101 things about me

1. I’m not far from my 18th birthday.
2. I was born in Jefferson City.
3. I moved to Springfield when I was 3 to a town house.
4. I moved to the house I live in now when I was four.
5. I love the pool in my backyard.
6. I’m the middle child.
7. My brothers are 26 and 7 years old.
8. My favorite color is orange.
9. I play the piano and by that I mean I make it up as I go, and can only kind of read music.
10. I play the drums.
11. Music means everything to me.
12. Photography is my passion, it let’s me see everything from a new point of view.
13. I have a need to travel and to see the world.
14. I would like to take pictures for a magazine and travel around for my job.
15. I want to go to Oregon.
16. I have three best friends. Chelsea, Rachel, and Bethany.
17. My parents and I get along alright.
18. My brothers are the best siblings I could asked for.
19. My dad’s side of the family is focuses on who is the most successful a little too much.
20. My mom’s side of the family is rather large and no one cares how much money you make, just who is winning the current banana grams game.
21. I hate spiders, I will cry if I get too close them.
22. Snakes are alright.
23. I've had many pets besides dogs and cats including gerbils, birds, rabbits, chinchillas, and hermit crabs.
24. I work front desk at a hotel, sometimes people are nice, sometimes they are mean and sometimes, they’re logic is very questionable.
25. My first job was at a Martial Arts place, I was the child care provider.
26. My brother moved out when I was nine.
27. I have not seen most Disney movies, including The Lion King, I spent my childhood watching Scooby Doo instead.
28. My favorite show is Psych, my best friend Chelsea and I watch it together and could talk in complete sentences  with inside jokes from that show.
29. I believe that equality is a must, it shouldn't matter what your ethnicity is, your religion, your sexuality, what gender you are, or if you are transgender. Equality needs to be much more prominent in this world.
30. I don’t plan on living the rest of my life in Springfield.
31. My friends and I once drove to the Arkansas border with four green beans and took a picture next to the sign welcoming us.
32. I jumped off a 25 foot cliff into a lake and landed wrong making it to where I couldn’t move for a few minutes. I now have had back issues for almost five years because of that.
33. I am a very clumsy person and have broken many of my toes.
34. I love to swim.
35. The bottom of my pool at night with the pool light on is my favorite place to be.
36. Thunder scares me.
37. I like to stand outside right before a storm. The wind and the smell of rain with the dark clouds above me puts me in a state of peace. It has done this since I was young.
38. I love drawing and painting.  
39. Writing is how I express myself.
40. I tried to grow up much too fast.
41. I wish I could be a kid again.
42. I try to not let my fears hold me back.
43. I've only had one boyfriend. We broke up but still talk everyday.
44. I made many mistakes last summer.
45. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and change a few things.
46. Even though I made mistakes I still had the best summer of my life.
47. I think dinosaurs are probably the coolest things ever.
48. My parents are oblivious.
49. I crave summer nights
50. I believe everything happens for a reason and that fate is lovely yet cruel, cruel thing.
51. My grandfather died when I was 13, we went to the hospital to say goodbye and the doctor told us it could be a day or year, I didn't agree with him. My parents went home and I stayed with my aunt. I was right and the doctor was wrong. It was a few hours.
52. My grandmother passed away when I was 15. I did not have the chance to say goodbye.
53. I have around 60 cousins.
54. I flew on a plane by myself for the first time the summer I turned 16, it was from Atlanta to Kansas City. My cousin Sheila picked me up from the airport.
55. On my way home from Kansas City in the car were my cousins Sheila, Sam, Christina, and Claire. We had the music up loud and watched as fireworks began to go off behind as cars parked on the side of the road to watch. That will always be one of my favorite memories.
56. I did not know that I had any artistic ability until Mr. DeClue showed me I did my sophomore year. I will never be able to repay him for his faith in me. I will never be able to show how thankful I am for the teachers that have showed me that I have talent and didn't let me go unnoticed. I don’t know where I would be without them.
57. I graduate soon and I am very ready, but very scared.
58. I like to swing at Cowden Elementary School late at night with my friends. We run around and have fun, like when we were kids. Only now it’s four in the morning and we have too many people than there are seats in the car.
59. I wish I could go back to that night with the unsealed window.
60. I write down the absurd and funny things I hear whether it be from my friends or strangers. They decorate the walls of my bookshelves.
61. My favorite thing to photograph is nature, especially flowers and bugs with my macro lens.
62. I like exploring, and adventures.
63. Scary movies are the best.
64. I held my little brother as my mom super glued his forehead when he split it open on a brick wall. She’s a nurse.
65. I hand fed a lemur when I job shadowed at the Zoo sophomore year.
66. I helped pull my older brother out of some ice he fell through at the pond behind our house.
67. My cat tried to eat a baby rabbit but I got to it before she could kill it. It died a day later. That same night I pet a baby rabbit as it died from being attacked by my cat. I watched it take its last breath, I don’t like that memory.
68. I got to meet Nastia Liukin when I was 11.
69. I did gymnastics for many years.
70. I used to ride horses and show them in competitions.
71. I was pulled on stage at a concert once, I then crowd surfed.
72. I helped the drummer of my favorite band onto a platform during a concert.
73. twenty one pilots is my favorite band. I also like Bring Me The Horizon, Neck Deep, The Story So Far, Moose Blood, The Pigeon Detectives, and a million other bands.
74. When I was ten I pulled my five year old cousin out of a pool when she was drowning because no one else noticed.
75. My family left me and one of cousins in the Saint Louis City Museum after a wedding. It was one in the morning and our phones wouldn't work. We saw my cousin outside and went to get him only to find him gone and the door locked behind us. We were later found with a nice couple letting us use their phones. I’m glad they waited with us.
76. My family including me is very forgetful.
77. Many of my cousins have also been accidentally left places.
78. My mom made me bookshelves and a window seat, I love them.
79. I have many pineapple things, including a statue of one in my room.
80. My co workers make me laugh every time I’m at work. I’m thankful that I work with great people.
81. Once my dad and I found a box with dirty needles and spoons behind my house. We called the police.
82. I live about thirty seconds away from school. If that.
83. I have awful luck. I get frustrated when nothing works out, it happens so often you’d think I’d learn to not get my hopes up. But I always do.
84. I want a family one day.
85. Standing in the sunroof of my friend Chelsea’s car is one of my favorite feelings.
86. I can never save my money. I should probably learn to do that.
87. I like taking walks.
88. I cut my finger open on a pudding cup once. My mom though I was pulling a joke on her there was so much blood. It was not a joke.
89. I have a temper.
90. I seem quite to strangers but around my friends I am a different person.
91. I like to make people laugh.
92. My friends and family are some of the greatest people I've met.
93. My memories with them are something I will cherish forever.
94. Kathleen Turner stayed at the hotel I work at once. She told me I have cute sneeze.
95. Listening to music with my windows open and a paintbrush in my hand is something that I find peace in.
96. I shut my finger in a car door December 2014, three months later and it still does not look great.
97. I love food. Chocolate is the best.
98. I’m alright at cooking if I’m at my own house.
99. I can be bossy.
100. I want to have a spontaneous life.
101. I’m hopeful that it all turns out okay one day.