This has been going around on facebook for awhile and I finally caved and filled it in.  Not all that profound, really.  I do enjoy reading other people's lists, so maybe you'll like reading mine, too!   

1. I really, really, love music -- I listen to all kinds and have a lot of favorite songs spanning decades and genres.

2. I am basically an empath - if you're crying, I am crying, too. I first realized this for real flying in late Septenber of 2001 talking to a stewardess who had lost 4 friends on 9/11.

3. Perhaps because I am an empath, I tend to hang around happy people with a real spark of life.

4. My closest friends tend to be very bright and also self-sufficient, as I have a tendency to fade away until we are together in person when we instantly start where we left off last

5. Nope, not telling you that one.

6. I am the 5th of 6 - 3 older brothers and one younger,  yet I remain closest and in some ways most afraid of my older sister by 11 months.

7. I am blessed to have 3 sisters-in-law and a brother-in-law who I love a lot and are wonderful people to be around, it's amazing how well everyone gets along.

8. I have 8 nephews and 4 nieces who probably don't realize how much they mean to me but I do my best to connect and let them know I'm here, particularly when we are together in person (I seem to feel a theme emerging here).

9. I have had 3 last names and none of them has been easy to pronounce or spell.

10. When I first joined IBM, we had paper distribution lists for routing stuff around. There were 3 people with the same last name because one guy used to be married to a woman and was now married to another (Hellman, if anyone would remember that).  I thought that was the weirdest thing, and then, yes, for awhile it was me as the 2nd wife with the same last name.   Ah, life!

11. I truly do feel love and affection for both of my husband's ex wives

12. I never programmed using punch cards, but that's really just luck as others my same age did have to do that.

13. I am a pretty strong feminist but feel honest sympathy for the guys who get caught up in it when they think they're being nice or helpful

14. I have gone from being terrified of getting pregnant, to really really wanting to get pregnant, to being afraid but curious about it, to being relieved to not have to worry about it, to being very happy to marry into children and grandchildren

15. I drink some form of alcoholic beverage(s) pretty much every night but don't usually have a lot of it, except for when I do

16. I exercise more than most people could possibly imagine.   Except for those of my friends who way outdo me, that is.

17. I also eat more than most people would think,  at least 5 times a day.  I love to eat, but I eat to live.

18. really?  only on 18?

19. I'm a pretty darn good swimmer.  I could probably beat you, unless you currently swim for a racing team, and even then would put up a good fight.

20. I always wished I had been born in time to be a hippie

21. I love dogs and I force my cats to behave like dogs so I love them too.

22. I like cats much better than kittens.

23. I like being outside, which is why I moved from Wisconsin to California as soon as I possibly could, at 22 but still refused to start my real job until I spent most of the summer lifeguarding after graduation.

24. I like spending money but I somehow always seem to have some saved

25. I took way too long to develop this list