Disney Pin Tag!

Let me tell you a story. Once Upon a Time ThatOneCoupleTv on youtube tagged their fans in a disney pin tag. Which is awesome. I collect pins, I have a big collection. I'd like to show them off to you guys. However, there isn't a YouTube channel for Awels Hollow (yet, maybe one day) but I still wanted to do this tag so i thought I would bring it over here to the blog. 

As I went through my collection I noticed that I only had a small amount of Disney pins in comparison to the rest of my collection. So this will be short and sweet. I plan to keep collecting so there may be an updated version in the future. 

Questions:

1. What is your oldest pin?

My oldest pin is actually the Happy Birthday one in the lower left hand corner. I went to Disney World for the first time in January 2012 to celebrate a friend of the famliy's birthday, her niece's birthday, and my birthday. It was a great trip!

2. What is your newest pin?

My newest pin/pins are all of the black and white ones on the top row and the Nightmare Before Christmas one. They were Christmas gifts from my parents.

3. A pin with your favorite character.

Tough question! My favs are the Lion King one, the Pirates of the Caribbean (the wheel opens), and the  Nightmare Before Christmas one.

4. A pin with a year or date on it.

The Nightmare before Christmas pin has the year 2013 on it celebrating the twentieth year of the movie. "Twenty TWISTED Years"

5. A pin that has a funny story.

The Halloween mickey and Minnie I bought while on a weekend trip to LA with my best friends last September. I talked them into going to downtown disney and was very happy to get a disney churro and Halloween pins! (Can downtown disney start offering mickey waffles and dole whips, please?!)

6. The pin with the most sentimental value.

Surfs Up breakfast with mickey was a pin from one of the character breakfasts from Disneyland 2012. It was the first big family vacation we had had in a very long time. It was my youngest brothers first trip to Disney. We "surfed" with Stitch and Dasiy duck flirted with my other brother (just don't tell Donald)

7. The pin that took you the longest to find/get.

I don't trade pins or track them down. I just buy the ones I like when I happen to be in Disney.

Bravery

I've had purple hair for almost a year now and let me tell you something it's been a challenge. You either keep up with your roots or you don't. You either use expensive dye or you don't. You either get used to the looks, the comments, and the questions or you don't. Well as you can see my roots are brown. My hair is dry because of cheap dye. I'm slowing getting used to allowing myself to be okay with people staring at me because purple hair is not natural. People are going to react to it.

I've come up with a scale for the comments I get (and sometimes over hear). It ranges from "you'll never get a job' to 'I love your hair.' While hearing people whisper about me behind my back irks me, there is one comment I hear that bothers me even more.

 I wish I was brave enough. 

I think it bothers me because I wasn't brave. I wasn't brave when took I two boxes of purple dye to the cashier. I wasn't brave when I ripped open the box and read the instructions. I wasn't brave when I noticed the dye had somehow managed to slip underneath the plastic gloves and stained my skin in big purple splotches. I wasn't brave when I waited for it to process or when I watched a waterfall of purple go down the drain.

I was terrified and unsure about how this was all going to work out. I was afraid I would have an allergic reaction or that my hair would turn green and fall out in clumps. I was afraid that I was going to have purple skin forever. I was afraid that I was going to ruin the shower with the dye. I was afraid. I was afraid. I was afraid.

It's safe to say that I wasn't brave enough to dye my hair purple until the about the third time I dyed it and I still get a jolt of "I don't know what I'm doing" whenever it's time to dye again.

This whole question of bravery has me pondering what I'm not brave enough to do. It doesn't surprise me that I can come up with a handful or more things that I would do if I were brave enough. 

Wearing shorts during the summer

Two piece bathing suit

Public speaking

YouTube videos

Go back to school

Tell people what I'm actually thinking

Buy a one way plane ticket and just travel

Finish my novel

Learn to speak another language

And the list goes on.

When it comes to my blog, the one thing I'm afraid of is my name. I'm sure you know by now that my name isn't Awel. It's a beautiful name. it means 'breeze' in welsh. But its not my name, it's not me. I'm more of a tornado than a breeze. 

But this post isn't about 'what kind of storm are you' quizzes you can find on the Internet. It's about what you wish you were brave enough to do. 

right now, I wish I was brave enough to tell you my name. I wish I could take you out for a milkshake and sit down in some quiet spot. I wish I wouldn't be so nervous or awkward. I wish I wouldn't talk about the weather or go on long tangents like I'm doing right now. I wish I could take a deep breath, look you in eyes and tell you the secret I've been keeping from you all since I began this adventure.

Hello.. My name is Kat and yes I have purple hair. 

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