20 Things You Didn't Know About Me ...but for some reason should

my mom is one of eleven children. i'm one of.... one.

my hair won't grow long no matter how hard i tug on it. or maybe i'm just impatient.

i sent jonathan taylor thomas a fan letter when i was 10. i didn't "get one back" until i was 12, and by then i denied the whole thing.

my 10th grade history teacher nicknamed me "gigi" because of my 1st and middle initials, "g" and "g." it's stuck ever since but only my girlfriends from highschool still use it.

i have been fired and hired on the same day. april 5th 2005 to be exact.

whenever i try to paint polish on my right hand fingernails, my left hand shakes.

i made my first website when i was 15 on geocities. it was an advice column. until i started getting creepy questions.

i sleep with a plush puppy i got on valentine's day.

i can draw. when i was young, i had a strange fetish with mouths and used to draw big, gaping grins on everything.

i grew up on a farm in the south. chickens, goats, you name it.

i am terrified of escalators. consequently, every time we're on one, my boyfriend stands behind me and leans me back ever so slightly....

i hadn't been on an upside down rollercoaster until my 19th birthday.

i speak a little Italian but I've never set foot in Europe, only that make-believe Europe at Disney World.

i get unusually excited during thunderstorms. yea regular excited, and that kind of excited.

on a 6th grade field trip, i put a penny in my salad and my friends told the fast food chain which almost had to close down because of it.

i recently found out that my friend jake, like me, knows all the words to sir mix a lot's "baby got back."

i love animals and don't like to see them hurt, but i can't turn down a mink coat on sale.

i used to read encyclopedias for fun when i was young. and i don't think i'm smarter than you for having done so.

i am incredibly afraid of heights (robots, dark water, and spiders, too) but i always request the window seat on an airplane.

in 8th grade, i was asked to write the screenplay for anti-drugs/alcohol/premarital fondling school play. you can only imagine what that did to my social life.

i like to learn things the hard way. and i usually do.