Idk how old I was but for a recent birthday I had just gotten a high-school musical bear from build-a-bear (I was obsessed with high-school musical), that same year for crazy hair day my mom accidently died my hair with streaks of red. Long story short, my small head did not use up all that hair dye, my mom left the mixing bowl on the sink, and I took it to my room and slathered that ish all over my teddy bears head. I was so scared of getting caught that I hid the bear, with the dye still on it, in my closet for months until we moved and as we cleaned I dropped it in the trash and never looked back.
Jun 7, 2024
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In 5th grade i forgot to tell my Mom we were having a Halloween prty and parade thing at school and made her pick me up a costume last minute. She bought me this big orange felt pumpkin costume lol. It was so corny and not cool. I don’t think it was even a jack o’ lantern. All my friends had these really cool elaborate masks like one from the Goosebumps show and i had to walk around as a lil pumpkin. It was really embarrassing. Anyways i think about it a lot.
Anyways, my fav was prob when i dressed as a robot with this cool custom outfit i helped make out of cardboard boxes when i was like 7.
Jun 1, 2024
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my extremely buttoned down parents were very preoccupied with the idea that I would end up uncouth and unladylike when I was 16 (it was the heyday of the demonic and cursed reality show ‘what not to wear’). They sent me to a local short course on ‘etiquette’ that spring in the hopes it would be the full blown makeover I so sorely needed. I blew it off and went and hung out at the skate park instead, where I ran into a chaotic red haired boy I vaguely knew through friends and we made out frantically at various landmarks for the next 3 days until the course was over and he ghosted me.
I stan my 16 year old self for being so wilfully disobedient and unwavering in her self-concept. I still have a bit of a thing for redheads
Oct 17, 2024
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I had a strict self-imposed morning routine starting in elementary school where I would set an alarm to wake up at 5:00 am, get up and go to the backyard where I would do circuits alternating between running laps, jumping rope, jumping jacks, push-ups, and crunches. Then I would sit and watch Pappyland, Golden Girls, and knitting shows until my dad made me breakfast and I would try to get to school very early just so that I could be there before other people were.
I wanted to be a standup comedian when I was four, then a news broadcaster, then an author, to name a few. I wrote a novella in fifth grade and shared it with everyone I could. I loved agility training my dog Holly. I was a voracious reader and checked out every book out in my school library to the point my school librarian started bringing me her own books from home that she thought I would be interested in.
I had approximately one million Barbie dolls and their associated accessories and I liked to make outfits for them and have them act out news broadcasts and murder mysteries. I would take roly polies from the dirt or crickets from the pet store and build habitats for them. I liked gardening with my dad, pulling weeds, propagating cuttings, and planting seeds. I loved going to the zoo and watching movies on TCM with my mom!
My dad is an artist and taught me the fundamentals of art and to use all kinds of different mediums, but my favorite was oil pastel. I enjoyed doing still lives the most. I liked to rearrange and decorate my bedroom—once I made a closet breakfast nook that I was really excited about; I called it Dorothea’s Cafe after my late grandmother and decorated it with her embroideries. I loved Nancy Drew games and other computer games. At night I would take bubble baths in the dark and play whale sounds in my Barbie car that had a built in CD player.
As I got older, I was in youth symphony orchestra (I played viola which is so me), choir, school musicals (wanted to be a Broadway star until I realized I couldn’t dance but also I kept getting cast as a boy), math club, and speech competitions (poetry readings and dramatic readings were my favorite). I liked to write original fiction and comics for my weird goth/emo/scene anime nerd friends to read. I did get into anime and manga at this time and I loved reading nonfiction to learn about as many things as I could.
In high school I gradually retreated into my shell after a series of traumatic experiences, one of which I’m writing about now, until basically I stopped doing all extracurriculars except for Japanese Club (lol). I just really loved my Japanese language teacher and wanted to spend more time with her :-) by that time I would just read classic tones and furiously scribble poetry and drawings by myself. I also liked to collage and do photography and I unfortunately became a Tumblr user. That’s about it…
Oct 18, 2024
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People in your life who don't pressure you to text or call them all that often and vice verse. Such a relief through the web of constant pressure I feel to keep up with people due to social media. Like nah it's cool if you don't text me that same day, we got lives to live buddy, I'll see ya when I see ya.
Jun 10, 2024
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Although not horror in it's traditional sense, the dystopic and serious nature of the rules set in this black comedy movie are beyond horrific. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since I saw it a couple of weeks ago. It's an insane watch.
Jun 5, 2024
(me screaming this heaven sent song at the top of my lungs)
"And I'd give up forever to touch you'
Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't wanna go home right now"
Jun 18, 2024