Three random facts:

[mejaka]

1. Last night I carved a beautiful dragonfly into my pumpkin.

2. My visiting teacher, who is supposed to come visit every month but has more money than time and so always ends up dropping off little gifties instead, left me a beautiful set of wooden oak leaves on a wire loop that hooks around a pumpkin stem. It looks so good on the pumpkin!

3. I love to surprise my husband. It's one of my favorite things. He's easy to please--bake cookies, tuck a note in a pocket of a shirt, mail a card, do an errand he thought he was going to have to do. Little stuff. I love it. :^ )

[guineababy]

1. I came to school but skipped math because the teacher was already there teaching and I was too embarrassed to walk in.

2. I've been bored for the last hour and a half.

3. I need more friends.

[evelynhoney]

I went as a princess to work today. everybody liked it. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

I have ready more than 80 books this year. I keep a list, but some of them don't make it because I can't remember either the author or the title, and I dont want to put ? - ? on the list a dozen times

I have been super tired lately, i think from lack of iron or something

[jaydestarr]

Eep! Too many posts to reply to!!!

1) I'm unsure if my house (or the land it's built on) is haunted, or I'm just a magnet for "ghostly activity." I'm leaning toward the latter explanation since "ghostly occurrances" happen here at school, too. Not a week goes by without *something* happening.

2) A member of the housekeeping staff asked me if I worship Satan. He either assumed it because a) I was dressed all in black with black eyeliner and lipstick on or b) because I was in a partial costume. Either way, it was incredibly presumptuous of him and he had no business asking me *anything* about my religious beliefs. I'm still quite pissed about it.

3) I'm getting really excited about NaNoWriMo - only 2.5 more hours of waiting!!!

[Bugitha]

1. I keep forgetting that its halloween and so I do a double take everytime I spy someone in a costume.

2. I'm terrified of ghosts. Never yet encountered one, but I do believe in 'em.

3. I had my first hot out of the oven Krispy Kreme donut today! Yum. I see now what all the fuss is about.

[thunderstorm_19]

1. we have one of the very few new krispy kremes stores in canada, about 20-30 minutes away from me (when i am at home)... ohh yummy.

2. i'm supposed to be in class.

3. my costume consisted of my dark purple, empire waisted, floor length, medieval (one of few words i can't spell) wide scoop sleeve that come down in points dress that my mom managed to make in under a week for me to wear to prom june 2001... and the dark green velvet (Dark grey satiny lined) hooded cloak she made me for christmas last year.... i left my hair down, with 6 thin braids - 3 down each side...

i am unsure of what i was supposed to be, but i reminded one friend of Arwen from lord of the rings ('cept my hair's red (: )

[bluewindsong]

!) krispy kreme! Ohhh....i had my first hot one a few weeks ago...driving home at 5 inthe morning froma weekend getaway in sedona, pheonix has the only krspy kreme in these parts....but we are getting one in Tucson soon ! i hope! the sign been up a long time now!
2) next holiday is thanksgiving...on e of my favs! cause i get to cook!! yipppppppeeeeeeeeee..this year a stuffed pumpkin and spaghetti squash cassarole and cranberry pie!

3) I'm really enjoying nervousness...only wish the lmao's didnt take so long to get to me:D

[Melbernai]

1) I work in a Catholic school so I had off yesterday and today for All Hallow's Eve and All Saint's Day. I stayed at my Mom's house to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters, and we only got 7. It was incredibly boring, and this probably could have been three posts in itself.

2) I went to Border's last night on a "date" with my Mom, signed up for my 20% off teacher's appreciation discount card, drank a hazelnut latte, and got slightly frightened by this big man on stilts who looked like frankenstein and was lurking outside of the window right next to my table.

3) I write down every book that I read to my class, and add it to this ongoing bulletin board. Last year, we read over 400 titles. This year, we are up to about 95. School started on September 9th.

[mejaka]

1. I'm taking Miss Anna to the golf course today to collect pine cones.

2. If I had the choice of hiring a chef, a maid, or a gardener, I'd hire a maid in a heartbeat.

3. I'm thinking about applying for a short-term job as a Salvation Army bellringer, because I love the idea of standing out in the cold singing holiday songs.

[kittie_naughty]

1) I am getting more and more jealous of Melbernai's occupation. Cute kids, autumn leave collecting, lots of books, teacher's discounts... darn, I should have maybe also become a teacher!

2) Like Mejaka: a maid. In a flash. I actually had one once, before I became a full-time student again, when I used to have some of that stuff called money. She came once a week and worked her glorious wonders in the flat. It was great. *sob* SOB! lol

3) I am working on an overdue LMAO right now so I can send it out tomorrow so that Arizabif won't kill me http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif It's so funny, I keep cracking up over it. I'll have to photograph it when it's done.

[GuineaBaby]

1. I got one exchange ready to go out today and it's stamped and hanging on the door. There was only that one stamp. I plan on doing a couple more before the day is through so I can get completely and totally caught up.

2. I went to bed at 10:45 last night and didn't get up until 11:40 this morning. Why'd I sleep so long?!?

3. I went to put deoderant on and the little clicker thingy that pushes it up broke. Now what am I gonna do?

[Melbernai]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (kittie_naughty @ Nov. 01 2002,11:40)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1) I am getting more and more jealous of Melbernai's occupation. Cute kids, autumn leave collecting, lots of books, teacher's discounts... darn, I should have maybe also become a teacher![/b][/quote]
I have to admit, that being a Pre-K teacher rocks. There are so many perks, mainly being that the little kiddos love me dearly, and everyone needs to feel loved and appreciated sometimes. But it's still a job that pays me very little (since i'm in private school, working on getting a public school job for next year), requires an enourmous number of "overtime" hours, and like most jobs, i have to deal with shitty administration on a daily basis.

I have yet to find a job, other then this though, that gives em as much gratification and makes me feel like a good part of the world.

And now....for my 3 facts:

1) I have been awake for about 6 hours and the only think I've accomplished is eating way too much Halloween Candy.

2) My mom might be taking me *very late* birthday shopping tonight. I need a black shirt for a fashion show I am modeling in *gasp* on thursday night, and she said she'll buy it for me since I am rediculously poor.

3) I got paid today, and only $44 of my paycheck is left after rent and car insurance. That $44 has got to last me two weeks. Blah.

~Meli

[BreezyK]

Oooh, it feels like I haven't posted here in forever! (It's probably only been a day!)

1. I have a multitude of barely used deoderants beucause I frequently realized that I've forgotten to put on deoderant when I'm halfway to work, and I get so horrified that I might stink, that I stop at a store and buy a new one. (I should just keep one in my car... duh... never thought of that until now!)

2. We only had two trick or treaters last night. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif I have never lived in a place that gets a lot of them. So sad.

3. I would definitely hire the maid too. I feel like I spend half my free time cleaning up after myself and Dennis. In fact, I've considered maybe a once or twice a month service.... I hear they really aren't that expensive... but any expense right now will really not help!

[thunderstorm_19]

1. for various reasons i'm going thru one of my depressed-and-miserable-inside phases.

2. It snowed yesterday afternoon. Our first snow, on halloween. great. (blah). It snowed a bit overnight and this morning too, and little bits settled.

3. the remembrance day poppies have black centres this year, instead of green.

[GuineaBaby]

1. My toes are ice cold.

2. Dawn is still in bed SLEEPING! She's been in there since 10 pm and it's already 3!

3. Kam never came to pick up the blonde wig for his halloween costume so I'm stuck with a wig.

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">. I have a multitude of barely used deoderants beucause I frequently realized that I've forgotten to put on deoderant when I'm halfway to work, and I get so horrified that I might stink, that I stop at a store and buy a new one. (I should just keep one in my car... duh... never thought of that until now!)

[/b][/quote]+

lol. I do that too! Um, if you use a stick, don't leave it in the car on a hot day. Nothin' worse than melty deoderant. Lucky thing its winter, huh?

I'd choose the maid, too. No question.

1. I'm getting ready to go to the dollar store! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif I am far too fond of that place.

2. I didn't eat all day then pigged out on TWO cream-cheese filled crossaints this afternoon. Bad Bugitha!

3. At the grocery store today I was over-charged $13. Lucky thing I checked my receipt.

[GuineaBaby]

1. I am getting ready to make this (http://www.femailcreations.com/shopping/catalog/Home%20Decor/All/36703/) out of paper mache since I'm no good with wood and I don't have any in the first place.

2. Dawn and I hung up a flannel sheet in the hall doorway so we could heat up this part of the house really fast (which includes three rooms and a bedroom, but we shut the doors so only our rooms heat off). The rest of the house is freezing cold. Mom has yet to come in from the little house and see what we've done (and we only used two tacks!).

3. I ended up applying my broken deoderent with a plastic spoon (yes, i threw the spoon away) then whining to mom who said we can buy more (but of course not for the same low price I got mine at! It was only a buck, regularly like four!).

[GuineaBaby]

1. Yay! I finished making the base for this (http://www.femailcreations.com/shopping/catalog/Home%20Decor/All/36703/) and I'm so excited at how it's coming along! I don't wanna wait for it to dry! I want to paint it and make it pretty!

2. My computer is running out of resorces. How?!?

3. I'm addicted to my gameboy Dr.Mario for the last couple days.

[Melbernai]

1) I wish I had an old Sega Genesis with Sonic the Hedgehog. I'm not much of the video game type, but I miss that cute lil blue critter.

2) I just counted the change in my piggy bank and I have over $15. I think I'll be taking a trip to the local coinstar today.

3) My mom bought me a kick~@ss outfit for my b-day last night and I look like a babe in it. Heh.

~Meli

[sistasmell]

1. We gave a friend a ride to the Reverend Horton Heat show in Central Square last night. Oh, I felt so old when I saw the people in line to get in. They were all so cute with their fancy outfits and stylie hair. Meanwhile, I was yawning and ready to go home.
2. I am going to The Paper Source today. Just sit back and imagine what kind of a fabulous store that is. And how much money I'm going to (hopefully) spend.
3. If my dog wasn't so pissy and serious about guarding the house, I would have a maid. As it is, she'd be found on the sidewalk dying from loss of blood with ankle wounds. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif We had a once-a-week one when I was a kid. She systematically stole all the good silverware and stacks of blank checks. Also, she cleaned the bathtub with Windex, so that it looked really shiny and nice, but when you touched it, it was all gritty and scummy.

[Helquin]

(1) So far the best thing about NaNoWriMo is that it's motivated me to do about a hundred chores around the house to avoid writing. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif Something tells me I'll be trying to scribble 10,000 words a day starting 25 November!

(2) I was really thinking about hiring a maid if I land this job I've been pursuing. But after reading Sistasmell's last post I'm not so sure... I'm not really crazy about the idea of someone in my "space," though. I don't have much of value to steal, but my house is full of ummm.... interesting stuff which a nosey person might find!

(3) A while back I saw this online Nervous quiz (http://nervousness.org/lmao/index.cgi?id=5161) by flea, which includes the formula for your "porn star name" (first pet's name + name of first street you lived on). Years ago I first heard this in the gay male community as the formula for your "drag name" -- which is more appropriate in my case anyway, since the name I come up with is Princess Dry Bone. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[mejaka]

1. I desperately want to go over to GuineaBaby's and play with her. Man, that is so cool...I used to have a sign on my college-apartment bedroom door that said, "No one gets in to see the Wizard. Not no one. Not no how."

2. When I got married and lived in a little yellow story-plus cottage, I thought it would be fun to paint the front door pale creamy mint, and write on it in pale creamy pink the poem by Shel Silverstein called "Come In!" But I was sure my conservative, conventional, wonderful husband would feel very weird about it. When we moved to a more staid-looking ranch I commented that I should have painted the door, and he said, "Go ahead and paint the new one." But the new house just didn't look right for it.

3. I always intended to letter the Wizard quote above on the wall above our bedroom door in House #2, when we got around to repainting (other projects were higher on the list). I also intended to put two favorite quotes about marriage/family around the wall of our bedroom. I was searching for a good quote for the space above the boys' door, too. Then, we moved and painted everything really fast. I did manage to put "Live well, laugh often, love much" on Miss Anna's nursery wall a few months before we found out we were moving.

The favorite quotes:
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." Antoine d' St. Exupery

"It is in the shelter of each other that people live." old proverb

4. Brett and I have a great marriage partly because we have always been taught the first (and we both grew up with the same strong sense of direction), and partly because by sheer luck the second comes fairly naturally to both of us.

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (mejaka @ Nov. 02 2002,07:56)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">and write on it in pale creamy pink the poem by Shel Silverstein called "Come In!"  [/b][/quote]
did you know that shel silverstein also writes erotic poems? they're quite...interesting.http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

1. i was just playing tug with my dog, and he drug me all the way across the room (i'm in a chair with wheels). i guess i have a strong puppy. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

2. tomorrow is my boyfriend's birthday.. he's going to be 29. i'm trying to convince him that he has to do something crazy to celebrate his last year in the twenties, but he doesn't think so.

3. i have so much homework and such lately that i'm falling behind on nervousness stuff. bear with me!

[Katiekat]

Helquin ~ your drag name is hilarious! My porn star name is Brandywine Brown, which makes me think of a hot black woman with a big afro... kinda like Foxxy Cleopatra.

1. When I was four, my mom asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I told her I wanted to be the Easter Bunny.

2. I absolutely hate it when people get religious over homosexuality. God is a loving god, and s/he doesn’t hate anyone because of who they find attractive. S/He has bigger things to worry about.

3. I have an autographed copy of Jello Biafra’s “I Blow Minds For a Living” spoken word album on vinyl. In addition to signing it, he bit the corner of the sleeve, and you can see his teeth marks in the cardboard.

[mejaka]

1. COOOL! I decided to set an avatar and it WORKED! Those are my pens...that's my mess from making ABC ATCs. The first pic I tried was better but too detailed to make a good avatar.

2. I had to borrow a curling iron to do my hair for the military ball. The friend I borrowed it from is probably still laughing. She said, "YOU? YOU need a CURLING IRON?" and then she called me "Janna the Beauty Queen."

3. When I was little, we would sometimes go to family reunions--the Levanger family, my mother's side, Norwegians to the core. Uncle Bernard (whom we kids called Uncle Barnyard) always inspected our eyes. "Muriel," he would say to my mother, "Janna and Darcee are beautiful girls, but who are these other two with the off-colored eyes?" <snicker> Les and John got the brown ones...

[amylyn]

1. Too much candy will give you a tummy ache.
2. Too much wine will give you a headache.
3. Oh man I feel sick.

[GuineaBaby]

1. I didn't wake up until three

2. I'm waiting till dawn gets out of the shower for my turn

3. it's already 3:45

[wenchlette]

I start birth control tomorrow for the first time ever

I am a Newfoundlander - by choice

My room is really... reallllllly.. messy & cold.

[GuineaBaby]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (queensara @ Nov. 02 2002,4:54)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">My room is really... reallllllly.. messy & cold.[/b][/quote]
Hey! Mine too! lol

1. My dad brought in paints to help with my unsecret Christmas project.

2. The mail came and I got nothing but once piece of junk. Why does it take so long for stuff to get to me?!?

3. I'm peeved because a lot of the people I sent stuff to two weeks ago have yet to tell me they received it or answer my email telling them I sent it.

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Katiekat @ Nov. 02 2002,12:58)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">2. I absolutely hate it when people get religious over homosexuality.  God is a loving god, and s/he doesn’t hate anyone because of who they find attractive.  S/He has bigger things to worry about.[/b][/quote]
amen sister.http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif i just wish everyone would see it that way.

1. my sister and i saw sweet home alabama tonight. it was cute.. sometimes you need cute, cheesy movies.: )

2. i love candy corn and cadbury cream eggs.

3. i've been on birth control for two years now. i've kind of forgotten what it's like to have a period that isn't controlled by hormones.

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">When I was four, my mom asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I told her I wanted to be the Easter Bunny.

[/b][/quote]

How adorable is that?

1. I didn't get my ears pierced until I was 21.

2. I've been on birth control off and on for the past ten years. Ugh.

3. Today as I was shuffeling through the leaves at the park, I got all warm and fuzzy inside thinking of the upcoming holidays.

[Katiekat]

Hey all ~ I have a shameless plug:  I created this lmao -- Let's Eat Out! Menus (http://nervousness.org/lmao/index.cgi?id=8283), and so far only have 1 participant.  Wouldn't anyone like to join us and show off your favorite restaurants and their yummy foods??  Please please please?  I'd love to have some of you regular posters (eenie, helquin, bugitha, GuineaBaby, etc...) sign up (but don't let me bully anyone  http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif ).

Okay, my 3 things!!

1. I tend to drool when I sleep, but I don't snore.
2. I cannot stand Andy Rooney.  I'm instantly overwhelmed by a yucky feeling of hatred whenever I see him.
3. I have deja vu often.  I believe in it, but i have no  idea why we have it.  I swear it's real, though.

[wenchlette]

1. I live in Newfoundland, which is a half-hour time zone. Meaning, if it's .. let's say.. 9pm EST, it's 10:30 Newfoundland time. :-P

2. I met my boyfriend on the internet, and I'm madly in love with him. We don't consider ourselves an 'online romance' seeing as how we met 4 weeks after the first time we talked. Strange, eh?

3. {Personal One}When I was 3, my labia grew together and I had to get them surgically separated. What a freak. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[GuineaBaby]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Katiekat @ Nov. 02 2002,11:14)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Hey all ~ I have a shameless plug:  I created this lmao -- Let's Eat Out! Menus (http://nervousness.org/lmao/index.cgi?id=8283), and so far only have 1 participant.  Wouldn't anyone like to join us and show off your favorite restaurants and their yummy foods??  Please please please?  I'd love to have some of you regular posters (eenie, helquin, bugitha, GuineaBaby, etc...) sign up (but don't let me bully anyone  http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif ).[/b][/quote]
Okay, I joined! ^_^ Now everyone else should too lol.

1. My dog is on my bed snoring (and it's amazing how such a small dog can snore so loudly).

2. I made a bunch of stuff with paper clay and I'm off to see how well it does in the toaster oven.

3. I've got something stuck in my throat that's making my eyes tear up.

[Helquin]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Katiekat @ Nov. 02 2002,11:14)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Hey all ~ I have a shameless plug:  I created this lmao -- Let's Eat Out! Menus (http://nervousness.org/lmao/index.cgi?id=8283), and so far only have 1 participant.  Wouldn't anyone like to join us and show off your favorite restaurants and their yummy foods??  Please please please?  I'd love to have some of you regular posters (eenie, helquin, bugitha, GuineaBaby, etc...) sign up (but don't let me bully anyone  http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif ).[/b][/quote]
I'll sign up, too, Katie-Kat... but I don't know what restaurant I'll mention! Chillicothe is overrun with McFastFood places and I have to drive 30-45 minutes to get to a decent place to eat out. For the first time in my life I actually cook at home more often than not... which wouldn't be so bad except that I hate doing dishes!

(1) I experience deja-vu a lot, as did my last serious beau (who considered it a sign that he was "on the right track" and not messing with the time-flow). I don't have a clue what it's all about, but sometimes it's so vivid it gives me the willies.

(2) I started a Nervousness binder this weekend with some plastic protector-sheets I found at the store (trading-card pages for ATCs and 4" x 6" photo pages for postcards). Although my Nervous collection is still kinda small, it was nice to get everything organized and see the artwork again. Now I need some pages for the larger items I've received.

(3) Among my more unusual possessions is a real monkey's skull.

[mejaka]

Yike--a real monkey's skull...wo.

1. I have a three-inch skull that looks like it belonged to a baby dragon, and a 16-inch shell of a horseshoe crab, among other things sent to me in a "science box" (for my boys) by a friend who lives near the beach.

2. I don't believe God hates anyone for their behavior or choices, though I do think he agonizes over some of the stupid things we do and some of the ways we cause pain to ourselves and others. I believe he--like any tender parent--tries to warn us where the pain lies. Sort of like "Don't play in the street, you'll get hit by a car." He knows where the cars are. We don't always listen. And a main purpose of this life is to learn how to love, because in the next life we are going to need to be good at it.

3. I think Dining Outs are the stupidest thing I've seen yet in the military. I was seriously tempted to bring up my own point of order last night and demand that at least the pregnant wives be allowed to go to the restroom without having their husbands stand and announce that they needed to use the female latrine and ask permission from Mr. Vice. Not a single woman left the room all night except for one soldier who was a gunner and had to recharge glasses with all the other privates. The President of the Mess looked like Christopher Walken in one of his scary roles, some guys were a little too anxious to drink from the grogg bowl, and the service was so slow that at the head table our plates were cold by the time we got to eat. My introduction to the soldiers made a good impression, though--at least the kind I like to make. At one point, when applause was appropriate, handful of privates caught me deliberately and irreverently tapping my spoon just ONCE on the table (spoon-tapping is applause) and laughed so hard I thought someone would bring it up as a point of order. :^ )

[bluewindsong]

http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif Hi all. i joined the fourms to see if i could get to know some more people a bit better, so here i am. been on nervous a few months, signed up for a lot of things...so far haven't recieved most of them, but eagerly waiting!http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

1. My house is a sty as well....i can't seem to get the energy to sweep or clean the toilets...ugh!
at least the dishes get done...nothing more i despise than dirty dishes in the sink!

2.I too have been on Birth control for several years. I gues about 5 now... *YIKESY*
it something i hope to change ASAP, i don't like the hormones messing with my cycles...but i'm just not ready to risk the alternative right now....

3. i have a coyote skull that a friend and i painted with native american symbols (petroglyphs) to be a spiritual protector/mascot for a group of Earth's CHildren fans (anyone else love jean m auels books??) in arizona that meet and camp and do primtive skills and hang out and talk about the message board we all belong to We call ourselves...*COYOTE CAMP*.... *boy...that must sound REALLY wacky...but we have a blast*

[kastel47]

1. I fell in love at the age of 14. (still in love, after 3 years - this is with the boy next door)

2. I can do a back dive into a pool.

3. I hate green beens, I hate muchrooms, but green been casaroll is my favorite http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Hey all ~ I have a shameless plug: I created this lmao -- Let's Eat Out! Menus, and so far only have 1 participant. Wouldn't anyone like to join us and show off your favorite restaurants and their yummy foods?? Please please please? I'd love to have some of you regular posters (eenie, helquin, bugitha, GuineaBaby, etc...) sign up (but don't let me bully anyone ).

[/b][/quote]

OK, Katiekat, you got me. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif I saw your lmao when you first created it, but for some reason, I thought I had to send a menu. The place I'm thinking of (a divey greasy spoon that's actually quite famous in Reno) has giant menus and I didn't think I could snag one without being caught. (They don't have take-out menus) But I can certainly write about it and maybe I'll get brave and go take pictures. When a friend was visiting from another state, I took him there and he did. No one seemed to mind. He especially liked the "Nine out of ten vegetarians DON'T eat here!" sign over the door. Um, I'm just babbling now.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I think Dining Outs are the stupidest thing I've seen yet in the military. I was seriously tempted to bring up my own point of order last night and demand that at least the pregnant wives be allowed to go to the restroom without having their husbands stand and announce that they needed to use the female latrine and ask permission from Mr. Vice. [/b][/quote]

omg, that's just crazy. Great story though, mejaka.

Three more facts, huh?

1. I'm planning to spend 4 hours today looking at the New York Times from 1914 on microfilm. Ugh. I really have about 60 hours of microfilm to do for my thesis research. I've decided I hate microfilm. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

2. I can pretty much tell what time it is when I wake up in the morning by the way the sun is coming through my bedroom window. Who needs clocks?

3. My pencil cup (actually its a vase) is full of pencils with funny toppers, some of which I've had for 20 years!

[thunderstorm_19]

1. i would be quite nutty by now if i weren't on the pill. i just get such nasty pms without them.

2. i had pizza for lunch.

3. i left my brown kraft paper at home, so i hafta go get more.

[wenchlette]

(1) I know kastel47. :-P

(2) I'm absolutely in love with the new Tori Amos album

(3) I'm about to go to Subway.. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[bluewindsong]

it's 1015 am, been at work since 730...
1 i ate my lunch already
2 checked nervousness more than i've worked...yIKES!
3 got my period and sitting her ewith cramps and wanting nothingmore than to go home and paint stuff for nervousness

[Willow_starr]

This is such a fun Thread. Have we ever had one last this long before?

1. I work at a costume store.
2. I'm sick today (blah).
3. I've had "Mein Herr" from Caberet stuck in my head for two days.

[mejaka]

1. I did 25 ATCs this afternoon and had a great time.

2. My neighbors across the street have a holiday-decorations competition going, though neither one will admit it (their grown children, who help with the setup, are the ones that say so). Last year the lights were so bright, it was practically daylight in the east rooms of our house all season...They've already set their displays up because, as one wife says, "Some years we've really been in trouble with the wind and cold, so we have to set up early to beat that."

3. I want five tangled-vine balls in varying sizes from playground-ball size to about 24" across, all lighted with tiny white lights, to hang in my old plum trees out front. Just those, and a wreath on the door, and nothing else.

[Willow_starr]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3. I want five tangled-vine balls in varying sizes from playground-ball size to about 24" across, all lighted with tiny white lights, to hang in my old plum trees out front.[/b][/quote]

I love those! They look so great.
Do your neighbours use tacky (aka lighted plastic x-mas figures, or anything animated or musical) decorations? I love flamboyant holiday displays but am glad no one in my neighbourhood partakes and blinds me on my night-time walks.

***
1. I'm a pagan.
2. I just finished my laundry (I do my partner's as well).
3. Because I do the laundry Josh (my partner) does the vacuming and sweeping.

[Bugitha]

1. Snow is forecast for Reno on Thursday and Friday. Our first snowstorm. Yay! (I only say that 'cause I don't have to drive in it.)

2. I'll be glad when the election is over so that the negative campaign adds will go away.

3. I'm sleepy and its only 6pm.

[thunderstorm_19]

1 - - i've spent the past hour trying to decide whether to 1) do homework, 2) go pee, 3) paint the kraft paper i bought today, to turn it into holiday wrapping paper, 4) go to bed early (it's 9pm), or do something else... eek...

2 - - i WILL get to some nervous stuff tomorrow

3 - - i might (likely) go to guelph to see a friend next weekend

[GuineaBaby]

1. I have tons of english homework to get done by tomorrow night

2. tomorrow is a long day: 2 classes, vote, go back for english. I'll be busy from 1 to 9. Ugh.

3. i need to buy more guinea pig supplies.

[Alpaca]

1. I kick ass with my combat staff.

2. I'm itching to do a series of ATCs on mythical creatures.

3. I'm waiting for my boss to come in to tell him I want to leave...

[GuineaBaby]

1. I'm waiting for Dawn to get off the phone to help me with a paragraph in my essay so I can type it up and print it out.

2. The girl dawn is talking onto the phone is being an ass. She doesn't get firewalls now matter how simple dawn explains it and she is taking junk emails seriously.

3. I am still not over the fact Taylor Hanson is MARRIED!!!

[Katiekat]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Bugitha @ Nov. 03 2002,10:25)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">OK, Katiekat, you got me.  http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif I saw your lmao when you first created it, but for some reason, I thought I had to send a menu. The place I'm thinking of (a divey greasy spoon that's actually quite famous in Reno) has giant menus and I didn't think I could snag one without being caught. (They don't have take-out menus) But I can certainly write about it and maybe I'll get brave and go take pictures.[/b][/quote]
Hey Bugitha, I'm glad you joined! Yeah, my original idea was for everyone to add a take-out menu, but rules be dammed! Do what you want, girl! I would love pictures, doodles, sketches of your meal, whatever. That's the beauty of art, it can be whatever you want it to be. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

1. i am NOT a morning person. Never have been, never will be. It takes me time to really wake up, and i'm usually a little grumpy. I can't do small talk in the morning. Even my body doesn't like waking up early. My stomach has a tendency to say "oh, you're getting up, are you? well then, let's see how you like some cramps. Enjoy!"

2. I think i am addicted to fruity drinks. Not really fruit juice itself, because I really don't like straight juice, but stuff like Clearly Canadian (mmm, Strawberry Melon!) and Snapple (Lime Green Tea...gimme!). I could drink that stuff all day long. (at the moment, I'm having a Grape Clearly Canadian.)

3. I have a picture of Fight Club Brad Pitt hung up at my desk at work. I'm not usually attracted to pretty boys, so that's why i like Fight Club Brad. Sexy and a little rough and grungy looking. mmm...

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (GuineaBaby @ Nov. 04 2002,10:24)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">2. tomorrow is a long day: 2 classes, vote, go back for english. I'll be busy from 1 to 9. Ugh.[/b][/quote]
you could be like me and use voting as an excuse to skip class.http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

1. i just got back from voting, and i voted against the ass who let my rapist walk free. of course, he's running unopposed so it won't much matter, but it felt good to write in mickey mouse.. because i really feel a cartoon mouse would be less corrupt than bernie carter.

2. one of my professors is a state representative, so i was able to vote for my professor.. which was kind of weird.

3. i don't drink anything caffeinated, unless i have a migraine.

[bluewindsong]

get out and vote! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
1) i voted...at 6 am...was the first one there....oh why oh why did i go so early? my brain hurts...
2) tomorrow is my anneversery...2 yrs....i don't know what to do....got any good cheap ideas??
3) wishing for friday already...anyone else

[mejaka]

1. ACK. I have to vote today. I always vote but I HATE it. I never feel prepared and I rarely find anyone truly worth my vote...so I have to settle for the least unqualified power-hungry idiot...

2. My neighbor Bob's display includes lighted wire reindeer, a lighted spiral wire Chrsitmas tree, big fake plastic candles, and a large painted wooden cutout of Santa and the team. The couple next door have a lot of tacky tinsel-garland stuff (a wreath, a Season's Greetings sign). Down the street, another guy who's not in the competition has these great fence-post reindeer, an ice-fishing polar bear and penguin, and (my fave) a wooden cutout of Santa, bag all askew, about to drop off the edge of the roof, and an elf and reindeer clinging desperately to the edge of the last row of shingles...

3. I have a dulcimer. I can play a little bit.

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (mejaka @ Nov. 05 2002,08:40)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1.  ACK.  I have to vote today. I always vote but I HATE it.  I never feel prepared and I rarely find anyone truly worth my vote...so I have to settle for the least unqualified power-hungry idiot...[/b][/quote]
i'm starting to think that voting is really just a matter of choosing the lesser of two evils (or three or four if you throw in third parties)...

1. i should be in class right now, but i just feel ick. it's the day before my period, and i always feel like someone zapped all the energy out of my body, leaving me with a migraine.

2. i make to-do lists for school and nervousness. i'm not a forgetful person, but it's nice to have a reminder and it feels good to cross tasks off once finished.

3. i'm anxiously awaiting the fed ex man, because i've went a week without my burt's bees tomato face soap and that's just too long.

[lobster-girl]

one of the cool things about not being near a computer for 4 days is that i finally get to read a whole page of random facts rather than a post or two. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

1. my Roomie got married on Sunday and the wedding was WONDERFUL! they are now in Hawaii and i have to give the FrankenKitty 9 pills a day! (he hates me, i know it! AND he spits out the darn things!)

2. i'm finally catching up on my lmao's and exchanges. tomorrow i will be mailing 11 things! yikes!

3. i got my eyebrows done for the wedding and it's nice that something so simple can please me for a few days though i'm sure my firends are sick of me saying "look at my brows! aren't they gorgeous!?"

[thunderstorm_19]

1. no matter what i do, my to-do pile of nervous stuff and other stuff keeps growing...

2. the house is getting messy again...

3. we're having a 'family meeting' tonight...

[BreezyK]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (queensara @ Nov. 03 2002,01:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3. {Personal One}When I was 3, my labia grew together and I had to get them surgically separated. What a freak. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif[/b][/quote]
That happened to a friend of mine! (Actually, I think she had an extra piece of sking grow over the inside). In Jr. High and High School, I was always trying to convince her of the miracles of tampons, but she could never figure it out-- turns out that was why... she had to have it surgically cut.

1. I got food poisoning from oysters two nights ago. Not fun. But I have to say, that other than some sore stomach muscles, I feel great today. Totally cleansed and purified!

2. I caught my cat trying to drink out of the toilet bowl -- w/ 2000 Flushes w/ Bleach (green water) inside! Any other cat would have been brighter than that, but not my Mazzy. I don't know how I'm going to get Dennis to remember to put the toilet seats down!

3. Started a collection LMAO mid-October w/ 14 awsome people, all of whom commented practically as soon as they got the goods from me, and half of whom have already sent their completed part back. I have a good feeling that everyon'es going to come through on this one... makes me very happy!

P.S. (4) I'm over-using exclamation points!!!!

[mejaka]

Not to make light of the labia thing, but...

1. My grandmother once called my mother in a panic, claiming her nostrils were growing closed and she couldn't breathe. My long-suffering mom made an appointment, drove 40 miles to get her, 40 back to the doc, 40 back to Grandma's and 40 back home--all so the doctor could in exasperation FINALLY say, "Irene, you've got the biggest noseholes I've ever seen, and the reason you can't breathe is that you've been lying around since you were 50 and haven't got enough muscle in your body to lift that fat off your lungs so they can open up for air!"

2. My other Grandma saw an article in the newspaper about a guy who had produced a coffin design and was selling it in California. She talked my Dad into ordering and building it, an aunt or two into doing the upholstery, and intends to be buried in it. I don't know if that's kind of sweet--having a casket made by your adult children--or just macabre. I KNOW that her current use for it is bizarre. It sits in her living room. At Christmastime it is covered with plates of her homemade (delicious) candies, and she invites people to take a gift from her "coffin table..."

3. I'm going to go clean now. I will be back to report three things I actually accomplished. I have to do something or this election-day-messy-house-nothing-good-in-the-mail depression is going to eat me up.

[guineababy]

1. I voted (yeah, like Gray Davis, Rusty Areas, and Bill Simon really thought they'd get my vote!) before school.

2. Mom is picking me up between classes so I can get guinea baby supplies.

3. I have to go because class has started.

[Dalmaney]

1. I am now done my midterms. I still have a whole ton of assignments to do, but I will not be tested again for a whole month. Whew.

2. My microwave is broken. Technically it's my sister's, but she keeps living overseas where electrical equipment is useless, so it's mostly mine. And broken. I just dropped it off to hopefully get fixed -- I don't want to toss it unless it's unsalvageable.

3. One of my hometown friends that I've known since Kindergarten is moving to my city in December, and we just found her an apartment to rent. It's huge! I love it.

[guineababy]

1. I started my Mom's printer to print my essay and ran in the house thinking it will be booted up by the time I got back (I needed it on to print my essay). When I came back out here, Dawn had left a disk in it so it wasn't booted up. GRR!!

2. My mom's printer is screwed up so it's not printing right away.

3. I need this to print in the next five minutes or we're going to end up being late for English.

[wenchlette]

1. Vanilla Coke.. I love you.

2. I am over 100 lbs overweight... I've lost around 30 lbs since June.

3. I start a diet tomorrow. :-D

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. ACK. I have to vote today. I always vote but I HATE it. I never feel prepared and I rarely find anyone truly worth my vote...so I have to settle for the least unqualified power-hungry idiot...

i'm starting to think that voting is really just a matter of choosing the lesser of two evils (or three or four if you throw in third parties)...

[/b][/quote]

Yes, thats all true for me, too. I actually voted last week when early voting was available on campus. A professor of mine had said something that really influenced my voting this year. It's so obvious, but I had not given it much thought before. He said the reason we have dishonest politicians is because we don't really want to hear the truth (that taxes will be raised, that Yucca Mtn. is inevitable here in Nevada, etc, etc). So I voted for the candidates who I thought were being most honest about government and the way theyd run it. Most of them are the underdogs (surprise, surprise) in their races--some downright unpopular even in their own party. Also, I did not vote for anyone running a negative campaign. Such tactics do not speak well of the integrity of a candidate. Unfortunately, this meant that in one instance I had to vote "none of the above" since write-ins are not allowed here. So I voted very idealistically this go-around, but it is also probably the most thought and research I've ever invested in an election.

1. I got tons of catalogs in the mail today. At one point I had managed to elimante myself almost completly from mailing lists. It took a ton of phonecalls and letters to get myself removed from all these lists. But it worked for a while. Now, seems I'm back on them again. Grrr.

2. I saw the traveling replica of the Vietnam memorial wall today. At first it seemed so, well, fake. It looked like it might blow over on a windy day. But as I walked along it, saw the momentos people left there, saw two men kneeling in obvious grief, I finally got it. It wasn't about the wall itself, its about what it symbolizes. Emotional me, I left the park crying and thanking my lucky stars that my father made it home from Vietnam alive.

3. I'm sad and tired now.

[Dalmaney]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3.  I have a dulcimer.  I can play a little bit.[/b][/quote]
My sister's friend's husband (yeah, we're really close) is the Dulcimer Guy. Before he got married and settled, he travelled all over with the fringe festival and busked for dough. I've got one of his CDs, and I love it. It's gorgeous music.

1. My house needs cleaning, and I really don't have the energy to do it. So I won't. I am so glad this weekend is a long weekend; maybe I can get my act together.

2. On Saturday I'm going to a Tegan and Sarah concert. Promises to be a good time.

3. I am currently reading "Chocolat" and have not yet seen the movie, although I hear very good things.

[sistasmell]

Hey Lobster-girl- try hiding the kittypills inside a ball of cream cheese. It works on Shambles. He doesn't know what hit him. Have a second ball of just cream cheese within view. Kitty will scarf the first one.

1. I stopped drinking soda about a month ago- cold turkey. That mention of vanilla coke a few posts back nearly gave me a heart attack, I want one so badly.
2. Hey- I have a dulcimer, too. And found out one of my friends has one just last week.
3. My house is clean, but I start my 20 things in 20 days LMAO tomorrow, so it won't be cleaned again for a good while.

[mejaka]

Okay:

1. I cleaned up the kitchen and dining area, which wasn't a big deal since I did that yesterday.

2. I picked up everything in the living room and library, including sorting out various game bits and pieces that the kids left out, and getting stuff from the corners that usually gets ingnored.

3. I vacuumed both rooms above and the hallway, and even took a damp cloth to the baseboards and carpet edge.

4. I made a good chowder for dinner, for good measure... <G>

5. I voted. Ugh.

BTW--mine's not a hammered dulcimer...Sista, what's yours? Strum, hammer?

mejaka

[lela_star]

1. Last time I posted, I was trying to get pregnant.

2. I'm now pregnant!!!!!!!!!!!!

3. Vanilla Coke was only recently released here in Australia

[Katiekat]

CONGRATULATIONS, LelaStar!!! Woo-hoo, babies are great!
http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

1. I will post
2. 6 things tomorrow
3. to make up for this (i had to say congrats!)

[wenchlette]

lela_star:
That's freaking awesome! :-D CONGRATS!

1. I saw Smashing Pumpkins for my 17th birthday in 2000, and Stabbing Westward for my 18th, in 2001. At the end of 2000, the Smashing Pumpkins broke up, and by the end of 2001, Stabbing Westward broke up. I refused to see anyone for my 19th birthday. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

2. "Mayonaise" is my favourite Smashing Pumpkins song.. and it has nothing to do with the condiment.

3. I have a (HIGHLY RATIONAL!!!!) fear of pigeons. They're disgusting, diseased birds. *shudder*

[GuineaBaby]

1. Vanilla coke is the most disgustingest soda I have ever drank. Tonight I tasted Mr pibb extra (mr pibb to me is just a weaker version of dr pepper) and LOVED it. It's like dr pepper without the bite and hiccups.

2. Mom's christmas present finally dried and I just added the last layer to the top which I can see drying already. THe project is taking about five days longer than I thought it would.

3. I feel a cleaning spree coming on.

[wenchlette]

I swear I hated Vanilla Coke when it first came out.. but.. -blubbers-

1. I reallyreallyreallyreallyreally want a journal from 1000 journals. Badly. Yes.

2. You'd think after listening to the new Tori Amos album over and over sice last Tuesday, it'd've grated on my nerves? Not yet.

3. I want to start my own LMAO, but I'm too nervous, scared that it won't get returned *gulp* Not good.

[JustSu]

dang! y'all are something else, to keep this going so long and so well! i haven't been here in ... well, i don't remember when, and it's taken me a while to get all this read.

1. i'm glad to have the chance to catch up.

2. i like cemeteries - they're very peaceful and interesting. that is, i like them as long as i'm there just to browse. don't like to go with a purpose.

3. i have a copy of a land grant given to my fourth great grandfather, in Chester County, South Carolina, US, in 1767, by King George.

[Melbernai]

1. I'm rediculously tired because I stayed up way too late talking to a boy who I think I mighta used to love.

2. I just want to crawl back into bed and sleep for the rest of the day, but, I must go to work.

3. I just spent way too much time reading these posts and I'll probably get to work late, anyway.

[thunderstorm_19]

1. house meeting last night took 2 hours

2. i hope it gets us somewhere

3. i think i will go to guelph this weekend to see mike, but i dunno...

4. i have one hour of class today 12-1

[sistasmell]

Mejaka- my dulcimer is of the mountain variety- an hourglass shaped one. I loved playing it when I was a kid, but I don't play anymore.
lela_star- Congratulations! Ooh, babies!

1. I'd rather knit than just about anything else on earth.
2. I always carry tissues and tylenol and chewing gum and bandaids.
3. If you knew what I looked like, you would NEVER guess these things.

[Helquin]

Welcome back, JustSu! It's good to see you around the Forums again... hope that's some indication that things are looking better for you.

(1) I find myself getting more impatient & short-tempered (2 stereotypical Aries characteristics) as I get older. I'm a double-Aries (sun & moon) but as a kid I didn't really fit the Aries description.

(2) I do a wicked good imitation of the voice of Owen on the Gargoyles cartoon series. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

(3) My NaNoWriMo novel may be doomed to a premature death... but I've been crankin' out all kinds of Nervous work lately! I haven't given up on the idea of writing the novel, but November is getting pretty durned crowded with other tasks & obligations.

[mejaka]

Congratulations, lela_star! And good pregnancy to you!

Mine is a mountain dulcimer, too....I have a pic of Miss Anna at about 3 months, lying naked in front of it...such a good picture. :^ )

1. I voted the wrong way on one of the stupid props last night.

2. This morning on my walk to the lake, I was able to stand fifteen feet from one of the deer for several minutes, just regarding her as she was me...

3. I love bell peppers, and eat them out of hand like apples. Orange are my favorites.

[lobster-girl]

the darn kitty hates me! he really hates me! today, he foamed when i shoved a pill in his mouth...i will try the cream cheese and someone at work suggested petramalt...

1. i am attending a book signing for "Pink Think" tonight cuz my friend who's the coordinator is afraid no one will show up. she bribed me with a soda. (i used to drink WAY TOO MUCH SODA! and then i quit cold turkey and then i floated back to one a day and now i have maybe one a week. i don't buy the big packs. if i really want one, i walk to 7-11 and get a 20oz bottle whcih lasts 2 days)

2. my car smells like sugar. it took me all of 5 minutes to realiize a) my car smells really weird b) it's all the candy in the pinata from the wedding that we never used & c) hey! my nose is working! now i have oodles of smarties, dove chocolates, lollipops, hersheys kisses, etc....

3. while attempting to replant a gardenia bush into a BIG pot i spied a GIANT spider. all bubbly and black and when the spider scurried towards me i noticed it was a BLACK WIDOW! i had know idea they could be so BIG! the body was the size of a dime! it played dead and then ran away. i hope it doesn't crawl thru my mail slot!

*i am so craving KRAFT mac & cheese...it's been lingering fro a week now so i bought a box and i don't have any type of milk product to add to it....i'm hungry!

[thunderstorm_19]

1. black widows are called that because the females eat the males after mating if the male doesn't have enough sense to run for it.

2. i'm a good girl today, i went to class.

3. my pizza lunch is getting cold for the second time.

[Sui_Generis]

Congratulations, Lela_Star!

1.) I got a new job! (One I'm happy with)
2.) I'm going to see Bob Dylan next week!
3.) I got fifteen Nervousness projects completed last night http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[thunderstorm_19]

1. the phone just woke me from a very pleasant slumber (nap, it's 3:30 pm)...

2. i'm gonna work on nervous and christmas stuff now

3 - - after i've made myself a cuppa tea

[GuineaBaby]

1. I just woke up (1:30) from a nightmare that I still haven't gotten over.

2. I'm making the dog stay with me.

3. I'm hungry

[lobster-girl]

i'm sooo boooored at work...i leave in one hour!

1. while walking on my lunch break, a bird pooped on my arm just as i took off my long sleeved sweater! figures!

2. i just converted my cat's age to people years...he is 96!

3. i am having an indulgent "no one likes me" moment. pfffftttt.

http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Katiekat]

Okay, here are 6 things, like I promised:

1. I am way behind on some Nervous things, and thankfully, no one's yelled at me or anything. I am trying, but i'm also under a deadline to get my room finished (redecorating can take much longer than you think).

2. I have always wished that I could skateboard, but I am too chicken to learn how.

3. When I was younger, I had a crush on Satan from that movie Legend.

4. I save movie ticket stubs. I have almost 10 years worth.

5. I believe that evil has a taste, and it's cough syrup. (esp. Robitussin. egads, i'd rather lick a toad!)

6. I went to a Buddhist church once for a class assignment, and it was the most spiritual experience that I've ever had in a house of worship. I would go there all the time, except for the fact that it's too far away.

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Katiekat @ Nov. 06 2002,5:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3. When I was younger, I had a crush on Satan from that movie Legend.[/b][/quote]
::sings:: katie and Satan sittin' in a tree...

congratulations, lela_star.: )http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif babies are the best.

1. the one thing i really don't like about college is making new friends and then never talking to them again after the semester is over.

2. i don't think my email is working, and i don't know how to fix it.:/

3. my favourite state representative won last night, and i'm so excited. he's the best.. i was his page for six straight years, and recently he offered to sue my rapist for free.

[Bugitha]

This time, 3 soda related facts:

1. I used to never drink soda. By never, I mean maybe once a month. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif Then about 5 years ago the place I worked finally got vending machines. Before I knew it, I was sucking down diet coke as soon as I got in in the morning. Sometimes as early as 6:30am. (egads!) Then I started buying it for home. Although I don't drink it in the morning, I still am quite addicted, I think. I plan to quit all together one day. New Year's resolution, perhaps?

2. I've only had vanilla coke once. It was really good, but sooo sweet.

3. I don't care for the manufactured lemon-flavored coke but I love to squeeze fresh lemon in my coke.

But wait. . .I have so much more to say about soda. . .

4. I'm not one of those people who's devoted to either Pepsi OR Coke. Cola is Cola. It's all the same to me.

5. The preferred word for soda around here is "Coke" which refers to all carbonated beverages, (like how Kleenex is used as a generic term for tissues.) For example, if someone asks if you want a coke, you might say yes what kind do you have? And then they might say something like, rootbeer, sprite and orange crush. goofy, isn't it?

[Melbernai]

Lobster-girl -- I Love Love LOVE getting my eyebrows waxed.  Last time I had them done was about a week and a half ago, and I'm still wiggling them to everyone on my webcam.  They are so glorious.

Lela-star --- CONGRATULATIONS on your pregnancy!  That makes 2 people I know who are expecting!  How fun!

Dalmaney -- I've been without a microwave for about 4 months. It's such a pain in the butt!!

1)  I was horribly tired and cranky and not wanting to get out of bed this morning, and the day turned out fantabulous.

2)  I have no idea what a 'dulcimer' is, but you guys keep talking about it.

3)  I'm modeling in a fashion show tomorrow night and I'm getting kinda nervous and don't wanna do it.

~Meli

[wenchlette]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">2) I have no idea what a 'dulcimer' is, but you guys keep talking about it.[/b][/quote]


hahahahaha.. Same here.

1. I'm so head-over-heels in love.
2. I had an IQ of 147 as a 9-year-old.. I'm not sure what it is right now.
3. When I used to ask my father if I could call my friends halfway across the country a few years back, he used to say "Why don't you just internet them?" hahah.. Dear dad.

[Dalmaney]

Helquin - I wish I could hear your Owen impression. I love that show. My little brother does some good impressions of Ben Sisquo and Odo from Deep Space Nine, as well as the Prime Minister(Jean Chretien). But anyone can impersonate him - it's hard to quote him WITHOUT mocking him.

1. Tomorrow morning will be spent creating the three dimensional shapes of molecules from little model things, and then trying to convince my dear, sweet TA's that I'm right. I forsee communication problems. English is not their first language, and some days I think it's not their second either.

2. Tomorrow afternoon will be spent dealing with my last appointment for a medical study I joined purely for the cash. Yay payday!

3. Tomorrow night will be spent at my College and Career church group with all my friends. I am really looking forward to a chance to recharge.

[mejaka]

1. I have never done anything to my brows. Not waxed, plucked, shaped, or colored. I'm now a redhead (was a blonde before kids) and my brows are pale. I know that whenever I see a really beautiful woman, a lot of it is in the eyes and brows...but I barely comb my hair (great stylist) so how on earth can I expect that I will do whatever one has to do to keep one's nicely-styled brows up? And I also have the fear of what I see happening to a lot of women over time--they start with a little cleanup-pluck and some color...and over time they pluck more, and more, and more, until they have those pencil-thin, high arching, fake painted-on things...

2. I kind of hope someone will tell me I'm worrying about nothing on all counts above, that it's no big deal, because as I get older I find myself wanting to maximize everything I've got left...

3. I made ginger cookies today, from a friend's recipe who is one of the "1000 country cooks" of _Taste of Home_ magazine, and they are so goooood.

mejaka

[thunderstorm_19]

only time for one, i'll make it up later...
1. it's 8:13 am, i just leapt out of bed, realising i have class at 9 and must catch a bus at 8:40 to get there on time. which means leaving at 8:30, which gives me about 15 minutes.... eeek... something tells me i'll be a bit late today.

[sistasmell]

A dulcimer is a stringed musical instrument. Did Mejaka and I sound like some insiders club? Haha- hardly. Seeing a dulcimer, or talking about one, reminds me of my hillbilly childhood, which is not always a good thing...

Mejaka- I have been plucking and waxing my brows for about 10 years, and have managed to not get carried away yet. I just get rid of the scary strays along the bottom edge and it makes me look a whole lot better. I'm not a makeup and hairdo girl, anyway, so I would think you could avoid being sucked into that Divine eyebrow trap.

Katiekat- Tim Curry! How can anyone not love him as Satan?! We have similar taste in men (Fight Club Brad Pit).

1. When I was in high school, I did a lot of paid research studies for the FDA. I'l allergic to practically everything, so I was the person testing all the suntan lotions and eyeshadows and getting paid big bucks. I blew it all on art supplies and shoes, just like I do now.
2. I love making and giving presents. I get far more excited about someone else's birthday coming up than I do my own.
3. Lobster-girl- man, that is an impressive age for a cat! Poor old Shambles is 77 in people years, which makes him older than my parents and in-laws, but he's friskier than all of them combined.

[GuineaBaby]

Bugitha, Pepsi is bubblier and Cocoa cola is sweeter. Pepsi gives me hiccups and cola gives me heartburn. There's the difference lol (only a recent discovery for me). http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

1. I am almost done with Mom's already glimpsed Christmas gift and I'm thinking of just givcing it to her early. I really like how it's coming out though. It will be completely done by tomorrow. YAY!

2. I crocheted my first good item today--a scarf. It came out pretty nifty and I'm working on a blue one for Dawn.

3. My hand is killing me from all this moving it about (I've also been addicted to Dr mario on my gameboy so my right hand has no rest)

[MandyR]

OK, here's some of mine!

1. My cat sucks her tail and it drives me nuts! I don't know if she was weaned too early or has traumatic memories from her childhood or what, but at least 3 times a day, she takes her tail in her paws and goes to town! The noise is awful and by the time she's finished, the end of her tail looks like a stinger or something. And she usually slaps it against my leg. Wet!

2. I've always had a crush on Batman. There has always been something about Batman. Even when I was young and at my Nana's house watching the old show, I was taken with him! And then the movies came out...yeah. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

3. I love to sing. In high school, I lettered in choir as a freshman and made Texas All-State my junior and senior year. I considered doing something with it, but decided to leave it as a hobby, and so I've begun to lose it.

[mejaka]

Just when I thought this thread would fade, and had come up with another idea to start--we get fresh people! :^ )

1. Last night, for an uncertain reason, Brett decided it was time to really clean up in the kids' rooms. He got them moving by telling them he wanted to vacuum the rooms in twenty minutes. They picked up everything, and he vacuumed--even moved the beds--and I think realized how anxious the whole thing was making me (for a buncha stupid reasons) and so was very sweet with Nathaniel, letting him say yay or nay on all his treasures, even the ones that were clearly garbage. :^ )

2. Today, I'm going to drive to his office and take him to the park or the college (weather dependent) for lunch. It's been chilly and we've dropped the habit, but yesterday (the last nice day before a week of threatened rain) he ate on the jetty and it was nice and I missed it.

3. I'm reading a book by Oliver Sacks. Every time I do this I feel stupid and wish I could understand what he was talking about. The first section is about an artist--an *artist*--who had an accident and lost all sense of color. Can't see it, can't remember what it looked like--remembers just enough to be aware that it once existed for him.

[lobster-girl]

GuineaBaby...i think just the opposite regarding soda! (i'm a coke or water girl*rolls eyes*) i think pepsi is too sweet and i love coke cuz it's so carbonated but only if i get it packaged from the bottler or from McDonalds...all other coke, sucks. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

mejaka...i don't really brush my hair ever either and i don't even know how to DO hair...blow dry? forget it! i'm a ponytail girl. i wear mascara and a little grayish brown powder on lower lash line for a smudgey thing and then i wear my 'dusk' colorstay lip color and my pikaki oil on my wrists and in the cleavage! and i usually forget to wash my face and wake up wtih even more smudgey eyes....i don't do my own brows cuz it hurts and i get them done cuz it makes me feel almost pretty and i have an evil unibrow if i don't! (heehee!)

1. met the creatoe of the Mystery Date zine last night. cool lady!

2. there are 9 Boba Tea shops in my work neighborhood and all of these i can walk to in 5 minutes or so and i don't even like BOBA! i was looking for Thai iced tea when all i could find were BOBA

3. when i got home yesterday, on my floor in the living room i picked up. a lime green beanie bunny, a stuffed 'toot' pig, 2 wild things, 2 curious georges & 3 balled up socks. my old kitty B.K. likes to 'capture & kill' things! everyday he finds more. i put all the toys back in their bucket and the socks in the hamper...we'll see what he gets to today!

[lobster-girl]

oooh i remember that book! i never got to read it but i wanted to...wasn't there one about tasting colors and the one about mistaking his wife for a hat or something? oh, crikey, 3 more facts!

1. an evil coworker just stepped out and returned with a box of Krispy Kremes. i had no idea there were krispy kremes nearby. evil!

2. my mother's name was Penny and on her 16th birthday someone gave her a penny charm bracelet with 16 pennies from her 16th year. she gave me the bracelet as a christmas present. it is missing 6 pennies. they were from 1957. i'm still searching.

3. val kilmer once offered me an altoid and then asked me for some validation. i told him he was a nice man for offering me a mint. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif (he meant his parking ticket)

[g3d]

I haven't been here in awhile, so I had some catching up to do....please indulge!

Lobster-girl - LOVE your Val Kilmer story!

I'm a Coke girl....and I think calling all sodas "Coke" is fairly common in the south - maybe because the Coca-Cola company is based in Atlanta? Where is Pepsi's HQ? I don't like the Vanilla Coke and the Lemon Coke tastes like someone took a perfectly good Coke and sprayed Lemon Pledge across the top. Another thing I've always thought of as southern is Krispy Kreme. I have to admit that I was a little put out when they put one in D.C. in the early 90s, and now they are EVERYWHERE. I hate to deny everyone, but it just seemed/seems like such a cozy "southern" thing. Sigh.

I have kept a book journal for about a year...I wish I had begun sooner.

I used to live in Williamsburg, VA, and you would see people dressed up in colonial costumes EVERYWHERE....people going home from work and then stopping by the store, etc.

KatieKat - I signed up for your menu LMAO too! Way to get people involved!

Congrats to Lela! Wonderful news!

OK, my things....

1. I've been on a conference call for the past five hours and fifteen minutes and it shows no signs of stopping any time soon. Luckily I can do this at the same time!

2. I'm eating a sub from a place called Larry's Subs. It's a national chain but is new to Charleston.....it's called a Calypso and it's delicious!

3. I LOVE making ATCs, but all of mine look like they were made by a ten year old....I just have no artistic talent, but I still like to do it!

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">My cat sucks her tail and it drives me nuts! I don't know if she was weaned too early or has traumatic memories from her childhood or what, but at least 3 times a day, she takes her tail in her paws and goes to town! The noise is awful and by the time she's finished, the end of her tail looks like a stinger or something. And she usually slaps it against my leg. Wet!

[/b][/quote]

Hey MandyR, welcome to the boards. My brother had a cat that did this too. She had long hair and her tail was absolutely disgusting afterwards. And yes, the leg thing too, Thwak! Yuck. My brother found her when she was just a wee thing, far too young to be separated from her mother, so its likely that the weaning thing is true. This cat was nuts. She'd eat ANYTHING--potato peels, Top Ramen, peanut butter. She was an odd egg.

I've been thinking about getting my eyebrows waxed, but does it hurt very much? I'm a huge wimp. Which is worse, waxing, or yanking the little buggers out one at a time? I don't really like the one at a time thing but I've never waxed anything and I've heard it really hurts. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

1. I took a nap today and when I woke up my knee hurt so bad I could barely stand. No troubles with it before. I tend to imagine the worst so now I'm scared.

2. I'm planning to spend 11 hours in the school library tomorrow. Ugh. Can't wait to graduate.

3. It has been raining for hours. I love the rain.

[SmellyMelly]

Wow, I kept avoiding this tread for some reason and after reading the first 3 pages I realize I now have 40 more to read!!! ACK!

Here's mine:

1. When I go to sleep at night I can't have any part of my body hanging over the edge of the bed. I guess it's from watching Poltergeist as a kid, the clown scene freaked me out and at 27 I'm still scared there's something under the bed.

2. Water freaks me out too. I have this huge paranoia that *something's* out there. Lakes, rivers, pools, the bathtub sometimes; they all scare me. I have to keep reminding myself that I'm just nuts.

3. I sometimes fantasize of quitting my job, leaving my boyfriend of 9 years and just running away. I'd go some where no one knows me and just start a new life.

[wenchlette]

1. Today I get to see my boyfriend.. Funny thing is, we're going to be staying at his parent's house in a town where neither of us lives. Meaning, we have to meet at his parents place. (I suck at piecing together sentences) Seeing as how I got a ride in at noon, and he does too, everything would seem fine, right? NOT SO! He lives 5 hours away, and I only live an hour away. *le sigh* So, I get to hang out at his parent's house, by myself (oh now wait.. two miniature schnauzers and me.. !) until supper time. Sounds like good times!

2. Yesterday I had a job offer to work in the town that I grew up in, once I'm finished school in May. The 'plan' was to finish school and then move to my boyfriend's city. so, I'm pretty torn. On the one hand, I live rent-free with my family (i'm only 19) and have a job surrounded with friends, and my relationship suffers; On the other hand, I live with my boyfriend, paying rent and for food, with no friends, but in theory I have a wonderful relationship. Jeez. Help!

3. It's 5:27 am and I'm awake, doing laundry and downloading music.. I'm the strangest person I know.

[g3d]

Bugitha - I've gotten my eyebrows waxed for years....it stings for a second, but it's not bad and they look really good.

Is it possible that this thread is dwindling to an end?

1. I am on part two of the telephone conference I spent ALL DAY doing yesterday. Allows me to do other things though, which is nice. Now if I were any kind of good worker, I would be doing something CONSTRUCTIVE!

2. My husband and I saw THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE last night. It was pretty good, but I found Robert Evans' narration very difficult to understand....maybe because of his stroke?

3. I'm leaving at noon today to go to Virginia for a wedding....I am the wedding coordinator!

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (SmellyMelly @ Nov. 07 2002,11:32)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. When I go to sleep at night I can't have any part of my body hanging over the edge of the bed.  I guess it's from watching Poltergeist as a kid, the clown scene freaked me out and at 27 I'm still scared there's something under the bed.[/b][/quote]
1. i can't either, but that's because when i was little, my brother told me that giant rats come out at night and would chew on any body part that was hanging over the bed. i *still* can't have anything over the bed!

2. my email still isn't working, and it's frustrating. i can get stuff from other IU emails, but nothing from any other email addresses.

3. my therapist sent me a thank you card that had me in tears.

[lobster-girl]

it's raining! i would rather be home snuggled on the couch but then i would look at the mess that is my living room and want to clean but it is too cold and i am lazy!

1. when i was 14 i read the script for poltergeist while the film was still in production (my friend's family was all hollywood, bah.) and i was staying in a room that when reading and picturing scenes in your head, was JUST LIKE the kids room in poltergeist, tree & all AND there was this HUGE (taller than me) raggedy anne doll....needless to say, i had very scary dreams for awhile and couldn't wait ot get back home! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

2. i had no door to my bedroom for a year (my brother & i got into a HUGE fight and he ripped it off the hinges) for my 18th birthday, he bought and installed a new door for me....locks on the OUTSIDE. i'm glad he grew out of his meanness and is now my favorite family person, other than my grandma who cracks me up!

3. my mamos was an extra in New York New York, she told me all about a nice guy named "Bobby" who got to wear a hawaiian shirt while they all had to wear suits...turns out, "Bobby" was Robert Deniro...and i'm pretty sure i spelled that wrong!

[Willow_starr]

1. Once when my sister and I were staying at my Grandma's we were getting out of bed all night and my Grandma got frustrated and told us that there crabs under the bed that would nip us if we got out of bed again. That stuck with me for years. If I had to get out of bed at night I would jump as far awaya ffrom it as I could so I would have a head start on the crabs.

2. A fun website I just found is Masturbate for Peace (http://www.masturbateforpeace.com)

3. I walked on hot coals last summer. It rocked.

[BreezyK]

lobster-girl, props to you for being a smart-ass to a movie start.

1. Good God, I can't believe I just use the word "props"

2. It's my day off, and I wish it was still raining, because I really wanted to curl up w/ a fire w/ the rain outside.

3. I've been to a strip club.

[sistasmell]

g3d- that conference call scares the pants off me. I HATE to talk on the phone. I barely ever do, in fact.
1. I also don't talk much. Thankfully, my husband is the same way. We have a pretty quiet house. I can't control my talking during movies and tv shows, though. I am constantly being shushed for that.
2. My family lived in a half-built house (my father lost interest in the project when we moved in) for years. We had no doors at all inside the house, just curtains on the bathrooms. I had a younger brother who terrorized me constantly and never let me take a pee in peace.
3. I have never had the opportunity to me sassy to a celeb, but I did turn down a date with a really flashy guy who screeched his car to a halt in front of the fancy store I was working in. He ran in and professed his love for me. When I told him to take a hike, he left the store yelling that he was a millionaire and that I must be insane. Ah, good times.

[lobster-girl]

at my other p/t job, i work with a lot of the famous folk and most are cool, but some, geez! more uncool are the directors and stuff though never mr. spielberg. he is nice but you don't get to talk to him ever, his personal assistant at the studio, rocks! i also deal with a lot of oozing rich people, they are worse than the famous, my fave is when they come in with their shopping bags from all the muy expensive boutiques and their kids are wearing clothes that cost more than my paycheck and they complain about the price of a $16 book! aaack!

1. fave celebrity to help...vin deisel and on the literary front, clive barker. least fave...roseanna arquette, she totally dissed me! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

2. it is raining so i never made it to the post office cuz people get whacky in the rain. i have 3 lmao's and 3 exchanges ready...tomorrow!

3. tomorrow is my once a month volunteer reading thing. it's fun! i do a story and craft with 1st graders for 2 hours and then the kids get to take a book home! so many kids show up!!!

i'm in the mood for gingerbread...or snickerdoodles...ooh and mexican hot chocolate and anything sweet! and since i'm tired of looking at altered book websites i will tell ya the secret ingredient in my mexican hot chocalte........drumroll.....a dash of cayenned pepper! yum!

[GuineaBaby]

oooh! snickerdoodles...too bad we're out of sugar and no one wants to drive in this rain. :/

1. I went to bed at 11, was up between 4-5 and didn't get out of bed till 2:30. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

2. Today I am going to clean up a bit to make up for staying in bed so long and do part of my homework.

3. Today is laundry day.

[mejaka]

1. I have Webelos Scouts coming in five minutes.

2. I LOVE rain!

3. Tonight Brett and I are going Christmas shopping. I LOVE North Idaho...the Christmas elvishness hits earlier here, even for us (and remember, we're the ones who already carve jack-o-lanterns to Christmas music! LOL).

And, because I've been reading but not remarking:

1. The book I'm reading is not _The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,_ but _An Anthropologist On Mars._

2. My family's hardly Hollywood, but my sister and parents did live there for a while. Leslie was in a couple episodes of "Silk Stalkings," a music video, a Blockbuster commercial in which the principal celeb (I can never remember who) demanded that Leslie be moved to the far background of the staging, and some series protos. Dad was in the airport scene of _Wag the Dog._

3. I was once invited to fly in an airshow with the Blue Angels. I turned them down to keep the Sabbath. Most of the time I feel good about that....

[mejaka]

Ack! Double post. Sorry...Nness hiccuped on me.

[GuineaBaby]

1. The Blue Angels were at the airshow this year. They most always are. I've never grasped how great they are.

2. I am going to watch Buffy.

3. No school on monday!!!

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (mejaka @ Nov. 08 2002,3:35)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3.  I was once invited to fly in an airshow with the Blue Angels.  I turned them down to keep the Sabbath.  Most of the time I feel good about that....[/b][/quote]
i've seen the blue angels a few times at the chicago air and water show.. they're pretty fun to watch.

1. i paid a ridiculous amount of money to get my hair highlighted today, but it does look good. the price we pay for beauty.:-p

2. i spent three hours decoupaging a small box today, and my shoulders are unbelievably stiff. but, it looks good and it'll be finished in time for Hannukah.

3. i can't wait until Christmas.: )

[Bugitha]

1. I recieved two exchanges today. yipee! Unfortunately the lmao I had planned to mail today did not go out.

2.Snickerdoodles and gingerbread sound good to me too! But I'm too lazy to bake tonight. I'm thinking a can of soup will do for dinner. (So lazy!)

3. I hate my handwriting.

[GuineaBaby]

1. I hate touching raw meat, so I'm thrilled to bits that I'm making hamburgers for me and Dawn tonight using the george foreman grill.

2. I only got one piece of mail today. It was a good piece, but the post office is holding back everything they're supposed to give me. My post office sucks. I never get anything on time.

3. I'm crocheting another scarf for a Christmas gift. Who, I dunno. It'll be available for a last minute I-forgot gift.

[Melbernai]

1. I was supposed to see my boy named Elgin today, but he's yacking. Eww.

2. I had a dream yesterday during my nap that GuineaBaby lived near me and we finally met and we were like good friends and hung out all the time.

3. I am dying to see 8 Mile this weekend, but don't know if I'll have the money to go.

[tweekitten]

I love reading all the facts. so, here's three about me.

1. I have a secret dream to color my hair pink, bright red or blue.

2. I have an almost unhealthy obsession with stars.

3. I have a boyfriend, but I think I'm starting to like someone I talk to on the internet every night a little too much.. sigh.

[lobster-girl]

heehee tweekitten...i have had (at separate times) hair thas was pink, bright red and blue!

it's still raining and i'm cleaning and doing laundry and will be slice and baking organic chocolate chip cookies soon!

1. i got all 5 pills into the kitty today with no mishaps!!

2. even though it is cold and rainy, i am wearing raggedy old jeans, flip flops and a lime green "surf" T from the boys section at target! i love the rain, but i miss the summer.

3. i just added 8 more magazines to my unread stack...it is getting quite tall! i need to read them!!

[GuineaBaby]

1. We just came back from spending money we shouldn't have. It's getting too much of a habit dropping $30-40 every time we go second hand shopping.

2. I pissed the people at Savers off. I bought a harry potter book for $.49 there because it was in the kids section, and now they're selling three of them (#1, 3, 4) for $20 for the set, which isn't right because that's the only books they're doing it too. GRR!

3. I messed up the scarf for Aunt Martha's birthday present and now I have to let out half of it because I stuck in an extra stitch.

[mejaka]

1. As of today, our attic is insulated and I know how to run the hopper for an insulation blower (after five straight hours of practice...Oh, I ache...)

2. On Thursday they finally found the man from our church who went missing the 2nd Saturday in October. His funeral is a week from today. Tomorrow, I will be leading music again in his stead, which is going to be harder now.

3. In my CD player right now: CD #1 of Handel's Messiah, John Eliot Gardiner conducting, with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque soloists including a boy soprano and a countertenor. The most authentic and best version of this I am aware of.

[Bugitha]

1. I stocked up on chocolate chips to make toffee and fudge with at Christmas but I'm so tempted to make chocolate chip cookies with them NOW!

2. I managed to get through the day without taking a nap. Most unusual considering its the weekend.

3. I sorta cleaned my apartment today. I'm not sure if any family or friends are coming for my graduation next month, but if they do, I will have to clean my apartment for real and that would not be a pretty site.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">: CD #1 of Handel's Messiah, John Eliot Gardiner conducting, with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque soloists including a boy soprano and a countertenor. The most authentic and best version of this I am aware of.[/b][/quote]

BTW, this is really good to know. I have a sort of cheesy version of highlights from Handel's Messiah and I want to get the real deal.

[sistasmell]

Ah, the boys' section at Target rocks my socks! That's where I got my favorite hoodie with the robot designs on the arms. Plus, how good does it make a girl feel to wear a child's size clothing?!! (pretty dern good)
I have also had pink, red, and blue hair. Baby blue is particularly fetching on me. It was so good that I bought lots of clothes to match and pretended to be an ice princess for one winter a few years back.
1. I decided I needed a treat yesterday and went to the fancypants grocery store. I live in kind of a rough neighborhood and sometimes just can't take one more ounce of rudeness. It's worth it to pay $4 for bread just to have a happy, pink-cheeked face beaming at you from behind the fish counter. Sometimes, anyway.
2. We rented 5 movies yesterday and watched 3 last night. I couldn't believe it, but Mr. Deeds had me laughing so hard that tears were running down my cheeks. John Turturro is a god.
3. We are cleaning the basement today. I'm having a freezer delivered tomorrow, and we need to make room. Someone come save me from the spiders!

[GuineaBaby]

1. While sleeping last night, Dawn almost knocked me off the bed and her arm smacked across my face three times. Her bed is being used to hold in-progress Christmas presents.

2. I am going to hunker down and give my floor a good cleaning. It's giving me the willies at how dirty it is. Vacuum here I come!

3. Yesterday I wrapped my mom's big Christmas gift and it's bigger than I thought. It's in the back of my (clean) closet. I also made Aunt Martha a scarf for her birthday and planted the plants in the record bowls for the guys along with two catnips for the kitties.

[Bugitha]

Guineababy, it sounds like you're really on top of things--Christmas gift wise. I'm jealous.

1. Last night I had one of those teeth-falling-out dreams. I think the only thing it means is that this thread has woven its way into my subconscious.

2. I love to drink iced tea year round.

3. I got some plates at the thrift store today to break up for the nervous arts and crafts group mosaic lesson next month. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Melbernai]

1)  I had a dream last night that I was some late 70s, early 80s, big haired italian chick living in NYC, wearing blue smudgepot eyeshadow and bright lipstick, sporting a cobalt blue dress with a white wide elastic belt on, that had to save a little baby from some Chevy Chase looking guy.

2)  When I woke up from the dream, the Bee Gee's "More then a Woman" was stuck in my head.

3)  Yesterday, I woke up with the Beatles' "Day Tripper' in my head, after another dream.  My dream life has been active lately. You can read all about them in my Diary-X (http://melbernai.diary-x.com) if you'd like.

~Meli

[lobster-girl]

i saw Mr. Deeds yesterday also! funny, yes, but i was disappointed later with all the ways they could've gone but didn't...oh well, at least it entertained me for a short while.

1. i'm starting to panic at how close the holidays are. yikes! i made a list 8 weeks ago and thought i was so on it but i kinda forgot about it and i'm not on it! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

2. i am craving mint milanos like a mad woman

3. watched ALIAS last night and it reaffirmed my opinion that michael vartan is #### cute! (sigh)

[Melbernai]

1) I hate Elgin.

2) In fact, I can't think of many men that I know or have known that I don't have some sort of hatred towards aside from my Dad.

3) I'm having a really bad day.

~Melissa

[GuineaBaby]

1. I'm trying my hand at crocheting a scarf the long way and I made it too long so it's taking forever to finish.

2. Dawn finally learned how to crochet right...no telling what she was doing wrong!

3. I accumulated another load of laundry in just three days, mostly from finding strays while cleaning my room.

[thunderstorm_19]

1. the majority of the people i saw today were not wearing Remembrance Day poppies.

2. that upset me.

3. i observed the 2 minutes silence alone this morning.

[mejaka]

1. Yesterday at Church they had the veterans stand for a minute. Other than a reference to them as "heroes" (which they are but I've yet to meet a veteran who is comfortable with the word) it was just awesome to see them all stand and hear them honored. That has never happened in a congregation I've been in before.

2. I was also somewhat unexpectedly released from the presidency of our children's organization and instead issued a calling to take on the positions of our missing member (whose body was found Thursday) and his wife. Choir director, chorister, music chairman. I cried through the entire opening song, wet, drippy crying, right in front of everyone as I led the music. Among my emotions were inadequacy (I don't know how to direct a choir, and have failed at this position before), sorrow, and inexplicably, anger at the president of the children's organization, which had no basis whatsoever and I knew it but still felt it. I now have eight weeks to come up with a Christmas program, put the choir back together after several months' hiatus, and prepare the program.

3. I saved a little lost toy poodle from near-certain death by car today. Took it home. Called the newspaper to learn that the classifieds person had *just* hung up with someone looking for it. Called and left a message on their machine. Held it on my lap for hours. Returned it to the owner's husband this evening and realized that much as I like ol' Reggie-the-beagle, there is something about a little lapdog that I miss.

[Helquin]

(1) I've got to stop reading this thread: last night I had one of those frequently mentioned teeth-falling-out dreams! I don't recall ever having one before, but this one was so real I had to check my mouth when I woke up. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

(2) I watched my first pay-per-view movie at home this past weekend. Considering that it cost about as much as a video rental but didn't require leaving my comfy couch, it was a pretty good deal.

(3) I got a strange phone call yesterday, indicating that I'm a topic of hot gossip in my nearby hometown. On the one hand it was kinda funny to hear that folks don't have anything better to discuss... on the other hand it was a little disturbing to hear that folks are talking about me and only one person had the grace/courage/decency/whatever to contact me, see if it was true, & express genuine concern. Ehhh... small towns.

[Melbernai]

1) My TV blew up this morning.

2) I'm poor.

3) Therefore, I'll probably not watch TV again for like a year.

4) I'm gonna miss Clark Kent and hottie Lana.

http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

~melissa

[BreezyK]

1. Feels like forever since I've posted here (even though it's probably only been a couple of days).

2. We'd been getting free HBO and SHowtime upstairs since we moved in two years ago. Last week, during a big storm, our cable went out. When it came back on, we no longer had HBO and Showtime. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

3. Dennis is finally selling his weight machine (a.k.a. coat rack), so now I'll finally have room to put a double bed in the spare room. Hooray.

[GuineaBaby]

1. My essay turned out pretty good for a last minute thing.

2. Dawn and I took pictures of our scarves we've made (not counting the two I've already wrapped...one for Aunt Mart's birthday and one for Aunt Angie's Christmas gift)

3. I'm having a horrid toothache from my tooth that needs a root canal and I'm trying to hold out till the end of the year because we can't afford it until the new insurance kicks in.

[Katiekat]

1. I got roughly 3 & 1/2 hours sleep last night. The kids at the library were loud and nuts today. I am very glad I get to sleep in tomorrow.

2. I feel like I don't have enough time to listen to all my music, and I don't like it. I miss my music.

3. I would really like to get to know Stephen, the god behind the scenes. He seems a very cool guy. You know what made me think so? The post in which all he said was, "oh fuck, that's not better." And I can't explain why.

**I'm very, very tired, So sorry these 3 things suck**

[Willow_starr]

1. I have a test tomorrow.

2. I am in the process of writting two essays.

3. I think I'm going to drop on e of my classes because of the workload.

(4.) November sucks.

[Dalmaney]

1. I just bought a new microwave, because my sister's that I was using died a sudden and unexpected death.

2. It's cold and snowy. Fortunately all my classes are linked by pedways and tunnels. I can go all day inside.

3. My new avatar is the logo of my college. Lots of the hardcore engineers have it on their engineer jackets.

[guineababy]

1. got out of english 1/2 hr early so i'm with dawn in comp class to pass the time

2. i have my crochet with me

3. i have a headache

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">) My TV blew up this morning.

2) I'm poor.

3) Therefore, I'll probably not watch TV again for like a year.