50 Things About Me

1. The “hangy ball” in the back of my throat is crooked.

2. When I was about twelve, I thought I discovered a murder. I burst through our front door and told my mom to call the police. Turns out, a deer had fallen down some rocks and into the creek.

3. I’m afraid I’m not good at anything. I mean, not truly talented at any one thing.

4. I never got to go to an overnight summer camp and I have always been a little bitter about it.

5. The past three years of my life have been spent working towards a journalism degree. I don’t plan to ever use it.

6. Last year, I got hit by a car that was sliding on ice. All my drunk friends ran to get out of the way, while I, the only sober one of the group, just stood there.

7. Part of me wants to start going to church again.

8. I deeply regret every time I called my sister fat when we were kids.

9. I’m tired of all the dishonest people in the world who can’t seem to do the right thing. For example, the kid who hit my car earlier this month and now claims that I was the one who hit him.

10. I have a secret love for “America’s Funniest Home Videos”

11. Making financial ends meet is a continuous problem for me.

12. In grade school, we watched a movie and our teacher brought popcorn for everyone. Heather Barrett and I stayed behind after everyone threw away their popcorn and went to recess to eat the remaining popcorn out of the garbage.

13. If I could do high school all over again, I wouldn’t.

14. I wish photography wasn’t such an expensive hobby.

15. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I’d like to be one of those moms who turns their home into a haunted house for the neighbor kids.

16. I would roll down the hill in my backyard everyday if I didn’t have to walk back up.

17. When I was about ten years old, an older kid offered me an Altoid on the bus, but I said no because I thought they were drugs.

18. My first soccer team was the Pink Panthers in 2nd grade. I played until my senior year in high school, when I quit two weeks before districts. I still regret that.

19. It irritates me immensely when people don’t turn into the correct lane.

20. I once called my grandma an “old fart” because my cousins dared me to. She was extremely mad.

21. My first kiss was Jerod Collins in 8th grade. We went to a haunted house at the mall, and he kissed me in the car on the way home. My mom asked me when I got home if I had been kissing a boy. She claims that she knew when she first saw me, but to this day she won’t tell me how.

22. I used to want a bowl cut.

23. I wish I had more time to cook. Actually, I wish I knew how to cook.

24. I’m so glad that there is a system in place that takes complaints of domestic violence so seriously. But I despise women, like my witch of a stepmother, who know the trigger words and cry wolf.

25. I’m obsessed with ice cream cakes from Dairy Queen.

26. I wish our country was run by someone who appreciates that there are so many different cultures, religions and belief systems in our nation, and wouldn’t inflict laws and policies based on his own personal convictions. That’s not freedom.

27. I’ve always wondered whose job it is to test mattresses. I’d be great to get paid to nap.

28. In driver’s ed. we had to do a driving simulation every week where we sat in a little machine and then “drove” based on what we saw on the TV screen. I once drove for an entire class period in neutral. I got a zero for the day.

29. Laughing is quite possibly one of the best sounds in the world.

30. One time I jumped into the deep end of the pool to impress my cousins, even though I didn’t know how to swim. I ended up swallowing a bunch of water and spent the rest of the afternoon belching.

31. I work at a computer lab at school and I don’t know the first thing about computers.

32. After a brief obsession with the Babysitter Club books, a few friends and I decided we wanted to start our own babysitting club. It never quite took off.

33. I can’t sleep with my bedroom door open. My mom attributes it to how adamant I was about fire safety after a firefighter came to talk to our preschool class.

34. I hate when people don’t hold the door for you.

35. I really hate when men cat call or make comments when they’re driving past you.

36. I used to think braces and retainers were cool. Since I never needed them, I would create makeshift retainers out of paper clips.

37. I’m slightly obsessed with cheese.

38. I’d rather give presents at Christmas than receive them.

39. I went through a stage in high school where I couldn’t stop buying clothes. All my graduation money went towards paying off my shopping bills.

40. I’ve learned that first impressions are always wrong.

41. I’d love to go to Europe someday. My dad has taught me to appreciate traveling.

42. I wish I was better about keeping a journal.

43. One time at lunch in middle school, I dropped a brownie underneath the table and I bent over to retrieve it. My head was in between my legs underneath the table when I realized I was stuck.

44. Right before our D.A.R.E. graduation in middle school, I was accused of sexually harassing someone. Mrs. Coppock made me sit in a closet. I had no idea what sexual harassment was.

45. I used to love watching lightning storms with my dad from our front porch.

46. When someone broke into our house when I was about six years old, a neighbor and I were the ones who discovered the broken window in the basement.

47. My friends and I used to sign up for all kinds of committees in middle school just so we could be pictured in the yearbook more.

48. I love who I see in the mirror.

49. My friends and family are the single most important things in my life. I have the most amazing support network.

50. I now have the greatest challenge as well as the great joy growing inside me.