I pride myself on my independence. I try to do things solo, and whether or not these tasks are successful, I can say I did it myself. To date I have attempted to:

• Cut my own hair, and in doing this I learned a two important things:

1. Don’t cut hair with the scissors your child used in second grade to cut construction paper, and
2. Don’t cut your own hair.

• Pierce my own ears. Self piercing earrings were a torture device devised in the late 1970’s. They dragged out what should have taken no more than 10 seconds to two weeks of hell, followed by an infection and two half pierced ear lobes.

• I’ve repaired my own appliances, and learned two important lessons in that process:

1. If the YouTube Video I am using as a reference guide is 5 minutes long, it will take me…