Life as I Know It

After being tagged for weeks, I finally got around to doing mine.  So I finally hit #25.  I thought I can come up with a lot more than 25 random things that will make an interesting person out of me.  Turns out, I’m wrong and that making the list it’s quite a task. 

Sharing my random 25 on FS… 

1. I am Medusa.  Mine is the stare that kills.  Fierce!
2. I between drinking and smoking, my poison of choice is alcohol.
3. I am a stage Tita.  I have 2 nephews that I absolutely love.
4. I was a beauty queen in high school.  Twice!  Ugh!!!  Embarrassing I know.
5. I have 2 college frustrations.  One is UP Rep and the other is…
6. I am a barrio lass.  Always was.  Always will be.
7. I am a keeper… of friends, secrets, grudges.  Beware.
8. I know nothing about music.  I’m just easily influenced
9. I get mad and I get even.
10. I know my way around the kitchen.  I learned how to bake when I was 5 years old.  My mother taught me how.  Anyone heard of the “wonder oven”?
11. I love my job as much as I hate it.
12. I am a java addict.  I prefer my brew rich and strong.  But I never tasted coffee until I was in college.  When I was a kid, Mama used to say “if you drink coffee, you will not grow tall”.  And I actually believed her then, coz she drinks and she’s not tall. 
13. Banana is my favorite fruit.  It makes me happy.
14. During our practicum in college, my group mates called me “mamahen”.  By now, I have been called by so many variants of the term already – nay, nanayste, mamaste, mother, etc.  I don’t know.  Seems like a have a knack of picking up “kids” as I go along in life.
15. I have eight bestfriends.  Without whom, I would never have made it this far.
16. I have already picked my funeral picture.  One moment in 2002 frozen in time.  Me, happy with life and my cosmopolitan
17. I hate NOT having my own place.  I hate renting.  After high school, I lived in a dorm, a boarding house, an apartment, a condo, a ghetto.  Whether shared or solo, renting always sucks!  I suppose that’s a cancer trait?  After all, a crab can’t live long without it’s own carapace.
18. I have faith.  I realized there was noone I can depend on but God when I had my surgery in 2000.
19. I am a dog person.  My current babies are Kulit the dachshund and Ally Mcbeagle.  As a kid, I grew up alongside an endless line of royal askals.
20. I am like my mother, much as I don’t want to admit it.
21. They say your strength is your weakness as well.  Mine is my family.
22. I love reading as much as I love dvd movie marathons.  My box’ treasures are books and a motley crew of original and pirated VCD/DVD’s. 
23. I have all sorts of stress related disorders:  MVP, insomnia, GERD, and CTS.  Wonder what else I’ll pick up as I age.
24. I am possibly “gifted”.  I learned to value my gut-feel.  I have weird dreams.  I know I need to “run” when I feel funny.  And I learned to bite my tongue when I have murderous thoughts.
25. I am a hopeless romantic, still.