1. I have 3 sisters who are my best friends. 2 older and 1 younger.
2. All my friends were guys growing up which I lost touch with after my first marriage. I've never had any chick friends outside my family.
3. I started playing piano at age 3. My Grandmother was a concert pianist who thought I could read music, but I played everything by ear.
4. I didn't learn to read music until age 24.
5. I went to college in Murfreesboro, Tn MTSU and got a BS in Science concentrating on Production and Technology of the Recording Industry.
6. Double minors in Film Studies and Music Theory.
7. I started out as an Art Major.
4. It took 8 years of college to finally graduate due to switching majors so much.
5. I've worked close to 30 jobs. I get tired of things easily and have mental issues which would keep me outta work for long periods of time. (My resume was 4 pages long!)
6. I'm currently on disability for Bipolar Disorder and major anxiety disorder/ borderline personality disorder.
7. I'm ashamed of not being able to function in society.
8. I started my dreads to help express how I feel on the inside. Wild and crazy, in knots and completely twisted.
9. I was a tomboy growing up and wore combat boots with my robe at my graduation.
10. I've gone through 16 ECT treatments and have been in and out of mental hospitals 4 times so far.
11. I have 11 dogs and 1 cat.
12. My husband is 8 years younger than me.
13. I love music! ( that should be #1).
14. I play piano, guitar, bass, mandolin, banjo, melodica, and just got a sitar.
15. I am a songwriter and love to sing (especially harmony).
16. I hate when I try to harmonize and the person I'm singing with drops the melody to sing on my key. Drives me bonkers!
17. When I had my first panic attack I thought it was the end of my existence....
18. My favorite movies growing up were Labyrinth and Neverending Story.
19. My first 2 dogs are named after David Bowie characters : Jareth and Ziggy Stardust.
20. I can listen to any genre music with pleasure with the exception of Pop Country. Blah.
21. My sisters and I would go door to door in grade school and asked for money for charity, then go home and buy a pizza :/.
22. I've been lead singer/ musician in 4 musical groups: Forever Friday, Boogie Chain, Ivalee, Kat-Man-Duo ( which was just me and my current husband).
23. I want a keytar and upright bass
24. I can go months without leaving my house, borderline agoraphobic at times. It just depends on who I am.
25. I shop for groceries around 2-4 am.
26. I love to give gifts but hate receiving them.
27. My father was an abusive Methhead.
28. I love all life with the exception of paracites.
29. I like to capture fleas and smash them between my thumbnails.
30. Horror and thrillers are my favorite film genres. My Memaw got me started at a young age with Alfred Hitchcock and Twilight Zone.
31. If I had to choose one food to live on for the rest of my life it would be cheese.
32. The only food I hate is sauerkraut (which is weird because I love cabbage and I love vinegar, just not the combo I guess)
33. Because of my extreme highs and lows my weight follows my mood Rollercoaster.
34. Since I've started my dreads I've lost 20lbs and switched from smoking cigarettes to vaping.
35. I was raised Southern Baptist, but even though still spiritual it's hard to believe that there is a god who would not accept a person into heaven because of their sexuality or because they are not Christian.
36. I tried to start a Scool of Rock for kids in my town but had to quit after a major panic attack followed by deep depression. It was the last thing I did socially. This was 5 years ago.
37. I believe that we are all connected.
38. I hate to read because I'm distracted easily and end up reading the same things over and over again.
39. When we had to read aloud in grade school I would count the number of students in front of me and then find my paragraph so I could study it before it was my turn. Let's just say those days I only learned one paragraph of information.
40. I hate public speaking, but I loved to act in plays and sing for crowds (given I was loaded enough to not care).
41. My Mama is my hero. Also a Singer/songwriter/ musican artist with a heart of gold.
42. When I was 6 years old I took my sister's science project and buried it in the back yard. It was a bug collection (a proper burial for those poor lost souls...) The following year I was in the same class and refused to do one. It was the only time we received bad grades and weren't punished for it.
43. I've always wanted a tatoo, but told myself that I would have to like the design for 10 years before putting it on my body. Those 10 years have passed and I still love the design which is the Tibetan eternal knot ♡ I just can't find an artist I trust to do it.
44. It's hard to make plans or go on vacation when I don't know who I'm going to be when the date gets here.
45. I could never have children because I'm unable to come off of my medications without a total breakdown and if I did have a child I wouldn't want them to suffer with my affliction or end up having the same issues
46. My ideal home is surrounded by 100s of acres of trees in the mountains away from society.
47. I don't feel normal if I'm not stressed about something.
48. It's hard for me to sleep because my mind is always racing.
49. My middle name is Breck.
50. Before I started my locks, I had absolutely nothing to look forward to. Things were so bleak that...well I'll just say I didn't care if I lived or died. Now every day brings excitement and I thank my dreads for that
can't believe that I'm actually posting this :/