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  1. I have, in some capacity (I have only visited Texas for stopovers in its Dallas-Fort Worth airport), been in 21 US states and 2 Canadian provinces.

  2. I have been lurking on the Dope since 2005, and I feel like I know more details about the lives of a number of people here–who have no clue who I am–than about the lives of many people I see daily in person.

  3. Just like many Americans, I had to learn to play the plastic recorder for a music class in primary school. I’m sure I charmed parents and teachers alike with the tuneless squeaks I produced on that poor instrument. A few years later, though, I found a wooden recorder that had been my mother’s when she was a child. I found it much easier to play because I didn’t have to keep a finger clamped on the hole in the back. In fact, I found I could play all sorts of tunes on it without even thinking about it, and can pick up a melody on it in seconds to this day.

  4. As an inverse to the above story, I find it nearly impossible to follow dance steps. I’ve attended several classes and/or lessons and have always taken longer than anyone else to learn dances, or been unable to learn them entirely.

  5. I have never drunk a full glass of Coke because I find the taste vile.

  6. My favorite cuisines are Greek and Italian.

  7. Speaking of food, I tend to have very expensive taste. I love eating at high-end restaurants and shopping at gourmet stores. The one thing that seems to contradict the rest of my taste entirely is that I love instant mashed potatoes and am not particularly fond of the real thing.

  8. When I meet new people, I almost always ask them what music they like. I think you can tell a lot about someone’s personality from what they listen to.

  9. It probably doesn’t show on this board, but I use a lot of British words and phrasing in my writing and speech. It derives mostly from my love of British pop culture, but also from the fact that I correspond regularly with a few Brits on the internet.

  10. I won’t admit it to most people, but I actually didn’t think Pride and Prejudice was that great.

  11. I have never suffered a serious injury.

  12. I have also never been stung by a bee. (Or wasp, or yellowjacket, or…)

  13. I live well below my means and I think I always will. My aforementioned expensive taste in food sometimes works against me, but I mostly eat at home and very cheaply.

  14. One of my vices is taking things because they are very inexpensive or free. I have amassed much more “stuff” than I will ever use.

  15. When I was very young I preferred talking to people my parents’ age to talking to people my own age. I won’t make any claims toward being unusually mature, I just didn’t really share interests with other small children.

  16. In the back of my mind, I judge whether or not a day has been productive based on whether or not I have left the house to do something or other. Despite the fact that I have gotten a lot of things done today, I still feel like I have been lazy because I’ve stayed home.

  17. I take a strange pleasure in cleaning the house.

  18. I would love to have a dog. Some days I would rather spend time with animals than with my fellow humans.

  19. I would like to cook more than I do. This year I have been cooking more often, and I find meals I’ve cooked myself immensely satisfying.

  20. I talk to music snobs about how I love music on vinyl because it’s lossless and has a certain quality of sound, but honestly the main reason I buy vinyl is because used records are so cheap nowadays.

  21. I love to write, and I think I have perfected a narrative style, but I am absolutely awful at coming up with plots, much less pacing a story properly.

  22. I watch very little television. There are only two shows I follow regularly, and I almost always watch episodes after their initial airing (through sites like Hulu or on DVD).

  23. I have a mild obsession with mental disorders.

  24. I love camping.

  25. I do not cry easily.

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  1. I was born by emergency Caesarean.
  2. I just finished 'Midnight’s Children and am proud because…
  3. I have a really short attention span. I go on my laptop whilst watching tv. I get a lot of reading done commuting because there’s no laptop or tv.
    4.I’ve spoken on the radio of a young offenders’ institution.
  4. I love Nigerian and similar accents.
  5. I know one really, really good bit of celebrity gossip that I can’t reveal.
  6. I got bored of myself after 6.
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1 My shoe size is 6W, but I usually wear pretty 7 1/2s with a bit of TP stuffed into the toe.
2 I don’t like guns, but I am adamantly opposed to anyone else deciding whether or not I may own one.
3 I hate chickens.
4 I love birds.
5 I owned a wolf
6 The concept of Facebook and Myspace freak me out just a little. I don’t understand why some people like strangers knowing anything about them, but I’m working on it.
7 I’m mechanically inclined
8 It annoys me when #7 is thought to be odd simply because I’m a girl.
9 I hate movie theaters
10 I’ve had Lasik, 3 corrections, and now wear glasses. If I’d waited a couple of years, I wouldn’t have been approved for the procedure, but I’m glad I didn’t wait.
11 I can’t read music, but play guitar by ear.
12 I’ve owned my own business and been another company’s employee, at the same time, in the same industry, in different states, more than once.
13 I’ve successfully bottle-fed and socialized orphaned baby cats, foxes, raccoons, a kangaroo, rabbits, wolves, cows, Mountain goats, skunks, a horse, red squirrels, two mule deer and a lynx.
14 I’ve never fed a baby (under a year) human.
15 Socializing a domestic (beef) cow is not a good thing for any one.
16 Bell peppers make my lips and tongue itch and swell, but “hot peppers” do not.
17 I eat beef, but only if I don’t know its name.
18 I’ll eat a chicken, even if its name was Fluffy.
19 Daffodils are my favorite flower.
20 I despise the color orange
21 My Otherwise Beloved Husband is over a foot taller than I.
22 I really like the smell of cucumbers, but don’t care about their flavor.
23 I love winter.
24 I feel guilty about [del]murdering plants who are just trying to make a living[/del] pulling weeds.
25 I like lemon better than chocolate.

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My daughter just tagged me with this on Facebook, so this is a two-fer.

  1. I’m a Cancer

  2. I had my third child at home (by accident) after 40 minutes labor total.

  3. My first memory is playing hide and seek in a cemetary. I was 18 months old at the time.

  4. I have always hated and feared clowns. Although I’ve never said anything about this to my kids, they all dislike clowns too.

  5. I love spicy food.

  6. My son attends a large high school (4A size in Indiana). Despite there being 300 girls in his class (plus as many in the other three classes), his girl friend is the daughter of the guy whose office ris ight next to mine at work. We are both a little freaked out by this.

  7. There have only been two people I’ve been completely comfortable around - my brother and my current love.

  8. I have the comedic sensibilities of a teen age boy. I love tasteless shock jocks and juvenile comedies.

  9. I only cry when I’m nice to people.

  10. I’m not sure I can whisper to horses, but I have a way with them. I can enter a room in which 3 or 4 people are struggling to get a horse in a stocks, take the lead shank and have the horse comply with a minimum of fuss. I can also walk up to and collect blood from crazy race horses who are trying to tear down the walls. This comes in very handy as I"m an equine veterinarian.

  11. I love all reptiles. At one point I owned 2 lizards, a turtle and a 3 snakes. I’m down to 1 lizard right now.

  12. I could happily eat cold cereal for breakfast every day of my life.

  13. One of my daughters is currently living in Sri Lanka and the other in New Zealand. All my kids love to travel.

  14. My dad never went to synagoge, didn’t raise us to be Jewish, yet played “the Jew” to get laughs and stand out. For example, he’s drop Yiddish words into conversations, say that he liked being in Utah because he could see what it was like to be a gentile, and spoke about his kosher grandfather all the time. It left me very confused about religion.

  15. From the moment I laid eyes upon her, I’ve had an irrational hate of Joan Lunden. She’s evil.

  16. I’m dyslexic. I taught myself to read at the age of 3 by recongnizing the shapes of words, not by sounding them out. Perhaps because of this, I can not spell to save my life.

  17. My idea of a great time is to spend a few hours at an auction buying boxes of old stuff for a dollar and furniture I don’t need. My goal is to sell this crap on ebay some day, but the site intimidates me.

  18. I need to lose weight. Currently I’m eating more fruits and vegetables and less refined foods than I used to. I’m hoping the pounds will begin to melt off using this method, but I’m not particularly hopeful.

  19. I met the love of my life over the internet - although not on a dating site.

  20. I’ve had season tickets to the Purdue women’s basket team for 10 years. I write a blog about them on a Purdue fan site.

  21. Goats are about my favorite animal ever - although I like all mammals to some extent.

  22. I have an irrational fear of cockroaches and hate all insects.

  23. I am a Sudoku addict. I can’t go to work until I do the puzzle in the daily paper.

  24. I attended Michigan State University, but don’t feel any particular fondness for the place or its athletic teams. I work at Purdue and I’m a big Purdue fan.

  25. My mother is currently on a birding trip to Ethiopia. She has gone on 4-5 big trips per year since my father passed away.

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Transcribed almost exactly from the 25 things I posted on Facebook:

  1. I still take Flintstone vitamins every day.

  2. I got my first date with my wife by cooking a decent paella and doing a dreadful Rodney Dangerfield impersonation.

  3. I was born and raised in Archie Bunker’s neighborhood: Astoria, New York. The modest, blue-collar house I grew up in is now worth over a million dollars.

  4. The first baseball team I rooted for was the Minnesota Twins, because their backup catcher, Earl Battey, was the first baseball player who ever gave me an autograph.

  5. Fourteen crossword puzzles that I constructed have appeared in the New York Times. Dozens of others that the Times rejected have appeared in USA Today and the American Airlines in-flight magazine, among other publications

  6. I appeared on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” but was never the fastest during the Fast Fingers round, never made it to the Hot Seat, never answered any questions, and never won a dime.

  7. Twice, I won $75 from a radio station by winning a contest called “Hide the Salami.”

  8. Along with 499,999 of my closest friends, I attended Simon & Garfunkel’s famous 1981 concert in Central Park. I was a mile from the stage, and trees completely blocked my view. Every 10 minutes or so, a breeze would blow some branches out of the way, and I could vaguely see someone playing what looked like a guitar. I still don’t know if that was Paul Simon, or just a member of his backup band.

  9. I hold a teaching certificate in Social Studies, but have never held a teaching job.

  10. My Dad was a huge fan of British spy shows like “The Saint” and “Secret Agent.” I watched with him, which is undoubtedly why Diana “The Avengers” Rigg was the first female celebrity I ever had a massive crush on.

  11. There’s only one celebrity people ever tell me I resemble: Dan Aykroyd.

  12. I went to an all-boys high school and was married for nearly 7 years to a Church of Christ girl. So, I never learned to dance until I was in my mid thirties.

  13. At AIDS Services of Austin’s “Viva Las Vegas Night,” I was propositioned by a gay drag queen dressed as Carol Channing. My wife and mother-in-law enjoyed that a lot more than I did. Oh, I don’t delude myself that he/she actually found me attractive. Rather, I’m pretty sure he/she was looking around for stiff, insecure straight guys to mess with!

  14. Back in the Seventies, my brothers and I filled out thousands of baseball All-Star ballots with “Peter LaCock” (a real player, by the way; he was the son of “Hollywood Squares” host Peter Marshall) as a write-in, just because we thought the name sounded hilariously obscene.

  15. All four of my grandparents were born in Ireland, and came to America in the 1920s. I spent three full summers in Ireland as a kid, and invariably came home with a brogue, that lasted a few weeks.

  16. Once upon a time, I sponsored a man who wanted to become Catholic. I was such a wonderful spiritual guide and role model that, halfway through the process, he left his wife and kids and moved to California.

  17. I prefer to eat pizza when it’s at room temperature. I also like to leave an uncapped bottle of Coke in the fridge, because I like it best when it’s very cold and very flat.

  18. I have never voted for a Democrat for President, and never voted for a Democrat for ANY office when I lived in New York. In Texas, I WANT to vote Republican, but HAVE to vote for Democrats regularly, because too many of the Republicans are just flat-out wingnuts.

  19. I didn’t get a driver’s license until I was 23.

  20. During the 1978 Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, Ricardo Montalban passed by in a horse-drawn cart. Being a teenage wiseacre, I yelled, “Where’s your Cordoba?” He cracked up laughing, and pointed down at his cart. (I give him major points for being a good sport and not walking over to kick my butt.)

  21. I am the polar opposite of Bill Clinton. That is, I have NEVER smoked marijuana, but thanks to the many concerts I’ve attended, I have DEFINITELY inhaled.

  22. I could eat an entire jar of pimento-stuffed green olives as a snack.

  23. Back in the Fifties, lazy high school students who didn’t want to read “Moby Dick” or “The Great Gatsby” wouldn’t buy Cliff Notes, they’d buy Classics Comics, which adapted all the greatest works of literature into comic book form. My uncles bought dozens of those comics, and my grandmother still had them all when I was little. I used to read them almost every night. So, even when I haven’t actually read a great book, it’s a safe bet I know the whole plot because I read the Classics Comic when I was 7. And I’ve got to admit, the comic book versions of “Frankenstein” and “Last of the Mohicans” were both fifty times better than the actual novels.

  24. I was in Barack Obama’s graduating class in college… but as far as I can remember, I never met him.

  25. Everyone who’s seen me drive, or who has been a passenger in my car, ridicules me for being a slow driver. NOBODY believes me when I tell them I actually HAVE received a speeding ticket.

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  1. I have a dimpled columella nasi.
  2. I met the love of my life at a dopefest in Las Vegas. Bob likes to tell people he married a belly dancer he met in Las Vegas.
  3. I didn’t think anyone else would like my dancing until I was well into college. $#@%3 brothers.
  4. However, this was not the reason why I couldn’t fast dance at the first dance I ever went to. It was that every time we got up to dance, the guy I was with started dancing the funky monkey and I could NOT wrap my head around that (or maybe I was afraid that if I started dancing I would also start laughing).
  5. Mom started working for American Airlines when I was in kindergarten, and our first trip was to San Francisco and New York City.
  6. I cannot count the times I’ve been to San Francisco. NYC is in second place.
  7. I’ve been to Stonehenge twice (Also Castlerigg (a stone circle in the lake district), and Avebury). I was rather disappointed in Stonehenge the first time with all the tourist milling around, but the second time they were keeping people from getting near the stones, so it was less prosaic.
  8. I still prefer Castlerigg.
  9. The only broken bone in my body is a heel spur. This must be a good trick because my podiatrist was impressed.
  10. When I was in elementary school, I had to get speech therapy because I was swallowing backwards. I still have to concentrate sometimes when I want to swallow pills.
  11. I’ve never lived outside of Texas; with the exception of college, I haven’t lived outside of Tarrant County.
  12. My great-great-grandfather’s name was Julius Ceasar Lowe.
  13. Also in elementary school, I was doing so poorly (“She would do so well if she would just apply herself”), that Mom took me to the Child Study Center in fourth grade. While I know now that I have ADD, I was diagnosed as having “the worst case of passive-aggression that [the psychiatrist] had ever seen”.
  14. While I was there, I was evaluated as being just a couple of points below genius level.
  15. I was raised in an atmosphere of creativity - Mom did needlecrafts and painting, Dad did photography and woodworking, and I picked up hobbies from both of them.
  16. I learned what a googol was a long time ago, because it was on the header line of a page in the dictionary we had. How do kids these days find interesting words?
  17. My first job was printing napkins with names for weddings. Even though there was a lot of gruntwork in that, I really enjoyed it. I don’t know if that started my interest in typography, but it certainly fed it.
  18. When I was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, I was able to spell it correctly on the first try. Bob and I figured out that I knew about the disease because I had read a Heinlein short story about a man with MG.
  19. I’ve worked as a programmer in retail, physical security, oil&gas and telephony companies. I’ve learned something interesting in all of them, although nothing beats this company, where you will end up having serious discussions concerning teddy bears.
  20. When I was a kid, I had a length of cartilage grow between my two top front teeth above the gumline. I had to have surgery to have it removed before the front tooth gap could be repaired. Many years later, a dentist took a full jaw x-ray and found a circular cutout where the cartilage probably was. He had never seen anything like that.
  21. My body does not process nitrous oxide (aka laughing gas) properly, so it causes dizzy spells for months, even years afterwards. I find a surprising number of medical professionals that have never heard of this. My body does really strange things, apparently.
  22. When I worked on physical security systems, one of the systems I helped install was at the United Nations. Best work-related trip EVER.
  23. I attempted to prove that every word in my thesaurus was connected to every other word. By hand. Twice. (The first time, I just gave up. The second time I actually found a dead end)
  24. I’m a taurus, with aries rising and a gemini moon. This actually works because I can do the driving aries, but I’m mostly about comfort and pleasure; however, I love being on center stage. Bob is aries with taurus rising, but he is more taurus than aries to me. We were both born in the year of the tiger… 12 years and one month apart. [ end silly astrology blather ]
  25. I’ve developed a habit in the past few years of snapping my fingers by snapping the middle finger, rather than the thumb.
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  1. I have a goofy cat named “Hoser” who follows me around like a puppy.
  2. Six months ago I was diagnosed as having had ADD my entire life, explaining why I’ve never succeeded in my attempts to further my education.
  3. I work the midnight shift throwing stock at Kroger. See #2.
  4. I recently enrolled in the local college to get a degree in Therapeutic Massage. It’s mid-semester and I’m carrying a 4.0 in the general education prereqs. Again, see #2.
  5. My 1994 Dodge Dakota has less than 77k miles on it.
  6. I was born on Easter in 1963. My immediate family still calls me “Bunny.”
  7. I share a house with my oldest sister.
  8. In 12 hours I’m going to the Fisher Theater to see “Spamalot.”
  9. Smoking is not as enjoyable now as it used to be.
  10. I’m a lesbian.
  11. I can’t recall the last time I had sex with anyone other than myself.
  12. It doesn’t really bother me.
  13. I lied about #12.
  14. I rarely make my bed.
  15. The smell of Spaghettios makes me feel like vomiting.
  16. I’d be a groupie of The Chenille Sisters if I could afford to follow them around.
  17. My all-time favourite scene of a sitcom is from “Roseanne” when Jackie has to call Aunt Barb to let her know that “Dad has passed. He died. No, he’s dead. DEAD. DAD’S DEAD. He’s fine, he sends his love.”
  18. I’m very disorganized.
  19. I love crossword puzzles that are challenging.
  20. I sleep on flannel sheets all year round.
  21. In two months I’ll be 46 years old and I don’t feel anywhere close to it.
  22. I have very short, unruly hair, and that’s the way, uh huh uh huh, I like it, uh huh uh huh.
  23. I really miss Karen Carpenter.
  24. I snore (or so I’m told.)
  25. My other two sisters have declared that I am dead to them (and that’s okay with me.)
  26. I love Cap’n Crunch with Crunchberries.
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In no particular order:

  1. I can do that cool thing where you a quarter across the top of your fingers. Only took me a month or so to learn. I’m very productive at work.

  2. I’ve the attention span of a four month old goldfi- hey look! Curtains! Sweeet!

  3. I don’t like Goldfish crackers. There I said it.

  4. I was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, though for work reasons I currently reside in Chennai, India.

  5. During my time here, I’ve learned that the path to enlightenment begins with the ability to sit cross-legged without your feet going numb.

  6. I can sit cross-legged for nearly six minutes before my feet go numb

  7. I walk funny with numb feet.

  8. I’m totally addicted to the gym. I’m not one of those muscled-up gym-freaks that who pops steroids like tic-tacs but I like to keep in shape. Plus I like to laugh at all the muscled-up gym-freaks who pop steroids like tic-tacs… very quietly… from a considerable distance.

  9. I have a super cool story involving my birthday, a pilots hat, my dead grandfather, and airport jail.

  10. I’ve been to airport jail.

  11. My grandparents are swingers. I’m super duper serial.

  12. There are no computers in the universe powerful enough to calculate the amount of times I’ve locked myself out of my car, office, apartment or bathroom. That’s right… bathroom.

  13. I’m really good at opening locked doors with a Blockbuster card

  14. I no longer rent movies from Blockbuster.

  15. I’m pretty good at foosball. I’m starting to find out that women are not typically impressed by this.

  16. I tried absinthe… once.

  17. I accidentally lit my balcony on fire… once.

  18. I’m no longer allowed to drink absinthe.

  19. Until fairly recently, I was dead convinced that the chorus to the AC/DC song that went “dirty deeds and they’re done dirt cheap” was “Thirty Thieves and the Thunder Chief”. I was actually a bit heartbroken when I found out the truth.

  20. I went to the same High School as Matt Stone (of the South Park ilk)

  21. “Papyrus” is my favorite all-time computer font.

  22. In my younger years I spent 2 months in a juvenile rehabilitative boot camp. Honestly, two of the best years of my teenage life.

  23. For reasons I don’t have time to get into, I am now a 28 year old adult with a learner’s permit.

  24. I’m utterly amused by phrases like “edited it” and “some aluminum in 'em”. Say them aloud and try not to giggle.

  25. I sometimes fantasize about having synesthesia. T’would make life SO much more interesting.

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A link to William Shakespeare’s ‘Five and Twenty Random Things abovt me’

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  1. I laughed out loud at Le Ministre’s link above.
  2. I have secretly wanted to do this on Facebook, but was afraid of looking too attention-whorey, so I’m doing it here instead. It would damage my claim to only use Facebook ironically.
  3. I am currently listening to Skye waulking songs on YouTube. I would feel much weirder about that if someone else hadn’t made a playlist of them.
  4. I am writing (or avoiding writing) a thesis on nuns.
  5. I love books intended for teens, and when I’m feeling stressed or sad I head straight to the children’s section at the library. Not even sci-fi/fantasy, which seems more culturally accepted. I actually prefer teen historical fiction.
  6. I never liked fantasy, even as a kid. The closest I’ve gotten is Harry Potter and Madeleine L’Engle.
  7. I want to get a betta fish, just to name him Ankersmit, after F. R. Ankersmit who I was forced to study in a theory of history class. We called him Ankershit, and I just want to be able to talk about cleaning up the ankershit in the tank.
  8. I have a lip balm addiction. Vaseline is my drug of choice.
  9. I watch really bad foreign films and enjoy them much more than I would if they were American films, in English. I think it makes me feel intellectual.
  10. I spent three months in La Pocatière, Québec.
  11. I love pashmina scarves.
  12. I once touched a 13th-century wood carving in a museum. The sign said that pilgrims used to rub the foot of Christ as a blessing, and it was just there right in front of me! The place was deserted, so I reached out and touched it. Maybe my blessing was not being caught and thrown out?
  13. I watch travel shows as entertainment. I’m a big Rick Steves fan.
  14. My favourite composer is Dvorak.
  15. I drink at least three cups of tea a day, and usually at least one cup of coffee as well. I try to drink as much herbal tea as I can, but if it were up to me, it would be giant mugs of plain orange pekoe with milk and lots of sugar. I am weaning myself off sugar, though.
  16. I didn’t like the Handmaid’s Tale. That’s pure heresy for someone who calls herself a Canadian feminist.
  17. I did like Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood. I grew up down the road from the church behind which the people the book was based on are buried.
  18. I played the clarinet in high school. I was the classic band nerd.
  19. My parents used to take me to a local charity store when they had children’s books on sale for 10 cents each, and give me $5. That resulted in their attic being filled with kids books, many of which are crap and I never read. If I ever have kids, I’ll definitely do the same for them (taking inflation into consideration!).
  20. I once got an A in a dreadfully boring classical Greek history course without doing any of the readings. The professor really liked assigning primary sources, of which there were not many, so he proceeded to pick them to pieces in lecture after we read them. I got bored, and just took good notes on what he said.
  21. Seven years after the end of high school, I’m still friends with the same group of friends. I wouldn’t be if I didn’t normally live on the other side of the country and see them only rarely.
  22. I have pictures of cute animals in my room and don’t find it twee at all.
  23. I love French spoken with a Québecois accent. I have spent quite a bit of time trying to perfect the vowel twang (e.g. in timbre) and the buzzing sound in “Tu m’as dit.” (Affrication, according to my one French linguistics course.)
  24. My favourite book is Pride and Prejudice and I make no apologies for it.
  25. I greatly dislike raw tomatoes. I can’t bear to look at a crushed tomato.
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  1. Virgo ( I don’t care)
  2. Had my two front tires stole in High School and the principal asked if I drove it here that way !
  3. Can’t get enough Breyers
  4. I have myasthenia gravis.
  5. I’ve lived on a houseboat for 8 years and still love it.
  6. Don’t think I’ll make it to number 25
  7. Retired from and airline and travel ALOT.
  8. Lately I’ve been forgetting to brush my teeth.
  9. I feel guilty when I don’t give my dogs enough attention.
  10. I just scrolled up to move everything over two spaces so it would be even.
  11. When I see a flock of birds I have to try to count them.
  12. Same goes for the cars on a train.
  13. This one feels unlucky to me.
  14. Shook Nelson Mandellas hand twice.
  15. Installed carpet in Willis Reeds apartment.
  16. Haven’t chewed on the right side in almost 3 years.
  17. Wake up with a different song in my head every morning.
  18. Glad we don’t have to go to 100 because I would have to move everything again.
  19. I consider 18 my lucky number but it brings me nothing but misery.
  20. I think I make the best Mexican soup.
  21. I’ve won about 6 blue ribbons in photograpy contests.
  22. I feed the ducks every day.
  23. Quitting smoking is a bitch !!!
  24. I try to figure out whose voice it is in TV commercials.
  25. I never wash my truck.
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Oh wow me too, I can’t stand them raw. Cooked on the otherhand are lovely!

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  1. Singular Sensation, with every little step she takes.
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I was just diagnosed this past year. I’d be interested in hearing your story but it looks like I can’t pm you.

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I’m new to this website. What does pm mean. I’d like to hear from you.

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I think I’ve got this pm thing figured out. Bear with me…I’m old.

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Mine from Facebook, edited:

  1. I have two cats and two kids, and I could talk about any of them all day.
  2. I am the only one in my family (not counting husband and kids) born in the United States. My parents were born in Australia and my sisters were born in Canada, but I was born in West Virginia. I guess that makes me the only one eligible to be president!
  3. I have lived in West Virginia all my life, first in south-central WV and then in north-central WV. I would dearly love to live somewhere else.
  4. My goal is to visit at least six continents before I die, and as many countries as I can. So far I have visited four continents and 19 countries, so I’m making progress.
  5. My son was bitten by an ostrich when he was two and a horse when he was eight.
  6. I’ve been a chicken farmer, a hardware store manager, an accountant, and a database administrator.
  7. I have never lived on my own and supported myself, I have always had the help from either my parents or my husband. I feel like I have missed out on something for that.
  8. I drive a BMW 335xi coupe, and I love my car.
  9. I love to cook new things, but I’m limited by what my family will eat.
  10. I think even numbers are much better than odd numbers. It bothers me to buy cans of cat food in odd numbers.
  11. I love the color green. Given the choice, I’ll always pick green.
    12.My daughter was the only girl in her high school hockey league.
  12. I really want to retire. I have no idea what I would do with myself, though, other than not get up at 5:00 every morning.
  13. I have been vacationing at Sunset Beach, NC, for about 35 years.
  14. One of the best things about cooking dinner is having leftovers. I had shrimp for breakfast this morning, and for lunch I’m going to have herb roasted potatoes.
  15. My parents sailed around the world in a sailboat. It took them four years.
  16. My goal is to read 50 books this year. I only read 48 last year, so I have to try a little harder. Or find shorter books.
  17. Every time I sit in my reading chair, watch TV, or go to bed, my cat, Missy, is curled up in her place either next to me or on top of me. She won’t sit with anyone else. I guess I’m her person, and it’s comforting to have her around. Bob is just entertaining.
  18. I like chocolate, but I could live without it. I couldn’t live without cheese.
  19. I sing baritone in a Sweet Adelines woman’s barbershop-style chorus.
  20. I love my iPhone, but I play way too much solitaire on it.
  21. I miss watching my kids play hockey. I loved traveling around to different rinks, cheering my kids on, talking to the other parents, and just generally being a “hockey mom”.
  22. Almost everything I watch on TV is reality shows. My favorites are Survivor and The Amazing Race. I also feel guilty about watching Jon and Kate Plus Eight, but those kids are so cute!
  23. I only have three cousins, and I have never met one of them. They live in Australia and the last time I was there she wasn’t born yet. That was almost 40 years ago.
  24. This weekend I will be delivering singing Valentines with my quartet.
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  1. Virgo, Water Dog, INTJ, ethnocultural Jew.
  2. I’m 26, feel 96, and hate riding the bus but still don’t know how to drive a fucking car.
  3. Diagnoses: dysthymia, major depression, anxiety, PTSD (see #4), and just a touch of OCD.
  4. I was buried alive in a natural disaster at age 12, was rescued shortly before I could asphyxiate, and had to keep the entire affair a secret because (long story short) if my abusive and BPD-crazy mother were to find out, she would never have let me see my father again. Some years later a few people died in the same place, in the same manner, and safety regulations were implemented afterward to prevent this happening again. I live with the knowledge that if I had in fact died there, or if I had not kept my near-death a secret, the lives of some strangers would have been saved. This has screwed me up pretty badly.
  5. I attended elementary and junior high school with a bunch of children of celebrities. It was strange.
  6. First alcohol intoxication at 13. I enjoy a scotch after dinner.
  7. First pot smoking at 18. I enjoy a pipe before breakfast.
  8. First psychedelic drug use at 20. I don’t wanna do that no more.
  9. Existence, be it my own, or even the concept of it, is way too much for me to handle. This probably relates to #3 or, perhaps, #7. I secretly long for the heat death of the universe, and some peace and quiet at last.
  10. I’ve been given a very good job that I’m very lucky to have and I need to actually do some work and start billing hours instead of just thinking about jumping off the Aurora bridge all day.
  11. I have a long, convoluted and terrifying story about a cursed Indian burial ground that I would never have believed if I wasn’t a part of it.
  12. I love animals and generally get along with them better than people. This is because animals are better than people.
  13. I like gardening, but only for the purposes of subsistence. Inefficient, costly or strictly inedible gardens are bullshit.
  14. I know a lot about dead people. This has led me to make certain judgments about living people.
  15. I’ve moved at least once a year since before puberty, lived in a handful of states and three countries. Fled the USA for a few years and realized eventually that I really like it here.
  16. I own dinosaur shit. It has bits of pine needles stuck in it.
  17. I find politics terrifically entertaining.
  18. For years I haven’t had a single penny to my name or owned more than a few changes of clothes and 50 or 60 pounds of random other possessions. Sometimes this bothers me and sometimes it doesn’t.
  19. If I buy a package of something that tastes good, I’ll probably eat it all in one day.
  20. I have long hair and a ragged beard which makes me look like John the Baptist and/or a schizophrenic homeless man. Shouting to myself in the street on occasion doesn’t help matters much.
  21. I’ve seen highly distinguished academics spectacularly embarrass themselves many times. An absolutely shitfaced Oxford classical archaeologist once climbed through my window at 3 am while I was having sex.
  22. I’m always convinced that I have cancer.
  23. I put hot sauce on everything but fruit and desserts.
  24. I want to purchase an entire pig and turn it into many cured meats.
  25. Maybe it’s time to rethink #8.
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You need to write your memoirs and this little gem…I think it is a wonderful hook.

BTW, welcome to the boards!

We are fairly harmless and completely addictive!

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Thanks for the welcome; I’ve been lurking for a good decade now so I’m pretty familiar with SDMB culture already.

Yeah, memoirs might be in order. I guess that’s the upside to leading a profoundly abnormal life.