#shortgirlfortysomething

[myprettypurplecrush]

shortgirlfortysomething is my valentines crush. She is amazingly gorgeous and sexy as hell. She is without a doubt the hottest cracker a starving man could desire.

[myprettypurplecrush]

shortgirlfortysomething is so very adorable. Someone should probably tell her that.

[kevin-for-what-ails-ya]

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Your nickname is "Left Turn from Albuquerque."

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fuckthefuckofffucker likes this

Your nickname is "Soap-mouth."

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pandoranora likes this

Your nickname is "Non-Kansas."

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shortgirlfortysomething likes this

Your nickname is "Sexy Mogwai."

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Your nickname is "Blondfrapp."

[kevin-for-what-ails-ya]

shortgirlfortysomething replied to your post: I remembered to take a pic of...

What kind of cheese?

For a proper diner-style grilled cheese, it's gotta be American. I'm sorry. It just does. However, sometimes I use havarti and that's good stuff, too.

[symphony-in-g]

Hey girl, hey! Happy Birthday! I hope all of your wishes come true! xo

Hahaha! Hell, I'd be happy if just one of them came true. ;) Love ya sweetheart! Hope you have an awesome evening. xo -gail

[whiteelephantintheroom]

Southern Hospitality in Charleston?

Fourth week of October will find me visiting Laurie in South Carolina.

With a wing and a pineapple-shaped prayer, it could find me reading from “Heart-Shaped Memoir” at Blue Bicycle Books downtown.

If you’d attend an evening reading on Oct. 24th, will you do one of these things?

Like Blue Bicycle’s Facebook page and tell their Wall you’ll come to Tré’s #heartshapedmemoir reading on the 24th?

Follow/Tweet @BlueBikeBooks about #heartshapedmemoir and @tremillernyc?

Reblog this for your Charleston friends?

Got 72 hours to prove strong attendance to the bookstore and just like every milestone this year, nothing happens without Tumblr. With your signal boost, I’ll be hugging all the Charleston faces six weeks from now—and co-reading a certain adoption story along with Laurie Rae.

UPDATE: Charleston bookstore is booked through 2013. This trip, I’ll be hanging out with Laurie without an army of pre-event butterflies hijacking my stomach. Bring on the beach.

[colorado-wildflowers]

I give you the age of 17.

At 17, it was 2007 and I…

I lived: at home, with my parents. Drew, my best friend Maria, and I had grand plans of moving out and living together in a two bedroom apartment. I was making about $6.50 an hour (a whole dollar above minimum wage!) and I had literally no idea what paying bills besides my phone and car was going to be like. It was cute and naive. We didn’t move out together (I wouldn’t move out for 2 more years), but we worked it all out and made adorable spreadsheets to see if we could afford to make it work.

School: I dropped out of high school the year prior. I got my GED the summer I was 17 with the rest of my class (class of 07!) and started community college in the fall. I started kindergarten on my birthday so I was always young for my grade. I took English 101, Horticulture, Psychology 101, and Anthropology 101. Drew was in English and Anthropology with me. I got 3 A’s, and failed Horticulture. The only class I would ever fail. I stopped going when I was diagnosed with my heart problem and started on beta blockers. I was too tired to have class 6:30-9:30pm 45 minutes away from home, and I didn’t know you could withdraw from classes. (This kept me from having a GPA high enough to get an honors tassel by 0.01 points and I’m still bitter about it.)

I drove: a 2002 blue saturn SL2. I loved this car and I crashed into stuff all the time. Curbs, street signs, fire hydrants, etc. I learned to drive in it, and I drove it without a license way too much. I crashed it for real into a parked car a year later and bought myself a 2005 silver Saturn ION. I have since learned how to drive (and now drive a 2008 Toyota Prius).

Work: I worked at Pei Wei Asian Diner the first half of the year. My first ever job. I had worked there for almost 2 years (and was a Pei Wei “original” as I worked at the store when it first opened in 2005), and quit in the summer of 2007 to go work at my mom’s business after her office manager of 5+ years quit. I would work for my mom as her secretary at her therapy business for 4 years, until I graduated college and became a nanny.

Who had my heart: Drew! We met in the summer and started dating in November of 2006. We met when I worked at Pei Wei and he worked next door at Rite Aid in the photo lab. He was my first and only ever boyfriend.

What I did: Worked part time and went to college full-time, went to a LOT of concerts, went to Bonnaroo, All Good and Camp Bisco music festival, started to really get into The Disco Biscuits, traveled to Camden, New Jersey for New Years Eve, had my first grown-up getaway in a hotel (with Drew and Maria), spent so much time in Drew’s parents newly bought Ocean City condo, was diagnosed with my heart problem, quit smoking cigarettes for an entire year, and was hospitalized twice.

Leave a comment if you want me to give you a year to write about. :)