1. I enjoyed several things as a child; writing, drawing, barrell racing, working out on my Aunt's ranch, and doing puzzles. In fact most the things I still enjoy, and I have a feeling I work in a corn mill due to that whole hard work outdoors thing as a kid.

2. I have no regrets in my life and don't believe in do overs. I am the sum of all my experiences for good or bad.

3. I like all kinds of music; I listen to mostly alternative and rap, But you will find Vivald's 4 Seasons Plating in my house as well. I think all music has some value. Even Hank Williams Jr.

4.Main goals finish my skill blocks, get my class 2 WWT license, and continue to lose weight. I want to be about 120 lbs when I get done.

5. Too many books to list to reccomend. I am with MG I like Stephen King, Isacc Asimov, and Michael Jan Friedman.

6. Things I like to do now; write, collages, surf the net, lift weights, learn.

So we got to keep some birthdays in mind for the coming month

And I am very grateful for all the ladies, their feedback and their lists!

Miss Chris

There you go Rusty, I had tried to do this before, but I guess I skipped a step. Kept meaning to try again. Thanks for fixing the pic for me.
Lora

Another pretty smile on our thread!

You look like you could belong in my family MG, maybe that is that midwestern stuff sticking out

Miss Chris

I am going to have to get a pic taken with make up on. I never wear it, but looking at me without it on makes me crazy. Besides, I weigh 18 lbs less than when that picture was taken. Maybe try not to look like such a farm girl. I tend to wear flannel shirts instead of coats. Hehehe. Makes people crazy, Aren't you freezing? Why, yes, I am, but I am just so obstinet that I wear too little clothes just to make you nuts. LOL!!!!
I love to make collages. That is my favorite craft project. Right now me and my daughter are putting one together of cool words and phrases. She get 17 magazine, so there are lots of "hip" words in them. It's slammin!
Ok, anyone with teen kids. Does it make them (the kids) crazy when you try to use their lingo? You know, I was hangin in the hood with my hoodie trying to get my groove on when I dropped my bling bling. My girls go balistic. Which makes it all the more fun.
Has anyone heard the Missy Elliot song? The one they play on the radio every hour on the hour? If not, listen to it. It positively pornographic. That and the Cameron song "Hey Ma". Man, I can't believe some of the stuff that goes out over the airwaves. I don't have problems with the songs, remember Prince's "Little Nicky"? But they didn't play them on the radio. These songs are just blatently sexual. I am just waiting for the day when they stop bleeping the body part words. As it is, if a song has the "f" word in it they do it like this f*cking. It's practically all there but the U.
Hehehe How I do go on. Have a great day.
Lora

Lora - you're welcome. It's funny because I was thinkin' you looked like a blue flower. Love that smile. Wanna see more of your red hair, too.

I'm like you - but I toss on a denim jacket most of the year. I wear the MINIMUM amount of outerwear and get the same - Aren't you cold? I have some long baggy black cotton sweaters that I put on sometimes with a scarf to protect my lower face, and BB and my Dad always say - don't you want to bring a coat? (I really should, tho, what if we had a car accident and had to wait outside or walk home? Yikes!)

I am a denim fanatic - and was tickled the other day when my Dad gave me a flannel lined denim work coat he hasn't worn since he retired from the railroad a couple years ago. It's a hip length coat with patch pockets and it's very nicely worn around the edges and it was HIS! So that's my new fave. LOL

I also have a denim bomber jacket Momz found for me at a second-hand store a dozen years ago and it's so soft and lived in I'll never stop wearing it.

Must be my hippie days/nostalgia thing. Never liked new looking clothes - probably from being shy/self conscious when I was younger and didn't want people to notice me/look at me. Didn't want to invite anyone's value judgments if my clothes weren't hip enough or expensive enough. It's tough to be a kid! LOL

PS I have NEVER heard anyone but me say something good about The Dark Tower. I read the first few when they came out and since I am an epic fantasy addict I *got* it. Most SK fans - were like - wassup wid dis? Now i have ?four and plan to immerse myself in the story from the beginning again. One of my treats - oblivion!

Boy - can I yak or what? Happy Sunday, Grrrrrlz!

List? Earliest memory? Memories? How low can you go?

1. Some of things that I enjoyed as a child were climbimg and exploring the mountains. Basketball and baseball as well.
2. There are no regrets here, it doesn't do any good so why have them. Although if I had to choose one it would be to go back to when I first started loving chocolate and change it all.
3. I love all music. Some I don't listen to as much as others but I do love it all. I guess that I love it all because the only thing that I can play is a radio. I have a friend who has signed with rcm records and God willing he will make it big.
4. Main goal here are of course to loose more weight. Also at the top of my list is to get Corey's ADD med. right and to teach him copin with rage issues that come along with it.
5. Books, books everywhere. Some of the authors that I enjoy are Sue Grafton, Lawerence Sanders, Sterart Woods, and Janet Evonvich. I guess that one could say that I have a mystery theme here.
6. Right now I am into surfing the net, traveling, reading, and writing.

So what are the chances 3 people who enjoyed the Dark Tower Series would meet here? My favorite of the 4 is the Wizard and the Glass. I think they(the mysterious they) should make it into a movie. Its such a different genre for King to write in.

Here's a ? gigglez is the rage a symptom of the ADD, result of the ADD, or just comes from the compulsive behavior associated with it? Rage-a-holic here and if you can nip it in the bud as a child, maybe it wouldn't be so hard as an adult. Defining my anger is my best way to control it. I feel________because_______. I can/can not do_______to quit feeling this way. I feel like a two year old because I sometimes act like angry/ screaming person. I can monitor my behavior to try to change. I can not control what other people do. Thats whats working for me.

Maybe I have worked outside too much in my life, but I got to wear enough clothes. I think you gals would crack up at my big fur coat I wear. And I know fur is evil and all that

I think alot of the music out there goes overboard. I think they are trying to one up the shock value. And I find it hilarious that "Blister in the Sun" was never played on the radio when I was a kid and it is now. I think alot of it goes right over their heads I was an adult before I figured out "She Bop" and "I am turning Japanese". The tougher they try to sound though, the more vulnerable I think they are IE. Eminem and Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit. Some good mothering and some stable home life for them!

HAVE A HAPPY SUNDAY!
Miss Chris

Things I enjoyed as a child-
swimming in the river on a hot day
going to the movies on a Saturday afternoon
Big laughs- those ones you had as a kid with your friends where you lay on the floor and giggled over nothing until you were crying- the kind of laughs adults almost never have.

I f I could do anything over, I 'd like to meet my SO again. Not to do it differently , but I'd love to have that whole experience of meeting and falling in love with him all over again. Because as I often tell him, he's the last man I will ever do that with.


So much favourite music, it depends on the mood I'm in . My favourite band at the moment is Creed.

Apart from the weight thing, my main goals are to learn some French by the time we go to Europe in March, and to try and control my road rage.

Ahhh, books.

Recommended:

A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha Arhtur Golden
Mindhunter John E Douglas
Sarum Edward Rutherfurd
Last Chance Saloon Marian Keyes
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
The Red Tent Anita Diamant
Maximum Bob Elmore Leonard

Gigglez- I had to give up reading Lawrence Sanders 'Deadly Sins' series as the vivid descriptions of Edward Delaney's sandwiches were just becoming too much!

My favourite thing of all to do right now is turn off the phone, the computer, the radio or t.v, run a big huge bubblebath, grab a glass of wine and a good book and go and soak for an hour with NO interrruptions from work, SO, dog, family, friends or travelling sales people. Okay, maybe the dog.

You know, and don't think I am a total creep for this, when SK got run over I prayed he wouldn't die so we could finish the books. How rotten is that.
My daughter tend to get furious, and she had ADHD. I don't really know what to do about it. She gets so irrational, with just a little bit of a basis in reality to make it hard to deal with.
Rusty, thank you. I like that blue flower. I feel pretty. Like a delicate blue flower.
Wykyd, how sweet. Meeting the SO again so you could relive it. I love that.
Well, I am off (which most of you probably knew).
Lora

MG- I prayed for the same thing.

Miss Chris

We are BAD. What does SK call us - constant readers? He's so honest he'd appreciate the morbid, selfish thoughts on our parts.

It was cool reading Dreamcatcher, the Quabbin Reservoir book - we spend many summer afternoons taking the Yamaha up to Quabbin to enjoy the big water and green cool.

First SK book I read was 'Salem's Lot on a bus on my way to stay a week with my Momz on a lake in rural Maine. Gave me the creeps reading it in a creaking old summer cottage lit by Coleman lanterns. Yikes. I was kooked.

Snowing again today - big white puffy flakes coming down. Christmas card picture out back - before the dogs run around and muck it all up!

Wykyd - I have Owen Meaney and Sarum here in a to be read box - have to give them a shot soon!

Recently put my stepson on to SK. He has a degree in literature and had this snobbish attitude towards Stephen King even though he'd never read one. So I loaned him 'Needful Things' and 'Tommyknockers', and now he's hooked. Lets take over
the world one reader at a time SK FANS!

I love the pic. Makes me almost want to get my scanner up and running. There is this pic of me as a little girl with a bucket on my head, in overalls, with this kind of sneer on my face. I think it is the picture that has defined who I am my whole life, and at the same time its so cute I just want to scoop little Chris up and hug her to death.

My first SK book was when I was 13 and doing a stint in rehab. Yes I have the stigma of abusing myself many times in my lfe and not just overeating. The book was Carrie and it just flowed so easy, and I could relate from feeling bizarre like Carrie, to torturing someone else for being different.

My favorite is The Stand (I think thats alot of people's favorite). My most scared was It. I read It and Richard Bachmans This Familly of Women at the same time. I would get scared put it down and read all about these different generations of brave women.

I guess I should have called this my Ode to Stephen King! LOL

Miss Chris

My first SK book was also Carrie. I was pregnant with my first child. It totally freaked me out. But, I loved it. My favorite is also The Stand. I love that book. I read it like 2 times a year. I didn't like The Talisman the first time I read it, but after rereading it years later I found I loved it. I also like Dragon Eyes.
My favorite book as a child, after I got over my Nancy Drew obsession, was The Little Princess. I got lost in the horror of her life after her father died. Then when the old man found her and started making her life better by fixing up her attick room, I was in heaven. I could picture the whole thing.
Rusty, that is a cute picture. I love it. I wish my computer was working better, then I could scan.
Wykyd, I can't get any of my kids interested in SK. My oldest daughter reads, but doesn't like horror. My youngest daughter obsessively read romance novels. My son is into cartoons, Yu-gi-Oh. He won't read any novels until he is older.
Have a great evening everyone.
Lora

I LOVED Black House! It was like a terrible inside joke, if you hadn't read most of the other books then you just wouldn't get it!

I read Black House in 2 days which means I probably missed something and need to read it again.

Why can't WWT Activated Sludge be as interesting???????????????

Miss Chris