1. I'm a graphic designer. I started with QuarkXpress 3 on a 486. Like, before Pentium.
   
2. Yes, I'm now a Mac snob. Adobe InDesign and Photoshop CS3 rock my world. No, I won't make you a logo for free. It's $75 and you'll like it.
   
3. I love horses. Specifically, gaited horses. I used to collect model horses and once thought 250 was a huge collection.
   
4. I like taking lots and lots of photographs, but I'm not trained. I don't know even 5% of what my camera can do.
   
5. I share too much information, too easily. Sometimes it is used against me. But mostly it just makes people uncomfortable.
   
6. I'm married to my first love. However, it's my second marriage. It took us both a while to learn we had it right the first time.
   
7. We share three children, a dog, three cats, four rats, one bird, seven fish, one frog, two horses, 27 chickens and 2 guineas.
   
8. As a matter of fact, I WAS born on a farm.
   
9. My favorite movie of all time is The Princess Bride. My husband and I shared our first kiss at the end of that movie, in November 1987.
   
10. I listen to a lot of different music, but if I had to live the rest of my life with only one CD, it would have to be Master of Puppets.
    
11. I'm a Scorpio.
    
12. I was born on All Saint's Day.
    
13. I've tested between 138-141 for IQ, but I don't think I'm smarter than you. In fact, I struggle with my 4th grader's math.
    
14. My chosen charity is American Cancer Society because I have lost many close family members to cancer.
    
15. I have pseudogout. It is never a good thing when your doctor hands you something and starts with, "Don't panic when you read this ..."
    
16. For my second marriage, we had a pirate wedding, and I wouldn't change a thing. Best. Time. Ever.
    
17. I like to fish, and I'm not afraid to put a worm on a hook or take a fish off, but if Westley will do it for me I'll darn sure let him.
    
18. I used to be absolutely terrified of bees. Mortified. Blind, shrieking fear. But not any more.
    
19. Bats, however, don't bother me. Nor do snakes, frogs, most insects. I am a bit wary of birds.
    
20. I didn't go to college until I was 30 years old. After two years of college, my income doubled. Do it if you have the chance.
    
21. I was never drunk before the age of 21. I've never passed out or thrown up from drinking too much. (Doesn't sound like much fun.)
    
22. I don't smoke.
    
23. My family means the world to me.
    
24. I don't make friends easily. I've had a few of my friends since grade school.
    
25. I have regrets. I'm sorry.

1. If you're buying, I'll have a Captain and root beer.
   
2. If you haven't noticed, I have adult ADD. Like, bad.
   
3. I also suffer from seasonal affective disorder, or S.A.D. I'm not afraid to talk about depression. If people weren't so hung up on being labeled, there would be less suicide.
   
4. I'm certain I have other mental issues, but since they're not diagnosed, let's not speculate. I embrace my imbalance.
   
5. I have a terrible memory. I can't recall names, faces or dates. I rely on photo albums for clues to much of my past.
   
6. I don't think I'm good at very many things, and I have a hard time accepting compliments.
   
7. I was a Girl Scout through 6th grade.
   
8. I failed driver's ed class the first time around. Apparently they have an issue with the car leaving the pavement, even for just a moment.
   
9. It's okay though. I haven't had an accident in, well, weeks I guess.
   
10. I love Pringles. Reduced Fat Original. Not the nasty Fat Free kind, and not plain Original unless that's all they have.
    
11. I love Combos. But only the pretzel kind, and I'm partial to the pizza flavor. Hate the cracker kind.
    
12. I'm pretty much addicted to Mountain Dew, although I've quit drinking it several times. It always seems to sneak back in.
    
13. I hate to cook.
    
14. I hate dishes and laundry, too.
    
15. I am 5'6" and 140 lbs. Why is it okay to ask someone's height, but not their weight? Makes no sense to me.
    
16. I have a dirty mind.
    
17. I swear way too much.
    
18. I am so addicted to LOST. It is the only TV show I watch. Literally.
    
19. I can't stand to watch gory movies. Love thrillers, hate blood.
    
20. I once worked for Ted Nugent. My start in graphic design developed when I began proofreading his hunting magazine, and knew I could do a better job of laying it out visually.
    
21. I once worked for Deja Vu Showgirls. No, not as one of the three ugly ones. As a graphic designer. Fully dressed.
    
22. I've already had partial knee replacement surgery. My patello-femoral joint is all plastic and steel. I'm not that old.
    
23. I've never broken a bone.
    
24. I am a hunter. I hunt during the firearms whitetail deer season. I'm not very good at it. I've never killed a deer, except with my car.
    
25. I'm very interested in genealogy, but don't have the time for it.

1. I love to debate. (Check out my Hey MonkeyBrain lenses.)
   
2. I'm always right. J/K ... Or am I?
   
3. I'm too sarcastic. No, really.
   
4. My newest favorite saying is, "Embrace your imbalance!"
   
5. If stress were a food, I'd be FAT!
   
6. Have I mentioned lately that I love my job?
   
7. My daughter is ALARMINGLY like me.
   
8. I want to be able to give Adobe Illustrator verbal commands and have it understand me and just MAKE my art like it is in my head.
   
9. I am really sorry I sold my Breyer Red Roan Running Stallion on eBay.
   
10. I'm not sorry I hocked my class ring. I had NO emotional attachment to high school.
    
11. I really like Squidoo. Even though I CAN write a lot of code the hard way, I don't like to.
    
12. The nails on my ring fingers grow faster than my other nails. Or, I don't break them as often. Either way, they're freakishly long.
    
13. I've NEVER had fake nails.
    
14. I've NEVER been to the tanner. Instant cancer capsule.
    
15. I'd get LASIK if it was covered by insurance.
    
16. I love the vintage Fisher-Price Little People.
    
17. When I was in 2nd grade, I stole a tiny cheap toy horse from a friend, and I have regretted it ever since. Sorry, Trudy.
    
18. I don't collect them, but in my immediate vicinity are figurines of Skeletor, Maleficent and Jack Sparrow.
    
19. I don't have any tattoos. Yet. I have an idea that I've carried around for years, but I have very low expectations of finding an artist that can deliver photorealism. Guess I'll wait until iron-on transfers can be used like tats.
    
20. You'd think with ADD this bad, I'd have been diagnosed in grade school. But back then, I was simply "daydreaming" or "not using time wisely" or "capable of better" ...
    
21. My LensRank today (28-Feb) is #58,702 and I don't think that will do. I'm going for the 10-15K range. Everyone should know about me. (Fair warning and all that.)
    
22. Hell yeah! LensRank #32,813 today (29-Feb). Sending pages to your friends really does help! LOL
    
23. I've been cleared by my knee surgeon to start horseback riding again, and I'm really geeked about it. Even though it is about 20 degrees and there is a foot of snow on top of an inch of ice, everywhere.
    
24. And add to that fact that my horse is really obese right now. What is known as an "easy keeper," he gets fat looking at food. I've got months of work ahead to get him back in barrel racing shape.
    
25. I keep saying barrel racing, but it's pretty much one of my least favorite gymkhana events. I like almost all of them better than cloverleaf.

1. Why, I'm doing fabulous, thanks for asking.
   
2. I'm right eye dominant without glasses or contacts, left eye dominant with.
   
3. You would be ill advised to ride in a car I'm driving if I am not wearing glasses or contacts.
   
4. Captain Morgan Tattoo > Captain Morgan Spiced Rum
   
5. I procrastinate.
   
6. There is a stuffed fish in a betta bowl on my desk, along with fake flowers in a vase. See above.
   
7. I love scented candles.
   
8. I hate the smell of lotion, but I have severely dry skin so I use a lot of it.
   
9. I use entirely too much transparent tape.
   
10. I think overall I'm a pretty good person.
    
11. Next big U.S. trip: Grand Canyon.
    
12. Next big overseas trip: New Zealand.
    
13. Next trip of any kind: will require lottery win. However, lack of playing lottery games negates such win.
    
14. I don't wear my wedding ring. It pinches and bugs me. I wear my forever ring instead ... the one from Hawaii.
    
15. I think it was cruel and unusual punishment for whoever the heck was in charge to make the last 3rd/4th basketball game of the season boys vs. girls. The girls got stomped to the tune of something like 50 to 2. Boys have cooties, fool.
    
16. Not sure what our Relay For Life team name is going to be this year yet. Something to do with Olympics I guess ...
    
17. I don't know if I like LOST anymore. This is disturbing.
    
18. If a double negative cancels itself out, why does bad news plus bad news not equal to good news?
    
19. I should be working on CafePress right now.
    
20. I made over $20 with my Squidoo lenses in January, so I'm not exactly wasting time here. It's just that I should be making $500+ a month on CafePress like I used to before I ADD'd out and got bored of updating it.
    
21. Kissing my husband still gives me butterflies after 20 years. I don't think I will get bored of him.
    
22. Rats CAN escape from ferret cages. Dang it.
    
23. Do not implicate the dog in the matter of the missing rat until you have ruled out the possibility that said rat may have made a new home INSIDE YOUR COUCH while you were out.
    
24. Whose idea was it to get pet rats?
    
25. Need to get my taxes done. I'll call after I'm done downloading video clips from the camcorder. Oh, gotta pay this plate renewal online before it expires. Hmm, I'm hungry. What's that smell? Hey, there's the tape! What did I do with that list I made so I wouldn't forget anything that I have to get done today? That's a weird noise. Gotta go see what it is. Be back after I refill my drink.
    

1. When I was in 5th grade in a new school, a rude boy asked if I was a virgin. I didn't know what the word meant, and assuming him ignorant of pronouncing Virginian properly, told him no.
   
2. My kids thought that was really funny and also horrible. Good opener to having a "sex" talk with them. (ie. if you don't know what something means, ASK ME not your peers!)
   
3. I also didn't know what "rubbers" were and I know there was some question posed to me about them, like did I use them or something ...
   
4. I haven't worked THAT into a conversation with my kids. Yet.
   
5. I'm not afraid of embarrassing myself. Obviously. I can laugh at me.
   
6. I'm fixin' to make a ridiculous amount of money. As soon as I get my clucks in a row, I'll share the plan with you.
   
7. Rats are really fun pets, and pretty soon Zoey and Snowy will have their own lens.
   
8. Have I mentioned I love my job?
   
9. I may or may not have pink and green hair by the time I go home tonight. Red and gold was such fun, but those are autumn colors.
   
10. I'm immature about things that don't matter, but responsible about things that do.
    
11. Babies do not like me. Most times they cry before I get a chance to hold them. I swear I don't pinch them.
    
12. Captain Jack Sparrow looks so lonely up there on top of my monitor without Maleficent and Skeletor to hang out with. I think I'll keep them all at home or all at work, and not separated.
    
13. I'm in a GREAT mood.
    
14. My stylist is bad ass.
    
15. Awesome rockstar hair makes a girl happy.
    
16. I allowed a rare little splurge and spent over $150 on office supplies today. Yes, I DO have to have JUST the right kind of pen. Yes, it matters!
    
17. I have SO many Squideas in my head right now, I can't sleep.
    
18. I wonder which of my lenses will make LOTD first. I know that's where I'm heading. That, and I will become digustingly wealthy in the process.
    
19. Who cares if the glass is half empty or half full? Be grateful to have a glass and a drink to begin with!
    
20. I'm just really happy, not so much with where I'm at in life right now, but with where I know I'm going. I'm so motivated you could get a contact buzz off me.
    
21. I hope the weather is nice enough this weekend to steal away for a horseback ride. Haven't been since last fall, and shouldn't have been then.
    
22. Wonder how His Royal Fatness will feel about being put back to work.
    
23. I have stuff in boxes that I literally have not unpacked in 5 years and 3 moves. My home office will be constructed soon and I'll have a place to PUT all my stuff, at last!
    
24. How badly do I really NEED stuff I haven't laid eyes on in 5 years? I should Freecycle most of it.
    
25. Which reminds me, I've got a few CheapCycle posts I need to take care of. Enjoy my other lenses!
    

1. I change my mind a lot.
   
2. I've transfered my own lenses back and forth between my own accounts about twice each.
   
3. I'm still on the "millionaire by 40" kick.
   
4. I'm going to be publishing my own eBook soon, and then you can buy it. I know you want to.
   
5. If I can't have Pringles, I'll eat Ruffles Cheddar and Sour Cream.
   
6. I'm going to have business cards printed up with this URL on them and nothing else. Those will be fun to hand out.
   
7. It has been suggested I acquire a pen name other than XP the Squid Princess. Decisions, decisions.
   
8. I have some stuff I really should sell on Craigslist.
   
9. I have some stuff I really should NOT buy on Craigslist.
   
10. I think I'll go check it out anyway. BRB.
    
11. Okay, I'm back, but it's like days later. Maybe a week. I got distracted.
    
12. I got distracted is something we hear EVERY DAY because in case I didn't mention it before, my sprogs have ADHD worse than me.
    
13. Oh yeah, I decided on a pen name. It is a cool name if you know the reasons I chose it, but sounds like a very common ordinary name if you don't.
    
14. I also opened up a PO Box for my latest business. Just need to get a DBA and then a bank account, and I'm ready to rock.
    
15. My friends got me drunk on rum and made me sing karaoke. "Suds in the Bucket" is now a forbidden song around here.
    
16. Adding a bunch of video clips to YouTube of me riding my speed demon TWH, Titan. Good fun.
    
17. My babygirl is rocking out in 4-H Archery. Got over 20 points in 4 of her rounds today, and her highest scores yet with a 35 and 36. Highest possible is 60 and that's if she puts 6 arrows in a circle the size of your fist. I think she's doing great for her first year!
    
18. Remember way, way, way up there in the first 25 things about me, how I said we have 2 guineas? Well, they are guinea fowl, not guinea pigs, and we are selling them next weekend. Our "pair" ended up being two males, and they like to go after our roosters when they try to do their jobs. Boogers.
    
19. We are going to what's called a small animal swap in this rural agricultural area, and selling the guineas, plus a couple of rats if we're lucky (2 is plenty, 4 is too stinky too soon) and maybe one of the roosters if we can talk the kid into it.
    
20. With any luck, we will NOT be coming home with any NEW species! Although I know my hubby is wanting to get a turkey, and I think he's quite mad.
    
21. Mad crazy, not mad angry. I mean, sure, it's a farm, but how many different kinds of critters do we NEED on this ark, anyway?
    
22. Drunk-dialing doesn't hold a candle to drunk-picture-messaging. Trust me.
    
23. Weenis is a word? Check out UrbanDictionary.com ... I was surprised too.
    
24. Yes, the last two random entries (22 and 23) ARE related. *LMAO*
    
25. If you're lucky, this will be my last list of 25 random things for a while. I've got a lot of CafePress and Squidoo and other things I should be doing! So, do you feel lucky? Well, do you?

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