# Introduce yourselves please????? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 12, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994 "2003-07-12T17:11:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/21 "2003-07-12T19:05:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lel \* > \*\*Comment about dry heat already inserted. (I’ve had this as my location for about a week now. I’m trying to convince myself that it’s true, but 116 degrees is still entirely too hot, dry heat or no.) > > Greetings, **Ladyrose & JeffyDMan**! \*\* I still maintain that it’s just NOT QUITE HOT ENOUGH FOR ME. “Izzithawtenuffforya?” NO SIREE! _sigh_ Um, I’m 24 and in Scottsdale, AZ… the most livable city in the world so long as you’re only living in it from October through April. I’m an all purpose (entry level call center to high executive) trainer at a miraculously surviving dot com. Umm, details, details. I keep a [journal](http://www.livejournal.com/~pixelated), and I believe that you should too. (or at least write in it more frequently _cough_ **lel** _cough_) Most of my outside of work time is spent watching DBacks games with my boyfriend, watching my son kick my ass at various video games, nuzzling up with my cats, or throwing things at my two roomate’s bedroom door to quiet down their girlsex love-a-thons at awkward hours of the night. Good to meet you guys. =) ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/22 "2003-07-12T19:13:37Z")
Nice to see more of the elders here. I’ll hit the big 5-0 in January! Married for 20 years come December, almost-18-y/o daughter, 8 y/o border collie/lab mutt, 29 years of federal service (11 years of active duty in the Navy followed by 18 years as an aerospace structural engineer working for the Navy as a civilian.) Currently living in Florida, but moving to Maryland as soon as the kid graduates next May. I sail for fun, I like to cook and putter about in my garden, and I spend entirely too many hours on these boards. And a friendly suggestion here, **Ladyrose** - you don’t need to quote another person’s entire post to respond to them. You can edit the quote to address specific statements, but quoting long posts is considered bad form. And welcome to our sandbox! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ladyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Ladyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ladyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/23 "2003-07-12T19:18:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jessity \* > \*\*I’m a 23 (24 in two weeks!) year old daughter, sister, aunt, student, and waitress living in Columbus, Ohio. Possibly relocating in the fall to Louisville, Kentucky. Or somewhere else, I haven’t decided yet. I have no idea what I’m doing with my life and was trying to figure it out for a while. Now I just figure whatever happens will happen. > > I like to read and I love music. . . rarely do I turn my television on and I haven’t seen hundreds of popular movies, but where ever I am, there’s usually music playing. I like to read, but don’t like to hurt my poor little brain too much, so I just read whatever tickles my fancy. I have a hamster and a golden retriever, although the dog lives with my parents. > > I’m somewhat anti-social, and for the most part, like it that way. > > Nice to meet you, **Ladyrose**. \*\* **Nice to meet you too Jessity! I am not anti social, but not social either…LOL** That is why I am on the computer…faceless friends sometimes are the best ones.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Ladyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Ladyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ladyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/24 "2003-07-12T19:21:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eilsel \* > \*\*I always thought BBW meant Big Beautiful Woman… > > I am 38 (39 in Oct), married to dh for 18 years, but with him a total of 22 years. Have two children, ds is 10.5, dd will be 8 in August. We are a Christian family attending a Baptist church. > > We have a dawg, a shtizu-poodle mix, he’s 5 months old. > > I’ve been a paralegal for 15 years, prior to that I was executive secretaries elsewhere. > > I love to taste new and interesting wines and foods. I enjoy an ocean breeze but don’t enjoy sitting on the beach for long periods of time. > > I like to help people whenever and however I can. > > I also believe this quote, “A good time for laughing is when you can.” > > Also, I dont’ have a problem if someone doesn’t use the shift key BUT if they only use the shift key, then I have a problem 😃 \*\* **Glad to meetchya Eilsel, thanks for the intro, I am the same as you in many ways!** ---
**Author:** ![Ladyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Ladyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ladyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/25 "2003-07-12T19:24:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mama Tiger \* > \*\*Hi, **Ladyrose**. I’m fairly new here myself (not that you can tell it by my post count), introduced to the SDMB by my daughter, **whiterabbit**. I’m hitting the big 5-0 this year. I currently live below sea level in New Orleans (although that’s always subject to change, Papa Tiger’s company being highly mobile), which is a town designed for fun. Not for work, alas! “Work ethic? We don’t got no steenking work ethic!” 😃 Did you know the typical work week here ends Friday at noon, although most people have every other Friday off, and the weekend officially begins on Thursday? Not a bad deal if you can get it! > > Anyway, I have two kids – the other one, Young Tiger will be heading off to Air Force basic training in November – and currently the animal count is two dogs (Rusty, golden retriever, and Isaac, yellow lab/golden retriever mix, heavy on the lab) and one cat (Emily, tortoiseshell with a Siamese attitude). Have lived all over the place, especially since I met and married Papa Tiger seven years ago – we’ve moved probably 12,000 miles in the intervening time. It does keep life interesting! > > I’m a self-employed court reporter, doing strictly work for firms that do federal administrative agency-type stuff, no criminal trials for me! Plus it’s a portable job, which is a true necessity with our mobile lifestyle. We’re a computer geek family, Papa Tiger being the uber-geek, having gone to IBM programming school and gotten into computers in 1967; we currently have six computers for four people, and I’m contemplating adding a seventh – hey, I only have _one_ right now! > > We’re also in the throes of house stuff – the current project is replacing the nasty stained pale blue carpeting in the downstairs of our house with a floating laminate wood floor. I am currently sitting on the most GODAWFUL ugly fake brick linoleum I have ever seen, that was revealed when the carpet was pulled up in one room. It will be interesting to see if we can do this without killing each other. At least Papa Tiger has figured out that while he’s the power tool guy, I’m the finicky detail work person, so we’ll see how it works. This gave him a good excuse to get the table saw he’s been drooling over forever, however. 😃 We keep hoping a tropical storm or hurricane will come along and flood the downstairs so the flood insurance racket – er, policy we hold will pay to replace the floor without us doing the work, but have about given up; four storms in the two years we’ve been here, and we’re STILL dry. Phooey! > > Anybody want some rain? We got, by official measurement, 4.55 inches yesterday afternoon in less than 45 minutes. And we STILL can’t get the house to flood properly! \*\* **Thanks for the intro and all, I wouldn’t mind some rain, we haven’t had any in over two months here, I am about to crack from the dryness. Glad to meetchya Mama Tiger !** ---
**Author:** ![Ladyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Ladyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ladyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/26 "2003-07-12T19:26:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \* > \*\*My name is Shirley Ujest. > > I am a homocidal thread killer. > > It beats cleaning house. > > I live in Michigan. Two kids - 5 and 3 - a dog, one husband and a love of writing, reading trashy novels and making fun of others fills in the blanks of life for me. \*\* **Thanks for the warning, I will watch me posts then…LOL Thanks for the intro Shirley Ujest , glad to meetchya too! LOL** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/27 "2003-07-12T19:31:04Z")
Hehe, I’ll do it, I guess. 😃 I’m rinni, I’m 23 and female, and I type “hehe” and use the 😃 face a lot. I’ve been here for a couple of months, but I don’t post very much… I guess you could say I’m pretty much a lurker. I’m shy, even online, and I don’t like to argue. I’m a student at university and I live with my parents. I also work at Wal-Mart as a cashier. We have a dog, a 15-year-old silky terrier named Mabel. I have a livejournal at [Are you lost, too? — LiveJournal](http://livejournal.com/users/rinni) and will soon have a webpage at [http://rinni.iputthedotinthe.com](http://rinni.iputthedotinthe.com) whenever I get motivated enough to make one. I like to draw on oekakis and in Photoshop, I’m not great, but it’s still fun. I drew the pic on my (future) webpage. I like to sing, play bass and play flute. Okay, yeah, I’m pretty boring. 😃 Nice to meet you! ---
**Author:** ![Ladyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Ladyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ladyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/28 "2003-07-12T19:32:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by malkavia \* > \*\*I still maintain that it’s just NOT QUITE HOT ENOUGH FOR ME. > “Izzithawtenuffforya?” > > NO SIREE! > _sigh_ > > Um, I’m 24 and in Scottsdale, AZ… the most livable city in the world so long as you’re only living in it from October through April. I’m an all purpose (entry level call center to high executive) trainer at a miraculously surviving dot com. > > Umm, details, details. I keep a > [journal](http://www.livejournal.com/~pixelated), and I believe that you should too. (or at least write in it more frequently _cough_ **lel** _cough_) > > Most of my outside of work time is spent watching DBacks games with my boyfriend, watching my son kick my ass at various video games, nuzzling up with my cats, or throwing things at my two roomate’s bedroom door to quiet down their girlsex love-a-thons at awkward hours of the night. > > Good to meet you guys. =) \*\* **Great top meetchya too** **malkavia,thanks for the info!** ---
**Author:** ![Ladyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Ladyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ladyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/29 "2003-07-12T19:35:08Z")
And a friendly suggestion here, **Ladyrose** - you don’t need to quote another person’s entire post to respond to them. You can edit the quote to address specific statements, but quoting long posts is considered bad form. And welcome to our sandbox! 😃 \*\* [/QUOTE] **Thanks FairyChatMom for the info and for the suggestion, it is noted! Thanks for the welcome too dear, and yes, it is nice to know that there are other’s in the 50’s here too!** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/30 "2003-07-12T19:35:29Z")
Well, I’m **Lsura**. I’m less than 2 months from 30, single, no kids and way too overly analytical. I live in the Southern US, and I can’t wait to get through the fall. I’m hoping to head back to New England in a year. Either that, or head West somewhere. A year ago last August I left my corporate pigdog job, moved out of state and started grad school to be a librarian. I’ve got another year before I have to head back out into the _ **REAL WORLD** _ again. I’m getting a kitten or a cat soon. It was going to be this week, but I’ve still got to check the budget a bit and make sure I can afford the initial vet visits. The way it’s looking, I may have to wait until the end of August (sigh). I also occasionally decide to stalk **glee** around the boards, but I haven’t done that in a while. 😉 (ok, I really just want to see how long it’ll take him to do a vanity search and find this thread). ---
**Author:** ![Ladyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Ladyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ladyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/31 "2003-07-12T19:38:47Z")
Nice to meet you! \*\* [/QUOTE] **Nice to meetchya too rinni, thanks for the intro and the welcome.** 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/32 "2003-07-12T19:39:56Z")
Hey, another new person – hi, **Polairis**! Oh, **malkavia**? You can take the 116 degree temperatures and keep them! For the intro, I’m lel, I’m 23 and live in an oven (or Arizona – take your pick), and I like to spend all my time trying to find yet more message boards with which to occupy my waking hours. When not doing that, I like to read, go shopping, and think of really stupid puns. At the moment my line of work is typing receipts. PS: A journal? What on earth could that be? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Ladyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Ladyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ladyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/33 "2003-07-12T19:41:33Z")
**Nice to meetchya too Lsura, you sound like an interesting gal, I am a cat lover too,so I know how you feel, anyway, thanks hun.** 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lockseer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@Lockseer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockseer)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/34 "2003-07-12T19:45:41Z")
What the hell. Might as well, post, right? I’m a 28-year-old Cancer. Grew up in west Michigan, went to Michigan State for a Bachelors and Masters in Advertising. Moved to Chicago, where I worked as an account planner in the Chicago office of a world-wide advertising agency. Was laid off last spring, and decided this past November to get the third degree from Michigan State (PhD in Mass Media). So…living at college now, waiting for classes to start up in the fall. Working three jobs (just for the summer), but still enjoying plenty of free time and feel very at home back in the halls of academia. ---
**Author:** ![HerMajestyLorna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@HerMajestyLorna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HerMajestyLorna)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/35 "2003-07-12T19:49:02Z")
Hi, **Ladyrose**! I’m **Lorna** , and I just graduated high school. I am heading off to Haverford College this fall, and I am _really_ excited. I have a dog, Honey, and I used to have fish but they all went to fishie heaven. 🙂 I just finished redoing my bathroom. It used to be ugly and covered in gross wallpaper, so I stripped it and painted it and now it is truly beautiful. I’m happy I finally got around to that. I’ve been into the SDMB since the very beginning, when it was on AOL. When we moved here, it took me a while to register, but I’ve been around the boards since I was about 12. Hope you enjoy it here! ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/36 "2003-07-12T19:55:06Z")
Howdy, **Ladyrose** - impressive choice of user ID, beauty. Well, I’m a 39 yr-old female (blonde) Texan - born and raised in Dallas. (Did someone mention heat earlier?) I’m a Corporate Controller, which is every bit as boring as it sounds. I’ve two small boys to carry on when I’m gone…and three cats, one dog. Cherokee, Siam, Sheba, and Scarlett. My hubby is a firefighter for Dallas. Welcome! ---
**Author:** ![Ladyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Ladyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ladyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/37 "2003-07-12T20:11:26Z")
**Yeah, what the heck, glad to meetchya Lockseer, nice intro! Capricorn here…** ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/38 "2003-07-12T20:12:48Z")
Greetings, **LadyRose**! You’re a cut above some of the newbies we get…they just stroll in, take a dump, then we have to call a mod…it gets messy… I’m 36 in September, married with two children, living near Orlando. I’m a voracious reader, a self-taught knitter (I just learned increase and decrease and am about done with the washcloth knitted on the diagonal…yay me) I work in broadcasting, and Ivylad is disabled due to an on the job injury. I like Star Trek, Trading Spaces, and Harry Potter. My folks are currently spending my inheritance by touring the USA in their RV :). Welcome to the boards…and don’t go into Great Debates unless you are Veee-hherry sure of your facts. And have them on hand. ---
**Author:** ![Ladyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Ladyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ladyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/39 "2003-07-12T20:13:41Z")
**Hi HerMajestyLorna, happy to meetchya too, nice to know something about you, I know I will like this forum, there are so nifty people here, that is for sure, thanks hun.** 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ladyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Ladyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ladyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994/40 "2003-07-12T20:15:58Z")
**Howdy Blonde, nice to meetchya too, I am happy to know something aboutchya! I like my nic too, I am a Lady and my real last name is Rose, so it just suits…LOL** 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduce-yourselves-please/187994.md?page=3)