About me. ‘Cause I’m totally interesting.

Why are about me sections and bio’s so hard to write? It’s like I never really know where to start. I guess since this page will be frequented by people who don’t know me, I’ll start at the beginning. Hopefully someone will find me to be absolutley fascinating and will make it past the first paragraph! ….please?

I was born in Machester, England… yes, home of the mighty red, Manchester United! Being born there means dual citizenship AND automatically having to love MAN U, even if you don’t give a hoot about sports. My mom and all of her family is from that area, and 90% of my mom’s family still lives there. We recently went to visit famiy there for Christmas in 2008 and it was such a great time. My father is American, from the north west coast area. My father was in the army, and met my mother while he was stationed in Greece, and my mom was on holiday there. I have an older brother who now lives north of Dallas, my father in central Texas, and my mom in a suburb outside of Atlanta with my stepfather. Growing up was interesting for me, seeing as how we moved every few years. I have been all over Europe, and lived in a few countries in Europe, but Texas is the only state that I’ve lived in when in the US. I spent a few formative years in Germany, where I believe I developed my strong sense of independence, ridiculous imagination, and passion for creativity. I went to a German school, rather than the one on base for American kids, so I spoke German fluently, which was great, man I wish I could have kept that skill. The area we lived in didn’t provide many opportunities for me to play with other kids, and at this age I strongly believed my big brother was the meanest, cootie-laden creature on the planet. This is when I developed the independence and imaginative streak; yes, I played bymyself A LOT. I also started dance class when I was a wee one in Germany, which is where my creative and artsy fartsy-ness reared it’s head.

When we moved to the US, I was in the midst of that HORRIBLE awkward stage you go through kinda early… I had a terrible haircut which was very trendy in Europe (similar to a bowl cut), missing half my teeth, wierd European clothes and shoes, and I spoke German better than English. Oh, and I had an eyepatch. YES. AN EYEPATCH. I was watching my brother play a game of pool at the YMCA and some goon in the room poked me in the eye with a pool stick. The cornea of my eye was ripped and I had to wear en eyepatch. Like a pirate. My brother kicked that boy’s ass.

So at this time I like to say is when I developed my really cool personality (tooting my own horn). I’ve always been a firm believer in the fact that it does NOT matter what you do or don’t look like, people are going to treat you however they want. All you can do is treat others well and hope that you get the same respect that you give. I realize that at this point in time I probably look like a vain person on the outside… but the girl inside me wore an eyepatch and had a bowl cut, so no, I’m not vain or shallow. Common misconception.

As far back as I can really recall in school, like late elementary school, middle school, and high school, I was always part of what some may consider the “in crowd”. It’s not that I tried to be in this group either, I was friends with people from all the different groups, but I am certain that my primary group was with the dancers/cheerleaders/jocks. I’m fine with that, I had a great time in school, and I am still best friends with some of those people. My roomate and I have known each other since cheerleading camp in middle school. She’s my better half, for now.

So as for present day, I’m a senior in college. I am totally nervous about my ‘rents cutting me off and becoming a REAL grown up soon… MAN, that’s going to be a  hard pill to swallow! My degree is in Communication Studies (concentration on organizational communication) and Mass communication. From my previous work before transferring to Texas State, I was a business major, so I have an associates in Business Administration…. not sure how much that’s going to help me, but I guess it looks kinda nice on the ol’ resumeeeeee. I live in South Austin, which I totally adore. I just moved into a new place at the end of July and it makes me SO happy to come home to a place that I actually like living! …except the STUPiD gate here! Brand new apartments and my clicker hardly ever works… oh well. I have been making a conscious effort to try new activites, restaurants, shops, etc in Austin and take advantage of my beeeeautiful city! I have also been making an effort to party a lot less than last year… if I reflect on the photos in my facebook albums I somehow wonder how my liver even functions still? It was a rough year, 2010 is better so far! I used to be REALLY into fitness as well as pro cheerleading and dancing, which consumed my life for a years, thus leading to the totally “balls to the wall” party stage I ended up in.

So for this blog, I have decided to focus on fitness and a bit about the pro cheer/dance realm, because those are a few of my passions, and I hope to maybe inspire a couple people who might stumble on this page to get healthy and happy. That’s what I’ve been working on latley… getting healthy and happy, so maybe with this blog we can do it together!

And this would be me