an existential keekah

thirteen things

you maybe didn’t know

about

mon-mon

1. When I was a little girl, I was too scared to sleep in my room so I often slept on the living room couch.
2. When I was a little girl, I wanted to be an actress/singer.  I would often play act out whole scenes I made up in my head while I laid on the couch trying to fall asleep, silently mouthing all the words.
3. I loved taking baths with my mom.
4. The first boy I made out with later grew up to be a gay man.  I was a Gracie in the making way back then…(think Will and Grace)
5. I remember exactly where I was when the Challenger blew up – I was in the school library.
6. I used to daydream while walking to high school that I would fall in love with an older man and he would rescue me from my life.
7. I wanted so badly to be in love my senior year that I had crushes on every male coworker who was nice to me.  I went to school dances with two of those coworkers - the Sadie Hawkins dance and my Senior prom – and I didn’t even like school dances.
8. I daydreamed about everything and anything all through high school because it was a miserable experience and I just wanted to get away.
9. I hated my teeth so bad in high school that I never willingly smiled with open lips.
10. I used to work the student store at my high school.
12. I changed my name the first time I moved away from Colorado because I wanted to get away from everything and everyone.
13. I haven’t daydreamed for years and years and years.  My life keeps me too busy to daydream anymore!