Thanks to groups like Boston Bloggers and events like Blogger Blitz, I’ve made a good handful of real life friends through blogging. I have this group of DC girls that have taken up such a huge part of my heart in only a year, and then this more recent group of Boston/Rhode Island girls who have become such a force of creativity and happiness in only a few months. Anyway, both Erin (DC) and Anna (Boston) did these “Five Things” posts and tagged me to continue the fun and man, this community is good. I love it. So here are five random things about me….
I know, I’m surprised there are things you still don’t know, too.
1. I used to have my nose and bellybutton pierced. I got my bellybutton pierced when I was fourteen with my best friend, Candace. Then a year later, on a visit to Colorado, my sister took me to get my nose pierced by some lady selling weed brownies. The month I met James (about five years later), both my nose ring and my bellybutton ring broke and I took it as a sign that it was time to grow up a little, and that maybe this relationship would be a huge growing experience for me as a whole (bonus fact: I’m a HUGE OVER ANALYZER). I still have a tattoo and a helix piercing. which remind me that I was once a much different person but still have a little hint of bad ass in me.
2. I am so, incredibly bad at accents and I do them more than anyone should. I love a good British accent and I enjoy speaking in Spanish – both sound nothing like their country of origin, but instead a hybrid of southern twang meets Taco Bell dog. People encourage this behavior when I’m a little drunk and I put my whole heart into it every time.
3. When I was 18, I went to a palm reader at the beach who told me I would meet my soul mate in two years time. I met James two years later, I called my sister to talk about him and she said, “Remember that psychic?” and we laughed like sisters do, but I secretly wondered if the crazy beach lady was right.
4. I failed my driving test. I backed into a telephone pole and knocked the car mirror off the Driver’s Ed car – it hung on by a chord. The cop made me perform three more challenges before bringing me back to the DMV to tell me I had failed. “REALLY???” I asked in horror. “Well, I technically can’t pass you if you get in an accident,” he said matter-of-factly. The driving instructor drove me home and asked me to hold the mirror out the window so it wouldn’t bang against the door. With my upperbody out the window, it rained on my face while I cried.
5. Finally, I am very open with my friends, family, and James about my eagerness to start a family. When you’ve known someone for a year and marry them, people don’t blink twice when you talk about wanting kids. When you’ve dated someone for five years, but aren’t married, people look at you like you’re crazy. I wonder if this notion of marriage first, children later will dissolve anytime soon. So there, I said it, let’s make babies!
Tell me something weird about you now, thanks.
16 comments :
Yes! Making babies is THE BESSTTTT!! Although, hopefully you will be able to be more paleo that I have been. . . I’m finally able to stomach meat and vegetables again after a cruel 3 months. Other than that, it’s the best
Oh man, I’m so sorry you were sick for so long, but I’m glad you’re feeling better. I am so excited for you and Dave and for a little baby to gush over while I dream of my own…
I swear, every time I read another post I am slightly in awe/creeped out at how similar we are. Let’s practice our accents together somethime when you move to Boston? You’d think mine would have gotten better since being in London… it has not.
X Kenzie
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we should definitely get together when I get myself back to Massachusetts, I’m looking forward to it! Xo
When I was three I believed that the dinosaurs from Land Before Time lived in my bellybutton and talked to them on the regular. For a while the characters from Alice in Wonderland lived there. I was a special child.
WE NEED TO HUG, I WANT TO BE BEST FRIENDS. KTHANKSBYE.
WE DO WE DO WE DO…. also, hahahahhaha to your bellybutton friends, sounds like a real fancy place to live.
1. YAY so glad you did this, I just LOLed in my cube at #4.
2. Did this palm reader happen to be in Dewey beach, DE? I went to one there that was also creepily spot on and I always think about her.
3. AMEN to #5. I get the side eye every time I talk about it too but well be celebrating our 6 year anniversary at the end of the month and that’s longer than a lot of peoples marriages!
We are so similar; this is creepy! From our piercings to the psychic to the relationship item…maybe we are doppelgangers? Haha.
Haha to number 5! My life!
Yes!!!
“I still have a tattoo and a helix piercing. which remind me that I was once a much different person but still have a little hint of bad ass in me.”
That line is the best. You are awesome.
So glad you did this!
thank you for prompting me to do so, it was definitely a challenge to think of things I haven’t already written about… I don’t think I could ever come up with five more things.
#5 so much, oh yes! I am baby-obsessed and can’t wait to get fat with adorableness. My boyfriend humors me for some reason. But mostly I’m just insane.
I love your blog oh so much!
Bruntry and Critish for lifeee. “My brothah from Somahville”
I first wanted to get my nose pierced when I was 15, and my mom told me I had to wait until I was out of the house. So on my 19th birthday, when I still wanted it done, I did it. Seven years later, I still love it. I hope I’m still making it look good when I’m 50.
This makes me think of Spanish class with Mr. Ruben — that was his name, right? Hahah hilarious!