Secret, secret, I gotta secret! DOMO! domo… DOMO! domo… HAHAHA GET THE REFERENCE?!?! No? ... Anyway, here are a few fun facts about me you probably didn’t know. Some aren’t “secrets” per say... but things that tend to slip through the conversational cracks. I have a black belt in Kenpo karate. KIIIIIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! That’s right so don’t get up in my GRILL son!!! What. What. Come at me. Technically I was a ‘Junior Shodan’ (junior black belt) since I wasn’t old enough to be a ‘normal adult voting rent-a-car’ black belt. This was back in 2000 so I was only 13. Kicking ass before I even had ball hair. Looking back on it, I had a ton of fun. Got to learn a bunch of sweet punch and kick combinations, takedowns, meditation techniques, stretches, weapon techniques (yes WEAPONS in MY hands lolol) all in the name of self-defense. I was pretty good with a bo-staff and could have been auditioning for Donatello if I stuck with it. I also got to use Kamas, and if you don’t know what those are google it. Now imagine me, a 13 year old, in a room full of adults swinging two of those around. #potentiallawsuit I have never seen a Harry Potter movie or read any of the books. Prequel Star Wars, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter: The big three of my generation. The ‘nerd triforce’ of early 2000’s barely-teens. The fact that I have never viewed a Harry Potter movie in its entirety or read any of the books may come as a complete shock to you. I mean damn ‘nerd’ is the first word in the title of my blog. VIC HOW COULD YOU!?!? YOU’RE A FRAUD!!! Nah, not really. I mean I know what it is. I’ll shout wingardium leviosa at a beer in the hopes that it magically floats from the fridge to my hand. I just never got into the series. So sue me. Actually don’t sue me. Nah screw it go ahead, I don’t have much. Waste of time for you in the long run. I had frosted tips for a solid stretch in high school. Aaaaaand guess what stretch of high school that was… senior yearbook photo time! YIPPEEE!!!! Look if N'Sync and Dawson’s Creek were hot in the streets while you were in high school you would have done the same thing. I was going to blame it on the football team making everyone bleach their hair blonde, but I didn’t play football senior year. Am I proud of it? Not really. Would I do it again? Yes, but for at least $500. Good news is it doesn’t look that bad in black and white, and my high school yearbook photo is the only evidence that exists. I think. I have a bachelor’s degree in Marine Biology. Yep, I actually paid several dollars to go to school for this. And it was AWESOME! Classes about sharks and squids, labs on the beach, trips to aquariums and field research on a boat in Buzzard’s Bay. Sure organic chemistry sucked donkey-dixxx and the ‘throw-away’ 101 classes were boring, but the rest of it kicked ass. This is actually a big reason I started working at the aquarium back in 2009. Couldn’t find a solid job right away so I picked up volunteer hours working with the penguins. Been doing it ever since! One day I’ll get a full-time gig doing something of the sort, but for now I’ll just continue throwing cancer cells around a room full of robots. I have a misspelled tattoo. Kinda.
So I have a “bro-tat” with a friend of mine, meaning we both having the same tattoo. “Bro” as in “brother/friend” and “tat” as in “tattoo” (sorry some people actually don't understand that). We decided the time was right and got the ink… at the same place, by the same guy, on the same day, literally one after the other. My friend went first and it turned out great. "Ok, cool! Looks siqqqqqqqqqqqqq. My turn!" The tattoo itself is an inside joke. It’s supposed to say “Landmine” with a little picture of a landmine underneath it. My friend’s tattoo says “Landmine”. What does mine say? 'ANDMINE' Artist kind of screwed the pooch yeah? Guess the ‘L’ grew legs and ran off. His response? “Whoops!” Now I say “kinda” misspelled because unless you knew someone else had the same tattoo that said “Landmine” you wouldn’t know the ‘L’ was missing on mine. “Andmine” kind of makes sense… it’s like “And Mine” without the proper spacing. We like to joke with one another… He got the correct tattoo, AND then there’s MINE! Haha see what I did there?!? At least I didn’t have to pay for it.
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