I'm sitting here with a cigarette in my left hand and and typing with my right... Trying to decide how to tell you about myself. Do I give you the feel-good story of how I left my husband almost a year ago and finally found the freedom to be myself? Do I tell you how I sometimes like a beer at 10 in the morning? Or how I am addicted to Facebook?... Although, all that is true, I don't know... Because I really haven't figure myself out yet. I'm still learning where I stand in this thing called life.... So, what I'm thinking, is to giving you a list....a list of things about me. So, without further ado, here's a list of 50 random facts about Red.... In no particular order of importance... (except the first two... They're the most important!)
1. I have three beautiful babies... A boy and two girls.... They live with their daddy, because I knew he could give them a better life. I see them every other weekend... I miss them with everything I am....
2. I have the world's most amazing boyfriend! I truly have never known love like this in my whole life! He amazes me at every turn.... He calls me his princess....
3. He is the most incredible artist I've ever known! I envy his drawing abilities.
4. I am getting ready to start school to get my associates degree in graphic design. I have always been passionate, yet lazy, about art... It's time to get serious.
5. I smoke... I have no plans to quit anytime soon. Sad, I know...
6. I am studying to become a witch. I have been drawn to the craft since before I can remember. I spent most of my life under the thumb of the Christian church.... Now that I'm out, I am trying desperately to find my own truth...
7. I love all colors. The bolder, the better... But, although I would say I don't have a favorite, I keep coming back to pink. :)
8. I love animals... I want a Great Dane and some cats.... Right now I am pet-less...
9. I live with my mother. If it wasn't for her, I would've been homeless when I left my ex-husband. She is my best friend. I owe her the world. And I love her more than I could ever say...
10. We just moved into a teensy-weensy 2 bedroom house.... I have never felt so at home in my life!
11. I've moved over 30 times in my life.... 7 times in 2000 alone.
12. I love music! I'm very eclectic in my taste... Everything from Black Eyed Peas to Sinatra...Aerosmith to Garth Brooks... Pretty much the only kind I don't like is screamo...
13. I love clothes! I used to want to be a fashion designer. But I don't have the stomach to survive in the business....
14. I have ADHD. I didn't realize it until a few years ago... Although, anyone I ask from my school years, tells me it was obvious.
15. I love all things vintage. Style was so much better before the 1980's.
16. I was obsessed with the band Hanson when I was a teen. I met them at the Tulsa State Fair before they became famous.
17. I played the violin for 3 years when I was a kid. I’m trying to re-teach myself … if I could only get the damn thing tuned! Someday, I would like to be able to call myself a fiddle player!
18. I have always wanted to publish a novel. If I could ever get past the first few chapters without getting distracted, I could probably do it!
19. I have a dream to buy an RV and travel the country working Renaissance Festivals.
20. I would also, someday, like to open a arts/crafts and occult supply shop.
21. I dropped out of school my junior year of high school. Luckily, I had enough credits to go back my senior year and graduate with my class. Go Class of 1999!!!
22. My favorite painting is Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
23. I have two biological brothers but one died when I was 4 and he was 7 months. I always wonder what my other brother would've been like... But my brother that survived is so funny and talented! Just plain amazing! I love him and his beautiful family so very much!!!
24. I have 2 step-sisters and 2 step-brothers
25. My parents divorced when I was almost 10
26. The Chronicles of Narnia are my favorite books
27. I would love to live in Narnia!
28. I love to read…I can totally lose myself in a good book
29. I love the movie Labyrinth. I know every line in the movie! I drive people crazy when we watch it.. I quote the movie as it plays.... :)
30. I’ve always cared too much about what other people think of me... I'm getting much better at not giving a shit...
31. I just sneezed and bit my tongue...... Ouch!
32. Speaking of, I have bad allergies at the end of summer....
33. I was in one play in high school, I played a friar (yes a male). They cut 5 of my lines, so my only line was “Nor I.” My Papa missed my line.
34. I love Lucy!
35. People tell me I remind them of Molly Ringwald
36. I make fantastic cheesecake! My friend used to call it “Atomic Cheesecake”
37. Sometimes I just break out into song and dance…..
38. I’ve been on two mission trips. One to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico and one to Baltimore, MD
39. I’ve never had to have surgery
40. When I was 18 months old, I had a temperature of 107 degrees. My mom put me in a tub of lukewarm water. Even to this day I remember it as freezing.
41. If I could I would move to Ireland. I adore everything Celtic!
42. I’m a descendant of a Scottish knight, Sir Nicholas de Bigar I think was his name
43. I didn't get my license until I was 27. I've had 7 driver's permits. I was a very scared procrastinator....
44. I still want to be a rock star.
45. Some people would say that I daydream far too much..... I say, I daydream just the right amount. :)
46. My, mom, my kids and I, almost drove right into the 7th most deadly tornado in U.S. history.... We were hydroplaning like crazy and a brick hit our windshield before we turned around and took shelter in the nearest Walmart.... Though, if the tornado had come that way we would've been buried, as seen in the other Walmart it took out... There's nothing like being scared out of your mind and having to be strong for your terrified babies.... I still cry when I think about it.... So, therefore you know, I just cried....
47. That tornado took out the house I lived in for 7 years and a good part of the town I grew up in... I still feel like a movie is playing outside my car when I drive through there and it's been 3 months since it happened. It is incredibly surreal to see the devastation....
48. Amethyst is my birthstone. Faith is my middle name. Hence my username, AmethystFaith.... My real name is Marietta....
49. I was named after my maternal grandma.... She died a little while before I was born. I wish so badly that I could have met her!
50. I am looking forward to the future more than I ever have in my entire life.... It has never been brighter!
