24 facts about me

Because I'm bored at work and feeling crappy, because my hands haven't quite adapted to knitting, because I have to take regular breaks from reading A Game of Thrones, and mostly because I can:

24 facts about aphrodite_mine 

1. The first movie I saw in theaters was Milo and Otis. The second was Harriet the Spy.
2. I hit my brother over the head with a rocker (from a rocking chair) when he was a newborn.
3. My first fandom was either Power Rangers or the Little Owl books.
4. I used to have a V-shaped birthmark on my forehead, but it has faded with time.
5. My first pet was a salamander of indeterminate gender. Sam lasted a week.
6. For a few years I wrote and directed holiday performances for my siblings to put on.
7. I wear a size 10 (US) shoe. It makes finding discount styles irritating.
8. But then again, I've worn the same black flats almost every day for over two years.
9. I used to play the cello (badly) and can play the piano (very badly).
10. I still refuse to re-watch Jumanji because the night I saw it in theaters my neighbor played his bongo drums out in the driveway, and it scared me that badly.
11. I read my mom's copy of The Color Purple when I was in grade school because I thought it was a romance novel. I don't remember reading past the part with Shug. (In fact, when I re-read it for a class a few years ago, that was the only part I remembered.)
12. My mom told me once that masturbation is "something boys do."
13. She also told me that I shouldn't be friends with a girl at church because she had depression and she would make me sad.
14. I didn't drive until I was 21.
15. My three siblings and I have six suicide attempts, one rape, seven mental diagnoses, and zero broken bones between us.
16. I've moved at least once a year for the past seven years.
17. I had my first kiss at 21. (Unrelated to driving.)
18. I've never been out of the US, but I've been to both coasts, Wisconsin and Texas.
19. My first online presence was an Animorphs website (I don't remember the host) followed by a collection of my fanfic and poetry on tripod, some of which is still live, and a ujournal.
20. I took ballet, tap, and jazz from age 5 to 13. A few years later, I told my mom that my sister looked really awkward on stage. She said, "You should have seen what you looked like!"
21. In third grade, I played a boy in a church play. That year I also played a Country Mouse and Maria in The Sound of Music (without the nuns or... the music. The summer school didn't want to offend any religions or pay for the rights to the songs.)
22. I was in both of my parent's second weddings. (I am super iffy about that apostrophe.)
23. I've never been pulled over, but I've been in two accidents.
24. In elementary school, I sang at a boy's memorial service. I didn't know him, but other than his best friend I was the only one upset when he died.