Five interesting things people don't know about you.
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1. I collect mugs, miniature books, and state quarters.
2. I have this idea in my head for a cafe with these mini cake desserts. (But not cupcakes; it's different.) I came up with it freshman year. I even have some sketches of it in my sketchbook. Top secret stuff.
3. I was born with cerebral palsy because the umbilical cord got wrapped around my neck, but it's very very mild. Many people with CP have trouble walking or speaking, but mine only left me with a very slight limp in my right foot and some random difficulties playing the violin. No one notices unless I tell them, that's how minor it is. I was pretty lucky.
4. I really love corsets. Love 'em. But I don't own one yet. Call me anti-feminist. Sorry, ok!
5. I am good at spelling. I went all the way to the local televised bee (NOT the big one, the Syracuse one) in eight grade, and it was pretty fly. Now I love crosswords. I credit my grandfather, who used to write crossword puzzles. :)
Iowachick, this is totally off topic, but you have a lovely smile.
Why thank you, Storm! :)
I don't think I've ever posted in this thread.
I'll try to think of things that make me sound interesting...this is going to be tough
I've got a few for you Ck!
1. I was an astronaut for 4 years, and flew 8 missions, until then President Bush fired me because I protested against radioactive materials being used as power sources in deep space probes.
2. I was unemployed for a year when I realized I was actually in love with President Bush. I then hitched on my reliable diapers (so I wouldn't have to stop to use the bathroom), and proceded to follow him around in my car while he was speaking at conventions until I got arrested for stalking.
3. and so on...
There you go... exciting enough eh?
I'm struggling to come up with these.
1) I freaking love Superman & anything to do with him. I have *two* pairs of Superman pajamas, a whole mess of graphic novels, some special collection of DVDs, comforter/sheet/pillowcase set, other pillows, and two Superman tees.
2) things I can't do but would like to be able to do: sing, dance, martial arts (any), & piano.
3) I play the tenor saxophone, but not so much anymore. I was never very musically talented and had to work my ass off to get anywhere. Even so, I never made it into my high school's jazz band, but I love playing jazz anyway. I joined a jazz band class at my first college, but I was always too scared to solo. They tried to teach me; it didn't work out so well. On a side note, I always feel like jazz bands are kind of boys' clubs. It's like their little space to freely express themselves, and women have so many other options, so yeah.
4) My boobs are different sizes (like a full cup size)! I know that's weird to mention. It always used to make me feel self conscious (especially in swim suits where I didn't have the padded bra to hide it). But, apparently, the unevenness is good for "variety" hehehe...
5) I had a kitty who died when I was 8 (and he was only 2). It was an extremely traumatizing experience, and I feel like it really shaped my life/my personality/etc. Like it led me to animal rights/vegetarian/veganism, trying for vet school, and my utter seriousness (well, other people think I'm really serious anyway). I think it's totally understandable that it affected me this way, but I have trouble getting other people close to me to understand - even my family. I hated the fact that I had to deal with the whole "it's only a cat" thing from many people when it happened.
* I've always said I don't want to have children , but I'm fairly sure I've changed my mind, but am also so scared of the idea that I can't say it out loud even to myself or my husband.
me too. I really really meant it. N has always always wanted kids, but when he met me he said he would rather be with me than be without me and have children with someone else.
W ehave now been together for 9 years, and it's only the last year or so that I have thought that maybe kids might possibly be ok. But I'm still not mature enough and I'm too selfish still. But I know I need to start thinking about children soon - I'm 30 in a couplle of months.
oncewerewesties - I know what you mean about the kids thing - I didn't think I wanted kids either and couldn't picture myself as a mom and being pregnant scares the crap out of me. But I now actually think I am more scared that I might be too old (I'm 39) to conceive etc than the whole pregnancy/baby/being a mom thing. So at some point you'll know what you want for sure and be ready to talk about it openly. Just give yourself time. But not too much time or you'll be in my boat...
Cheers for the kind words, I've definitely still got a few years to make decisions, it just worries me that I'm even thinking of it, but seeing that proverbial biological clock has walloped thousands of women over the head before me, I guess it shouldn't really be that surprising.
As for yourself, stoked you've made the decision now, before it really is too late - being an 'older' mum just means so many more great stories/pieces of wisdom to pass on :)
me too. I really really meant it. N has always always wanted kids, but when he met me he said he would rather be with me than be without me and have children with someone else.
We have now been together for 9 years, and it's only the last year or so that I have thought that maybe kids might possibly be ok. But I'm still not mature enough and I'm too selfish still. But I know I need to start thinking about children soon - I'm 30 in a couplle of months.
I don't think I'm necessarily too selfish, but I seriously worry that I will resent a child for taking away my freedom and taking away the possibilities I could otherwise pursue. I've been told that doesn't happen once you actually have a baby but I can think of nothing worse than bringing up a child that you blame for holding you back.
Gah, why do we need to make serious decisions??
oncewerewesties - I know what you mean about the kids thing - I didn't think I wanted kids either and couldn't picture myself as a mom and being pregnant scares the crap out of me. But I now actually think I am more scared that I might be too old (I'm 39) to conceive etc than the whole pregnancy/baby/being a mom thing. So at some point you'll know what you want for sure and be ready to talk about it openly. Just give yourself time. But not too much time or you'll be in my boat...
Cheers for the kind words, I've definitely still got a few years to make decisions, it just worries me that I'm even thinking of it, but seeing that proverbial biological clock has walloped thousands of women over the head before me, I guess it shouldn't really be that surprising.
As for yourself, stoked you've made the decision now, before it really is too late - being an 'older' mum just means so many more great stories/pieces of wisdom to pass on :)
me too. I really really meant it. N has always always wanted kids, but when he met me he said he would rather be with me than be without me and have children with someone else.
We have now been together for 9 years, and it's only the last year or so that I have thought that maybe kids might possibly be ok. But I'm still not mature enough and I'm too selfish still. But I know I need to start thinking about children soon - I'm 30 in a couplle of months.
I don't think I'm necessarily too selfish, but I seriously worry that I will resent a child for taking away my freedom and taking away the possibilities I could otherwise pursue. I've been told that doesn't happen once you actually have a baby but I can think of nothing worse than bringing up a child that you blame for holding you back.
Gah, why do we need to make serious decisions??
i really like that first part i bolded
the 2nd part i bolded i think is rare if you go into a pregnancy thats planned.. but i do know a couple ppl that may have not made the same choices when comes to unplanned ones.
Uh, my baby wasn't planned. And I had a stressful pregnancy; my husband and I fought 80% of the time. My mother pressured me to get an abortion. Additionally, I got pregnant at 23, right after college.
But when he was born, I didn't resent him. I still don't. He immediately became a part of my life, and I've never once thought of him as a liability, or as something I had to "deal with" in order to do what I want.
My thought is, if you decide to go through with a pregnancy, planned or not, at any age, you have to accept that it's not about you anymore. You have to fucking grow up, whether you're 16 or 30 or 45. Your body changes and you have no control over it. Your emotions change and you have no control over them. Your life completely restructures itself around this tiny, new person and you cannot be selfish anymore.
It's the most beautiful feeling I've ever had, though I never expected to have it at all.
Uh, my baby wasn't planned. And I had a stressful pregnancy; my husband and I fought 80% of the time. My mother pressured me to get an abortion. Additionally, I got pregnant at 23, right after college.
But when he was born, I didn't resent him. I still don't. He immediately became a part of my life, and I've never once thought of him as a liability, or as something I had to "deal with" in order to do what I want.
My thought is, if you decide to go through with a pregnancy, planned or not, at any age, you have to accept that it's not about you anymore. You have to fucking grow up, whether you're 16 or 30 or 45. Your body changes and you have no control over it. Your emotions change and you have no control over them. Your life completely restructures itself around this tiny, new person and you cannot be selfish anymore.
It's the most beautiful feeling I've ever had, though I never expected to have it at all.
i wasnt saying that all unplanned pregnancies end up with people regretting their choices. i'm speaking from what i've been told by a friend of mine who is a parent. i also didnt say that i know people that resent their kids.. i do know people that have kids but havent grown up, and because of that they regret their decisions. the people that don't grow up do not restructure their lives, they continue to be selfish. i think if you go into a pregnancy with a plan of how you're going to adjust and you acknowledge that your life will never be the same as it was when you were childless, then you won't resent your child. if you talk yourself into believing that you can continue to go out partying every night and doing whatever you feel like, whenever you feel like.. odds are you might resent your kid for making you give some/all of that up before you were ready to.
My point: it doesn't matter when you have your kid, because when they show up they will change you life. It doesn't matter how old you are, where you are in your career, or what your other relationships are like. I know women who had their children while they were teenagers, and women who went through IVF at 40+. They all said the same things about what they'd expected from motherhood.
And you're right, PPC: the mothers who were happiest were the ones who were willing to accept that they had become mothers. It's hard for a person without kids to understand, but changing from yourself to "mommy" is a big personality shift. It's an adjustment. And it can definitely be difficult.
of course having a kid will change your life, but everyones reactions to that change are completely individual. also, i wasnt specifically referring to mommies, i was definitely including daddies.
1. I dropped out of school when I was thirteen because I was bored and wanted to experience life outside of the box, I mean, school... Also, I have always loved learning and continued to do so, on my own terms.
2. I did a variety of drugs through most of my teenage years. I smoked a lot of whatever I could get my hands on. I did not do needles because they scare me.
3. I'm a bit of an extremist, though it balances out as I get older. Perhaps now I'm a moderate extremist...
4. One of the most amazing people I have ever met walked into the ocean last summer and swam and swam until he drowned. His death was much like his life, he faced it head on, with determination. He chose something and he went for it. I was devastated when I found out that he was dead and that it was on purpose. When I thought about briefly seeing him the week before, (he came to say hello), I realized that it was to say good bye. There was a search party, but I knew somehow that they wouldn't find his body. They didn't. A conversation that we had had the year before, about ways to die, came to mind; He said he wanted to drown and for his body to stay in the water to decompose naturally. With this information, I felt comforted, though still very saddened. I think of him when I see rainbows and striped purple socks.
He visits me in dreams.
5. I am learning to play guitar, have been for a few months. I like to finger pick and can already sing and play, without even looking down! I play every day and have the first callouses that I've been actually excited to have. I started off by learning various chords and piecing them together. I couldn't think of a song special enough to be my 'first' song... So, I decided to and promptly wrote a song. It is about my friend that went into the water. (See#4). I am currently writing my second song. One day I'll learn other peoples music. While I'm inspired, may as well go with it.
Healthymomma, I'm so glad to see you back and active on the boards!
Sorry about your friend...that is really sad.
All of these posts are so interesting to read!! It's fun to get to know more facets of people by learning tidbits about them. So, here are mine, although I don't know how interesting they are...
1. I once danced topless on a bar in the Czech Republic and a friend had a video camera...thus ending any chance of a political career :9 I'm just happy that she hasn't put it on Facebook!
2. I can speak fluent Dutch and French, passable German, and crap Spanish, but I'd really like to speak better Spanish in order to communicate with my husband's family.
3. I'm scared to move back to the US after living in Europe for 8 years. I've gotten an offer from the American office of my company to work there, but I don't know if I can cope with the reverse culture shock of moving from Holland to Texas.
4. I have a photograhic memory and it's really only useful for pub quizzes in the real world...
5. I have a 6th sense that comes in the form of dreams. If I dream about someone, then I always check on them to see what is going on in their lives. The last one involved a colleague at work and the next day I got to work and read that she'd been promoted to a new job which I knew nothing about.
i forgot that i wrote in this thread! lol and mine were lame, so im bringing this thread back to life! but first, llg, you had plastic surgery? on what???
1) i've never made out with anyone
2) ive kissed more girls than boys. but i'm straight
3) dancing is my favorite thing in the entire world.
4) i have an unhealthy obsession with the backstreet boys, mainly nick carter.
5) i will never drink (i've had alcohol in the past, but i hate it.) or smoke and i'm very proud of myself for making that decision and not being like everyone else i know.
I already knew 4/those5, vh!
I knew the last three and maybe 2. We'll definitely need more. Your BSB obsession doesn't count as an unknown! :-*
aw damn. lol. i'm not interesting enough to have 5 things that no one knows about me!
let me try again. haha
1- my uncle knew/hung out with/got high with lynyrd skynyrd
2- my cousin went to school with aaron carter
3- the summer before i started college, me and my best friend snuck out and went to visit my friend who lived 2 hours away for the weekend and my mom never found out
4- you guys probly already know this but i got a tattoo behind my parent's back when i was 17
5- i love my roommate!!! hahahah that's the biggest lie ive ever told.
that's better!
yesss
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