23 Random Facts About Me!

In honor of my recent 23rd birthday (yikes, I'm old!), I thought I would post 23 random facts about me!  So here goes...

1. I'm a natural strawberry blonde but I love dying my hair.  I'm currently mostly my hair color though with a little bit of ombre thrown in thanks to my AMAZING hair colorist, Denis DeSouza @ Andy Lecompte salon.

2. I am obsessed with the Kardashians.  Like seriously I cannot get enough of their tv shows/blogs/instagram accounts.  Except Kim...she's annoying.  The day I sat next to Kylie Jenner while getting my hair done was amaze.  Life.  Made.  Jk.

3. I used to/still do love love love to read books!  Anything and everything I can get my hands on I will read like crazy.  But...I'm super obsessed with tv shows nowadays.  I never really religiously watched tv while younger besides like The OC because I would always rather be reading books, so I'm majorly catching up now.  And book reading has gone by the wayside...

4. I didn't know you could buy fresh, non-canned peaches until recently... And I am extremely embaressed to admit that.

5. I am extremely observant.  Not much gets past me.   I am constantly scanning around me to see whats up and happening.  It's pretty hard to surprise me because I'm very aware of my surroundings at all times.  I think its because I used to want to be a spy/police officer/Buffy the vampire slayer when I was younger so I turned it into a game of kinda like being observant to like hone my skills I suppose.  I didn't grow up and become Buffy (sadly) but my observational skills are still with me.

6. I have 5 tattoos.  Most of which are hidden at all times.  I have a small white ink cross on my wrist that is visible but not visible because of its color.  I don't think anyone has ever noticed it without me pointing it out to them.

7. I grew up in Minnesota but always knew I wanted to leave there and live somewhere else.  Winter life is not for me!

8. Summer after high school I was really inspired by some young adult books I read about going off and adventuring and so I moved to Ohio to work at an amusement park called Cedar Point.  It was everything I imagined and more.  I learned so much about myself that summer it was crazy.  I highly recommend doing something crazy like that at some point in your life. 

9. I have a really good work ethic.  I've been working since I was 16 and I'm very proud of it.  I like to always be busy and working kept me entertained while helping me earn spending money.  Most of which was likely spent at H&M and Sephora.

10. I am terribly addicted to Starbucks coffee.  I love it so much.  I know its expensive and all but it's my guilty pleasure.

11. I don't enjoy reality competition tv shows.  At all.  I literally think they are the stupidest things ever.

12. I have a bad habit of saying "like" and "literally" a lot.  Yes, I know it's not grammatically correct. IDC, I do what I want, yo!

13. I'm really good at memorizing song lyrics and I never forget them.  Literally the most random Lindsay Lohan song from 2005 or whatever that I listened to three times could play and I bet you I would remember 75% of the lyrics by heart.

14. I recently found out I have some sort of weird metal foreign body in my side.  I've had it for years and years.  Doctors always just told me it was calcified tissue and nothing to worry about or have removed.  I recently had a CT scan done of my abdomen and it revealed that it was likely some small metal object in my side and definitely not organic material.  I have absolutely no clue how I got it.  I can't recall ever having any sort of cut on my abdomen.

15. I used to wear colored contacts.  They were turqoise colored and pretty cool.  I now have lasik so no more contacts!  I also recently realized I actually have a pretty cool and unique eye color.  It's a very very dark blue.

16. I look like I'm mostly Irish (which I am), but I'm also Russian, Polish, and German.  My dad is 100% Irish which I've always thought is pretty cool.

17. I have the sweetest dog ever.  Her name is Daisy and she lives with my parents in Minnesota.  She's a golden retriever and 15 and I miss her all the time.  Even though when I see her now I'm pretty sure she doesn't really remember who I am.

18. I love computers and all things tech.  I love reading tech blogs and keeping up on all the new products and developments.  I don't usually volunteer such info but ask me about it and I will geek the freak out.

19. This is kinda hard.  Running out of stuff....  Hmm... I used to play volleyball.  I played from age 7ish to about 16.  Sadly my volleyball career ended prematurely due to my lack of height.  5'2''ish in case you're wondering.

20. I got my belly button pierced recently at age 22.  Such a good choice.  I had wanted it done for years but never got it and I'm so happy I did now.  I love it.  Literally every time I see it in the mirror I get so freaking excited.

21. I spent most of my life not liking avacado and recently discovered how amazing it is.  Now I get avocado on literally everything.  And I'm known to just eat it...raw...like right out of its skin with a fork.

22. I like to make up fake stories about myself sometimes.   This sounds very odd, I know, but sometimes when I'm out at a party or bar and people talk to me who I have no interest in I like to make up the most outlandish things about myself and see how much I can convince people.  It is ridiculously fun to do.  Usually I go by the name Buffy (my buffy the vampire slayer obsession showing through again)

23. My parents joke that they were gonna name me Buffy and they told my grandparents who were horrified, but jokes on them because as much as I do like my name, I would totally kill to be called Buffy.  What an awesome name.