• Every time I have to say a random fact about myself for part of an introduction, I always say that I had a pet squirrel. This is true: his name was Mr. Squirrel/Squirrelnutkins, and he liked sleeping in the pocket of my mom’s bathrobe.
• My favorite holiday is Halloween.
• I have a lot of journals/diaries but I never write in them because I think that I’m going to mess them up. I know this makes no sense whatsoever, but that’s just the way it is.
• I don't change for anything or anyone. I think that people who don't want to take me as I am can go fuck themselves.
• The reason I hate sweet potatoes and only rarely eat them is because I did service work for part of my friend’s birthday party one year and we had to sort good sweet potatoes from rotten sweet potatoes and it was one of the nastiest things I’...

• red-eye occurs because when pictures are taken at night, your pupils are dilated enough that light reflects back out of your eye and is shown as red because of the blood vessels in the back of your eye
• widows peaks, cleft chins, the ability to taste PTC, and hitchhiker's thumbs are Mendelian traits, as are free or attached earlobes and dry or wet earwax
• King Henry VIII had an older brother named Prince Arthur, who married Katherine of Aragon (later the first wife of Henry VIII) but Athur died before he was able to rule
• Lady Jane Grey ruled England for nine days between her cousins King Edward VII and Queen Mary I (both children of Henry VIII) simply because she was Protestant, not Catholic. She was never crowned, but executed at the age of sixteen by Mary I, later known as Bloody Mary.

• Raoul - cat who hated my dad
• Lupe - tabby cat who hated it when I pulled her tail but loved my mom a lot
• Mr. Squirrel/Squirrelnutkins - baby squirrel we rescued from our back yard; he liked to sleep curled up in the pocket of my mom's old fraying baby-blue bathrobe
• Dinah - very skittish calico cat who hated threshold and loud noises
• Sheba - Russian blue cat who thinks she's a dog but still likes to curl up on your lap
• Penny - a kind of fat and very laid-back Old English Sheepdog who does absolutely nothing but loves everyone and gets excited at meeting new people
• I had a poinsettia named Georgia, for the last Christmas season, but that doesn't quite count as a pet. But at the same time, it might, because I named, fed (watered), and loved it.

• driving a stick shift car
• skiing
• snowboarding
• sky diving
• living in a country other than the United States

• hairbands
• retainer
• passport
• cell phone
• car keys
• chapstick
• track of time
• watches

Natalie G...

Beloved daughter and friend.

"So it goes."

Wouldn't

• I don't know how to be a girlfriend because I have no experience
• I'm probably a bad kisser (but hopefully that would change)
• I can be jealous at times but I try my hardest not to let it get the best of me
• I like to talk through everything, which could be a pain to someone who doesn't want to talk

Would

• I wouldn't date someone unless I really liked them
• I would never cheat
• I would do my best to be an amazing girlfriend as long as it didn't mean being untrue to myself
• I would always be there for that person

• the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone National Park with Dan
• backpacking across Europe with my college roommates/friends
• annual week-long summer vacations with my high school friends
• Egypt
• Greece (again)
• California (again because I love it there)
• somewhere amazing over spring break (maybe Washington D.C. to visit Anna?)
• Venice, Italy
• Sicily
• China
• Paris, France (again)
• Great Britain (again and again)
• Australia
• Antarctica