25 Random Things About Me (because I'm too late to re-meme this on Facebook)

I was tagged on Facebook with the "25 Random Things About Me" meme and put my list together while I couldn't sleep last night. My original intent was to post it over there, but I think I was tagged so late that the bandwagon probably can't handle one more person. So I'll stick it here instead. I tried to keep it short.

If you're on my friends list and posted over there, I've read it ... but I think you should repost to your blogs. And if you haven't put one together yet, please do. It's more fun than you think it will be. :)

Now, without further ado:

25 Random Things About Me

1. I have an extra bone near my Achilles tendons in both feet. I’m lacking part of a bone in my wrist to make up for it.
   
2. I love coffee, but I’m fiendish about tea.
   
3. Music is a vital part of my life. When I’m not listening, I’m playing or singing.
   
4. Before I go to bed, I play video games or work a crossword puzzle. Every night.
   
5. Paul and my girls, Fred-Kitty and Joe-Kitty, make all this worth it.
   
6. I’m addicted to cartoons; Spongebob is my crack.
   
7. I’ve suddenly developed an affinity for black olives and onions.
   
8. However, mushrooms are still a no-go. I read Oliver’s Picnic too many times as a child.
   
9. I listen to Coast to Coast AM. And I believe.
   
10. I am deeply, personally affected by pain and death. This makes it hard to work in news.
    
11. I won a Crayola state crayon-naming contest with my entry, Tennesienna. It’s framed on my mantel.
    
12. My Myers-Briggs personality type is INFJ (The Protector). (Free test here.)
    
13. I was diagnosed with major depression in 2001 and with bipolar type II in 2005. I am not at all ashamed of this. Fight the stigma.
    
14. I drive a Saturn Vue Green Line hybrid. It’s really more of a closet on wheels.
    
15. I’m my own toughest critic …
    
16. ... Which means I’m partly to blame for my horrible self-esteem.
    
17. I’ve had insomnia since I got married. I don’t think they’re connected.
    
18. I compulsively buy lipstick. It’s my shop therapy.
    
19. I talk in my sleep.
    
20. I write well but barely can hold a verbal conversation.
    
21. Because of this, I rarely answer my phone and only return urgent voice mails. E-mail, IM or text me. I get all three on my phone … and I usually reply.
    
22. My most crippling Scrabble defeat was in 1999, when I fell to a well-placed “vapid.”
    
23. I can’t roll my R’s but still made A’s in my college Spanish classes.
    
24. I lived in Memphis for 28 years. I miss a lot of little things.
    
25. I’ve lived in Charleston for five months and every day still seems like vacation.
    

Now you.