100 Things About Me

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My name is Melody

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I am a female

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I am 21 years old

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My birthday is in February

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I have an older brother but no sisters

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I live in southeast U.S.

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I have lived in three states

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I am a junior in college

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My major is Special Education

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I wish my major was English

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I don't have many friends

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I have been hospitalized four times since 1999

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I have never had a broken bone

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One time I was in the hospital with a collapsed lung (car accident)

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One time I was in the hospital because I tried to commit suicide

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Twice I was in the hospital to be treated for depression

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My father sexually abused me from a very early age till I was 17

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I ran away from home when I was 17

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I love the movie, "The Sixth Sense"

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"The Fisher King" is another movie I love

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Once, an entire church staff was ordered not to have anything to do with me

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My favorite color is purple, which is the color of healing

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I think Eeyore is cool

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I love to look at the sky

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I would like to visit more lighthouses... I take pictures of them

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My mother has called me "crazy" more than once, and she wasn't kidding

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My best friend has suggested that I may be bipolar

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I made all A's in high school... until I was a senior

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I graduated from high school even though I missed 3 months out of my senior year

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I tend to lose friends very easily

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If I could do anything with my life, I would probably write novels and be a children's advocate

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I have no idea why I chose to be a teacher

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I am a Christian

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I grew up going to a Southern Baptist Church, but I'm very nondenominational now

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I am very bitter towards my parents, unfortunately

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I go to therapy once a week

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I go to an incest survivor's group once a week

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My favorite phrase in high school was "El ciesto cayendo"

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I have major eating problems

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I have no desire to get married and have children

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In my classes, I read about children who self-mutilate... and I think of the scars on my own arms

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I have so many diaries and journals that I've lost count

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When I ranaway from home, my mom read through all of my diaries and journals, except the ones I had saved on disks with passwords

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Both of my grandfathers are deceased. Both of my grandmothers are still alive

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My mother thinks my father is the best thing that ever happened to me

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I love to learn, but I hate school

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I am horrible with people

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I was in the newspaper club in high school for two years

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I am usually asleep by 1 am.

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I love to sleep late.

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Sports is not my forte. I don't like the competition because I don't meet the standards

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If I could have anything I wanted, I wouldn't care about money

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Once I had a dream of living on the beach and telling ppl about God

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When I was in high school, I wanted to live in New York

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Until 2002, I had never been to New York

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My Sunday school teacher's husband committed suicide when I was in 4th grade

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One of my friend's from church died at Burger King from a food allergy at age 16

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My favorite professor at my college died in 2002

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I have always liked smiley face icons... now that I think about it, I don't know why

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I can take five minute showers... or one hour baths

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I have a fear of jelly fish

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I used to have a fear of bees until I was stung by an entire hive.... after that, I was fine

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#62 involved spending several hours in a doctor's office trying to stay conscious

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I got "married" in fourth grade... during recess

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I HATE dressing up:I can't stand wearing dresses, skirts or uncomfortable shoes.

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If I could make any food calorie free, fat free, sugar free, and sodium free without changing the taste... I would choose chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.

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If I could have a second choice from the above food, I would choose lasagna.

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My first pet was a Beta fish

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My second pet was a hamster... he is still alive!

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I love to read novels about people who have been through experiences like me... I also love to read high action and horror novels

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I love to write.... I have written tons of short stories and poems, and even a few novels. Some of my poems have been published but to tell the truth, I haven't kept track of which ones...

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Some people say I am a perfectionist... and a workaholic

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I like to have control over my body

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I love to watch young children laugh

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Nature tends to bring me peace

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I wish that I could have a closer relationship with God

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It's hard to see myself after I graduate from college

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Learning new things comes fairly easy for me

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I was third in my high school class until I moved.

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I have learned that grades don't mean anything.

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I used to sing in performances and was top in my class in playing the clarinet... now I don't do either

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I was in I.C.U. for four days and was released without being put in a regular room

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A boy in my high school class had a brain tumor

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One of my best friends wrote me a suicide note when she was in seventh grade

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I was in eighth grade the first time I seriously wanted to kill myself

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I have always wanted to learn how to dance

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I used to think that there were demons in my room at night ... now, I realize the shadows I saw were probably from my father

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I have pushed many, many people away from me because I was afraid that someone might care too much

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Sometimes I think that love is bad, because it always means getting hurt

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I do not trust anyone completely, not even myself

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Most people I see on a regular basis do not know my name

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I can't stand to be in large crowds

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I am not scared to walk down a city street at night alone

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I've been a computer addict since I was in middle school

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I have a hard time saying "no"

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I say and do very random things, sometimes

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I have an odd sense of humor and am often sarcastic

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I like to shock people

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If someone dares me to do something, I will usually do it

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There are a lot more than 100 things I could say about myself, but I'm sure I have bored the world... so I will quit.