25 random things

This is the 25 random things that i keep getting tagged on facebook...i thought i'd put it up here, cuz i really liked it. I thought a lot about it and i don't know. I like it up here.


1. Ok. Yes, i am doing this again, but only because i really don't want to do homework and i was tagged by a family member :)

2. I've always had this desire to really learn how to sing and play the piano and the guitar, but i've never had the time (or money) to take lessons. It's something i really want to do and i have an electric that i've taught myself a few notes and my lil' brother got me a mini keyboard...so hopefully, when i move out of this house, i will be able to get that stuff up here to school with me.

3. I hate the house i live in, but i ADORE all my roommates (for once).

4. I just found out that my wheat allergy is getting worse and i've been cutting out a lot of wheat in my diet. AND it just so happens, at random, that one of my roommates has Celiac's Disease and the other has a wheat allergy too! It's a good thing to have, but it's making my transition a lot easier (not to mention the fact that my mom is a nutritionist either...)

5. I know that i have a million people that love and support me unconditionally, but sometimes i just feel really abandoned.

6. I want to take a road trip with my cousin Rachael back to Oden Island. It's a magical place where all your troubles escape you. My grandparents used to own a cottage there and it was the most magnificant place on the earth. It's hard to describe...just think of your favorite place and multiply it by 100 and you're not even close. It's my favorite place in the world.

7. I love teaching people about what i do. Having an intellectual conversation about art is one of my favorite things to do. I also like teaching people how to throw on the wheel because i learn from them as well. Everyone has their own special way once they learn the basics....it's amazing

8. Cassie Seymour is my rock. I've never met anyone like her before. It boggles my mind how close we are to being the same person. I'm so glad she's my best friend.

9. When Jimmy (one of my younger brothers) and I were little, we had a HUGE costume box and we would find the most rediculous outfits and wear them around the house and even outside. My friends and I would put on "shows" as well. You never knew what to expect. We would lip-sync, dance, do "acrobatics", act, put on short performances for the neighbors. I had a HUGE side yard and we would bring the "performing mat" out and everyone knew it was time for a show.

10. I blame my dad for my pyromaniac tendencies. He's the one who introduced me to fire.

11. After years of constant fighting with my parents, they are now my best friends. And even Jimmy and I are starting to get along.....WEIRD, i know.

12. I am actually enjoying all my classes this semester....even though they are really tough/a LOT of work (Logic, Psych, Nature Writing, Environmental Science, Capstone and an independent study in metals)

13. When i graduate i want to travel, i mean really travel. Not do the touristy things, i want to go spelunking in a cave and find my own gemstones. I want to hike everywhere and build my own campsite. I want to go overseas and really capture the beauty that i've only seen in movies. I want to go to little galleries and museums in Italy, Germany, Scotland, Ireland, the Netherlands everywhere. I want to see the cathedrals and their flying buttresses. Anyone wanna come/help me? I wouldn't know where to start....

14. No matter what anyone says, I like my independence. It's both a curse and more importantly a blessing. It might get in the way of certain things at times and i might complain, but i know that when the time is right, it will happen. I just want everyone else to believe that for me too.

15. One of the most important life lessons i've learned that has really hit home lately is that, In order to let someone else in, you really have to learn to love yourself and The Lord completely. (right Julia?)

16. I have the self confidence i never thought i would have. (and trust me, it's confidence, not cockyness)

17. My family means the world to me and i wish i felt like i was as important to them as they are to me....

18. One of my favorite things to do when i'm all alone in my house is practice my pirouettes...or i'll do it any place where there is no body around (or looking)

19. One time, when i was in a production of footloose, i went onstage with my pants unzipped...luckily it was the hallway locker scene where Ren had his first run-in with Willard and one of the other cast members saw it (it was before any of the leads got on stage)...and he looked down and told me and so i acted like it was planned that way and zipped it back up all dramatically and what not...it was a great improv scene and we got a good chuckle from the audience. Oh boy, do i miss performing

20. My senior year, our youth group put on a mystery dinner of a Who done it? It was a Who Killed Bob Barker theme and I played a crazy lady, mad cuz i didn't win anything on the show.
(don't worry, nobody really killed him...he was locked in a closet or was in the bathroom for a really long time...er something like that)

21. The summer after my freshmen year of h.s. my best friend (at the time) and I went to visit her dad in South Dakota. It was a small, small town of i think 67 people (69 including us for two weeks). There wasn't really anything to do...but there were some of her neighborhood friends from when she was little hanging around, but we weren't allowed to talk to them or hang out with them because they were skate borders....so instead, we hung out at her dad's place during the day and went to a rodeo and swam and what not....but at night, we would sneak out of her window (or door if her dad was really asleep) and go hang out with them. There was an old abandoned school/playground where we could hang out and hide. Trust me, when i say, sneaking out of a window like that, is not easy and it leaves bruises....

22. My first summer at blue lake, we were all (campers included) sitting at our first performance for the summer...it was an orchestra (i think..) Anyways, they have these things called "movements" and never being in band or really seeing a performance like this, i didn't really understand that you didn't clap IN BETWEEN them....Needless to say, my paper plate award was "....Most likely to clap in between movements..." The best part was, it was a middle school session (member this Julia? Clarke?) and the campers were told to look at the councelors if they weren't sure when they could clap or not.....WOPES...I learned my lesson.

23. I sometimes buy wine just for the bottle...i have a small collection of them. But my absolute favorite thing about that, is that whenever i see my Grandfather, he'll bring a few bottles of wine...and there is always a "fancy" one. He buys a bottle based on the shape and design just for me, cuz he knows i'll keep it afterwards.

24. I have a SLIGHT bag, hat and scarf fetish....

25. I'm a dog person. I like big dogs best tho.