US Weekly Magazine features 25 unknown facts about a celebrity every month. I know I am not a celebrity, far from it actually, but a girl can dream right?
Sometimes I think so far into the future and who I want to become, that I forget about the girl that I am right now and the parts of my life that got me here. Sometimes I forget to actually appreciate the life I live. It is a beautiful one, always has been. Even the bad parts. It's all I have right now, I might as well share it.
I thought digging up 25 things that people don't know about me would prove to be a challenge. Turns out I was wrong. You still don't get the dirty secrets. I am still working on scratching the surface. So here it goes.
1. I ALWAYS eat Reese's cups with a spoon. According to my old roommates, I also pronounce "Reese's" wrong.
2. I despise when I can hear people chewing. It actually makes me nauseous. That includes the sound of my own chewing.
3. I strongly dislike water. Baths, rivers, lakes, creeks, oceans, swimming pools. I am not sure when it started. I used to waste energy on pretending I liked it because everyone else does. I even jumped off a bridge into a lake during my first study abroad in Germany just because my insanely gorgeous roommate and his friends were doing it. I had a panic attack.
4. My parents nicknamed me Goofy at a very young age. I still have the stuffed animal they gave me for it. I guess I really have been funny all along.
5. Ever since the very first time I stepped foot in Anif, Austria I fully believed I belong there. I feel so at home.
6. I am a Cancer. When I was younger I thought that meant I would have cancer and I was terrified of my birthday month.
7. The Governor of Wyoming held me two weeks after I was born at Cheyenne Frontier Days because my birthday was on the 100th anniversary of Wyoming statehood.
8. I have dislocated my knee several dozen times. I always tell people I do it while I am playing a sport. Honestly, a good amount of the time it's from walking down stairs or running into wall corners. My favorite time was when my freshman homecoming date tried to help me into my seat at dinner and while pulling out the chair, he knocked my patella out. I have never heard a young man squeal so loudly. Poor guy is probably scarred for life. While I am at it, I should be honest and tell everyone I dislocated my thumb earlier this year while taking off my pants after the gym. I can't even keep track of the stories I was telling people.
9. I was the only witness to a crime and had to testify in court. The Prosecutor, in turn, might have done me the biggest favor that anyone ever has.
10. I played little league baseball for several years. I know it is hard to believe considering my hand-eye coordination these days is far from superb. Nonetheless, I was actually a decent player. I couldn't always find the ball with a bat, but I threw a mean left handed pitch. I was also the only girl in the entire league. I'll be honest, that is definitely where I learned how to be tough. It is also where I learned to handle bullies with grace.
11. There is a drink at Ace Gillett's that Mr. Harvey re-named after me (at least when I am around). Ask that wonderful man for a Kelseytini and you will get heaven in your mouth. That is, if you trust my taste.
12. Pale Criminal The Story of a Notorious Abomination is the only book I have read more than once. If anything has challenged my morals and forced me to think beyond the surface, it is this book. It truly has made me a different person, a better person. I am currently on my third lap.
13. My favorite thing about my father, aside from all the tough lessons I have learned from him, is that we both enjoy a good whiskey or glass of red wine. I also love watching baseball with him more than anyone else. The smile on his face during any sporting event is enough to brighten anyone's day. He even makes watching golf on TV painless.
14. The strength I have, I got from my mother. You think you are tough, good luck going up against Lyn Fagan. Her beauty is in her strength and gumption.
15. My sister's grace is mind blowing. She handles her fury with a beautiful smile on her face. Her passion for giving constantly drives me to be better in everything that I do. I often find myself wishing part of her diligence and beauty would rub off on me.
16. I used to actually think the moon grew and shrunk to size. It was just more magical that way.
17. My 12th birthday included fireworks, a water fight in Opa's back yard in Anif, bottles of champagne, apricot schnapps and some of the best friends I still have to this day. I will never forget the memories that man and his entire family gave me.
18. It is no secret to most of you my affinity for Batman. But what many of you do not know is I equally wish I were a princess AND Batman at the same time. Could you imagine? That amount of strength and power leveled by beauty and grace. Sounds almost like perfection.
19. I hate peanuts. Which might be incredibly hard to believe considering my love for Lucky Joe's (and peanut butter).
20. I have had a handful of unbelievably influential men cross my path that have changed my life for the better. They have taught me how I deserve to be loved. I have also had the gracious opportunity to love many. But I can honestly say I have never been dizzied by the feeling of being in love. It is going to hit me like a ton of bricks one day and I am fully ready.
21. I used to order pistachio ice cream when I was out with my grandfather because it was his favorite and I wanted to be exactly like him. I really dislike pistachio ice cream. I told him the truth one day while we were sitting in 31 flavors, so he bought me an ice cream cone that I actually would enjoy and proceeded to tell me how he kept his sanity during WWII. Do you want to know his answer? Humor. I will never forget that day. That man shows more bravery every day than anyone I know.
22. My first crush was a boy who raised sheep in the middle of nowhere New Mexico. My second crush was his best friend.
23. I have a personalized autograph signed by Michael Jordan the night he broke his scoring record.
24. I have a photographic memory. It is the biggest blessing and damnation all in one.
25. I fully believe the amount of strength I have is my biggest weakness. I am a work in progress.
So start now. Remember who you are and who you were. Live for the time you have at this very moment. Looking too far in advance allows you to miss all of the in between. That is the best part.
Until next time,
xx
Kelsey
Forgive me for not making it over here sooner. I only just found out about this.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the shout-out and the link-back. I can't even tell you.
Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. And I shall tell you why. When we read a book for the first time the very process of laboriously moving our eyes from left to right, line after line, page after page, this complicated physical work upon the book, the very process of learning in terms of space and time what the book is about, this stands between us and artistic appreciation. When we look at a painting we do not have to move our eyes in a special way even if, as in a book, the picture contains elements of depth and development. The element of time does not really enter in a first contact with a painting. In reading a book, we must have time to acquaint ourselves with it. We have no physical organ (as we have the eye in regard to a painting) that takes in the whole picture and then can enjoy its details. But at a second, or third, or fourth reading we do, in a sense, behave towards a book as we do towards a painting.
Said Nabokov.