I was recently tagged by one of my Instafriends to share 15 random facts about myself. I love reading these when other people post them and, admittedly, I like answering them too. I mean, who doesn’t like talking about themselves? So I decided to take it a step further and make a blog post out of it so that I can share a few old, funny pictures too. Want to play along? Consider yourself tagged!

1. Fortune is really my middle name. I was embarrassed by it in elementary school, but I eventually embraced it.

2. I was homeschooled the last two years of high-school so that I could work, travel, and take photography & writing classes at local colleges.

3. I had a vintage clothing business on eBay while I was in college.

4. Years before I met my husband, I traveled five hours to Fayetteville for the first time to see Modest Mouse. Turns out, he was at the show too and we have photos from the same spot, but we’re not in each other’s pictures. We must have been standing right next to each other.

5. My degree is in Advertising & Public Relations from the University of Arkansas (Go Hogs!), but I work in the funeral service regulation field – and I love my job more than I could have ever imagined.

6. I once partied with the Jenner family in Mexico (I still regret not getting a selfie with Kylie & Kendall, but I slaughtered the dance floor with Kris).

7. I naturally have a gap in-between my front two teeth, but in elementary school I chipped my tooth and my dentist “fixed” all of it.

8. If Iris was a boy, I wanted the name to be Ransom after the grandfather I never met. Instead, she’s named after the Tennessee state flower and her middle name, Adella, is inspired by my grandma’s middle name which was Dell. She passed away right after I found out I was pregnant.

9. When we got married, it was literally on the front page of the newspaper the next day.

10. My first job was a dish washer when I was 15 for $5 an hour. It was completely awful, but it taught me a lot about working hard and, more importantly, how to treat people. I also saved up $900 and bought this sweet car (with the help of my dad).

11. In 2003 I was one of about 30 people who attended a dress rehearsal show of Justin Timberlake, Al Green, & the Black Eyed Peas. I was in the front row and it was increeeedible. Pretty sure JT was singing directly to me. Above is a video of the actual show, which I also got to witness (it was for a special on NBC).

12. I’ve seen someone get shot (in the butt during a drive-by in Memphis).

13. I was a stand-in & extra in Walk the Line. Yes, Joaquin Phoenix is as weird as you think he is.

14. Brunch, clean sheets, and being comfy are some of my favorite things in the world.

15. When I was 17 I had my septum pierced and dreadlocks. Don’t unfollow me, please.