The title of this post represents my desire to make all my posts begin with lyrics to Miley Cyrus Songs, even when they don’t really accurately describe the contents of my post, besides sharing a number.

Anyway, to the task at hand: Melissa tagged me to this 7 random facts about me survey, so here goes!

1. I save every fortune I get in a fortune cookie. Sometimes, I take ones other people have gotten. I have quite a collection in my wallet that I love to bring out when there is nothing else to talk about. I have found that there are few that would actually be classified as fortunes. Some gems of my collection include:

“Smile if you like this fortune cookie.”
“Life is full of little decisions, like white or brown rice.” (How oddly appropriate…)
“Keep on Keeping On.”
“Draw up on a budget and figure out how to cut down on your debt.” (This isn’t really a fortune so much as financial advising…)
“You need to forgive that person today. Just believe me.” (What?!)
“Today you are wiser than usual, and also less anxious.” (I don’t know why, but I always hear Dwight Schrute saying this one.)
“It’s one of those low-key days you’d rather just spend chilling.” (What am I do to with this kind of information?)
“What makes an apple fall to the ground?” (Um…gravity?)

The best fortune missing from the collection: one opened by my sister’s (female) best friend which she later told me about to my immense amusement. It read, “You and your wife will be very happy together.” Amazing. I love the assumption that she is both male (or a lesbian in California or Massachusetts) AND married. I don’t know which is more offensive.

2. I have had two pets named after television characters. I’m sure I’ll have more in the future. The first was my beloved cat, Chandler, who sadly died my freshman year. The second is actually my mom’s dog, but I got to name her. I picked the name Sookie. I think both sound appropriately enough like pet names. We almost named my other cat Phoebe, but we felt that bordered on obsessive, so we went with Chloe instead.

3. I’ve never gone through a rebellious, “I hate my parents” stage. Maybe I was just a great teenager, or maybe my parents are just the best parents ever, but even when I was mad or mildly bratty in my younger years, I’ve never wanted to rebel against or stop talking to my parents. In fact, I talk to my mom almost every day, and in high school, we spent a ridiculous amount of time together (as my sister was in college and my dad was gone a lot for work.) Last week, I spent an entire weekend with just my dad, and we had a great time. I try not to take for granted how close and amazing my family is. (Hi, parents!)

4. I’ve seen every episode of “Friends” multiple times. I can almost quote each episode right along with it; some i could perform as a one woman show without the aid of the show playing behind me. I also watched all but the first four episodes when they originally aired, which does mean that, yes, I started watching Friends when I was in 2nd grade. I was a very mature 8 year old. It also means that when I started watching reruns, I understood about 50% of the jokes for the first time. I had a very similar viewing/reviewing experience with both “Clueless” and “Dirty Dancing.”

5. The only thing that will prevent me from ever having a dog, despite wanting one, is the fact that I refuse to pick up dog poop. I just can’t do it. I’m getting all grossed out just thinking about it. This is also why I flatly refuse to be a helpful daughter and take my mom’s dog out when I’m at home.

6. I really miss dancing. I started taking ballet, tap, and jazz  when I was in first grade and continued with all until senior year and continued tap up until my sophomore year of college. I was on dance team for three years in middle school and took dance class every day at my performing arts high school. Now I’m in severe withdrawal. No other work out is ever as fun. No other work out clothes are ever as pretty. Sometimes in my room, I find myself standing in fifth position with my arms out in second about to tondue front or shuffle flapping through the kitchen ending with a little ball change once I’ve reached my destination. I really need to find some sort of outlet for this.

7. Sometimes, I feel like like I have too many friends. For real. More than half of my friends on facebook (over 500) are actual, real-life friends. It’s really bi-product of moving so much and having multiple groups of friends from everywhere I’ve lived. Let’s see: there are my neighborhood friends from Pittsburgh, my Jewish friends from Pittsburgh, my school friends from Pittsburgh, my school friends from Alabama (including dance team friends, theater friends, bestest friends), my Jewish friends from Alabama, my New Albany High School friends (all three of them…), my Reynoldsburg High School friends (Hi, Kaitlin!), my PA (that’s the Eastland Performing Arts Program) friends, my Syracuse Summer College friends, my camp friends, my college friends (including sorority friends, freshman year dorm friends, Bay State friends, class friends, LA program friends) and every other random person I’ve met along the way. This makes keeping track of and keeping in touch with people VERY difficult and makes it especially annoying with my mom goes “So how is random friend X doing these day?”

So there you go. Anyone else do/feel/think any of these things? Anyone? *crickets*