20 Facts About Me

Blog Challenge Day Two: 20 Facts About Me

(... Which feels kinda silly cuz I'm a fairly open book)

My middle name is Beth but my Nana thought it was "Bath" til the day she died

My favorite color is orange

If I were any cartoon character I'd be Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

My greatest fear is death and has been since I was very young

My greatest sadness is not having children

My greatest regret / shame is the nine years I lost to obscene amounts of drinking

I'm curious about EVERYTHING

I adore vinegar .. It makes me happy

I love food and cooking but did not learn to cook until a few years ago

I have many MANY fears but a strange tendency toward and fascination with danger and recklessness

My best friend in kindergarten beat me up and (literally) chewed up the pages of my library book ... I beat her up in junior high and we called it even

I cry more at happy things than sad things

I speak my mind (too) often and (too) loudly. And while I'm proud of my bold, sparkly, crazy, brash self and I work hard to be honest, I'm painfully, ridiculously sensitive

I hate melons ... HATE

I love to rent a car and purposely get lost in the cities I visit

I used to volunteer in a hospice for children living with HIV/AIDS

I rode out a stretch of hurricane Rita on the roof of a 17 story building because I was bored

I want to backpack through Europe and road trip across the United States

I've lived West for most of my life but I feel most at home in Boston or New York

I'm the only child of an only child of an only child ... I'm the last Dale

*** Bonus Factoid: My favorite quote is "I just want to be me without making it difficult for you to be you"