Moving along. I wrote up a huge entry about Lollapalooza. How much I loved it. How much fun I had. How much I miss being in "Lollaland". However when I read it back to myself, I realized it didn't properly encapsulate just how amazing (see? already lacking superlatives) that weekend really was. So I will leave it as a memory that I hold dear. To incredible friendships that blossomed, to a wealth of new music I fell in love with, to a few bitsy mistakes, and to Pete Samson, a man who's identity absolutely baffled us during our hotel stay (inside jokes, inside jokes!).
Now then. In a conversation with the lovely Miss Shayla (one of my favoritest readers from back when I was an incoherent twenty year old) we mentioned a familiar blog I had done regarding introspection and random facts. I'm a lover of privacy, and yet I never fail to divulge useless pieces of information about myself. Got a survey to fill out? I'm there. It's the most passive form of getting to know someone, and I am all over that. Coincidentally enough in looking back on the internet at Ye Olde Blog (of which the url I will not divulge; I was eleventy times more out there then than I am now. Plus reading that blog will leave you wanting a Klonopin cocktail) today, 10 years ago I wrote an entry entitled, "The Dirty Thirty". That entry listed a few random facts about myself that I found interesting, weird, or just absolute space fillers. And I think you can by now figure out where we are going with this. So, without further ado, may I present The Dirty Thirty; 2011 edition.
1. I like to cook, and habitually bake cookies for people for no reason.
2. I have a deep and profound love for the 3am hour. I feel like I'm at my most creative then. Usually I'm writing or painting around that time of night.
3. I will buy and wear any hat, no matter how ridiculous. If it's knit, that's an even bigger plus.
4. Considering I grew up in the upper middle class suburbs, I have a deep love for all things hip hop. Oh! and also movies about gang life.
5. If I get a crazy idea, don't be surprised if I do it soon after. I'm incredibly impulsive.
6. The only thing that trumps my impulsiveness is my ability to procrastinate. Womp womp.
7. I habitually dye my hair red, because when my hair is a normal color I don't feel like 'me'.
8. I lose my shoes when I drink. And let me just elaborate on that everyone thinks this is hilarious while I think it's mystifying. I genuinely do not know at what point my shoes come off, let alone how I always end up wandering perilous streets with no footwear to speak of. This habit has caused me to drastically rethink shoes I plan to where when I go out, because I would die if I lost a pair of Louboutins. Die. Dead.
9. I'm pretty sure I'm in the process of a quarter life crisis. Not that it's in a negative way, I just took this entire year to look at my life and change everything up.
10. I love white wine. Which is ironic because in my younger years I refused to drink anything other than vodka. But now it's all about white wine. And whiskey. Love whiskey.
11. When the travel bug hits, I can't NOT pack up and go. I need to see the entire world, one country at a time. So far I've circled the globe twice.
12. I advocate fiercely for a cause I believe in. With that being said, if I feel like you are getting in on something just to garner attention, I'll tell you. No time for fakes.
13. Music is life. Yes I sound 12 when I say that, but it's true. I couldn't live without music in my life.
14. My friends kept me going through the hardest times in my life. When i felt like I couldn't take another step, they were always there. Aww!
15. I love the color green. I own too many green nicknacks just because they are green.
16. The best advice I ever received was from a homeless man. He told me, "Love everyone around you. Love them and hug them and love them". It still stands to be one of the best conversations I've ever had.
17. I dislike talking on the phone. Texting and Facebook is so much easier. I will talk on the phone if inebriated. In those instances, I never shut up. Ever. As an addendum, I'd have to say I'm also a horrible drunk texter.
18. There's a time period in my life that was insane and I hung out with some really cool musicians, and I miss every single one of the people who went through it with me. When we all talk now, it's super awkward.
19. I have a series of scars on my arms that everyone asks about. I don't think I've ever given anyone the true story behind them, though the basic story usually has to do with raptors or angry dwarf hampsters.
20. The smell of maple syrup makes me want to vomit profusely a la Exorcist. Same with the consistency of egg nog.
21. I can't stand "chick flicks". They bore the hell out of me. You go ahead and watch one; I'll take a nap.
22. I love 80's sitcoms. I could watch Mr. Belvedere eleventy times over.
23. I love the word eleventy. I've used it since I was a wee Khan.
24. I'm a sucker for a guy with great manners. There are far too many uncouth souls out there.
25. Yep.
26. I'm struggling for anything to fill in here, though I can honestly say I don't find any of this interesting at all.
27. Right now I'm wearing a striped shirt, a striped bra, striped pants, and striped underwear. None of the patterns match. Significance? None. I just realized this.
28.I have a tendency to be too open-mouthed when I drink. I'll talk up anyone which tends to be a problem as usually those people turn out to be demi-serial killers.
29. I want to learn how to speak an obscure language. However I know if I do, I won't really have anyone to converse with. Thus, the dilemma.
30. I love winter. There is something about the acerbic bite of a subzero wind that catches my breath and makes me feel alive.
The end. ow ow.
