30 Things - 1/30
I'm going on a little journey of writing exercises. I found a list of 30 journal prompts for parents with the intent of someday showing your children another side of you. I can write about stuff on here until the cows come home, but I actually find some of these questions about myself to be really difficult to answer. For that reason, I'm turning this into a new personal project I hope to complete over the next few months. In each post I'll answer one prompt.
Without further ado, prompt numero uno: List 20 fact about yourself.
1. I'm a Scorpio and I can almost always tell when I meet another Scorpio.
2. I have very little self control in regards to food. If I want the chocolate, I'm going to eat the chocolate.
3. So far, I've had zero broken bones. (My desk is wood and you best believe I'm knocking on it)
4. Speaking of knocking on wood, I'm a bit superstitious. I know a lot of really old and strange ones because I once wrote a book about the history of superstitions for a college class. It's definitely not a "real book." It's not published, but I have a copy on my bookshelf. It's really personal.
5. I can't have any appendages hanging off of the bed when I sleep.
6. I've been to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. And not any of the "new" seven wonders of the world bologna. I'm talking about the ones I learned about in sixth grade, the ancient ones.
7. I have severe texture aversions with food. There are many fruits and vegetables I struggle with because of the way they feel.
8. I don't really like the beach and I almost hate summer. I burn fall/winter scented candles year-round and make a conscious decision to pretend it's always fall.
9. When I was little I had an imaginary friend named Neno. In recent years I revealed to my sister what he looked like, describing him as looking like the Trix rabbit without ears. To my surprise, she told me that was incredibly creepy. It's recently dawned on me that he was probably actually an alien.
10. I can play the ukulele and the guitar. However, if you asked me to read music or play a specific chord I wouldn't be able to. I learned by watching others and memorizing their movements as visual patterns. Same goes for piano.
11. I don't like dangly earrings at all. I can always feel them flopping around and it's really annoying.
12. When I started kindergarten my teacher wrote our lunch number on a card that we wore around our neck to lunch for the first week until we memorized our number. I still know my number and use it in passwords and as my pin number.
13. My dream car is a volkwagen van. I daydream of cruising around in it with long braids.
14. I've had several out of body experiences. Most involve my soul being in my bedroom watching my body sleep.
15. When I was little I wanted to grow up to be something different every week. As a teenager I wanted to be a marine biologist. In early college I was studying to be an art history major.
16. I believe in reincarnation. I've had many dreams that feel more like memories about living during the great depression era and experiencing holocaust related events. Specifically being taken from my family and kept in a small dark room with other young girls. We all had numbers tattooed on our arm. In every dream people call me Elizabeth or Lizzie.
17. I hate cherries and anything cherry flavored. It tastes like medicine to me. I suspect it's because I was often sick as a child and took a lot of cherry flavored medicine.
18. I had the chickenpox really bad when I was 3 or 4. I have scars all over my body from it. Specifically, on my chest and back.
19. I wish I lived on a self-sustaining commune.
20. The older I get the more introverted I become.
Without further ado, prompt numero uno: List 20 fact about yourself.
1. I'm a Scorpio and I can almost always tell when I meet another Scorpio.
2. I have very little self control in regards to food. If I want the chocolate, I'm going to eat the chocolate.
3. So far, I've had zero broken bones. (My desk is wood and you best believe I'm knocking on it)
4. Speaking of knocking on wood, I'm a bit superstitious. I know a lot of really old and strange ones because I once wrote a book about the history of superstitions for a college class. It's definitely not a "real book." It's not published, but I have a copy on my bookshelf. It's really personal.
5. I can't have any appendages hanging off of the bed when I sleep.
6. I've been to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. And not any of the "new" seven wonders of the world bologna. I'm talking about the ones I learned about in sixth grade, the ancient ones.
7. I have severe texture aversions with food. There are many fruits and vegetables I struggle with because of the way they feel.
8. I don't really like the beach and I almost hate summer. I burn fall/winter scented candles year-round and make a conscious decision to pretend it's always fall.
9. When I was little I had an imaginary friend named Neno. In recent years I revealed to my sister what he looked like, describing him as looking like the Trix rabbit without ears. To my surprise, she told me that was incredibly creepy. It's recently dawned on me that he was probably actually an alien.
10. I can play the ukulele and the guitar. However, if you asked me to read music or play a specific chord I wouldn't be able to. I learned by watching others and memorizing their movements as visual patterns. Same goes for piano.
11. I don't like dangly earrings at all. I can always feel them flopping around and it's really annoying.
12. When I started kindergarten my teacher wrote our lunch number on a card that we wore around our neck to lunch for the first week until we memorized our number. I still know my number and use it in passwords and as my pin number.
13. My dream car is a volkwagen van. I daydream of cruising around in it with long braids.
14. I've had several out of body experiences. Most involve my soul being in my bedroom watching my body sleep.
15. When I was little I wanted to grow up to be something different every week. As a teenager I wanted to be a marine biologist. In early college I was studying to be an art history major.
16. I believe in reincarnation. I've had many dreams that feel more like memories about living during the great depression era and experiencing holocaust related events. Specifically being taken from my family and kept in a small dark room with other young girls. We all had numbers tattooed on our arm. In every dream people call me Elizabeth or Lizzie.
17. I hate cherries and anything cherry flavored. It tastes like medicine to me. I suspect it's because I was often sick as a child and took a lot of cherry flavored medicine.
18. I had the chickenpox really bad when I was 3 or 4. I have scars all over my body from it. Specifically, on my chest and back.
19. I wish I lived on a self-sustaining commune.
20. The older I get the more introverted I become.
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