25 years old. I'm at a fancy tea house in Seattle, celebrating my birthday.1. I hated reading in elementary school, and I’m a slow reader because of it.
2. When I was 7, I was in a fatal car accident that changed my family forever. (Not fatal to me, obviously, but fatal to the woman who hit us.)
3. I had a uni-brow and very crooked teeth. Because of this, I’m very hyper-sensitive to how my teeth look. We couldn’t’ afford braces until I was in high school and I cried the day I got them because I was so grateful to have them.
4. I was such a nerd!
5. I was very shy and was terrified of speaking to adults. (This fear lasted until I was in my 20’s. I still get nervous sometimes.)
6. I had a fiery temper and would throw and kick things when I was mad.
7. I had very sharp finger nails and thought it was fun to claw people, (I know I was messed up)
8. I was always worried about others, especially if I had hurt them.
9. I was awful at spelling, (huh, I still am. Some things don’t change)
10. I knew I wanted to be a writer.
11. I was good at kick ball and a fast runner, then around sixth grade those kind of sporty things ended.
12. I loved camping and being in the outdoors. (I hate camping now, I don’t know what changed.)
13. I loved playing dress ups.
14. I loved playing with Barbies, and went to great lengths to hide it from my friends. (It wasn’t cool to play with Barbies in fifth grade.)
15. I was scared of the dark and thought there were goblins in my room.
16. I loved climbing trees and would dream of living in a tree.
17. Whenever I played at playgrounds I would pretend I was a princess and that the play-gym was my castle.
18. My mother called me Aly-Sunny because I was always smiling, and with my blond hair and blue eyes she felt like I looked like sunshine.
19. I had a doll named Sunshine.
20. I had gold fish named Red Hot. Trying to be funny my brother told me he died right after I bought him. I broke into hysterical sobbing for a full ten minutes until my brother showed me he was joking.
21. Everyone called me Aly, I didn’t really grasp the fact that my name was Alyson, (around seventh grade I made everyone call me Alyson because I felt it was more “grown-up” now I don’t care.)
22. I had many perms in my hair.
23. Green was my favorite color. (Now it’s blue)
24. I loved paper dolls
25. I could ride a bike with no hands.
26. I got “married” to the neighborhood boy at least three times.
27. I believed that there were fairies living in my garden.
28. I had pneumonia when I was eight and had to be hospitalized.
29. I was never allowed to have Sees chocolates at Christmas time. They were only for grownups, I remember wanting so desperately to just have one piece.
30. I only ever cheated once in my life. It was on a spelling test in second grade. I wrote the word on the desk before the test and erased it afterwards. The word was “friend”. I felt sick for years afterwards and before I graduated elementary school I finally went and told my teacher. I never cheated after that experience. And I’ve never publicly admitted to this either. (Wow, does it feel good to get THAT off my chest.)
2 comments:
Camping is only fun when there is someone else to cook and clean up and you're not chasing kids out of a river so I guess that disqualifies us as moms :-)
You were such an imaginative child, which is so great!
No wonder you have the mind of a writer!
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