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Oct. 26th, 2006
Miss star5 asked me; how can I refuse?
Here's six things about me that you might not know. Some of you do, though. Bear with me. Most of these are from when I was younger, 'cause it's easier for me to think of weird or unusual stuff I did as a kid than think of things that might seem weird to people now for some reason. More perspective, I suppose...
1. When I was younger, I preferred to eat ice cream not in a bowl with a spoon, but in a mug with a fork. I will still often put ice cream in a mug, but usually use spoons all the time, now.
2. I was a junior aquatennial princess. This means I wore a fancy dress and a sash and a tiara and waved at people while riding in parades all around the twin cities for a year. We didn't really do anything besides that, that I remember. My successor the next year was my first cousin. A weird irony is that I'm being invited back to skate in some of the same parades as a rollergirl.
3. My favorite color when I was six was pink. My room from then until I was in junior high had pink carpeting; tulips on the walls; teddy bear, unicorn, and My Little Pony collections; and a pink canopy bed. I don't think I own anything pink anymore.
4. While I grew out of pink, I am still as crazy about horses as I was when I was little. Sometimes I think I got my motorcycle license because it is the closest urban analog to having a horse.
5. I taught myself to read, and still remember the cardboard book I was looking at when I made the connection between what the word "house" looked like and the picture on the page. My Mom says she discovered that I knew how to read when I'd been bothering her to read me a story and she couldn't right then, and I sat down and started reading it out loud to myself instead. (I don't remember this.)
6. I became vegetarian in junior high, and used giving up meat for Lent as an excuse. (My family was Catholic, but wasn't in the habit of giving things up for Lent.) I saw this as a convenient way to either have an easy out if I didn't like it, or any easy way to break my new diet to my parents if I wanted to stay. 15 years later, I think they're still really hoping it's a phase. Along with the hair.
If these people wanna, they can do this, too. Pardon me if you've been tagged already, sometimes I forget to listen.
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soylentmean
I_heart_to____, whose alias will never have the proper number of underscores in that last bit.
cynthia_french
lostmachine
thomasprophet
windelina
Here's six things about me that you might not know. Some of you do, though. Bear with me. Most of these are from when I was younger, 'cause it's easier for me to think of weird or unusual stuff I did as a kid than think of things that might seem weird to people now for some reason. More perspective, I suppose...
1. When I was younger, I preferred to eat ice cream not in a bowl with a spoon, but in a mug with a fork. I will still often put ice cream in a mug, but usually use spoons all the time, now.
2. I was a junior aquatennial princess. This means I wore a fancy dress and a sash and a tiara and waved at people while riding in parades all around the twin cities for a year. We didn't really do anything besides that, that I remember. My successor the next year was my first cousin. A weird irony is that I'm being invited back to skate in some of the same parades as a rollergirl.
3. My favorite color when I was six was pink. My room from then until I was in junior high had pink carpeting; tulips on the walls; teddy bear, unicorn, and My Little Pony collections; and a pink canopy bed. I don't think I own anything pink anymore.
4. While I grew out of pink, I am still as crazy about horses as I was when I was little. Sometimes I think I got my motorcycle license because it is the closest urban analog to having a horse.
5. I taught myself to read, and still remember the cardboard book I was looking at when I made the connection between what the word "house" looked like and the picture on the page. My Mom says she discovered that I knew how to read when I'd been bothering her to read me a story and she couldn't right then, and I sat down and started reading it out loud to myself instead. (I don't remember this.)
6. I became vegetarian in junior high, and used giving up meat for Lent as an excuse. (My family was Catholic, but wasn't in the habit of giving things up for Lent.) I saw this as a convenient way to either have an easy out if I didn't like it, or any easy way to break my new diet to my parents if I wanted to stay. 15 years later, I think they're still really hoping it's a phase. Along with the hair.
If these people wanna, they can do this, too. Pardon me if you've been tagged already, sometimes I forget to listen.
soylentmeanI_heart_to____, whose alias will never have the proper number of underscores in that last bit.
cynthia_frenchlostmachinethomasprophetwindelina