i can haz burfdai?

Twenty eight years ago today, my dear mom, Cindy Marie, squoze me out, into the world, to change the world forever. Who knew after one last Lamaze breath and a push at doctor’s Hospital in Augusta, Georgia, the world could be so totally boss?

My dad wanted a boy. I was going to be Dallas Ryan, named after his favorite football team, the Dallas Cowboys. He had stocked up on little footballs and other boy stuff, despite my mom’s un-encouragement. Little did he know that that little 6 pound, 6 ounce, 19 inch bundle of slimy goodness would change his life forever in a way that a little boy wouldn’t.

But alas, I had a va-jay-jay.  I was going to be Jennifer Ashleigh, but my mom realized that everyone in America was naming their kid Jennifer at the time, so with the coercing of my grandma, I turned out to be Ashleigh Nicholle.  They saw it in the newspaper about a week before I was born, and that seemed like a good enough reason to give me such a consonant-intensive name.

I wasn’t so healthy when I popped out…I had a heart murmur (until I was 12) and had to stay in the hospital for a little while. I like to think it was because the outside world wasn’t ready for my awewsomeness yet. The doctors had different reasons. Whatever. Details are stupid.

Almost 3 decades later, I am here to rock your worlds, make fun of the world and hopefully make it a slightly sunshinier place. i hope I have made the best of my last 28 years and I hope to do even bigger and better things in the next 28.

Fun Trivia: Other (less) important things that happened on July 10th:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_10