10 things we DON'T know about you!

[FaireGirl69]

1. I like the sound that is made from tapping two marshmallows together.
2. I am afraid of spiders - not paralyzing, but still afraid.  I mostly fear them jumping on me.  I don't know when or why this fear started, but I have been this way for a long time.
3. I recently got more tattoos...I have a total of 6 now on my body.
4. I used to have a size 6 shoe before getting pregnant with my first.  Now I'm a size 7.
5. I wanted to be a clown for Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus when I was 19.
6. I used to do live mannequin modeling in a store window in Brooklyn, NY when I was 13.
7. I love Punxsutawney Phil and all things having to do with Groundhogs and Groundhog Day!
8. I love to sing Karaoke although I haven't done so in a few years now.  Having no babysitter makes it a bit difficult these days now that I'm a mother.
9. I was bowling from age 7 until 27 when I had to stop due to having tendonitis in my wrist.  My current bowling ball has Mickey Mouse on it.
10. I am a Disney Fanatic!  My daughters' names are Ariel and Aurora, we have a cat named Belle, and some hermit crabs called, Jasmine, Cinderella, Snow White, and Tinkerbell.

[SleepyArcher]

I think it was Nyte who posted all that DB.....She has always complained shes always tired...well yea writing all those posts would do that       

[brier patch charlie]

Well, here go's, now everybody will know how strange I'm. If they didn't know all ready.

1. I was married 5 years to an Army BRAT, and have been divorced 13 years.
2. I'm suffer with chronic depression, line one still has a lot to do with it.
3. I hate dogs, but love cats.
4. I have a fetish for dark hair, olive skin women with thick eye brows. ( Latin women, just.... well back to lines one and two.
5.I love to hunt, but I all most cry when ever I run over a squirrel or small animal when I'm driving.
6. I was an Army photographer for a while, I won all Army and took honorable mention all Forces Europe with two of my photos, and to think I thought the photos sucked!
7. I have no kid's, and have been told by the VA, don't count on having any. A little something from all that stuff I came home with from the first Gulf War, little things to all ways remind me of my days in the Army.
8. I play the violin, but all ways wanted to play the bagpipes. But I was given my Great Grandfathers fiddle so thats what I learned to play, wished it been pipes instead.
9. I had lipo- done because the Army said I was to fat and were going to give me the boot.  Like , I can't help I like to eat........... pies, cakes, cookies and anything else that's left on the table!  OK, see line two for this one.  And a woman who loves to cook, I'm there new best friend!
10. I was blond as a child, but grew out of it. But I still have  blond moments , like omg why am I writing this!

This was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be.

[Riot]

Oh why not.. =)

1. I am actually quite a shy person until you get to know me and I'm comfortable with you.
2. When outside faire I tend to be very much a homebody and tend not to be the first person to talk.
3. I was dianosed with clinical depression at the age of 12
4. I refuse to take any medication for the above after a stint of meds when I was 18 nearly caused me to have a complete breakdown (the doctors don't refer to it as a complete because I recovered from it enough that I can fuction in everyday life).
5. I still have ticks from the breakdown, but tend to recluse myself away from people when it happens or if it is small and in front of people I sluf it off as nothing or a mistake. In fact I can only remember maybe 3 times where someone figured what was happening.
6.. I was a gymnist until I was almost 16, but do to a severe ankle strain (which I still have problems with, though I was told I would of been better off breaking it)) I had to drop out.
7. I have to sleep on the side of the bed farthest from the door.
8. I have a form of dyslexia, and as much I want to read books I tend not to because it takes me so many times of re-reading a page just to see the words and be able to process them I usually give up.
9. Yet I compehend things very quickly and after all the tests I've had over the years because doctors thought I was stupid from having so many problems with the reading of words they discovered I am quite the opposite. I also do not admit to it, nor talk about the dyslexia or speech impediment due to all the cruel things said to me over the years, I am very sensitive about it.
10. There are 3 people in this world I would do anything for, 1 is my grandmother, 1 is Lady Jessica, and my best friend James. I also take it quite seriously.

[Rani Zemirah]

Ok, I'll play...

1. I've been to every state in the Union except Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and Hawaii.

2. I have lived in a tent for over a year at a time, more than once, twice through Colorado mountain winters.

3. I worked at the Grand Canyon for 8 months in '88, and I was there for 8/8/88.

4. In '86 I hitchhiked from Key West, FL to Seward, AK, taking a detour to attend the Indy 500. Bobby Rahal won!

5. I have called my mother from the bottom of the Grand Canyon, the park across from the White House, and 15 miles out to sea, as well as every other interesting place I've ever been where there was a phone.

6. I spent a season shrimping off the coast of WA & OR.

7. I worked in a placer gold mine in AK for several weeks.

8. I have traveled through 3 Canadian provinces, hitchhiking, dangerously ill with bronchial pneumonia, and hallucinating from a fever of 103 degrees. I was given 5 days by the Mounties to get through the country before they came looking for me... (only not-so-nice people I met in Canada)

9. I can weave hats and baskets from palm fronds, and have made a living from it more than once.

10. I have learned that saying I will never do something probably means I will be forced to at some point in my life... so I try really hard not to say that anymore!   

[wyckdblyss]

1. I have never been married, but have been engaged 2 times.
2. I collect dragons and faeries.
3. My son was named after a knight of the round table - Gareth.
4. The farthest from home I have ever been was Las Vegas, Nevada
5. I live on the outskirts of Houston, Tx
6. I work for a school district.
7. I still have the same best friends, since elementary school (2nd & 3rd grades respectively)
8. I am very single.
9. I suffer from depression, and have for over 10 years.
10. I can pick things up and pinch with my toes. 

[Harbinger]

ok, here goes,

1.  I will always take the road least traveled, even to my detriment
2.  I sometimes whine about my circumstances, see number one
3.  I grow roses, again see number one
4.  My favorite quotes are "you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas." and "It is one of life's greatest compensations, that we can not sincerely try to help someone else without helping ourselves."
5.  I love motorcycles, and the open road
6.  I am an army brat
7.  I can remember when you could but a Big Mac, fries, and a Coke, and get change back from a dollar
9.  I despise party politics, but will avoid cans of worms
10. I adore my family

-Harb

[Zoë]

1. I never eat an entire french fry.  I eat about 3/4 of it and put it back on the plate.  Sometimes I do it with chips too, and I have no idea why.
2. My feet did not touch real grass until I was almost 2 years old because we lived in base apartment housing in Berlin GE.  As a result I hate being barefoot now and usually wear my shoes until I go to bed at night.  I wear flip-flops in the summer and that's okay, as long as my bare feet do not touch the ground.  If I am barefoot, my toes curl up absolutely involuntarily. 
3. I have SAD, or seasonal depression.  It's the reason I could only stand to live in New England for a year.
4. I am the oldest female on my dad's side of the family.  There was previously a gap of 75 years between my great-aunt and me; she died 4 years ago and I only have 1 younger female cousin on my dad's side. 
5. Between both my parents I have no biological aunts.  My dad has 3 brothers and my mom has 5 brothers.
6. I would love to test drive really fast cars for a living.  (read: I would love to speed recklessly without getting caught.)
7. I have 12 piercings and 2 tattoos, and no, getting a needle pushed through my lip did not hurt that badly.  It's biting the stud that really hurts.
8. I once bruised my sternum from the inside after having a panic attack and hyperventilating. 
9. I write, a lot.  I'd love to become a published writer but we'll see how that one works out.  I'll try being a teacher first.
10. I have over 20gb of music on my computer, a good chunk of which are bootleg audio of Broadway shows.  Don't tell.

[Tipsy Gypsy]

Rani, I can so relate to #10! Never say "never"; I prefer to say "I have no intention".

as for the rest of your list....day-amn!

[Rani Zemirah]

LOL... I was very restless in my early youth, and determined I was going to do everything I'd ever thought sounded like an adventure! I'm more settled now, but still love to travel, and I could write 1000 things more than 10...

And I usually just try to believe these days that I am open to the possibilities... so much easier than eating my words!  LOL   

[Martin Montgomery]

 I shouldn't but......
#1 At my heaviest I weighed over 600 Pounds.
#2 Because of #1 The Doctors gave me less than Two years to live. (That was OVER two years ago!!)
#2.5  I had Gastric Bypass Surgery on October 31st 2007. (I now weigh in at a Svelte 299 Pounds!) 
#3 I form friendships (Male and Female) quickly and as a result have been used,hurt and/or despondant for long periods of time.
#4 I have Never been married. (Or engaged,handfasted,co-habitated or dangerously serious about someone   But I will never Give Up!!)
#5 I am a HOPELESS ROMANTIC! (That was an easy guess!)
#6 My friends I see at fair I count among my closest. (And some I only talk to on This Blessed Forum!)
#7 I have lived in Texas almost my entire life,my family drove up the Western States,Drove the Alaskan Highway and came down the Eastern States! (It took several Months! I was six months old at the time and don't remember much!)   
#8 I am from a large (And LARGE!) family 6 Kids- Mike,Mark,Margaret,Melissa,Matt and Yours Truly,Monte!

#9 As a result of my work,(County Jailer) I have been hit,punched,kicked,slapped,spit at and almost urinated on! ( Yet my biggest fear is needles or getting a shot! )
#10  I am Honest to a Fault- (As I told a woman ,once, I am not smart enough to keep up with Lies)
#10.5 I really didn't like my answers -but refuse to change them!

[LadyDracolich]

Ok.. I'll play too...

1) I am TERRIFIED of sharks!!  I don't swim in the ocean b/c of it.  It's the only paralyzing fear I have.
2) I have random attacks of claustrophobia when I get too close physically to too many people (or even just one sometimes).
3) I read entirely too much.  As many as 7 or 8 books in a week on occasion (and I never forget the story afterward) .
4) I detest the sound that fingernails make on cotton socks when you are putting them on.  Some people have the 'fingernails on chalkboards' thing, mine is fingernails on socks.  Makes my teeth tingle.
5) I have been struck by lightening, twice.
6) I am completely enamored by fashion styles of the 40s!  I want a wardrobe!!
7) I like to climb things.  Rocks and fire towers in PA, Mt. Fuji in Japan, a Myan temple in Mexico, the Washington Monument in DC, the Empire State in NY, and the High Point monument in NJ.  
I'm a karaoke queen!  I love karaoke!  (I don't care if anyone I'm with sings, as long as I get to!)
9) I love old movies!  Black and whites.. it doesn't matter, as long as it's made before 1970, then I get picky.  I love Greta Garbo and Bette Davis. (see #6)
10) I got my first horse (ok, it was a 2 yr old Shetland pony stallion, clearly my parents were NOT horse people) when was 2 because I was allergic to cats and ducks (yeah, we tried ducks) when I was younger and dogs seemed to have a way of disappearing.  I'm sure they would have re-thought the horse thing if they'd realized it was going to start a 30 year (and still going) love affair.  I'm no longer allergic to cats or ducks.  I've moved on to veggies now.

There we go.

[Rani Zemirah]

Lady D, I'll sing karaoke with you anytime!!!

And Mt. Fugi?!? I am impressed!!! 

[Lord Figaro]

Now with that in mind, try to explain how I managed nearly 20,000 posts on the old forum...   

Massive doses of  coffee coupled with mega sleep deprivation?

I'm a karaoke queen!  I love karaoke!  (I don't care if anyone I'm with sings, as long as I get to!)

Sounds like we'd have fun with that one. To bad you never got to go to the MNRF. We usually would follow up the Saturday at fest with a night of karaoke at the bar I worked at. Though I do enjoy when I can get others up to sing. Especially those who say they'll never get up to sign. We have a few people here that said that, but we got them up anyway hee hee hee.

[Anna Iram]

I'm in:

1)My uncle, for whom I was named wanted to "adopt" me, have me move to Alabama to live with him and my aunt and  study to be an opera singer. My parents refused , but I sometimes wonder...what if?

2)To celebrate my 40th and my having quit smoking I hiked the Grand Canyon.

3) When I lived in NYC I had an imaginary bear I'd take with me if I had to be out late at night.

4) I had some really intense abdominal surgery a couple years ago for which I opted to stay awake. I watched the entire five hour surgery via an overhead monitor. I've literally seen my own guts.

5) I used to have a blonde mohawk. Modified and kind of girly rocker. You can see me walk past the camera in Madonna's first film in the Danceteria scene. Don't all rush out at once. 

6) I "saved" Bullwinkle's last ride through the Macy's thanksgiving day parade. I was bartending next to where they were inflating the balloons and they were missing a plug. I was notorious for saving odd caps and corks for just in case. Just in case came. He was retired after that show but my trusty jar of bottle caps got him through. It was the pellegrino cap that did it. I've also been inside one of the giant Thanksgiving ballons. I was working as an extra on the remake of Miracle on 34th Street and after morning makeup and costume there was always a long wait. I'd walk up the block to where the balloons were being inflated and they'd let me run around inside. It was really really cool.

7) I never collect live seashells. Don't care how beautiful they are. To me what's beautiful is the creature that made that beautiful shell. Consequently I get really sad in shell shops.


8)I write *much* better than I speak. I'm kind of shy.

9) I go out of my way to find grapes *with* seeds. I like they way they crunch.

10) 15 years ago I had a psychic reading done. It's on tape. Some of what was spoken of began to happen immediatly. Some , including certain names and very specific occurances have just come into being this year and even this very week. Freaky!!