25 things about claudia

1. i love color. i hear music when i see color.

2. i love music. i see color when i hear music.

3. i have no retention skills. none. for instance, i know that wuthering heights is one of my favorite books but i can't remember why. i know i've read it like five times and i know that i love heathcliff.
and i only remember his name because kate bush wrote a song about him.

4. i'm scared of chipmunks.

5. my favorite shape is a circle or sphere. there is just something about them. soft edges, never ending, fragile and strong all at the same time.

6. organization used to be a huge thing for me. i don't necessarily thrive on it anymore. it takes a lot of time.

7. i'm a scatterbrain. i switch subjects without warning. my brain is always one-gazillion steps ahead of my mouth. which leads me to...

8. i don't sleep. ok, so that's not totally true. i sleep the best and most deeply between 8:30am-10:00am. that's doable, right?

9. this is very hard for me to write. i don't care to spend this much time thinking about me! maybe i should go nap.

10. owls are amazing. i love them. they've now become mainstream. i hate that.

11. stephin merritt is my most favorite musician and lyricist. no one will ever top him. i adore him.

12. i've been told many times that one could get lost in my eyes.

13. i asked my husband out on our first date. he didn't pick up that i was crushing on him. he also didn't pick up that 4 other girls were crushing on him as well. good thing i asked him out first.

14. i used to think the ocean was the most amazing thing ever. until i saw the tyrolean alps.

15.  my first flight was when i was 32. to london. xanax was my friend, so was champagne. it was quite eventful and involved 11 hours, assumed terrorists and a lady having a massive panic attack. we missed our connecting flight to zurich and spent 6 1/2 hours in heathrow. since then i don't need the xanax.

16. i really would love to have a harlequin great dane.

17. i have a lot of fabric. it makes me look like i know what to do with my sewing machine.

18. i despise seafood. actually i really don't care for meat in general.

19. i love the fact that i will be 45 when my "baby" graduates from high school.

20. i adore my car. his name is boomer. i spend a lot of time with him.

21. my actor crushes are robert downey jr., javier bardem and benicio del toro.
 laura says you can contract syphilis just by making eye contact with benicio. one of her actor crushes is gerard butler...

22. fall is the best season. i wish every season was fall-ish.

23. i love the addition of 'ish'. i use it frequently. i bet next year it will become mainstream.

24. i lip-read. my hearing is not the best. please refer to number 2.

25. my math skills are abysmal. numbers don't make sense to me. 25 is as far as i go.