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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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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.
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Date: 2006-10-30 06:04 pm (UTC)1. I also like to eat ice cream out of mugs. But mostly when it's peppermint ice cream, the kind that only comes out at christmas time. It stays colder in a mug, and I don't like my ice cream all melty.
2. When I was little, I would eat all the brown parts out of my lucky charms and save the marshmallows for last. That way, it would all be sweet and the marshmallows would be soft and squishy between my teeth.
3. I was a Miss Blarney Princess about 3 years ago for St. Patrick's Day in Minneapolis.
4. I wrote my first play when I was about 8 years old. I hand-wrote out enough copies for all the neighborhood kids to have one, but they never memorized their parts, even after I made all the backdrops for the stage (my back yard patio). I was mad at them for a good solid week. The play was about a mouse who lost his shoe.
5. I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
6. I had a pet bunny growing up. Her name was Thumpalina. We wanted to name her after the bunny in Bambi, but Thumper was a boy. So we changed it. I now have a cat named Malaki. Malaki is a girl. I didn't feel the need to change the name for her. I think that's the difference between a 5 year old and a 25 year old.