Ariel Facts
1: She doesn't own a single pair of jeans
2: She always bowls in a skirt and enjoys a Cosmopolitan after a night of bowling :)
3: She owns 3 mobile phones and 0 dildos
4: Her parents named her after the cartoon Thundarr the Barbarian's sidekick Ariel. The Little Mermaid came out when she was 5.
5: She fainted while watching Kill Bill in the theater. The first time she ever fainted was in 2nd grade during a spelling bee
6: She has a guilty pleasure of digging through dating sites only to see who she knows on there... she proceeds to giggle.
7: Her favorite cereal as a kid was Frosted Flakes, but couldn't pronounce it so she called it Ti-Ti Cereal (after the tiger)
8: Her boss nicknamed her "balls of steel" because she walked out on a guy before letting him finish a break up speech
9: She is so hopelessly addicted 2 mac&cheese that she hasn't allowed herself 2 buy it from the grocery store for over a year
10: She changes the channel whenever a preview for a scary movie comes on.
11: She can't hold a grudge or stay mad at someone for the life of her.
12: She hated her name when she was little because school mates used to tease her, asking where her fins and sebastian were
13: Her eyes are gray.
14: She yelled "Mommy, she's fat!" in her mom's client meeting when the client's daughter walked into the room when she was a kid
15: She rode horses for 5 years as a preteen and won various ribbons in jumping competitions.
16: She will begin number Ariel Facts in order, so you'll know if you missed one. She debates compiling them all in 1 place
17: Her grandfather nicknamed her "itsy bits" as a child. Her sis's nickname? "sheytoon" aka little devil in Farsi (Persian)
18: She's never smoked a cigarette in her life... not even a puff.
19: She loves all kinds of sushi
20: She got a mosquito bite on each eyelid on the same day when she was little. She cried and didn't want her friends to see her
21: She started going to the agency she works at now when she was 14.
22: She once dated a guy with a Transformers Decepticon tattoo on his forearm.
23: She really hates it when people spell her name "Aerial" even more than when they spell it like the font "Arial"
24: She loves funnel cake
25: She's a modeling school dropout.
26: She would totally go bi for Audrey Tautou
27: Her usual Sunday brunch is not complete without a mimosa and french toast, give or take a nap afterwards.
28: Her name, in Chinese, means "one who brings luck to others".
29: She owns two turntables, but no microphone.
30: Her favorite flowers are brightly colored Gerbera daisies.
31: Her cat's name is Kimchi.
32: Her grandmother used to call her Olive Oil because of how tall and skinny she was growing up.
33: She's part Persian, Austrian, and Romanian.
34: She doesn't believe in dressing down.
35: She's not a vegetarian, despite most people assuming she is.
36: Her mother went to a Billy Idol concert when she was pregnant with her.
37: She's scared of spiders.
38: Her favorite movies are Amelie, Lost In Translation, High Fidelity, Secretary, Funny Face and CQ.
39: She is *extremely* picky about her mac&cheese.
40: She keeps her to-do list on a wiki.
41: Her New Year's resolution for 2007 was to blog 6 times a day, which she kept up with for the first few months.
42: Steve Hall of Adrants was the one who successfully convinced her to start blogging.
43: She has wanted a Nabaztag bunny since they first came out.
44: She keeps 1-2 USB drives on her keychain at all times.
45: After giving a keynote at an IT conference, someone turned to her and said, "wow, you are the biggest nerd I've ever met"
46: She doesn't own wire hangers.
47: She has always been shy. When class would line up in grade school, she would always try to be in the back.
48: She hasn't had coffee since August 2007.
49: She grew up on a street with all boys.
50: She types with only her two middle fingers.
51: The next place she wants to travel to is Tokyo.
52: She hates to have her feet touched
53: She has been single for 4 years despite any alternative claims made by others.
54: She's ticklish.
55: She grew up celebrating passover, persian new year, christmas, easter, and hanukkah among other holidays.
56: Her feet are always cold.
57: She always orders hot tea with sugar when she flies.
58: She has a thing for guys with glasses.
59: She cracks her knuckles a lot.
60: She's not a morning person.
61: She bought a shirt that said "I'll love you when you're more like me" as a joke, but now starts to find it to be true.
62: She used to be the worst bowler in her ad agency's bowling league. Her team's name was The Guttersluts.
63: She has no tattoos.
64: Her closet is organized by color.
65: Her masseuses say that she has the most uptight muscles of any of their clients.
66: She thought Haight Ashbury was the coolest place ever when she was 12.
67: Her text message notification is the Transformers transforming sound.
68: She's impatient.
69: Her favorite blog of all time is We-Make-Money-Not-Art.com
70: Despite growing up with them her entire life, she's allergic to cats.
71: She was a straight-A+ student in math.
72: Hot dogs are the only kind of food she hates.
73: She has stickers on her laptop that say: I <3 microblogging, tagging and hackers.
74: She is a Scorpio with her sun in the 10th house.
75: She can't say she's ever had a good New Year's Eve.
76: She can't date extroverts.
77: Her favorite track of all time is "Dirty Epic" by Underworld.
78: She got sent to the principal's office in 7th grade for distributing a printed-out email of funny condom slogans to friends.
79: She has no regrets.
80: She lives by something her art teacher said: "If you don't know what to do, it's a matter of urgency that you do something"
81: She's very squeamish.
82: She never liked her middle name.
83: She has worn black eyeliner religiously since she was 12.
84: She has a dedicated "cupcakes" label in her Gmail account.
85: She insists on calling fingered citrons "squid lemons".
86: Her personal Christmas tradition is to buy herself a new elephant ornament to put on her tree each year.
87: She grew up in Kansas.
88: She often refers to herself as being "raised by an ad agency".
89: She almost moved to London before deciding on San Francisco last minute.
90: She was a ravekid when she was 15.
91: Her first career (before this one) was as a print graphic designer.
92: Her mother is a yoga teacher and her father is a furniture designer.
93: Music-wise, she is obsessed with Underworld and Depeche Mode.
94: She was once invited to write for Valleywag and promptly rejected the offer.