{"id":711,"date":"2011-05-31T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/blissblog\/?p=711"},"modified":"2019-08-11T22:01:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T02:01:31","slug":"twenty-five-random-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2011\/05\/twenty-five-random-things.html","title":{"rendered":"Twenty five Random Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As\u00a0 I was doing research for interviewing Susan Piver who will be featured in the Living Their Bliss entry, I came upon something on her website that seemed like so much fun, that I decided to re-create it here. She called it Twenty five Random Things About Me.\u00a0 Here are mine:<\/p>\n

1. I can pick things up with my toes, as a result of having to do exercises for being pigeon toed and flat footed as a kid.\u00a0 I have very happy feet now.<\/p>\n

2. According to my Mom (bless her Soul), I spoke my first word at 6 months old and she would add “And you haven’t stopped since.”<\/p>\n

3. When I was 7, I rode my bike without training wheels for the first\u00a0time and when my father (bless his Soul too:) ran with me and let go of the back of the\u00a0bike, I crashed into the tree in the front yard.\u00a0 It didn’t stop me from getting back on the bike and riding again. That’s kind of how I live\u00a0my life.<\/p>\n

4. I have\u00a0 had a series of fun jobs: including lifeguard\/swimming\u00a0instructor\/swim team coach, greeting card text writer, clown named Feather who is a faerie,\u00a0ice cream\u00a0parlor scooper, doing organic skin care product demos\u00a0and being an artist’s model.<\/p>\n

5. I do alot of ’emotional bungee jumping’, never having done it\u00a0physically.<\/p>\n

6. I have more books than any other type of item in my house.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0I interviewed The Dalai Lama in 2008, living out a 20 year journalistic dream.<\/p>\n

8. My first pets were goldfish and turtles. My most recent were a\u00a0Schnauzer-Terrier named Merlin and an Abyssinian named Amira.\u00a0Both\u00a0crossed the Rainbow Bridge a few years ago.<\/p>\n

9. I have read Stranger In A Strange Land at least 30 times.<\/p>\n

10. I have seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show more than 40 times.<\/p>\n

11. I won second prize in a Rocky Horror Picture show contest in\u00a0college, dressing up as the character Magenta, complete with\u00a0bodice and fishnet stockings.<\/p>\n

12. I swam a few marathons for charity in my teens.<\/p>\n

13. I marched for the ERA\u00a0\u00a0(for those too young to know….Equal Rights Ammendment)\u00a0and always thought it was\u00a0silly that it was defeated based on the idea that it would mean\u00a0co-ed bathrooms rather than equal pay for equal work.<\/p>\n

14. I met Philly area celebrities Gene London (was in the audience on\u00a0his show)\u00a0 and Sally Star\u00a0 (and had my picture taken sitting on her\u00a0horse) when I was a child.<\/p>\n

15.\u00a0 I was in a hula hoop contest around 12 or 13 and kept it going non-stop for 3 hours.<\/p>\n

16. Chocolate is my drug of choice.<\/p>\n

17.\u00a0I played the wicked step mother in a 5th grade version of\u00a0Cinderella.<\/p>\n

18.\u00a0 I played a ‘Mission Doll’ in Willingboro High’s version of Guys\u00a0 and Dolls and I really wanted to be a ‘Hotbox Dancer’. Is that telling or what? Always the ‘good girl’ who wanted to be a little wilder.<\/p>\n

19.\u00a0 I took 3 years of Latin in high school so I could become a better writer. Maybe it helped.<\/p>\n

20. I used a computer for the first time in grad school. Pre-k kids use\u00a0them now.<\/p>\n

21. I facilitate a workshop called Cuddle Party where people attend\u00a0wearing p.j.’s<\/p>\n

22. Mint chocolate chip is my favorite flavor of ice cream.<\/p>\n

23. I received a white plume feather from a member of a New Year’s Day Mummer’s Parade string band when I was clowning at an event for\u00a0Gilda’s Club.<\/p>\n

24.\u00a0 I am connected with 4400 people on facebook. I love networking\u00a0and meeting kindred spirits.<\/p>\n

25. Love is my religion.<\/p>\n

See if you can enjoy creating your list…let us know what some are:)<\/p>\n

For those who are thinking…”What the heck is the Mummer’s Parade?”\u00a0 it is a Philadelphia New Year’s Day tradition.\u00a0 Check out this sampler video: http:\/\/youtu.be\/g18sY5t_Syk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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