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Whit4you

Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 10:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well I'm starting us off back at one... :)


1) I'm the proud new owner of a $28.88 printer from Walmart - 6 wpm color printer.. ya I know it's slow but um for 28 bucks who cares lol. My son's menu book is in progress (ooops is this 2nd fact? )

Sia

Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 11:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Lyn, how 'bout if you practice balancing bowls on your head using plastic or aluminum mixing bowls instead of something FRAGILE? ROTFL!

Oh, and you're the only person I know who uses the word 'ragamuffin' besides ME! See, we have lots in common!

Sia

Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 11:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. We're getting our first snowfall here, and if the roads are bad tomorrow night, I'm not taking my daughter to dance class. She's four; she just started, so it shouldn't matter. They're not exactly launching rockets.

2. I hate winter weather for many reasons.

Whoami

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 12:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
1. When we were children, my two older sisters would be scared of the dark. I had to go into rooms first to turn on the light for them.

2. My two older sisters were so scared of the dark, they didn't want to sleep alone in their own beds (all three of us shared a room). So, they'd ask me for "permission" to get into bed with each other (permission, in the sense that I would agree not to tell Mom on them). Feeling empowered, I'd tell them, "NO." To this day, we can't really figure out why Mom would have cared one way or the other if they did share a bed (Mom can't figure out why they would have been afraid of her knowing)! They'd cry and whimper and plead with me most of the night. But I held fast, and swore I'd tell on them if they did. Serves them right, considering the things they did to me during the day when we were home alone (you know how siblings can get)!

3. When I was a pre-teen (and into my teen years), I didn't have a room or a bed. The only other bedroom (besides my Mom's, which she shared with baby sister) was so small, it would only accomodate my two older sisters. I slept in the living room on the couch. I had a dresser drawer somewhere in Mom's room. To this day, the two older sisters are very close, and sometimes still treat me like the little sister who is just in the way, and is "too young" to understand, or have intelligent contributions to a conversation. I attribute a lot of this "ultra bonding" of theirs to that time period, when they shared a room, and I wasn't in the room to bond as well. This is only now just barely changing, with them giving me some much needed moral support in the care of my mom. Finally, a little respect!

Christina

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 03:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
calamity and Sia, when I saw "ragamuffin", did I ever laugh. I use it all the time. hahahah

Heyltslori

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 04:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
1. It's 22 degrees this morning.
2. I really hate Michigan.
3. When I eat a pudding cup I squeeze it and eat as much as I can by using my tongue...then I use my finger to eat the rest.
4. Nobody knows that but you guys. :)

Resortgirl

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 05:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
1. I took the day off from work to start cooking and baking for Thanksgiving.
2. I usually exercise a half hour a day, today I plan to do an hour (preventative maintenance in anticipation of overeating tommorrow)
3. My daughter is coming home from college today and that is the best thing in the world!!
4. I really didn't HAVE to take the day off, but I'm married to the boss, so what the heck!!

Squaredsc

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 05:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
1. im using orange, it seems more thanksgivingee
2. im at work right now and its cold, brrr
3. we were supposed to get a dusting of snow but only got a bit of rain, darn
4. i love the snow, but we don't get a lot of it here in md, the mountains tend to block anything we would get
5. im going to get my morning cup of coffee right now

Sbw

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 06:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
1. I wish everyone had loving families to spend Thanksgiving with.
2. I do know better than to end a sentence with "with".
3. I also made some stupid grammatical errors in a post in another thread.
4. If I don't get some laundry done today, I may be wearing short sleeve shirts to Thanksgiving dinner.
5. Wearing a short sleeve shirt to Thanksgiving dinner may not be that bad, Grandma's house will probably be hot.
6. It is cold here.

Nimtu

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 07:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
1. My brother, sister and I were all adopted.
2. We used to drive my mother crazy (unfortunately we succeed :( ) by taunting one another about our origins ("you came through catholic charities and I came from a private agency")
3. My dog seems to suffer from some type of demonic possession which causes her, only at certain unpredictable times, to growl, bark, snap all while her eyes glow red - the other 98% of the time she is a dream dog.
4. Yesterday, at work, one of my partners made an amusing comment and I looked at her and said "LOL" (note to self: must learn to remember the difference between live vs. cyber conversations)
5. My daughter is almost 13 and is still claiming to believe in Santa - I am not sure what that means, although one of my friends is 40 and says she has never told her mom that she doesn't believe.
6. I have to cook and clean all day today.
7. That's why I am drinking coffee and playing on the computer at almost 10 in the morning (denial anyone?)

Weinermr

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 08:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't know how many of these I have to do, but I'll jump in with a few.

1. I love taking things apart.
2. I love putting things back together.
3. I'm very good with small household plumbing and electrical repairs, like repairing toilets or replacing them, installing garbage disposals or faucets, rewiring lamps, reconfiguring or rewiring switch boxes, hooking up stereo and electrical equipment, etc.
4. When I was 12 I put together a shortwave radio.
5. When I was 13 I put together a ham radio.
6. I can do a tune up or overhaul the brakes on my car.
7. I still get completely confused when I try to figure out how to replace the windshield wipers on my car.
8. Listening to music helps me express my feelings.
9. Listening to music makes me aware of feelings I didn't even know I had.
10. Most of the time I cannot find the right words to express how I am feeling.
11. I HATE talking about how I feel.
12. I love to cook.
13. I love to eat.

Denecee

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 08:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Weinermr, I know what you mean about music bringing out feelings. I love listening to music but I only listen in my car and when I'm getting ready for work. When we were poor, the radio was my life. I would dance around the house with my little ones, oh, I miss that.

Goddessatlaw

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 08:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Feelings? What are those?

Marysafan

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 09:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I think we are at nine now...so...getting things back on track...

1. When I was a little girl I went to get new shoes. The man had me try on one shoe and then wanted me to walk in it. I started to cry...because I wanted "two" shoes! After that he called me "Mary Two shoes".

2. My favorite singer of all time is Harry Chapin.

3. Right now in my CD player is Annie Gallup.

4. My favorite Annie Gallup song is "Max Has a Small Telescope".

5. I love flannel night gowns...and flannel sheets in the winter.

6. I always wanted a pair of majorette boots...but I was too shy to ever be a majorette.

7. My favorite teacher was Miss Claire Brown who taught 10th grade English. Miss Brown taught me to never never never never never end a sentence with a preposition. I try...but am not always sucessful.

8. I wanted to be Collen McMurphy (of China Beach)....and sometimes regret getting married instead of pursuing a career in nursing...but then I know way deep down that it all turned out for the best.

9. When my sister and I did the dishes at holiday time. We used to sing the "12 Days of Christmas", even though we couldn't carry a tune...a would drive everyone else to distraction! Dad would yell..."WILL YOU GIRLS STOP THAT CATERWALLING!" Now that we are grown, when we do get to spend Christmas together...Mom and Dad love to hear us sing that song! (go figure!)

Lyn

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 11:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sia, using breakable bowls is half the fun - take away the element of "danger" and I'd just be a poorly trained seal my picture

Sia

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 12:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
All right, Lyn, just don't start in to caterwauling when you break your favorite bowls!!

majorette2 Marysafan, this is for you! You would have been a wonderful majorette, Mary; I wish you'd been brave enough to try! Me, too!

Twiggyish

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 12:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mary, I wanted to be a majorette. I could twirl a baton (still can) and do everything, but I was too shy to try out.

Carolinakisses

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 01:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sorry folks, I know I'm out of number sequence but you can go back to number 10 after my list.
1. I've only owned one new car.
2. No one was allowed to drink or eat in it.
3. My car was always the one you would see all alone on the back row, away from others.
4. Someone at work back into my car on the driver's side, front panel on Halloween night.
5. Unfortunately I was dressed for Halloween at the time, overalls, pigtails, painted on freckles, different color socks and shoes. The cop just looked at me, shook his head and laughed as soon as he stepped out of the patrol car.
6. This all happened before my vacation to west coast.
7. Got my car fixed, it looked like it did when I drove it off the car lot. Happy again.
8. Car got hit a second time, passenger side, front panel, at work (different job). Lady got mad cause I told her she was going have to pay to get it fixed. She got in her car, sped off, and almost ran over me in the parking lot while my co-workers looked on.
9. Got my car fixed, it looked like it did when I drove it off the car lot. Happy again.
10. Car got hit a third time, driver's side, back panel. Lady backed out of her driveway into my parallel-parked car.
11. This all happened the day after I had got back from a vacation from he**.
12. Got my car fixed, it looked like it did when I drove it off the car lot. Happy again.
13. Car got hit a fourth time, rear ended, and was finally done in by a MAN.
14. Insurance collector broke the news to me that it was totaled and would cost too much to get fixed.
15. Car still drive-able. I took less insurance money and kept my car. After all we had been through a lot together. (Wink) My car not the insurance collector.
16. Sold my car three months later to a friend of my mom whose daughter was getting her driver's license. They bought it smashed bumper and all.
17. They got the car fixed, it looked like it did when I drove it off the car lot. I was happy for teenager and wished her the best.
18. The daughter wrecked it a month later. I had heart pains when I heard this. LOL all those years I had it and not once did I wreck it.
19. They got the car fixed again, it looked like it did when I drove it off the car lot.
20. The daughter wrecked the car again, and once again they parents got the car fixed. Last time I saw it, the mom was driving it and yes, "It looked like it did when I drove it off the car lot. Mmmmm I'm thinking this really is a special car, maybe even a "super power" car to take all of the abuse and still keep on puttering along."

Whoami

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 01:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Marysafan, I marched in drum corps way back (68-74). Our uniforms included majorette boots. Take it from someone who had to wear them for 6 years, you didn't miss out on much! They were horribly uncomfortable.

A side note concerning the "wide open" top of the boot.... When we marched in parades that horses were in (and of coure the equistrian units were always placed ahead of you in the line up), we were not allowed to march over or around the "leavings" of the horses. We were strictly told if it was in your path, you marched through it. Nevertheless, if we saw a pile coming, we often cleverly learned to adjust the size of our step so we could just happen to step over it. Anyway, I remember one case where I did cleverly step over it, only to have the girl behind me step in it and kick a piece of it forward, up, and right into the top of my boot. The next few steps were all about feeling that stuff work its way down my boot and around my foot.

I kept my boots until they were destroyed in a basement flood many years ago. Can't say I was too unhappy to throw them away.

Squaredsc

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 01:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
lol whoami

Mygetaway

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 04:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. I hope that everybody has a Wonderful Holiday.
2. I'm going to miss the smell of turkey cooking in the house tomorrow.
3. I don't like giblets in my stuffing.
4. I don't like skins in my mashed potatoes.
5. I prefer cheescake over pumpkin pie.
6. No matter where I am, it seems we always burn the rolls.
7. I had kids so I didn't have to do Thanksgiving Day dishes anymore.. (LOL)
8. I don't think I've ever been to a formal, sit down to a place setting with a centerpiece Thanksgiving dinner.
9. I've never really been into watching the parade or football so I'm usually holed up somewhere watching a movie.
10. I do however have fun waiting to see if the Quatermaines will finally get to have a real Turkey Dinner.. :) (have to be a GH fan for that one)

Lancecrossfire

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 04:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
All of the information about everyone has been great to read! I’m learning quite a bit about some folks—getting to know who they are much better. Thanks so much for everyone who has given us some insight into who you are. I’ll try and do the same. I For those who were around for game 1, much of this information will be old. For those who weren’t, I hope I can say a bit about myself using this forum.

1. I’ve had a variety of jobs in my left time. I’ve cleaned a meat cutting facility. I’ve painted interiors and exteriors of houses, dorms and apartments. I have worked in a grocery store while going to college, doing every job except meat cutter. Ironically, my father was a meat cutter most of his life. I worked on nuclear and thermonuclear warheads. I did this for deliver systems the Army had that are nuclear capable. No multi warhead ICBM’s though—those belong to the Air Force. Some rockets, missiles, artillery rounds and “other devices”. While performing this job, I was also on a national response team that could respond to any accident involving an Army weapon system that had this type of warheads. Before, during and after I was in the Army, there were/are none of those accidents. I have worked collecting, packaging and shipping radioactive waste at 2 universities. I have been a firefighter and an EMT (emergency medical technician). I currently work in an EPA permitted hazardous waste storage facility, dealing with the management of hazardous waste. This includes the regulations about HW, and the shipping regulations as well. I am also one of 3 hazardous materials transportation officers for this location of our company. There are about 3500 staff here. I’m only a back up HMTO for material shipments, but for waste shipments, I am the primary person.

2. I love my job—I absolutely love the work. Some of the people are a completely different issue though—lol. Some of the people are fantastic though!J

3. I have been alone for a number of years (right at 10 now) but have never once been lonely.

4. I earned my scuba diving certification when I was 18. Scuba diving is one of the most remarkable activities I’ve ever done—you enter an entirely different world when underwater. You can make it as exciting or relaxing as you want. It’s been a lot of years since I’ve gone on a dive though. I miss it a lot, and when I get in shape again, I will be looking for a partner I can trust with my life. That is what I require in my diving partner, and would never go without a partner.

5. I hate being wrong—I hate making mistakes. All my life I’ve wanted to be perfect, although have always realized it can never happen. That has not stopped me from continuing to try to reach that goal. I figure I should try to get as close as I possibly can.

6. I am a very intense person, although for the most part keep it on the inside. Over the course of my life, a number of people have told me I’m the most intense person they have ever known. It’s apparent I let it out once in awhile—lol. I do pretty good in emergency situations--I don't panic.

7. I think most folks would say my sense of humor is a bit odd. I love to laugh and love funny things. Some movies I consider funny are Caddyshack, both Austin Powers movies (I haven’t seen the 3rd one yet), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and every Jackie Chan movie. I believe the 3 Stooges were comic geniuses. Yet with all those funny things, the funnies things have happened from real life.

8. My most humbling life experienes happened as an EMT. I responded to 3 different SIDS deaths. I never even flinched in the dozen or so times people puked in my mouth when I gave CPR--and nothing else got to me. But in those 3 times, holding a lifeless infant in my arms and not being able to help a totally innocent life (someone who never even got to experience life) is something I will never forgetr the feeling of for as long as I live.

9. Honesty and trust are at the very core of who I am as a person. I am also a very loyal person, to both people and to the company I work for.

10. For me a woman’s sexual/sensual attraction is 1—5% about looks. The rest is about who the person is and how they carry themselves. Age has no bearing on it.

11. My father instilled the belief in me that you don’t have the be the best—you only have to try your very best. I have worked hard to live to that everyday—to give my best all the time no matter what I do. Of course my best on some days isn’t nearly as my best is on others.

12. I am not a quitter. That has been both a good and bad thing in my life time.

13. I believe that wisdom is the greatest tool of all that a person can seek. The reason I believe that is that it’s the one tool that allows you to have the best chance of using all your other tools to their greatest potential.

14. Philosophy is a hobby for me.

15. I’m not a very material based person. Just over 3 years ago I decided that one time in my life I wanted to own a nice car—and in under 2 years it will be mine. Right now the bank is nice enough to let me drive it as long as I keep giving them money each month. Other than that, I don’t own very much. I have one chair, although sit on the floor and use it as a back rest. I have a TV that sits on a little table. The table is one that my ex couldn’t get rid of in 2 different yard sales. I haven’t had cable in over 20 years. I don’t have a disc or tape player or a radio at home (although my car has a very nice one). When I am with someone, we can have as much stuff as they need. I just don’t seem to need much to get along for myself.

16. I love to cook, and do a pretty good job of it. Although I don’t like to cook for just myself—I like to cook for others.

17. I am pretty much a very average person. There are some things I’m pretty good at, some things I suck at, and some things I’m just average at.

18. I don’t like things on my arms, so I wear short sleeve shirts virtually every day. I don’t wear a coat until it gets below 20. I wear shorts except for most of December and January. I don’t get cold very easily. (that is the same no matter how much I weigh—right now I weigh a lot)

19. I consider chocolate a food group.

20. I tend to work very hard. When I need to recharge, I tend to be lazy very hard as well. In the last 10 years I have taken 2 vacations, each 1 week in duration. Other than that, I have worked every single day within that time frame. Maybe not a lot each any every day, but at least some. Both of my vacations have been at Restortgirl’s resort. I went a few months ago, and last year.

21. I have two dream vacations I’d like to do some day. One is a scuba diving vacation to New Zealand. The other is to go to one of the wine regions in France and try some very good wines and eat good food. I wouldn’t do either by myself, because I know I’d have more fun with a partner.

22. I wanted to be a doctor while growing up. I went to college with the intent of getting into med school. I didn’t know what type of doctor I wanted to be, although while spending 7 years as an EMT I figured out I’d love to be an ER doc. I find the human body to be absolutely amazing and would love to spend the rest of my life being able to fix them. While going to school I had a family and worked 52 hours a week. My grades ended up not being good enough to get anywhere near med school. Having a B average doesn’t cut it. For anyone contemplating working full time, having a family with a number of kids, and going to school full time, please be aware you may well have a price to pay.

23. I am in total awe of anyone with any artistic/creative talents at all. I pretty much have none. The only thing I can do is recognize something already there within the fame of a camera. Photography was one of my more challenging classes in college. My prof said that he could recognize my work out of 100 people. He never did say if that was a good thing or not—LOL

24. I believe strongly in the philosophy of taking whatever I do seriously, but I try not to take myself too seriously. I find that when I do, I have the biggest chance of getting into some kind of trouble.

25. When I became a manager at work here, I had the opportunity to hire a few people in a short time frame. For me the best workers aren’t always the ones who know the subject the best. I also believe great performers have heart, a strong will, pride in what they do…things like that. I developed a question to ask in interviews. I asked people if they could write their own epitaphs, what would it say. I came up with this question because an epitaph is a short statement about a person that basically sums up who they were as a person. I wanted to see if people could provide what they thought who they were in 1—3 sentences. I would never ask someone something I wasn’t willing to answer myself. Mine would read, “Everything Gregg did in life was done with intensity and passion. He would not compromise his principles.”

Sorry--just started writing things that came to mind, and I guess I didn't fit into the numbering scheme very well.

Jbean

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 04:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. yesterday i got followed by a police officer, all the way to sam's club parking lot from the highway, for NO APPARENT REASON (other than being an apparent target) GRRRRR

2. i listen to rap music, AND Country. lol

3 i dressed up as Pink for halloween.

Whit4you

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 05:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wondering how many of you forgot to list the fact - NONE OF YOU CAN COUNT hehehe...

:)

Love ya guys though - and I love all your facts - this thread is like a 'happy pill' for me :)

Goddessatlaw

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 06:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow, Lance - thank you. That was huge.