print out a large batch of pictures using a code to get free prints. Then I put them in my album or hand them to people. People seem to appreciate it…because they don’t have tangible evidence of memories.
7. I love citrus-flavored drinks and cold desserts.
   Lemonade. Mojitos (usually non-alcoholic). Lemon sorbet. Lemon gelato. Lemon iced tea. Arnold palmer. Is it girly? For some reason, I love that sour and sweet taste. It hits me to remind me that it’s not naturally sweet, but there’s some other flavor to twist the taste into something…so different and complex. Or at least, it is a fascination to me.

Oddly enough, most people in my online world…don’t blog as much (or would never stoop to the level of Internet memes or haven’t blogged for more than a year)…but I tag:

And the rules: