Me, In Bullet Points

Hello friends! Happy Thursday. I was trying to think of fresh blog ideas, and I stumbled across a blog post titled "me, in bullet points," and that's my inspiration for today's post - Me, In Bullet Points. We have a few new members of asheycakes.com and some more newsletter subscribers, so I thought I'd re-introduce myself. Hopefully, this post isn't too repetitive.

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Me, In Bullet Points

• I'm Ash, but my full name is Ashleigh. I don't like being called Ashleigh. I'm not really a fan of my name, and I've always preferred Ash.

• I have no siblings, and often people say, "You don't seem like an only child." - I don't know if it's an insult or a compliment.

• I'm a Kiwi who lives in Melbourne! I live with my partner Luke, who's Australian.

• When I was little, I had so many different ideas for what I wanted to do with my life, and now I still don't know. Some examples are a model/actor, an SFX makeup artist, a detective, and a forensic psychologist. As an adult, I wanted to be a professor, but you need a PhD for that, and those are expensive.

• I'm turning 30 this year, shudder.

• I went to university at the University of Canterbury (UC) and I have an MA in Sociology (by research).

• I feel really behind in life and jealous of people who seem to have it together.

• I wanted to start doing content creation in high school, and I was talked out of it by others, and then I wanted to do it at university, but the same thing happened. I wish back then, I didn't care what people thought of me.

• I'd love to go to culinary school one day.

• I'm struggling with both my physical and mental health at the moment.

• Benji is my best friend (my dog). I love animals so much.

• Some days I struggle to leave the house. I get super bad anxiety, and other times I just feel unsafe in the neighbourhood we live in.

• I like how I look with makeup on, but it just takes a lot of effort to put it on.

• My guilty pleasures include Cosmopolitan magazines, reality TV like The Bachelor/Below Deck/Love Island, and also Freida McFadden novels, even though the last one I read really p*ssed me off.

• I used to memorise long words to sound smart, but I really just liked learning big, long words.

• I would never be able to give up cheese or chocolate.

• I used to play the guitar, but I couldn't do it anymore. I don't know what happened to my favourite guitar either. One day following the CHCH earthquakes, I found my guitar had been smashed. It didn't make sense to have broken in the earthquakes, but that's really the only logical explanation.

• When I was little, I went on the TV Show What Now in CHCH on Easter and I got SO much chocolate all over my face and nice t-shirt. It was embarrassing.

• In high school, I was very Tumblr savvy and had A LOT of followers. I should have kept it up, but I made a pen pal, and for that friendship, I'm very grateful.

• I'm terrified of ants and crabs.

• My comfort TV show is Parks and Recreation.

• When I was about 8, I got out of my dad's car and fell into the gutter. Literally, the grate wasn't on. I was stuck. Dad laughed at me, but I was terrified.

• My personality type is "INFP," aka a Mediator. I don't know how true that is though.

• I have a slipped disc (in my back). It usually doesn't bother me as long as I exercise.

• I'm not good with surprises. Once, I ruined my own surprise birthday party by asking too many questions.

• I am good at memorising birds. When my mum visited me in Melbourne, she asked me about all the birds, and I just had the answers. If I don't know, I tend to look it up. I also have lots of bird books, so that probably helps.

• I love photography.

What's a fun fact about you? Feel free to share in the comments below x

Thanks for reading

Ash x