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. :)
1. I was going to go to graduate school in alaska and become a glaciologist/snow hydrologist, but plans change and my dreams where permanently put on hold.....
2. Which lead to number 2, I have CNS Lupus, started getting sick my last semester of undergrad. and could not make the trip to Alaska :( I will never be a glaciologist because I can't physically handle the strain on my body with my health. Every organ in my body has failed at one point or another (liver, kidneys, ect.... my eyes even quite moving once) But all is good really, because I would have never met my hubby if I had followed thru with my plans :)>>>
3. I love, Love, LOVE cats! I have been called crazy cat lady my whole life! My second favorite animal is praire dogs (which is NOT very popular so I don't really offer up that info)
4. I am still afraid of the boogy man and sometimes have to check my basement to make sure he isn't donw there. My husband actually put a lock on the basement door to put my mind at ease (ya, I'm totally neurotic)
5. Sponge Bob Square Pants is my favorite cartoon.
I just have to say that I'm loving this so much. I love you all already...but I love you even more now! IRL people never seem....real to me...
I like this exchange...
1. I got hit by a truck while riding my bike on the eve of my 9th birthday. I got a bitch cut on my right hand that needed stitches. I still have the scar. Apparently, my wrist was also broken, but for some reason, they only noticed that a month after the accident. When they realized it, my wrist was already healing. I don't remember much of the accident, except being thrown out of the road and the reaction on my mother's face when the men who hit me brought me home. The men had actually been drinking. Now, I can't stand people who drink and drive. I've been known to fight my drunk friends in order to get their keys before they went into their cars. It's a no-tolerance rule on my part!
2. Because of #1, I hate to drive, and I've had my licence since I was 16. I'm a bad driver because I can't concentrate and have no sense of orientation whatsoever. I prefer to walk wherever I go.
3. I want to learn seven languages. I know French and English, basic Spanish and Italian, some greek and I'm teaching myself German, until I find a teacher. Next language will be arabic I think, since I know a lot of people who actually speak the language.
4. I'm a big party person. I come from a family of party people. I don't even have to drink, I can stay up all night if I'm with good company. But I'm reasonable. I only started drinking in college, even if I had a few drinks as a teenager. My first exam in college was (un)completed on a hangover. Needless to say, I didn't pass that exam.
5. I don't know what to do with my life. When people describe me, they say I'm ambitious, but the fact is, I don't know what I want to do , and I don't know where they get "ambitious" from me. I completely feel like a slacker, have been wanting to write ever since I started writing, but have had writer's block since 2001. I blame college. ;) I want to do so many things that I don't know where to begin.
Ooooh, this is great! Veg*ns tell all! It's like group therapy or something.
Well, at least after reading mine you didn't scream TMI!
Ooooh, this is great! Veg*ns tell all! It's like group therapy or something.
Well, at least after reading mine you didn't scream TMI!
Well, it's amazing what you will tell people who can't 'see' you and probably never will. It's very non-threatning. I'm mean, number 2 of my post is a classified x-file that only very close people know about me. I have casual friends that don't know all that....same with the second part of number 3 and all of number 4.... it's kind of theraputic and fun to just offer up the info though. :)
4. I am highly directionally challenged. I have no idea which way is north, south, east, or west unless I can reference a known landmark. I constantly mix up left and right. When I get directions from people, I have to get landmarks. If you say, "when you see the big bridge, turn towards the river" I'm OK. "Turn east/left on 94" = not good.
I am the exact same way!!!!
I can go the same route a hundred times and still get lost. I often question if I am going the right way so I turn around and then get even more lost. I used to have nightmares about getting stuck on highways and not knowing where I am going. I still get all confused at on and off ramps sometimes.
The GPS has been a godsend for me! I recommend that you get one!!!!
i also work better with a hand drawn map than i do with written driving directions. I like to look at the map and rotate it as I make turns.
5 things....a lot of these I wouldn't tell real life people, except my husband, who knows them all!
1. I don't really like most people I meet, because they don't care about anyone but themselves, NOT the animals they eat every day, the gasoline their SUV's and trucks guzzle every day and the resources their buying addictions use up. Sad, but true....I wish I would like more people, but I just don't. :-\
However once in a while I will meet someone that is just on the same wave length....
2. I lost my father to lung cancer when I was 27, he was 49. At the end I was hoping he would die quickly, I didn't want to see him suffer.
3. I LOVE teddy bears, corny, yes, but I like to save old teddy bears that no one cares about anymore.
4. I love my mothers sister much more than my mother, and always wished SHE had been my Mom. My Mom and I are just total opposites.
5. I don't believe in a "God" and I don't believe there will be anything after we die...just nothingness, which is ok with me
this is better than therapy!
5 things....a lot of these I wouldn't tell real life people, except my husband, who knows them all!
4. I love my mothers sister much more than my mother, and always wished SHE had been my Mom. My Mom and I are just total opposites.
It's all good :)....I love my step mother much more than I love my real mother....and my dad didn't marry my stepp mother until I was 24. So it's not like I grew up with her or anything, as a matter of fact my really mother raised me. My parents didn't get divorced until I was 17.... If my real mother knew this info...well....it would be very bad lets just put it that way!
It is kind of sad though and I feel bad about it... but my Mom and I - we just don't click. And she is forever critical of EVERYTHING I do, how I wear my hair, what I eat, my clothes etc. Oh well, it could be worse ;).
I think the most important part is that we do have a kind of "mother figure" we can trust....
KMK, my DH has nearly the same story as you with the CP (everyone get that?!?) I think it came from how he was born (bad use of forceps or something). It affected his right side, arm and leg. Now he's a drummer, which requires all four limbs. The only tell-tale signs he has are a) he's a lefty and b) he walks with a small limp that he tries to hide by walking really flippin' fast. Interestingly, like Baypuppy's friend he went on to skip a grade in elementary school, and was a nationally-ranked chess player as a teenager.
But this isn't about him, it's about me. Three of the five are physical, for no particularly good reason
1. I was born with dislocated hips. I had surgery to correct it when I was about 8 months old. I wore a gigantic cast for a really long time. As a result I never really crawled when I was little; I propelled myself around the floor using my arms.
2. I actually have the opposite "interesting thing" to several of you--I settled on a career very early in life, and it's a career that most people would not settle on quickly. I became a tenure-track assistant professor at 26 years, 2.5 months old. (I finished my Ph.D. at 25 years and 10 months of age.) That is insanely soon in general, made more insane by the fact that I'm in a field (education) where most people enter academia as a second career (after k-12 teaching or something like that) and in a specialty (psychology) where postdoctoral internships are quite common, delaying tenure-track academia even further. This may explain why most of my friends are at least 3-4 years older than me. However, I tend to do things early with decent results--I got married at 22 years and 2 months of age, and we're celebrating our five-year anniversary this year :)
3. I got hit by a car when I was 13. Okay, so I actually hit the car—I was on my bike and I didn’t see the car come up and over the hill—I ran into the side of the car and the rearview mirror knocked me over as the car moved forward. I really wasn’t hurt at all, but I did get to cause a big scene in my neighborhood and get carried off on a stretcher in an ambulance. The odd thing about this was when I stayed home from school the next day (for a Mom-proclaimed “mental health day”) the rumors that spread about me where just out of this world. I heard that I had broken bones, that I was dead, that I had been kidnapped and heliported to California… my dearest group of middle-school friends were only too happy to share these with me, each one calling with a progressively more ridiculous story.
4. I’m allergic to the Pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine. It’s the only thing I’m REALLY allergic to (besides some nondescript nasal allergies). I have two weird dimples on my arm from it that most people mistake for a smallpox vaccination (forget for a second I was born in 1981, and I’m pretty sure that smallpox was eradicated well before that), but it’s a scar from some crazy reaction I was way too young to remember. If it (whooping cough) ever breaks out, I’m screwed…
5. I pass out at doctor’s offices at any procedure that’s mildly invasive. Except for dental exams, even when needles are involved. I credit this to having a really cool dentist growing up. As a result, however, I am scared--petrified!--of being pregnant and giving birth. If men had children we'd have 3 of them by now...
Also I don't count this among my interesting things, but for the record: Started drinking at 19 (my first full drink was a real Czech Budweiser in the town where they make the real Budweiser Budvar), but never had anything else. (Never a tobacco product, never pot, never anything else.)
1. I was going to go to graduate school in alaska and become a glaciologist/snow hydrologist, but plans change and my dreams where permanently put on hold.....
2. Which lead to number 2, I have CNS Lupus, started getting sick my last semester of undergrad. and could not make the trip to Alaska :( I will never be a glaciologist because I can't physically handle the strain on my body with my health. Every organ in my body has failed at one point or another (liver, kidneys, ect.... my eyes even quite moving once) But all is good really, because I would have never met my hubby if I had followed thru with my plans :)>>>
:'(
My husband thought about being a snow hydrologist (even applied to the grad. program-didn't get in, obviously). He's thought about doing most everything, at some point. Annndddd he was going to go to several different colleges (before we were together), but things didn't work out...which is good...b/c we wouldn't have become really good friends.
So what did your hubby end up doing.....????
It is kind of sad though and I feel bad about it... but my Mom and I - we just don't click. And she is forever critical of EVERYTHING I do, how I wear my hair, what I eat, my clothes etc. Oh well, it could be worse ;).
I think the most important part is that we do have a kind of "mother figure" we can trust....
I know what you mean, it is sad. I feel guilty about it too.... My mother is just kind of flipid... I mean (yes probably TMI), my mother left my father for one of my (yes my) high school friends. She was 36, he was 18 and I was 17.... thank God he went to a diffrent school, but still! Yes, this completely Jenny Jones type material. Every since that flip out on her part she's been....a very interesting person..... she's more like a friend than a mother. half the time I have to tell her what to do....like the mother/daughter role is reversed or something. But yes, at least we do have a mother figure in our lives!
KMK, my DH has nearly the same story as you with the CP (everyone get that?!?) I think it came from how he was born (bad use of forceps or something). It affected his right side, arm and leg. Now he's a drummer, which requires all four limbs. The only tell-tale signs he has are a) he's a lefty and b) he walks with a small limp that he tries to hide by walking really flippin' fast. Interestingly, like Baypuppy's friend he went on to skip a grade in elementary school, and was a nationally-ranked chess player as a teenager.
Dude! I never hear of people like that! Great! Good for him. I do also walk very fast, but I never really thought of it as a way to hide it. I guess it is. I'm better at running than walking anyhow. And I am also a lefty!
I am so like that too, and my mother knows it.
anyway:
1.) I am dating a black guy, most of my family have no clue. ( am I white btw, and live n MS.)
2.)I have extremely small feet It seems.
3.) I am really shy but love acting.
4.) I had my tongue pierced, but recently took It out.
5.) I find men on men Hot!
.. I mean (yes probably TMI), my mother left my father for one of my (yes my) high school friends. She was 36, he was 18 and I was 17.... thank God he went to a diffrent school, but still! Yes, this completely Jenny Jones type material. Every since that flip out on her part she's been....a very interesting person..... she's more like a friend than a mother. half the time I have to tell her what to do....like the mother/daughter role is reversed or something. But yes, at least we do have a mother figure in our lives!
Oh, wow, that does sound like Jenny Jones (BTW, whatever happened to her?)
Pooh, I am marinating my tofu tonight and looking forward to trying your recipe tomorrow :)
I am so like that too, and my mother knows it.
Maybe this is not that uncommon?
Ha, I wish I had small feet, my feet are huge! Size 10!
Oh, wow, that does sound like Jenny Jones (BTW, whatever happened to her?)
Pooh, I am marinating my tofu tonight and looking forward to trying your recipe tomorrow :)
Oh, she moved in with the guy....they lived together for about 3 years. Then he decided he wanted a family and a wife his own age so he left her. The guy my mother is married to now is a whole other episode of Jenny Jones! ;)
yeah! I'm glad you are trying the recipe! Let me know what you think of it!!!
sure will!!!
So what did your hubby end up doing.....????
Wellllllllll, after much job searching/thinking about 876 different careers/etc., he's going to go back to school as a post bacc. (starting in August) to get a computer science degree....and get some job..as a computer scientist!
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