28 random things about yourself..

[pomtzu]

Here we go again Terry - round 4

1. I have never eaten avocado. I just can't get past the looks!
2. When I was little - I got car sick all the time. No Sunday afternoon drive was any fun.
3. My first few month of 1st grade, I had to have a home tutor. The new school in walking distance wasn't completed, and I couldn't take the bus to the temporary school. (Bus sick!)
4. I spent my 60th birthday on a 24 hr train ride to Miami to attend my brother's funeral. I don't do planes!
5. When I travel I must have a window seat. Need somewhere to prop my pillow so I can sleep!
6. I was born and raised in New England, but to this day, have never been to Maine or Vermont.
7. I have walked to the top of the Washington Monument.
8. When I was a kid, I slammed the car door shut on 3 fingers. Nothing broken, but lost a couple of fingernails.
9. When I was an adult, a "helpful" store clerk loading a heavy item into the trunk of my car, slammed the trunk closed on the same 3 fingers. Again - nothing broken - just some nerve damage in 1 finger.
10. I never learned to play a musical instrument which was a bummer, since I envied those in the marching band in h.s.
11. People that scuff their feet are very annoying to me. Pick them up!!!
12. I hate pulling weeds, so I'm not much of a gardener.
13. I tend to get nervous on very windy days. I been thru several hurricanes and one very small tornado.
14. I taught myself to knit, crochet and do macrame. I just couldn't get it when my mother tried to teach me. My favorite projects were afghans.
15. I cut my long hair when I turned 30, because I listened to my mother when she said I was getting "too old" for long hair. I still regret it.
16. I hate guns. My ex was in law enforcement, and I hated that he had his service revolver in the house.
17. I haven't worn a dress & heels in the three years since I retired.
18. I have cheated death twice, so I celebrate every day that I'm alive, no matter how bad things may seem at times.
19. Tomorrow is the 1st anniversary of fracturing my hip, and I am celebrating not breaking anything else since. I hope I didn't jinx myself by saying that!
20. I have never worked as a waitress, nor worked in a fast food joint - ever!
21. White roses are my favorite flower.
22. I used to ride a bike about 20 miles a day if I didn't have to work. Lots of woodland preserves around here to enjoy.
23. My RB Meezer Ming was catnapped from out of state by my sil and given to me. He was only a kitten and was being abused - something neither of us could tolerate. He was with me for 20 years!.
24. People think I'm tough - but I'm a real marshmallow. Even the sight of road kill upsets me, and I can't watch any t.v. shows like Animal Precinct or the old Emergency Vet show. Too upsetting, and I can't get the images out of my head.
25. All the men on my father's side of the family died relatively young - early 70's and under. However my surviving brother has broken the record and will be 75 this year. All the woman on that side of the family did much better - living in to their 80's and even one in her 90's. Hmmm - wonder where I fit in there???
26. When I was in grade school, I wrote an essay that won me a trip to the U.N. and Radio City Music Hall. That was my first train trip.
27. I never got my driver's license until after I was married, because my father was a very old-fashioned Italian dad, and he believed that women didn't need to know how to drive, and wouldn't allow me to take driver's-ed in school. Obviously, my mother never learned to drive!
28. I'd like to see Medusa give us at least one list on here. Come on Mary!

[Daisy and Delilah]

Way to go Ellie!!

I had forgotten to list that I am also a person that can't stand avocado until recently. I couldn't stand the texture, the look, the taste, etc.

For the Super Bowl, I made my first guacamole and it was delicious!! I couldn't eat alot of it but I'm getting better.

[pomtzu]

Way to go Ellie!!

I had forgotten to list that I am also a person that can't stand avocado until recently. I couldn't stand the texture, the look, the taste, etc.

For the Super Bowl, I made my first guacamole and it was delicious!! I couldn't eat alot of it but I'm getting better.

LOL! To me, they just look like something that has gone bad and should be thrown out!!!

[Randi]

LOL! To me, they just look like something that has gone bad and should be thrown out!!!

But what about Passion fruit? I love both Avocado and Passion fruit. Avocado's have to be the ones with a coarse skin, though.

[pomtzu]

But what about Passion fruit? I love both Avocado and Passion fruit. Avocado's have to be the ones with a coarse skin, though.

I've never had Passion Fruit. I love Kiwi fruit tho. I like most all fruit - I just can't bring myself to try avocado. I even like Pomegranates.

[RICHARD]

My sports random 28...

1 I love all kinds of sports, if it moves, I'll watch.

2 Racing is the best. I have been to Off Road races in Nevada and California.

3. I have been to every huge stadium in So Cal and San Diego.

4. I have been to basketball games in seats so close I could hear the shoes squeak and players cussing.

5. I have been to hockey games where I have heard the bones squeak and players cussing.

6. Baseball is the best-But, I really love football!

7. I went to a whole season of Arena Football games for the old L.A. Cobras.

8. I went to about 50 Raiders games when they played in Lost Angeles.

9. I have been to an AFC championship game with 100,000 other idiots.

10. I met Todd Christensen once at a TV show taping.

11. I hate Al Davis with a passion.

12. My first pro football game was a Monday Night Game where the Raiders scored 24 point to come from behind and win!

13. I can't drive after I watch "Days of Thunder", I'll kill myself.

14. I love bicycle racing and haven't been to the velodrome in a while!

15. I was at Fernando Valenzuela's first games he ever pitched.

16. Dodger Dogs are the FRICKING best hot dogs at a game.

17. I met Dusty Baker.

18. I am an Olympic junkie. I'll watch anything except ice skating.

19. I went to events in three different counties in 1984. Baseball, Greco ROman wrassling and canoeing x2

20. I was at the very first baseball double header for the Olympics. Check the roster of that team and all but one player made he majors. Flavio Alfaro-he lived in our neighborhood.

21. I love the torch run and followed the dang thing as it cruised thru the valley in 1984.

22. I have seen the torch runs for the L.A., Atlanta and SLC Olympics! The best!

23.I LOVE VOLLEY BALL! indoor better than beach!

24. MY favorite stadium is Dodger Stadium. My not so fave is L.A. Sports Arena.

25. I dislike the owners of the Dodgers!

26. I was at Terry Bradshaw's last game he dressed for.

27. I can score a baseball game.

28. And I cannot stand going to any event and listening to the morons in the stands starting to yell and bellow before the Star Spangled Banner ends-oh, and wearing their hats, too!

[RICHARD]

But what about Passion fruit? I love both Avocado and Passion fruit. Avocado's have to be the ones with a coarse skin, though.

LOL-
Avocados are called "alligator pears" in some areas and there are two types smooth and coarse skinned, Haas is one type, I can't think oif the other.

[beeniesmom]

4. I just finished reading "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch.

I read that too. Made me CRYyyyyy. He was a genious. The good ones always go too soon.

[Daisy and Delilah]

Richard, this is very simple and I know you've done it this way:

GUACAMOLE RECIPE

3 ripe avocados(more if you wish)
2 plum tomatoes-deseeded
2 cloves of carlic finely diced
Cilantro to taste(I used quite a bit)
2 green onions sliced, tops and all
1 fresh jalapeno, diced-deseeded
Pickled jalapenos-I used about 8 slices-HOT HOT HOT!!!
1 tbsp. juice from the pickled jalapenos-EVEN HOTTER
Salt
Coarsely ground peppercorns
Juice of one nice juicy lime

Put the avocado in a bowl(I didn't mash it). I left it chunky so I could eat it.
Mix all ingredients with the avocado. Stir together gently, leaving chunks.
Squirt lime juice all over the mixture and gently stir in. You can add this with everything else if you want to avoid stirring too much.

If you like it mashed, just mash it or stir normally.

I think that's all I put in it, Richard. I hate it even more when it turns brown. The lime juice helps that from happening.
I dipped it with tortilla wedges I deep fried. It was delicious!!

ETA: I may have thrown some more spices I like in there too. I'm good at throwing everything in the spice rack in all my dishes.

[Daisy and Delilah]

Carmen, that book was so sad. At the end, I was bawling. I felt like I knew him and his family and all I could see were his kids and Jai not having him anymore. How cool that he wrote that book and left it for his legacy.

[beeniesmom]

22. I desperately want to tell my sister the family secret. But I can't.

She probably already knows unless she is very young.

[kokopup]

Round 3 of 28 random things

1. I love a thunder storm. The smell of negative charged air rejuvenates me.

2. My favorite plant is the Crepe Myrtle.

3. A loud gun shot in my 20's left me tone deaf. I especially have problems hearing the female voice.

4. My all time favorite movie is “Another place in time”.

5. I do not like shows that go out of their way to show blood and gore. This seems to be a new trend that plagues many shows that I would other wise love.

6. I was almost 5 before I had my first hair cut. i think my mother wanted another girl.

7. I had a pet Jenny mule as a kid. She was the alarm clock for everyone in a 5 mile radius. Her morning bray was unreal. When we finally found a new home for her we had people calling wanting to know what happen to Josephine their alarm.

8. The most trouble I got into as a kid was killing My fathers prize Golden Pheasant rooster by accident with my BB gun.

9. The number of my favorite NASCAR driver.

10. I still have my wisdom teeth.

11. I found 3 baby snakes and took them home with me as a kid. Turns out they were Copperheads. I was lucky because even a baby snake has deadly venom.

12 The number of my all time favorite quarterback, Joe Namath.

13. When I was a kid I was self conscience about my ears. I have since grown into them. They are still big but they are no longer an issue for me

14. I had a pet alligator for a short time as a 10 year old. I had to find it a new home after my mother almost stepped on it one night when she got up for my baby sister's two am feeding. Up until I heard her screams my pet had been my secret.

15. When i was 16 my first auto accident was because of a game of chase. I rolled my car in a family's side yard uprooting 2 trees and scooping up hundreds of Canna lily bulbs with my wheel well. BIG Trouble. Lost my car for months and had to landscape the yard.

16. My first fishing trip as a kid was at my uncles in Florida. I didn't catch a fish but did catch a huge alligator. Needless to say my uncle let the alligator have the fly hooked in the roof of his mouth.

17. Another teen adventure had me hitching a ride on train pulling old passenger cars. When the train was suppose to stop it didn't and my friend and I had to jump from the moving train at 35 miles an hour.

18. One night while walking home from church a friend of mine drove up in a Jeep and ask if I wanted a ride. Rather than driving me home he proceeded to drive to the woods and ditched the Jeep. He informed me he had stolen the Jeep from a National guard armory, He had run away from home and needed away to get back. At the time we were both 15. This delinquent is now a prominent doctor in North Carolina and married to my first girlfriend at 13.

19. I usually have a good memory but when it comes to movies I don't. I can start watching a movie I've seen and keep thinking this looks familiar but can not remember anything about it until I'm seeing it. That goes for the ending also.

20. I had to repeat the first grade. I moved 3 times that first year.

21. All males on both sides of my family died in their early seventies. My mother lived to be 84 and her mother 103. I am hoping I have their genes instead of my fathers.

22. I never get hungry or thirsty.

23. The number X 3 that will equal my age in March.

24. I dislike the CSI type of show. They are so bogus.

25. When I was 7 years old I would ride the bus 10 miles to go the the Mickey Mouse Club at the Alabama Theater. Today you would never even think about allowing a 7 year old out anywhere alone. Things,at least in the south, were different back then.

26. I converted a hearing aid into a radio when I was in high School. I got caught when my teacher told my sister I needed to have my hearing aid adjusted because I could never hear her. My sister told her I was not hard of hearing and did not wear a hearing aid. Oh well it was good while it lasted.

27. The only ball sport that I care for is College Football. The Super bowl was the only Pro game I watched all year.

28. My Social Security card has my first name as Billy. I got my card when I was 11 and had no idea my name was really William. I have since corrected all my records but the only card I have ever owned said Billy.

[CathyBogart]

This looks like fun.

1. I'm getting married in a little over three weeks.

2. I've been stressing out enormously lately because I feel like I passed up so many opportunities and haven't gone as far as I should have.

3. My dog sleeps next to my bed, but as soon as hubby gets up in the morning he hops under the covers and snuggles with me.

4. One of my kitties is the softest cat I have ever felt.

5. I had my tubes tied last year.

6. All but one of my close friends are men.

7. I don't have a cell phone. And I don't miss having one.

8. I graduated from college last year, but being a vet tech made me almost suicidal so I quit.

9. I go to Hooters at least once a week for fried pickles.

10. I dated another girl briefly in high school.

11. I want to donate to a pit bull rescue instead of having favors at my wedding.

12. I live with my mother-in-law, and I don't mind it.

13. I hate the snow, but I want to live in Boulder, CO.

14. I have a motorcycle.

15. I just made peanut butter brownies from scratch. They came out so-so.

16. I think the idea of losing weight just for a wedding is stupid. Change your lifestyle to be healthier, but don't starve yourself to fit into that Vera Wang.

17. I am addicted to LUSH bath products. I spent a whole bunch on them yesterday and now paying the bills next month is going to be tight.

18. I am bi-polar and have problems with anxiety.

19. I met my hubby through his sister, who I went to school with.

20. I would like it very much if my father dropped off the face of the earth.

21. I get jealous of other people easily.

22. I drive a 20 year old Buick. I think it's gorgeous.

23. I hate kids. No, seriously. I hate it more when people find this out and act all patronizing about it.

24. Glacier made the gifts I'm giving my bridesmaids, and they are exquisite. It has been SO hard not to show them off to the girls already.

25. I love Food Network

26. I've been grouchy this week, so I've made a point not to invite friends over. It's a little lonely.

27. I've been super laid-back about most of the wedding stuff, but one friend can't give me a solid answer on if he's bringing a guest and for some reason it's making me CRAZY.

28. I had a panic attack at work this week. I've never had one before. My chest hurt so badly I thought I was going to have to go to the hospital.

[JALB]

1. I love horses!

2. I also like Warrior Cats (by Erin Hunter.)

3. I plan on being a photographer when I grow up.

4. I like to draw, read, and write.

5. I am a model horse and stuffed animal collector.

6. I have 1,978 pictures of Princess and Duchess.

7. I am homeschooled.

8. I like cats, but I'm not sure if I will have them when I grow up because sometimes I get really mad when I have to clean up their messes.

9. I love dogs.

10. I love listening to music.

11. Christmas is my favorite holiday. Sometimes I feel like crying when it is over.

12. I used to collect toilet paper tubes and pudding cups, just in case I could use them for something.

13. I am collecting paper clips and making a necklace with them.

14. I like to eat sweet things.

15. I really don't like going to the dentist and to the doctor.

16. I have two 12 inch by 8 inch (approximately) bins filled with rocks from our canyon property.

17. I save money all year in order to have enough to buy Christmas presents for my family and friends.

18. I'm not interested in lotions, perfume, and fashionable clothing.

19. Until I met my neighbor's Golden, Shelby, I was terrified of dogs.

20. I get new food dishes for Princess and Duchess every year, and save all their old ones.

21. I sleep with my favorite stuffed animal.

22. I sometimes look forward to going to bed because of the dreams I might have.

23. I can see my tongue without looking in a mirror or any reflective surface.

24. I can wink only with my left eye.

25. I am a Pokèmon fan, and my favorite Pokèmon is one I made up.

26. I don’t think I could stand it if I had to walk around the house barefoot all the time. I always wear socks.

27. I *think* I am 5’ 6”.

28. There are many sounds that I hate hearing, like the sounds of people sneezing/sniffling and chewing, especially if they are eating something crunchy.

[angelbow20]

ok i guess I will try this out...

1. I am 24 yrs old
2. i have a 5 year old son named aiden
3. I have dark brown eyes and dark brown hair and my son has baby blue eyes and blonde hair but I still think he looks more like me than his father.
4. I have 4 dogs and 2 rabbits. but right now we also have my sisters 3 dogs here.
5. I am half hungarian and I am also german and pennsylvania dutch
6. i hate to dress up and would wear zippy hoodies and regular hoodies everyday if I could.
7. I have 2 jobs but still live with my parents because im still always broke.
8. I have a addiction to shopping!
9. I LOVE chicken wings
10.I dont smoke
11. I drink on weekends when I go out with friends
12. when I drink I usually drink miller light and I actually like gin and tonics now
13. I never went to college. I hated school way to much I dont think I could handle more.
14. My first pet was a newfie named shera
15. When i was alittle I used to think I was a dog and used to carry a bone in my mouth and crawl on my hands and knees
16. When I was 3 my parents caught me brushing a dead mouses teeth with a toothbrush outside because it had yellow teeth!! kinda gross i know
17. im obsessed with my teeth and have to brush them atleast 2 times a day
18. I wear contacts and have really bad eyes
19. I have one older sister
20. I have a 10 month old nephew
21. I will have a neice thats due to be born april 8th
22. Im still single, Im very picky and I need to stop being that way!
23. im very shy unless you get to know me then im not shy at all
24. im pretty quiet
25. I love perfume
26. I also love lip gloss, flip flops and clogs
27. I love when men smell really good!!!
28. I love all kinds of music. neil young is one of my favorites!