10 Things

I've decided as part of this blog I'm going to run a weekly series called "10 Thing" featuring ten things about a subject, something that's on my mind, or just general musings. Today hits the musings button. I was having an interesting discussion with someone recently and throughout the conversation they kept saying things like "I had no clue!" or "I didn't know that about you!" and that struck me as funny first, but then curious second. So, in the vein of sharing a little, ten things you might not know about me:

1. I have enough mild allergies that I keep them written down on a little card in my emergency pack. That way in case I can't remember I can look them up.

2. I love French pop music of almost all decades in the 20th/21st centuries.

3. Speaking of music, I can't listen to Barber's Adagio for Strings without wanting to melt/cry/do something else ridiculous

4. I am an ardent feminist, but would probably choose to be a stay-at-home mom if I ever had kids.

5. Remember all those Disney movies the 20-something set cut their cultural teeth on? I only saw four of them as a child; Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under, and Beauty and the Beast. The rest I've seen in the last two and a half years. Except Pocahontas, which I'm still missing.

6. I've always wanted to be just like my Dad. Just without the financial whiz brain.

7. I'm incredibly passionate about groups that work with women, especially groups like MOCSA and Veronica's Voice.

8. I danced for ten years during grade school and junior high

9. I collect antique Charles Dickens novels, but I can only buy them in second-hand bookstores, that's one of my rules. I have The Pickwick Papers, Martin Chuzzlewit, and Barnaby Rudge. They're all at least 90 years old, and my oldest is at least 110 years old, there's a signature from 1900 on the inside cover.

10. I blush when I'm happy, not when I'm embarrassed.