Posted on by Bonnie Wren

10 things about me

One hippie, courtesy of Wikipedia.org
Yup. Exactly how I remember them, too. Scary!
  1. I’ve always had an overactive imagination. This makes it awfully hard to sleep sometimes, especially when tree branches are trying to work their way in through the window so they can grab me.
  2. I was scared to death of hippies when I was a kid.
  3. I was also afraid of clowns, ghosts, demons, dead people, and burglars. Barnabas Collins was very gentlemanly, though, so I felt vampires must be all right.
  4. In the fifth grade I had a crush on a boy named Kenny. I wrote a story about my class visiting a haunted house and made him the hero. The class applauded when the teacher read it out loud, but Kenny never did talk to me.
  5. I was a religious kid. I wanted to be a missionary and save souls in Africa. Or India. I didn’t care where, as long as I got to travel. Secretly, I hoped Kenny wanted to be a missionary, too.
  6. In the sixth grade my friend Angela let me use her mobile library card so I could check out two books every week instead of just one. I always finished the first book by the end of recess that afternoon.
  7. I tried to commit one high school prank in my senior year, but after I filled the girls’ bathroom with toilet paper, I felt so guilty I confessed within the hour and cleaned it up that afternoon.
  8. I saw Star Wars 12 times at the Avco Cinema in Westwood, because the Avco had Dolby Sound.
  9. My first year in college, one of my friends asked me if I’d help surprise her coach at her team’s Christmas party by jumping out of a giant cardboard box that was wrapped as a present. My friend and I had no idea her coach would take things so seriously.
  10. That same year, another friend had to travel at the last minute and asked me to assist her boyfriend at an auto show. After she promised me her boyfriend wouldn’t take things seriously, I spent most of that day draping myself over his tricked-out truck. I remember lots of Japanese gentlemen taking pictures.

Just thought I’d share.

10 Replies to “10 things about me”

  2. 1-3 and 8 – I am right there w/ you! Though the movie theater was in San Angelo, TX – my mother worked there – it was a good day for her to haver to bring me to work (I sat in there all day – show after show – me and my box of lemon drops)!

  3. Clowns still scare me.

    I could not handle anything “scary” when I was a kid. But now, I love horror. Go figure.

  4. Why do clowns scare? I’ve met more people lately that have a fear of clowns. Odd.

    Then Boy picks It to create music for. Everywhere, clowns. Including the class clown. 😉

    Books…same way. Devour them. Worse than candy. Dawg wants me to index them.

    Can you hear the laughter? I can’t even locate all the ‘save’ books.

    TP…..a few remnants out in my driveway from this fall’s mystery paper flinger. Wasn’t you, was it? 😀

    Off to stare fondly at the velvet clown picture down the hall. 😉

  7. Wah! Mark!!!!! That’s an ode to 1974 if ever I saw one. You made my day!

    I’ve got to find a picture of me at the same time and scan it. What are those white furry things?

    Dennie, my mom was horrified that I paid so much to see a movie so many times. The Avco cost a lot more than the theaters closer to our house. But it was better, because in addition to Dolby Sound, I got to play checkers with other Star Wars fans in line.

    Kait, that music he made was so Tim Burtonish. I think he has real talent. And TP is at a premium around here. I keep it under lock and key. Look elsewhere for your TP Vandal!

    Pat, I can watch horror movies, but only if I can sleep with the lights on for a couple of days.

    Bernita, you’re always very sweet yourself. 😉

  10. Tanks, Bonnie.

    Boy is a gifted kidlet who seems taken with all things Burton. I’m shaking in my shoes to see what the next creation is that they’ve been working in class.

    And the TP bandit. Well, we’ll just call TP for All and have them bring a new case. If they can part with one. 😉

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