Started 7/16/12 - 1:18 PM - Finished 7/17/2:01

I've decided to finally join The NuTangian Challenge, I believe I said I was going to do it a year or two ago so why not start out with it now right? I don't generally have a lot of time to spare and I have a horrible time with trying to do things like this so I'm going to do it i 4 parts, maybe 1 a week or something. Plus then it's a little less monotonous for us all. So without further ado - 25 facts about me:

1. I drink about an average of a pot to a pot and a half of coffee everyday. It's tasty and warm plus it smells great and makes me bouncy. Win/Win/WIN/WIN!

2. I really enjoy drawing with charcoal but I am only actually decent with it if I color my whole surface in charcoal first and then "draw" with erasers.

3. Sometimes the world overwhelms me. I have PTSD and because of that I have some pretty ugly anxiety issues and I allow myself to get stressed about odd things. It generally ends badly but quickly and those who love me reassure me that yeah, maybe I AM a little crazy but they just see it as me and love me regardless.

4. One time a friend really rudely/loudly/publicly corrected me for say irregardless instead of regardless and now I always catch myself and do this awkward self correction when I try to say irregardless. I hope one day I can just somehow train myself to use proper grammar at least 96% of the time.

5. People think I talk a lot but I don't really. I babble when I'm nervous and other people are quiet but I don't ever truly SAY much. It saddens me to know how many thoughts I've thought that nobody will ever know about. Thinking is just almost always a better option than speaking though.


6. I am in the process of opening an vintage thrift shop on ETSY. I have been learning vintage fashion labels, how to date clothing, and how to date practically everything else for the past few months. I have a vintage one-piece swimsuit in my inventory that I actually nerd out about to anyone who'll listen because it's such an interesting piece (to me at least lol). I've got a decent inventory built up, just haven't had the motivation/time/resources to get it all listed yet. I hope to have it all listed by mid-september.

7. I am OBSESSED with things smelling good. I just tried typing out the extent to which and it was making me lazy, so just trust me. OBSESSED.

8. I love iCarly.

9. My lemonade cream pie made it into the finals in a really big pie contest I was in recently. There I was still in when they had it down to 5, but didn't make it into the top 3. I'm still super proud though. +1 for getting that far and +10 for a roundhouse kick to my social anxiety.

10. I have a horrible phobia of cicadas. A few years ago when it was the 17th year, when they come out in the masses, we had just moved to a historical neighborhood with giant trees everywhere and the cicadas were EVERYWHERE. There were so many that even walking out to your car at least 4 or 5 would fly into your head. It was like a real life horror movie to me and I still fear 13 years from now when I am older and less capable of running like a lunatic.

11. I have a major love and wonderment for homesteading. I wish I could have a sod roof and turn my tiny bit of yard into a vegetable garden. Self sustainability is both economical and ecological brilliance and I strive to one day attain it.

12. My favorite music is music that moves the soul. For me that is blues, jazz, rhythm, big band, funk, soul. I wish that true music was still mainstream, the really mainstream stuff makes my brain sad. I try not to be a judgey, pretentious, little heifer about it but it's a struggle.

13. I have mad cooking skills. I'm generally leary to brag on myself about much but hot damn will I when it comes to anything in the kitchen. I do it all and it's all delicious (and generally fresh and healthy to boot).

14. My upper front tooth is fake. Apparently I have issues with my blood sugar, confirmed after getting second place in a twinkie eating contest and subsequently passing out while busting out some sweet roller blade moves.

15. I often have brief day dream sequences, think something like JD from scrubs. I love getting lost in my imagination.

16. I was adopted when I was 6.

17. The Cat From Outer Space is one of my all time favorite movies.

18. This song breaks me down. It resonates so deeply with me it's actually kind of painful to listen to. It's odd because it's not like it's the greatest work of musical art ever by any means but it really just captures the very emotion I have in regards to my marriage at the moment. And hell, that is a little heartbreaking when you can just feel a song describing something you cant.



19. I have an odd fascination with buttons.

20. I don't consider myself a pop drinker, because I don't drink it all the time like a lot of society does, but I'm actually just a bit of a pop connoisseur and I'm really into local specialties and natural pops. Oh and cream sodas, I'm cream soda is my favorite in the sense that I will ALWAYS try a cream soda if I haven't had the type before. I'm a little hipster in the sense that I rarely ever like the "mainstream" pop lol.

21. I eat onions in/on practically everything. I love every kind, cooked every kind of way or not cooked at all.

22. I pulled pepper spray on a creepy man that I'm 99.99% sure was following my friend and I one night. I literally held it out, hand on the trigger, and pointed it his direction at least 3 times before I just started walking backwards with it aimed at him. He turned around and went back the way he came and I am convinced to this day that I may have at the very least prevented us from getting robbed. There's more to that but I don't feel like typing it out, but I had plenty of reasonable suspicion to pull pepper spray out and I don't just pull pepper spray on people who walk on the same sidewalk as me. ;-)

23. My favorite colors are yellow and green and certain shades of orange.

24. I'm hungry. Does that count? It's definitely a fact at this moment.

25. I use Google as spell check.

Haha I like your post.

I think we would get along in rl.

My best friend/roomie deals with PTSD and high amounts of anxiety. I never get tired of reassuring her and it's great to see her when she comes out of her social anxiety - like when I convinced her to sing free karaoke in public with me. She was really happy :) as was I. She also does funny grammar mistakes like pronouncing anxiety as anex-iety. I never correct her though (other people try to) I don't see the point, because I understand and also the merriam dictionary added "ginormous" to the dictionary... screw you grammar.

I love Etsy... link me your shop!

I used to live in a house where my roommates and I grew tomatoes, squash, beans, lemons etc you should def. try it. It's easier than it seems and it's super rewarding and fun.

GOOD JOB on the pepper spray... I need to get some myself.

I WANT LEMONADE PIE
» dont-see on 2012-07-17 08:36:36

ONIONS are amazing

I WANT LEMONADE PIE

I, too, use google as my checker.






ARE YOU A JD CLONE?
» undisputed on 2012-07-19 07:56:46

So this purse. I found it in an Aldo store when I was travelling, it came in gray and black. So I had plenty of time to check it out, but they wanted $50 for the black and $40 for the gray. I was feeling cheap and didn't much care for the gray, so I figured I'd look and see if they had any internet coupons.

I found both on 6pm for $30, so I went ahead and ordered the black one. Technically it's a murse/tech-bag, but I like it.
» ikimashokie on 2012-07-19 02:17:33

edit/part 2
I'm exceedingly picky about my purses, and I think this one is awesome. I'm a big fan of clearance/thrift as well.

Are you serious. Now it is $25. Grump.

Anyway, the Bag, now $25.
» ikimashokie on 2012-07-19 02:22:48

Omg... I totally love that Missy Higgins song!! It's a sad song but at the same time it has a hopeful message to it.

Re: Yes, we can totally start a NuTang book club!
» Nuttz on 2012-07-20 06:07:19

Awwww, I'd heard that song before but I never listened to the lyrics. It is very sad. I hope that you can resolve what is going on in your life that makes it speak to you. :(

I also love onions (especially carmelized onions), and I also use Google as spell-check.

And I also want Lemonade Pie. HOW DO I MAKE IT?!!?!?
» Zanzibar on 2012-07-20 11:27:30

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