I've been doing a lot of blog-hopping lately trying to see how others my age run their blogs. I came across a lot of "about me" type posts and was inspired to do one myself.
1. I love to make lists
2. I have recently taken an interest in painting
3. I prefer to wake up early and take my time getting ready in the morning. I could be up and ready to go in 15-20 minutes, but prefer to take at least an hour.
4. I have an intense weakness for chocolate, and will work out extra just so I can eat it.
5. I have never tasted soda, and no, you will not be the one that gets me to try it.
6. I used to drink juice, but stopped in elementary school, now all I drink is milk and water
7. I am the queen of to-do lists, and will write things down even after I've completed them just so I can cross them off
8. I think a lot about money, but know how to spend when I need to and save when I need to
9. I'm often terrible about answering voicemail and text messages, and it's not because I don't care about the person or answering them, I just don't call or text if I don't have anything interesting to say.
10. I own 5 pairs of TOMS shoes
11. I am ridiculously blind without my contacts
12. I could watch Law & Order SVU all day, and have done so many times!
13. I can't stand the idea of letting someone down or failing at anything
14. I like to take pictures, a lot.
15. I am a Sagittarius, but I don't feel I fit most of the general description of people with this sign.
16. I thrive in situations where I have too much on my plate. It's a fine line that I have enjoyed pushing while in college. I am a habitual multi-tasker.
17. I have donated my hair to locks of love, and am working on a second donation right now
18. When I was in 4th grade, I was in an organization called Odyssey of the Mind, which is basically a team creativity and problem solving competition. My team won first place in our region, state, and world competitions! I used to think that this was the highlight of my life and that I would never accomplish anything cool again.
19. I was in at least one choir for 8 years
20. I joined color guard my freshman year of college and it has completely changed what I thought my experience at TCU would be like for the better
21. I have never completely dropped a flag or rifle during a game or performance, although I have messed up or caught something wrong plenty of times, or just not thrown it in the first place if it was too windy.
22. Even though I've never had any huge embarrassing moments, I still freak out every time we march onto the field.
23. I used to be very good at ice skating. I haven't been in a few years, so who knows if I held on to any of that talent
24. Sometimes I wish I was really good at something instead of just being okay a lot of different things
25. I started wearing glasses in the 4th grade, but after I got braces at the same time my parents took pity on me and let me get contacts
26. I have one younger sister, Emily, who is awesome
27. I feel lucky that I mostly get along with my parents and that they get along with each other
28. I love kids, but the thought of having my own terrifies me
29. I am easily bored by food, but at the same time I often get stuck in a routine
30. I right with my right hand, but am better at bowling and other random activities with my left hand
31. I am terrible at public speaking
32. I'm an introvert, but not necessarily shy. It just drains my energy to spend time with large groups of people and do things like go to parties and clubs.
33. Small talk is the bane of my existence. I hate it.
34. I don't have a lot of close friends, but I like it that way and am very loyal to the ones I have
35. Middle school and college will be the only times I stayed at the same school all the way through
36. I've lived in Illinois, North Carolina, and Texas
37. I want to go to graduate school to become an Occupational Therapist
38. I have a huge appreciation for Broadway musicals, I've seen 20 different shows, some of them more than once
39. My favorite musical is Rent
40. I saved up over a thousand dollars when I was in 10th grade to go see the original cast of Rent perform at their 10 year anniversary
41. At the anniversary concert, I met Sarah Jessica Parker and Mathew Broderick
42. I am very allergic to cats. Even if I wasn't allergic, I still wouldn't like them very much
43. I love horror films, but I haven't seen a lot of them
44. I'm in a sorority, Alpha Delta Pi. Most of the time I love it, but I hate when people assume sorority girls are all stupid and sleep around, because this isn't true of me or most other women in Greek organizations.
45. My pet peeve is people getting things they don't deserve.
46. I'm obsessed with Glee, even though it's cheesy.
47. My music tastes are very eclectic. I like every genre except rap and country
48. My favorite bands are the Sick Puppies and Rise Against
49. I LOVE music from the 80s and 90s. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong era
50. I have never cried because of a movie until I saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. I cried in the theaters both times I saw it.
51. If I could afford laser hair removal, i would totally do it
52. I love Sign Language and teaching myself new signs
53. I consider myself agnostic. A lot of people don't really understand what that means. The way I understand it, I believe that there is something bigger than us, but that we as humans can't possibly describe it.
54. I worked as a camp counselor at Camp Balcones Springs, and it changed my life!
55. While there, I became a certified ropes course facilitator, something I'm very proud of
56. I think make up is really fun, and I wish I was more skilled at applying it (especially eye shadow!)
57. I have an awful habit of picking at my cuticles
58. It's weird, but I really enjoy standardized tests.
59. I scored a 1310 on my GRE... woohoo!
60. I want a tattoo, but I can't commit to a design I like
61. When I was in the 4th grade, I went to get my ears pierced. After the first one, I freaked out and wouldn't let them pierce the other. I went to school the next day with only one pierced ear.
62. black and white pictures are my favorite
63. I get really annoyed with people who are late for things, even though I'm late every once and a while
64. My biggest pet peeve is when I feel like people are wasting my time
65. I bruise and scar waaay too easily.
66. I love the smell of cologne
67. I fail epically at using chopsticks
68. I eat two bowls of cereal every day, I love cereal THAT much! My day does not feel complete without it.
69. My guilty pleasure is reading trashy girly magazines like Cosmo... haha
70. I shave my legs every single day, even in the middle of winter when no one's going to see them
71. I can't blow bubbles with bubble gum or whistle.
72. I used to be really self conscious about my height, so I slouched a lot. This led to back problems
73. I cannot walk in heels
74. I really like to bake
75. I have never been to a funeral even though people close to me have died
76. I learned to read really early in life. My mom has the video footage to prove it.
77. I love to watch documentaries
78. I was in a performance of the Vagina Monologues, and it completely changed my idea of who I am as a person
79. Since then, I've taken an even greater interest in women's rights and activism
80. I haven't thrown up since I was 2 or 3 years old. It's my greatest phobia.
81. A few years ago I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and put on an anti-anxiety medication. This year I decided to take back my life and weaned myself off of the drugs. I have not had a panic attack since then, and for the most part I feel great!
82. There are still a few leftover anxieties in my life. One of them is when I'm driving, I imagine what would happen if I was hit by a certain car I see, or if I lost control and flipped over I imagine how I will escape my car.
83. The other is that I often have dreams where people I care deeply about are dying and I can't do anything about it
84. I can sleep through almost anything, except intelligible words. Then I have to eavesdrop.
85. I've never been in a car accident or pulled over by police
86. I was traumatized as a child when my pet gerbil had babies with my sister's gerbil, and then started to eat the babies. I can't erase the image of little dead bloody hamsters from my memory... gross! Luckily one baby survived and I got to keep it.
87. I can play Dance Dance Revolution on Expert level on most songs
88. I took Latin in high school, and remember nothing about the language.
89. I am directionally challenged... I will get lost going to and from places I've been to before.
90. I have a terrible auditory memory. I can't follow when people spell words out loud or tell me directions, or someone's phone number. I need it written down.
91. I am currently a therapy technician at Our Children's House at Baylor, and I love my job (most of the time!)
92. I have a hard time just being. I always feel like I have to be doing something and accomplishing something
93. I almost always will read the book before I see the movie, even though this usually results in me liking the movie less.
94. I don't like taking baths, they gross me out. If I do, I'll take a shower afterwards and then feel bad about myself for wasting so much water.
95. Pizza is my favorite food. I love it.
96. I'm a pretty passive person, confrontation makes me uncomfortable.
97. I have become more afraid of flying the older I've gotten. I used to not care, now it kinda freaks me out.
98. Same with roller coasters. I can't handle upside down!
99. I'm a procrastinator
100. I'm incredibly ticklish, and it's a problem haha.
Wow! You survived the entire list! I hope you learned something interesting about me that you didn't already know. Unfortunately the only reward I have for you is today's photo:
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| My recent rekindled love of Harry Potter continues-- I spent most of the day re-reading the first Harry Potter book. This is the first page of the first chapter, fittingly called "The Boy Who Lived". Even though I've read this book a dozen times, it never gets old, and today was a wonderfully relaxing day! |
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