KennyVee - An Introduction

Hi, thanks for checking out tagged/me. Don’t worry, that doesn’t make you a stalker. It’s normal to want to know more about someone you may or may not have just followed or are thinking of following.

So, what makes me tick? Will I follow back? Read on…

• I tag my personal posts with #Kenny instead of #me (this is the only post with a #me tag since this is where everyone will look first). If you just want to skip to pictures to find out that I’m not at all attractive, the pics are at #pictures of me.
• If I followed you back, I will read your posts. I may be hours late doing so, but I will. If it doesn’t grab my attention right away, I may skip it. If it turns out that I skip more posts than I read, I may unfollow…it’s nothing personal. And if I don’t follow back, also nothing personal. As it is, I spend hours every day catching up on my dashboard. I do promise that I will at least look at your blog.
• Posting porn means I won’t follow you. I’m not playing the “holier-than-thou” card…there’s nothing wrong with some porn once in a while. It’s just that I know how to find it if I want it. I don’t need it to sneak up on me on my dashboard. Sure, I could use safe dash, but it’s easier just to not follow people who post porn all the time.
• I suffer from Mirror-Touch Synesthesia, so I won’t follow if you post gory stuff either. I quite literally can’t handle it.
• If you’re into the Myers Briggs ratings, I’m INFP.
• Sometimes I’m depressed, and my posts can be depressing when that happens. Sometimes I write a lot, sometimes I write a little. Sometimes I just reblog random stuff because I don’t want my brain to think too much. Other times I reblog things and add comments or stories.
• I tend to talk politics. Kind of a lot. I’m very liberal in my political views.
• I’m a major night-owl. I usually am online in the overnight hours and sleep during the day. I generally post stuff as I go…I don’t do a lot of queuing or scheduling of posts for when more people are around to see it. Mostly because I’m paranoid that someone will reply and then hate me for ignoring them if I don’t answer right away (yes, I’m that insecure).
• Even though I do a most of my posting in the overnight hours, I get bummed if nobody reads them. I may occasionally post some passive-aggressive ”nobody cares” statements. Don’t take it personally. Even though I sometimes do. Sometimes I’ll mention something and someone will say “I never knew that” and I have to fight the urge to say “you would if you read my blog.”
• I have replies turned on for people I follow back, or people who have followed me for at least two weeks. I’d allow them right away for everyone if tumblr would let me.
• I’m a Disney nerd. I always have been. I worked at Disneyland for a total of 6 years, but it’s always been a part of my life. I’m not a Disney-centric blog (I have one of those, The Disney Files, but some Disney will also be here, because it’s a part of who I am.
• I’m 38½ years old (unless you’re reading this after November of 2013 and I still haven’t edited this). Yes, I still count half-birthdays.
• When I hit 39, I plan on staying there like Jack Benny did.
• I also decided to stay at 29, but then I got in a bad car wreck right after I turned 30 and decided not to call myself 29 anymore. It was a really bad wreck (I broke my skull around my right eye), and I just wanted to move on to another age.
• I can see 40 on the horizon, and it scares the hell out of me.
• I do curse from time to time, but not excessively so. I’m more likely to say poop than shit, because poop just sounds funnier.
• I use (a lot of parenthesis and ellipses…) sometimes.
• I really hate guns. Like, a lot. I had a perpetually drunk stepdad (I call him Evil Stepdad #1) get a gun and constantly threaten us with it, and he tried to kill my mom with it, and I was robbed at gunpoint when I still lived in L.A., and that’s my entire experience with guns. If I never see a gun again, it will be too soon.
• If you ask a question, I’ll answer it…but I’m not one to post a plea for questions. I figure that you know it’s an option. If you want to ask, I’m down with that. If you don’t, that’s cool too. Anon is (almost) always on.
• If you post something telling me to “put a number in your ask box” or “reblog this to get an opinion,” I will almost never do it. If you want me to know something about you, just post it.
• I don’t reblog anything that tells me to reblog it, no matter how much I agree with it. Yes, you can talk to me, Yes, I support LGBT rights. Yes, I wish people would be nicer to each other. But I show it in the things I say, not by reblogging “Reblog this if” posts. It’s not because I think it will make my blog ugly, it’s just that whoever wrote it was only in it for the notes.
• You have no idea how much I love you for putting up with me.
• I have low self esteem. Like, really low.
• I’ve been through a LOT. If you need someone to talk to about something, odds are that I can relate on some level. I suck at advice, though. If I knew what I was talking about, I wouldn’t be 38 and living with my parents (well, mom and the stepdad from her fourth marriage).
• My original dad didn’t want anything to do with me from when I was 12 until he found out he was dying over two decades later. I do not have fond memories of him. Father’s Day is a really hard day for me.
• I don’t believe in God. I won’t berate you if you do believe (I’m not one of those “preachy” atheists). I grew up in a religious household. I went to church. I’ve read the Bible. I understand why some people believe, but I just don’t anymore. I try to be mindful of religious followers and not insult them, but sometimes I’m downright blasphemous.
• Sometimes, I write just for the sake of writing. I try to hide longer posts under “read more” links because I don’t think people care, and I don’t want to clog up their dashboard (I mentioned my low self esteem, right?).
• When I remember, I put my more literary posts under the #Kenny’s writing tag.
• People sometimes surprise me with how much they care. And it makes me feel really good every time it happens.
• Other times, people say things to me that hurt my feelings. And those tend to stick in my mind much longer than the good things.
• I do believe that you can make real-life friends online.
• If that’s not true, I’m screwed, because I don’t have a single friend in the area in which I live.
• If you are hiring, I’m available and a hard worker. But I have no car, so my options are limited as to how far I can go.
• I own an original two-cel progression from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It’s one cel from before he drinks the whiskey, and once cel from afterwards when he’s colorful, and it’s autographed by Max Fleischer (voice of Roger Rabbit) and Gary K. Wolfe (writer of the novel that the movie is based on). I love it, but I’m poor…serious offers would be considered.
  
• This is the most bullet points I’ve ever used at once.
• I’m single, and probably always will be (I’m not exactly a catch). Sometimes it bugs me, but mostly I’ve come to accept it. In the words of Henry Higgins, “Here I am, a confirmed old bachelor and likely to remain so.”
• I think that’s enough. You’ll just have to read my posts or ask me questions if you want to know more.