Facebook Exercise: 25 Things
Facebook has a new exercise for friends to get to know each other: 25 Things About Me. If my daughter-in-law wasn’t the first to send a request with her list to me, I might not have participated. But, I learned a lot about her. It’s a healthy and useful little drill. I’ve learned a lot about several of my friends that I didn’t know before and I’m thankful for the opportunity to learn more about them.
So, for friends not on Facebook, here’s the list I provided. I called it Here It Is: Those 25 Things About Me:
1. Whoever said that a woman over 30 had a better chance of getting hit by lightning than getting married was wrong. The greatest day of my life was Oct. 4, 2008 when I married the cute Scottish boy I met when I was only 17 years old (And I’ve never been hit by lightning)
2. On September 11, 2001, I thought that I could never celebrate my birthday ever again. Now it seems that 9/11 has become a “Patriotic” holiday.
3. I used to be a cat person until my allergies took away that pleasure.
4. I thrive on the creative process. The arts that I do – dance, acrobatics, writing, acting and more – give life meaning. The arts I observe – music, painting, poetry and more – make life grand.
5. Dan Millman (Peaceful Warrior) thinks we were soul mates in a former life. In our current lives, we are both former FIT World Trampoline Champions and good friends.
6. I competed with the flu when I won my first FIT World Trampoline Championship title.
7. After I shaved my head for GI Jane, I woke up every morning for weeks thinking it was a nightmare refusing to touch my head to find out if it was true. Then I’d look in the mirror … Disappointed each time. Argh!
8. My husband gave me a tattoo for my (last) birthday: a fleur de lis on my right foot.
9. I have an obsession with fleur de lis’, stackable rings from Raffinity (in Santa Monica), my computer and my adorable dog, Nicholas.
10. Even though my features reflect my Irish heritage, I am also of Native American decent.
11. I used to live in a Sikh ashram. My spiritual name is Har Har Hari Kaur given to me during a Kundalini meditation by Siri Singh Sahib after he read my numbers to learn about me. It means “God God Creative God.” Yep, that’s me: God! ☺
12. Travel has enriched my life immeasurably. The over 20 foreign countries I’ve been to range from Egypt, Hong Kong and Russia to Australia, Venezuela and South Africa as well as the typical tourist spots like France, Germany and England.
13. I wish my French was better, but I rarely try (even though one of my closest friends is French!)
14. My father and I are the only Father-Daughter inductees in the United States Association of Gymnastics Hall of Fame (Dad was inducted in 1997 & I was inducted in 2007)
15. Two months before I was inducted in the USAG Hall of Fame, I walked the red carpet at the 2007 Taurus World Stunt Awards as a nominee.
16. I know how to knit, crochet and sew (although I rarely put them into practice).
17. I was a Republican until Reagan’s second term, thanks to the Iran-Contra scandal and “trickle-down” (voodoo) economics.
18. I’ve concealed my age ever since I got wise to the fact that I would hit 40 one day and women over 40 in the stunt business are considered DEAD! Now that I’m comfortable with my recent milestone birthday, I’m afraid that people who always thought I was younger than them will be pissed to find out.
19. I have a form of dyslexia that makes reading incredibly laborious. This is very, very frustrating for me.
20. I’m an athletic quick study, my ace-in-the-hole of both my athletic and stunt careers. However there are two things that kick my butt: running marathons and riding a unicycle!
21. When I do high falls for the movies, I would rather view the airbag from the perch than from the ground. It just looks closer.
22. I am so fortunate to absolutely love everyone in my husband’s family – and that everyone in my family absolutely loves my husband.
23. I’ve had so many surgeries that I can’t remember them all, but I know most were knee surgeries. Both are reconstructed.
24. I’ve moved across the country several times: from Lafayette to Austin, to Washington, DC to Los Angeles to Miami back to Los Angeles. And now, my husband and I consider Los Angeles, Scotland and Louisiana home.
25. I used to hate church and religion until guilt drove me to walk into Foundry United Methodist Church near my apartment in DC one Easter morning. The minister and congregation taught me two important lessons I hadn’t learned in the Louisiana churches I grew up in: 1) The bible is interpreted countless ways and 2) God is love. Church became enjoyable (but now I have to drag my husband to go!)
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