101 things about me

101 things about me

1.       When I get my nails done I like to press down  on something to feel the pressure

2.       I have 7 siblings

3.       2 of them are twins that my father cheated on my mother when I was a baby and had.

4.       I used to go to church every Sunday

5.       I love hair

6.       I have an obsession with nicki minaj

7.       I love hello kitty

8.       Im a girly girl

9.       My best friend in the whole world is savanna weirner and kim summey

10.   My birthday is may 14^th

11.   I secretly wish I was born in the 90’s

12.   Im obsessed with notorious b.i.g

13.   I work at mcdonalds

14.   My favorite color is purple

15.   Ive tralevedl over America with my grandparents

16.   I went to Ireland in 5^th grade

17.   Im irish

18.   My grandmas  mother was born and raised in Ireland

19.   Banks was my grandma on my dads side maiden name

20.   I never met my grandpa on that side

21.   I was in love with javen miller

22.   He broke my heart

23.   We broke up 4 weeks ago

24.   My dad was an athletic star

25.   Could have been famous

26.   Sometime I feel like im nothing

27.   Sometimes I feel invincible

28.   When I was younger and use to cook in the kitchen iwould pretend I was on a cooking show

29.   Im a bratt

30.   I love gay people

31.   Im very proud of BOTH sides of my herattiage

32.   But I don’t allow them to define me

33.   I love glasses

34.   I have a fetish for guys with dreads

35.   Javen had dreads

36.   Javen was sexy

37.   I used to have long curly hair

38.   Black women used to glare at me and my mom when I was little

39.   They still do

40.   I love Katie and maynard

41.    Mrs.fraser is my favorite teacher

42.   I miss my iphone

43.   I was in foster care when I was 4

44.   I have big goals in life

45.   I love fettichini alfredo

46.   Im naming my daughter Rya Taylor.

47.   My sisters are my world

48.   My dad died 2 years ago from a heartattack

49.   Time dosent exisit in my head

50.   I love clothes

51.   My biggest fashion influence on my life is kim kardashian

52.   Im getting surgery to make my butt bigger when im rich

53.   I secretly want to marry I really smart mixed guy

54.   I love being an aunt

55.   I hate flare jeans

56.   I hate the color orange

57.   I also hate eating oranges

58.   I wish I was short

59.   I hate school

60.   99% of the time at school I don’t pay attention

61.   I tend to be selfish at times

62.   I love sweet tea

63.   I fractured my arm in 6^th grade at my best friends roller skating party

64.   When I was little I used to wish my mom was black

65.   I need to hair extensions

66.    I hate kylie jenner

67.    But then I love her

68.   I shaved the side of my head two summers ago

69.   Sometimes I regret doing it

70.   I love crop tops

71.   I love thick women

72.   NO, im not gay

73.   Im straight

74.   I like septum piercing

75.   I want to get the other side of my nose pierced

76.   Asians scare me

77.   I’m not raciest

78.   At 15 I smoked weed for the first time

79.   I hate Hollister

80.   And ameican eagle

81.   They are way to cliché stores, and there basic

82.   I wanna live in new york

83.   I want to open my own hair salon some day

84.   I will have my own white matte range rover by the age of 30

85.   And it will happen

86.   Im already in the process of saving for it

87.   I think the little Kleenex packets are so adorable

88.    I love big purses

89.   I hate small purses

90.   I have a fascination with the history of the world

91.   I love star trek

92.   I want to go to outer space

93.   I think I’m an astronaut sometimes

94.   When I was little I used to put a grocery bag on my back and jump off my bed trying to fly

95.   Last year I had a thing with a black guy from France he was perfect.

96.   I love flannel shirts

97.    Sometimes being disobedient makes me happy

98.   All the time it does

99.   I wish my parents had worked out there problems and stayed married and we could have had a normal family

100.                        When I was little I thought I was a princess

101.                        I still do.

on turning 18... 10 was to long ago

On turning 18

So far away

But so close at the same time

The number promises us freedom

At least we think it does

But along with freedom comes responsibility

Now I sound like an adult

But it’s true

We wish for it for 17 years

And then when it’s here we only want half of it

Maybe only ¼ of it actually

But once it’s here it’s here to stay.

Food for thought

I love food, my grandma had 6 kids 4 girls and two boys, she could cook and so can ALL her kids, they all have a different style of cooking but all of them are very talented, one of my aunts actually owned her own restaurant in Portland Oregon for a little while. My grandma raised me so I always had a three large meals a day, every day. My grandpa loved her cooking, I remember always looking forward to coming home from school because I was always excited for dinner, and we ate at about 5 every evening. My grandma cooked more traditional food, comfort food I guess you could say, none of it was healthy though. My mom has a different style of cooking she is more into using spicy seasonings, and vegetables. My meal I remember the most my grandma cooking, was roast beef potatoes and carrots, shed put the roast in the oven while we were at church on Sundays so when we came home you could smell it as soon as you opened the door. She’d always cook all of it in one pan and there was broth that she would drizzle over the top. She made green beans and we always had applesauce to go with it. My favorite food personally is fettuccini Alfredo, I’ve always loved Italian food, and it’s so good to me. Fettuccini with grilled chicken in it hits the spot. And some garlic bread to go with it, PERFECTION. I like it so much that last year on Christmas my mom cooked it just for me. My favorite dessert would probably have to be cheesecake, any kind of cheesecake, whether it’s really chocolaty and rich or just plain cheesecake it’s delicious and I could eat it every day for the rest of my life :)

Photograph

This is Dre Allen

My baby, my little piece of Allen Banks himself

His big brown eyes that remind me of my own staring up at me

Looking at me like he’s not used to being around me

But he knows who I am

And his chubby finger reaching out to touch my nose

This is me looking down at him smiling

Seeing so much of my father, myself and my sister in his looks

Thinking of all the things I’ve missed so far in his life

And how fast he has grown up

Remembering the first time I held him in my arms at the hospital

How tiny and pale he was,

Freaked out by how much I already loved him

Like he was my own…

This is unconditional love

This is the outcome of the most treasured people in my life

This is Auntie Love

Forever

From the beginning till the end

Always.

Halloween spirit

My favorite Halloween was when I was in kindergarten and I got to dress up as a angel, I was so excited and I felt so pretty with my fancy halo and my white robe and sparkly wings, every year in grade school we had a Halloween party and got to dress up, and this was my first year of course and I thought I was just the best dressed one there. The best costume I ever wore would probably be my eighth grade year when I was Lil Wayne, I wore skinny jeans I sagged them with my boxers hanging out, a hoodie a snapback and vans on. I had a wig that was dreads, and I silver grill, I also use eyeliner to draw on the tattoos he had on his face, I literally looked like the light skin version of him. It was perfect and everyone loved it. All the things I’ve ever dressed up as in the past is, and angel, little bow peep, Minnie mouse, a hippie, a cheerleader, little bow peep, a cat, pumpkin, go-go girl, Lil Wayne, and a roman goddess. The first one I ever was a cat when I was 3 my mom dressed me up as one, the last one was a roman goddess my freshman year I basically had a white sheet around me with roman sandals and a roman head thing, it was pretty basic but it worked.  One thing I’ve always wanted to be is a ghost, it’s so cliché and that’s why I want to do it, I want to take a white sheet cut two holes in it for the eyes and wear it over my head, it would be so perfect. This year I’m going to be Minnie mouse AGAIN it will be a little bit different than when I was her in second grade, I’m so excited. I was contemplating being a mermaid but I decided Minnie was way cuter. I’m going to wear a red skirt, black shirt and mouse ears, my boyfriend is going to mickey, he is going to wear red skinny jeans and a black shirt with mickey ears he isn’t to excited about that but I think it will be really cute at least I’m not making him wear a tail, it could be worse. Last year my sister dressed my nephews as woody and buzz light year and it was so cute, I love when parents dress up their babies!

Scare tactics

I was sleeping peacefully, I thought I was dreaming actually, I felt a tingly feeling in my feet, almost as if someone was lightly scratching their nails on my toes, I felt hair swiftly move over them, at that moment I realized my bed was slowly sinking deeper at the end, as if someone was climbing on to it, my eyes shot open and I lay there as still as a soul, because my eyes were open and I still felt the indent I felt the hair, I didn’t dare look down I could not move. Someone or something was at the end of my bed, I was frozen I didn’t know what to do, whatever it was I’m sure it could hear my heart beating about 100 miles per hour. I just happened to look to the right into the mirror a little beam of light was shining in from my window right to the end of my bed, and I saw her, or it, in the reflection. I wasn’t really sure what to make of it, it was a pale white women she looked deathly sick with black surrounding her eyes, and long black hair that was touching me. she looked like she could have once been beautiful… when she was alive. As my eyes cast downward to see the rest of her body, I was frightened by what I saw, at the start of her hips where her legs should have been was replaced with a fish tail, the scales were black and it was horrifying she was awkwardly slanted on my bed, and then all of sudden my stomach growled as loud as it possibly could have and she was alerted. I wasn’t sure if she could see my face or new if I was asleep or not I couldn’t take my eyes of the mirror never in my life had I been so scared. She turned her head, and stared into the mirror as if she could see me looking at her, she said” hello Derek”. “You probably don’t remember me. I used to watch you when you were a little boy before your father took my home from me and built you a house”.  I was so confused, when I was a young boy my father bought the land I live on, there was a pond, but he had it drained out and built my house right on top of where it had been, he was a wealthy man, he had to much money and didn’t know what to do with it. He had been so proud of it. I replied to her, hesitant as to what I should say, “I don’t know who you are”. She said, “Well I was once a beautiful mermaid who lived happily in a beautiful pond, with my sister. When you were younger you used to come and swim in it and I would watch you play, my name is Galena. And everything I had and was is gone now, it died along with me when your father dried out my pond. He saw my dead body. He saw me dry out into nothing but bones because I had no water, he did nothing, simply had me covered with dirt so that he could build this house over me, I’ve come back to return the favor”. I didn’t know what to say I was speechless and wished this was some twisted nightmare I could wake up from but I didn’t and all of the sudden I couldn’t breathe and water filled my lungs, but my body wasn’t wet, and nothing around me was either. And then I was...gone

keepin it real

3. Would you ever want to right for a newspaper?

 I think it might be fun to write for a newspaper, I would want to write a gossip column so I could gossip about the latest things. I would also like writing an opinion column that way I could put my opinion into it. I took journalism last year and I was disappointed because I thought we would be able to put our feelings in our writing and you can’t, it’s not about what you think, and that’s my favorite part is inserting my own little touch of emotion.                                                                                         

17. What’s your perfect day?

 My perfect day consist of no arguing with my mom, not having to work and either going shopping or sleeping or hanging out with my friends. Sleeping is one of my favorite things to do, and so is shopping. I love going to the mall and just looking around at what they have. Getting my nails would problem finish off that perfect day.

7. Can you fall in love with someone in three days?

I feel like you cant truly fall in love with someone in three days, I think you can fall in love with the idea of them, but you don’t really love them, three days doesn’t give you time to really really know them, I know that I can have different moods and act different ways in three days so your really only getting to see one real side of them, and might not even be real, fall in love with the idea of them then give it some time and fall in love with them completely.