About

Filed under: Uncategorized on May 22, 2008 — 1076 words

I was born on August 29th, 1985 at Geisinger Hospital in Pennsylvania. My mom likes to tell the story of my birth frequently because apparently my dad was the first one to hold me. Right after I was delivered, the doctor handed me to my dad while my mom was laying there in bed thinking, “Hello?! I want to see my baby!”

Growing up I had a pretty normal childhood, as normal as it could have been anyway. I grew up with a stay at home mom and my older brother, we lived in the country so there weren’t any kids my age to play with except for my brother and his best friend who lived across the street. I was quite the tomboy but yet a little prissy girl as well. My mom used to dress me up constantly for birthday parties and even for school. I’m still mortified when I think about my first day of kindergarten, I was the only kid wearing a dress, heels, a big bow in my hair and a pearl necklace and earrings.

Around the age of four, my father was diagnosed with cancer. I didn’t know it at the time, I was too young to notice a change in him. He worked as a Federal Marshall for the government and was even responsible for transporting the tapes from the Watergate scandal across the country (it still fascinates me to this day, what a unique job he must have had). He was the bodyguard to Nixon and Regan before in the past, and when my mom first met him she said that she knew she was going to marry him. It was love at first sight for the two of them.

My father died two years later in 1992 after a long battle with his illness. I wish I can say that I can remember him clearly but I can’t. It might not make sense but I can make out bits and pieces, his voice is still the most distinct memory in my head. I will never forget my father’s voice, or how he loved singing Elvis Presley songs around the house to all of us. I guess you can say I make it my life’s mission to make sure that his memory will not be forgotten.

My mom raised my brother and I as a single parent and I can’t say enough good things about her, she’s an incredible woman. She never once lost her cool with us (as we all know teenagers can be difficult) and she maintained her role as both a mother and a friend. Her and I had a special bond as mothers and daughters too, many of the last eight years or so have been spent with her and I gossiping about the latest news in our lives or wearing eachother’s clothes. She’s my best friend, she’s my angel that was sent to us to get us through the hard times. No matter what happens, I know that my family and I have eachother to lean on.

The Inside

On the inside, I am a very guarded person. I still struggle with losing my father at a young age. Because of this, I often have a habit of keeping everything inside me and I don’t express my feelings very well to the people that I love. When I do love, I love with all my heart, soul and might. It’s just sometimes communicating with me isn’t exactly the easiest thing to do.

The Outside

On the outside, I’m just a typical girl who loves to act silly and doesn’t want to grow up yet. We all have to sometimes and I know it’s going to hurt like hell. I’m above average height, around 5′7″ and yes I do have some junk in the trunk that I need to get rid of. I always say I’m going on a diet and I never follow through. If you do this too, let’s be friends okay? We can procrastinate together.

The Love

I’ve been with my boyfriend Joe for over five years now. He is my saving grace, my best friend, my confidante, the person I fall asleep next to at night and the person I wake up to in the morning. No one else gets me quite like he does, and I know that he is the one for me no questions asked. Love’s a funny thing, isn’t it? Just when you think your life is over, it comes around to remind you that life is still worth living.

The Pets

I am a huge animal lover. I used to live in the country so I always had some sort of animal following me around in our yard, whether it was our cats, dogs and yes even our horses. These are the two pets that I have now, my cat Pepper (she’s 11 but young at heart) and my dog Riley (he’s six and is very protective).

Likes/Dislikes

Likes: Hot weather, driving in the car while singing my lungs out, karaoke, web designing, playing with my pets, going to the pet stores and ooohing and awwing over the animals, vacationing, spending time with my boyfriend, my cousins, writing poetry, taking pictures, cooking going outside without any shoes or socks on.
Dislikes: President Bush, war, racism, terrorism, people who think they’re better than you just because they’re rich, rainy days, waking up early in the morning, when my dog barks too loud, when my cats scratch at my door to be let in, drama queens.

Movies/TV/Music

Movies: A walk to remember, The Notebook, Home alone 2, Primal Fear, The Life of David Gale, The Departed, Mean Girls, American History X, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, National Lampoon’s Van Wilder, She’s The Man
Television Shows: Wildfire, The OC, American Idol, The Real World, One Tree Hill, Veronica Mars, America’s Next Top Model, Law & Order SVU, South Park, 10 Years Younger, Extreme Makeover
Music:Something Corporate, Jack’s Mannequin, Death Cab For Cutie, The Juliana Theory, Ronnie Day, Saving Jane, Nirvana, Chris Daughtry, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Fiona Apple, The Perishers, Mike Doughty, Lifter, Bethany Joy Lenz