No I'm not. Thank you Aqua for that one-hit-wonder to show how much I am not a Barbie girl, never was and never will be. Recently, I've been thinking about how much of a tom-boy I've always been. It amazes me really to think back through my whole life and see that today I'm actually the most girly I've ever been right now, crazy right?
I mean when I was younger me, my brother, my neighbor Ian, and another kid who lived a street behind us, Tim, would all hang out. We would play video games, watch action movies, and even set up our own war zones in Tim's basement. Then came high school, when I started to date, not that it mattered much to acting more like a girl though. I hung out with my boyfriend Zach and all of his close guy friends- Ryan, Tim, Kenny, Micky. We would watch Ninja Warrior, play bags outside, play WOW (or World of Warcraft for those who don't know), pretend we were elves in Dungeons and Dragons, use Zach's pool table. Yeah, and I was (and still am) pretty damn good at those things, I got a lot of street cred with the boys in high school. Now, in college, I joined a sorority and it changed me a little bit although I still say that I joined the sorority that didn't really like the typical girls. But, then of course I went back to having the boys around, spending all my time at fraternities-playing pool, drinking beer, watching LOTR.
Yes, I'm proud of that. But, I'm also proud to now be more of a hybrid of a girly-girl and tom-boy. I enjoy wearing dresses now (absolutely hated dresses when I was younger), I enjoy wearing make-up, and I have an obsession with shopping and buying TONS of clothing. I like that I am expanding my horizons while still holding on to who I truly am. Just thought I'd enlighten whoever cared to read this :)
