About Me: Child Edition

Happy Friday everyone! I’m sorry I’ve gone on a hiatus from posting. I’ve reached the point in my semester in which all my professors have decided they either want to assign papers or schedule exams at the same time. Granted, I should have thought the whole eighteen credits with twelve of those being English courses that are writing intensive thing through. The good news is, my first semester at my brand new university it almost over and any apprehensions I had about transferring have vanished. Colorado State University is a fantastic school, and I’m thankful to be somewhere that has such diverse English and writing courses.

For this post, I am going to be doing with another blogger calls “Five Things Friday.” Lauren of Filing Jointly Finally used to post different things about herself every Friday and she invited her readers to do their own version of these five things on their blogs.

So…. Is everyone ready for Five Things Friday Childhood Edition?! (I don’t think this is as exciting as I am attempting to make. Sorry ya’ll!)

My favorite childhood toy was: NOT dolls. Seriously, I have a terrible fear of those things. With their creepy glass eyes and fake smiles… Dolls are what my nightmares were made of. I used to play with Barbies, but then one of my sisters told me that my Barbies were haunted and possessed and I could never look at them the same again. I’ve always had a love-obsession with stuffed animals and my family and I used to collect Beanie Babies (I say “used to,” but on the occasion we still buy them). My favorite was the Inch Worm.

 

I carried him with me everyone. Even to school.

My favorite song from when I was little was:  My sister, Stephanie, and I were really into the Spice Girls. We even had the Spice Girls Barbie dolls. I’m currently watching a music video of the only song I can still remember and those girls had some wild hair! I remember the blonde one (Baby?) and the red head (Ginger?) were my favorite.

My favorite childhood memory is: Mmmm. My favorite memories from my childhood come from when we lived in Ohio. We lived near a pool, so every summer, my mom would get us passes and take us to swim virtually every day. We went for bike rides around the neighborhood and when it started to thunder and lightning, we would watch it as a family outside before it started to rain. I used to miss Ohio, because I missed the sense of innocence. Now, I miss Ohio, because of what it gave me. I cannot go back to when I was six years old, but I can look back on Ohio with joy and fondness for those memories.

My childhood crush was: I really want to say Jonathan Taylor Thomas, but I feel as if I am stealing Lauren’s answer. She’s right when she says every girl had a crush on him. Although, I used to watch Back to the Future with my dad, and I did think that Micheal J. Fox was a dreamboat.  

 

Maybe I just like the idea of some crazy man taking me on a wild adventure,
since I watch Doctor Who now.

The thing I was most afraid of as a kid was: The dark. I used to be petrified of it. I refused to go to bed without one in my room. I had gotten it into my head that monsters lived under my bed and without a light, they would eat me in my sleep. I was even afraid of allowing my arm to dangle over the edge of my bed, because I thought they would chew on my fingers. There were even some days that I would run across my room and jump into my bed to avoid being on the floor for too long. For some reason, my bed was always a safe haven. (Looking back, it probably should have been obvious that I would develop an anxiety disorder…)

I know I don’t have many readers (yet!), but I would love to hear anything about ya’lls childhoods. Leave a comment? :]

I am also still searching for a weekly theme post. If you have any ideas, please let me know! (I am stealing another of Lauren's Five Things Friday, but that will be at a later point. It's called Things I'm Afraid To Tell You. I'm still not quite at the point where I am honest with myself enough to post this, but I promise, that day is coming. I am getting stronger.)

Cheers!