1.I was published in national publications as an elementary and high school student.
2.I never went to college.
3.I was involved in a national campaign when I was almost two for St Jude.
4.I own, along with two others PuppyLove Memphis, a pet business.
5.We offer puppies to patients of St. Jude for free.
6.I survived having three fatal viruses at once when I was a toddler.
7.I was the subject of a few early medical trials for adolescent depression, age 12-14.
8.I attended many writing championships/contest including Wordsmith.
9.I placed third in one Wordsmith contest.
10.By the time I was fifteen I had been on four anti-depression drugs.
11.My grandmother lived with us the last 16 months of her life. She had terminal cancer. My family who didn't live with us don't get it and I know now never will.
12.I withdrew from all of life during that time and focused on escapism which was music and day-dreaming.
13.Music and day-dreams became life.
14.I've been a Tokio Hotel fan from the very start.
15.2004 is when I believe I found the very very first promotional pic of Bill. The first fans in this fandom know the story- I was searching for twink porn. *blushes, shakes head and crosses chest*. He popped up in the search.
16.I can lurk better than Jost.
17.I watched the first appearance of TH on American TV on some channel's entertainment round-up. There was a brief story about all of Germany being outraged because one of it's child stars appeared drunk on TV. Then it flashed to Tom- "Das ist Gelogen". Poor Tomi I thought while LMAO!
18.I campaigned, nay begged, for TH fan fiction.
19.I wrote one of the first English stories in TH fandom. Actually it was the second. I'm first, 2nd or 3rd entry on TH_Slash (too lazy to look).
20.I recycled the story from a pWillie (Prince William) story I wrote years earlier and never finished.
21.I've been on the 'net since 1997.
22.The first slash pairing I ever loved was Kirk/Spock. I used to buy zines by mail before there was a net.
23.Jobs I've held: Cashier, writer for a small publication, waitress, customer service rep, collections agent, daycare owner/worker, night watch at a youth rehab facility, receptionist, own an internet business and part owner of pet business.
24.When I was a teenager I was diagnosed with depression, then social phobia which lead to agoraphobia.
25.From late 2001 to late 2009 I probably left my house all of 10 times a year. I'm doing much better but I still can't leave my home by myself.
26.I love butterflies, interesting bugs. I collect. Right now I've about 75 specimens.
27.When I was a child my hero was Jacques Cousteau. I wanted to be a marine biologist and do some sort of research involving whales.
28.I'm 34 and I feel I'm just now beginning to get comfortable in my own skin.
29.Both my grandmother and my father were/are diagnosed schizophrenics.
30.I was sure when I reached the ages it strikes -late teens to early twenties- I'd develop the disease.
31.I didn't. I went crazy in other ways though.
32.I have the faith of a mustard seed.
33.I'm honored I got know my great grandmother. She taught me the statement above is true. It's all you need.
34.I keep a written journal. -This- just isn't the same as paper and ink.
35.I'm getting ready to move to a brand new house.
36. I'm scared of change yet I yearn for it.
37. My shihtzu Bunny FooFoo is trying her damnedest to lay on my head as I write this. I think she thinks she's a cat.
38. My TV's either on HGTV, TLC, or Logo at all times.
39. I was alive when MTV aired nothing but videos.
40. By the time I was 20 I had attended 9 funerals.
41. I often thought I should work at a mortuary. Or in preparation.
42. I've seen the consequences, in person, of just about everything. The only thing that repulses me is lawlessness.
43. I believe in second chances.
44. My favorite DVD's are my CSI sets.
45. I bought a new vehicle in 2000 and paid it off in four years on my own.
46. I can do my hair and put on make-up for hours.
47. My first boyfriend was a very reckless, very unfaithful young guy who thought he was a race car driver.
48. My second boyfriend turned out to be gay.
49. My third boyfriend turned out to be married.
50. I like ______. (Fill in the blank with anything that doesn't hurt).