GenPink

[Update: Nablopomo did not end up happening for me but the ABCs were finally launched in March (nothing slow about me!)]

Today marks day 1 of November which also means the beginning of NaBloPoMo - National Blog Posting Month. I will be posting every day for the month of November. I decided that I wanted to have a theme to make my postings tie together.

Since GenPink is about being a twenty something woman I decided my theme would be the ABCs of life in your twenties. To get things started today I’m going to do the ABCs of me. I got this idea from Courtney. This will give you a little background for my upcoming posts.

• a: Athletic - a word that should never be used in a sentence with my name. I am the most unathletic person ever. I don’t even know how to ride a bike, yep you read that right I never learned.
• b: Blog - I started this blog out of curiosity and now I love it. Blogging is a great resource for connecting with the world.
• c: Camera - I love taking pictures. I also love photoshopping pictures. Every picture that is ever put up by me has been doctored in some way or another.
• d: Design - I am a designer. I tell people I "make stuff pretty" for a living. Sometimes ugly designs drive me batty. Like ugly restaurant menus don’t get me started.
• e: Elysa - that’s my name. My mom saw it on a purple billboard when she was riding a motorcycle in Paris when she was in her twenties. The question is, do you know how to say it …
  eh (as in Elizabeth) Lisa - got it? just like Lisa with an E ok!
• f: Food - Love it! I eat all the time. I usually eat about every 2 or 3 hours. I would have a lot more money if I wasn’t hungry all the time.
• g: Girls - I love my girls. I have so many girl friends its a bit overwhelming. I was recently accused of being a lesbian because of how many pictures I have of myself with different girls. Rest assured I promise I am not, I just have great friends.
• h: Helpful - I love being helpful. I have always been a caretaker type. I try to find ways that I can help out when my friends are in need.
• i: Imaginative - I have always been kind of a dreamer/inventor type. I’m glad that has manifested into a career that allows me to be imaginative.
• j: Joyful - I am joyful most of the time. I think that life is too short to spend time unhappy. Life is Now!
• k: Knowledgeable - Yeah I know stuff! Actually I really am an intellectual type. I make quirky, silly comments a lot on this blog just for fun but I was always considered the smart kid in class. AND I’m a blonde, so ha!
• l: Loving - I am pretty loving, not as much as others. I am working on that.
• m: Michelle - that’s my middle name. My stepmom is named Lesa (pronounced Lisa) so at my dad’s house it gets too confusing if I go by my first name. I have been called many variations of the name Michelle - Mikey seems the be the one that stuck. That’s Mikey, as in "Mikey likes it" not MiCKey as in Mickey mouse.
• n: Nerd - I am a big nerd. I am a blonde computer nerd. Actually I’m a Mac loving nerd I DO NOT like PCs.
• o: Observant - I am very observant and I love to be an observer. I love watching and analyzing people. I have fun trying to figure people out.
• p: Pink - love it! I am the ultimate girlie girl. I love clothes and shoes and purses. They just don’t love my bank account.
• q: Quotes - I absolutely love great quotes. In college I had my whole closet door covered in post it notes with fun quotes on them. I added some of my favorite random quotes on the side bar. Right now I have this quote in my wallet …
  

  Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. - Shaquille O’Neal

• r: Reserved - I am pretty reserved when I first meet people. The shyness wears off after I get to know someone but sometimes that takes a while.
• s: Singing - most people don’t know that I am a singer. I absolutely love music. I have been singing on stage since I was 5 years old. My biggest solo performance was in front of 1,500 people. My most prestigious was singing with my high school choir at Carnegie Hall in December of 1999.
• t: Tristan - I have a half brother who is the coolest, we are 14 years different in age but he is almost as tall as me. That could be because my our dad is 6′5".
• u: Unique - I love learning about people’s uniquenessessess. One of mine is I make up words.
• v: Visionary - I am a visionary. I love to make plans and goals for the future.
• w: Wine - I love me some wine, mostly red, mostly Cab but really I love wine.
• x: X-height - I am a graphic designer so I know weird words like that and I use them in everyday conversation. In case you were wondering what x-height means - check here.
• y: Yesterday - I try not to live in the past. I believe that everything happens for a reason so I don’t see a point in dwelling on yesterday. I do however, love the song Yesterday.
• z: Zodiac - I am an Aquarius. What are you? Oh and my first dorm room was decorated in Zebra print.

How ’bout you pick a letter and tell me something random about you.

I’m off to design a new blog theme since it is no longer October.