I’ve been tagged by Franki, a blogger with an amazing eye for design, to share 7 previously unknown facts about myself:

1. Piano music always gives me goosebumps. I played piano for 7 years before I gave up practicing from lack of interest (I can barely remember the notes). Still, I’ve never lost my appreciation for the striking sound of piano keys and the deep connection I feel with every crescendo.
2. I, unlike franki, have an overwhelming fear of flying. Despite my best efforts, I will always break out into tears in varying degrees (sniffles to sobs to Oh-My-God, Get that girl a Valium). Although profoundly embarrassing, I refuse to let my phobia interfere with my desire to travel around the world. I have taken numerous terrifying overseas flights and sobbed quietly in the bathroom in every single one.
3. I am convinced that my childhood home in the Midwest was haunted by an unhappy ghost. I consider myself to be a fairly skeptical person but I am certain that I encountered the ghost of a man on many occasions. As a kid, I often heard vague, incomprehensible whispering just over my shoulder whenever I was alone in a room. I trained myself to slowly exit a room backwards so that the voice could not trail after me. I often had nightmares of a tall, shadowy masculine figure that descended the stairs towards me. To this day, my mother insists that it was the combination of our loud next door neighbors and my imagination that led me to this conclusion but I still maintain that it was a ghost.
4. I adore boardgames but am cursed with having the majority of my friends uninterested in a game of Scrabble. Whenever there is a gathering, I always have to suppress the urge to whip out a game of Uno or Monopoly (Because this is usually followed by a groan or sigh that translates into “Do we really have to play?”) I own quite a large collection of games: Trivial Pursuit, Cranium, Upwords, Scrabble, Dominoes, Scene It and more.
5. I have the most unreliable memory. I can remember lyrics to a mediocre song, website addresses and hundreds of passwords but I cannot, even to save the life of a newborn baby, remember someone’s name 10 seconds after meeting them. I have trouble remembering the birth dates of my closest friends and always have to look up the titles of books and authors to some of my favorite stories. It’s a miracle I graduated with an English degree.
6. I was originally born in Puerto Rico but haven’t revisited the island in nearly 12 years. It’s shameful to admit considering about half the island’s population are made up of my family members. Still, the increase in crime and the emotional toll of seeing so many relatives has made me reluctant to go back. It is, however, on my list. My list of things to do someday.
7. I have, in my opinon, a really jarring laugh. If I find something especially funny, my laughter will easily split apart atoms. I try my best to keep it at a conservative giggle but I think it only makes things worse.

And now, to continue on this 7 fact tradition, I look towards: Cappycom, Luis at Ginza Style, Anna at The Other Blog and Vanessa at Vita Brevis, Ars Lunga.

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