Seventy-Five Random Things About Me To Celebrate Five-Hundred Subscribers

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When you start a blog everyone starts with zero subscribers that should by being consistent and creating quality content. When I first started blogging I had no idea what I was doing and almost quit in the first few months of starting because I feared being judged and almost quit within the first few months but I decided that I was going to stick it out for one month and I am glad I did. Some people do not make it to one-hundred followers not because they can’t but some people blog for the wrong reasons and do not want to put in the effort it takes to create a successful blog and just want everything handed to them on a silver platter. It wasn’t easy but my blog has finally reached five hundred subscribers and I thought what better way to celebrate than to talk about myself so you can get to know me better? In this post, I am going to talk about seventy-five random things about me to celebrate my five hundred subscribers.

• My favorite color is pink.
• I hate cardio and strength training equally but I will do strength training before I do cardio because I hate walking and it’s easier to find accessible moves with weights.
• I sometimes make video content to help grow my brand but I hate it with passion because I have a speech delay and as a child, I was bullied a lot for not being able to pronounce certain sounds so I am very self-conscious about the way I speak.
• My favorite form of exercise is Pilates but I haven’t been able to do it in over two years because hip replacement surgery has taken away some of my leg mobility that is required to do most moves.
• I have never enjoyed massages nor will I let someone without knowledge in Hydrocephalus give me a massage because I have shunt tubing in my neck and it’s not relaxing but just painful.
• Out of all the specialists I hate the dentist the most and it’s not that I have something against my dentist personally but sometimes the tools they use to clean your teeth messes with my head and gives me neck pain.
• I will never wear contacts because I have a fear of putting my finger in my eyes.
• I don’t like to wear white or any light colors because with light colors you will see stoma issues a lot quicker than you would if I was wearing black.
• I have tried to be outgoing in front of large groups of people but it’s just not me because I am an introvert at heart.
• I hate to brag but I have really great skin and very rarely have a bad breakout even when I am not washing my face.
• I love a good breakfast but I like pasta more!
• I stopped drinking alcohol when I started experiencing chronic migraine and it has significantly reduced my attacks.
• I have very sensitive skin and do not use any body washes or lotion that is not natural because it causes me to break out in hives.
• I live with daily wrist pain that I think is probably from overuse but I have never gotten a formal diagnosis because I found a joint supplement that seems to help and I don’t think I need to know exactly what caused my wrist pain.
• I have four sisters and am an aunt to two adorable nieces.
• I started experiencing vertigo after my most recent surgery that I think has something to do with the blood I was given in the hospital that I reacted to but haven’t done anything about it because it’s not impacting my life in any significant way and I don’t want to be on more medication.
• People think that I have lost strength since my surgery which may be true for certain body parts but my arms did not get weak and I lift two pounds heavier than I did before surgery.
• I have written hundreds of posts but most of the older ones have been deleted because I was not happy with them and only have a little under two-hundred posts published.
• I wrote my very first blog post on the benefits of resistance training but never published it.
• I am sometimes triggered by dairy but still eat yogurt knowing that it could trigger a migraine attack because it helps me have a bowel movement and I don’t know what’s worse a migraine or severe constipation.
• I have been on preventative medication for migraine for about three years and just recently noticed my sleep improving.
• In high school, I had a serious caffeine addiction and drank about seven to eight cups of coffee a day which I think contributed to my seizures because of the increased anxiety.
• People always tell me how much I look like my mom.
• I have only been asked out once by a man that I did not find attractive at all and I only said yes because I felt bad for him but that relationship did not last more than two weeks because I got annoyed with his constant texts and broke it off.
• My sister is getting married next month and I am a bridesmaid.
• I was in a bowling league for disabled people but I didn’t do it for long because I was placed in a group of non-verbal people and didn’t enjoy it.
• The first job I worked destroyed my mental health because the employer false advertised and I thought I was applying for a receptionist position but it turn out she wanted an office manager.
• I like my current primary care physician but hated the one before that because she wanted me to have all these unnecessary tests and talked to me like a child.
• The only expensive jewelry I own is from people that gift it to me because I am too poor to spend hundreds of dollars on a necklace.
• My favorite numbers as a child were three, five, and eight.
• I have sensitive teeth because as a child I had a very bad habit of chewing ice.
• I type roughly around seventy to eighty words a minute without looking at my keyboard but most of that has to do with me being on the computer all the time typing blog posts.
• I have zero artistic ability and the only reason why my images are well-designed is because I digitally design them through Canva but if I were to draw them don’t expect to figure out what it is.
• I have never seen anyone wrap a gift worse than me because my wrapping job is pretty sad.
• I prefer shorts over dresses but lately, I have been wearing more dresses because I don’t have a lot of mobility in my legs and I’d rather not struggle every hour when I am having a stoma issue.
• People have tried to teach me how to play Sudoku but no one has ever been successful.
• In high school, my friend and I fantasized about opening a daycare but now as an adult, I think back on it and ask myself what was I thinking because I don’t have the patience to babysit someone else’s badly behaved kids.
• I do not want kids because my disability already has enough challenges and I can’t imagine rasing a child on top of all of that.
• I laugh at northerners when they complain about eighty-degree weather with twenty percent humidity because in the heat of summer, you don’t get that in Florida and it’s more like ninety-degree weather with one-hundred percent humidity.
• I don’t like to play scrabble and never have tried to win when people make me play.
• I am very bad at games that are timed and there is yelling because it overwhelms me and you would not want me on your team.
• I do not like loud noises because I am more sensitive to them due to my Hydrocephalus.
• In high school, I taught myself a little sign language to help me communicate with some of the non-verbal students.
• Thank goodness I type out all my blog post because my handwriting is horrible.
• There are days when I don’t blog because I am fatigued from chronic pain but I have never experienced writer’s block because I write about things that interest me.
• If I was designing a home I would not use a lot of white because it’s too easy to see dirt.
• I just recently started painting my nails again.
• Parties are only stressful for me because people make them stressful by commenting on my food choices and telling me what I can do better.
• The coolest place I have ever been to was Hawaii.
• I have tons of online friends but only one friend in real life that I have not seen or talked to much since before Covid.
• I have never used dating apps because I don’t want the added stress of someone discriminating against my disability.
• In my home, there are no rugs in places that I am frequently in because they add extra resistance and make it more difficult to walk.
• I considered starting a YouTube channel before blogging and that only changed because I realized I hate being on camera.
• I do most of my shopping online because I am not able to drive myself to the store.
• Shoes are very hard to find because I have to wear an extra extra wide to accommodate my braces and not all companies have that as an option.
• I memorize where I put my shampoo and conditioner in the shower because I swear that shampoo companies label their products in the smallest font which is an issue when you can’t read without your glasses.
• I don’t like red purses because it makes me feel like a mom when I wear them which wouldn’t be a bad thing if I was a mom.
• I am a perfectionist
• I want to be able to live on my own but still live with my parents because I can’t afford to get my own place.
• I wanted no pets as a child but now as an adult, I would totally be open to a service dog if I lived alone.
• I am always cold and I think that is mostly because of my poor circulation.
• I love to workout out late at night because that is when I am most motivated.
• I get spasms almost every single day that I think probably has something to do with my Spina Bifida but I am not bothered by them because it doesn’t usually cause me pain.
• In high school I had a reading teacher tell me not to write in red because it’s the color of blood and is negative. Who knew that the color you choose to write your notes in is now considered negative?
• I have run over my cellphone with my wheelchair plenty of times but have never dropped it in a toilet because usually I have my phone in my purse in the bathroom and it’s not an issue.
• I am only self-conscious about my body when people make negative body remarks.
• I have a history of bladder stones but never feel pain when I get them and the only way you will know they are there is by doing a sonogram.
• I have been told that I have bushy eyebrows that I should get waxed but never have because I don’t care that much.
• I have tried to like tea but I am a born coffee lover.
• I hate shower chairs because I feel like I don’t get as clean.
• I know how to use the major social media channels like Facebook and Instagram but when it comes to building a website I am not very tech-savvy and it takes me hours to figure out something that was really simple.
• People have told me I’d make a great surgeon because of my disability but if you want to live you would not want me doing surgery on you because I can’t even watch my doctor give me a shot.
• People think that I go to the doctor a lot because of my disability but I don’t go as much as you think and I only go for yearly appointments and when I am having problems. I went more as a child but as I have gotten older things have stabilized and I don’t need to go as much.
• In high school, I had a serious obsession with fruity soda and chocolate chip cookies and that was most of my diet. I can get liking chocolate chip cookies because cookies are delicious but to this day I do not understand why I enjoyed grape-flavorored soda more than a Coca-Cola.
• When I first started blogging I was so fearful of haters that my best friend edited all my blog posts but now I don’t care enough to catch every single grammatical error because a vast majority of people do not care if you place a comma in the wrong place.

My blog would not have grown to where it is today without all the shares and support from all of my followers, I hope you has as much fun learning about me as much as I did creating it, even though it was much longer than I would normally write. My blogging journey has not been easy, but I do appreciate all of you because without the support of my followers, I would be basically writing a diary and there would be no blog. I don’t know if I will ever make it to one-thousand subscribers although I hope I do but I am happy with where I am at now and will never stop learning because it’s rewarding to see how much I have improved and the impact my blog has made. I tried to add things that even my family wouldn’t know but I may have failed miserably so please let me know how many of these things you already knew. If you like these kinds of posts, please let me know in the comments and I will create more like it.

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