28 random things about yourself..

[caseysmom]

I have started this numerous times so I hope I do it this time...

1. I have been married 27 years

2. I love to camp and dream of owning an RV someday.

3. I am totally addicted to coffee and take it in the shower with me.

4. I tried for 9 years to have my first child, was pregnant again within a year.

5. I love king of queens and everybody loves raymond and I own all the dvd's.

6. My pretty much brand new car got hit in a freak accident in front of my house this morning.

7. It took me 10 years to get a 4 year MIS degree.

8. I love the ocean and would love to live there.

9. They gave me a blackberry at work and now I can never put it down.

10. I love to travel and love to learn about other cultures.

11. I just finished the book "kite runner" I was so into in I put it in the middle of a technical manual at work and acted like I was busy, I finished it in two days.

12. My dogs are the loves of my life and I miss them when I am not near them. I layed on the beach in Hawaii talking about how much Casey would love that beach until my family groaned.

13. I love snorkeling.

14. I went to church every day growing up and now I am not religious at all.

15. I love listening to Dr. Dean Edell on the radio

I am absolutely stuck and will have to finish later!

[davidpizzica]

1. I'm one of the few men on PT. 2. I'm one of the older PTers.
3. I can retire in 4 years.
4. I dread going into fumeral homes.
5. I can't STAND liver in any, shape or form!
6. I'n a life long Lutheran.
7. I LOVE broccoli.
8. Am the youngest of three brothers and
one sister.
9.I've lived in Pittsburgh all ny life.
10. I'm definitely right-handed.
11. My left knee is artificial.
12. I'm a diabetic.
13 I have Parkinson's
14. I'm an ex-smoker.
15. I don't drink alcohol.
16. I have a long medical history.
17. As a child, I was epileptic.
18. I hate to be late for anything!
19. I have a girlfriend on PT.
20. I'm getting dentures.
21. I joined PT on leap year day in 2004.
22. I love my tortie, Marigold!
23. I love old rock and roll and doo-wop music.
24. I'm afraid of lightning.
25. I've been working at the same golf course for 47 years! This includes 9 years of caddying.
26. I've been out of the country once on a trip to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.
27. I fractured three ribs in a car accident.
28. I took a long time to type this. Hunt and peck method!

[davidpizzica]

Awww C'mon David. 27 more!!!

Terry, I wonder what happened? I did type out 28, but only one came out?? I'll have to do it over!! BTW, I looked again and there ARE 28 listed!

[Alysser]

I'll type more!

1. I love Warrior cats. It's the best book series to ever come out.

2. I find conformation dog shows boring, but I watch them anyway just for the dogs.

3. I love gnomes!

4. I work in a new department at Six Flags this year, ENTERTAINMENT! Woohoo!

5. I used to hate pasta until I tasted REAL pasta in Italy.

6. I love to travel. I plan to backpack through Europe with someone when I'm older.

7. I used to play Pro-golf and had Golfing lessons all the time but I stopped playing, I really wish I hadn't.

8. The only book I've ever actually hated with a burning passion is the one I'm reading now! The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, I'm SO tempted to light it on fire, UGH.

9. I used to really enjoy English class, until the dumb student teacher who hates teenagers started teaching EVERY class.

10. My mom said the first time I laughed was when I saw our old dog Shana.

11. I love Haunted New Jersey, Weird NJ, etc, but I can NEVER Ever go to one of those places they scare the crap outta me, but its fascinating to read about.

12. I used to be scared of ever single ride, even little baby ones like Test Track in Disney World, and now I CANNOT get enough of Roller Coasters, they are by far the best invention ever!!

13. I like learning, reading about Ancient Egyptians. I love their Art, culture, beliefs. Like Anubis, the god of the dead, I just love all that stuff.

14. I hate my history teacher.

15. I'm a beast at swimming. Love everything about it.

16. I love the Super Pet Expo, went for the second time on Sunday!

17. I think looking on Petfinder has become a hobby for me.

18. I miss Animal Planet on TV.

19. I love wolves, I always wanted to start a wolf preserve.

20. When I was younger I was planning on working at Australia Zoo with Steve Irwin. That'd be AWESOME!

21. I've very interested in Marine Biology

22. I like working out whether it be at Retro fitness, in my pool, etc.

23. I like Comedy Movies above all genres.

24. I LOVE making graphics like sigs and avatars but I haven't had a chance to make on in awhile.

25. I will never understand humanity. How can you fight over religion, I thought it was supposed to be good? How can one man kill a whole race of people? How can you live with yourself after killing an innocent living thing?

26. I say that yet I kill bugs.

27. I don't have a phobia of anything except spiders and escalators.

28. I like wearing things that support a good cause.

[slick]

1. I have no phobias
2. I have no allergies
3. The only thing in life that scares me is fire.
4. I love thunder and lightning
5. If I had the choice, I would live in a waterfront home on a quiet lake.
6. I'm anal about being on time for anything. I'm always early.
7. I've had long hair for the past 30+ years.
8. I hate perfume and wish I could tell some women to not marinate...especially before getting in an elevator
9. I rarely shave my legs. The hair is so fine and blonde that it doesn't show
10. I have very weak eyes. I have to put on my glasses to go to the bathroom in the night.
11. I'm on the computer aaalllllll day long. When I get home from work, the last thing on my mind is my computer.
12. I don't like fast talking. If someone is a fast talker, I tell he/she to slow down.
13. I don't know how to drive in the snow even though I have a four-wheel drive SUV.
14. I have my memorial service all planned out, including the music to be played
15. Any temperature over 65 deg F is hot for me. I could never live in a "hot" country/state.
16. I wear shorts all winter
17. Things I would like to do/see before I die: hot air balloon ride, see the Northern Lights, swim with the whales, go to Mardi Gras and tour the "South", go to the UK, go on an African safari, cross Canada road trip and eat tons of lobster in the Maritimes, learn to snorkel...then snorkel in some clear blue ocean with lots of salt water fishies
18. I believe in all things magical. This includes unicorns, fairies and Santa. These things warm my heart like nothing else...except love and friendship.
19. Most of the time I feel very unimportant.
20. When I was only a year old I wore braces on my legs for 6 months because they were crooked.
21. I love camping, although I'm too old to sleep in a tent (sorry Richard..). I would love to take a road trip in an RV.
22. My mom tells a camping story. I was only about 4 or 5 years old and we were camping in the BC Interior. I disappeared. They couldn't find me. I was a couple of campsites down, deep in the bushes, on my tummy, hand feeding and talking to a squirrel. I didn't know what all the fuss was about.
23. I learned how to chop kindling at a very young age.
24. I learned how to drive a boat when I was about 10.
25. I took skiing lessons in my early 20's.....invented many new ways to somersault down the mountain. Never skied since.
26. I had a wonderful childhood and even though we were lower middle class, Mom and Dad made sure that our Christmas's were happy.
27. I learned how to play poker at the age of 12. We used matches instead of money
28. I learned how to water ski in my teens.
29. There is a salt water fish tank in my office. I share an office and it belongs to my colleague. We have two orange Nemos, lots of coral and a huge Anemone.
30. I was not smart in high school and just barely passed.
31. I don't "do" roller coasters.
32. I hate slamming doors.

[Edwina's Secretary]

I just finished the book "kite runner" I was so into in I put it in the middle of a technical manual at work and acted like I was busy, I finished it in two days.

I took "Kite Runner" on a business trip with me and read it twice before I got home. Check out his second book - "A Thousand Spendid Suns"

[*LabLoverKEB*]

I think you will be an excellent vet tech!

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

Thanks Karen!!!

[beeniesmom]

Here’s round 2 …

1. I love Nutella on warm croissants.

2. My first dog was a Pekinese named Monday.

3. Add me to the list of people who LOVE the cold weather yet live in Florida.

4. I am the only one in a very large family that doesn’t smoke cigarettes.

5. I like to walk barefoot, even when it’s cold.

6. My first summer job was being a gate guard for a gated community. A little boring but relaxing. I didn’t have to do much. I’d bring my RB Dee Dee in the little gate box and read books all day while saying hello to people.

7. The first book I read by myself when I was 4 or 5 was Dr. Seuss’s: One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.

8. I dislike blueberries.

9. I got the mumps and chicken pox as a child within 10 days of each other. Longest sick leave from school ever!

10. As a child I was awesome on the balance beam. My teachers wanted me to try out for the Olympic team.

11. I like reading books by Dean Koontz.

12. One of my favorite bands is Nickelback.

13. I think Wentworth Miller is HOT.

14. My favorite fragrances are J’Adore, Eau D’Issey and Mariella Burani.

15. I used to collect key chains and had thousands of them but I got tired of them and eventually gave them away here and there to whoever wanted them.

16. I love anything Boston Terrier and am currently looking for Boston Terrier baby bedding or nursery décor but cannot find any.

17. I hate milk… even chocolate milk. The smell makes me gag.

18. My favorite kind of jewelry (and I don’t have much) are gold earrings.

19. I prefer the company of my dogs to most people.

20. I thought I’d never like owning a male dog…. until Frankie came along.

21. I love black licorice… the bitter kind. The more bitter, the better!

22. I prefer sitting by a pool then going to the beach.

23. My dog Beenie thinks she’s a cat sometimes. She purrs when you pet her. I really have to catch it on video one of these days.

24. I’ve always wanted to open an animal rescue.

25. I’m not very good at math.

26. I prefer vegetables to fruit.

27. Add me to the list of people who hate shopping… for shoes!

28. I love PT! Whoa, it was harder than I thought to come up with another 28.

[Daisy and Delilah]

LOL LOL LOL Thanks David

[boomersooner]

Here goes....I did this for Facebook, too, and it took longer than I thought it would!

1. I’m the youngest of three girls. All of our names begin with the letter S. For the longest time, I thought my name was Susansandyshannon……..

2. I don’t wear jewelry because I have a terrible nickel allergy. Even supposedly gold earrings break my ears out, and it hurts a lot!!!

3. I don’t like to wear dresses because I’m not really girly girly. Panty hose were invented by the devil himself.

4. Bridges and high overpasses terrify me….especially high bridges over water. Even though tunnels don’t bother me, I don’t think I could go through an underwater tunnel either.

5. I teach at the same elementary school I attended. When I went to Caldwell, it was first through sixth grade…no kindergarten.

6. Even though I didn’t go there, I love all OU sports, especially football and basketball….men and women’s.

7. I have a bachelor’s degree in Library Science and a master’s in Elementary Education. The thought of going to school now really gives me the heebie jeebies………glad I’m done.

8. I love, love, love dogs, and I have two great ones…Cassie, my 14 ½ year old Dalmatian and Boomer, my year old English Springer Spaniel. I guess I must have a thing for black and white dogs. HA

9. Snakes absolutely, positively scare the beejeebers out of me!! My nephew has one, and I don’t know how my sister sleeps in the same house.

10. I have been in a football stadium when a bomb when off right outside. Some guy tried to take a backpack with a bomb in it into Memorial Stadium at OU. We heard the explosion, and everyone around us was speculating about what it could be, but I think everyone was thinking bomb…..especially those who live in the Oklahoma City area, but no one wanted to actually say those words. The guy couldn’t get in with the backpack so he went and sat on a bench outside the stadium to figure out what to do next, I guess, and the bomb went off……..poor bus driver sitting in a bus saw it all.

11. While in an airplane, we almost had a midair collision when the traffic controller sent a small plane in our path….pilot had to like brake in midair! I looked at Mike, and when I saw the concern on his face, I knew something bad had happened. The pilot came on and explained what had happened. Pretty freaky!!

12.I once scratched my cornea while wearing a construction paper bird beak. The teachers were acting out the Twelve Days of Christmas, and my group were the six geese a laying. I was acting silly, “pecking” at a coworker who was afraid of birds. I guess the beak slipped up and got me in the eye. It was one of the worse pains I’ve ever experienced. I went to an afterhours clinic, and the doctor acted like he had heard that same story a dozen times that day. I had to wear a patch for 24 hours, and my lovely husband would only talk pirate to me! HA

13. I’m related to Davy Crockett and Abe Lincoln. Our family all came from the Tennessee/Kentucky area. We always knew we were kin to Uncle Davy, but my sister delved deeper into our family tree, and found that we were also related to Abe.

14. I have a “fear”, for lack of a better word, of down escalators. My mom and I were in a Boston mall once, and the down escalator was going so fast and was at such a steep slope, neither one of us could get on. I haven’t liked them since. I will almost always find an elevator. Up escalators don’t bother me.

15. I’ve never had any broken bones that I know of….I think I may have broken the toe next to the little one when I tripped over a big rock. I cut my foot pretty badly when I was 8…..that was about it as far as injuries go.

16. I’ve traveled to 9 countries and 37 states. I went to Europe before I was married, and my parents and I used to go on these long road trips. I’ve also gone to quite a few states with Mike and the kids, following OU football.

17. I’ve never smoked a cigarette, even as a kid. My mom used to smoke so I had access to them…..just never, ever appealed to me.

18. Old classic television shows are my favorites…The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Dick Van Dyke Show……the best TV. If they ever take TV Land off, I’ll be lost! HA

19. At my parents’ 60th wedding anniversary celebration, my sister made me laugh so hard, I….I…..yes, I wet my pants!!! Luckily, it was at my house, and I was able to slip down the hall to change before everyone knew….There I’ve said it!!!

20. I am a Christian but I know I’m not as good of one as God would want. I pray every day to be a better person than the day before.

21. I don’t know how to drive a car with a stick. I’ve lived 47 years without knowing, so I really don’t see the point in learning now.

22. I am NOT adventuresome when it comes to trying new things such as food……If it isn’t something I’m familiar with, I won’t eat it….just like a little kid, I guess, but again, I’m 47 years old, and I don’t have to eat anything I don’t want to!!

23. I was a Cub Scout leader for 4 years for my two nephews’ den. It was fun, but I didn’t want to do it again. I stayed up all night at a lock in with what seemed like hundreds of 7,8, and 9 year old boys....never again!

24. I’m a librarian, but I really don’t read that much. I’m busy with the kids and the husband, the job, the house, the dogs, etc.so I really don’t do much reading. My dad and my older sister read two or three books a week probably.

25. I’ve lived in the same city all of my life. I never had to experience changing schools or making new friends.

26. I met Mike on a blind date. He had hired the daughter of one of my coworkers, and they hooked us up. We were engaged after 3 weeks. When you are in your 30’s, I guess you just know if you have found the right person.

27. I used to always tease my mom about the many different hairstyles and hair colors….well, I realized I can’t talk much! HA

28. I don’t like confrontation at all! I can tell people off really well while I’m in the car or the shower, but I don’t like actual confrontation. I guess that is why I don’t talk about controversial topics unless I know the person I’m speaking with is of the same opinion as me.

[caseysmom]

I took "Kite Runner" on a business trip with me and read it twice before I got home. Check out his second book - "A Thousand Spendid Suns"

I plan on getting it this week, is it as good as Kite runner?

[Edwina's Secretary]

I plan on getting it this week, is it as good as Kite runner?

The ending is a little contrived but up until then it is gripping and hard to put down. What I particularly enjoyed is it is about the relationship between two women this time.

But be prepared to get very angry along the way!

[caseysmom]

The ending is a little contrived but up until then it is gripping and hard to put down. What I particularly enjoyed is it is about the relationship between two women this time.

But be prepared to get very angry along the way!

Sounds good...I will probably check it out of the library they have a couple of copies of it, at least it says so online.

[caseysmom]

I am attempting to finish...

16. I hate pizza, blech just bought some tonight for the kids and could hardly eat it.

17. I am changing jobs in a week or two and I have been doing the same thing for 14 years so it is kind of scary. Its at the same place but a different area.

18. I can't sleep without casey near me, at least I can't fall asleep.

19. I saw a dog that had been hit on the freeway tonight and it has upset me all day.

20. Its been a horrible day, see above 6 and my daughters very good friends new kitty died of I believe FIP, I have no details yet and after seeing the dog, see number 19 I have just about had enough of this day.

21. I just fired my housekeeper because I work for the state of ca and our govenor just gave us a 9.6 percent pay cut. I am being forced to have two unpaid days off a month so hey I hope I can remember how to clean....

22. Did I mention I can't stand the governator....

23. I love to cook but hate the clean up

24. my daughter has been asked to participate in "every 15 minutes" where we have to pretend that she dies.

25. I am on call 24 hours a day and last weekend I got called at 11:30 pm sat, 1:30 am sunday and 2:30 am sunday...it sucks sometimes

26. I am having my first unhappy moment with Obama for screwing up HOUSE tonight.

27. I vowed to start a diet today but failed

28. I am really happy to be done with this!

[Zippy]

1.I can't drive

2.I don't drink or smoke

3.I HATE to travel

4.I am very much a home person

5.I eat butter popcorn almost every night

6.My first pet was a maine coon cat named Tiger

7.I used to collect beanie babies.Zippy got her name form a black/white beanie baby cat

8.I love cat collars.I am alwas buying new ones for Zippy and Pumpkin

9.I used to want to open my own pet store

10.I have more pictures of my pets sitting out them of my human family

11.I hate coffee and never will drink it

12.I love shredded chesse in my salad

13.I really don't like any kind of seafood

14.I have 5 cousins(3 boys,2 girls)

15.I love chartoons and one of my favorites is the orgainal Yu-gi-oh

16.I usually wear a short sleeved shirt and shorts

17.I love peanut butter

18.I don't like large crowds

19.I'm a very shy person

20.I love to swim

21.I want to start scrapbooking

22.My favorite soda pop is Diet Dr.Pepper and Diet Sunkist

23.I can't stand the movie Cold Mountain

24.My favorite songs are Stand by Rascal Flatts,How do you get that lonely by Blaine Larson and I love you this much by Jimmy Wayne

25.I buy a new christmas ordement every year

26.I love staying up late

27.It took me 4 times to get thorw the movie it's a wonderful life and now it's one of my favorite movies

28.It was harder to think up things for this list the 3rd time around