#288...the John Scalzihead weekend challenge..

The scalzihead challenge: 

Your Weekend Assignment #1: Share 25 totally random facts about yourself. Include at least one you've never shared before with anyone.

1. The persona Flettera Floralilia was inspired by a Brian Froud drawing in Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy book.

2.  According to the jung-meyer-briggs typology - I am an INFP - and it's probably more accurate, than not..

3.  When I was four - I fell down the basement steps and knocked myself out - I still remember the hardness and the smell of the cement floor.

4. When I was two months old, my sister, Pat dropped me on my head. I still have the scar.

5. I once ate alligator meat.  It tasted like sausage, not chicken.

6. I have experienced the aurora borealis, right here in Pennsylvania.

7. I have had an out of body experience or -  astral projection.  and no, I was not under the influence of anything other than a headache.

8.  I know true love.

9.  I am a damn good nurse. I can save dying babies.

10. I can start an IV, draw your blood, put in a Foley, give you an injection, change your dressings, give you blood, empty a colostomy bag, get an ekg, listen to your heart, remove your sutures, pierce your ears, irrigate your wounds, remove a tic, change your pad, hold your emesis basin, clean your bottom, triage your calls, suction your tracheostomy, and do cpr - I can heal the sick, and comfort the dying.

11.  I can prepare a dead body for the morgue.

12.  I collect unusal books.  My oldest book was printed in DCCXL 

13. I still know my roman numerals.  (1740)

14. I hated babysitting as a teen.  I still do.

15.  I can paint. and write. and sketch. and sew. and cook. and clean and grow plants.

16.  Once, when I was dissecting a pregnant cat for anatomy - I brought the kittens home to show my children. I kept them in the freezer.  They weren't has thrilled as I thought they would be.

17.  I love to be alone at times. I never get lonely.

18.  I grew up in a catholic household with four other sisters.  I can mow a lawn, change a tire, sail a boat, bait a hook, clean a fish, throw a ball, ride a bike, handle fast cars, and use a hammer.

19. I never balance my checkbook.

20. I need to freshen up my hair color.

21.  I still miss my mother.

22.  I graduated with a 4.0.

23.  I was twice almost raped as a teen - I never told my parents. or sisters.

24.  I once, almost drowned in the ocean.  Again, I never told my parents. 

25.  I agreed to marry my husband after dating three months. That was 24 yrs ago..what the hell was I thinking... 

26. I've had my kids naturally. Yes, it hurt, and no, I wouldn't change it. I've made three beautiful babies, and think I am doing a pretty good job of raising happy healthy children - strike that, young adults.

27.  While snow skiing once - I wiped out with a cartwheel and broke my left thumb in three places...it never healed quite right.  While water-skiing once, I wiped out and lost my bathing suit top.  Someone threw me a tee, and I got back up.

28. I can dislocate my left shoulder at will.

29. I've had a headache for the past three days now and really need to go to bed now.