An old friend of mine from elementary school posted this challenge that she had seen posted by another blog keeper, and I thought it was a good challenge to get me back on this silly blog. I'm a bit behind... The challenge is to post for every day in May, following the prompts given. And off we go:
The List
- Day 1, Wednesday: The story of your life in 250 words or less (or one paragraph… no one will be counting your words… probably)
- Day 2, Thursday: Educate us on something you know alot about or are good at. Take any approach you’d like (serious and educational or funny and sarcastic)
- Day 3, Friday: Things that make you uncomfortable
- Day 4, Saturday: Favorite quote (from a person, from a book, etc) and why you love it
- Day 5, Sunday: Publicly profess your love and devotion for one of your blogger friends. What makes them great? Why do you love them? If you don’t have blogger friends, talk about a real-life friend or even a family member
- Day 6, Monday: If you couldn’t answer with your job, how would you answer the question, ‘what do you do’?
- Day 7, Tuesday: The thing(s) you’re most afraid of
- Day 8, Wednesday: A piece of advice you have for others. Anything at all.
- Day 9, Thursday: A moment in your day (this can be just a photo or both a photo and words)
- Day 10, Friday: Most embarrassing moment (s). Spill.
- Day 11, Saturday: Sell yourself in 10 words or less
- Day 12, Sunday: What do you miss? (a person, a thing, a place, a time of your life…)
- Day 13, Monday: Issue a public apology. This can be as funny or as serious or as creative as you want it to be.
- Day 14, Tuesday: Ten things that make you really happy
- Day 15, Wednesday: A Day in the life (include photos from throughout your typical day – this could be “a photo an hour” if you’d like)
- Day 16, Thursday: Something difficult about your “lot in life” and how you’re working to overcome it
- Day 17, Friday: A favorite photo of yourself and why
- Day 18, Saturday: Tell a story from your childhood. Dig deep and try to be descriptive about what you remember and how you felt.
- Day 19, Sunday: Five of your favorite blogs and what you love about them
- Day 20, Monday: Get real. Share something you’re struggling with right now.
- Day 21, Tuesday: A list of links to your favorite posts in your archives
- Day 22, Wednesday: Rant about something. Get up on your soapbox and tell us how you really feel. (a pet peeve, a current event, a controversial topic, something your husband or roommate or neighbor or boss does that really ticks you off)
- Day 23, Thursday: Things you’ve learned that school won’t teach you
- Day 24, Friday: Your top 3 worst traits
- Day 25, Saturday: Something someone told you about yourself that you’ll never forget (good or bad)
- Day 26, Sunday: Something you read online. Leave a link and discuss, if you’d like.
- Day 27, Monday: A letter to your readers
- Day 28, Tuesday: Only pictures
- Day 29, Wednesday: Five songs or pieces of music that speak to you or bring back memories. Use Grooveshark or YouTube to include them in the post
- Day 30, Thursday: React to this term: Letting Go
- Day 31, Friday: A vivid memory
It all started at my house. Really. I purposely born at home, and though I had little choice in the matter, I've always had a sense of pride that this made me somewhat unique. I'm the youngest of three with only 26 months between all of us. My parents divorced when I was five and my dad moved to Hawaii a few years later. My mom remarried when I was seven. I lived out in the country in northeast Ohio on a chip and seal road without any lines and barely enough room for a car going each direction. Our home was surrounded by cornfields and later, about an acre of our land was dedicated to our pygmy goats. Julianna and Jimmy (my sister and brother) were two and one years ahead of me in school, which always made me feel somewhat overshadowed. It didn't help that I looked so much like my sister and teachers constantly called me by her name. It was like I hardly had a chance to be ME because they were always waiting for me to be smart and shy like Julianna or bored and troublesome like Jimmy. The need to be my own person led me to spend my last two years of high school in a different school, learning cosmetology as a trade. Though I passed my State Board testing with flying colors, I did not wish to pursue a career as a stylist. I had been praying about college pretty much my baptism at 15 and I decided on Kentucky Christian College (now University) after attending their Summer In The Son program in the summers of 2002, 2003, and 2004. KCU was uncommonly instrumental in shaping me into the woman I am now. I had some incredible teachers. I made some eternal friendships. I had the best four years at that little school, which did so much for me from leading me to a two month mission trip in England to showing my why dating someone my first semester was a huge mistake.
Since I graduated with my Bachelor of Arts in Humanities and Biblical Studies five years ago, I have worked in various clerical jobs, married a wonderful man, moved to South Carolina, and bought a house. Kyle and I have a ten year old grey cat named Polly, a four year old black Mongolian smooth coat chow chow named Akira, and a three year old, one eyed calico cat named Fiona. I work in a pretty little office and Kyle is an EMT. Our lives are not exactly glamorous or exciting, but they're ours we live the best way we know.
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