from janewt who does not tag people

RULES: Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 5 people to be tagged and list their names. No tag backs.

I'll follow Janewt's footsteps and not tag anyone. Besides it's so sad when you have to watch your friends walk around with those little plastic numbered things dangling from one ear or a big numbered band on their leg.

1. I absolutely detest pickles. I can't stand even the smell of them, it makes me feel sick. I don't know why, but I've been that way from the very first time I encountered one up through today. After 28 years I don't think that's gonna change. My dad used to think it was a funny joke to offer me pickles, because that traditional dad sense of humor is sometimes redundant and annoying. But I'm okay with small amounts of sweet pickle relish in my tuna salad. I don't put it there if I'm making it, but my dad used to and it didn't bother me. Maybe the fish flavor is just strong enough? I won't eat pickle relish in anything else. I can taste the pickles and find it revolting even if they've been on something and then scraped off. I'm not allergic at all.
2. I wanted to play Role-Playing-Games ever since I can remember, even before I knew there was a name for it. All my games as a kid involved making up complex stories with consistent characters and plot points and worlds. I'd try to write them down or draw the characters, and I still have a lot of that childhood material, but a lot of the writing is unfinished because I was trying to record what I had already played out live-action or with little plastic figures, and recording it after the fact wasn't nearly as interesting.
3. All my toys had very consistent names, personalities, and backstories. I still remember most of them.
4. I can read upside down and not notice I'm doing it. I'm also pretty good at mirror writing. Heidi says that the way my brain works backwards and upside down has been very useful in the whole shadow puppet thing.
5. I was born a mutant! I had some weird bumpy thing on my arm that reacted to sunlight. When I was about one and a half they removed it surgically, which I was awake for. I didn't cry or anything, I just sat there and watched them cut it off and stitch my arm up. My mother had to leave the room though, because she was almost sick. They tested it after it was removed and determined it was interior skin cells that for some reason grew on the outside. They'd puff up in sunlight because they were never meant to be exposed to it. I still have the scar but it's teeny now.
6. I like drawing overweight men. Okay, maybe that's not much of a secret. There's just something about the body structure and the weight distribution that's very interesting to draw.
7. I almost never drew people until the middle of High School. I drew animals all the damn time, especially horses, but human beings as artistic subjects just didn't interest me. Actually, human beings at all didn't really interest me, and my most human characters were basically furries.
8. Because I was so interested in animals, and drawing animals, as a kid, I used to study the way they moved and their skeletal and musculature from life. I would go to people's houses and even if they had kids my age I generally wound up spending my time with their pets. I could relate to those better.
9. My favorite authors all seem to be British. Most of them I didn't know were British until after I fell in love with their work.
10. I kind of like Hello Kitty, Keroppi, and all that Sanrio stuff. It's something I remember from childhood and it's kind of a guilty pleasure.

Okay, I work again today so I think that's it for me. I am not awake enough o have had a WTF yet, maybe by the time I get off work tonight.