Friday Fun: 8 Things

I got this from the other Heather's blog. It's scary how many of her answers were things that I could have written myself, word for word!

8 things I love:
1) Spicy Sweet Chili Doritos. Have you tried these? They are totally addictive.
2) Bargain hunting.
3) Writing, and words in general. I like to read about the origins of words and expressions. It's fascinating to me.
4) Reading. I read all the time...while waiting for appointments, in the car (not while I'm driving!), while watching TV, before bed. Whenever possible.
5) Organizing stuff. I like to sort through drawers and tidy them up. It's fun for me.
6) Salt and vinegar potato chips. I've been known to eat them until the inside of my mouth was raw. It's the German in me, I guess.
7) "Period" movies, like Sense & Sensibility, and Pride & Prejudice. Especially the Colin Firth version. Actually, I love anything with Colin Firth in it. It makes my husband jealous, and then he goes off on this diatribe about how ugly Colin Firth is, and he can't understand what women see in him, etc. etc.
8) All things British. I'm very fascinated with British food and culture. My husband actually bought me a book called "English Food," so that I could learn how to make Yorkshire Pudding and Spotted Dick. As it turns out, I don't like Spotted Dick. When I told my husband this, he said, "Who would?"

8 things that give me the heebie-jeebies:
1) All insects. I have a serious bug phobia. I told my husband that if we ever got roaches, or some other God-awful infestation, I would have to move. He thinks I'm joking, but he's wrong.
2) A certain movie from 1973 that involved head spinning and had a really creepy theme song. I won't even write the name of it on my blog. It's horrifies me that much.
3) Small, enclosed spaces.
4) Clowns, marionettes, and most dolls. Even Bee's American Girl doll kind of gives me the creeps.
5) Hotels. I've had enough bad experiences at hotels that I'm totally grossed out by them now.
6) Public bathrooms. I refuse to sit down on public toilets. I just kind of hover above them, and I always flush with my foot.
7) Marilyn Manson. I know he's not technically a "thing," (or is he?) but there is seriously something wrong with him. His videos used to be on MTV all the time when I was in college, and they totally freaked me out. Whatever happened to him anyway?
8) Food that still has a head, such as whole catfish or lobsters. I just can't eat something when its eyes are peering up at me resentfully. It's too weird.

8 places I have been:
1) Yardley, Pennsylvania
2) Yakima, Washington
3) Tybee Island, Georgia
4) Marco Island, Florida
5) Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
6) Denver, Colorado
7) Charleston, South Carolina
8) St. Paul, Minnesota

I have never left the United States. Sad.

8 random facts:
1) I'm double jointed. I can turn my foot completely around so that my heel is facing front. This totally freaks my husband out.
2) My writing was published for the first time in the 4th grade. Our whole class wrote essays about a robin who had made her nest on the fire escape outside our classroom window every year, for 5 years in a row. The local newspaper editor picked mine to publish in the newspaper. I still have it.
3) When I was in junior high, I hated the name Heather. I told my parents to call me Shawna instead.
4) I played clarinet from 5th grade until freshman year in high school. I hated it, and was terrible at it too. I think I was second to last chair.
5) I'm pretty good at impressions. I crack my husband up all the time. He most often requests my Janice from "Friends" impression, and my Margie from "Fargo" impression.
6) I have extremely long, thin fingers. Bee has inherited them - her hands look exactly like mine. Growing up, kids teased me about my E.T. fingers, and it really hurt my feelings. In college, I had a friend who was very into astrology and palmistry, and she told me that people with long fingers are sensitive, intelligent and moody, or some such nonsense.
7) I went to Catholic school from 1st through 6th grade. I really enjoyed it. I'm no longer Catholic though.
8) People think I'm really funny, and I can never understand why. Usually, I'm not even trying to be funny. My husband says that I don't have to try, because apparently, I'm funny just being me. I'm pretty sure that's a compliment.

8 TV shows I love:
1) The Office. My husband and I have so many lines from this show that we use in daily life. For example, he might say to me, "Honey, beer me another one of those crescent rolls."
2) Friends. I have every single episode of this show memorized. Honest.
3) King of Queens. I love Kevin James. I think he's absolutely hilarious.
4) MacGyver. I'm not kidding. When I was in high school, Richard Dean Anderson was my ideal man. I asked for the first season of this series on DVD for Christmas.

(Heather, this is for you! And me.)



5) Wings. Does anybody remember this show? I loved it.
6) Stargate SG-1. I don't usually like Sci-Fi, but I really enjoyed this show. Probably because Richard Dean Anderson is in it (see #4)
7) Mystery Science Theater 3000. Did anyone ever see "Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm?" Oh my gosh, I almost died laughing at that one.
8) The Carol Burnett Show. This show is classic. I wish I could find it on DVD.

C'mon, play along! Post this on your blog, and then leave me a comment so I can come by and read all about you!