I've never done one of these, you suckers. Darn you for tagging me, @olwd
You'll get what you get in these 16 facts, habits, or goals. (I guarantee none of these are goals though, because goals as such go against my personality. Why? Because tomorrow is never guaranteed. Live today. How can we fully live today while we spend all our time planning for a time that may or may happen?) If you've been tagged, please complete and tag me. Don't forget to tag 10 of your friends. Enough of that, here are my fracking, least-known facts.
1.) I once drove a train. Is that the right verb? I accidentally went too fast and almost tipped the damn thing around a corner. I didn't want to do it in the first place, but ohhh nooo, it's SO easy! Bzzz, wrong. If I had wrecked it? They would have been in trouble for letting me do it, and I wouldn't have blinked twice.
2.) I'm a former body surfer. During a 65 mph wind strength tropical storm, my sister and I were the idiots body surfing in the most dangerous waters you could imagine. I was 23. It was one of the best times I ever had, and the only other idiots out there were two male lifeguards who were doing the same. The waves were irresistible (and boards would have been impossible due to the quick breaks and roughness). The lifeguards invited us to a crazy party afterward (I'm sure pot, alcohol, and probably sex were involved). We said no. And I've always secretly regretted not at least showing up. They were sexy as hell, and knew how to ride. 
3.) I was once offered a car just for going on one date with someone. I said no. He was a doctor (at said beach hospital). I took so much heat over saying no, everyone thought I was crazy. And for years after, he still followed me around like a puppy, and even after I was married and had Ava, he asked me out again. I had to turn him down in public yet again. I did use his affection, I wasn't all angel. Whenever his office gave our department crap, people came to me, and I made a personal call to him. And it was taken care of without a peep. Because when it came to Dr. Davies, I got what I wanted.
4.) My father was a chaplain for multiple professional sports teams, like the Houston Astros and New England Patriots. I spent my youngest years surrounded by professional athletes and their families. The Tebows are family enemies. Their father was an asshole to my father, they are not the pure Christians they portray. They are deceivers.
5.) I did CPR on my father when I was 20. No, he did not make it. He was already gone when we tried. The coroner said, "If this had happened in the operating room with a cardiac surgeon scrubbed up and waiting, he still couldn't have saved him." Even so, CPR is tricky. I think they should tell you during classes that when you do it properly, the color comes back into the face of the deceased and it plays mind games with you - you think they're coming back to life when they aren't. That doesn't mean you don't try, of course. But the detail matters.
6.) I once shot a shot-gun at a clay skeet. It was for a fundraiser and I hated it, and I will never shoot another gun. I did not like it at all. Side note? I've watched enough movies that I knew how to hold the gun well, and my stance was perfect (but no, neither my aim nor timing were true). I got whistles of appreciation. But will never do it again.
7.) I learned how to drive in a classic Porsche Carrera. He was red. And his name was Gerhert.
8.) I x-rayed a deceased person. He was homeless and had died from hypothermia (I lived in Boston). They had not yet called his death, but he'd been dead when the ambulance picked him up, and was long dead by the time I x-rayed him. He was stinky.
9.) I was the president of my youth group. Until my pastor told me I was going to hell. It was a biblical disagreement.
10.) Though I myself am white, I've never had a white boyfriend. Here are the ones that mattered: Portuguese, Filipino, Latino, and Black (Josh). Maybe I should put a white guy on my bucket list. Except that would mean something evil, right? 
11.) I was in a multi-state spelling bee when I was in 2nd grade, it was a qualifier for the national bee. My school trained me for about 6 weeks prior to the bee, every day after lunch break until the end of school. There were only two words I couldn't spell in the entire book of possible words: bridge and shepherd. They always screwed me up. The day of the bee, my turn came. My first round word? Bridge. I said, "b r i g e." And was out.
12.) While dancing in a club, the band that was playing, after finishing their set, approached me and asked me to be in their music video. I said no. (I say no a lot, huh. I wonder what adventures would have been had if I ever said yes?)
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13.) I was born in California. We used to lie on the roof and watch the Blue Angels practice over our house.
14.) I have always been a tree climber. I would climb them as high as I could, sometimes to antagonize my sisters who "had a bad feeling" about how high I was. I even climbed a tree when I was in college after a really sucky final that kicked my ass. I needed my nature, and the tree was the only damn green thing around. No one blinked. Everyone in my class knew I was a nature girl. Give me a choice and I'll prefer to sit in the grass to eat lunch than inside a building.
15.) I have picketed and protested, and have even been a part of changing written state legislation (in Georgia).
16.) I still have my baby blanket.
Uhm I haven't amassed a very long friend list yet, and some of you have already played, and Dan, I don't think you will... So, tag, you're it: @MommyMarty24 @MegaByyte @seven45 @LondonsMommy@Momaroo @amateurprose @WaitingToShrug @thegunslingergirl
My apologies if you already did this. I'm a survey virgin, be patient with me. And I'll probably never do it again. Darn you Amy. (Love you)
