28 random things about yourself..

[K9karen]

1. I love astrology..it's fun..What's your sign?

2.I've known my best girlfriend for about 53 years and never
had a fight.

3. All the bones in my left wrist were shattered when it was nearly
severed in a dog attack. I'm missing 1/4 inch of the ulna
bone and have limited movement and feeling.

4. I'm numerically dyslexic

5. I only sleep in my left side

6. I usually eat one meal a day

7. I love writing and won awards in school. My first job was a
copywriter in an ad agency

8. I'm saving money for braces which I should have had as a
kid. My teeth have shifted with age, Ugh.

9. I'm a pushover, will give in rather than argue.

10. I've had 6 major surgeries and need more back surgery and
2 hip replacements.

11. I hate seeing people blow their nose and brush their teeth.
Gag.

12. I'm a Beatlemaniac

13. I was lucky to travel almost everywhere I wanted when I was
a corporate travel agent. Loved Australia and Tahiti.

14. I hate clowns

15. I'm a technology idiot

16. I LOVE elephants and dolphins

17. I have a 1997 RAV 4 in great condition

18. I have no sense of direction even after 100 trips to the
same place even with my phone GPS.

19. I love to cook

20. I love headbanging music

21. I have an ulcer

22. I live with my significant other and brother

23. I homecared both my parents before they died.

24. I love my Logan to pieces.

25. I miss Cody and think of him everyday.

26. I have a lousy memory...did I say that before?

27. I lost my job in the travel business due to 9/11

28. I love Mexican food!

[shais_mom]

xposted from facebook for the most part.

1. I love God, I may not always go to church but I Have my own relationship with Him, I may not always make him proud but I do love him.
2. When I do go to church, I feel a sense of peace.
3. My parents mean the world to me and am a total Daddy's girl.
4. Not a day goes by that I do not think or miss my grandparents. I still talk to my Grandma M like she is alive. She's my angel.
5. My sister and I used to fight like cats and dogs when we were young, we've had some rough patches, but now she's one of my best friends, and I hate that they live so far away.
6. My animals mean the world to me. They don't care of I sleep late, stay in my pj's all day, don't shower, or have a bad hair day.
7. If I ever meet Mr. Right, he will have to accept #6 or he isn't Mr. Right.
8. I love my family, and wish we could all get together more often.
9. I am an outgoing personality most of the time, but if I'm around new people I don't know, I clam up.
10. I like to read these things b/c I like to learn about people.
11. I addicted to reading.
12. I'm addicted to Facebook. And I love that it has put me in touch with some old friends.
13. I truly believe there are not atheists or agnostics in foxholes.
14. I'm addicted to my Nintendo DS.
15. I can drive a stick shift, its just been a long time.
16. It drives my parents crazy that I sleep late, but when I stay up until 2-3 in the morning, 10-11 am IS my 8 hours of sleep.
17. I've never done drugs or pot. Ever. And I do not intend too. I don't really care what that makes me.
18. I LOVE my neighbors one of them is kinda crazy but he's got a good heart.
19. I used to be a total social butterfly when in HS, but when I got to college, I was talking to a guy in one of my classes, who had a girlfriend, and there was no interest there at all for me. I didn't even think he was cute, after the conversation ended and he turned and walked away one of his guy friends came up to him and said "is that your girrrrrlfriend" and he said "psssffftt hell no" and that hurt me so badly, I never talked to him again, and became a total recluse until I got into my Medical Imaging program and became comfortable with my friends around me. Which is where #9 comes from, I'm afraid of that rejection.
20. Referring to #9 and #19 that is why I don't go out on a limb and call guys b/c I'm afraid when they see me they will say "psssffftt HELL NO".
21. I was in FFA in High School, and an officer twice. Reporter and Vice President.
22. I do not feel passion with my job. Its definately more than a job to me, but it isn't my passion, But the friends I've made thru my job mean the world to me.
23. I love to txt.
24. I'm really trying to get a handle on my finances and debt. It is really hard, but I am trying.
25. I try to drink one caffeine pop a day, (its my coffee) sometimes more, but I try not to drink caffeine past 6pm b/c once I started getting Old, it keeps me up all night long.
26. I love to cook, I just don't do it very often, and I like simple recipes. I cook like my grandma if I don't have it - IMPROVISE!
27. I'm addicted to nasal spray. I hate it but can't breath without it, I have tried to stop cold turkey, but it really sucks not being able to breath.
28. I have a thing for teeth. In a drunken moment one time I reached into a guys mouth and hooked my finger around his teeth and pulled b/c I didn't believe they were real. True Story.

[Alysser]

xposted from facebook for the most part.

21. I was in FFA in High School, and an officer twice. Reporter and Vice President.

Were you really? That's pretty interesting seeing as I'm in it now. I haven't been an officer though my 2 friends are, I'm only a sophmore so I'd be a Junior Officer though I don't know if other chapters do that, some only elect Seniors and Juniors as officers. I'll definitely try next year though, not Senior year, but at least next year because I missed the election this time around. That's pretty cool that you were VP, though! I don't think I'd want to be that high up in the ranks.

[pitc9]

Karen... I never would have thought: 20. I love headbanging music

Stacy- I too can NOT pull myself away from Facebook! I like it MUCH better then Myspace!

[pitc9]

Alright... here goes:

1. I would risk my own life to save my dogs.
2. The older I get the more my family means to me and the shorter my list of TRUE friends get.
3. I once had 3 magnetic earrings stuck up my nose.
4. My husband has broken 2 bones in my hand while we were playing sports together.
5. I love Bud Lite Lime
6. 7 years ago while white water rafting the raft flipped and I was stuck under it and almost drowned.
7. It took me 5 years to go rafting again and I've been back twice since.
8. Dogs are better listeners than most people.
9. I suck at math, grammer, spelling...etc....
10. I didn't know how to tell time on a regular clock till I was in my early 20's.
11. I work in the office at a body shop and I love not having an office full of women to fight and be caddy with.
12. I love camping but I'm afraid of being in the woods after dark
13. I want to visit Alaska.
14. I want to go to Montana and track wolf packs.
15. I spend too much time on the internet while I'm at work.
16. I'm a good cook
17. I'm a GREAT baker!
18. My husband played football in High School with a few guys that are now pro football players. (London Fletcher-Redskins, Joe Jurevicius-Browns)
19. I am a good singer and was Anita in West Side Story in highschool.
20. I missing singing but no longer have the confidence to perform in front of people.
21. If American Idol was big when I was in High School I would have tried out.
22. Without contact or glasses, I can't see my alarm clock 3 feet away from my bed.
23. I've broken my left thumb twice and right once playing softball.
24. Buddy is my heart dog, they'll never be another like him in all my life.
25. I taught my husband how to drive stick shift when we first met. (shhh he doesn't like anyone to know that! LOL)
26. I wanted to be an interior designer.
27. I can balance all sizes spoons on my nose.
28. I have #27 in video!

[zippy-kat]

1. I was born on my dad's birthday.
2. I have one cat, one horse, one bunny, 2 clownfish, and a shrimp.
3. I almost adopted a 3 legged pitbull from Dogs Deserve Better. The pup is an absolute DREAM ... except for cats. (And really, she might be able to be worked thru the issue -she wasn't that bad- but I have no experience with that type of thing. I still might consider adopting her if I had someone to help me with the issue.)
4. I bought my first house in November... and still haven't moved in, yet. (Getting closer, though.)
5. I'm scared of receiving my first electric bill.
6. I love buying makeup but don't wear very much at all.
7. I love, love, LOVE bath "stuff" (shower gels, bubble bath, etc) but can't use 99% of it due to my finicky skin.
8. I liken my horse to a storybook picturesque mare. She has such a wonderful temperment and will do anything you ask (except sidepass, which we're working on). I "dress" her in pink. I have pink glittery hoofpolish. Secretly, I wish she could fart sparkles.
9. Only today did I find out that 2x4 didn't mean, 2 foot by 4 foot.
10. I'm quite book smart but can be a total airhead when it comes to "real" stuff (see above).
11. I never thought I'd be happy in my home town, never thought I'd live in this small of a place but I'm happier now than I have been in YEARS.
12. I don't want children and I'm not sure if I want to be married.
13. I HATE to answer the phone; it is (quite literally) a bit of a phobia. This stems from a certain call I took/brief employment as a 911 dispatcher.
14. As a result of #13, I don't talk to my friends nearly enough. I prefer to txt or chat on the computer but work tends to get in the way.
15. As I approach 30, my bedtime gets earlier and earlier.
16. I don't like the smell of roses. They remind me of funerals.
17. I HATE to cook.
18. I don't mind baking.
19. I love to write and have been published in different literary journals. I even did a reading in college. I miss this.
20. My BA is in English (minors in rhetoric/technical communication and creative writing). My MA is in Technical Communication. I would like to have my MFA in poetry but, at this point in my life, I'm glad to be done with school.
21. I'm allergic to most dairy but cheese doesn't bother me. Milk tastes sour and gives me migraines.
22. I used to love winter. Now, not so much.
23. I can't drive a manual even though I've repetedly tried. I did however sit (I wouldn't say drove - I don't think we ever had to shift I went so slow) on Xradeu's Dad's tractor, which was a manual.
24. I don't like bears, even teddy bears.
25. I don't really love my job but I have it too easy (decent pay, good hours, easy work, security) to go anywhere else.
26. I love tea. I prefer it over coffee, soda, or water. If cold, I want it unsweetened. If hot, it has to be sweetened.
27. There are certain words I hate, they just SOUND ugly. Boogy, for example.
28. I don't really like the way meat tastes and definitely won't eat it in any form of leftovers (chicken being the exception). I prefer veggies.

[Whisk_Luva]

1. I have a mentally handicapped sister who I love, and wouldnt want to change in anyway.
2. I have a slight fear of birds
3. I love taking photos and my camera goes almost everywhere with me
4. I write 'randomness' stories with my friend which include things about were-goats (peaceful creatures with large fangs) and singing elves (little people who live in people, for example I have 2 called Cheesecake and Pumpkin)
5. I have loads of weird nicknames including: Lellipalooza, Lelli, Wellie, Wellington, the singing elf lover, Ellzabeth, WellieCake, etc etc
6. My dream is to become an author but I know how hard it is, so if that doesnt work out I want to be somehting to do with writing/media (journalist maybe)
7. Most of my tops are technically boys tops (I mainly wear band t-shirts)
8. I love dragon fruit and am currently sulking that I cant find it anywhere
9. I like cooking and have recently invented a very odd cake by mistake LOL (my friend named it 'figglebottom cake')
10. I have a slight obsession with Snoopy and have to buy almost everything Snoopy I see
11. I also have a slight obsession with M*A*S*H
12. I hate the noise of hoovers
13. When someone says smile, I usually dont, but if they say dont smile I burst out laughing
14. I used to find the word 'pudding' very funny and if anyone wanted to make me laugh they used to say pudding, then I named a teddy bear pudding, but I still laugh at the word sometimes.
15. I hate having wet socks (for example, I hate stepping in puddles because of this)
16. I hate the texture of bananas
17. I love little random things, for example I have a glow in the dark plastic sheep in my room, and a face (I think its meant to be a frog) with grass growing out of the top
18. A few weeks back we took cuttings from plants in science, and my friend and I named our cutting/plant Geri Junior and we played it music, read stories to it, and we begged our teacher to let us take it round school so it could get an education, needless to say we got some very strange looks...
19. My friends and I do loads of air instruments.... including air vocals, air guitar etc..... its really funny to watch
20. I have my ears pierced but almost always forget to wear earrings
21. I hate shopping unless its for something completely weird or random such as rubber ducks
22. I love hole punching things
23. I have very messing handwriting and can barely read it myself sometimes
24. My friends always laugh at me because I aparently do funny things with my eyebrows when I speak
25. I say I dont know/ I dont mind to almost everything
27. I love sitting in the tree in my garden
28. Last time it snowed my brother and I made a very odd lookig snowman and called it Sebastian.

[Suki Wingy]

Ellie, you are awesome and I wish we could hang out IRL. I am an obsessive fan of M*A*S*H and I bought the first season on dvd today!

I liken my horse to a storybook picturesque mare. She has such a wonderful temperment and will do anything you ask (except sidepass, which we're working on). I "dress" her in pink. I have pink glittery hoofpolish. Secretly, I wish she could fart sparkles.

Zippy, that has got to be the best quote I've read in a very long time!

[shais_mom]

Karen... I never would have thought: 20. I love headbanging music

Stacy- I too can NOT pull myself away from Facebook! I like it MUCH better then Myspace!

FRIEND ME ON THERE!
i only have you on myspace.

[shais_mom]

Were you really? That's pretty interesting seeing as I'm in it now. I haven't been an officer though my 2 friends are, I'm only a sophmore so I'd be a Junior Officer though I don't know if other chapters do that, some only elect Seniors and Juniors as officers. I'll definitely try next year though, not Senior year, but at least next year because I missed the election this time around. That's pretty cool that you were VP, though! I don't think I'd want to be that high up in the ranks.

yupper we didn't do JR officers. we were such a small chapter at that time that we had to include Jrs and Srs as officers. I was reporter my Jr Year and Vice Pres my Sr year. I LOVED FFA.

[jennielynn1970]

I am loving reading all of these!! I read through them and see how many thing we all have in common (but for me didn't write down). It's really cool!

Staci and Alyssa, I had never heard of FFA, but I was in 4-H.

Wet socks give me the creeps too, lol, as do getting the sleeves of my shirts wet.

Bird phobias... yeah... they freak me the heck out!!

[*LabLoverKEB*]

Okay... finally getting around to this...

1. I am going to school to become a RVT (Registered Veterinary Technician)
2. I am horrible at math and science
3. I go to church, and I am a Christian
4. I love my friends dearly, but I only have a handful of friends
5. I have a very mild case of Autism (Aspergers), my problem is social skills
6. I LOVE my family and dogs more than anything
7. I am a clean freak, lol
8. I was in special education through 7th grade-and all throughout high school
9. I actually would rather be in special education than regular, because you know everyone in your classes soo well, and you learn to LOVE your teachers, and I loved them from the start!
10. My mother has 7 siblings, so I have A LOT of family on hber side, and I wouldn't trade it for anything
11. I wear glasses, I have awful vision
12. I have had my dog, Sadie, since I was 6 years old
13. I am 5'3
14. I pretty much have a library of dog books, lol
15. I love to scrapbook, but I hardly ever do it (my mom is a Creative Memory consultant)
16. My mom has several bookshelves full of scrapbooks of my sister and I, one for each year (well, she's still working on them) And I love to look through them
17. I am OBSESSED with all things Disney!!
18. We have no real family in the area, but we have a lot of family friends, they are just like family to us
19. I graduated from high school in 2008! (And I miss high school like crazz)
20. I'm obsessed with facebook, lol
21. I have been to Washington DC (for my Aunts wedding)
22. I have been on a Disney cruise
23. I hope to own a Doberman Pinscher soon after I graduate in 2010
24. I love texting, more than I like talking on the phone!
25. Sadie has her own scrapbook, and I should really make one for Rita
26. My sister and I don't get along all that great, but at the end of the day, we really appreciate each other
27. I love the Disney channel, and Animal Planet
28. I never thought that I would finish this!

[Karen]

These are such fun! It's cool to learn random little things about people!

[Karen]

Okay... finally getting around to this...

1. I am going to school to become a RVT (Registered Veterinary Technician)
.....
28. I never thought that I would finish this!

I think you will be an excellent vet tech!

Yeah, seems daunting at first, doesn't it!

[shais_mom]

for me!

1. I talk to my parents everyday. Usually both of them more than once. On days when they are at their cottage and the cell service doesn't go thru it just doesn't feel right.

2. I was supposed to be born in the middle of December but I came 2 months early. I was born Oct 20th. I weighed 4 pounds. One of my aunts (married to my mom's brother when I was about 6-7) told my mom in front of me when I was about 8-10 that there was no way I was a premie b/c I was too fat now. Thank God neither of her children have weight issues.

3. I love most animals but have a phobia of little critters. When my friends kids want me to hold their guinea pig or hamster it almost sends me into a full blown panic attack. I can't stand the little feet on me. Didn't help when in 2007 after I had foot surgery I woke up in my parents house with a mouse crawling down my arm.

4. I have been a member of a PET TALK since 2000. I have met several members and consider them dear friends. I have also traveled to Los Angeles CA twice due to that forum. And I was in a wedding for an online friend and I met her the day she picked me up from the train 2 days before the wedding.

5. I have lost at least 3-4 dear friends simply b/c their boyfriend turned husband didn't like me. B/c I was the single friend and I wouldn't put up with their sh!t like they did.

6. I have a tendency to be extremely blunt but I hate confrontation.

7. I'm a small town girl at heart, born and raised country girl, but I'd love to live in the Big City like NYC for 6 months just to be able to order sushi at 3am if I wanted to. Then send me back to the small town. I hate driving in big cities.

8. I've only had one boyfriend in my life, when I was a freshman in HS. He was a bad boy of all bad boys. A couple years ago I opened up the local paper and saw his picture in it and was like "now what" then I realized it was the obituries. He had had a heart condition and all the hard living caught up with him.

9. When I was about the age of 8-9 I ate a Texas Tenderloin and got the flu and threw up for days and have not been able to eat one since then.

10. When I was in Jr. Hi I babysat my cousin's and fixed them Totino's Pizza Rolls and that night I got the flu and threw THEM up and can't even stand the smell of them since then.

11. As mentioned in Round 1, I can drive a Stick shift- I've driven a Tractor and a semi. It was just backing it down the driveway but I did it!

12. Before FFA I was in 4-H, and showed sheep at the county fair from the ages 9-18. My Sr. Yr I was Hardin County (Ohio) Lamb and Wool Queen.

13. My dad has one of their friends convinced that I would give him an enema anytime I was around him, so one day I brought home an enema tip from work, put it in an envelope and anonymously sent it to him with the instructions, instert into rectum and blow it up. Any questions call 1-800-ENEMA.

14. I have one older sister. My sister and I are exactly 5 years, 11 months and 1 day apart.

15. My mom has one sister and 2 brothers. All the kids EXCEPT my mom had their boys first and there is about 2-4 years b/n the boy and the girl. My mom is the odd ball out having 2 girls 6 Years apart!

16. I will eat almost any fruit except Muskmelon (cantaloup) or honeydew. I had a great aunt that had breast cancer and can remember my other great aunt saying when she threw up with the chemo it smelled like Muskmelon. I never smelled it but I never ate it before and I refused to eat it since then.

17. My dad is an only child. My grandma had 3 siblings only 6 & 8 (set of twins) years older than my dad. So growing up HIS aunts were MY aunts b/c I spent so much time with my grandma and with them.

18. I was never much of a cat person until I got a dog, my greyhound. She unlocked the passion in me that had been hidden. Loving animals is in my blood. My dad's mom used to bottle feed all kinds of baby pigs and lambs.

19. When I moved out and went to get a dog at the local shelter, I went in mind I was going to get a small scruffy looking dog similiar to Benji. lol I came home with a greyhound. but she was my

20. I love makeup and good smelling girlie things. I have the ultimate girlie bathroom.

21. I have a slight phobia of petting other people's cats unless I know where they came from. If they are a stray or a barn cat, I might pet them but I can't stand the dirty fur. And I'm afraid that the cat will be sick and I will bring it home to my cats.

22. I can't throw or hit a ball to hit the broad side of the barn with the wind behind me, but 2 years ago I took Keegan to the park to throw the tennis ball, I got out the tennis ball launcher and threw the ball and it hit the side mirror on my car and broke it. I just stood there like an idiot with my mouth hanging open b/c I couldn't believe I actually HIT the mirror. Talk about a Needle in the haystack!

23. I had orthoscopic knee surgeries when I was 15 years old. One month they went in a scoped both knees and removed cartilage marbles and scraped out more arthritis than the average 65 year old. The next month they went in and did the other one. The Orthopedic surgeon had never seen that much arthritis in someone so young.

24. I have a sock phobia. I can not stand wet socks. Nor can I stand having anything in my shoe. Sock fuzzies are the bane of my existence. One of my friends says that I have Princess and the Pea feet.

25. When I was about 2 years old we were riding in the semi with my dad, my mom in the front and my sister and I in the bunk. My dad was driving up I-75 and felt a slight pressure change in the truck. He glanced in the side mirror and saw that the door to the bunk was open. He told my mom to hold the wheel and she started to ask why but he launched himself into the bunk grabbed me by the back of the shirt and yanked me back in the truck. I was sitting there with my feet hanging over watching the road go by. My mom started to get hysterical and my sister got in trouble for not watching me! As soon as he got home, he welded the bunk doors shut.

26. I was a sophomore in HS, I went White Water Rafting with the FFA. At a certain part of the river there was a rock we were supposed to jump off of, I refused to do it b/c I wear contacts, and another kid didn't do it either. They told us anyone that does NOT jump off the rock, falls in. We still didn't jump off. I fell out in the middle of a class 5 rapid and really thought I was going to die. Lost my shoe! and the other kid fell out as well. I refuse to WWR after that!

27. I love doing dog/pet related activities. They are a joy to me especially if I get to go with my dog loving friends and take my dog with me.

28. Adding more to my original 28 things has been on my mind since I did it the first time but since starting this list, my mind went blank and it was a lot harder than I thought!