25

So for the past week I have been seeing these 'notes' on facebook that people have been posting with 25 facts, statements, beliefs, wishes, habits or any sort of thing about the person posting it.  As soon as I saw these lists I started to think about what I would say about myself, that most people might not know, so I started to compile the list in my head.  I think I have enough in mind that it won't be too hard to write a whole list.  I have decided to write my 25 things here instead of crowding up facebook with anymore notes and as an attempt to write a longer entry to make up for missed ones in the past.

so here it goes...

1.  Next year I plan on getting an apartment, in Richmond, with two of my friends here.  We all love animals and each plan on getting at least one.  One friend is hoping to get a dog, while the other is bringing her hedgehog from home and also wants to get a cat.  After much thinking, I have decided to get a mini lop rabbit (if all goes well).  At first I wanted two rats (rats have to live in groups) but I didn't want to deal with two pets, so after doing some research online, a male mini lop sounds perfect.  I plan on naming him Oliver or Wesley, or even Oliver Wesley. I hope to get one like the one above or a blue (all gray) one. 

2.  I love tea!  Especially hot tea.  I drink at least two cups a day.  Most of the time I drink herbal teas because caffeine makes me too jittery.  Right now I've been drinking herbal fruit teas with sugar which is great, I've never really had fruit tea before.  Other times I just drink camomile with a spoon full of honey.  When I do drink caffeinated tea its usually green tea with jasmine with a spoonful of honey.

3.  When I was little I didn't have a teddy-bear or blanket that I was attached to, I had a cloth diaper.  My fondness of cloth diapers started when I wanted to have something soft against my cheek while I slept.  My mom decided to use the old cloth diapers she used as burping cloths when I was little and as I used the same one over and over it got even softer.  As I continued to used the same cloth diaper, I created a relationship with my cloth diaper.  I would tell her everything, from my daily activities to how I was feeling about life at that moment.  I became so attached to her that I created a whole illusion in my head that there were these two characters, who looks similar to the heffalumps and woozles from Winnie the Pooh.  I believed that they were commanded by their master to capture my cloth diaper for her magical powers and put her in some sort of a stew.  I was convinced that the two creatures gained access to my room through a wormhole under my bed and waited there until I would get out of bed in the middle of the night to grab her while I left the room.  Because I strongly believed that they would steal her, I would take my cloth diaper whenever I left the room in the middle of the night and I would also leap from my bed, landing as far away as possible so they couldn't grab my ankles and take her from my hands.

4.  I believe that most animals, mainly mammals, are capable of many emotions.  Some of these emotions include empathy.  One day that really made me believe this was a day a few years ago when I was in the middle of a fight with my parents, I was so mad I went running up the stairs slamming the door.  By the time I had walked around my bed and sat down in my chair, the family dog, Ginnie, a wonderful Chesapeake Bay Retrieve (my profile pic), was scratching at my door to come in. I got up to let her in then walked back to my chair.  She sat down right at my feet resting one of her paws on my foot.  She sat there, calmly, staring at me, as if she was trying to tell me that she understood.  She sat next to me and let me pet her until she sensed that I was feeling better, almost an hour later (I actually was too).  This incident along with many others has led me to believe that dogs, cats, horses, mammals and many other animals do feel some sort of emotion.

5.  I am addicted to chap stick.  It all started when, in 11th grade, I was put on some medication to help my skin. One of the side effects was extremely chapped lips, so I started to use chap stick all of the time.  Even though I haven't been on that medicine for a long time, I still use chap stick just as much.  I'm trying to break the habit but its hard.  I can't go anywhere without it because I'll never know when I'm going to need it.  I try to use it less and less and I think I'm getting better but who knows.

So that's enough of writing for now.  I wrote a bit more than I had expected and I need a break.  Maybe from know on I'll write five things about me until I reach 25 on the days that I don't have a prompt.  When I was thinking of my 25 things I thought of a few more so maybe I'll just keep writing things until I run out of Ideas or get bored with it.