Mixing it Up

If someone were to come up and tell me that today that I don't really seem like the kind of person who wears braided pigtails (or dog ears, whatever you choose to call them) and sips coffee, I would tell them that they don't know me at all. (This is a hint that this is exactly what im doing right now...). It'd be like someone telling me that I don't seem like the type of person who would put the lyrics to "The Peter Panda Dance" as my "about me" on Facebook. Honestly, that has been my about me on there since the about me box was still on the profile page. I think that things like this describe me perfectly. Sure, when most people think of me, they probably don't think of the Peter Panda Dance, but once they see it on there, many of my friends would agree that it is definitely something I would do.

I'm not saying that I'm one of those people who try their hardest to be "different," I just am that way. I don't often wear make up or conform to society's norm, but it's not for attention. I am a perfectionist, so the few places in my life where I do things on a whim (like deciding to start a blog...), are usually not what everyone else does. Okay, so a lot of people have blogs, but not a lot of people I know. Yeah, a lot of people do VEDA, but I'm the only one of my friends to do it and actually keep it up.

I'm the kid who started wearing ties to school on Wednesdays in January of 2009 and never stopped. (I also got friends to wear them with me, and the teachers were kind of thrown off at first, but got used to it... and the only time anyone said anything about it, the assistant principal asked if we were trying to make a statement-which we weren't, we were just wearing ties- and I said "sure" and IF he had asked what it was, i would have said "this tie is awesome", but he didnt). I used to wear pajama bottoms to school because I could (i wasn't the only one though, this was quite common), but then the school dress code changed and we weren't allowed to wear them anymore.

Like I said, I'm not trying to be different or to throw anyone off, but sometimes, I will do something out of my "norm" that feels right at the time. I'll say things without thinking or do something on a whim and it might not always come out the way I expected it to, but these are just the things I do. You don't have to like them, but I'd like it if people just accepted my quirks for what they are.

Thanks for putting up with my rambling and oddities,
-andrea aka fred :)