One of my dearest friends and I have gotten to know each other once again after over fifteen years apart. I always felt lucky to have the type of friendship I had with Brandy when I was younger. Our closeness helped make me the person I am today. Whether that is a good or bad thing is up to you, my faithful readers, to decide. Personally, I could have not asked for a better friend.
That being said, JLG365 is honored to present to you a world exclusive interview with Brandy, one of the rising stars of Tampa’s glamorous night life. Follow along as we weave our way through the end of adolescence, speed past sobering moments of self-realization and crash head on to the uninhibited and care-free present of Brandy’s life. Stay close, my friends. This is going to be a wild ride!
(Jen) How do you know me?
(Brandy) I got to know you in my senior year of high school.
I remember strongly disliking you at first.
I knew you disliked me (laughs). I didn’t know what to think of you, but I felt you didn’t perceive me correctly.
How did you think I perceived you? I mean I know I was probably the coolest person in our senior class, but I thought I was approachable.
I thought you perceived me as a blonde bimbo and shallow. Your energy kept me at bay, but I thought your wit was incredible and funny.
I did not perceive you as shallow.
(Laughs) So then just a bimbo?
Exactly. And it was your job to prove me wrong because I was way too cool to bother interacting with you and your hair.
I did have the biggest and best hair.
Oh it was big alright. But I digress. We eventually became friends, did we not?
Yes we did. We were forced to sit near each other on the bus ride to our class trip. I was scared of you!
I have that effect on people. Why were we forced to sit together? Did the teachers want to form the number “10″ with our bodies?
(Laughs) I believe [our good friend] Krissy scolded us and told us we had to start getting along because she was in the middle [of it all].
That Krissy. She always did think she was cock of the roost. Do you want to know when you became acceptable in my cool world of coolness?
I would love to know that moment.
When you called our math teacher and [talked dirty to him] with him during our class trip.
As Bambi [who went] prancing through his meadows! That was the pivotal moment?
Yes, you proved your coolness to me [because you had the balls to do such a thing ... to a teacher no less!]
Crazy shit happened on that trip. I came out of my shell.
I’d like to think I was a part of bringing you out of that shell.
Something about you did that to me.
Because I was just that cool.
Ha! I was [just going to write] that!
I have a confession to make to you. I have never told anyone this other than that roost cock Krissy. And this will be the first time it is revealed on this blog. This is a JLG365 EXCLUSIVE.
I like the sound of that … juicy!
I ABSOLUTELY HATED YOUR BOYFRIEND!
I knew that shit!
Now don’t puff your chest up just yet. I hated your boyfriend way before your skinny little ass shook its way into our small hick town. [I remember when we were like 14-years-old and ] he was my partner in flashlight tag. He told me to go climb a tree. That scarred me for life.
You both didn’t understand each other. He was too narrow minded. You were too different. I was too different. That’s why I [ultimately] had to leave him. He was the cockiest man I ever met. I don’t know why, but that [attracted me to him]. But I didn’t agree with a lot of his viewpoints and we fought like hell [over] my sexuality and independence. I believe in knowing a person by their souls and minds. I try not to judge and I always liked different and new things.
I believe in knowing people who think I am dripping with cool. After we graduated from high school, you went to nursing school. Whatever became of that?
[I realized that] I [was] not cut out for bedpans and blood. I tried to hold everyone’s hand and be there for them. There [was] no time for the quality of care I wanted to bring to people. My instructor said I had the heart and the brains, but not the hands. Nurses are underpaid and mistreated. Anyone who can stomach that job has my utmost respect.
In other words, you dropped out. It’s okay. You can say it. We know.
Oh hell [yes] I dropped out!
So what happened to you after you dropped out? [I know] you stayed in PA for a bit, but [this was the time period when we regrettably] lost touch.
I had a baby when I was 21 [and I lived] as a housewife for a bit. [I then went] to cosmetology school. [After that, I left] PA in 2001 and moved to Tampa, Florida.
Why Tampa?
My parents got a job transfer. I had been looking for an escape, so I tagged along. I grew up in Florida, so it was a homecoming for me. I wanted to go to warmer climate and a bigger city. I felt certain I could expand my personality and awareness [a lot] better [in Tampa].
To be continued …
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