Hey guys! Look, I’m
posting again!
Today is a random post.
Random, because I’m going to tell you ten random facts about me. Let’s get started.
1. During the
2011-2012 school year, I wrote 56 reviews of books I read that year in my
reading notebook. I read more than that,
I just didn’t bother to review every single book.
2. I have blonde
hair, and brown eyes. This is a
combination you don’t see very often—a lot of blondes have blue eyes. When I was a baby, my hair was really, really
light blonde, and my eyes were really, really dark brown. According to my parents I was “striking”.
3. It takes a lot to
make me cry during books, movies and TV shows, but when it does happen, it
means that I really enjoyed/felt strongly about it. One example of this is “The Fault in our
Stars” by John Green. A TV show that made me cry was Doctor Who, and a movie that made me cry was "Marley and Me".
4. The only J.R.R.
Tolkien book I’ve ever finished was “The Hobbit or There and Back Again” which
I actually just finished yesterday! Though I am attempting to read as much of the
“Lord of the Rings” trilogy this summer as I can. I’m about 240 pages into “The Fellowship of
the Ring”, but I can only read it in short little bursts, so I don’t know how
far I’ll actually get.
5. I own approximately
400 books. (This number is approximate
because I counted my Nancy Drew books last time I counted, but they’ve
mysteriously disappeared, and were possibly given to the Blind.) The funny thing is, is that I don’t buy books
very often. I’m much more likely to get
books from the library than to buy them. In fact, I quite rarely buy books. Though I get a lot of books as hand-me-downs and from the library book sales, so there's that. (And I'm horrible about giving away books, so I have a ton of books from my childhood I couldn't bear to give away...)
6. When asked to pick
between which words I’d rather hear: “Yer
a wizard,” or “I’m the Doctor,” I was unable to choose. Harry Potter and Doctor Who are both just
such big parts of my life, that I don’t know if I’d be able to choose one world
over the other.
7. My room and
shelves are full of random knickknacks, such as a plastic banana that has
Doctor Who quotes written on it, a fan from Japan given to my family by a
Japanese exchange student, a tiny mask from Venice, a stuffed French the Llama,
and Luella the Latin cow, that my sister got me at a Latin convention a few
years ago.
8. My walls are
covered in pictures, posters, maps and quotes.
I currently have two Doctor Who posters, three travel posters, five
maps, seven photos (though I plan to get more soon), and at least twenty-one
quotes. Also a poster from the Tour de
Nerdfighting 2012.
9. I have a lot of
stuffed bears in my room and in my closet.
Currently on my bed I have five bears.
One is from the YMCA, one is from Finland, my sister knit me one, I got
one for Christmas, and the other is a red panda bear that I got at the zoo a
few years back. I have at least one more
smallish bear that I got at the hospital when I was five or six. I also have three gigantic stuffed bears—a panda
bear that I won at a carnival, a polar bear that my friend gave me for
Christmas, and a polar bear that my parents gave me for Christmas. There’s actually a funny story about the
gigantic panda bear. I went to this big
carnival in my state with my friend about two years ago. We were playing one of those horse racing games,
where you try and make your horse get to the finish line first. I thought I was a completely different horse
near the back of the pack, but it turned out that I won, and because there were
about ten people playing, I got a gigantic panda bear. It’s currently sitting on my lap.
10. This is a weird
one but… I hate wearing skirts. I don’t
mind them on other people, in fact I think they’re really pretty. But personally, I hate wearing skirts and
dresses. I also hate wearing sweat
pants, though yoga pants are acceptable as pajama pants. On that note, I also hate wearing the
majority of pajamas, especially pajama tops.
I’ll tolerate pajama bottoms, though I’m happier in yoga pants, or
shorts in the summer. As for pajama
tops, I mostly wear t-shirts instead of actual pajama tops. As for the sweat pants, it’s not for any
reason other than this: they make me uncomfortable. I don’t find them particularly comfy, and
personally, I’m much happier in jeans.
{This picture has no relevance to anything, really, and I've already posted it on my blog. I just really like it.}
The Dandy Lioness
