Day One (30 Day Challenge FTW!)

Challenges are fun and exciting. Like the challenge of seeing how far my mouse will go on "Low Battery", or how far my car will go on "Less than Empty", or waking up my boyfriend from a nap effectively (he hates waking up almost as much as I do) without making him want to punch me in the face. He would never actually punch me in the face, but I try not to antagonize him just because he's nice.

So this 30 Day "Blog-a-day" challenge is pretty exciting for me. I'm wretched at blogging every day, or almost every day, or... ever. But it's something I've always wanted to get into. So why not start with a super-fun-ultra-exciting-OMG-all-the-thinking-has-been-done-for-you challenge?

Day 1: Introduce, recent picture of yourself, 15 interesting facts.


My name is Samantha, I live in Washington. Not the rainforest-y green-all-the-time part, the other side. The dry side. I'm a waitress, which makes me super awesome to have as a customer in your restaurant.

This is me after accidently bleaching myself at work last week.

1) My hands are nearly completely double-jointed. Also double jointed are my shoulders and hips. This sounds ultra cool, but mostly it means that I dislocate my limbs on accident and put them back into joint wrong.

2) I make awesome espresso drinks, but I prefer drip coffee for convenience and way more caffeine!!

3) My favorite "comfort food" is Velvetta Shells and Cheese with a can of tomato soup mixed in. YES.


4) I firmly believe that I will someday gain financial independence by saving all the loose change around me.


5) Put me in the kitchen, give me a task (simple, hard, average, doesn't matter), and I will manage to hurt myself 9 times out of 10.


6) When I was a kid, my ambitions for "when I grow up" were to either be a pony or a waitress. 


7) I know many things about a lot of different stuff. The problem is it's usually all trivial "Hey, that's kinda cool!" stuff.


8) I love video games but, truth be told, am not very good at them generally. 


9) My freshman year at college, somebody taught me how to knit a scarf. Nobody ever taught me how to do anything else, so to this day, I just knit scarves.


10) When I was a kid, if I had to use the bathroom at night I would flush the toilet and RUN back to my bed, dive in, and pretend to be asleep with devilish speed and then feel guilty the rest of the night because I was certain that flush had woken the whole household.


11) My dad is left-handed. I am left-handed. My dad is surprised by this almost every time he sees me write. 


12) I usually prefer food with a crisp or crunchy texture. I'm going to be a miserable old person.


13) The only bones I've ever broken have been in my feet.


14) I have a pretty strong aversion to eating/drinking things that are coloured blue. 


15) Eye contact makes me uncomfortable with people I know and trust. It's damn near unbearable with strangers. "What can I get for you today?" is a question I most often direct to a customer's menu, hat, necklace, etc.