These are 5 things that Melissa (I don't know how to link to lj usernames)  wanted me to say more about. If you are interested, comment to this post. I'll come up with 5 things I want to know more about with you, and then you post it in your LJ. It's fun! Or it's...well, it passes some time at least!

1) Bob

Bob and I met on Facebook, of all places, because he was looking for agnostic/atheist girls to hook up with. I thought he was a frat boy the first month or two we were messaging back and forth, so I didn't even entertain the thought that we might date. Our first date was more of a meet-up, but I asked him on a second date, and from there it's been awesome. I'm not used to having a boyfriend that all my family and friends really like, or being in an emotionally healthy relationship. It's lovely.

2) Career
I don't have one, and I don't know what career I might actually want to have. In a few years I'd like to go back to school and I always find my self thinking of going into something along the lines of speech therapy, so who knows.

3) UF
I was raised to be a Gator, even though I'm the first in my family to go there, the first to graduate, and the first to have a Bachelor's degree. I always knew I would go to college, and even though I was never pushed to go to UF specifically, I know my mom was even more thrilled than I was that I got accepted.

4) Fernandina Beach
I'm glad that I grew up in Fernandina, mainly because it was great living so close to the ocean and living in an area that was safe enough that my cousins and I could play mostly unsupervised a lot of the time. It's also neat to me that my mom was born and raised on the island, we attended the same high school, and even had one teacher in common, even though there are 30 years between us. I know I could never move back there, it's too small and closed and stagnant, but I do have a lot of great memories from growing up there and it is a beautiful area of Florida.

5) Jack and Ollie
Jack and Ollie are as close as I'll ever get to having children (along with any other pets). I got Jack 4 years ago when he was a baby, never having had a bird before, but being won over by his personality and attitude. Ollie was an unexpected addition 2 years ago, but she and Jack are very different personalities, and they behave as though they belong to the same flock. They can be very challenging and annoying, but they are also incredibly intelligent and clever and it's fun to see what new sounds Ollie learns to imitate and what new shenanigans Jack gets into. The best description I've ever heard for a parrot is that they are like a 2 year-old with a can opener on it's face, which is disturbingly accurate.