1. so far this 'schoolyear' i have missed thanksgiving, christmas, new years, and valentines day because i have been in the hospital due to my crohns. alison and holidays clearly do not mix. what gives?
2. speaking of medical things, when i had my tonsils out and got a blood clot, there was blood leaking out of my ears, my nose, my mouth and my eyeballs. i threw up blood for 2 hours, and had my stomach pumped and a blood transfusion. the doctor said there was over 2 pints of blood in my stomach that i had swallowed. imagine two pint glasses full of blood. my parents really thought i was going to die that day. now i just tell that as my nastiest exorcist story.
3. if i could only listen to one song for the rest of my life, it would be 'oh comely' by neutral milk hotel.
4. i firmly believe that the biggest mistake i ever made was deciding to go to GU-in-Flo and leaving san francisco. i will most likely have regrets due to that for the rest of my life.
5. most people already know this about me, but i still suck my thumb every night when i go to bed. i also suck my thumb when im watching movies. ill even do it in front of other people, if i trust them.
6. i only let the people i trust the veryvery most come to family dinners. if youve met members of my family other than my mom and my sister, you are most definitely in the inner circle.
7. if i would have been born a boy, my parents would have named me Cipi Pietro.
8. theres only one person that i am no longer friends with that i wish i had back every day of my life, and she knows who she is, but she probably wont acknowledge it ever, and i still have no idea why.
9. my senior year of highschool i decided to flip through my planner and randomnly stop on a day, and then on that day the next year i would get my first tattoo, and that is exactly what i did. theres a pic of it at the bottom. its a jesus fish, and so everyone who sees it looks at me weird because im not christian. but i got it for my best friend vanessa who killed herself the day of our graduation from high school. i didnt believe in God and she made me believe in something, and especially made me believe in life, so i decided to dedicate the rest of my life to living up to the potential i know she had.
10. at one point, every single person in my immediate family was on anti-depressants but me.
11. i have not eaten beef since the fall of 2001.
12. i have been on a plane when the oxygen masks fell due to turbulence. i was scared out my mind.
13. thirteen has and always will be my favorite and lucky number!
14. speaking of being scared, im still scared of my parents basement. ive been known to flat out refuse to go down there alone.
15. i have had three pet hermit crabs that all were named cipi.
16. when i was in junior high i would sometimes rewrite my homework two or three times before handing it in so that my penmanship would be perfect. my best friend breanne and i would try and see whos letters could look the best.
17. the first cd i ever bought for myself was Bush "Sixteen Stone".
18. my smile has not changed since i was two. when people look at my baby pictures they swear i havent aged.
19. when i was in 4th grade i was told that i had the reading comprehension of a highschool freshman. i began reading books for that age level, and i think thats when the only innocence i had left was lost.
20. i have a photographic memory.
21. ive been swimming in both the atlantic and pacific oceans. but who hasnt?
22. ive only ever been fired from a job once. i was nineteen, i lived in san francisco, and i called my boss at peets coffee a moron. i have however walked out of four jobs. i walked out of the valley zumiez, nordstrom BP, rock city grill, and urban outfitters on the ave in seattle. i also called my boss at the northtown zumiez a fucking dumb bitch in front of the whole floor (employees and customers) and was not fired, because the DM liked me so much. i have lasted at my current job longer than anyone thought i would and i think its because ive done a lot of growing up in the past year and a halfish. my pride used to get the best of me a lot, now my bills (student loans ugh) take precedence.
23. the hello kitty charms on my phone have annoyed most of my friends for two years now but i refuse to take them off.
24. is how old i will be turning on march 8th. i feel very, very old.
25. the only reason i smoked marlboro lights for so long was because i thought my hands smelled like peanut butter after i had one and i love peanut butter more than any other food in the whole world.
