[photo on film from 2012 taken & developed by my lovely sister, christina!]
so! so so so. this week we have thanksgiving on its way… and what thanksgiving usually brings for me, also, iiiis a birthday! and so, in the spirit of golden birthdays [i’m turning 28 on the 28th!], i’ve gone and made a little list of 28 random things pertaining to… moi. so prepare thyself for a whirlwind of fascination! or… not. unless maybe you’re a psychologist. haha. 🙂
1. i dream of making it back to italy one day! i dream of a whole lot of things.
2. i often have to backspace after using way too many exclamation points. [!!!] especially in emails. i have really worked on my period to exclamation point ratio, so as not to seem like a loony lady. i tend to go way overboard on the 😉 and 🙂 these days, too.
3. roses are my fav. [particularly the soft pink variety!]
4. i have this memory of being maybe 8 or 9, laying on my bed just crying and crying because i wanted a horse so badly. it was the one and only thing i dreamed of in life, and every time the boy next door got a new pony my heart was shattered. i would stare out the window while the people on the farm behind us [before it became our farm!] rode their horses, just longing for them to invite me to join. and i mean, my poor parents!! but, well, we ended up with casey when i was 10 [followed by doc, red, dusty, comet, and captain!] and i am endlessly grateful. to this day, my casey completes me!
4. i have this memory of being maybe 8 or 9, laying on my bed just crying and crying because i wanted a horse so badly. it was the one and only thing i dreamed of in life, and every time the boy next door got a new pony my heart was shattered. i would stare out the window while the people on the farm behind us [before it became our farm!] rode their horses, just longing for them to invite me to join. and i mean, my poor parents!! but, well, we ended up with casey when i was 10 [followed by doc, red, dusty, comet, and captain!] and i am endlessly grateful. to this day, my casey completes me!
[my mom sent me these recently! apology letter to my mom for being mean over not having a horse for pony club // an obviously older and happier little brittany’s drawing of a ride on casey, ha!]
5. i took the myers-briggs personality test in high school and then took one again recently. ENFP then, ENFP now!
6. i am a synesthete… meaning i see letters and numbers and many whole words in specific colors. i didn’t realize it was unusual at all until the topic arose around my family’s dining room table one evening several years ago. then, at one point i learned that it’s called synesthesia! for me, it means that A is red, september is grayish-white, 6 is purple, and so on, and the colors never change. so, it also effects how i feel about certain words or numbers! i hated our home phone number when we first moved into our house because it had 7s and 5s together in it, which was just way too much orange and yellow for me. i was so used to the number we had growing up with lots of purple 6s! crazy, iiiiii know.
7. pink, it’s my fav-o-rite color!
8. also, i love neutrals. black! ivory! ahhhhh. my wardrobe has become more and more just neutral colors with splashes of pink, and i’m not complaining one single bit.
9. least fav color: umm, bright green, i think? or, maybe i just don’t do well with citrus colors on anything other than fruit. i’m not huge on the bright colors for the sake of my retinas/sanity.
9. least fav color: umm, bright green, i think? or, maybe i just don’t do well with citrus colors on anything other than fruit. i’m not huge on the bright colors for the sake of my retinas/sanity.
10. in high school, whenever i was having a hard time, i’d have my mommy fix me tuna salad with a glass of apple juice and i’d watch when harry met sally. it’s my favorite, favorite comfort movie. my inner sally albright still comforts me on the daily. as does my mommy. 🙂
11. i’ve come to think that perhaps messy hair is my outer balance against my inner obsessive compulsiveness.
12. i’m really curious. curious like a cat! actually, i’m pretty sure that cats are my spirit animal. they’re nocturnal… they hate for anyone to try and control them… they’re pretty independent, but actually, they’re a lot more emotionally vulnerable than they let on… they want to venture out and explore, but always want to come back home at the end of the day… sooo, meow! guess i’m a cat.
13. i love listening to jazz when it’s cold out. i love driving at night with the jazz station playing. it reminds me of being with my grandparents in lexington, and i miss that so much!
14. cookies aaaare my weakness. i could probably be on any crazy restrictive diet for my whole life as loooong as chocolate chip cookies were allowed.
15. my first car was a white chevy blazer… given to me on my 16th birthday… which was on thanksgiving! believe it or not, i asked specifically for a blazer. it was my dream first car! i like to keep my goals nicely attainable. and anyway, i’ve always been an SUV girl.
16. if i try to wear red lipstick, i just look like i’m tooootally joking.
17. when i was 14, i think, i participated in a pageant with my best friend and little sister. it was our one and only pageant experience, to be sure! fortunately, the talent portion was not required. but i made top 10! hey! 😉
18. i get lonely extremely easily. i always have! thankfully being a mom to my dream girl helps with that a lot. i was never meant to have too much alone time.
19. in college, i grew 3/4 of an inch, taking me from regular 5’6 to 5’6 and 3/4. now i have to awkwardly just round up to 5’7, which still just feels strange to me! [and as previously discussed, 5s and 7s just bring too much yellow and orange to the table!]
20. my musical taste easily ranges from teenager to great-grand-brittany. one direction? sure! dean martin? eeeven better. glenn miller orchestra? lay it on me. with everything from harry connick to t-swift to gershwin tunes to pink floyd to counting crows in between.
21. if i am ever in a bathroom with the toilet paper hung upside down, i will always, aaalways flip it over the right way. with the paper coming over the top of the roll! soooo, you’re welcome.
22. as hard as i try, i will never be a great morning person. i like slow, cozy wakeups over coffee… and when brain power is required, well, my best stuff comes late at night. although, with babies it’s just like… give me sleep, whenever!
23. i cried when i turned 18 because i never wanted to grow up. now, hey, here i am turning 28, haha! i’m doing okay with it, i think. maybe. 😉
24. i don’t really eat berries. except i do love the wild blackberries that we pick each year. and what’s a grape? grapes are good!
25. our local petco hosts animal adoption days every saturday with all these sweet fluffies looking for good homes, and i mean, i can’t even drive by without ending up in tears over all of the baby fluffs that need humans to love. i wish i could take them all in! especially around the holidays. gosh, it just breaks my heart to pieces! but if you’re in the nashville area and want to adopt… proverbs 12:10 🙂
26. one time, in my early teens, i saw a comet or meteorite or something briefly flying over the sunsetty horizon with a huge, glowing, colorful trail behind it. i mean, it was so crazy looking that i couldn’t believe my eyes! and of course, the friend who was with me didn’t see it, so, i felt like i was totally imagining things. but, it was real!! and okay, so, the craziest thing is that i’ve never really mentioned that blazing comet thing really, not in the last 10 years at least… and then one night last week, i was out in the dark putting a blanket on casey with my mom, and she saw a blazing comet in nearly the exact same spot as the one i once saw! she just stood there and couldn’t believe her eyes, totally thinking i wouldn’t believe her when she told me, but !!!!!!! i knew it was real!
27. steven picked out my engagement ring on his own, knowing that i loved the three stone style, and to this day it makes me so so happy to look down and see the sparkles. i rarely ever take it off, even though i probably should. and our wedding day photos, too, gosh! nothing like a good fairy tale princess day.
28. we have always felt like our little housey here is just so much more complete with the christmas tree up. and so! yay! and fa-la-la… the season is here! i loooove it!
28. we have always felt like our little housey here is just so much more complete with the christmas tree up. and so! yay! and fa-la-la… the season is here! i loooove it!
[ps. my 3 years ago birthday list.]
Ahh I knew we were ENFP sisters before you even said you were an ENFP haha Happy early birthday!! I hope it is everything you hope for and more!!! 🙂
I love so many things about this list!!! I have never heard of that synsthetwhatsit but wow how fascinating!!! I need to know more about this thing. It's the most wonderful time of the year! It's almost thanksgiving! It'd almost your birthday! I mean! Use those exclamation points!!!!
dying over how many of these have come straight out of my own mouth before. especially the toilet paper. every. single. time. i love you.
happy almost birthday beautiful!!
i had my gold birthday last year – 29 on the 29th and im looking at celebrating the big 3-0 this year – yikes!!!
hope your birthday is filled with love, beauty and all things lovely!
xoxoxox
this is the best!!!! so cool you're turning 28 on the 28th. my bday is on the 9th so i totally missed that awesome connection (actually I might have realised but too long ago now to remember haha).
being a synesthete sounds like the funnnnnnest thing ever!! sometimes i think of numbers and words in regards to a specific personality. like i think number 2 seems really cute and friendly whereas number 8 is really arrogant haha. weirddd!!
Apparently I am a ISFP. I say apparently because I got 'slight preference' (between 4-7% difference) on all the ISF part but 'distinct preference' on the P. So I could also be a ENFP too haha!
cookies are totally my weakness too and yours were AMAZING!! xxxxxx happy happy happy bdayyyyyy! i want to come give you a bday cuddle for 2 days time! xxxx
INFP here! 🙂
and very interesting about your mental color vision – thanks for sharing and happy happy golden bday!!
xx
us extroverts can't be lonely. it's too depressing. good thing you have lots of loves and fluffies to keep you company! love learning some new things about you girl! happiest of birthdays! xo
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Happy belated! And thanks for schooling me on the way I've always associated numbers(not in colors but by position in space). Turns out I'm a number form synesthete. Quite cool:)
Oh how I miss the friend I never had down the street! Happy golden birthday!!! I agree with most of these, but #16, YES! <3