Comments on: 22 things I neglected to mention about myself—including crises, felonies, and puppetry

By: Rebecca Brant Miller

Rebecca Brant Miller — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:29:10 +0000

Left-handed, HSP, rebellious as Anne of Green Gables… hello, sis!

When I was 7, I once got so angry at my little sister for staring at me while I was painting a picture, I… I… I painted her nose green! With my little 8-tin Crayola watercolor paints. She promptly tattled to our mother and later retaliated by standing behind me (to watch me paint) and cutting off a little lock of hair — about half an inch from the scalp. I looked like Alfalfa for almost three months.

I rode a 200+ mile poker run with a Harley “gang” in Alberta. (HSP with a taste for adventure, and the photos to prove it.)

I own a Glock G-19 and go plinking in Athol (yes, ATH-ole), Idaho, with my husband and his sister and brother-in-law.

Loved your post, Kelly.

By: Jane Lane

Jane Lane — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:41:35 +0000

You forgot:
“I once glued a soda can to the top of my car so I could watch all the other drivers frantically try to point it out to me before it fell off, then laughed at their amazement of how it could stay atop my car as I made a wide turn.”
That one always makes me laugh
-janelle
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By: Tara

Tara — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:54:41 +0000

Your level of rebel is Anne of Green Gables and you LOVE Dollywood? I am actually shocked this didn’t come up in our weekend together as these are the two salient un-confessed fact about ME.
No, that’s true, I talk to everyone about Dollywood. I adore it. With all my heart.

Another deep-dark?
-I played the viola for 9 years and almost majored in it (instead I chose the imminently useful French Lit)
-My first concert was Stephen Curtis Chapman at King’s Island (Hamilton, OH). If you know who that is, then you’ll understand the embarrassment.
Tara´s last blog ..Do the Thing in 2010

By: Papa Jimmy

Papa Jimmy — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:17:54 +0000

Kelly, Kelly, Kelly my poor child!! You never mentioned any of this while we would be feasting at Salsita’s restaurant after the tennis matches. If I had only known I could have sought some professional help for you. I hope it’s not too late. Why did you stop at 22 items? Love you, Pops

By: naomi

naomi — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:56:35 +0000

My very first concert: I was about 8 or 9 years old on summer vacation in Puerto Rico. I wore pink leggings, a pink jean mini skirt, jelly shoes, a white cotton sleeveless t-shirt (which was snug in the mid-section because of all the rice and beans my grandma was feeding me) with a pink haired punk rocker picture on it and a zebra print headband. Classic. My aunt took my sister and I to see Menudo. Yes, Menudo. The 80’s Puerto Rican boy band who had chart toppers like “Subete a mi moto”. And I had a huge crush on the newest boy to join the band, Ricky Martin.
I was no older than 9. I didn’t know any better.

By: Blue

Blue — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:20:33 +0000

Oh, I don’t know… Anne of Green Gables got her BFF drunk, after all, and then there was that whole slate-smashing thing… oh, and making fun of the minister’s sermons! And telling Rachel Lynde that she was fat and ugly and no one liked her!

She was pretty badass.

Also ZOMG Kundera! LOVE LOVE LOVE The Unbearable Lightness. If I were to make sets of books that should belong together (even though they don’t) I would put Unbearable Lightness in with Ondaatje’s English Patient and Calvino’s If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler. No relevance to anything there, just thought I would share.
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By: Andrew Lightheart @alightheart

Andrew Lightheart @alightheart — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:52:54 +0000

‘My level of rebel was Anne-of-Green-Gables’. Love it.

Ok… erm…

~ At age 10, made a card index of all my books, cross referenced by author and title, and a date stamp, in case anyone wanted to borrow one. They didn’t.

~ I only know the plot of La Boheme because I had a put-it-together-yourself paper theatre and that was one of the sets. I *loved* that theatre.

~ I am fully trained to clear the energy in buildings and consecrate them.

~ I almost became a sign language interpreter, until I realised (18 months into my degree) that a) it was a conceptually impossible task, and b) it mainly consisted of going to the doctor’s with old ladies.

Oh god, that’s enough. Almost moved on to felonies, then thought better of it.
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By: Sparky Firepants

Sparky Firepants — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:53:53 +0000

“..and one time I forgot to ask if I could get up before sharpening my pencil.”

I did this once in 2nd grade and was traumatized for days because I kept imagining my felony would catch up with me sooner or later. Seriously. Sleepless nights those were.

You are even awesomer than I thought before. I’ll share a few:

• I once flew a C-141 cargo plane over Colorado. I should mention… I am not a pilot.

• I am partially color blind. Don’t tell anyone.

• I got stuck in an elevator for 10 minutes with Don King and Peter Tork. No one spoke. I thought I was hallucinating.

You are the most funnest, Kelly.
Sparky Firepants´s last undefined ..(Enjoy 10 returned posts for Christmas)

By: Mark V. McDonnell

Mark V. McDonnell — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:22:35 +0000

“A left-handed, introverted only child who is only comfortable speaking in public if one hand is attached to a puppet and costumes are involved. All of this means I am a blast at parties for 90 minutes.”

Kelly, it seems you’ve been invited to some, um, unusual parties
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By: Victoria Brouhard

Victoria Brouhard — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:48:41 +0000

Kelly – this was absolutely high-larious.

Your baked potato story is like my fried spam and instant mashed potatoes story. Even if there weren’t other very good reasons not to eat those things, I still could never eat them again.

I had to participate – it’s listed in my commentluv link!
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