O.k… I just want to see what all of us Dopers have in common.
Please post things that are “Essential” to you… Like hanging out in a diner and talking were essential to Seinfeld and his crew. Take away the diner and the talking and they just wouldn’t be the same.
This is the place for things that make you feel like yourself.
Here’s mine:
*Smoking after meals (thats a given)
*Midnight waffles and conversation in IHOP-esque places
*Sweet iced tea
*NFL Football
*I. Hate. The radio.
*I like drinking beer, and going to local band shows.
*Bad Movie Night
*Laughing at other’s misfortunes
*Long naps on the couch every now and again
*Staying up late
*Playing videogames for three days straight then getting sick of them, only to play them for three days straight again a month later.
*Tatoos
*Having more female friends than male friends
*Crappy beer dives
*Talking during movies
*Late night beach trips
*Singing out loud for no apparent reason
*Humming when I eat good food
bad seventies music sung at the top of the lungs in the car
word games - Boggle, Taboo, Spellbound - on my computer or my Palm Pilot
a pile of laundry next to the bed
lighting cigarettes and forgetting to smoke them (the two-inch ash is my trademark)
hoarding craft supplies and trying new crafts (see broccoli’s videogame thing above)
cats lying all over the house
big dogs
talking to the TV
soda out of cans, never in a glass
noodles with butter, parsley and parmesan cheese
piles of paperback books, open, as I try to read four or more at a time
socks must match my shirt
the Renaissance Faire
Yankee candles
black and white photos
doodling eyeballs on scraps of paper
alphabetized CDs
making lists
phone calls lasting several hours to my friend Beth (during which we don’t even talk to one another - she’s reading and I’m yelling at kids, or vice versa)
Pajama pants and a t-shirt, a glass of chocolate milk with a straw, a messy bedroom with clothes and papers all over the floor, cereal for every meal, my hair pulled back but still messy, and a terrible parallel parker
2 ndhand store shopping…boots (not cowboy boots) with EVERYTHING, even dresses…body lotions…men’s watches… taking a small backpack EVERYWHERE… carrying bottled water… flannel sheets…mountain biking… chapstick…wearing layers … collages…candles…tons of pillows…sitting with the sun on my back… wrapping my hair in a bun and taking it back out a million trillion times a day… asking people tons of questions about themselves…swings/hamecks
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[li]very literate / annoyed by spelling & grammar errors[/li][li]love a wide range of music, but am a bit of a musical snob[/li][li]voracious reader[/li][li]interested in astronomy & science in general[/li][li]like to spend time alone[/li][li]love animals / have many pets[/li][li]would rather be riding a roller coaster than just about anything else in the world[/li][li]humor is essential / love the SDMB for the incredibly intelligent humor[/li][/ul]
Avid Internet user
Cat lover
Conservative styles of dress, not concerned about latest fashions
Dislike most sports, especially football
Don’t watch much prime TV
Drinks must have ice in them (by extension, I’m an ice cruncher)
Enjoy movies but don’t have time to see a lot of them
Enjoy rainy, cloudy days over sunny days
Enjoy watching game shows, cartoons (especially Bugs Bunny, et al)
Fascination with weather and space phenomena
Get up early even on days off
Impatient, especially when driving
Laugh at things most people find to be stupid or absurd
Like to make bad jokes, mostly puns
Low tolerance for spelling/grammar errors
Messy, unorganized house
Must face towards doorway when sitting in a room (except when at home). This especially applies when in a restaurant
No caffeine after 3:00 PM
Nonsmoker, nondrinker
Prefer big, heavyset women to thin, petite women
Primarily a hard rock music lover, but will listen to most other things (except country and rap)
Small social circle, doesn’t like large gatherings
Stay indoors most of the time
Would rather stay away from discussing controversial topics (which is why you never see me in GD)
Write stories, draw pictures in spare time
-My crazy kid
-Tattoos
-AbFab
-Punk Rock Night
-My sweet kitty
-Tons of food when friends come over
-Bubble butt
-Temper
-Arts movies and foreign films
-Red hair
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[li]I am only rarely seen (other than work) without my favorite boy – my nine year old son[/li][li]The Boy’s and my overwhelming dorkiness[/li][li]Reading books while walking[/li][li]Extreme clumsiness[/li][li]Cooking with wild abandon and leaving the dishes for someone else[/li][li]Cooking way too much food for gatherings and such[/li][li]Never passing up the opportunity to make a smart-ass remarkMaking up little nonsensical songs and performing spastic dances to them[/li][li]Lying down in the shower with my feet in the spray until the hot water runs out[/li][li]General absent mindedness[/li][li]Hero-worship of Jim Henson, George Harrison, Pee-Wee Herman and Stevie Wonder (I am a pop-culture-saturated automaton, I know it)[/li][li]Summer summer summer! Baseball in general, Cubs & Wrigley in particular[/li][li]According to my SO, tight, low-cut tops are essentially me, as they’re about 70% of what I wear (except in winter, when it’s all bulky turtleneck sweaters)[/li][li]Masturbating with the enthusiasm Sock Munkey reserves for reading books [/li][/ul]
-I love animals with people names: ex: Dave, Ted, Ernie etc.
-Shiny things
-Twangy, banjo playing, blue grass music (dont ask)
-shallow but entertaining movies: ex: austin powers, adam sandler
-gatorade, mostly blue and light green
-worn out jeans
-always unmatch my dark socks
-more t-shirts than should be allowed
-NYC
-live jazz
-never watch the news
-always read the paper
-dogs
-I cross my left leg over my right one like a girl but my right one over my left like a guy
-I looove boobies
I’m rarely without a cap. I prefer fitted caps, but will wear adjustable ones on occasion. The cap I currently wear most often is a black “GM Goodwrench Service” cap with a big “3” on the back (where the MLB logo is on professional baseball team hats).
I’m also never without a Zippo. The first time I lost one, I broke my ankle, the next time, I got fired. So I’m pretty posessive of it. I once spent 3 days in a funk looking for it, waiting for something bad to happen, until I found it in a jacket I rarely wear.
-injuring myself in interesting ways
-going to movies (if my math is right, I saw 124 in theatres last year)
-worrying
-participating in athletics
-playing tin can cricket (deserves special mention I think)
-eating large quantities of healthy food
-meditating (not nearly enough)
-drinking diet pepsi (which I am now trying to quit - in a month or so, I may be able to remove this one)
-listening to my discman
-breaking my discman (on number 12)
-buying DVD’s
-dating younger woman
-not talking for extended periods of time
-cooking (mmm…good food)
-reading (anything I can get my hands on)
-local punk shows
-good beer (another mmm…)
-a green thumb (nothing’s better than home grown veggies and herbs)
-no white socks (must have some cool pattern, at least)
-yoga (much more rewarding than I could have imagined prior to trying it)
