Pretty Pretty Bang Bang

More random, useless information about myself. Please feel free to chime in with your own info. I promise this is it. I’m posting this in lieu of the Topic of the Week since nobody seems to care about it.

• I’ve never had a passport.
• The only time I’ve officially left the US was to visit Niagra Falls in Canada.
• Really, does Canada count as “leaving the country”?
• My dad’s alcoholism affected me so much that I refuse to drink alone and monitor my own alcohol intake.
• I can recite all the states in alphabetical order.
• I’ve never lived anywhere but Springfield, MO.
• For years, I felt like an outsider around my mom’s side of the family. I still feel that way occassionally.
• I love movies about the mafia.
• I love to read true crime novels.
• I think most new music is crap.
• My music collection includes rap, country, opera, heavy metal, rock, jazz and almost everything except new age.
• I freakin’ hate new age music.
• My favorite book is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
• My second favorite book is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
• The character of Dill in TKAM is modeled after Truman Capote who was friends with Harper Lee.
• My love of both books is purely coincidental to their relationship.
• I’ve never done drugs. Of any kind.
• Except alcohol. But I haven’t abused it.
• I was once married to a gay man.
• He didn’t realize it at the time. Neither did I.
• I have played the piano, violin, bugle, clarinet and tenor sax in my life.
• I wasn’t really great at any of them, but moderately good at piano and sax.
• My husband is 4 years younger than I am.
• I’ve always liked younger men.
• I’m not politically active, but consider myself a Democrat.
• I think watering the lawn is a waste of water.
• I don’t like SUVs or minivans.
• Excessively needy people drive me nuts.
• I don’t like whiners either.