December 9, 2011

Hey, It's Me!

For the past nine months you have all be sharing my ups and downs. You've seen my home, my grades, my gadgets and now you get to see me. You might have noticed that my profile picture is no longer a banjo playing frog but a real live person: yours truly.

I did this for two reasons.
  • First, while safety is still my number one priority, I understand the system better now than I use to. Many of you have shared your image and it's time that I shared mine.
  • Second, and most importantly for me, I wanted to show a picture of a modern houseless/vehicle dwelling gypsy. There was a student this past weekend who was talking about characteristics of the greater homeless population in our area. She said she could pick them out across a parking lot by appearance and I'm sure you guessed that those comments got my dander up a bit. I think I look pretty normal (if you don't think so, don't tell me) and most people would not guess at my living situation. There are more of us out there than you might realize and we are not all dirty delinquents. You stand next to us at the grocery, sit behind us in the theater, and discuss books with us on the bus. 
Thanks for sticking around, it's been very helpful to have this community on cyber speed dial.

13 comments:

  1. OMG put banjo frog back quick. I kid. It's nice to put a face to the blog finally. Oh and date boy totally blew it! |-)

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  2. Thanks for sharing your pic. You are indeed very beautiful and do not look "homeless." I very much admire your passion and energy to live life on your own terms. Good luck to you and thanks for sharing your amazing life!
    CHD

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  3. Wow Ash pretty lady, and yex very normal looking. keep up the great posting. i was worried there for a while when you didn't post anything

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  4. Great pic of you ! Thanks for sharing all your great adventures with us !

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  5. Hmmm....smart and pretty.
    A dangerous combination.
    I was happy with just smart. I'm Glad I knew that part first.
    I hope you don't tire of this soon as I do enjoy your post.

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  6. I'm going to say this and it will come out strange. I thought for some reason that you were a guy. Don't ask me how I assumed that and now I have to go back and see if you ever mention it or not but for some stupid reason I didn't know that you were female, and a pretty female at that!

    I agree with old fool, I thought you were smart before I saw that you are pretty.

    Now I feel slightly ashamed of assuming... sorry about that.

    Erik

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  7. I just went back and looked, yep, I'm a moron! Heck, the blog wallpaper should have been a clue.

    Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most....

    Erik

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  8. you look wonderful, keep up the good work of using what you have.

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  9. very beautiful young lady ,its always nice to see who your chatting with ty

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  10. I'd say more of a 'rubber tramp' than truly homeless.

    There's homeless by choice and then there's real destitution...

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  11. Hi Ash, cool to see you....I love your blog and following your adventures...
    Good work!
    Grampa Bri

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  12. Crap, you're gorgeous! :) No wonder the police seem so taken aback when they wake you and shatter their preconceptions! Courageous and brave of you to post. paddling-man from CRVF

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