10 random facts
 

Hi everyone :)
What are 10 random facts about yourself? I thought this could be a great way to learn some interesting things about fellow members. The facts don't have to be too personal, anything you'd be willing to share...

some facts about me:

1. I am the least artistic person you'll ever meet. Stick figures are as good as it gets and I would have an easier time explaining the color orange to a blind man than trying to draw something.

2. I am ambidextrous

3. I am deathly allergic to portabello mushrooms.

4. I don't know how to whistle

5. I am a high school biology teacher

6. The only college class I ever failed was asian cooking. There were 2 small fires involved. One was definitely not my fault. The other is debatable.

7. I would love to be fluent in a foreign language someday. I lived in the Netherlands for a year and the only dutch words I learned were yes, hello, bye, and I love you. I did however learn how to say "Now you've crossed the line you bag of schnitzel" and "excuse me sir can you help me carry my friend she had too much to drink" in perfect German during my time spent in Europe.

8. I am a member of the Lorquin entomology society. We get together once a month at a museum in Los Angeles and talk about bugs.

9. My favorite writer of all time is Voltaire

10. Right now I am in the process of reading 3 books simultaneously, writing one, keeping up with one of my blogs (while my other blog fades off into oblivion), and designing a website. In other words I completely lack focus. Its the bane of my existence.

I'd love to learn more about all of you :)

1. I played clarinet in band for 7 years

2. I'm on page 76 of the year-end 2000 Teen People Trendspotters issue

3. I am an ex-journalist. When I was growing up, from the time I was about 6 til I turned 18, I wanted to be a meteorologist. I even did storm chasing for awhile with my dad. We were almost struck by lightning when I was in our front yard videotaping a storm north of our house up in Denton. I told my dad that the camera battery was getting low, so he went in the house and got the other one off the charger. As he was changing the batteries out, the lightning started getting closer, and all of a sudden, a bolt of lightning hit in the driveway of the house 2 driveways over from ours. My dad's like "Looks like it's time to get inside..." *LOL*

4. Most people say I look like Kate Dillon with shorter hair (I don't see it, but if they do, I'm not going to complain *LOL*)

5. I've been away from east Texas now for over 15 years, but I still have the accent - some people think I'm from the Carolinas *LOL*

6. I'm hoping to get chosen for Extreme Makeover. I submitted my audition tape and application back in March..haven't heard anything yet, but I'm not really holding my breath on it

7. Speaking of whistling, it's always bugged me that I can whistle, but not how some people do it with their fingers in their mouth like really loud. This one guy I graduated high school with, I think a deaf person could hear him whistle like that, he was so loud.

8. I'm the only one in my family that doesn't know how to play the domino game "42" or poker

9. I have panic attacks when the weather people on TV say that we may have severe weather near us. (*Note: you may find this ironic considering I once wanted to be a meteorologist, everyone in my family thinks it's crazy) My doctor has given me Xanax to take for it but it doesn't help much. My grandmother has a basement at her house 10 miles away, so I drive out to her house. A few years ago, we had a tornado touch down not even 1/2 mile from my house and I was home alone in our one-story house. My parents never really had a plan as to what we were supposed to do or where we were supposed to go if we ever had a tornado near us, and I was hyperventilating and freaking out. Once I found out my grandmother had a basement, if I know that the weather may get bad, I go to her house

10. My mother and I take part in the Relay for Life in Arlington every fall for the American Cancer Society

1. I've been playing the violin since I was six, and I took piano lessons from ages 7 to 15.

2. I took three years of Japanese in college, but when I went to Japan on a vacation, I couldn't figure out how to ask for directions. I did, however, learn how to talk about CO2 emissions and euthanasia in Japanese, they just skipped over the actually useful stuff.

3. I come from a family of lawyers, but I am not a lawyer, and my boyfriend comes from a family of doctors, but he is not a doctor. We both do computer science!

4. I love dogs. Like, way too much. When my bf and I see a dog walking down the street, we both are like "DOGGIE!!!" However, we don't have a dog. :( (because we live in an apartment and it's not allowed)

5. I love The View, but I almost never get to watch it unless I happen to be able to work from home some days. I think being a cohost on The View would be the best job ever.

6. My boyfriend and I have a lot of potty humor in our lives. We love to joke about poo and farts. :o

7. When I was really young (like 6 years old) I wanted to be a baker so I could eat lots of donuts.

8. Sometimes I think it would be the most awesome thing ever to live on a subsistence farm.

9. I could never figure out how to use bar soap. I showered without soap until they came out with poufs and shower gel. (I always used shampoo though!)

10. I hated onions for years, but now I like them!

1. I'm almost 30-years-old, have a wonderful job, am going back to school this fall to work on my MA and I STILL have no clue what I want to "do" with my life.

2, My favorite color is midnight blue, but I use up all the brown and black crayons first (I have to buy extra black and brown).

3. I really can't stand my childhood best friend and I usually avoid her calls.

4. I eat all the foods I like least first and save the ones I like best for last.

5. I love cats. I currently have 10, but I wish I had 100. Oddly enough, I'm allergic to some, but not all of them.

6. I'm afraid my children won't know my parents.

7. Sometimes (a lot of times) I wish I'd stayed broken up with my husband when he was my ex-boyfriend.

8. I was the first in my immediate family to go to college. I feel like people think I'm smarter than I actually am because of that.

9. I have a problem with organized religion and even more with televised religion. I rank TV evangilists just below lawyers.

10. I believe that we, as a nation, do not give our farmers, teachers and veterans the appreciation and respect they deserve.

1. I'm a journalism student with a poli sci minor, but if there was a need for political scientists, thats what I would do instead.

2. I like cleaning other people's things, but not mine.

3. I used to hate it, but since arriving at college I love football.

4. I used to work at an automotive supply store for a year even though I don`t know anything about cars.

5. I used to be extremely liberal, but I dated a republican and now I'm just confused and moderate.

6. I love all books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Love in the Time of Cholera & 100 Years of Solitude are my favorites.

7. I still wear the jewelry everyday that my ex gave me even though we haven't been together since september and I've dated about 6 people in that time.

8. Listening to talk radio is a stress reliever when I'm driving.

9. I am a total slacker a lot of the time, but I have been on the dean's list for two years now.

10. I'm ashamed to admit that I watch a lot of reality tv and sometimes that is the highlight of my day.

1. I am happily adopted. The only thing I wish I had is my medical history.

2. My favorite kind of meat is Ostrich. It pays to be in a weird mood once in a while at restaurants...

3. I don't have a driver's license. I passed driver's ed at 16, but was a passenger in four accidents in close succession. I lost all confidence and surrendered my license. I have no desire to start again, though.

4. My parents started teaching me to appreciate wine when I was 13. (Though, I think it was a ploy to teach me that there is no big deal about alcohol, so I wouldn't go crazy when I turned 21. It worked.)

5. I am a PC gamer, and easily get addicted to online role-playing games.

6. My husband and I met over the internet ten and a half years ago. (Things were quite different then.)

7. I never finished college. I have ADD and couldn't keep up with the pace of a regular college. Perhaps someday.

8. I dream of visiting as many National Parks as I can before I die.

9. I LOVE jigsaw puzzles

10. I'm chronically disorganized. No matter how hard I try, I can't maintain a clean home. I can GET it clean, but can't KEEP it clean. My mom would be ashamed...

Interesting stuff here! :)

1. I sing really well (had a scholarship from singing that paid for college)

2. When I wash my face in the shower, I hold the shower door handle with one hand. I do it just in case someone walks into the bathroom and tries to kill me while my eyes are closed. I can't really explain it, I've done it since I was little.

3. I taught myself how to juggle and whistle with my fingers. I was always so jealous of people who could do these things, so I spent an entire day practicing each thing and now I can do both, no problem!!

4. "My So Called Life" was my most favorite tv show EVER. It was only on for one season and disappeared without a trace but I still love it to this day.

5. I get nervous writing a check when the amount is for either 90 something or 40 something because I never remember if 90 has an e in it or if 40 has a u. See, I still didn't spell them out :lol:

6. I have always dreamed of writing a screenplay. I am a movie buff of sorts and I have a great idea for a movie.

7. Talking on the phone has always scared the crap out of me. My mom used to torture me and make me call to order pizza. It's funny because I've learned to deal with my nervousness (mostly because I have to talk to people on the phone most of the day) but I still feel a rush of panic everytime the phone rings.

8. My big sister has always said I smell like "sweet baby cotton". I don't know exactly what this smell is but everytime I see her and we hug, she takes a big whiff, sighs and says "oh, sweet baby cotton".

9. I cannot use a hula hoop

10. I have horrible cursive handwriting, it looks like I'm still in the 3rd grade:^:

1. I feel I am a moral person because even though I don't follow a morality structured by religion, I very very rarely do things I would be ashamed of later. However, I am ashamed of my weight and my body.

2. I'm proud of my job and what I've accomplished in my life with limited education, resources and money.

3. I love the taste of crab but hate the taste of lobster.

4. I'm not so much afraid of spiders as completely and utterly repulsed by them.

5. My dog makes me smile more than any other "person" I've met.

6. I still count on my fingers. I really really suck at math.

7. I've become one of those people that answer the cell phone at the dinner table. (I shall burn in a thousand hells of hypocrisy for this one)

8. I'd eat cat food before I'd eat Brussels spouts.

9. I was 11 before I could tie my own shoes.

10. If I had to kiss a girl it'd be Drew Barrymore.

leannealise: I really really loved that show too! I'd do anything to get it on DVD.

leannealise: I always hate washing my face, too--for the same reason! I want to hug you now, to see how you smell :)

WastedThermos: One of my friends, to this day, thinks I love to wash dishes! Nope, just other peoples dishes--my sink is always full!

Leanne - I don't hold the shower door when I wash my face, but I look behind open doors every single time I enter a room because I have always been terrified that there is a murderer hiding behind the door! :lol:

Hi Leanne
your post reminded me of something I do and have done so as a child. When I lie in bed and put the covers on me I have to lift my legs and tuck the covers under my feet so if someone was hiding under my bed they would have a harder time grabbing my feet, they'd have to fiddle around with the covers first. I can't sleep if my feet are dangling loosely under blankets, the blankets must be wrapped under my feet like I'm in a makeshift cocoon. I also have a tendency to look under my bed every night before I go to sleep. Its an oddity...

What a neat idea!!!!!!

1. I'm friends with 4myself, in fact she invited me to this thread.

2. I am an artist, or at least try to create! I never knew what Oprah meant when she said find your passion. Painting is my passion...

3. I am a wife to my husband, mother to my children and caregiver to ailing parents.

4. I am a licensed cosmetologist and also did a 5-6 year stint grooming dogs.

5. My BEST friends include a group of amazing ladies I met and visit with on this site!!

6. I have been known to look behind shower curtains, in closets and under beds after returning home alone after an evening out.

7. I am a Hospice Volunteer and find it very rewarding.

8. I am a animal lover! I love cats but can't have one because of other family members being allergic to them. I hope to someday live on a farm so I can have goats, horses etc.

9. I like Sylvia Browne...I am so into trying to figure out my spirit guide and my purpose on earth. You will probably think I'm crazy, but I had a dear friend pass away 1 year ago and her picture keeps flipping over while all the others stay in place. It always happens after I dream about her or I see her husband...

10. I'm sitting here with medium ash brown hair color processing on my head. I decided why wait until I'm skinny, I am going to visit a spray tanning booth next week.

Thanks 4myself for pointing me here!!!

Hello :wave:

My name is Sherry.I'm the Moderator for "The Floozies". I'm friends with gdeann & 4myself.

1. I'm married & have 2 Sons. One is 22 & in the Navy.The other is Seventeen and will be a SR. in High School.

2. I live in Nashville,TN. I work in the office of an Elementary School. I also work for the Tennessee Titans (football).

3.I never had a weight problem until my 2nd child was born.

4.When I was little, my nickname was "Buffy" because everyone said I looked like Buffy on the show Family Affair.

5. I'm a neatfreak!!! I want my house & laundry clean daily! I wish I didn't worry so much about it.

6.My dream car is a red '65 Ford Mustang!!

7. I collect Cola-Cola items.

8. I love to camp,bowl & swim.

9. My family is living in the house I grew up in! My Parents moved to Ky & we bought the house! Would one day love to live in the country!!!!

10. I had a disagreement with my best friend Debbie in Jan. We still talk alot but things aren't really like they once were. I really miss her & the way things once were.

Nice meeting ya'll!!!! :wave:

HI!

1. I had a hateful relationship with my hair growing up: I love my hair now.

2. I wonder if I'll ever have "that" relationship with the man of my dreams.

3. I love visiting Asia.

4. I wear contacts and would love LASIK but I'm afraid of lasers in my eyes.

5. I have accomplished everything I've set out to do... except lose weight. I'm hoping this changes this time around.

6. I'm a great audience to folks: I find a lot of humor in everyday things. I especially love a good joke (I'm AWFUL at telling them). :D

7. My laughter at other's stories is genuine but it's also a great deflection from me.

8. I've always been around a city but sometimes I think I'm meant to be a country dweller.

9. I cannot fall asleep unless my sheet is up around my neck. I never got over the movie "Dracula". I also don't trust birds... yes, I saw The Birds when I was little too. :(

10. I'm taking Spanish classes and I love them. I can't wait to actually speak in Spanish and make sense!

1. I can't hold my breath underwater without holding my nose.

2. I'm left handed but it's probably because during my handedness forming years I sucked the first 2 fingers of my right hand.

3. I like to make up words (see #2).

4. I was the 1982 Class IV Tennessee state gymnastics champion on floor exercise & beam (not really as impressive as it might sound).

5. I started college when I was 15.

6. I have been to 5 of the 7 continents (haven't made it to Antartica or Australia).

7. I've been north of TN (within the US) only 4 times although I'm not counting flight layovers to other countries.

8. I like to write using parenthetical statements (see #'s 3, 4, 6, 7 & erm...8)

9. I first drove a car in city traffic when I was 11 (my father isn't big on obeying the letter of the law).

10. My VW Beetle is my "big" car.

I am also a friend of 4myself, Sherry, and Gayle at the Floozies:

1. I am a 25 year old living in the body of a 52 year old.

2. I am a bookkeeper at an elementary school, but I can't add, multiply, or subtract in my head.

3. I have never met my BEST friends in person, I only talk to them on this board (although I have talked on the phone to 1 of them!)

4. I spend all my money on matching my clothes, shoes and purses, so I don't have any to fix my house or my car.

5. I have been on Prozac for 10 years, so I don't care how clean my house is!

6. My daughters treat me more like a daughter than a mother.

7. I eat about 10 SF/FF fudgsicles and popsciles every night.

8. I can run for 2-3 hours at a time, but go slower than you can possibly imagine.

9. I go to sleep before 8:00 every night, so I always miss any good stuff on TV at night.

10. My favorite thing to do is lay in bed and watch TV after I run.

1. I played violin for 7 years.

2. People like to tease me. Almost every person I've met, says I'm a 'teaseable' person.

3. I'm afraid of butterflies.

4. I love my 10 month old puppy, Cocoa (a chihuahua)

5. I lived in Hawaii for 3 years when I was growing up.

6. I love white t shirts, and have so many I lost count.

7. I've never colored my hair.

8. I've been known to get addicted to message boards :)

9. I love to watch University of Michigan football with my boyfriend :)

10. My spell check has more made up words of mine than it does real words :)

1. I'm listening to Breaking Benjamin at the moment, quite possibly my favorite band of all time.

2. I used to have severe Trichotillomania, and was left to work it out by myself.

3. I have a pet ferret named Maxwell. He is mentally unstable, even for a ferret, but I love him anyway. My cat Eggroll has adopted him, assuming that he is a very, very ugly kitten.

4. I've lost most of the feeling and movement in my left foot, due to getting it stuck in an awful position for a long time.

5. All of my friends, save two, are guys. One of the guys is 15, the rest are 18 - 21. Nobody thinks this is odd.

6. Every stuffed animal that I own, I won from a machine.

7. I know HTML, PHP, Java, and CSS, but I do not have a website.

8. I pierced my own lip three times without getting it infected, but I let 'em close up. My ears have had six piercings each without getting infected, though I only have three in each ear now.

9. I won the school Spelling Bee in third and fifth grade.

10. I have twenty-three bracelets that have never been taken off.



Wow, none of those were interesting. :/

Okay, here goes...

1) Ever since I heard Born to Run played on the radio when I was 10, I've been a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. I saw him live for the first time in 1981, and 6 more times since then. I had a hundred photos of him on my bedroom wall when I was in my early teens, and I used to kiss every single photo every night before I went to bed. Twenty-five years later, he is still my idea of the perfect man.

2) I have incredibly tender feet, and even the shortest walk gives me blisters. Regardless of what I've tried over the years to toughen them up, nothing ever seems to work.

3) In the course of my life I've owned two electric guitars, an electric bass guitar and two acoustic guitars, but I've never learned to tune them, let alone play them properly. I'm totally tone deaf. I currently own a Fender Telecaster, a harmonica and a trumpet - and I can't play any of them. Partly it's because I'm not 'musical' - though I'd love to be - and partly it's because I'm too indisciplined to push myself through the early awkward learning stages.

4) I always shower with my back turned towards the shower head, so that the spray falls on my back and shoulders not my face. If I force myself to go in face first, I get a dizzy, vertigo-like feeling.

5) I've started to write at least 20 novels, but have never got past the halfway point in any of them. I'd love to be a novelist more than anything else in the world, but I can't seem to push myself past that mid-book barrier.

6) I read all of Jane Austen's novels at least once a year, and my favourite book of all time is Pride and Prejudice. Apart from Austen, my favourite authors are Annie Proulx, John Irving, James Lee Burke, George Eliot and Michael Connolly.

7) I don't watch much TV, but a couple of shows I try never to miss are CSI and Stargate SG1. This could have something to do with the fact that I think Gil Grissom (William Peterson) and Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) are really HOT.

8) I have a BA and MA in English Literature, yet my professional exams are in accountancy, and I work as a qualified management accountant for the UK National Health Service. Sometimes I even enjoy it, but it doesn't float my boat the way writing does.

9) When I was younger I wanted to be able to fly (as in flapping my wings) more than anything else in the world. If I could have a magic power now, though, it would be to have healing hands.

10) If I was offered the chance to live on a space station for a year, I would accept in a heartbeat.

Kind regards, Janey :dizzy:

What a fun thread! Hmm okay, 10 Random things about me.......

1) I love the smell of bleach

2) I can't stick my hands into Turkey Carcass. This has lead me to devise creative methods to cleaning and stuffing the Thanksgiving turkey.

3) I hate crowds

4) I can wiggle my nose in and out real fast like a rabbit

5) I am an Anglophile. Loving and intrigued by all things English.

6)I was arrested for citing a riot at a bowling alley. ( The "Strike and Spare Lounge" to be exact)

7) I'm pretty much tone deaf..but sing anyway..Oddly most all songs come out sounding the same .., something like a bad lounge singer imitating Mel Torme.

8) I was a nationally ranked Trapshooter, but don't know how to clean my own gun

9) I pay the toll for the car behind me on the NJ Parkway every Friday. If they are from NJ, I tell the tolltaker to tell them to have a great weekend - If outta state, I tell him to say Welcome to NJ.

10) I can't stand anything around my neck. It could be the most delicate necklace, but it will feel like 100 pounds around my neck.

1. Im 19 and blissfully engaged to my high school sweetheart

2. I studied in Siberia at Tomsk State University for a quarter, the first day I got there I was robbed of my passport, all my AMERICAN (not yet changed) money ($1500) my plane tickets home, my school VISA and a few knick knacks I'd picked up in Moscow. The Siberian police *actually* found the guy a few weeks before I left to come back home and I got everything except my money back- he hadnt sold my passport or VISA which was a miracle in itself.

3. I have one year of college left and Im a double major in International Studies with a focus on diplomacy and foreign relations and Anthropology

4. My dream car is a Mazda RX-8 but I could never own one because the rotary engine is too polluting and too gas guzzling

5. My favorite show is tied between "The People's Court" and "Judge Judy"

6. I ADORE children but am undecided as to whether I want to have any of my own- my fiance says we can make up our minds when we're atleast 30. :lol:

7. My Mom and my MIL are probably my closest friends (other than my fiance)

8. If I could live anywhere in the world it would be Ireland (I spent a few months there in HS and totally and completely fell in love)

9. I still have no clue what I want to do with the rest of my life, and I have absolutely NO direction career-wise

10. I've always hated my name (Joni, pronunced Joan-ee) and always felt it didnt suit me. In fact when people say "Joni" it usually doesnt register with me that Im being called or referred to.

I played the flute for 12 years.

I loved Beverly Hills 90210 and will sit through reruns whenever I get the change.

My favorite ice cream is Jamoca Almond Fudge.

I took Cake decorating classes, but could never the the roses down.

My son is autistic and the best part of my life.

I've had the same job for 20 years, even had the same chair for most of it.!!

I love to cook and bake!

I finishing my college education in 2 quarters...(I quit!)

I used to change my nailpolish everyday in high school....everyone oogled my hands!

I fried myself on the beach about 18 years ago, so bad I ended up the hospital. The sun and I don't get along at all anymore.

I am an avid Italian Charm bracelet collector.

I love Harry Potter!!!!!!!

FYI (leanne and solus)--the entire series of My So-Called Life is available on DVD. It was 5 seasons (it's a 5-DVD set), but not many episodes all together. I have it--I think my sister bought it for me off the internet a few years ago.
Anyway, here goes:

1.) I went to college for Marketing with a minor in Music Industry. I want to work in music promotions, but I am currently a lowly technical writer/editor/proofreader.

2.) I can sing! Of course, I failed miserably when I was in high school and auditioned for the All-State choir; however, when I auditioned for the All-New England choir (I grew up in Connecticut), I made it with flying colors. Go figure :dizzy:

3.) I pick my nails. My boyfriend is trying to break me of this lifetime-long habit, but I still do it. I NEVER bite my nails, though. I just pick and peel them.

4.) I have been of legal working age for less than 7 years and have had 8 different jobs.

5.) When I was a baby, the doctors were worried because for my entire forst year of life, I wasn't gaining nearly enough weight. Boy, did I turn the tables on them! :lol:

6.) When I was in college, a roommate and I bought a lizard, but when we went to put it in the cage, it jumped out and ran into a corner where we couldn't reach it, so we blocked the hole it ran into with a shoebox lid and figured it would just die in there (hey, it seemed like a good idea at the time). Then we bought another one to put in the cage and never told the other 4 roommates about the lizard that escaped. Then 4 months later, the "dead" lizard appeared on our bedroom wall, and we had to explain the story to our roommates...

7.) The last time I went to visit my college town, I was walking past the house I used to live in, and one of the girls I lived with still lived in that house, but she had locked herself out. My friend and I helped her break into the house by hoisting her up while she ripped the screen and climbed through the kitchen window onto the sink. I haven't been back to visit since :p

8.) I once went through a phase of going to the gym ALL the time and actually reduced my body fat percentage by 15% in only 6 weeks. Of course, I'm sure I have since increased it by at least twice that much :o

9.) My boyfriend and I are driving to Georgia later this week--almost a 12-hour drive--to supposedly visit his aunt and uncle, but the real reason he wants to go is to see a concert in Atlanta of an orchestra playing the music from the Final Fantasy video games.

10.) I have to pee REALLY badly right now!!!!!

What a neat thread idea!

1) I moved in with my husband less than 6 weeks after we met (5+ years later we're still happy and going strong).

2) I hate mayonaisse with the fire of a thousand suns.

3) ditto for tuna fish.

4) I changed my college major 4 times before settling on Nursing.

5) I don't like to wear shoes unless I absolutley have to.

6) When pregnant, I thought my first (a girl) was a boy and thought my second (a boy) was a girl. My mommy intuition is broken.

7) I've never been to Hawaii.

8) My favorite movie is What Dreams May Come

9) The chore I hate most is putting away silverware, but I don't mind vacuuming.

10) I still feel fluttery if my husband kisses my neck.

1. I cannot roll my tongue

2. I remember useless information

3. I called my cat Lazy-Bones

4. I dont like touching my belly button because I am worried my finger will get stuck.

5. I used to have nightmares about great white sharks and swimming pools (finally explained by Jaws 3 and James Bond)

6. I can cook anything - except mash - it always ends up like soup with lumps.

7. I wont buy fish if it has a head - i make the fishmonger prepare it for me.

8. I have began to forget how old I am.

9. I have kept my sink shiny for 23 days now.

10. I am addicted to Discworld Novels and have all signed in hardback.

All the Discworld books... In hardback... SIGNED...

I am so incredibly jealous of you...

Good topic

1. I was born and raised in Oklahoma

2. I would love to direct movies someday.

3. I would love to write novels someday.

4. I a great procrastinator.

5. I can say the alphabet backwards.

6. I married a man whose first and middle names are the same as the guy I had a crush on in high school.

7. I flunked Calculus II twice in college.

8. I would rather curl up with a good book and read all day long.

9. I was born on my parents' fourth annivesary.

10. When I was in elementary school I liked to put the school glue on my hand, let it dry and peel it off.

Let's see...10 things..

1. I've been a vegetarian since I was born.

2. I went to a nutritionist and he told me I was lactose intolerant, but I love dairy so much, so I try to just forget he ever said anything.

3. I didn't carry a purse around until I was 18, now I don't know how I ever lived without one.

4. My dream car is a BMW 760Li.

5. It hurts me too much to tweeze my own eyebrows, so I get them waxed.

6. My goal is to become a CEO or at least the president of a company. I'm so stubborn, I know I will make it happen.

7. I don't remember anything about my childhood.

8. I have Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), which sounds really complicated, but it really isnt. I have to take a beta-blocker before I work out so I don't get dizzy and black out.

9. I wear a size 11 in shoes and because of this it's hard for me to find shoes.

10. I can't sleep without the fan on, but it can't be an overhead fan, it has to be a fan in the corner and it can't be blowing on me.

Slightly off-topic
 

Speaking of saying the abc's backwards--ever see the e-mail where the drunk guy gets arrested and he and the cop are doing a little dance number?

Funny, funny, funny!

If anyone wants it, pm me your e-mail and I'll send it.

Cheryl

Here's mine!

1) I hate all types of seafood and fish with a passion.

2) I still have vivid memories from when I was only 1 year old

3) I was once "Prince Bubba" in a play that was the country version of Cinderella--I brought her kudzu for the ball.

4) I've watched the movie "Now and Then" about 10,000 times (probably 500 seriously).

5) I've watched the movie "Shag" nearly as many times.

6) My son was born on my second wedding anniversary.

7) My husband was my first love AND my first kiss (cool thing to tell the grandkids ).

8) My favorite car is the Shelby 427--NOT the Mustang, the original Shelby that was only built 1964-1966.

9) I named my Great Dane after my favorite car (Shelby).

10) I once had a cat named Whiskers who was blind. He and I had a special language (he didn't meow, he kind of went "rrt-rrt-rrt-rrt-rrt"--you have to roll the r's...LOL), and I had special signals/sounds/vibrations to get his attention/get him to do what I needed him to do. You could hold him like a baby and he would kiss you nose to nose...SWEETEST cat who ever lived, plus we had a special bond thanks to his disability. I had Whiskers since he was born--he has a long life story which I posted on the Internet at AOL one time, but I can't remember the address. When he died, he was about 10 yrs old--it was the first time I cried over an animal in 12 years at least...I was heartbroken. I drove him nearly an hour back to my parents home to bury him on a hill with all his old family members so that I knew I would never move away from where we were living and leave him by himself. Pathetic huh? LOL

What Fun!
 

1. I've been married to my High School love for 23 years (this August) and absolutely adore him!

2. I have 3 kids: Son - 22 yrs old - Currently Attending The Art Institute, Daughter - 18 yrs old - On her way to Stephen F Austin State University, and Son - 13 yrs old - getting ready for the 8th grade.

3. I love playing soccer.

4. I could eat Mexican Food everyday if given the chance.

5. I have a 3 yr old female Boxer named "Brandy".

6. I'm getting ready to turn 41 yrs old and recently went back to college to try and finish my degree.

7. My all time favorite place to live would be Durango, Co. and I will be moving there once my kids are finished with school.

8. I am impatient and don't like to wait for things. I want instant satisfaction.

9. I am a MAJOR procrastinator and do my best work when my feet are to the fire.

10. I am an Accountant by trade but really don't enjoy my work anymore. I really want to write Novels and play with my Arts and Crafts.

10 things......

1. I am Australian and hate the tern "aussie"
2. Out of all my friends I grew up with, my marriage is the only one that is still going
3. I believe each time I gave birth I lost a few IQ points (hence stopping at 2)
4. I hate the colours navy and black worn together.
5. I told my 6 year old daughter's schoolteacher that neat writing isn't important in this day and age, she was not impressed.
6. When I hang out the clothes it takes me forever because I have all these weird things I have to do- matching pegs etc. ( and there's so, so much more)
7. If I wake up for a toilet break during the night I never go back to sleep.
8. I wish I had more clothes, money and time
9. I have shocking spelling.
10. I really feel good about my life. I Love my husband and my 2 girls. I am very lucky.

10 random things

1. I live in Canada and always have

2. I wanted at least five children ........I had 3

3. I wanted to be a teacher when I was younger........I am a nurse

4. One of my favorite places to be is in the water outside on a hot day

5. I always said I would never survive the death of a child........I did

6. I love my husband and two daughters so much it hurts

7. I enjoy my work as a nurse so much I actually miss work after I have been away for awhile

8. I have to have coffee in the morning and a cold beer on hot days

9. When I was little I had an imaginary friend......I still talk to myself sometimes

10. I love to watch movies that make me laugh so hard I can hardly breath

I really have enjoyed the messages in this thread...Really interesting and fun people!

Here's my offering:

1) When I was a teen, I never thought I'd get married or have children. Didn't even want to have children. Met my husband and "boom!"...knew I could count on this guy to be a true partner...married 22 yrs and have 4 kids!

2) Worked as a nurse for almost 20 yrs in nursing homes...got really tired of it and completely changed careers. I went back to school and became a microcomputer specialist....I love playing with the toys!

3) My grandma got Alzheimers and I missed her so much before she even had even passed away. I missed her soft southern accent and her laugh....

4) I hope to travel the world after these kids are grown and on their own. With the youngest being 17, there is light at the end of the tunnel!

5) I've been so proud of my parents staying happily married for over 47 yrs! They are truly each other's best friend. I aspire to that.

6) I'm but a stranger here, heaven is my home.

7) I feel healthier and stronger than any other point in my life. Good nutrition and regular exercise are wonderful.

8) My feet have always been wide, even when I was a skinny little kid!

9) I play clarinet, piano, guitar and really love to sing with groups of people. My head finds all the harmony parts in the song. I like that.

10) I feel naked without earrings on.....

Shatzi (which I happen to know is German for Sweetheart ;) )...we have a bridge that goes to Canada a few miles from here and I do the SAME THING!! I love random acts of kindness!! Sometimes I think it makes me feel more good (better?) than it does the person getting the surprise!!

Cool Thread!
 

1. My husband asked me to marry him on our first date-March 15, 1986. I was a month shy of 17 and he was 21. We have been married 18 years now!

2. We have 6 children, 4 girls and 2 boys.

3. I would love to have more children, would love to adopt a whole family!

4. It hurts me to tweeze my eyebrows-so I don't! My oldest daughter is just disgusted by this! Maybe I'll try the wax thing?

5. I love watching baseball!

6. I love anything coconut flavored.

7. My dream car is anything that only seats 2 people :lol: !! Actually I would LOVE to have a 69 Camero.

8. I cannot stand coffee, even the smell turns my stomach!

9. After 18 years and 6 kids I still havent figured out how to keep my house clean!

10. I watch all the maternity/baby shows on TLC.