Randomosity.

So I have nothing big to talk about today, just a few smaller things, so I figured I would do a rundown of what's been on my mind in the week since I have posted!  

One.  It's been warmer in good ol' Minnie this week, but we're in the brown grass/melting snow/mud phase of winter becoming spring & it's not pretty, but at least we're getting there. right?  I'm pining for summer, where I can run away to my aunt and uncle's cabin up in Brainerd, and just soak up everything that cabin life entails!  

Two. Last night, we threw my Aunt Elisa a surprise 40th birthday, where I got milk spilled all over me when my 1-year-old cousin, Grady dumped his cup, why yes, I do know how to party like crazy, it was at Brunswick Zone in Blaine, I would not recommend the bar/grille there, service was horrible! We waited at least a half hour, closer to 45 minutes for our food and our server never came to check on us.  The arcade was a blast though, even if I did get a foam ball to the eye when one of my cousins or brother shot me, my fault that my safety goggles fell down though!

Three. Wednesday after school, my mom and sister drove up from B-ville to take me out to dinner at Perkins, since I hadn't seen them in awhile, and I am 6 days away from 21(four now!), and they gave me a kids menu, didn't ask me, just gave me one!  I texted my stepmom, and I was like should I be offended? She's like no, but you're gonna get weird stares this time next week, when you order a sex on the beach with your kids menu! 

Four.  FOUR days until my birthday!  I don't have any big plans, but I think dinner is in order, and I have the entire day off, so I don't have to do anything I don't want to :)

Five.  Blake Shelton's new album came out this week, and I'm obsessed!  I can't even pick a favorite song off of it!  I'm going to try and get him to tweet me on my birthday, if you wanna join in, I'm gonna tweet something like this: @blakeshelton, It's my 21st Birthday, I don't think you'll tweet me back, but it'd sure be cool if you did!  

Six.  I was talking to Lynn a few nights ago, and did you know it's no longer PC to call the Easter bunny, the Easter bunny or Easter eggs?  They're now to be called Academic Bunnies and Academic eggs.  *eyeroll* I will be still wishing people a Happy Easter!  

Have a great Easter & enjoy your Academic Egg Hunts *wink*  

Writing Home.

Daddy & I at my first Twins game 1994. 

Dear Dad & Lynn, I may have screwed up this week, but thank you for having my back regardless!  Dear Lynn, Thanks for taking me with to play bingo, I miss spending time with you!  Dear Jayme, Last night/this morning? Some of the best times of my life, I love how we live tweeted while you read Safe Haven.  Dear Army Wives, How did I forget so much of what happened during the series? I'm rewatching and it's like I'm watching it for the first time!  Dear Mady, I miss hanging out, just you and I, can we make it happen soon? I miss sister time!  Dear Spring, WHERE ARE YOU?

linking up with Ashley for Friday letters!  

It's Okay

Linking up with two of my faves who are away at Blissdom(lucky brats!)
It's okay...
to re-watch Army Wives from the beginning...and still cry even though you know what's gonna happen.  
to not be too sure about all the new Army Wives they have
to ask for help sometimes
to get the urge to run away from life for a little while
to be completely jealous of all the people at Blissdom
to wish you knew where a money tree grew!
to like country music
to not like Taylor Swift's music much anymore
to love your dogs more than people sometimes
to fold laundry and not put it away
What's Okay with you this week?  

This is Me. This is Real.

To be completely honest, I debated a good month or so about writing about this, because I don't want to be known for this "label/diagnosis"

If you have been around my blog and seen any of my pictures, you may have noticed I look different, you may have shied away from reading me because you thought I looked weird, but I seriously hope you stuck around to learn about me, and to share in my blog.  If not, I guess that's your loss!  

When I was born, I was diagnosed with what doctors call frontonasal dysplasia.  In English, it basically means, my ears are smaller than most, my eyes are farther apart, and my nasal cavity isn't what it's supposed to be.  

From what I have found on the interwebs and google, I have a very mild case of it, my nose is in one piece and I don't have a cleft lip.  

Ever since I was young, I have gone yearly or every few years to an all-day appointment down at the U of Minnesota.  I have had multiple surgeries, multiple long-term(more than a week) hospital stays, & a few stories that I am now able to look back & laugh on.  

A couple stories before I get to the rest of the post, one of the surgeries I had, I believe it was when they put the shunt in, but I can't remember, for sure, they sewed my eyes shut because they were afraid that if they didn't the brain pressure would cause them to pop out of the sockets, well when they sewed them shut, they had me under anesthesia because they did it right before surgery, but when they unsewed them, I was awake for the procedure, and my Dad was in the room when they were doing this, and I was yelling, Daddy kick the nurse, Daddy hit the nurse.  My Dad's a police officer, so I thought he could do whatever he needed to do to not have me in pain.  Keep in mind, I was only 7 or so at the time.  

Another time, I think it was during this same hospital stay, my mom had gone down to the McDonald's in the tunnels below Children's and the nurses were trying to force me to take medicine, and my mom says as soon as she got off the elevator, she could hear me screaming from the other end of the hall.  I just didn't want to take it, I guess! 

& now a few, you mess with my sister/daughter stories, I'll mess you up from my family:

When we were skiing one weekend up by my Dad's house, Lynn, my stepmom had taken us by herself & this kid starts spitting on the bag that I'm carrying and making fun of me, she went up the stairs after the kid, and said, keep it up & I'll kick your ass, now my stepmomma is not a violent person, very calm and collected.  

& Ryan, my younger brother, has punched a few kids because they were making fun of me. 

& when my stepsister Becky was younger, we were both at the park and some other girls were making fun of me, so she walks over to them & gave them an earful.  

Mady has always gotten upset about me being made fun of, she is very protective of me(at least for that reason, most others she picks on me!)

Some people have asked why I look the way I do, my answer is always, because God has a special plan for my life.  I would much rather look like this, and have my faith in God, then look "normal" and not have Him.  Or like I told a girl when I was cashiering after she called me funny looking, TWICE, I'd much rather look like me and have manners instead of looking like you and having none at all.  

I have been blessed with not only great parents and great stepparents, but an entire family that has never let me be treated like any less.  I have been asked before, if I would like to be a part of a support group for frontonasal dysplasia, and I've always turned them down, because I don't let this define me, and I forget I have it until somebody keep staring at me.  

Please, don't hesitate to ask me any questions you have, & I just want to let everybody know how much you all mean to me!  

linking up with Shawn & IA for Talk to Us Tuesday

Sunday Social

It's Sunday, which only means one thing...

1. What is one movie you are terrified to watch? Sinister, my sister and her best friend went to saw it when it was in theaters, they had to sleep with the light on the rest of the weekend! Funny story actually, we were all hanging out at my grandma and grandpa's this fall after they had seen it, & my cousin snuck over with the sinister mask on and walked by my grandparents huge picture windows that face the river, I have never seen Mady drop to the floor SO fast!  

2. What is one TV show you have always wanted to get into but haven’t yet? Gilmore Girls, I need to buy the entire series and just veg one weekend, which in reality, probably is not going to happen lol.  

3. What is one daring activity on your bucket list? I'd love to skydive just once & go on a Extreme Tornado Tour with Reed Timmer.

4. Would you ever travel alone? I fly alone, but I don't think I'd want to actually spend a whole vacation by myself, but somedays I do just dream of driving with no real destination in mind & not telling anyone, first I have to get my license though!  

5. What activities do you like to do alone? I like to read & write when I'm alone.  I like to shower when no one else is home too, which some people may see as strange....