I was quite surprised and intrigued myself when I found that out. As to how much this is true, I don't know. If it isn't, I give my dad points for the lulz. If it is...I still give him points for the lulz.

Hahaha, my apologies, I have respect for the aforementioned men above, but as in the case of my father, anyone can tell me I'm Madonna's sister's niece twice removed for all I care. It just won't change the fact that I'm still made of a silly piece of crazy and that I still need to work my ass off to make a living and build my own artistic reputation from scratch just like everyone else.

_{I admit, it's a pretty cool story to tell my grandkids someday though}



Okay, so my friends know this is pretty obvious. But other than that, I find I have a natural inclination to follow my mom around like a loyal house cat. She has always been responsible for expanding mine and my brother's sense of culture and perspective about things, and for that, we are luckiest to have her.

It's even a running joke in the family that if she were to pass on, I'd be the first to drop dead by instinct. Okay, nuff of the morbidity. Even as she's working abroad and I've acquired a more evolved sense of responsibility, I still need to call her up and ask where she hid the plastic wrap, the painting supplies, etc.

Then when she's back home, I'm my most relaxed when she takes me out to places to shop or look around - not necessarily for clothes, mind you. I get perfectly amused when we visit the home&lifestyle stores. I once got very excited looking at fancy refrigerators for sale. LOL. Oddly enough, shopping With others or by myself, I tend to get a bit overwhelmed and conscious about shiny stores in malls, so I just make like a good soldier, get in and get out after fulfilling my list of things to buy.


Before the popular emergence of cds, mp3s, internet downloads, and the like, I used to carry my casette player when I was a little girl and record all the songs, dialogue, and commercial themes of the shows I watched on tv. I'd even record music from video games because I liked them.

It was poorly done, of course, sometimes I'd tape over the ends of the previous recording or because of my hasty setups to catch the right moment, I'd end up with warped, fast-paced chipmunk versions of the actual song tempos. I still have 2 of the old tapes I from before, actually, but then I don't have a casette player on hand to listen to them.

_{Sure, when you're 5yrs old, you don't exactly know that this was all illegal, then again, the sheer craptastic quality of my recordings was probably punishment enough.}