Hey Turkey Lurkeys!
It’s your gal pal T. I noticed a lot of you guys subscribed in the last few weeks
so I just wanted to say --- Thank you so much!
Welcome to my channel!
I really appreciate you subscribing.
It means a lot to me.
Thank you for coming on this adventure with me.
If you have been subscribe for a long time already, cause I know some of you have been
here since I started this channel, then I want to say thank you so much for your continued
support.
I really appreciate that as well.
Certainly I would not be able to do as much as I do without your support.
As our numbers continue to grow, I’ll be able to do more things, so that subscription
really matters to me.
Thank you so much.
One if the things that I realized lately is that I don’t talk a lot about myself on
this channel.
But I wanted us to get to know each other better.
So I figured we’d play a quick game today.
It’s 10 things that you don’t know about me.
So I am going to get started here.
The first thing I don’t think you know about me is I grew up with my family living all
on the same block and I know that that sounds like some wacky sorta commune thing.
But it wasn’t.
It was really fantastic.
I am very close with my family.
I grew up with my sisters and cousins all on the same block and we just had a lot of
fun.
It was a great experience.
And now that I live in the Bay Area by myself, it is something I miss at times.
#2 I was the butt double for Natalie Portman in the Star Wars prequels.
I used to work for a company called Industrial Light and Magic, that is the VFX company of
George Lucas.
One of the perks of being an employee was sometimes you got to appear in the films.
So they needed a body double for Natalie Portman, and it turns out I am her same height and
at the time, I used to have long hair too.
So I got to be in one of the Star Wars prequels and wear her really cool outfits.
It was a neat experience.
My family calls me the butt double because the only time you see me is when Natalie Portman
is turned around -- only her back side.
Another interesting thing about me is I have one thumb that is slightly shorter than the
other.
You can see my right thumb there is a little stubbier.
So I call it my little fin, like Finding Nemo.
Speaking of fins, I really love to swim.
Some of you may have seen that in my Instagram posts.
Every once in awhile I will post a pool pic, it's because I am going swimming and I learned
to swim about 2 years ago, before that, I was just doing a doggy paddle.
But since, I’ve learned how to freestyle, I’ve learned how to do the breast stroke,
and if you’ve seen my instagram lately, you’ve probably seen that I learned the
butterfly.
Thankfully, I no longer look like a convulsing worm, when I do it.
It actually looks legit now.
So I am pretty proud about that.
Another thing was I started to do cosmetics, I started to talk about cosmetics online because
i really liked to reverse engineer products.
I thought it was really cool to try break things down and figure out how they’re made.
When I started to do that, I basically would try to figure out the formulas and then recreate
them.
I made a bunch of lotions, shampoos, and conditioners.
And I made them wrong, and eventually I made them right, and eventually I decided to make
this channel.
So that’s how it all started.
It would be fun to do more formulation in the future so i don’t know.
Let me know what you think about that.
It’s a little bit expensive sometimes to buy the ingredients.
But it’s something that I’m thinking about.
Something else you may not have known about me, I have a stutter problem.
I am sure some of you have seen it sometimes, when I get a little excited, or a little nervous
or self conscious, I stutter sometimes.
I think a lot of that comes from the fact that when I first started this channel, I
did not want to be the person in front of the camera, I wanted to be the person behind
the camera.
I like anonymity.
I like creating things, I like doing graphics, it’s all a lot of fun, but getting in front
of the camera was a different ballgame and I wasn’t sure if I was up to the challenge.
Unfortunately, there was no one else to do it, so I ended up being in my own videos and
here I am now with you.
What really helped me conquer a lot of that is just having really good conversations with
you guys and starting to feel comfortable.So I owe you a thank you for that.
Thank you so much!
I am left handed and right footed and I can’t get my foot up on the table, but I am right
footed So I’ve been a natural lefty when I was younger, I remember my mom saying she
taped my left arm to the table, in an effort to make me a right hander but it didn’t
work.
I know I am right footed cause when I play soccer I kick with my right foot.
I was nominated for an Emmy 2 years ago.
Some of you guys might remember that.
That was a big moment for me.
I spent a lot of time making videos inside, so when I get a chance to go to an event and
get dressed up, right?
When does that happen in your adult life?
Not very often.
Or not in my adult life anyway.
So I got to go to the Emmys and meet a lot of entertainment people.
And I got to design my dress with my sister’s friend (made by Karen Saldana) it was inspired
by Katy Perry, whom I love.
We actually took science and beauty icons and had them printed onto the fabric.
That was pretty cool.
It felt like a really neat experience.
I got a lot of compliments on my dress.
I hope to do that again in the future.
This is something that is bad about me.
Sorry.
I am going to apologize in advance.
I ate rolly pollys when I was a little kid.
I don’t know what i was thinking, they call them pill bugs and I guess me and my little
kid friends thought it would be a good idea to eat a few of them and so we did.
Sorry rolly pollys.
I have always wanted a dog , that is so true!
Or a cat!
I’ll take a cat!
I grew up with pets in the house.
Lots of dogs.
Many dogs at one time sometimes .I just like furry buddies roaming around.
I don’t have any furry buddies in my current life because I am just not around a whole
lot, but I’m hoping one day there will be roam for a furry little critter.
Until then, I have my roomba which is my automated vacuum cleaner and sometimes it will go around
and create a lot of chaos.
It has a tendency to get stuck under my lamp and then drag it around the house.
What else?!?!
Ah!
My uncle is the Benicio Del Toro character in the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Bet you didn’t know that one!
When Hunter S. Thompson, goes to Las Vegas he travels with a famed chicano lawyer, and
that lawyer is my uncle by marriage.
Which I think is pretty neat to have someone in my family who is a little part of history.
Now that you know a little bit about me.
I would love to know a little about you.
So I a going to do some shout outs here to So @DayWatch, @PB Babe, @Claudia Laroja, Cristie
Serna-Graham, Layton Ashmore, Michael Sanchez, Janette Plt - and anyone who wants to share
their story with this community.
Let me know a few things about you I might not know in the comments.
I can’t wait to read them and I hope to see you guys soon bye!