1.)
My favorite color is pink and my second favorite color is purple.
2.)
I was born in Texas, but moved to California in the third grade. I consider
myself to be a SoCal girl. But a lot of my extended family lives in Texas, and
so Texas will always have a special place in my heart.
3.)
I have never smoked. I do occasionally drink though. (I’m 22, so don’t worry
it’s legal.)
4.)
I am a Whovian, aka a fan of Doctor Who. I am also a Gladiator, aka a fan of
Scandal.
5.)
I am addicted to YouTube videos, specifically beauty and late night talk shows.
6.)
I am still a virgin. (I’m not waiting until marriage. I’m just waiting for the
right person.)
7.)
I am a Communications major at Cal State Fullerton.
8.)
I don’t cook, but I want to learn.
9.)
I am a dog person. I grew up around golden retrievers and so I will always be a
little bit biased. Although, I do love all dogs.
10.) When I graduate from college and have more money,
I hope to expand my makeup collection and get a cool Old Hollywood style vanity
with lights surrounding the frame of the mirror. And one day if I can afford
it, I’d love to have a replica of the bathtub sofa from Breakfast At
Tiffany’s.
11.) I am a frugal shopaholic. (I love buying things
but I am cheap af. Seems like an oxymoron, I know.)
12.) I love hockey, but I don’t know the rules. I
dedicate a lot of time to watching hockey and listening to hockey podcasts. But
I refuse to learn the rules because I think it’s funny that I can tell you
about everything that’s going on in the NHL, yet I don’t know the rules. (Maybe
one day when I stop thinking it’s funny, I’ll learn them.)
13.) I have ADHD, anxiety, and depression. (You’ll
find out more about this later.)
14.) My favorite number’s 3, yet I have a general
distaste for odd numbers.
15.) I love watching British panel comedy shows. (The
Big Fat Quiz of the Year, Argumental, 8 Out of 10 Cats, etc.)
16.) I love making people laugh. I just love making
people happy, in general. I really hate it when people are sad.
17.) I love listening to oldies music and show tunes.
18.) I’m really good at memorizing lyrics, but I don’t
listen to a lot of new music. I like to listen to songs whose lyrics I already
know, so I can sing along in my head and pretend I’m on Broadway. (I don’t have
a great singing voice, so that’s closest I’m ever going to get to Broadway.)
19.) I love Old Hollywood. It was so glamorous. (If I
ever have blessed with a daughter, I would love for her nursery to have an Old
Hollywood theme.)
20.) I love Marilyn Monroe. (I plan to do a future
post in which I explain all of the reasons why I love her.)
21.) I love the British Royal Family, specifically Kate
Middleton.
22.) I was born in the Woodlands, Texas in December of
1993. The Woodlands is near Houston and I was born around the time that the
Houston Rockets won the championship. Because of this, I was given the nickname
Alley-oop.
23.) I am of mostly Irish and Scottish descent, with
some English and German mixed in as well.
24.) When I was younger, I would sometimes wish that I
could hold the want and say “You’re watching Disney Channel”.
25.) You know the obviously fake smile that kids will
sometimes make when they’re having their picture taken? Well, that was the
smile that I used to make. So one day I printed out a picture of Britney Spears
and Jamie Lynn Spears (because I thought that they had the most beautiful
smiles), and I taped the picture to my mirror. I would stand in front of my
mirror and practice smiling. (It was weird, but it worked.)
26.) My first celebrity crush was in kindergarten and
it was on Lance Bass. I even had an NSYNC backpack and CD case.
27.) I love the show Gilmore Girls. In high school, I
convinced my parents to buy me the DVD box set with all 8 seasons on it. And I
watched all the episodes in order. I even wanted to name my daughter Loreleai
and call her Rory as a nickname.
28.) Out of the six schools that I’ve attended, two of
them were named after astronauts (Sally K Ride Elementary School and Robert H
Goddard Middle School). I left Sally K Ride in the second grade, but I still
remember some of the lyrics from our school song. “At Sally K Ride, our
elementary school. We will be loyal and true to the red, white, and blue. We
will always take a challenge and always do our best. We (something, something,
lyrics I forgot) that challenge like (more lyrics I forgot) anything we choose.
At Sally K Ride, we’d rather win than lose. Like the astronauts in space, we
are ready for the race. At Sally K Ride, our elementary school.”
Also
the preschool that I attended was called Paddington British School, despite
being located in Texas. Our school uniforms even had the British flag on them.
29.) I was born with exotropia. (I had surgery for it
when I was 2 ½. However, every once in a blue moon my right eye will wander off
for a second or two.)
30.) I was fortunate enough that, despite not being
rich, my parents were able to send me to an all-girls Catholic high school. And
it was an amazing experience, I made some of the best friends that a girl could
ever ask for.
31.) In 1992, my aunt won the lottery.
32.) I like the color pink so much that one day I want
to have a pink car.
33.) My favorite movies are Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Clueless,
and Mean Girls.
34.) When I was little, my uncle told me that it was
illegal to wear a certain color of nail polish on your fingers and then a
different color of nail polish on your toes. I didn’t realize that he was
kidding. I remember looking at people’s nail polish and thinking ‘Ooh. That
person’s breaking the law’.
35.) I was a very creative child. Because of this, I
was also a child who was very nervous about riding the school bus for the first
time. This is because I had convinced myself that there was a big face on the
back wall of the school bus that ate children. (Keep in mind, no one told me
this. I came up with this theory myself, and convinced myself that it was true.
Yep, pretty silly.)
36.) When I was younger and still living in Texas, I
used to like to watch the Butt Ugly Martians. (Looking back I’m not sure why.
No offense to fans of the Butt Ugly Martians.)
37.) My mom wanted to name me Tiffany, but my dad
wanted to name me Allison. And ultimately, my parents decided to go with Allison.
38.) My mom wanted to name my little brother
Alexander, so it would be ‘big Al, little Al’. However my dad didn’t like that
idea, so my parents decided to name him Matthew instead.
39.) When I was younger, I was absolutely obsessed
with Barney. I owned so many things that were Barney themed, it was ridiculous.
And as a two year old, I used to jump up and down whenever Barney was on TV and
shout “Dee Dee”. (Clearly I was not smart enough to figure out that his name
was Barney.) To this day, I still have my Barney doll. It’s very sentimental to
me.
40.) I was a really big Jonas Brothers fan all
throughout high school, and I was convinced that I was going to marry Nick
Jonas. (Well, not convinced. But really, really hopeful.)
41.) When I was in kindergarten, my teacher told me
that a magical fairy came to the letter ‘I’ and said “Whenever you are alone
you shall be capital”. (So just in case anyone reading this blog is wondering
why the letter ‘I’ is capital, that’s why.)
42.) Olympic decathalon winner, Bryan Clay, is members of the same
club as my family. And his kids are even on the same swim team as my brother.
But whenever I see him, I’m too scared to approach him. Maybe one day.
43.) Girls next door
44.) My grandfather was a United States lieutenant
during WWII and my grandmother was one of the women working in Oak Ridge,
Tennessee
for the Manhattan Project. (The women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee were unaware that
they were helping build the atomic bomb). My grandmother and grandfather met
after the war, fell in love, and got married. I’ve been told that my
grandfather used to call me “the sweetest thing that ever was”. He died when I
was two years old. I wish that I had been lucky enough to know him.
45.) I have a great relationship with my dad. I am a
total daddy’s little girl. My dad’s amazing.
46.) When I was younger, I wrote a poem that placed in
the LA County Fair. “Little tree, little tree. What do you see? Do you see a
bumble bee? Or do you see my knee? Little tree, little tree. What do you see?”
(Looking back, I’m not sure why it got an award. It wasn’t that great of a
poem. I suppose it was cute.)
47.) love listening to morning radio shows. My
favorite morning radio shows include the Kidd Kraddick Morning Show, Johnjay
& Rich, Mojo In the Morning, and the Kane Show.
48.) I didn’t have a smartphone until January of this
year. Before then, I had a dumb phone that couldn’t even take pictures.
49.) Writing this blog has been a dream of mine for a
while. And I’m glad that I finally decided to take the leap despite my anxiety
about putting myself out there for the world to see. (I didn’t have any reason
in particular to be anxious, I’m just kind of an anxious person. However now
that I’m actually writing the blog, I feel really happy. So I know that I made
the right decision. :D)
50.) I plan to be very honest in this blog and make
myself really vulnerable. Please don’t leave mean comments. I want this blog to
be a happy place. I look forward to getting to know all of you who are ready my
blog, and I hope that you all are looking forward to getting to know me.
