What you should know if we’re going to be friends forever

I’m linking up with Little Miss Momma for “Things you should know about me if we are going to be friends forever”.  It’s actually supposed to be “bff’s” instead of “friends forever”, but I think friends forever is more appropriate because how many bff’s can one actually have and still use the word best?

So with that….I guess I should start out with I’m blunt.  If I think something doesn’t make sense or is dumb, I’ll say it.  I’m not rude though (usually) – I will bite my tongue if I think it’s going to hurt someone’s feelings.  I do tend to offer other suggestions/solutions even if not asked and I know that can annoy people.

My normal face is a poker face and I can’t help it.  This has led many people over the years to assume I’m a bitch – and once we became friends they admitted they thought I was.  My old supervisor wasn’t so fond of my face though and actually put as a negative on my performance review that “sometimes Val displays less than a positive attitude”.  When I asked her to explain it, she couldn’t.  Finally she said that I’m just hard to read.  I told her that she doesn’t need to “read me” because if I have something to say, I’ll say it.  She agreed with that and I made her take that comment off because it sounds fairly terrible and I’ve never been given anything other than glowing reviews.

See – this is my standard bitch face.  I was taking pictures of dresses I was trying on to show to my friend and didn’t realize that my face looked the same in every single picture.  I look like I’m super annoyed by the cassette tape that I’m holding (but it’s actually my cell case).  I zoomed in so you could see just how friendly I look.  Doesn’t this just make you want to be my friend?!

I’m the youngest of 6 girls.  I know, I know – my poor dad.  Big deal – we were athletes so he didn’t have it so bad.

I’m like a baby in the car.  I can sleep pretty much any time.  Luckily, Lo almost always drives and we ride to work together.

My dreams are crazy vivid and real – I can remember details, color, dialogue – everything.  That makes it hard to figure out if something really happened, or if I just dreamed it.  Sometimes I’m not even in the dream, I’m just watching it like a movie.

I mostly only drink water on a daily basis.  I like coffee but don’t always drink it.  I love iced tea, but hate it if it’s sweetened and will spit it out.  I don’t make it often, so I usually only have it if we go out to eat and I’m not drinking booze.

I think Burger King (and almost all fast food) is gross, but the BK iced tea tastes like roses, which is somehow good.  I still only get it about twice a year bc I can’t justify going to BK for it.  When I could eat gluten, I did like the breakfast though.

McDonald’s ruined it’s Shamrock Shakes when they switched to that McCafe shit.  Ruined!

I’ve had 3 confirmed concussions in my life and at least one unconfirmed.  The confirmed ones were all sports-related. The last unconfirmed was when I wrecked a glider chair (I was not drunk!) and I hit my head on a metal barstool in our dining room.

I love volleyball and have played competitively since I was in 7^th grade.  I had a spot on my college’s team, but a high school senior year rotator cuff tear that wouldn’t heal (because they refused to do surgery) prevented that and I couldn’t get clearance to play.  Aholes.  I’ve slowed down with how much I played since my elbow tendon tear healed a year ago, and I’m sure once we have kids, it will grind to a stop.  I’ve met some of the greatest friends through volleyball in my city, so I’m forever grateful for that.

Teen Wolf is my favorite movie ever, even though I now see how cheesy it is.  My sister and I used to watch our taped from tv version in middle school all the time and we still recite lines to each other.  I have some of the soundtrack on my phone and our dog’s name is Boof (it was actually Lo’s idea though).

I’m not a cat person, but I don’t dislike cats.  We always had them growing up and I loved them, and I will pet cats, but I don’t like how you never know if they are going to let you hold them or pet them.  They’re just too finicky and unpredictable for me.  Hawaii is full of feral cats and they freaked me out on our trips.

I used to be certified in restraint technique for kids and teenagers when I worked in a residential facility.  And that certification was used on an almost daily basis.

Cheese and fresh blueberries are my favorite things to eat.  Not together.

I only blowdry my hair about once a month.  It looks exactly the same regardless.

That’s all – what kind of random stuff should I know about you!