random facts alert

Lovely Preeti, also known as PS, tagged me to write 8 random facts about myself. That is not new because, when I think of it, most of the things I write in this blog are random. It's not as if I make a lot of sense most of the time. But bear with me on this one and, who knows?, you might learn something useless.

#1 I love making CDs for people. Music is something that moves me so much that I can't keep it all to myself, so I need to share it. And sometimes people make CDs for me too, like the one I got today from DaybyDay with a fantastic personalized cover and CD art. Isn't that neat? I love it :)

#2 I've been a bad vegetarian since I was 15. I say bad because I never stopped eating fish altogether. I wanted to but people thought I was insane enough as it was, so I had to make a compromise. Otherwise I'd literally starve in any portuguese restaurant.

#3 As you know, I love books. I've been loving books forever. I remember having lunch while reading the Famous Five (those books made me really hungry - did that happen to you?) simply because I couldn't stop reading. I'm not so bookish anymore but I'm always reading something and when I know I'll be having a boring time, I count on books to entertain me. By the way, please suggest some books for my summer, okay? Please!

#4 The first boy I had a crush on (that started the long and endless list of crushes in my life) looked like a young, still mentally-sane Tom Cruise (these were the days of Top Gun). I wrote him a letter, which I believe he never read (thank God for that...). I remember he used to wear a really nice dark blue jacket.

#5 Hands are very important to me. They seem to have a life of their own when you're observing people, so I always notice them more than other things. My friend the Surfer Girl taught me that hands can reflect our sun sign too. For instance, Fire signs tend to make your hands look like flames, when your pinky finger is much shorter than the others and your middle finger bigger. As you can see, mine obbey that rule:

And so do Nelly Furtado's, who is a typical Sagittarius like me...haha (I know this isn't a random fact about me, but ...learn from it, I won't last forever ;)

#6 These hands that people call midwife's hands (because they're so narrow that they can help bring babies into the world) or pianist hands (because of the long fingers) went to piano lessons one day. The lessons were given by an old lady living in a tiny decrepit house with a red door. The hands first learnt a song without the musical notes; this song that, the old lady used to say, aaaalll her other students played much, much faster. And then the hands tried to be smart and learn all the other songs by ear, without having to look at the notes. When the fingers missed a note the old lady's hands would step in and cover the hands to guide them sloppily through the keys. I didn't last very long in my piano lessons.

#7 These hands were never good at drawing or painting, leaving the owner a little heartbroken since many members of her family were very artistic.

#8 My family is huge. For instance, today I was listening to some news on the radio and listened to a distant cousin being interviewed, out of nowhere. My family seems to be everywhere at all times, spread in various activities, having many stories to tell...I don't know what it is that they have.

Oh I was supposed to tag 8 people! I don't like to be bossy so I'll leave to you to decide if you want to do it or not.