On a cold morning in October my parents were blessed with the most beautiful baby girl the world has ever seen. I was born on October 25, 1984 at 11:51AM at Medical City in Dallas, Texas. My mother went in to the hospital early because she couldn’t feel me move and was afraid that something had happened to me. Apparently I was just taking a nap, and at 9AM she called my dad to let him know that I was on my way. 48 hours later, my parents brought me home. My grandmother wanted me to be named Kelly but my parents told her that was ridiculous and named me Lindsey instead. My first room was decorated with clowns which explains my deep psychological fear of them. Everyone in the family was so excited that they now had a baby girl to play dress up with and to buy Barbies for. My first Halloween I was dressed as a pumpkin “because of my big fat chubby cheeks.” (My mother) As I began to develop my personality, they opted for the devil on my second Halloween.
I have two siblings, an older brother and a younger sister. My mother had a son from her previous marriage. My brother, Chad, is 12 years older than I am. More than a brother, he has always been more of a father figure to me. He took care of me as a baby when my parents worked, and we spent plenty of time together. When I was four years old, one of our favorite activities was listening to the tape of Les Miserable and acting it out with Barbies. The day I started kindergarten was also the year that my brother graduated from high school. When I turned 5, my brother left for college and it was very traumatic for me. In 1995, Chad married Cathy my sister-in-law. I was so fortunate to have a best friend and a new sister. I have two nephews, Cameron who is 7 and Cooper who is 2. I am their favorite aunt, but don’t tell my sister I said that.
In 1986, my parents finally decided to make me a play mate, Ashley, who became my little baby doll. As she grew up, my parents began to notice that she wasn’t speaking. They took her to many doctors who said she was mentally challenged. They decided to get a second opinion and it was discovered that she was hearing impaired. My parents took her to a speech pathologist and bought her a pair of hearing aids. The first day she wore them as a two year old, she took them off and hid them behind the toilet. She loves to tell her friends that she was retarded as a child. She used to be a tomboy, but sometime during high school she became a prissy girl. She graduated from Texas Tech with a major in Human Development and Family Studies with a minor in American Sign Language.
I attended Canyon Creek Christian Academy in Richardson, Texas. I stayed at the same school from kindergarten to high school. In my kindergarten graduation program I was typecast as Lucy from The Peanuts. Everyone said it was fitting and my performance was superb. My mother worked at my school so I could very well get away with anything. I was a cheerleader from junior high until my junior year when I decided that it was boring and joined the golf team. I spent my junior and senior year playing golf every single day. We won state both years. One tournament I hit a golf ball that sliced and landed in a pond. I got so angry I accidentally slammed my three wood on a rock and sent sparks flying. It was an accident, I meant to slam in into the ground, not to make fire.
My freshman year of college I attended Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. I spent one year there and loved every minute of it, but decided to further my education at Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi. I stayed there for one year, but the economy was so terrible I decided I didn’t want to be poor anymore and moved back to Dallas. I worked at an insurance broker’s office that sold medical insurance for 3 years.
While living in Dallas, I moved into “the commune.” Jess, my best friend from kindergarten, and I decided to move into a quadplex with a few of our friends. We shared joint custody of an evil cat we found in our stairwell. He howled for 3 days while hiding under that couch. We happened to be suckers for evil males, so we kept him and named him Lucifer Prince of Darkness. He actually lives with me now. I woke up last week to have him sitting over me with his face 5 inches from mine just staring. I couldn’t figure out if he just enjoys watching me sleep or if he’s actually plotting ways to kill me.
We had community meals most nights and spent most evenings drinking wine/beer/whatever on the porch while discussing various things but mostly politics. My favorite politician is Vice President Joe Biden. I’ve loved him since he stated that he was going to run for president several years ago. My friend Luke (also a commune member) declared the day Obama chose Biden to be his VP as “Biden day.” While commune living was great, I got restless and tired of the mundane every day life. I decided to go back to school and finish my education. The rest is history. Well maybe not history, the future would be more appropriate.
