Weird, but I'm still one of those people who are glad for a birthday. As a kid, I never celebrated them in style, and as a teenager, I was mostly away from home on this blessed day of August 13th. I mean, what can be cooler than being born on the 13th? : p
This is my first birthday as a blogger and my second as a serious writer (as in my second since I started contributing heavily to CritiqueCircle.)
I'm turning 23. I'm not afraid to share my age (yet) because I'm still fairly a kid. Mind you, I think I'm mentally stuck at 19, so there's no reason to worry much. Especially since my maturity level has remained somewhere on this level:
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| No, I didn't buy the hat |
Unfortunately, I don't have a published book (YET!) or anything else to give away, though I'd love to. So instead of giving stuff away, I will give info away. As a present to all the people out there, I will answer any question and curiosity you might have regarding me, my work and everything related.
So, if you want to know what's my favorite food, or how I plan to end a pesky piece of writing work, this is when I'm going to answer O:) I know it's not better than a free book, but I hope that next year I'll be able to do that.
Here are my plans for this new year: Get into judge training, and if not, at least get a paid job, get published (I'm trying to pull that off by the end of this year), get engaged (that's more up to my boyfriend than me :p), write another very fast and readable book in November (have an idea cooking).
I hope I'll be able to tell you next year that all that stuff has come true. Fingers crossed!
So, this is it! Happy Birthday to me. And I hope that this year will be at least as good as the last one and maybe a little easier (being 22 was really hard!)
I'll just leave you with a few of my mishaps around the years. So you can laugh at me mostly.
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| Trying to kill my cousin - needless to say, I failed |
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| Yup, I like to climb on stuff - maturity level questionable |
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| Fortunately, I didn't get mauled by that bear |
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| Apparently, I have a thing for trying hats on |
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| No comment - I had just turned 18 here |
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| And this is me - balance challenged |
Steph
PS: don't ask things that are too embarrassing O :)
Hiya, Stef! You're right, being born on the 13th is the best. Especially in a month that starts with 'A'!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday, and I will think up a good birthday question to ask and post back later.
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Happy birthday! Here's my question: When you're not studying/writing/trying on hats, what are you usually doing? I wish you the best of luck with your yearly goals!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday!!! Hope you had a great one, young lady :)
ReplyDeleteThanks guys!
ReplyDeleteAnd to answer Lindsey's question: I do what all normal people do - waste my time in front of the TV, sometimes go out, but I think what I do most is plot in my head. I've written so much stuff in there, the harddrive is almost full :p
Belated Happy Birthday, Steph. I hope you had a great day!
ReplyDeleteI have a question for you - mainly because I never knew what I wanted to do when I was at school/college: what made you want to study law / become a judge? :)
Hi Coral!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the birthday wishes.
Hmmm... to answer your question - I've always been a bit of an honesty freak and very vehement about the rights and wrongs. So I actually wanted to go to the Police Academy - but my Mom wouldn't let me, so did the next best thing ;) Go to law school. I made up my mind when I was in the 11th grade (two years before starting college) and I went with that.
I'm not sure if I regret my decision, but my field of work, while interesting, is a lot more boring than I expected.