10 things you don't know about me - STOLEN IDEA!

This is done with the utmost reverence to Ka ... a blogger that I saw while stopping to make fun of Darth ... the list they made is much more thought provoking and endearing ... mine just stems from being a copycat.

1. I am a sucker for country tunes, be it old and twangy or heartwrenching soap opera like. It's hard to admit but give me Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Jerry Reed, Anne Murray, Kris Kristofferson, The Mavericks, Loretta Lynn, Dwight Yoakam, Rita Coolidge and I am a happy camper. I wouldn't listen to them all day every day but every once in a while, I need me some bootslappin' or some sobbin' music.
2. I have never seen The Godfather (any of them). Initially, I would assume it was because I was too little (1972 and 1974) for the first two to go see them. So by the time the third came out in 1990 I had never gotten around to catching parts I & II. I am going to see them eventually, since every guy that I date looks like I have killed small animals with my bare hands when they find out I haven't seen them.
3. I cannot eat if there is a fish tank around. Dead serious. There is something about watching the fish swimming around ... breathing in their own poop, that makes me wanna hurl. It's disgusting.
4. I never had Indian food until 2 years ago. How I lived in a city where they have just about the best Indian food in the lower half of our state for 10 years without trying it, I don't know, but suffice it to say I have rectified that problem.
5. I read the same 3 books every year because I love them so much: The Stand, The Handmaid's Tale, The Red Tent. I will be adding 2 new ones to the list: Of Love and Other Demons and One Hundred Years of Solitude (I've already read them both twice this year). I am always reading new books (because I am a speed reader and crave reading above all else) but when I am down, these 3 will always take me to a place of peace.
6. I am directionally challenged. Not a joke. I cannot for the life of me deviate from planned mapped out directions or I am screwed. While driving lost, I do not know east or west. I do not know which way the ocean is if I am in the city and if you ask me which way is north I am apt to tell you UP.
7. My first car was a Datsun B210 - blue. My grandfather bought it for me when I turned 17 for $1000. My sister (who is 15 years younger than me) loved my car so much that she named it the Smurf car. She cried when it got totalled.
8. I've only been broken up with once. My first pre-sex boyfriend. He went out with me for 3 months (which when you are in your early teens sounds like FOREVER!) and then dumped me out of the blue - to go out with some girl who looked like Madonna (he thought) and would let him have sex with her. He got her pregnant and became a dad at 16 1/2 ... and while his gf was giving birth, he was having sex with someone else behind a 7-11 across town. NICE, CLASSY, WHATTA MAN.
9. My feet are bigger than the average girl. Really, not kidding. I was supposed to be 5ft 9in - 5ft 11in (had my bones measured) but had back surgery at 14 where they fused my spinal cord together. Grew 3 inches during the surgery but no more (except for my legs which grew another 2 inches or so) ... so I guess my feet match the way I was SUPPOSED to be. Speaking of my surgery, I also had to wear a back brace for 23 hours a day from the time I was 9 til the surgery. The first 3 1/2 years the brace was the sort you saw on "16 Candles" with Molly Ringwald ... the part was played by Joan Cusack ... that was me, so laugh on party people.
10. I knew the moment I set eyes on *d* that he was the one. I told all of my friends even before I had talked to him. Unfortunately it took 2 years for us to get together because I was in a relationship at the time and no matter how hideous it was, I am extremely loyal. *d* and I would go to lunch and flirt but NEVER crossed any lines. Except for one time ... and all it was was a touch on my neck with his finger. Sounds harmless ... but I rushed back to my desk to call my best friend and tell him that I had just had lunch with the most dangerous man alive. The one who could tempt me.