My failed attempts at using the timer on my camera.
I gave up and used the mirror.
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| My winter wardrobe: Spencer's sweater: Joe Fresh (similar) // tee: Joe Fresh (similar) // Pants: Uniqlo // Loafers: Sole Society (similar) // lipstick: tarte lipsurgence skintuitive |
When Grace Patton tells me how to jump, I'm two feet in the air before I ask how high. So when she tagged me in her "5 things" blog post, it didn't matter that I did one of these on instagram. I had no choice but to do a blog list of five things all about moi.
1. I am blinder than a bat. I got glasses when I was seven years old, which I didn't wear full-time until I was ten, and then I got contacts at 12. My dream is to one day wake up with perfect vision without sleeping in said contacts. I'm all over getting Lasik.
2. I was born and raised in the Deep South, but I have nary an accent. It's a travesty, I know. It's also the first thing people say when I say I'm from Alabama. "But you don't have an accent!" I know! I can, however, do a very good imitation and get deeply offended when tv shows/movies have actors with terrible accents.
3. I can't handle silence. Blame it on growing up in a family of seven kids, but I need background noise to focus. Whether it's music, tv, or movies, I like to turn something on when I'm home alone. I used to always put on classical music when I studied, and I love turning on either my indie singer/songwriter or my pop hits pandora stations at work. If this leads to random one-woman dance parties on a regular basis, so be it.
4. I could be described as an introverted-extrovert. I'm totally comfortable talking with people, I love being social and partying old-school style (literally, old school. as in board games), but I also enjoy a night at home with a good book or two, and I need my alone time. It's all about balance, y'all.
5. Want to become my mortal enemy? Spell my name with a "k." It is EriCa!!! No "k"!!! Use a "k" and you are dead to me...forever.
On that happy note, now I get to tag five people, muah-ha-ha! I'd like to hear from Rebecca, Kaitlyn, Heidi, Amanda, and Mary. Hop to it, ladies! Or not, it's up to you.
P.S. eShakti is giving North Meets South readers 20% off any item if you use the code "SPENCERNDE" at checkout, valid until March 20, 2013. They have some fabulous spring dresses and skirts, and they go fast so head over there ASAP.
Ever since I read you were from Alabama, I read your posts with a Southern accent. I'll have to stop doing that now.
ReplyDeleteMwahhhhhahahahahaha!! I'm tagged! Ha! I'm finally tagged. This validates me. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI met an American last night at a stake leadership meeting. She's from Idaho. When I told her I was from WV she said, "But you don't have an accent." I'm sorry I don't sound like a hillbilly straight out of Duck Dynasty. I actually sound like an intelligent human being.
I'll be careful about the use of the "k" I don't want to be a mortal enemy....or dead.
I have been waiting for a sale on eShakti dresses! I'm using that code!!!!! This is my dream come true I tell you!!!
I'm from Alabama too (Been in South Dakota 11 years), and I do have a light accent. Like you, I am horrified by "wrong" ones. If I go home for a visit, I come home more Southern tho, every time.
ReplyDeleteI'm right there with you on Lasik. I've had glasses since I was 8, and now my eyesight is too poor for soft contacts, so I had to switch to gas permeable. *sigh* If I want to read with my glasses off, I have to hold the book about five inches from my nose. Someday I'll have good vision...
ReplyDeleteI was born in Texas and grew up in Oklahoma, and don't have an accent either. When I lived in Australia, I didn't pick up an Australian accent, but my speech cadence changed, and most people thought I was Australian. And then for two months after I moved back to the states I confused people with how I talked...
Did you ever take tests in the music room at the testing center? They played classical music. It was in a weird upstairs room above the main testing room. I did it once but I hated how small it was. There was something about that expansive room with pencils scratching away that always calmed me. But usually I'm with you. I'm always the one blasting music at work.
ReplyDeletei ONLY took tests in the music room. the huge silent room distracted me.
DeleteI have perfect vision, the only kid left in my family to be able to claim such. Go me. (Not trying to rub it in, I swear.)
ReplyDeleteAlso, and I hope we can still be friends after this, my twin sister spells her name E-R-I-K-A, which I guess is the German spelling (all the girls in my family have German names, Gretel, Erika, Heidi, Liesl) and everytime I see it written with a "c" I can't help but assume they've spelled it wrong.
Are we enemies now? (Gosh, I hope not.)
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I used to use a WHITE NOISE GENERATOR in college because I couldn't handle the silence—or my roommate who would sorta talk to herself.
ReplyDeleteLove your blog! I'm an Alabama girl, living in West Tennessee. Sadly, my accent is so thick, I get made fun of in Tennessee...I didn't even realize how bad it was until I moved :)
ReplyDeleteHow did I miss this?!
ReplyDeleteLove the loafers! I'd like to think I'm an intro extrovert but I think I'm just the former. And I'm with you on the quiet. Simons the opposite. What does it all mean??????
My response is up! http://heidikins.com/2013/03/11/a-few-things-about-me/
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This is funny because just the day before you wrote this I thought, "I wonder if it bothers Erica when people spell her name wrong."
ReplyDeleteoh, i am totally the same way about my name, it's kate. NOT katie. why can't ppl just pay attention. names are important!!
ReplyDeleteWe have the SAME LIFE! Well, not really, but number one describes me perfectly. Blind as a bat, wants to wake up with sight, and needs Lasik so badly it hurts. I got glasses when I was seven and contacts when I was going into sixth grade (so I suppose I was... 11?). My mom told me that once I started my period I could get contacts. Annnnnnnd now I've said too much.
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Secret twins? I, too, desperately want Lasik; am, as you know, from 'bama; never studied in libraries in college because the silence would distract me WAY more than a bunch of noise; and am an introvert but almost always get mistaken for an extrovert. But if people who spelled my name wrong were dead to me, well, I'd have no friends.
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