Do you ever feel that way? That your entire existence is pushing forward for one moment?

That's certainly how I feel right now.  Everything hinges on Friday at 9:30 pm London-time.  I'm excited, nervous, worried, everything all at once.  I know it will be fantastic, but I also fear that the spark has fizzled.  I know it hasn't and that I'm in for a whirlwind time over there.  Its just so much in the unknown, so much living in the gray areas. 

1. I am and have been a certified SCUBA rescue diver since I was 21.

2. I consider myself pretty fearless; however, I do have an irrational fear of birds for some reason.

3. Ever since I turned about 16, I've had my bubba keg, a 64 oz water container.

4. The summer before my Senior year of High School, I got super sick, when my mom took me to the ER because of how violently ill I was, they thought I could have menengitis.  The only sure fire way to find out is a spinal tap. They did the spinal tap, it came back negative, they sent me home.  I was bedridden for the next 2-3 months because I was in the 10% of spinal tap recipients who experience "spinal headaches" and I still get occasional echoes from the procedure.

5. In college, my roommate and I had bunkbeds.

6. I gave my sister her first haircut.

7. In light of #6, I have a hard time using scissors.

8. Love love love jigsaw puzzles. Have always done them with my dad.

9. I accidentally named my dog Baxter. We first got him when Anchorman came out. I was laying on the floor singing the "Baxter you are my little gentleman" while holding him over my head.  My Mom asked me what I was calling him and I said... "Baxter" and thus I named the dog.

10. The dog before Baxter was named Marley.  We got him from Scrooge, who wouldn't get us a puppy for Christmas. My aunt brought him over in a wrapped paper box!

11. My mom came in the kitchen during the circle of life one time, I was standing on the counter, pretending to be rafiki, holding Marley over the kitchen floor. I am lucky to be alive after that one.

12. In school, I was frequently bored and hated constraints, so I often pushed the assignment "rules" as far as I could.

13. My 9th grade english teacher wouldn't let us write papers with the words "I" or "you" in them.  I slipped up, and my paper that was graded by 2 peers missed the one time I used the word "I" in a paper.  I got an "F". The next assignment was to write about a time when you were punished. I wrote about getting an F on my previous assignment.

14. 810 people walked at my high school graduation.

15. I woke up under a pine tree one time.

16. Don't play hide n seek with me, I end up getting Ollie Ollie Oxen-freed a lot.