I was born on August 2, 1981 when ym parents still lived in Indianapolis, but I was actually born in Noblesville, where I grew up. For the first eight months of my life we lived in an old town house in a BAD neighborhood in Indy...you know, the kind where you're lucky if you house doesn't get broken into. Anyway, I still have vague memories of that place, nothing too specific though.

I grew up in a town jsut North of Indy called Noblesville. It's a pretty nice town. There's not a lot to do, but it's a good place to live and it's just close enough to Indy so that you can go there whenever you want without making a big ordeal of a trip to go there.  I had the smallest room in out house...like, seriously, my room was as wide as my bed was long. We always had pets around, too. 

The first dog we ever had was named Sheba, but I was a little baby and dont remember her at all, but apparently we used to ride on her back.   Then mom got a smaller dog named Muffin who HATED me most of her life for some reason. I have no idea why, but she would always growl at me and snap at me if I got too close. When she got old she finally warmed up to me and would let me pet her and sit in my lab, but that was pretty close to the time we had her put to sleep. We had several birds at different times. We had a couple of rabbits that were kept outside in a hut. We got a poodle named Brandy at one point when we still had Muffin, but they fought since they were both females, so we had to get rid of Brandy. She was the best dog, always playing with me and my sister and chasing us. Muffin got to stay since she was the older one.  One year for my birthday i got my OWN dog, a black lab that I named Midnight. He was the most adorable dog in the whole world! I had him for 12 years before we had to have him put to sleep since he would not eat or drink for some unknown reason....I guess maybe he jsut knew it was his time to go, i have no idea. I miss him SOOOOOOO much.  Mom got another dog at one point named Cookie, she's a good dog, but not so bright sometimes. At the same time we got Midnight we got a black and white Cat named Oreo, who was  a demon cat most of his life, but has turned lovey dovey in his old age. We also got   another cat named Prissy, who really became my cat since she adores me. She's a beautiful calico.  I bought a pet tortoise once, too, which I named Horton. He was a Leopard Tortoise and was sick when we got him and wouldn;t eat, so we had him force fed, but once when we took him to the vet ad picked him up later we found him injured beyond repair because the vet didnt know how to handle him, apparently. They showed us...his skin was separated from his shell on his hind quarters. They actually had the nerve to accuse US of cutting him open with a knife.  Well...needles to say, that injury would not heal so we had him put to sleep....so...they basically murdered him.  We've also had numerous veiled chameleons.  Currently here at school I have 2 pet rats which i adopted from Petsmart. They were giving them away to someone who wanted them....they're full grown, but still very cute and full of personality. I think they are gay lovers, so I named them Danny and Paul...which is a Real World New orleans reference. lol Yeah, I'm lame. FINALLY, David, my roommate, has an all white cat named Kitty....he's cute and dumb...and even though he's not mine, I still love him tons.

I didn't have the best time growing up at school. My home life was great, but school was not so fun. Lets just say i was far from popular...and   a very easy target for bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, religious harassment, and not exactly violence, but severe hostility.  So....that's not good for ones mental well being and self esteem. It caused me to fall into a deep depression for many years...and have very low self esteem.  Things got better once I graduated and left the Noblesville school system and started school at Ball State where I found more accepting people to be around who sincerely liked being around me. That helped me out a lot, and coming out was a huge weight lifted off of my shoulders. Being around gay people really made me feel like I finally belonged for once in my life.