20 Things People May Not Know About Me (Note: some blatant name dropping ahead)

1. In 5th grade, I convinced a friend that I could communicate with dogs and would teach her if she gave me her candy necklace.

2. I am discreetly tattooed.

3. I kissed Mickey Dolenz on the cheek.

4. Due to a petrifying fear of needles, as a child I used to have my teeth drilled and filled without novacaine.

5. I saw a UFO when I was 13.

6. I had lightning strike the ground about 30 feet in front of me. I have no recollection of this, but my mother tells a hearty tale about it.

7. I have communicated with a dead relative. (Actually, it was two grandmothers, two uncles, and a cousin).

8. I have had a country music singer change his clothes in my office.

9. I have watched a very big tornado thunder its way past my office on its way downtown.

10. I was Jimmy Buffet's travel agent back in the day.

11. I had a dream that Bobby Kennedy was shot the night before he was shot.

12. I have performed as "an obese stripper who discovers a tumor in her abdomen."

13. I work in the hospital where I was born. I am not proud of this.

14. Other than the two years I spent in college, I have never been without a cat.

15. I don't recall ever having been kissed under mistletoe.

16. I was given a special gift by David Lee, creator/writer/director of Cheers and Frasier. (Details in an upcoming post)

17. I once hung a toilet seat on the arm of a statue. It was funny at the time.

18. I have square danced. I loved it.

19. I have played Scrabble with Linda Hamilton. She won, but I could have taken her.

20. I can write backwards, mirror style, in cursive.

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