10 Random Facts

In response to my favorite Blogger The Militant Baker's blog, 10 Random Facts about Jess the Militant Baker, I'm posting my own 10 Random Facts blog.  By the way if you've never read her blog she is fucking awesome.  She's become my inspiration and main hero.  Enough fangirling.

1. I have a thing about missing socks.  I hate when I lose a sock.  I will spend hours, days, weeks, months, and even years looking for a missing sock.  I'm not saying I don't do anything else but I will take time out of nearly day looking for a missing sock.  I chalk this up to one of my obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) issues.  
   
2. I love Phillip Seymour Hoffman.  I think he's sexy, not what society says is sexy but what is truly sexy.  He's an amazing actor.  He makes you feel for whatever character he's playing.  Don't believe me?  Watch Boogie Nights, specifically they scene when he tells the object of his affection that he's in with em.  If you've ever loved someone who has never loved you, you'll understand.  That shit is real.  He has a great speaking voice, beautiful eyes, and a nice smile.  If he had his arms around me I'd feel, safe and warm, and loved.  Still think I'm nuts?  Check out Empire Falls, you'll want to go to Martha's Vineyard after that.
   
3. I can still wear the blue sweater I got when I was in the 6th grade.  I don't dare wear it outside the house but it's warm and soft and has held up fabulously considering how old it is.  Heck, I'm wearing it right now.
4. I love grilled cheese sandwiches.  I cannot get enough of them.  If they're on a children's menu at a restaurant it takes all my strength to not order one.  There's nothing better.
   
5. I do not like tomatoes except for tomato soup and that has to be a certain type.  Tomatoes are one of those foods that I've never grown out of disliking.  There's something about their texture and tastes I just don't like.  And before people start saying,  well, what about spaghetti sauce and ketchup I don't really like spaghetti sauce or ketchup.  Also, could we please stop using that argument because it's ridiculous.  I mean so much is done to the tomato during the cooking process that it doesn't taste much like a tomato once you're done.  So far, the only way I will consume a tomato is if it's creamy tomato soup, no chunks of tomato please.
6. With the exception of tomatoes most of the foods I dislike go back to an event that has left me with a bad memory.  Best example, I hate green beans.  My first grade teacher decided that she was going to make all of us try green beans.  I told her I'd tried them and didn't like them but that wasn't good enough for her.  She made me eat a fork full in front of her.  I swallowed and promptly vomited them right back up.  They tasted that bad.  Side note, the teacher was torn a new one by my parents for forcing me to eat them after I'd said I'd tried them and didn't like them.
7. I will nearly always pick salty over sweet when offered snacks.  I've never been one for cake, ice cream or candy.  Don't get me wrong, I like sweets but I love potato chips and french fries.
8. Sometimes, I don't like to be touched.  This really has to do with my OCD.  Most of the time I have it under control and it doesn't bother me but sometimes I'm so uncomfortable.  It takes everything in me to keep from recoiling when a person wants to shake my hand, pat my shoulder or hug.  I have to prepare/remind myself before I go into huge social settings that people will want to touch.  Truly, it's not them it's me and it's not a fear of germs.  It's a fear of otherness, of an unfamiliarity.  I pretty much hate when I'm in this mood.
9. I can eat an entire large box of Captain Crunch Berry cereal in one day.  I always say I'm just going to have one bowl then I eat the whole damned box.  It's like crack which is the reason I don't buy the stuff. 
   
10. Mr. Spock is my favorite character from Star Trek (the original not the reboot series).  I identify with him the most.  He's half Vulcan and half human.  I'm half Mexican American and half white.  We are both part of an otherness that no one but we understand.  I'm still learning from Mr. Spock.  I love him.