Once upon a time there was a "survey note craze" on Facebook. Those long ass Q&A things that you would fill out when you were hella bored and had nothing else better to do....and then you tagged friends that would read yours answers then fill out their answers when they were hella bored and had nothing else better to do... and then they tagged their friends....etc etc etc. Well in January 2009 Aislinn tagged me in a "25 Things About Me" note... whiiiiiich I filled out when I was hella bored and had nothing else better to do.
I recently remembered that "notes" on Facebook existed and I read through the ones I had posted. The "25 Things" was the last one I read. Some of them are still valid.... others make me laugh and need to be changed or elaborated on....
So without further ado.... 25 Things About Turtle...
(Original in black.... edits in red and new facts in blue.)
1. I miss high school, I would never want to go back but I miss the simplicity of it and I miss band. I bought a keyboard a few weeks ago and I found that I am beginning to forget how to read music. I almost cried.
I don't miss high school... so this one shall be replaced. I miss the memories....it was simple but you couldn't pay me to go back. I miss the memories of band. I re-taught myself how to read music so no more tears there.
I may have got past high school but I have still kept my "social butterfly" persona. Instead of "band geeks, jocks, popular kids and loners" the "cliques" I am friend with now are "hippies, bikers, military and southerners". :-p
2. I believe in reincarnation. I know exactly who and what I was in my most recent past life and I know snippets of lives way before now.
This is still 100% true. I have known this since I was in first grade. High school made me afraid to tell people and express my beliefs because I didn't want anyone to think I was "weird" (teenagers are judge-y bitches)... But now.... it is who I am and I will tell anyone and everyone. I'm no longer scurred.
3. I have an intense fear of 18 wheeler trucks. I will pull my car over on the highway and wait for them to thin out if there is a lot of them on the road at once. I do have a reason though, my Mom and I were almost smashed into a cement wall by one when I was little. Lucky for us we were in her camero and the back of the truck passed right over the hood of the car.
This is still 2,000% true. I hate driving when there are big rigs all around me....makes me wanna throw up in my mouth a little.
4. I fiddle with my necklace or ring when I am nervous. If I am trying not to fiddle when I am talking to people then I stick my thumbs in the front pockets of my pants or in a hoodie pocket.
I also look annnyyyywhere other than people's faces. The ceiling....the floor...the wall...
5. I personally believe that people in Texas (or really anywhere in the south) can't drive...or read...if a sign says "lane ends merge right" it doesn't mean please stay in the left lane until the last possible second then get pissed when I wont let you in. Oh...and when it is 25 degrees and was sleeting the previous night "caution, bridge may be icy in cold weather" means the bridge probably will be icy...so dont go 70 mph and then wonder why your car is skidding sideways..duh.
Truth.
6. I want to open a daycare/preschool when I get out of the Navy.
No longer valid. I love kids but I have found that 90% of smallish children annoy the shit out of me.
I want to open my own photography business when I get out of the Navy. Turtle's Photography. I have loved taking photos since the sixth grade Boston trip. I also want to be a published author.
7. I want to have a book on the New York Times Best Seller List.
Truth. I am working on it too. I'm the next J. K. Rowling dammit!
8. I am addicted to harrypotterfanfiction.com.
I don't think I have been on that site since 2009.... sooooooo nope.
I am addicted to youtube.com. And buzzfeed.com. And of course facebook.com.
9. I am finally getting used to being away from home. It doesn't make it any easier and I still get homesick a lot but I am finally to the point where I can actually save up my leave days and not go home every few months.
I am 100% used to being away from home. I only go home once a year now.
The Furry Mafia...Midnight Mamma Dog, Mooshie the Squishy Face, Missy the Old Lady (R.I.P)...the temporary members, Moby and Kiara...and the honorary members, Ziggy, Annie, Noxie, Bear etc.... They are my loves and protectors. They own me. Hahaha.
10. I live with the best people in the state of Texas. I have my own little southern family. Even if they do say Ya'll...alll the time.
I no longer live in Texas. But the people I lived with then (Megan and Brandon) are my Texas family. I lived with Vinney and her family for a while while in Texas too and they are my Palauan family.
Living in Oklahoma would scare the shit out of me if I didn't have Adam. Seriously. I like to think I am an independent person and would be okay on my own but if I didn't have him to calm me down and explain shit to me when I am in full out freak out mode ("No...the tornado isn't headed for us...this is why..." "No...that spider isn't poisonous...this is why..." "No...that asshole isn't gonna rob us....I'll shoot him..." ) I would not be okay here at all.
11. I can't wait to have smallish chidren of my very own. I want to be a Mommy.
Truth.
12. I used to love to entertain people and make them laugh. When I was little I was hyper and crazy and loud because I made people laugh and it was amazing to me. Now that I am older I have become such a shy person. Now when I make people laugh or have to get up in front of people I blush six shades of red and wonder what I did to make them laugh and how can I make them stop.
Also truth.
13. I have found love and it is an amazing experience. In high school I had a lot of guy friends but never really any boy friends. Crushes...oh yes, I had crushes...but no boy friends. Adam was my first serious boyfriend and I hit it off with the first one. 5 years and still going strong :-)
Nine years now. I love the boything.
14. I am the ONLY third class petty officer in the entire Navy that has the job that I have. I am the Command Career Counselor Assistant and in March I will be a fully qualified Career Counselor and I will get to wear the badge and everything. Normally you have to be at least a second class to be able to do that but my Master Chief decided I could handle the responsibility as a third. Go me!
Well pin a rose on my bragging nose. I don't think many thirds were Assistant CCC but I highly doubt I was the only one. Sheesh....I thought I was the cat's pajamas back then.
Being stationed at a NOSC has made me more (respectfully) vocal. I have never in my 27 years on earth been comfortable enough to (respectfully) tell someone they are a dumbass. Unless I outrank them....then I just tell them that they are a dumbass. (There are only so many times you can explain the same thing to a person before you just can't do it anymore.)
15. If you couldn't tell by number 14...I have no use for commas or grammatical correctness....or correct spelling. I make up words like it is my job. When I am working on my book I do...when I think about it anyway...but mostly I use a lot of... and the word and...over and over and over and over again.
...Sounds about right...
16. Dr. Pepper is the necture of the gods...unless it is Dublin Dr. Pepper...then I pour if out in disgust and go back to the store. I have actually pulled all the bottles of Dr. Pepper out of the cooler until I found one that wasn't bottled in Dublin.
I still love me some D. P. but I have expanded my liquid love beyond 23 flavors. (Dublin D.P. still sucks.)
I have a ridiculous memory if it is something I am interested in. Random ass songs from my childhood...check. Random ass poems from my childhood.....check. The entire Kings Tutorial for EAWS....check (in one night....I memorized almost all of the EAWS Kings Tutorial because I had one shot at my board before I transfered and I wanted those wings...including the phone number for the National Response Center. Dealing with an oil spill??? Call 1-800-424-8802.) The fact I STILL remember the NRC number shows you why my friends and family call me the human phone book. If I actually take the time to commit a number to memory I won't forgot it. Example... (and because some of these are still their parent's home numbers I will only write the last three digits...
Erin: 055
Megs: 361
Ray: 006
Aaron: 540
Ian: 880
Karie:586
Linds: 584
etc etc etc
And cell numbers... I have some of those memorized too...
Ashley: 710
Carrie: 556
Kerri: 242
etc etc etc
Another example of my "if I care to memorize it I will".... the TV show from the 90s... Animaniacs... Yakkos Nations of the World... a friend told me he didn't think I could memorize it.... now I can't forget it. (Seriously...if you know me call me up and tell me to rattle that shit off... I am alllll over it.)
17. I am really uncomfortable talking about religion...I have panic attacks when I go to church. I believe in God...why do I have to talk about it or go to a man made building to have a relationship with Him??? Seriously. God created Earth, yes? Well I would rather go chill by a tree for an hour on Sunday morning than go to a stuffy building. Get over it.
Still don't like talking about religion. I have however successfully made it through some church time without wanting to throw up a little (recently too...I took pictures of my friend Carrie's baptism last month).
18. I have a tub of cut up shirts from my childhood that I am planning on making into a quilt....when I learn how to sew...which will prolly never do....so therefore I have a tub of cut up shirts from my childhood...
Still have the tub of cut up shirts from my childhood that I am planning on making into a quilt...still can't sew well enough to make it into a quilt. Super.
19. If I make 2nd Class off the March exam I will have made 2nd class in less than 2 years.
I made it off that exam. Boom.
20. I am an avid movie watcher. I have almost 200 dvds.
My movie buying has decreased since I finally moved up to OKC with Adam...but I still have a ridiculous amount of DVDs and I still love watching movies.
21. I have learned not to be so trusting of people. There a lot of assholes in this world. A lot.
Yep.
22. I wish my grandparents were still alive. I look at people my age that still have there grandparents and I think that I somehow got robbed or something wonderful. I never met my Grandpa Clint, I can barely remember my Grandma Jean, Great Grandma Catherine or my Grandma. I have more memories of my Granddaddy but they are all random and getting fuzzy. They all died young. It scares me that people in my family die young.
When I wrote this I didn't mention Grandpa Cliff. Everything else is still the same.
23. Jon and Kate Plus Eight, Extreme Home Makeover and Greys Anatomy and three shows you don't speak to me while I am watching. I may just kill you with my bare hands.
Jon and Kate Plus Eight...no longer. Extreme Home Makeover...no longer. Grey's Anatomy....VALID. Add Vampire Diaries and Once Upon a Time. If we count Netflix....add Lost Girl too.
24. I have three tattoos...a daisy on my ankle, a sea turtle on my hip and a shooting star on my foot. After the shooting star my Mom said no more tattoos. After that was said Roxy passed away and I got her initials on my ankle by the daisy. It took my Mom over a year to notice. I am currently designing my fourth tattoo....getting ink is addictive...
Still don't have that fourth tattoo. Ink is addictive but also expensive.
25. I never apply myself 100 percent to anything. I figure that if I fail at something I can justify it to myself because I didn't try my hardest. But if I try my hardest and I still fail I wouldn't let it go...ever...I am terrified of giving my all and failing sooooooooo I just don't
Sadly.... I cannot edit this. That is still how my brain works. Bummer.
There you have it. Boom goes the dynamite. Now you know a little bit more useless crap about me. Feel special and shit.
Oh yeah.... just so you know.... if you add "and shit" to the end of anything you say it makes you an instant gangsta.
Seriously.
"I like cute and fluffy kittens." vs. "I like cute and fluffy kittens and shit."
Gangsta.
Keep livin' the dream!
~Turtle
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