Three random facts:

[Katiekat]

Wow, this thread has received almost 10,000 views so far! That must be a record.

Ok, back to the original theme, 3 facts about me:

1. I didn't carry a purse until I was like 20. I hated purses; they seemed too girly for me. I much preferred a backpack, but it's hard to make a backpack look dressy when you go somewhere nice. Plus, I would accumulate way too much crap with all that space.

2. I have Chris's 3rd grade school picture on my desk. I think he's really cute in it, and it always reminds me how attractive I think he is, and then I can't help but feel a little perverted because, after all, I'm looking at an 8 year-old kid.

3. I am a very emotional person, and it usually frustrates me. When I really want to get my point across and I feel really strongly about what I'm saying, I tend to start crying, which I hate. I think it makes people percieve me as weak.

[thunderstorm_19]

1.  some days, i really hate being female
2.  like today
3.  i need tea
4.  i cry easily, i'm very emotional, easily embarrassed too...
5.  when we saw Les Miserables, my mom and i sobbed through the whole thing... whereas my dad and my sister were able to hold out until eponine's death scene (a little fall of rain), and they lost it too.  between the 4 of us we went through a whole box of kleenex.
6. we have to be careful once we have the outdoor christmas lights set up and in use, because if my gran has her big light on in her room, the xmas lights are on outside, and she then tries to boil the kettle in her room, more often than not it blows the fuse.

[guineababy]

1. It's a nice day today so Dawn and I skipped math and sat out side part of the time. Now we're inside trying to plan the classes we want to take.

2. Dawn agreed to take the fire arms class with me if I take English 1A with her-just for the record and now ya'll know. I'm holding her to that, too.

3. I have to read a poem out loud in class today. Help!

[naughtymonkey]

1- i think i have a minor concussion form when my brother threw a lamp at me earlier... little hobag! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif

2- i have a sinus headache too.. waah! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

3- i'm having 2 thanksgivings... 1 in buffalo on thursday then friday-sunday in connecticut... 7 HOURS of driving!!! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif yuk!

ps. sorry to whine.. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

[Jagz]

i've read every single entry in this thread and i love it. There's so much love among you ppl and i think thats great. keep it up.

I can't remember who mentioned the death of her Sister, am really sorry about that.

my 3 facts are :
1. am a very emotional person yet i haven't cried in about a month and its killing me !! i've listened to all the sad songs that i know but to no avail. Frustration is building up .. Help !
2. am addicted to Kinder Chocolate, esp the Egg. YummY
3. I hate milk but usually love those small milk-filled plastic thingies they give on airplanes or in restaurants.

[BreezyK]

Jagz: rent the movie, Ponette (french film). I guarantee you that'll cure you of your tear deficiency!

1. I had today and the rest of the week off. Hooray! Double hip hip hooray!

2. It's taking all my will power not to check my voice mail at work.

3. My area has had tons and tons of tiny earthquakes in the past couple of days. There's a fault that no one knew about. Now the news is trying to scare us into thinking it's an impending sign that the "big one" is coming soon. It has also made me have Tori Amos' "Little Earthquakes" song stuck in my head for two days.

[boobook]

3 things about me:
1) I collect seals, my favourite atc that I made is of a seal, it's on my web page if you are interested.  I can really relate to their body shape.
2) Will not get in a boat, don't like walking on jetties, don't like travelling across bridges or flying over water : all of these make me feel quite sick.
3) Would love to be able to go swimming in the sea except I'm terrified of sharks.  When I do go swimming (in a pool etc) I can't believe how good it feels!  

hmmm, I wonder what could be read into all of that?  
Sorry I know that really came to more than 3 things, it's a bit like buying multiple items of one thing and going throught he express lane and hoping the girl will class them as one item!

[wenchlette]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (BreezyK @ Nov. 26 2002,6:39)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3.  My area has had tons and tons of tiny earthquakes in the past couple of days.  There's a fault that no one knew about.  Now the news is trying to scare us into thinking it's an impending sign that the "big one" is coming soon.  It has also made me have Tori Amos' "Little Earthquakes" song stuck in my head for two days.[/b][/quote]
I love you. I love Tori. I LOVE yOU!!!!!111
lol



1. I'm quite drunk.
2. I haven't received any LMAOs I've signed up for yet, but plenty of exchanges. I absolutely adore nervousness.
3. I'm so anxious about receiving journal#936 from 1kj. I adore journalling, and making though-provoking statements. Mmm.

[cyph0r]

3 things about me (had to join in the fun)

1. I am short (5'0 ish)
2. I am right now addicted to grits ever since i had been recently exposed to them http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
3. I'm in a long distance relationship.

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

rebecca

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote (BreezyK @ Nov. 26 2002,6:39)
3. My area has had tons and tons of tiny earthquakes in the past couple of days. There's a fault that no one knew about. Now the news is trying to scare us into thinking it's an impending sign that the "big one" is coming soon. It has also made me have Tori Amos' "Little Earthquakes" song stuck in my head for two days.

I love you. I love Tori. I LOVE yOU!!!!!111
lol



[/b][/quote]

Ha! Last week I heard "little Earthquakes" when I was in a candle shop at the mall. I'd forgotten how much I like that album. Came home and dug up my old tape--not CD mind you--tape, thats how long ago I bought it. I didn't even have a CD player at the time. Man I'm getting old.

1. I am thinking of doing something drastic in the way of cutting my hair.

2. I "finished" my christmas shopping today-the need to get another gift will enevitably crop up, but as of now-DONE! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

3. Working for years in retail spoiled me forever for that "day after Thanksgiving Christmas shopping kick-off." I want no part of it, thank you very much. I don't even go to my favorite grocery store betweeen Thanksgiving and Christmas because its next to a Wal-Mart and the holiday traffic is a nightmare.

[Shekinah]

quote Jagz
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. am a very emotional person yet i haven't cried in about a month and its killing me !! i've listened to all the sad songs that i know but to no avail. Frustration is building up .. Help ![/b][/quote]

1. Sometimes i sit in the silence and let the sadness wash over me until i can't stop crying.

(Quote Bugitha)
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> 3. Working for years in retail spoiled me forever for that "day after Thanksgiving Christmas shopping kick-off." I want no part of it, thank you very much. I don't even go to my favorite grocery store betweeen Thanksgiving and Christmas because its next to a Wal-Mart and the holiday traffic is a nightmare.[/b][/quote]

2. I celebrate Buy Nothing Day (http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/) the day after Thanksgiving, and I hope folks join me.

3. I wish I wasn't so afraid to create, I wish I had "talent"

(three more at no extra charge - TWO, TWO, TWO for the price of one)
1. I may be a bit depressed
2. If I don't protect the feeder, the deer steel all of my bird food.
3. I would divorce my husband to marry Tori Amos if she ever bothered to ask me.

[sistasmell]

Oh, BreezyK. Ponette! That is the best movie. Just thinking about her makes me weepy. Aw, her little arm in the cast. She was so pitiful. I freaking love French directors.

1. I can't wait to put up the tree. I think I'll do it this Friday. I have TONS of ornaments and lights and garlands, many more than will actually fit on the tree. Thankfully, the dog has no interest in the decorations. I have a friend whose dog used to remove these stuffed bear ornaments from the tree when no one was looking, then undress them and carry the bare bears around the house. The sad thing about my tree is that it is fake. I am allergic to real ones and Christmas time is spent sneezing and nursing a big headache whenever I visit other people's houses.
2. I have a huge pile of knitted items covering my coffee table at the moment, waiting for care tags. Then I can box and wrap them all. I'm going to be so productive.
3. After that is done, I am making a cheesecake with special vanilla/sour cream topping. I shall be cooking all day tomorrow, too. I am going to make the whole Thanksgiving deal, top to bottom. Might as well get dessert out of the way today.

This is less like a list of three things about me and more like a To Do list. Ah, well. Tis the season for lists of all kinds.

[Melbernai]

1. My school cancelled school for today at around 1:30 yesterday. The kids were so excited, and so were the teachers. We were expecting a big snow storm, but we haven't even gotten any yet.

2. You'd think I'd be enjoying my unexpected day off, but instead I woke up this morning feeling miserable with a cold. Bleh.

3. I can't wait to eat yummy stuffing tomorrow. Hopefully my throat will be better by then.

~Melissa

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Shekinah @ Nov. 27 2002,01:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">2. If I don't protect the feeder, the deer steel all of my bird food.[/b][/quote]
i'm convinced that deer are evil. this past week, i've had two deer run right out in front of me. i'm beginning to think the deer population has a score to settle with me.

1. i'm busily working on a massive education project. right now, i have 32 pages typed (single-spaced). it's due tuesday, and i'd like to get it done NOW.

2. i listened to Christmas carols on my way to class today.

3. my ceramics professor was an hour and a half late to class today, because he was hung over. what is that??!!

[autumnsunflower]

Eenie - that's a sign from the universe to keep an eye out for deer. Where I live they hang out near a busy road that runs near a river, and many people total their vehicles there. Keep a close eye out in the next few weeks.

Now three things about me:

1. I don't remember the last time I heard the word "hobag" Whoever called their brother that made me laugh out loud.

2. I too have the Tori Amos TAPE Little Earthquakes, and although I listened to it obsessively years ago, it is really from a part of my life I would like to put behind me, if anyone wants it, I will set it up as an exchange.

3. I was a freshman in college when I bought the newly released Little Earthquakes - ack!

Autumn

[lobster-girl]

my house is a total disaster and the messier it gets the more stressed out i get and the less i knw where to start! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

1. today is the 4th anniversary of my bad car accident and i'm feelin' okay about it. it is also jimi hendrix's birthday and currently an ex boyfriend of mine is somewhere in a bolivian cave dropping a bunch of lsd in tribute of him...note, "EX" http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

2. i spent last night painting matchboxes and assemling them into advent calendars for my neice and nephew. i just realized yesterday that these should be out to them on oklahoma. now! not mailed on the first. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

3. tomorrow my granny wants me to take her to the market!!! i tried to explain that it will be psycho (my exact words) vbut she still wants to go. i love that lady. i need to remember to bring many robot pieces to work on while she shops...she takes FOREVER! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[littlebird]

Hi! I just discovered the forums, i managed to read the better part of this thread (I won't tell you how long that took). but i just wanted to tack on.

1. I was on a children's tv show when i was younger. it was like a news show. it was called what's up network, but no one remembers it.but i did get to interview some famous people, like jackie joyner cursey. which was cool.

2. When i am walking, especially on campus, i CAN NOT step on the cracks. it drives everyone else crazy, but stepping on them makes me nervous and sick to my stomach. i don't know why.

3. I have the filthiest mouth of anyone i know. not so much that i cuss a lot, but i use all the words that no one else will, like the big c***. i don't believe in dirty words. I also think if you own a word, it can't hurt you.

-Brenda

[wenchlette]

1. I just sent someone on this list something to cheer them up.

2. I'm full.

3. I love Nness

[Bugitha]

1. Last night I dreamt I met eenie and justsu. See how Nervousness has worked its way into my subconscious?

2. Tomorrow I am bring enchiladas and keylime pie (just like the pilgrims ate!) to the non-traditional Thanksgiving at my brother's house.

3. I really wish I were eating turkey and Pumpkin pie tomorrow. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

[GuineaBaby]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (BreezyK @ Nov. 26 2002,6:39)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3.  My area has had tons and tons of tiny earthquakes in the past couple of days.  There's a fault that no one knew about.  Now the news is trying to scare us into thinking it's an impending sign that the "big one" is coming soon.[/b][/quote]
Breezyk, I've heard that too! It's got me freaked out since all my classes are in the upper parts of the building at school.

1. When I go swimming, I get a horrible headache. The last time I went swimming was in July and I got the nastiest headache. It put me out of commission. I can't figure out why, either.

2. Leslie is coming over around 6 so her dad can go to a work thing. Mom just called to get an update on Aunt Martha, but I haven't heard anything yet. THey want to keep her for a few days. I'm so worried I could cry!

3. My guinea pig cage needs changing and I don't have any stuff!

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (autumnsunflower @ Nov. 27 2002,11:03)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Eenie - that's a sign from the universe to keep an eye out for deer.  Where I live they hang out near a busy road that runs near a river, and many people total their vehicles there.  Keep a close eye out in the next few weeks.[/b][/quote]
i've already totalled one vehicle thanks to a deer, so now i'm super careful about deer. still, it's hard when they just leap out in front of you.http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

bugitha-aw!!: ) i wish your dream would have been real. how fun.: ) i hope i was nice in the dream, anyway.

1. i just ate a huuuuuuuge dinner. i should have fasted, but i can't say no to gino's pizza and canolis.

2. i'm eating two thanksgiving dinners tomorrow. one at my boyfriend's parent's house, and then later at my house. my tummy hurts to think about it.

3. i finished my massive education project today (woohoo!). now all i need to do is put it in a binder.

[Shekinah]

Eenie </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">i'm convinced that deer are evil. this past week, i've had two deer run right out in front of me. i'm beginning to think the deer population has a score to settle with me.
[/b][/quote]

1. (Ironically) I just bought a pair of "deer horns" today. (Not the kind from they heads, the kind you stick on you car... they whistle, I guess, and warn them something is coming. Don't know if they work, but I've never hit a deer with them on... Fortunately I haven't hit one with them off either... hmmm... check your stores for the little plastic attachments)

2. I recently discovered that I really really like Merlot, and it seems to do wonders for cramps.

3. I spent half the day in the city today and it is #### scary out there... But they have good sushi.

[autumnsunflower]

Happy Thanksgiving!

1. I'm having Thanksgiving at our house this year, and I've been a very bad girl - I haven't even started baking or cleaning yet (luckily I'm not responsible for the turkey!)

2. I fancy myself a writer but I haven't written anything in months.

3. I have a crush on Neil Diamond.

Autumn

[thunderstorm_19]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Shekinah @ Nov. 28 2002,03:17)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">2. I recently discovered that I really really like Merlot, and it seems to do wonders for cramps.[/b][/quote]
yeah, oddly enough red wine DOES work for cramps, i've noticed that too. I don't know why that is though.

1) i have a 10 page essay outline to do for tomorrow

2) i should be in class in 3 minutes (not going)

3) i'm going home for the weekend tomorrow afternoon

[Dalmaney]

1. I am in love with Skye Masterson from Guys and Dolls (the musical). Not the actor that played him. The character.

2. I have just finished the last chemistry lab I intend to take in my lifetime. *yippee*

3. I want to learn to make trufffles to give away as Christmas gifts.

[amylyn]

Happy Thanksgiving

1) I am too sick to care about food, Gravy yuck!
2) I love the parade, especially the giant balloons, My favorite is Charlie Brown
3) The hoildays are no fun without my little sister,Julie. This is only the second year without her and I can't even remember last year at all.

[autumnsunflower]

Quick and easy truffle recipe:

Melt 1 bag chocolate chips (the higher quality the better) with 1 can sweeten condensed milk (NOT evaporated). Add 1 - 2 Tablespoons vanilla. Pour in a pan and let cool. Use a melon baller or spoon and scoop balls out, rolling in your hand to make round (you can coat your hands with powdered sugar or cocoa to prevent sticking) Embelish by rolling the balls in cocoa powder, powdered sugar, chocolate bits, coconut etc. You can also subsitute alcohol or other flavorings for the vanilla to make different flavors - Grand Marnier and Kahlua are great!) Store in a container with the lid slightly off, so they dry out a little.

1. I got all of my pies made - Hooray!

2. I woke up this morning with a headache and a deep desire to avoid people, especially family today.

3. I'm going to spend the ENTIRE weekend doing art!

Autumn

[Bugitha]

yum. . .truffles. I made those for office gifts one year and everyone thought they were store bought! I don't know if that's a compliment or not. This year I'm making toffee.

Dalmaney, isn't Skye the coolest? I love that movie/play.

1. I feel sad today. Missing my parents, I guess. And wishing that I could be with all my siblings instead of just one. I will make a concerted efforrt to be more thankful.

2. Methinks I will dig out my Christmas decorations tonight. What a process that is. But totally worth it.

3. Time to go check on dinner. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

[bluewindsong]

THree things i am thankful for today...

1) the beautiful hearts and souls of the family members i shared lunch with today.

2) The bounty of Mother Earth, and her blessings in the form of rich harvest that allows us to eat such wonderful meals.

3) Afternoon naps after an near all night smoked turkey preparation with my sweetheart.

http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Warmest blessings to you and yours today and always!

[Dalmaney]

Thanks for the recipe! I have so many gifts to find for people that I don't really know what they need, so I think food is the answer. And I like that homemade touch. I got some teeny bottles of Kaluha and Irish Cream for this express purpose (note to self: not for my coffee).

Skye is dreamy! I need to hunt down a video now... I saw it live by a local group here in town last summer. I saw the same guy in another role though, and no, it's not him. I always seem to fall for the non-existant man. I think it's a safe bet http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

1. My car got totalled (while parked) last Friday, so that's the end of driving for me for a while. Ugh.

2. I really think Skye is a silly boy's name. Also Brooke, the name of my male Commerce prof.

3. I'm getting all psyched up for Christmas already. I'm in Canada, so Thanksgiving was last month. I'm ready to dive into Christmas all the way. Um... except for finals, which stand between me and Christmas. I'm feeling much less divey about those.

[mejaka]

Hey, my sister played Sarah Brown in G&D, and they had the best Sky Masterson possible. Dan Mink. Oh, was he brilliant. Spoiled me for anyone else I've seen.

1. This is only the second year I've cooked a Thanksgiving dinner, and this is the first time it has been just me, Brett, and our children (last year we had guests). We read Geo. Washington's proclamation before dinner. Brined and roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, corn, the rolls got screwed up while we were at Harry Potter so we went with French bread and the peach jam I made last summer, and there are two pies still to come--pumpkin and a variation of my mom's Blueberry Cream Cheese Pie, for which I have homemade orange/cranberry topping.

2. While walking out of Harry Potter, Brett caught our 13-year-old surreptitiously checking out girls /huge grin/. Can I just say how much I LOVE watching my kids grow up?!! They just get cooler and more fun and more delightful every year.

3. My favorite part of the Macy's is the bits from the Broadway musicals. I try hard not to think about the fact that I never saw Bernadette Peters in either _Into the Woods_ or _Annie Get Your Gun_ because if I dwell on it I go into mourning and that's kind of...stupid.

[GuineaBaby]

Alcohol relaxes cramps, which is probably what's doing it. I don't drink or know anything about wines and such, so I'm not totally sure.

1. I made my mom a wizard-of-oz-ish ornament. It's a high heel slipper like the red ruby with the yellow brick road splashed up the sides.

2. I made a purse out of a book. It's so cool! I used a book called "A Perfect Spy" cause I wanna work in the FBI. ^_^

3. I want to buy something cheap on eBay and I don't know what. Dawn just got some TItanic pins and I want something now.

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">My favorite part of the Macy's is the bits from the Broadway musicals. I try hard not to think about the fact that I never saw Bernadette Peters in either _Into the Woods_ or _Annie Get Your Gun_ because if I dwell on it I go into mourning and that's kind of...stupid.[/b][/quote]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Skye is dreamy! I need to hunt down a video now... I saw it live by a local group here in town last summer. I saw the same guy in another role though, and no, it's not him. I always seem to fall for the non-existant man. I think it's a safe bet [/b][/quote]

I'm just crazy about musicals and Guys and Dolls is one of my most favorites!

The only time I ever rushed right out and bought a CD the first day it was available was for a broadway cast recording. It was *Rent.* What a dork.

1. I have about 30 tape and CD recordings of musicals.

2. I have spent much much more on tickets to musical theater than I ever have on concert tickets.

3. Last spring, on the way to a national touring company production of Guys and Dolls, my friend tripped and hurt her arm. It seemed pretty bad, and I asked if she wanted me to take her to the hospital. She insisted we go to the play--we had waited a long time to see it and spent so much on tickets, etc. etc. So we went. Afterwards, she went to the E.R. and it turned out she had broken her arm! Not only did she break it, but it was the worst break her orthopedic surgeon had ever seen! I still feel guilty about not insisting we go to the hospital right away. She still claims it was totally worth it to see the play. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

[thunderstorm_19]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Dalmaney @ Nov. 28 2002,3:09)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3. I'm getting all psyched up for Christmas already. I'm in Canada, so Thanksgiving was last month. I'm ready to dive into Christmas all the way. Um... except for finals, which stand between me and Christmas. I'm feeling much less divey about those.[/b][/quote]
oh don't i hear ya!

1. luckily i only have 2 december exams this year, BUT one of them is on the LAST DAY of exams in the LAST TIME SLOT. Therefore I go home on December 18

2. I have to pack to go home for the weekend, and get on with stuff, because i dont' want to take ANY work home with me (even though i should)

3. the BEST pie ever is my mom's strawberry rhubarb... and her blueberry... and her apple...

4. i'm not keen on mincemeat (which actually contains no meat at all), but i like mincemeat and apple pies (go mom!).

5. when mom called the other day, she said the christmas cakes were in the oven!! i can only imagine how good the house smelled.

6. hopefully i can convince the 'rents to put the tree up this weekend, dad always bitches that we put it up too early, but i wanna take part in that family ritual this year, and leaving it until i'm home on the 18th is too long.

[watusi!]

1. i'm addicted to oingo boingo
2. i own six pairs of shoes
3. i love walking in cold weather

[wenchlette]

1. It feels like my uterus is trying to eat it's way out of my body by way of my back. Apparently it's a separate entity. who'd've thunk it?

2. I want to buy some buttons.

3. I need ONE feedback point to join the Narcissus LMAO.. but I bet you it'll be full by the time I get one more point. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

[whistlepunch]

These are fun to read! Lots of fans of musicals. I haven't indulged in a long time but you have all inspired me to change the cd in the stereo...

Hmmm, here goes my 3.

1. I used to manage a college radio station.
2. I speak Korean.
3. I have never seen E.T. (it seems my "thing" now, so I don't know if I ever will...)

[Bugitha]

1. I tried to make toffee last night but I burnt it. Darn.

2. I will spend the entire weekend looking at the computer screen writing a paper. Ugh. I feel the eye strain coming on all ready.

3. Two more weeks and school is over! Yahoo!

[citron]

1. I have a big dent in my skull from walking into a staircase when I was little.
2. My dentist told me to stop drinking tea - I lasted a day and a half and had to drink three all at once http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
3. I am completely in love with Bugs Bunny.

[littlebird]

1. My friend and I are convinced that there are gnomes living in our uteruses. Period gnomes. Once a month they wake up and try to chew their way out. The only way to sedate them is with alcohol. Unfortunately for a poor college student like myself, ususally we sedate them with poor quality beer (which will not be named) or Viaka brand vodka. $8 will fill a bathtub. Or sedate a period gnome. He's not fancy enough to get wine.

2. My period Gnome's name is David. Hee hee hee.

3. I finally have ten feedback points. I know that's dorky, but I'm just really happy that ten people are happy with me. That ten things were successful. yay.

[thunderstorm_19]

1. i wish i had an endless bunch of money so i could send every nervous member a christmas card.

2. i am going to send some random nervous members christmas cards, a couple are already mailed.

3. my beloved mother ripped me from my bed at 8:45 this morning, with the help of my sister. they literally pulled the covers off. Oh how I love being home.

4. I really do love being home. being dragged up at 8:45 is a small price to pay for wonderful food, enough space to move around in, no roomates that sleep in till 1:30 pm (of all the lazy...), colourful decor, and so on and so forth...

5. i watched my grandmother shave the fuzz off her chin this morning. (i was holding the mirror for her). Then she told me a funny story about my uncles.

6. sausage rolls for lunch today... http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

7. i finished reading "The Hobbit" on the bus home last night, and I'm now in the prologue to The Fellowship of the Ring.

8. I got the lord of the rings box set in chapters for $19 in august, on sale from $32. It's the nice black covers with the coloured circles, not the crappy covers with photos from the movies. I don't care how good the movies are, i hate it when they do that to books.

9. i want a copy of The Chrysalids. I saw one in the used book store a couple weeks ago, and decided to get a different book instead that day.

10. lunch time. gotta go.

[Shekinah]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. My friend and I are convinced that there are gnomes living in our uteruses. Period gnomes. Once a month they wake up and try to chew their way out. The only way to sedate them is with alcohol. Unfortunately for a poor college student like myself, ususally we sedate them with poor quality beer (which will not be named) or Viaka brand vodka. $8 will fill a bathtub. Or sedate a period gnome. He's not fancy enough to get wine. [/b][/quote]

heheh... i really like the idea of the Period Gnome... It explains A LOT. Mine gets control of my mind sometimes too - that must be what happens when they successfully chew their way out...I'm lucky, since I'm in California and near a grocery outlet store I can buy enough red wine to fill a bathtub, sedate bigfoot AND the period gnome - and still have enough money left for CHOCOLATE!

1. The last movie I saw and plan to see for a long time was 8 Mile - (rant) and I don't care what anyone says, Marshall Mathers is an intelligent, skilled artist and deserves respect - Art is not always supposed to make folks comfortable, and of course reflections of crappy childhood are ugly - THAT'S why we need to look at them, to stop it from happening to someone else.. (/rant)

2. I also love Don Quixote and have been spotted tilting at assorted windmills (which are hard to find, spot me at the Putt-Putt course, 18th hole - I'm the one with the fencing gear on)

3. I can't decide whether to cry or laugh, or both, for today. I tried doing both at once but it scared the dogs...

[Dalmaney]

1. The last movie I saw was _The Usual Supsects_. I hadn't ever seen it before, and the ending made it worthwhile. Before that I was all "My they shoot alot of people and swear alot" but unimpressed. After the end it was a great movie.

2. I am about to drive three hours away to see a Christmas musical, and then back again tonight. I love the crazy road trips my friends and I take.

3. My car is officially dead. Murdered. Someone totalled it while it was parked in front of my place. And technically it's Dad's, so he gets some cash and I get nothing. No more driving for me for a good long time. It makes me kind of sad. And angry at people that wreck my stuff.

[GuineaBaby]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (thunderstorm_19 @ Nov. 30 2002,09:35)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">7.  i finished reading "The Hobbit" on the bus home last night, and I'm now in the prologue to The Fellowship of the Ring.  

8.  I got the lord of the rings box set in chapters for $19 in august, on sale from $32.  It's the nice black covers with the coloured circles, not the crappy covers with photos from the movies.  I don't care how good the movies are, i hate it when they do that to books.[/b][/quote]
I tore my room apart yesterday looking for the fellowship book I'm borrowing from my Mom. I have the DVD platinum edition set (only because I'm a huge Elijah Wood fan) and watching it all (I finally finished after about three weeks of sporatic watching) made me want to read the book. I hate it when they put pictures from the movie on the books, too, but since I'm too big of an Elijah Wood fan to care.

1. I read the first Harry Potter book yesterday because I couldn't find the fellowship book. Mom has the return of thing king, but not that one. Phooey. Since the first book is all I have, I'm left dying to read the rest.

2. Last night Dawn elbowed me in the face TWICE and she was awake. She wanted me to move out of the way. How rude is that? Why didn't she just wake me up?

3. As soon as Thanksgiving was over, I started putting up Christmas decorations.

[BreezyK]

mejaka said:
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I try hard not to think about the fact that I never saw Bernadette Peters in either _Into the Woods_ or _Annie Get Your Gun_ because if I dwell on it I go into mourning and that's kind of...stupid. [/b][/quote]
I saw Bernadette in concert a few months ago... boy does she put on a good show. What a cutie-pie! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif She sang a couple tunes from both of those shows. Oh, Into the Woods is absolutely my all time favorite musical !(the original one... I'm still torn about the new one) There's so many levels to it... it just brilliant! I have it on DVD, and memorized, of course.

Okay now I have the urge to do three boring musical-related facts.

1. I was obsessed with musicals in high school -- it's basically all I would listen to. I got sosick of them I didn't listen to them at all for several years. Now I'm phasing back in.

2. Copies of Les Miz that I own: The Original London Cast (Complete), The Original London Cast (abridged), The Original Broadway Cast, the Complete Symphonic Recording, the Original French Version, Stage by Stage (the making of) VHS, Les Miz in Concert (VHS). And it's not even my favorite musical.

3. Sondheim is a timeless genius. Andew Lloyd Webber is a dated putz.

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (BreezyK @ Nov. 30 2002,4:52)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. I was obsessed with musicals in high school[/b][/quote]
i'm the same way.: ) i definitely go through "musical" phases.

1. i don't think i can name a favourite musical, but the ones i have seen are: les miserable, rent (twice), cabaret, annie, little shop of horrors, ragtime, and showboat.

2. i have all those soundtracks, plus the soundtracks to about 8 other musicals. i'm obsessed, too.: )

3. i went on a carriage ride in chicago yesterday, and it was one of the sweetest things i've ever done.

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Okay now I have the urge to do three boring musical-related facts.

[/b][/quote]
Hey--those aren't boring at all. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif Um, even though I've done my share of the same, I feel compeled to add more:

1. I can sing Rent straight through, without the CD, all the songs, by memory. Sad but true. I did it once in about two hours.

2. My favorite little-known show: Maltby & Shire's "Closer than Ever"

3. Shows that I don't particularly care for the story line from but love the music: Chess and Miss Saigon.

[mejaka]

1. Today I drove to Spokane just so a fellow N. Idahoan could put her mark on 1000Journal #673. It was great!

2. Today we found someone had entered our garage and made off with Brett's compressor and nail gun. This was not so great. He's in the middle of a remodeling job and had to buy a new one ($265) and now he's feeling too bummed about the extra money to want a Christmas present. {:^ (

3. I've read all the Harry Potter books, and thanks to my 10-year-old I have a chance to read #9 from Lemony Snicket's _A Series of Unfortunate Events._ He brought it home from school on Monday. My 13-yo read it, then the 10-yo, and I have until Monday morning to read it now.

Bonus:

4. I WANT SNOW.

[emiko]

1. I'm Turkish, and I've never met another Turk outside my family...

2. I am the youngest of eight children, and yet an only child. Figure that riddle and I'll send you something :D

3. I hide in bushes.

[mejaka]

1. I have a small collection of children's Christmas books, with a goal to have 22 of them (one to read each day between December 1 and Christmas--and I'm two short in the count because one story we always tell is a family story, and the other is the Christmas story from the scriptures). Among my favorites are The Trees of the Dancing Goats by Patricia Polacco, Robert Frost's Christmas Trees illustrated by Ted Rand and his Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening illustrated by Susan Jeffers, and Silver Packages by Cynthia Rylant ill. Chris K. Soentpiet.

2. I made an Advent calendar cabinet out of one of those plastic nuts-and-bolts cases, and last night I set the whole thing up so we have something to do or something to read every single day until Christmas.

3. I'm probably going to bring home a nanny goat from my father-in-law's little acreage at Christmas. He bred her for us; she's a pygmy/Saanen cross. He actually got two and he was nervous that we would want them both but if we did he'd have given them both to us even though he really wants to keep one of them.

[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 small collection of children's Christmas books, with a goal to have 22 of them (one to read each day between December 1 and Christmas--and I'm two short in the count because one story we always tell is a family story, and the other is the Christmas story from the scriptures). Among my favorites are The Trees of the Dancing Goats by Patricia Polacco, Robert Frost's Christmas Trees illustrated by Ted Rand and his Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening illustrated by Susan Jeffers, and Silver Packages by Cynthia Rylant ill. Chris K. Soentpiet.
[/b][/quote]

What a neat idea. I've seen that edition of Stopping By The Woods on a Snowy Evening and wanted desparately to buy it. But I had no money at the time. I'd forgotten until now. Maybe I'll go look for it. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

1. I keep hearing water dripping but every time I check the sink--nothing. Which makes me think more sinister forces are at play. What could that sound be?http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif??

2. I always crave ice cream in cold weather.

3. I don't especially like to wear necklaces, although I'm the first to admire them on other people.

[autumnsunflower]

Mejaka, what a neat idea for a advent cabinet!

1) I spent 3 summers working at an overnight girl scout camp as a counselor when I was in college - those were the best 3 summers of my life.

2) I seem to only write really good poetry when my life is in turmoil and I'm unhappy - I haven't written a good poem in the last year and a half - I need to find my voice in spite of the happiness!

3) I'm starting to suspect that the post office has a secret file on me and is holding back my mail to make my even more nervous.

Autumn

[bluewindsong]

speaking period gnomes...my gnome is sedated particularly by lots of hot sweeet salty yummy food. Though i bet that he would settle for some wine or margaritas....

1) my chest hurts, it happened once two years ago, the dcotor said it was inflammed tissues :S hurmph..it flares up now again....

2) It is gray outside and acutally feels like december/winter in the perpetually sunny desert.

3) i always wanted to be a conselor at a girl scout camp....camp memories are some of the best.

4) raw almonds soaked in water over night are really delicious...sprouted almonds...almost...they swell up and the little roots start to pop out the bottom...yummy though!

[lobster-girl]

watusi! i am also a HUGE oingo boingo fan! woohoo!

1. the durn hollywood christmas parade trapped me in my neighborhood! took forever to get to my friends event where...

2. i met Ben Stein! (nice guy. oddly fuuny!)

3. i baked chocoalte chip oatmeal cookies and homemade banana bread yesterday. i also watched elvis movies all day long. what a perfect sunday!

must finish making gifts!

[SilverFlame]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Guest @ Oct. 11 2002,6:51)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Humans eat an average of 12 spiders a year, while they sleep.  The little buggers crawl right in.[/b][/quote]
Liz! *laughs* There is a site online about urban legends and myths... I believe the myth originally said we eat 8 a year. But it's a myth. Total lie. Someone completely made it up. Maybe to scare people like Flea?? *lol*

[SilverFlame]

Oops, I forgot that I had to post 3 things if I said anything... :S So I guess now I have to post SIX things, huh? *lol* Okay, here goes:

1. I have met Linkin Park, Aaron Lewis, Our Lady Peace, Everclear, Duncan Sheik (twice), and I have been to two Tori Amos meet & greets but have NEVER met her (although she's been close enough to touch both times, I was so busy taking pix and passing people's stuff up, we never talked)! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

2. I got accepted into the U of New Orleans based on my ACT scores in English being so high, but I failed almost every year of English in HS (I didn't get to attend UNO though http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif).

3. I am 22, I have a degree, and have no idea what I want to do with my life other than move back to California.

4. I have a serious fear of moths (which EVERYONE I know finds hilarious, because I'm the strong, fearless person out of all my friends).

5. I cannot stand silk, satin, or the awful material that nylons are made out of. I cringe just thinking about it!

6. My hair is down to the middle of my butt and it's one of the only things I like about how I look and the one thing I get compliments about the most... and strangely enough, I really want to shave my head. Masochistic much?

[Fenchurch]

1. I am ever so grateful for evolution coming up with the concept of opposable thumbs.

2. I named my website after my eye condition.

3. I can drive a 7.5 ton truck. I can even back it into a parking space.

[autumnsunflower]

1) It is snowing here in Southern Colorado, and although I've lived here my entire life, I hate snow.

2) I have never been on a pair of skis and I never plan to - most people assume Coloradians ski all the time.

3) I still love Duran Duran (the original 5) after all of these years.

Autumn

[mejaka]

SilverFlame, maybe your desire to shave your head is a reaction to living in the mountain enclave of conservatism? <G>

1. I'm late for Scouts.

2. When I was little I used to eat ants.

3. I want a pet frog...

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I can drive a 7.5 ton truck. I can even back it into a parking space[/b][/quote]

Fenchurch, that is exactly why I admire truck drivers more than almost any other profession. Being a bit of a driving whimp myself, watching big trucks maneuver around tiny convenience store parking lots inspires in me endless wonder and deep admiration.

1. Although I love Christmas music, I can not stand the Muzak versions of songs I heard in the grocery store tonight.

2.The term paper I turned in today was mediocre at best. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif But its my own durn fault for waiting until last Friday to start reading on a topic I knew nothing about and then trying to write 15 pages on it.

3. I saw chocolate dipped Milano cookies at the store two weeks ago and resisted buying them but I've been dreaming about them ever since.

[BreezyK]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (mejaka @ Dec. 03 2002,3:54)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3.  I want a pet frog...[/b][/quote]
Three facts on pet frogs.

1. I had two pet frogs. Their names were Atticus and Scout.

2. They were barking frogs and were very noisy. I could get them to bark by barking myself.

3. One day Scout escaped from her terrarium. She turned back up again a couple days later on the sliding glass door. Then one day both Scout and Atticus escaped together. I thought maybe they were still in the house, but I would bark and no one would answer. They never showed up again, and Dennis thinks one of the cats ate them. Maybe he's right. I'd like to believe they're living happily ever after in the creek behind our old apartment.

[thunderstorm_19]

1. i find the majority of 80s music irritating, but looooooove the song "come undone" by duran duran

2. i think i've overstocked on christmas cards

3. ohh... just sitting here i remembered it's wednesday, which means it's go-around-the-house-collecting-the-trash-and-recycling night.

[Dalmaney]

1. I am now done classes until January.
2. But I have 5 finals between now and the 16th, so life is crazy.

3. I had a funeral for my car today. I went to the salvage yard and retrieved my stuff from her, cleaned out the glovebox and the trunk, stripped the plates, said my last goodbyes. I've ridden in that car for over a decade. It was hard to say goodbye, even though it was getting to be a bit of a wreck. It's silly, I know. But it was a good car, a loyal car, a reliable car. It was struck down in a random act of car violence before it's time should have been up. My only consolation is that it lived a full car life.

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Dalmaney @ Dec. 04 2002,5:56)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">It was struck down in a random act of car violence before it's time should have been up. My only consolation is that it lived a full car life.[/b][/quote]
::hug:: it's not silly. my truck was almost struck down in a random act of deer violence, and i would have cried my eyes out if they'd chosen to total it.

1. i'm really confused about something. life is hard.

2. finals are next week. hurrah.

3. people are buying my soap! i'm still in shock that people want to PAY for something i enjoy doing.

[mejaka]

eenie...life is hard but it is beautiful.

1. I was up late last night with my military-commander husband, trying to figure out how to help one of his lieutenants whose wife was in a serious car accident eight hours away while visiting her folks. We couldn't arrange anything to get him there faster than his flight. She died at 1:30 am and his plane didn't touch down until 10.

2. I have remembered this phrase from a talk for over ten years: "Never waste a good trial." Someday I may have a good trial, and I hope I can follow this advice, as it came from someone who had been there.

3. My life thus far has been incredibly smooth going.

[thunderstorm_19]

mejaka, i'm so sad to hear that news...

1. can't talk long, gotta get ready 4 class.

2. had a bizarre dream last night of a plane crashing into a large bridge over water... don't know if it was a specific location. very wierd. i woke up feeling very uneasy. that was around 4 this morning i think (EST).

3. the heat's on, but i'm still too cold.

[autumnsunflower]

1) I can type Dvorak, but only at about 15 words a minute.

2) I may be uprooting my life soon and moving to New Mexico - thank the universe that Nervousness is a portable community.

3) I'm really hoping that the wish I sent for AutumnFolly's wishing tree LMAO manifests.

Autumn

[GuineaBaby]

1. i can't get my fricking digi cam to work

2. i have a funeral to go to now

3. i have some serious research for my english final

[hopeevey]

1. I want to watch "The Scorpion King"

2. My friend Alicia is wearing a leather hat

3. I have two knitting projects in progress today.

[lobster-girl]

i think that hopeevey's facts are so random! i love them. i am so sorry to hear about the lieutenant's wife, mejaka. and yes, life is hard and sometimes a good long nap helps. sometimes.

1. i could use a good long nap right now!

2. i had a boyfriend who was so devotedto his car that when it was totaled he wrote a song about "her" and whenever he sang it he would break down and cry...he has since named his first born after her...his son's name is Nova.

3. my brother is ill and getting "treatments" but he won't tell me what for, just that he's not terminal and i shouldn't worry. i understand that he doesn't HAVe to tell me. i jsut don't want him to be sick.

[SilverFlame]

You just may be right about that, Mejaka! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif I did dye it Atlantic Blue once. It was gorgeous... (At least... I thought so?)

1. My guinea pig Serren died on Monday. My dogs knocked his cage over and he had a heart attack...

2. I made paper snowflakes for the community shelter on Tuesday night, and the woman who picked them up on Wednesday was so grateful she was almost in tears. It was slightly embarrassing. She kept saying how very much they needed the cheer and appreciated it. All I could say was, "They're only snowflakes..."

3. My family is gone to Nebraska for the week and I swore I would finish the lmao I have in my possession TODAY and send it out in the morning. Instead, I cleaned the house, did the laundry, the dishes, 3 different batches of cookies, and some choco-cheesecake squares. I have to record Survivor for my mom in 45 minutes and then I SWEAR it's going to get done!! Today is my deadline!! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[bloodflame]

1] i was engaged three times before I turned 16. (two were on accident. oops?)

2] I had to wear socks on my hands when I was little because I had eczema and would scratch myself until I bled.

3] I'm an aunt to a turtle, named Eddie. He's hibernating.

[thunderstorm_19]

1. sent out 4 letters today, incl. one that the person definitely isn't expecting, unless they're totally psychic...

2. it's tooooooooo cooooooooooooooold.

3. it's bound to get colder. such are the joys of being Canadian. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (mejaka @ Dec. 04 2002,9:53)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">eenie...life is hard but it is beautiful.[/b][/quote]
::hug:: you are so right.
i'm so sorry to hear about the lieutenant's wife.. i prayed on my angel stone for her.

1. i have my truck back.: ) she's so shiny and beautiful. i kissed the steering wheel.http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif (she saved my life afterall).

2. my room is an absolute mess, but i just don't have the time/energy to clean it. it's driving me insane, though.

3. 20 days until Christmas! :-D oh wait. that's not a fact about myself. um, right. anyway.http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[mejaka]

1. Tonight my husband, kids, and I made these cool paper candy-holding ornaments for our tree (and to give away).

2. I'm sick and spent all day on the couch. Brett came home at lunch, stayed, and cleaned the house up.

3. I feel much better.

Okay...trying for increased randomness:

1. I feed hummingbirds.

2. I love boxes.

3. In the summer I like to draw fake tattoos on my feet with fine-line Sharpie marker.

[Bugitha]

mejaka, lobster-girl--so sorry about the bad news you've had lately.



</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">] I had to wear socks on my hands when I was little because I had eczema and would scratch myself until I bled.

[/b][/quote]

Ooh, I had the same problem. I feel itchy just thinking about it. My mother had to smear my hands with ointment at night and then I had to sleep with plastic gloves on. So uncomfortable--my hands sweating all night. Yuck.

1. I have not had a very bad breakout of eczema in years but the last bad breakout forced me to quit my job at the time. I was working as a Barista and my hands were constantly wet and I was always being exposed to harsh detergents. One morning I woke up and it was so bad I could not even wrap my hand over the stickshift to drive to the doctor's office. Too bad. I really liked that job too. It paid badly, but was sooo much fun.

2. The ex-friend I have mentioned in this thread sent me a Christmas card with a cute bookmark tucked inside and she wrote what are quite possible the nicest things she has ever said to me and suggested we get together soon. I'm not sure how I'm going to respond (if at all) yet.

3.After going to college for (don't laugh) 12 long years, I finally graduate on Saturday. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[mejaka]

Oh, bugitha, I realize I don't know the whole story...but was this falling-out just the latest episode in five years of smaller ones, or was it totally uncharacteristic? I don't know the book but maybe there was something deeper in it for her, some pain you didn't know it was triggering, and your different view of the book somehow got tied up for her in that pain. If I'm going to make mistakes in a relationship, I'd rather be too kind than too proud...though I'm not always successful at that either. :^ (

1. I love artwork featuring people reading.

2. The year I was married, a ring salesman talked me into taking a minute to fill out an entry for the Z-103 Wedding Giveaway. I won. (Almost $1000 in goods and services--free tuxes, cake, pictures, invitations...)

3. I don't enter contests much but when I do I tend to get lucky. A few random things I've won:
*A set of dried-flower wall pictures made by a relative (I won this as a child at a family reunion)
*The cooler of my choice in a dept. store sweepstakes--I chose the second most expensive one they had because I liked the metallic look and size
*A porch swing in a real estate sweepstakes
*A set of aromatherapy products in a writing contest
*$25 plus copies in a writing contest
*$300 for a really sappy bit of poetry, from BlueMountainArts.com. They sent me a contract to use my work on their cards, also, but it was laughable. Later their free e-card site went pay-membership and I requested that they remove my work. They only partially complied. Boycott.
*"Happiest Pumpkin" in a gradeschool carving contest that I entered at the last minute.

[Dalmaney]

1. I am the treasurer for my church group's World Vision child fund and am currently in possession of over $50 in change that must be converted to bill form before I can deposit it.

2. I only ever took the first level of swimming lessons, which I failed, so my swimming ability sucks. It's mostly limited to not sinking, but not particularly moving either.

3. I am refusing to enter the mall on a weekend until after Christmas. The insanity, oh the insanity. I took this vow after entering Walmart last Saturday and plan to take it very seriously.

[lobster-girl]

i will try to be very random...

random facts from lobster-girl's 7th year:

1. i won the blue ribbon for jump rope

2. i collected eraser dust in paper towel envelopes my friend from korea taught me to make

3. i wore a handmade purple dress for my picture day...i still have the dress!

[sistasmell]

I am laughing so hard at lobster-girls facts(well- the eraser dust one) that I need to just all-out copy her. Childhood random facts from the life of sistasmell:

1. I was vomited on by three different kids in kindergarten alone. Nelly Rifenburg is the only one whose name I can remember.
2. I've stolen something only once in my life- a Spiderman comic book from a fellow kindergarten student. I put it on the bookshelf in the den and everytime I saw it, it would make me feel so ashamed that I would start to cry, but I couldn't bring myself to throw it away. I am a very moral person and have never even cheated in school.
3. I had a childhood friend Tasha who wore her hair in dreadlocks. We used to cut them off and play with them like they were snakes and worms. Our parents weren't thrilled.
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[Willow_starr]

Random childhood facts:

1. I used to PAINFULLY shy. I would want to cry after a stranger talked to me.

2. I once got in trouble in French class for reading a novel when I should have been listening.

3. I was a ballerina. I played a candy Smartie (Canadian kind) in the Nutcracker Suite.

[mejaka]

Has anyone else noticed that this thread gets 10 views for every posting? :^ )

Random childhood facts I haven't already shared:

1. When I was four/five and a budding entrepeneur, I once sold grass over my back fence. Actual grass, like turfgrass, only this was a wiry kind that I found growing green and vibrant in the middle of winter. I talked my playmate Connie into buying it for ten cents because "have you ever seen grass that green in the middle of winter? It's RARE!"

2. I lived in that house at the front of a trailer court for just over a year. 1515 Kimberly Road...now a Circle K. Then, doors down from a strip of bars. Big, big old house. I remember our phone number.

3. I used to write mean things about my teacher in tiny letters at the bottom of my papers when I was mad. "I hate Mrs. Miller..." Mrs. Miller ignored it and most of the time I adored her. Then I went to third grade and got Mrs. Klingler, and the first time I did it she ratted on me to my parents and made it into a Big Hairy Deal. I never liked her.

[GuineaBaby]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (SilverFlame @ Dec. 05 2002,5:17)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. My guinea pig Serren died on Monday. My dogs knocked his cage over and he had a heart attack...[/b][/quote]
I'm so sorry! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif I love my piggies to death and can't imagine losing one.

mejaka-that's so cool you're lucky like that! you should enter all the elijah wood contests you can find and when you win, take me. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

dalmaney-I can only swim well enough to save my life and that's good enough for me. When I swim, I get really bad headaches so I don't do it much often.


now for my three facts:
1. When I was little my dad found a rock and gave it to me...I was convinced it was a dinosaur egg. We played with it once and it got lost. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

2. We have the same phone number from our last three houses...we "brought" it with us so we didn't have to worry about remembering a new one

3. There was a twins club function at a lady's apartment. we were playing with her daughter who was a couple years older than us. She made us very uncomfortable so we told mom. She got us out of there. All I remember was going to the car with mom looking very angry.

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">. I talked my playmate Connie into buying it for ten cents because "have you ever seen grass that green in the middle of winter? It's RARE!"

[/b][/quote]

mejaka--you missed your calling. You should have been a used car saleswoman. Too funny.

BTW, I think you made some good points about the ex-friend situation. *thinking, thinking*

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">. I used to PAINFULLY shy. I would want to cry after a stranger talked to me.

[/b][/quote]

Oh, me too. Terrible, terrible shyness. I remember saying exactly two things in kindergarten. One of them was to ask the teacher, "will you please staple this?" and the other, "Where are the coloring books?" Actually talking to my teacher was so traumatic a thing for me, these incidents are burned into my memory. My best friend in class was a vietnamese (sp?) student who spoke no English. My teacher actually called a conference to ask my mother if I even knew how to talk. My mother looked at her puzzled and said, "You should hear her when she's at home! She never stops." Which is true. Still to this day. Shy at first and then waaay too talkative once I get to know people.

1. I have very early memories. I remember things starting from the age of two. My very first memory involves a pink and white dress I loved. I have found that many people's first memories involve an article of clothing.

2. I won a school-wide hula hooping contest in the fifth grade.

3. I don't often win things, but when I do I often have a premonition that I'm going to win.

4. The best thing I ever won was a pet bunny.

[mejaka]

1. While at a friend's a few years ago, I was brought up sharp by a Bessie Pease Guttman picture hung over her baby's crib. I told her that it was the same picture that hung over my brother's bassinette when he was a baby. Later talks with my mother revealed that my brother, who was born at 10 lbs 9 oz, quit using the bassinette when he was three months old--and I was 19 months old. (Mom also saw the picture and confirmed my memory.) I believe that's my first memory.

2. I'm feeling sad tonight, and Brett's gone to Idaho Falls.
:^ (

3. I have an overdue library book and I have no idea where it is. I remember reading it in the kitchen.

[SilverFlame]

Yeah, it was really sad that Serren died. I couldn't figure out what to do for him, though. What do you do for an animal having a heart attack? Revive it and scare it more or leave it alone and let it die peacefully? I felt really awful. Usually my dogs just look at him... I guess they got too curious, because they somehow knocked his cage over... I just can't believe something that simple killed him!! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif I'm convinced he was psychotic... or had a heart condition!! He was my buddy, too, and I just adopted him from the Humane Society in September!! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

1. Everyone has always told me that I seem WAY older than my years, but I feel as though I should still be (or still am) 12 on the inside...

2. I have very few friends in my real life right now, and that has never happened to me before (ever) and the quiet around me is mainly why I got involved with Nervousness.

3. I wrap presents for my dogs every year at Xmas and they get to unwrap them. My dogs LOVE it and every year they stare at the presents under the tree longingly and try to get you to give them one with sad puppy eyes. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif All of them have their own style of unwrapping things... This will be Kedric's first year unwrapping presents because he wasn't born until about 2 am the morning AFTER Xmas last year (but his mom got to open presents a few hours before she had him)!

[GuineaBaby]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (SilverFlame @ Dec. 06 2002,11:18)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Yeah, it was really sad that Serren died. I couldn't figure out what to do for him, though. What do you do for an animal having a heart attack? Revive it and scare it more or leave it alone and let it die peacefully? I felt really awful. Usually my dogs just look at him... I guess they got too curious, because they somehow knocked his cage over... I just can't believe something that simple killed him!! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif I'm convinced he was psychotic... or had a heart condition!! He was my buddy, too, and I just adopted him from the Humane Society in September!! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif[/b][/quote]
Yeah, they die pretty quickly. THe slightest thing can spook them. My Mom's friend used to raise them and she said if you suspect they're getting sick, take them right away because if you wait they can die overnight. :/ I keep a close eye on my babies.

1. My first memory is of me standing in the house we just moved to on cresent (I was 2 1/2) and looking around the empty space and seeing a couple garbage bags full of stuff.

2. I think Maleficent has a problem drinking from her water bottle because she makes a lot of noise and the other two guinea pigs don't. I read that the size of the mouth can make a difference, so I've been thinking about getting a smaller bottle to see if it would help.

3. My room is all nice and clean now. ^_^

[littlebird]

1. When I was in highschool, they had a lip-sync contest. I won first prize ($100) doing a Squirrel Nut Zippers song in a duet with a sock puppet.

2. My first memory is of almost drowning. I was just over two years old and i was outside in the winter at my parent's friends' house. They had a pool with a cover on it. I figured since it was cold out, it must be frozen and I could walk on it. Instead I slipped under it and couldn't get out. I was passed out by the time they found me. I have a very distinct memory of being underwater and looking up at the pool cover, trying to scream and swallowing water. But I still love to swim!

3. Last night, two of my friends and I were bored, so we dressed up like old people (wigs, makeup, glasses, orthopedic shoes) and went to the center of town where all the clubs are and harrassed the "youngin's". I was the most convincing.

[eenie]

1. my first memory is of faking a nap when i was about 2 yrs. old. my mom would bribe me to sleep sometimes, because i never wanted to, so if i took an hour nap, i would get ice cream. well.. i faked about a five minute nap and then got up and demanded ice cream, and was of course told no. i remember standing in front of our old refrigerator, wearing nothing but underwear, pounding on the door demanding ice cream.http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

2. when i was in second grade, i wrote an entire book of poetry for my teacher. i wish i could find it, because i'm sure it's interesting.

3. when i was in third grade, two girls and i got in trouble for passing notes about sex. i'm pretty sure i didn't have any idea what sex was, but i was quite precocious. i'm sure teachers love it when the kids in the gifted and talented class talk about sex.http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[Willow_starr]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3. Last night, two of my friends and I were bored, so we dressed up like old people (wigs, makeup, glasses, orthopedic shoes) and went to the center of town where all the clubs are and harrassed the "youngin's". I was the most convincing. [/b][/quote]

You're weird! Fun but weird! I need to do more exciting things in my life I'm boring.

1. I learned how to knit a touque (winter hat). I'm half done but it's huge. Anyone have a big head (26 inches or so...)

2. I just flunked an exam, well I might have passed but just barely. yuck

3. My friends are coming over tonight for a "family dinner" potluck.

[SilverFlame]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (GuineaBaby @ Dec. 07 2002,00:01)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">My Mom's friend used to raise them and she said if you suspect they're getting sick, take them right away because if you wait they can die overnight.[/b][/quote]
I have raised rabbits for years... I was heavily into showing them when I lived in Cali. But before Serren, I only owned 2 guineas... Both were Americans, their names were Peppy La Pew (however you spell that) and Butterscotch. I'm sure you can figure out what colors they were... http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif I can't even imagine a rabbit having a heart attack because it's cage got tipped over... I didn't realize cavies were so #### fragile...

1. I'm feeling pretty quiet and apathetic lately...

2. I've been trying to clean my room for a month and the stuff for Nervousness is multiplying at an alarming rate...

3. I am missing the Tori Amos concert tonight (first concert I've missed in 3 years) and I'm very upset about it. She's probably singing right now, in fact... http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

[GuineaBaby]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (SilverFlame @ Dec. 07 2002,8:27)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">My Mom's friend used to raise them and she said if you suspect they're getting sick, take them right away because if you wait they can die overnight.[/b][/quote]
I have raised rabbits for years... I was heavily into showing them when I lived in Cali. But before Serren, I only owned 2 guineas... Both were Americans, their names were Peppy La Pew (however you spell that) and Butterscotch. I'm sure you can figure out what colors they were... http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif I can't even imagine a rabbit having a heart attack because it's cage got tipped over... I didn't realize cavies were so #### fragile...[/b][/quote]
oooh! I had one named Butterscotch! Maleficent was preggie when we got her and we didn't know it. She had a girl (sushi) and a boy (Butterscotch). We had to give him away. It was too expensive to fix him. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

1. I am bound and determined to find a cheap set of Gryffindor gloves, hat, and scarf. They're so expensive on eBay because I don't think they're available in the US, only the UK. Grrr!

2. I don't think my computer project is going to be done before tuesday. oops. and my english isn't coming along at all.

3. I listen to N Sync songs and I repeat the parts where I can hear lance's voice because it's so rare I hear his sexy voice!

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">i'm sure teachers love it when the kids in the gifted and talented class talk about sex.[/b][/quote]

I was tested for the Gifted and Talented program in the fourth or fifth grade and totally FLUNKED! They asked me who invented the light bulb and I said "Thomas. . . Jefferson!"

Silverflame, what kind of rabbits did you show? I used to breed/show rex and minilops. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif I miss those old bunny-days.

1. The good news is my commencement ceremony was yesterday! Great fun. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif The bad news is I have to return to school next week for finals (and I still have two papers to write.) http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

2. I saw the movie Bowling for Columbine last night. I just love Michael Moore's work.

3. I I tried to get up at 4am to work on school stuff but couldn't drag myself out of bed till almost six.

[thunderstorm_19]

1.  my housemates are slobs.

2.  i don't like being here.

3.  it's 10:26 and everyone but me is still asleep.  

4.  i can't decide whether i want coffee or tea.  

5.  i've got work to do.

6.  i've got studying to do.

7.  i've got nervousness stuff to do.

8.  i've got laundry to do (last pr of clean undies! eek!... actually technically i do have more clean pairs, they're just a different kind that's not as comfy).

9. i feel like being bitchy and starting the washing machine.

[mejaka]

10:26 in the MORNING!? Holy cow, t-storm, START THE MACHINE! What, you're supposed to arrange your whole life around the sleeping schedules of indolents?

1. Brett's brother, with whom he stayed this weekend, intro'd him to his college roommates as "my older brother Brett." Upon rushing out of the apartment later, one roommate said, "See ya, Lance--Bye Lance's dad!" (The math works).

2. I love the little tiny creases that have appeared in Brett's cheeks near his eyes.

3. My sister called yesterday and, like a lot of people lately, thought my 13-year-old son was me. He even said, "You wanna talk to Mom?" and she thought, "Mom? Mom's at Janna's?"

[thunderstorm_19]

Mejaka, 10:26 is really nothing in this house! Some days, certain people are still in bed at 1/2pm... i think the latest someone got up here was 3:30... and no, said person was not ill at the time. granted, they'd been up late, but... oy! i went to bed at 1 am last night and have been up since 9. my alarm went off at 8, but i ignored it for an hour before getting out of bed.



1.  by 11 all but 2 people were up. (there are 7 of us here, 4 out of 5 residents, 3 guests)...

2.  i began hearing their voices about 11:30... they've yet to emerge from their room (12:36)...

3.  1st load of laundry is on.

4.  coffee makes me hyper.  I had coffee, because when i went upstairs to put the kettle on for tea, i remembered i finished up the milk yesterday.  

5.  i will go buy myself a small thing of milk today and have tea later.

6.  i can go home in 10 days, or if you count today, on the 11th day.

7.  spent like an hour on the phone to my family this morning.  felt good.  

8.  apparently our male cat (at home - gulliver) stole milk from the milk jug which was briefly left on the counter this morning... he's so bad.  

9.  i am somehow supposed to complete 5 assignments, and study for/write 2 exams, plus do everything else i want to do, and pack to go home, in the next 10 days.  

10.  my dad is spending the next month (dec 11 - jan 11) in the UK with various family.  I won't see him at all over christmas break.  http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

11.  i'm a dork.  i just edited this post to show numbers 8, 9, 10, because i had typed 8, 5, 6... oyy...

12.  i've got a lovely bunch of coconuts.  (and an obsession with The Lion King).

[Dalmaney]

thunderstorm_19, you have my sympathies. It's so hard to live in a dump! And it's so hard when it's your friends. I hope you figure something out so you can be sane and still be friends.

1. So far today I have also done laundry and gone grocery shopping and made myself a real meal with more than one thing to eat on my plate. It feels good.

2. I miss my car. I'm borrowing one to go to the Big Sister's Christmas party today, but I hate having to bug my friends. I hate asking for help, even when I need it. I need to get over that.

3. I have not even begun to prepare for Christmas. I won't begin until the 16th, because that's when my last exam is. I'm going a bit crazy with the studying and really can't even contemplate venturing into the mall for a while yet. I am, however, listening to carols and enjoying the decorations and trying to be ready in my heart, even if my life is decidedly unprepared.

[thunderstorm_19]

1.  1:55 - 2nd load of laundry is on.

2.  apparently, my uncle (well, one of them, i have more than one) was mugged the other day.  He's shaken, but physically okay.  

3.  I have a 6 page paper due by the end of tomorrow.  Better start it.

4. killed a beetle with the back of my hairbrush a few minutes ago (EWW!)... i don't mind beetles, when they're outside. I dont' like killing things either; but i can't have them in here.

[SilverFlame]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Bugitha @ Dec. 08 2002,06:21)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Silverflame, what kind of rabbits did you show? I used to breed/show rex and minilops. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif I miss those old bunny-days.[/b][/quote]
WOW! Someone who raised rabbits!! It's a large reason I want to move back to Cali, actually... I raised Netherland Dwarfs and Jersey Woolies. I wanted to get into Holland Lops, but I moved to Utah and there was NO market for show rabbits here... I knew a breeder in Cali who was trying to get The Velveteen Rabbit sanctioned (a mini-rex with lop ears), and I heard that ARBA just sanctioned it... That would be an awesome breed to raise. She worked SO hard to get that breed producing perfect mini-rexes with perfect lop ears... Anywho. My family raised mini-rexes (I was the weird one). We had several GC's, but again, no market for them in Utah... Our last (a chinchilla) died in '94. That's so cool to meet another old breeder here! I miss the show rabbit circuit a lot. People out here thinks it's nuts. "You paid HOW MUCH? For a RABBIT??" When I stopped breeding, the record was a chocolate mini-rex buck that had been sold for $900. I can only imagine what the record is now...

1. I have to go to "town" today to buy dog food and some plastic rubbermaid totes to get all of the junk for Nervous I have OFF my bedroom floor and into some sort of order...

2. I finished writing in the Queen of Hearts LMAO last night and it sounds positively depressing! It wasn't supposed to be depressing!! I'm sorry to anyone after me on the list who reads it and feels depressed, it wasn't my intention!!

3. We have a litter of English Springer Spaniel puppies right now that are ready to go to new homes, and they are out of black-tri show and field lines and have GORGEOUS markings and we haven't got a SINGLE call for them yet! Nobody can figure out why... (This is EXACTLY why you should have a list of takers before you decide to breed your dog just to make some money -- GRR to stupid people who breed for money!!!) My mother is selling them for $150 now (dirt cheap) to try to get rid of them. Thank God she's spaying the dam. I can't believe she did such a thing!! Anybody want one?! http://www.oddworldz.com/silverflame/serenapups.html

[Katiekat]

SilverFlame, the pups are so cute! Almost makes me want one. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

Eenie, the story about you demanding ice cream just cracks me up. I can totally picture it, and I know you were just so cute.

1. I have a nap story too. Once when i was about 3, I was supposed to be taking a nap, and I decided i didn't need one. I snuck out of my room and crept really quietly down the hallway and into the living room, where my mom was sitting on the couch watching TV. I managed to sit behind the couch for I-dont-know-how-long, probably an hour or so, without my mom knowing i was there. For some reason, I figured sitting behind the couch being absolutely quiet was better than playing in my room. I vividly remember staring at the fabric of the couch and thinking i was being very clever.

2. When I was about 5, I had a pair of red high top shoes that had Spuds Mackenzie on them. Yes, Spuds Mackenzie, the old Budweiser mascot. On children's shoes.

3. I am craving an icy-slushy-coffee drink right now. I may have to run to Starbucks (i do hate starbucks, but they're the only close coffee place to me).

[GuineaBaby]

1. I talked to Hilary last night and she wants to take Dawn and me back to college with her for a week in January. She's totally excited. ^_^

2.I have made almost no headway with my computer project. The teacher isn't going to be getting a very good final.

3. I'm full and now my belly aches.

[thunderstorm_19]

1. EEWW!  i just threw away about 8 rotting and moldy items from the fridge.  

2.  no friggin wonder there's never room in the fridge!  no one ever throws shit out, except me.

3.  i just mentioned to two my housemates that the kitchen floor needs washing.  one of those i mentioned it to is the one who belongs to that chore.  she's like "i'm too busy studying"... well yeah, maybe this week, but she hasn't washed that floor in a month at least!  that really pisses me off.  how would they like it if i said i was too busy to clean the bathroom, or take out the trash/recycling?  fudge.

4. that same person spent two or three hours out shopping today. so she has time to do that, but not to wash the floor, which takes what? 10 minutes? 15 minutes tops?

[AirHead]

This thread is fun to read, I'll join in!

1. My husband and I (before we were married) used to have 2 dogs, a cat, 2 ferrets, a pet rat and 2 fish tanks. Now...we don't have any animals and I can't stand when someone else's pet comes near me. (Everything changed when we had kids.)

2. I have a 5 yr old, a 3 yr old and I'm 8 months pregnant with our 3rd child.

3. My husband teases me because I can't sleep if the bottom of my blanket come untucked. (I used to watch horror movies when I was younger, maybe the whole feet monster thing. I never put much thought into it until reading some of your posts).

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Katiekat @ Dec. 08 2002,12:09)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Eenie, the story about you demanding ice cream just cracks me up.   I can totally picture it, and I know you were just so cute.  [/b][/quote]
i'm not sure that my mom thought it was so cute.http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif i even remember what underwear i was wearing.. they were white, with a lace trim. even at a young age, i wore sexy underwear.http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

1. my boyf is Christmas shopping.. so begins the next few weeks of me dying to know what he got me and him not telling me. it's all i can do to stop myself from looking in his closet to see what's in there. i'm like a little kid.http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

2. i'll be happy when i'm finished with Christmas presents. making things is nice, but it takes a lot of time!

3. shane and i did the advent readings in church today.. it was cute, except shane gave me the speaking part with about 25 lines, while he only had four.http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[Melbernai]

1. i'm really behind on my nervousness and feel like i'm turning into a bad egg. i have absolutely no ambition to get anything done. it's making me want to leave nervousness more and more, and it has nothing to do with the site or anything, i know it's a me thing. anyway, please, everyone know that i will get my things out, i promise. i just need to get over this.

2. i returned from a weekend trip to the area i went to college in a few hours ago. it was good to see my old friends.

3. i went on a date while i was up there with a friend of a friend. the guy had a rather large collection of comic books. in fact, he slept in the living room, and the only bedroom in his apartment was devoted to comic books and was filled with them.

[thunderstorm_19]

1. my "i hate this house because" list is 2x as long as my "i like this house because" list...

2. i want ice cream

3. i'm 1/2 thru cleaning up my room, so it's worse than it was when i started

[SilverFlame]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Katiekat @ Dec. 08 2002,12:09)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">SilverFlame, the pups are so cute!  Almost makes me want one.  http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif[/b][/quote]
*laughs* And you know, you could have one, but...

1. I jinx everything!! Really, seriously. If I say it's going to happen, it won't. If I say it won't, it will. It's happened my WHOLE life. An hour after I posted here earlier that I hadn't had a single call on the puppies (in 6 weeks!), I got 3 calls in a row! All the puppies, sold. In 2 hours. No joke. I don't know why I didn't think of telling someone earlier that they hadn't been sold yet... They would've had homes a lot sooner! *lol*

(Note: Because of this fact, a lot of the time I say I am going to the PO on a certain day and things will keep coming up and coming up and I won't be able to get there to get it mailed! This is why I say when it's been sent instead of saying it's going to be mailed on whatever day... I tried that with a couple of my LMAO's and remembered the hard way that I couldn't do it...)

2. Both of my dogs are Border Collies. I am not particularly fond of Border Collies (they're okay), and have never wanted a Border... But one was bought for me, and I kept the other by choice. Go fig!

3. I can usually fill out questionnaires about me for hours, but whenever I come to this thread, I cannot think of ANYTHING interesting to put about me!! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

[Dalmaney]

1. My real life superpower is translation. When my friends are talking to each other and have no idea what the other one's talking about, I leap in and explain things. I also translate vauge gestures into english. It's pretty fun.

2. I love to get compliments and don't give out nearly enough of them.

3. I have a telephone pal. It's like a pen-pal only by phone. We've never lived in the same place, never really been about DOING things, as such. She's my ex-best friend's cousin's best friend. We went to camp for a week one summer together in elementary school. We went to a few mutual birthday parties. We're now 3 and 4 years out of school and talk for an hour or so every few weeks. It's great. When I find someone of like mind to me, I hold on for all I've got. My thought pattern is a rare species.

[bluewindsong]

1> i despise work..
2. at work and not doing much work...
3. hungry...all the time at work...

[BreezyK]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (bluewindsong @ Dec. 09 2002,10:07)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1> i  despise work..
2. at work and not doing much work...
3. hungry...all the time at work...[/b][/quote]
1,2,3, same as above/
http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[lobster-girl]

hey silverflame...could say something really negative about me and bring me some good kharma? http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

littlebird's story about dressing up reminds me of me...

1. when my friend and i go to ikea, we sometimes play in the rooms. once we played "honey, i'm home" and she made me dinner in the kitchen and once we played office and she was the boss and needed the papers NOW! we have this grand scheme that someday we will go with a video camera and a group of firends and put on an improvisational play in one of the "homes"

2. senior year in high school, a friend and i created a pseudo-religion guided by the word of BUBBA...BUBBA wanted you to go thrift shopping. BUBBA wanted you to cut all your clothes and dye them black and BUBBA felt tights should be worn with everything and that Adam Ant sings to me! We wrote out the gospel of BUBBA on the inside cover of the most priceless of pulp romance novels called "I Love You, Ruby Compton" the story of a convict who falls in love with a nurse...and we highlighted the best lines in ALL the books (we had 19 copies!) we were going to pass them out on Melrose Blvd but my brother through the bag of books away claiming he thought they were trash. Grrr! i was so mad!

3. Also, in high school, we once made $3.37 singing Kum Byah on a street corner also, on Melrose...

[BreezyK]

'kay, 3 real facts

1. When I was in first grade (I think), halloween was on a weekend, so my mom dressed me up in my Holly Hobby costume for school the Friday before Halloween. I was the only kid who had on a costume. I remember being in the restroom crying, trying to rub the big rouge circles off my cheeks. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

2. My favorite stuffed animal in kindergarten was a little skunk. My teacher asked me if it was stinky and I cried.

3. Vegas in two days, baby! And paid for by the company, at that!

[thunderstorm_19]

1) like halloween and dressing up and stuff (it's fun!), so i always used to go to school in costume on halloween and theme days, but then as i was getting off the bus i'd be struck by panic that i'd gotten the day wrong and that i'd look like a complete moron.

2) i dont' think i ever did dress up on the wrong day, but i did forget to dress up on the right day a couple times.

3) i really should start that pesky paper...

[Dalmaney]

1. My favorite school theme day was Injury Day. We only had it one year, and the idea was to fake the most serious injury possible. I made some really lifelike inflamed gashes on my arms using lipliner, lipstick, and eyeshadow. I always knew makeup was good for something.

2. I'm using the internet to procrastinate studying. It's working really well. That could be bad.

3. I only have glasses, no contacts, and that's by choice. I kinda like my glasses, especially now that I have pretty new ones. Contacts just seem like such a bother and waste of cash. But I'm one of the few people I know that thinks that.

[thunderstorm_19]

1... dalmaney - me too... procrastinating that is...

2... i have both glasses and contacts, and both are a pain in cold weather. glasses fog up when you come in to the warm again, and contacts kinda dry out in the wind and cold and so either way you can't see...

3... must stop... must read...

[squirrel818]

1. I don't wear either contacts or glasses but I probably should.
2. In kindergarten the first boy I ever had a crush on dropped a giant plastic block on my head while we were building a spaceship.
3.For the last 2 days all I've wanted to eat is reeses peanut butter cups.

[thunderstorm_19]

1. OH EWW! having thrown away several mouldy items the other day from the fridge, i looked through it and identified as many more... which i'll toss when doing the trash on wednesday...
Also, the ends of one loaf of bread that was sooooooooo mouldy that the whole slice was GREEN.

2. Makes you freakin wonder... Gary, one of my housemates is allergic to mould, but he's as slobby as the rest of them...

3. At least my discovering that got Bec to take out the current overflowing trashbag... I do it on wednesdays. only. not between.

4. i do more to maintain this house's cleanliness than anyone else does. everyone else makes it messy again...

5. i want pasta with cream sauce for dinner, but i dont' know how to make a cream sauce, and we don't have milk, though i'm probably going to go out in a minute and buy myself some...

[saka]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. I was in a movie when I was in my 20's & in a television special a few years ago.

2. I once dated a famous country music star.

3. I'm the daughter of an infamous person.[/b][/quote]


I'm nosy.  What infamous person is your parent, Witchdust?

3 semi-interesting facts about me

1. I'm into natural living and healthy living but I smoke.

2. I hate religion but love God

3. I believe astrology has merit.  I'm a sagittarius. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[saka]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">SilverFlame, the pups are so cute!  Almost makes me want one.  http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif[/b][/quote]
*laughs* And you know, you could have one, but...

1. I jinx everything!! Really, seriously. If I say it's going to happen, it won't. If I say it won't, it will. It's happened my WHOLE life. An hour after I posted here earlier that I hadn't had a single call on the puppies (in 6 weeks!), I got 3 calls in a row! All the puppies, sold. In 2 hours. No joke. I don't know why I didn't think of telling someone earlier that they hadn't been sold yet... They would've had homes a lot sooner! *lol*

(Note: Because of this fact, a lot of the time I say I am going to the PO on a certain day and things will keep coming up and coming up and I won't be able to get there to get it mailed! This is why I say when it's been sent instead of saying it's going to be mailed on whatever day... I tried that with a couple of my LMAO's and remembered the hard way that I couldn't do it...)

2. Both of my dogs are Border Collies. I am not particularly fond of Border Collies (they're okay), and have never wanted a Border... But one was bought for me, and I kept the other by choice. Go fig!

3. I can usually fill out questionnaires about me for hours, but whenever I come to this thread, I cannot think of ANYTHING interesting to put about me!! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif[/b][/quote]
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. I jinx everything!! Really, seriously. If I say it's going to happen, it won't. If I say it won't, it will. It's happened my WHOLE life.[/b][/quote]

I thought it was just me who suffers this syndrome.  I feel better knowing I'm not the only one.  I've also decided today to only post updates after I've sent things.  I'm learning.

1. I have laryngitis.  I've always wanted it.  It doesn't hurt.

2. Saka is the name of my childhood dog.

3. I have 1 son and that's all the children I plan to have.  (Which probably means he won't be the only 1.) http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[saka]

I really botched that post.  Should have previewed.

1. I need to go clean.

2. I wear a size 10 and think my feet are pretty.

3. I never kill spiders, it's bad luck.

[littlebird]

I'm glad that you all liked my story about dressing up. I like to do things that will make good stories later. Here's a few:

1. A few weeks ago, I went to a laundrymat to do my massive piles of laundry. There were a small group of homeless guys getting warm and drinking in there. One of them, an old native american guy named Terry Bear approached me and asked me to wash his coat. I obliged and his little group came over and sat down with me while Terry Bear drew indians and eagles, first in my sketch book and then all the way up my arm. One of his friends told me stories about travelling around the country and the other wrote me a blank verse poem about angels. It was neat to talk to people that you wouldn't normally get a chance to converse with. Correction, it was neat until one guy started telling me he was seeing angels right then, big vicious angels, and Terry Bear started drawing naked women in very lude positions and then saying they were me. Then it was time to leave.

2. A few years ago, my best friend, her brother, my then boyfriend and his little sister drove in a rain that turned into a small flood, to break into a sanitarium that had been partially burnt down 15 years before. We had to walk nearly a mile in mud up to our ankles being very quiet since we were only a stone's throw from a prison. It was really scary inside. Probably not a bright thing to do.

3. Last year my roommate and I were living in the dorm and it was a night when there was a basketball game so everyone was really drunk and loud. So we made sock puppets and stood outside the elevators and pressed the buttons. When the elevator stopped, we would sing "buffalo gals" to full elevators. I don't know if you know how the song goes, but it ends "...and dance by the light of the moon!" For this line, we would moon the elevator.

Someone tell me something weird you have done!!

[guineababy]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Guest @ Dec. 09 2002,1:38)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. I was in a movie when I was in my 20's & in a television special a few years ago.

2. I once dated a famous country music star.

3. I'm the daughter of an infamous person.[/b][/quote]


I'm nosy.  What infamous person is your parent, Witchdust?

3 semi-interesting facts about me

1. I'm into natural living and healthy living but I smoke.

2. I hate religion but love God

3. I believe astrology has merit.  I'm a sagittarius. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif[/b][/quote]
I wanted to ask espeically about the country music one because I'm such a big fan, but I thought it best to bite my tongue. I'm sure she has her reasons for not revealing them.

[mejaka]

Littlebird, I have never done anything as weird as someof the things you have done! But I did mention earlier about paddling up to the private docks of wealthy persons in my red canoe with my son, and offering them a song. :^ ) I like to do slightly odd things that will make people smile when they remember, but nothing that would get me bounced or thrown in jail...heh.

1. I know how to make a cream sauce. (Listening, t-storm?) Two T butter, two T flour, blend over low heat until it is smooth and bubbly. Remove from heat and add 1 cup milk and as much salt and pepper as you like. Stir over med-low heat until it thickens. Add your favorite grated cheese if you want, and stir until the cheese melts and is smooth.

2. When I was in my early 20s I amazed the heck out of an older girl from NYC by making egg noodles before her very eyes. She had eaten take-out, deli, and restaurant food all her life, and thought chicken came from a grocery store. (She was also beautiful, dedicated, bright, and funny, and Brett and I fought over who got to intro her to our single brothers first /g/--but neither of us ever got the chance).

3. I've had four babies but never a baby shower.

[sistasmell]

Hmm. At least I'm not the only one. I've had two weddings and no bridal showers. I really like small kitchen appliances, too!

Okay- crazy stuff I've done:
1. I had some film major friends in college. We used to make guerilla movies in public places. It was a total blast to dress up in crazy outfits and have gunfights with pink plastic squirtguns (complete with cool holsters) in Stop n' Shop.
2. My neighbor and I made a giant slingshot out of surgical tubing and a leg from a pair of jeans. We would shoot twinkies down crowded city streets from our apartment building's rooftop. Very fun, also.
3. We never got into any trouble for any of it! I have done much naughtier stuff, but I'm not tellin'!

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Guest @ Dec. 09 2002,2:25)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3. Last year my roommate and I were living in the dorm and it was a night when there was a basketball game so everyone was really drunk and loud.[/b][/quote]
dorms are definitely the place to do weird things. i think by feb. you start to get insane cabin fever.http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif i once ran up and down four flights of stairs wearing a black thong on my head.

1. one of the guys who lived on the floor below me freshman year came home really drunk one night, and was literally giving away bottles of beer. we were in his room trying to keep him quiet (and steal his beer http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif), when the RA walked by and i said, shh, matt.. the RA's outside. to which he LOUDLY replied, oh! does he want a beer too??

2. probably the most poignant thing that i learned while away at college is that southern comfort is the most evil drink ever. ::laugh:: i'm sure my parents would love to hear that that's what i remember most.http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

3. i really hope that i'm able to transfer back. i miss those times a lot, and i hate that what was done to me interrupted my life so much.

[thunderstorm_19]

thanks mejaka... and since i went and bought myself a litre of milk today, i can try that sometime this week... sounds good...

1. have to write a 6 page paper about Clayoquot Sound, BC.

2. no matter how warm my room is, i still find myself shivering at this time of night (9:44 currently)...

3. i wanna go home

4. this house won't know what hit it next weekend. either friday or saturday I am going to single handedly overhaul just about everything. MASSIVE cleanout.

5. The fridge gets tackled wednesday (trash day thursday).

6. i'm not doing the overhaul sooner, because i want it to stay tidy until after christmas (at least). if i do it sooner, it'll be a disaster again by the time i leave (i'm last or second last outta here)...

[autumnsunflower]

Mmmm...eenie...Comfort & Coke! Not quite as good as Morgan's & Coke though

1. I'm generally not a "crazy things" kind of person (unless fire station rendevous count), since after thinking for 10 minutes, the only thing I can come up with is: quiting my job without having another one lined up (trust me, at 30 in this economy it is top shelf crazy!)

2. In college I was so convinced I had melencoly that I wrote a term paper on it - it got an A.

3. I do not watch television.

Autumn

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (autumnsunflower @ Dec. 09 2002,7:10)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Mmmm...eenie...Comfort & Coke!  Not quite as good as Morgan's & Coke though[/b][/quote]
::represses urge to gag:: it tastes like smarties (the american candy, not the canadian) if you mix it with mountain dew.. this, however, can bring disastrous results the next morning.

1. the last time i drank SoCo was the night before i met my boyfriend's mom for the first time. let's just say that it was a good thing that i didn't throw up on her shoes...

2. i have two finals tomorrow, and i just don't want to study anymore. i still haven't memorised the schema for two-way communication, but at this point.. i don't so much care.

3. i've been a soap-making fiend tonight. i can't wait until school is out and i can get started making christmas presents.

[Katiekat]

Eenie, I wish we had gone to the same school. Drinking evil drinks and running around with a thong on your head sounds very much like something I would do (or at the very least, enjoy watching!) http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif Yeah, seriously, if you ever find yourself moving to Kansas and needing a roommate, it's gotta be me.

(a girl can wish, can't she?)

1. I made my very first lino cut block print last night, and i think i'm addicted. I am very impressed at how easy it was to do, and how neat it turned out. Yay!

2. I had a really good time last night. I met the boy and some friends at Johnny's Tavern, played pool & foosball with the girls (my team kicked ass at foosball, btw) and beat Chris at darts. H-e-l-l yeah, I rock!

3. I was not hungry before reading mejaka's post about cream sauce. Now i want a big ol' bowl of pasta with that sauce! Darn it, mejaka! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

4. I have to go scour ebay for lino carving supplies now.

[lobster-girl]

i would love me some cream sauce and noodles right now! i have a sore thorat and hot stuff sounds good!

1. i have been a model for 3 different photographers. The last stint done many many years ago yet when i was in a hollywood shop a few months back, the guy at the counter asked me if i knew so and so and it turns out he recognized my id photo to be the same chica from the last stint...he was living with the photographer. when he told me he recognized me and told me who he was all i could think of was that iwasn't really wearing any clothes in hte photos... http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

2. you can now see me in my cheesy glory here (http://www.andreascher.com/photobooth/index7.html)...i am the first strip on the left. my last visit to a photobooth was last week and i borught in a leopard print back drop...i can't wait till my next visit!

3. i just made a mini robot pillow/rattle and i am quite pleased! it's very cute!

[littlebird]

katiekat, you are from kansas? I just realized that! Lenexa, huh? I grew up in Merriam. I know johnny's tavern too! Your city's swim team used to kick our butts on a regular basis! Hey, I'm the last one on your 100 things list, Maybe we could meet for lunch so that I could return it to you? I mean, if that's not too weird. Normally I'm really creeped out by meeting people you know online, but this seems really different and I would just LOVE to meet some nervousness people. I'm going to KU right now. yeehaw. I dunno. Tell me what you think.

1. A friend sent me this (http://www.btinternet.com/~david.st/b3ta/) and I can't stop watching it. Does anyone speak swedish? What does it mean?

2. This morning I wrote an art history paper in under 20 minutes. It was a two page comparison of two different statues of the virgin mary. and i think it's the best paper that i've turned into that class so far.

3. When I was in High School, i took an advanced biology class where we took care of animals. I was given a tiny black mouse that i was supposed to feed to a snake. I couldn't do it, so i put the mouse in a box in my locker and took it home for a pet. It was named Mingon. Like filet mingon.

[autumnsunflower]

littlebird, that is very addictive...it reminds me of the Monty Python where he takes her out into the universe.

1. I love shopping but I hate Christmas shopping (I like to randomly suprise people when I find a gift that is perfect, not feel obligated and rushed or buy something and wait until a certain date to give it)

2. I miss my fraternal grandmother something awful today.

3. I have the windows open and the furnace turned way down just so I can get some fresh air in the house - where are my gloves?

Autumn

[sistasmell]

Rum makes me so sick! It seems to make a lot of people sick. I'm wondering why anyone drinks it at all.
Littlebird- Hmm. Margaret Thatcher/kitten is so strange! I couldn't even begin to guess what they're driving at!
Ooh- I am so glad you took the little mousie home instead of feeding him to the snake. That said:

1. In the summer, I buy Shambles a bunch of teensy feeder fish and the pet store and put them in his kiddie pool. He lurks around it for awhile, then quickly dispatches them all. It's his most exciting activity. He dances for the bag of fish.
2. I wrote a letter to a friend today. It is the first one I've written in sooooo long. Eek. This computer took over a bit to much of my life. That and the telephone.
3. I'm still thinking about autumnsunflower's reference to fire station rendevous. So, is your S.O. a firefighter? Or are you trysting with all the firefighters? Cuz that's kind of a "doing crazy things" thing to do. Hehe.

[autumnsunflower]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (sistasmell @ Dec. 10 2002,2:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">..is your S.O. a firefighter?  Or are you trysting with all the firefighters?  Cuz that's kind of a "doing crazy things" thing to do.  Hehe.[/b][/quote]
He's an ISO (Insignificant Other) now. That was quite a few years ago. He worked at a rural fire station where he was often the only one on call. I was a lot younger and wilder then. You can only imagine what it is like when there's a fire, and sirens go off right in the middle...

1. I once let my yarn obsession go so out of control, that I decided going cold turkey was the best way to break it - I gave a friend four 50 gallon trash bags and a huge box filled with yarn and unfinished projects - oh to have all that back again http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

2. I remember being in awe of some people I babysat for back in middle school because they had a Beta machine - talk about cutting edge!

3. I finally had to shut the windows - my coat was starting to look too good.

Autumn

[BreezyK]

1.  I'm stressed out because money is mysteriously disappearing from my bank account. Each time I try to balance, I am more and more off, and not to my favour.  I am not miscalculating, because I log all transactions into my Palm, which calculates for me.  All transactions that show up on my statement are in my log, but each day the difference between what my balance according to the bank is, and what my balance according to my log is grows.  Now I'll have to request back statements, and I know they'll charge me for it.  Grrr.

2.  I'm stressed out because nothing I'm ordering over the internet is being processed, and no one is responding to my inquiries.  Double stresser because I need one of the orders for work... NOW.  The other I need for co-workers for XMas, so I need it soon.  Lush Canada is a beautiful thing, but their website is horrific.  No order confirmation of any sort (once you finish the last part of the order, you can't even go back to see how much you paid anymore!), not response to inquiries, though they claim they'll respond in 48 hours, and I realized after the fact that my credit card order wasn't even processed on a secure server, even though the site claims the order is secure.  I'm so mad at them!  On a lighter note, I just found out that a San Francisco Lush will be opening any day now. Hooray, because I was about to swear them off if I had to use that site again.

3.  I'm stressed because I've already had almost 40 titles approved for our May release (which is good so far), but I have yet to call more than two artists or reps to negotiate contracts, so who knows how many title will actually make it through (which is bad), and I HATE HATE HATE negotiating, so I put it off until the last possible minute, which is bad bad bad.

4.  Off to Vegas tomorrow. For "work." Yeah right. Who plans a company meeting in Vegas.  Isn't that how people get fired?  Should be a very interesting 3 days.

[queenfisher]

haven't really been keeping up with this thread. mostly because i'd get a blank when i have to think of what to contribute. don't really have 3 things as i type this :-P

BreezyK - have a good trip, glad you can get away from all the stress for a few days.
littlebird - too bad my swedish sucks, and spooky swedish at the start i found really hard to make out.

1 - last week i went to the hometown for eidul fitri. it wasn't too bad considering i got a little sick while there. good to see all the other cousins. you can see some pics here (http://www.queenfisher.net/daily/image/2002/12/06/). i then had to rush back here on sunday (earlier than intended) because i totally forgot about some work arrgghhh.

2 - i think i'm losing a friend. i'm noticing the changes already :-/

3 - i thought this would be a bad week but it's turned out to be pretty good so far - or maybe i'm just in denial of certain bad issues that's come up.

;-)

/shafina

[thunderstorm_19]

1; we're out of eggs...  

2; i want pancakes. english pancakes.  from scratch.  like mom does them.  

3; for those, you need eggs.

4; therefore i am going to bed hungry, stressed, desperate to go home, and crying.

oh well, at least i have wine.

[mejaka]

1. I have always hated country music, but I just heard some humor and picking from the Dixie Chicks good enough to convert a person. I have at least ten friends who will pounce on this and tease me without mercy. I will see most of them at a baby shower tomorrow.

2. I want to know what "English pancakes" are.

3. I haven't walked to the lake for over a week because of the ear pain radiating from my sore throat.

[thunderstorm_19]

1. "english pancakes" are much like what North Americans call "crepes"... not quite. but not knowing the exact recipe for crepes (north american or french), i can't describe the differences accurately.

2. english pancakes are usually served drizzled in sugar and fresh lemon juice, then rolled.

3. i've spent alot of time the past couple of days at bookcrossing working out book trades... i think i'm now expecting four packages from various BC members... what fun!

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Katiekat @ Dec. 10 2002,09:55)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Eenie, I wish we had gone to the same school.  Drinking evil drinks and running around with a thong on your head sounds very much like something I would do (or at the very least, enjoy watching!) http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif   Yeah, seriously, if you ever find yourself moving to Kansas and needing a roommate, it's gotta be me.  [/b][/quote]
same to you.. if you ever move to indiana, you're moving in with me!; )

1. shane and i ran into a bunch of his male students over the weekend.. apparently they came up to him yesterday and they were like, mr. c. your girlfriend is HOT! ::shakes butt:: i guess i've still got it.^_~

2. shane let me pick the football pool choices for him last week, even though i know nothing about football.. i chose by the mascots i liked (quite a complicated system--nothing offensive to native americans, and no teams from texas), and i won! i beat out about 25 people, most of them football nuts.http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

3. i took my last final this morning, and now i'm finished, which is good because i have so much to do!

[mejaka]

Ah...crepes, Swedish pancakes, German pancakes...I'm sure I've had something similar to English pancakes then!

1. I've been very self-centered lately and it's driving me up a wall.

2. I have the feeling I'm on the verge of an important spiritual realization and I'm avoiding it because I don't want the responsibility, which is just...stupid.

3. I emailed a friend today and she shot right back that I sounded like I needed to talk and she was going to call me Sunday. Wow. I must really sound a mess! /laughing/ It's so good to have a friend like that.

[bluewindsong]

1. I got a ring pop from mordecai! Rad havn'et had one of those in years
2. i can't help but pig out during the holidays....chilaquiles, mint lindt chocolate...
ahhhhhhh

3. worried about my lmaos

[thunderstorm_19]

1. tiffany, having yelled at me earlier over the phone (i was at laura's), has decided she's talking to me, nicely... good good. can't deal with a screaming match right now. no time.

2. whilst using vim tonight, cleaning bathroom, managed to vim my pants.

3. am going to see "the lion king" dec 23!!!!

4. wanna go home

5. this time next wednesday (ok technically it's 12:20 thursday morning), i will be fast asleep, in my own, cozy bed at home, in my lovely room with yellow and orange walls (i love those walls!)...

6. i'm on my second cup of green jasmine tea in the last hour.

7. i hate exams... and i'm very worried about friday morning's... i can't concentrate/sit still to study, and my notes and such are so crappy for this course... i'm in deep doodoo... i just wanna go home...

[wenchlette]

1. I bought this CD (Oasis - What's the Story, Morning Glory?) back in August for $0.50 at a garage sale, and tonight is the first time I've listened to it. Wonderwall, I LOVE YOU.

2. Two weeks til I get to see my boyfriend again. I cannot fREAKINg WAIT! :-D

3. Yesterday was the first time I'd received an LMAO. It got me all excited, and I'm already finished with it!

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">i took my last final this morning, and now i'm finished, which is good because i have so much to do![/b][/quote]

Congratulations on finishing your semester. Wish I could say the same but I have a final on monday. *sigh* Nevertheless, I'm feeling very grateful that the papers are at least out of the way. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

1. I slept only 2 hours last night. Took No-doze for the first time ever. Worked pretty well, actually. I'm feeling quite energized. But I don't like to mess with the body's systems too much so I don't think I'll be doing that again.

2. I'm such a terrible public speaker that no one had great expectations when I presented my thesis to the History faculty yesterday. The fact that every one thought I'd blow it took off so much pressure that I didn't feel nervous at all and actually gave a decent (dare I say good?) presentation. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

3. Even though I'm not watching T.V., its on and its an infomercial which bugs me.

[autumnsunflower]

1. I gave my first negative feedback yesterday, and it was a tough thing to do. I can see why a lot of people don't bother with it.

2. I'm going to make a pumpkin pie this afternoon. (You may think, 'Oh, holiday baking,' but no, someone in this household likes it a little too much, and it isn't me)

3. I'm going to organize my art/craft/mailing supplies this afternoon because the situation is way out of control - they are everywhere! I suppose I should say a prayer to St. Julie first though (Morgenstern that is) http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Autumn

[littlebird]

1. I'm in the same boat with Bugitha. I slept maybe about an hour and a half before I had to run to my class this morning. But that's about average for the past two weeks. I work thirty hours a week, plus 17 hours of school, and loads of art homework. I am sooooo ready for a break.

2. I just learned to knit about an hour ago. I'm several inches into a scarf. I think I'm going to like this.

3. I can NOT step on cracks on the sidewalk. It makes me late to all my classes and everyone teases me about it, but if i step on one I get really anxious and sick to my stomach. yikes. i think that i'm mildly obsessive compulsive.

[lobster-girl]

took a day off from nervousness! (not by choice....hee!)

1. i have the flu and am all whiney and achey and cranky

2. my work's internet provider went under and canceld our service without notice. THIS IS BAD! i have no internet but i am currently pirating my best pal's computer! wheee! (i'm listening to a mix a made for fraumelina...i like it!)

3. i've decide to chop off my hair this weekend. yikes! i've been growing it for awhile but do not like the way i look. i probably won't like the way i look after the haircut either, but i already KNOW that! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

[Katiekat]

1. I love the crunchy-munchy sound of walking on gravel.

2. When I was little, I had a weird fear. I wouldn't turn on the bathroom faucet to get a drink of water or brush my teeth if the toilet was still flushing. I thought there was a chance the pipes might get messed up and "yucky" water would come out of the faucet. I don't have the fear anymore (now that I know how plumbing works), but I still think of that every time I use the sink while the potty is flushing.

3. I am feeling over-swamped and under-appreciated at the moment. *sigh*

[thunderstorm_19]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Katiekat @ Dec. 12 2002,9:08)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3.  I am feeling over-swamped and under-appreciated at the moment.  *sigh*[/b][/quote]
oh i hear you katiekat!

1. i write an exam at 9 this morning.

2. it's quarter to 7 right now. just got up.

3. going to treat myself to a used-book-store-shopping-trip this afternoon.

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (thunderstorm_19 @ Dec. 13 2002,03:46)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3.  I am feeling over-swamped and under-appreciated at the moment.  *sigh*[/b][/quote]
oh i hear you katiekat![/b][/quote]
i appreciate both of you lovely ladies. ::hug::

1. somehow i gained 10 pounds in like two days. yes, that freaks me out. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

2. i'll be transferring back to the school that i went to before i was raped. i'll miss my boy, but i'm way excited. i'll be living in a townhouse with my good friend betsey and one of her friends.

3. so far i have two As and two not reported grades. i'm pretty sure i have an A in my one ed. class, not sure about the other.

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">. I love the crunchy-munchy sound of walking on gravel[/b][/quote]

I like the clickity clack of high heels on pavement.

1. In three days I will be officially out of school. Yee haw! Unfortunately, I'm also officially out of work, too and with no school, I have no excuse anymore. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

2. For a final exam presention in my historic preservation class, I made a board game which the whole class played (there's only six of us). It was a smashing success and it took the pressure off me to have to talk about my paper for 20 minutes.

3. I FINALLY got a Christmas tree today. It's a bit of a Charlie Brown tree. A couple of gaping holes, the needles falling off a bit, etc. But I got a big discount for taking the one with the "bad bottom" and just having them cut it off with a chain saw--so I have the best 5 feet of a seven foot tree.

I actually prefer trees with some gaps so the long dangley ornaments I have hang right. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[thunderstorm_19]

thanks for the hug eenie, even through a computer it felt nice to be cared about. I will be burning your CD tomorrow, BTW, things have been batty here.


1. I released a bookcrossing book to the bookstore today.

2. I also bought 5 more books, to add to the 9 I bought yesterday, all at the same place.

3. half the reason i go there is to see the cat.

4. i can finally go home wednesday.

5. my mom and sis put up the tree the other nite at home, and i wasn't there. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif i wish exams were done earlier. i tried to get dad to let us put it up when i was home the weekend of nov 30/dec 1/dec 2 but he said it was wayy to early.
Not at christmas, but pre-christmas, my dad behaves like sucha cranky grinchy person about some things, like the lights and tree, but that's not the type of person he really is.

6. i had a pint of guinness tonight. i looooooove guinness.

[Katiekat]

1. There is a little bit of heaven on earth, and it's in the food from The Thai Place (http://www.kcthaiplace.com). I brought some home, and when I took it out of the bag, the smell was so good i almost fell over. And now, boy is my tummy full!

2. I owe littlebird an email. I'm sorry i'm slow. Please don't think I'm ignoring you!!

3. I want to wrap some christmas presents so i can get them outta my room!

[Bugitha]

In light of the fact that I finally had time to decorate this weekend here are TREE random facts:

1. I never use tinsel on my tree, partly because it gets all over everything, partly because I think it obscures the ornaments too much and partly because I recycle my tree every year and they won't accept them unless you get every strand off.

2. I usually string a popcorn garland for my tree but this year I just didn't have time. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

3. It took 6 hours to decorate the tree. I'm exhausted. But happy.

[BreezyK]

My Vegas facts:

1. Satyed up until five in the morning on Friday eve/Saturday morning. Half of our group split at three, and I thought it was only midnight at that point. Vegas does strange things to your internal clock.

2. Won $10 playing video poker.

3. When you walk down the street, guys hand out little ads the size of trading cards, each advertising a different naked girl you can rent. Each one even has a name. I grabbed every one I could and was very proud of my girlie trading card collection. I must make a series of ATCs out of them!

[miss_jen]

Although I have been a nervous member for months and months, I do not regularly post here. I am not totally sure that I even know how a forum works - and I only found this thread just now!

Now for some random facts:

1. I went on a six week holiday right around the world 2 years ago - although I stayed with family in each of the places I stopped, I flew alone. . .and I loved every minute of it.

2. I used to think that if you swallowed chewing gum that it would stick to your heart and kill you. I only swallowed it once, and got so upset that my mum gave me a coke to drink. We were only allowed coke at birthday parties when we were growing up.

3. I love drinking water and 99% of the time I only drink bottled water. It isn't a social statement, I just don't like drinking water from the tap - I suppose it's a bit of an obsession. I always carry a bottle of evian around with me - and I buy it by the crate load when I visit France in my car, because it so much cheaper there. I can justify spending so much money on bottled water though, because I do not drink alcohol buy cigarettes. Water is my only vice!

This is fun!
jen x

[mejaka]

Wow, Jen, I envy your holiday! I have more desire than money where travel is concerned--esp with four kids <G>.

1. I realized last night during a very sweet evening of conversation with Brett that I have a secret regret that I never had to give up a childhood Christmas (presents etc) to help someone else. Brett's parents once paid someone else's house payment. Brett is the fourth of 12 children, his father was a schoolteacher, and the house payment they paid with their Christmas money was larger than their own.

2. I had so much fun singing extra numbers at a Christmas party Friday night (to cover for entertainment that had evaporated) that I'm thinking of giving a small, casual concert next year.

3. My entire performing music library fits in less than seven inches of bookshelf space. Gads. Every time I'm asked to sing I have to scramble for sheet music.

[littlebird]

hey, KatieKat, You should try Thai 2000, excellent phad thai.
Eenie- you are so brave. I am always amazed by people that are survivors, not victims. Have you ever read "lucky" by Alice Sebold?

My facts:
1. I don't like christmas generally. I get very sick of christmas music and my extended family makes me nervous. I do like to get and recieve presents though.

2. Yesterday was the two year anniversary of when I got to move back into my house after the fire. Which I accidentally started. Over $100,000 worth of damage. Oh yeah. That was fun. Not.

3. I really love to use all the 80's words: psych, stoked, not, like, totally, rad, gnarly. Great words, really.

[thunderstorm_19]

1. as of in the next few hours, i will be alone in the house until i can finally leave myself on wednesday.

2. i just banged my head really fucking hard on the freezer door.

3. i hate it here.

4. my fucking head hurts.

5. i'm sobbing.

6. i have too much packing to do to have time to study... stupid isn't it.

[Dalmaney]

1. Yesterday was my 21st birthday, which in some places is a very big deal. (An acquaintance from Australia had a 300 person party for hers.) This is not one of those place. But I had people over for a yummy supper, went to a Christmas party and saw all my friends, and then had people back to my place after the party. People never come to my place, so it was great. Plus my friend from Calgary was home, so I got to see him. Two people slept over in my living room because it was 4 am by the time we wound down, and they just didn't want to drive home. I haven't had a sleepover since I left home.

2. I have a icky head cold. I shouldn't complain, because I don't think I've had a virus in about 2 years, but I complain anyway. I'm so tired, my head feels huge, and I have one more final to write. If I don't get a whole lot of sleep tonight, I will fail it, because it's a problem-solving class that requires much thinking to get through.

3. Although I haven't been a sick-that's-caught-from-people in a very long time, in that interval I had really bad food poisoning once, and was bit by a cat. On the plus side, my cat bite scar is my favorite scar. I looks like someone stabbed me with a barbeque fork twice, and it makes a perfect little diamond shape.

4. I still haven't got most of my shopping done. I'll finish it after I go home to the farm. I want to go home where people give me sympathy when I'm sick.

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (littlebird @ Dec. 15 2002,11:12)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">[/b][/quote]
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Eenie- you are so brave. I am always amazed by people that are survivors, not victims. [/b][/quote]

thank you.. that means so, so much to me.
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Have you ever read "lucky" by Alice Sebold?[/b][/quote] yes, i have. talk about someone who's brave..

1. i need to get moving on Christmas things. michael's is all out of the supplies i need, because apparently everyone becomes a soapmaker before Christmas.http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

2. i've been addicted to freecell lately.

3. i wish my professors would report the rest of my grades. they aren't due until tuesday, but i wish they'd get them in early.

[Bugitha]

miss_Jen--I wish water were my only "vice." That's great.

Dalmaney--HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

eenie--doesn't waiting for grades make you nuts? Mine aren't due until the 20th so I have awhile to wait. Congratulations on doing so well so far. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

1. I have one final exam left: medieval art at noon tomorrow.

2. I stayed offline all night hoping someone I called would call me back. But no luck. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

3. In the continuing saga of the ex-friend: I got an e-mail saying she had been in and out of the hospital and was seeing a therapist and had things to explain to me. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif So I wrote back that she could call me anytime.

[kastel47]

I am just completly amazed that this is page #59!

[GuineaBaby]

1. For my computer project, the teacher told us we should probably say the things. I feel like I'm cheating but I can get away with it: I found a program on the net that transfers text to speech!

2. The next few days I am going to be so submursed in homework I won't have time to answer my emails.

3. I drank 6 sodas today and I know I shouldn't have

[nuKKe]

Hey- this is fun! Here's my first try
1. I hooked up with my husband by telling his brother/ my friend "I'm sick of being the only single person in the crew- I want to meet your brother". I never spoke to him before nor knew anything about him. That was 2 years ago.
2. Back in the fall of '96 I hitchhiked from Portland, OR to San Rafael, Ca. 3 hours with a weirdow that followed a carnival and the rest of the time with a deadhead on lsd.
3. Went to my first rock concert when I was 12.5 years old. I went there with my brother who is 3 years younger than me.

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (kastel47 @ Dec. 15 2002,10:37)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I am just completly amazed that this is page #59![/b][/quote]
hey cheater, where's your three facts?http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

bugitha--YES! i'm going insane. i keep checking the online grade report, but my professors still haven't reported. thank goodness for the online system, so i at least don't have to wait for them to come in the mail.

1. i'm almost finished with Christmas presents, thank goodness.

2. for some reason, Christmas makes me fall in love with my boyfriend all over again. i'm not sure why..

3. i cry when i see nativity scenes. i don't know why, but they just get me.

[Katiekat]

1. *blush* There is a dad that always brings his 2 little girls to the library, and I think he's really good looking. I think I have a little bit of a crush on him. *sigh*

2. I always crave peppermint ice cream around Christmas. I made a special trip to the store last night just to get some.

3. With everyone talking about finals and tests and papers, I remember why I like not being in school. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[GuineaBaby]

1. I'm trying to register for classes over phone for early registration. It either is busy or just rings and rings and rings. Right now, I've heard ringing for five minutes without anything happening. What is up???

2. I'm going to panic over my English essay tonight.

3. The door to door salesman is on tonight and it's been something we've wanted to see for a long time. Yay! we finally get to see it.

Bonus:

ELIJAH BABY'S ON JAY LENO! WHOO HOO!

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (GuineaBaby @ Dec. 16 2002,4:17)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. I'm trying to register for classes over phone for early registration. It either is busy or just rings and rings and rings. Right now, I've heard ringing for five minutes without anything happening. What is up???[/b][/quote]
that happened to me once, so i called the registrar's office and complained.. they put me right through to the phone registration system.

1. my grades have all been reported.. ::does the i-got-straight-As dance::

2. for those of you who know the stress that i went through this semester, that's actually a remarkable feat.

3. i'm thinking of voting third party in the next election. i'm just so disillusioned with things, and i don't think there's a Democrat strong enough to beat bush ::sigh::.

[littlebird]

1. this asswipe just came into the computer lab where i work and demanded that i give him paper. when i told him we don't sell it, he demanded it again, and i finally gave him a piece. then he threw a dollar bill in my face and said "merry christmas!" sometimes i have violent fantasies........

2. I think i have been officially burned on nervousness. i made an exchange that i spent a lot of time and money on that i don't think i will get anything returned for. It kind of makes me want to cry, because it was a pretty expensive exchange.

3. other than those two things. i am having a good day. i totally aced my art history test. i am now done with finals, only one design project to turn in and i'm going to start applying for new colleges. yay.

[queenfisher]

eenie - congratulations! ;-)

littlebird - good to read you're having a good day after all. want to do a little trade? what were you expecting to get for that other one? (pls email (shafina@queenfisher.net" target="_blank))

i actually thought i wrote something in this thread yesterday.

1 - all of last week, i was feeling dizzy all the time. not quite the full blown headaches i usually get but it was still annoying and i couldn't sit here too long without needing to lie down.

2 - on sunday i had some coffee by accident.

3 - a little while after the coffee, i realised my head cleared up. hmm.

;-)

/shafina



Last edited by queenfisher at Dec. 17 2002,01:42

[eeyoreva]

This thread is so cool, I just need to add to it's coolness and hope it will make me cool too *giggle*

1) I bought a new violin saturday. (I'm not that good a player, pretty BAD actually considering I've been playing for 13 years and have the level of someone who's played 5 years)

2) I am living miles and miles and a big Atlantic Ocean away from my family and I got a Christmas card from my sister today and now I miss her =(

3) I just had to cut a piece of my hair because I tied a knot somewhere and couldn't get it out http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

[mejaka]

eenie--congrats on the grades! :^ )

bugitha, I'm happy to hear you're letting her try, and I hope one day you both look back and say, wow...I'm so glad we got through that.

Guinea, I hope Elijah-baby got lots of air time, even though I don't really get it...<G>

Page 59...Wow...

Okay, my three.

1. I took my sister's recommendation on a Hoover SteamVac. Brett's currently cleaning the last of the carpets. They look great.

2. My sons have moved into their new rooms. My 13-YO (eldest) said, "Mom, I thought I was over being scared of the dark, but I guess it was just because I knew Braden was right across the room...That hole really helps a lot." The hole is a little window (sans glass) we framed out between their rooms.

3. I'm having some painful and unpleasant experiences right now. I'm fighting hard to keep from letting my response be defined by anger.

[thunderstorm_19]

1. i'm sick... i've got a doctor's note excusing me from an exam i'm supposed to start writing in 2 1/2 hours.

2. i finally go home tomorrow.

3. ugh... my sinuses are clogged... can't think...

[BreezyK]

1. I've been snooping around, and, eenie, I think you absolutely made the right decision... for so many reasons.

2. I received KatieKat's 'Hey Baby, What's your Symbol" LMAO last night from Paperdream. Yay! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

3. Half the day is through... a day that I really do need to get some work done... and all I've done is hang out here and shop for last-minute gifts on line. But, yah know what? I have to stop stressing about how much time I waste and how much procrastinating I do, becuase I've always worked this way, and I've always suceeded and gotten (ugh) the job done well, so oh well, procrastinate away!

[autumnsunflower]

queenfisher - caffiene helps headaches - it is one of the key componants of Excedrine

eenie - I usually vote Libertarian (although I'm a registered Republican) people tell me 'you're wasting your vote', but I feel better than forcing myself to choose between one of the two who are most likely to win, especially if they are both idiots http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

1. In the November sentator election, I wrote emails to the three key candidates - especially expressing my displeasure at the REP & DEM for running mud sling campaigns. The Libertarian was the only one that wrote back, and he wrote back personally!

2. We have decided to not move to New Mexico.

3. I got to feel our future puppy kick in her mommie's belly last week - it was the first time I'd ever felt such a thing - what a trip!

Autumn

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">. I'm having some painful and unpleasant experiences right now. I'm fighting hard to keep from letting my response be defined by anger.[/b][/quote]

Hang in there mejaka. I hope things get better for you soon.

1. I'm now playing eenie's game of compulsively checking my grades on-line. So far only one has been posted: an 'A' in historic preservation which I'm quite sure I did not deserve. Nothing like happiness mixed with a healthy dose of guilt.

2. I bought a CD for a far-way friend for Christmas, relieved to think it wouldn't cost much to mail. But by the time I added a candle and a batch of homemade toffee to the box, it cost $12 in postage!!!! Geez--the giant box of toys I sent to my neices and nephews only cost $8 to mail.

3. I'm so glad I spent a bunch of time and quarters in the laundry mat today washing and thourouly drying my bedding only to have them soaked by the very wet snow that started to fall the last ten minutes I was there. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif I know, I know there are worse things in life. I'm just aggravated.

[guineababy]

1. My what's your quirk lmao is on it's last person, but there is one more hole to fill before I get it. Will someone please sign up? I'm excited I'm finally going to get it, but I want it to be a complete sucess! http://nervousness.org/lmao/index.cgi?id=5020

2. I've taken two finals and I have two more to go--half way through! English today and Computers on Thursday....I have tons of work to do on my computer final. i have at least 18 hours of work a head of me on that one.

3. our final is on antigone...thank god it's not shakespeare otherwise i'd be totally lost!

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (BreezyK @ Dec. 17 2002,11:50)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1.  I've been snooping around, and, eenie, I think you absolutely made the right decision... for so many reasons.[/b][/quote]
thank you.. that really means a lot to me.

1. my breasts feel.. funny. ::poke::

2. i finished the rest of my Christmas shopping today, now i just need to finish making things. i got a lot of good deals, and spent way too much money on a sweater for shane, but i'm a sucker for dressing him in cute things.

3. i will most likely be meeting the lovely dawn king in 2003.: )

[littlebird]

I was reading through some of the old posts on this thread and I saw Mejaka's about when she miscarried and decided to show it to her kids. Mejaka- that is amazing. I don't really have words beyond that, but you are amazing for doing that. Wow.

1. I am meeting KatieKat for lunch on Monday!! I'm terribly excited to meet a nervous person! Yay!

2. If I ruled to world for one day, it would be instant death to anyone that said the word "skizzors" instead on scissors.

3. I'm very worried about my friend right now. Her brother is in BIG trouble(as in, will not be seeing the light of day for many years) with the law and she is a very busy girl that has a hard time releasing her emotions. I want to fix things for her, but there is no way. I am at a complete loss for what to do. That both scares and saddens me. **sigh**

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">If I ruled to world for one day, it would be instant death to anyone that said the word "skizzors" instead on scissors.

[/b][/quote]
lol. If my brother ruled the world, he would deliver the same fate to people who call sandwiches "samiches."

1. The fact that I actually finished school and graduated this semester has not quite sunk in yet. It's hard to believe I won't be going back next semester.

2. I saw Bowling For Columbine a couple of weeks ago. I highly recommend it.

3. I have an entire box of paperwork (bank statements, receipts etc) that I collected over the last 4 months without really looking at them. I'm dreading going through it.

[nuKKe]

[QUOTE]If I ruled to world for one day, it would be instant death to anyone that said the word "skizzors" instead on scissors.
1) I would've been condammned to death in that world
2) The Urban Hermitt is the best personal zine out there. I once lectured on Butler's "Gender Trouble" and did a close reading to this zine
3) I suffer more from the winter in Jerusalem than I ever did when I lived in Yorkshire.

[BreezyK]

1. Hehe, I'm one of those girlies who says samiches!  But I say it on purpose to be 'cute'.... is that better or worse.  My pet peeve word is "nuke-u-lar."  Oh, and people who call Target "Tar-jé"

2. Dennis' Christmas gift is back-ordered 4-6 weeks. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif  I've had the worst luck with on-line stores these past few months.

3. When I ordered Dennis' gift, I put in an alternate e-mail address I rarely use, in case I was spammed.  I forgot that I had set up an auto-responder on that e-mail address, so when I e-mailed to inquire about the order, they sent an automatic e-mail that my inquiry was received, then my e-mail sent them an automatic e-mail back, to which their auto-reply responded, and on and on.  When I got to work this morning to check my e-mail, I had 96 e-mails from them, and they were still coming.  I didn't figure out that it was my fault, so I called them to tell them the problem... and the lady said she kept getting the following message, "Thank you for confessing on-line, at Father Mercy's on-line confessional...." which was for a joke website I set up for an LMAO.  It was rather embarassing. She probably thought I was a nut or running some sort of scam.

[mejaka]

ROFL, BreezyK!!!

I hate nuke-yu-lar and jew-la-ry, but I call Target Tarje sometimes. My brother started it.

1. Things have lightened up considerably around here. We still haven't heard anything on the situation that had me so anxious, so really nothing has changed except that we both feel like we can take it on no matter how it pans out.

2. I still have imaginary conversations in the car with the principals in the situation, but I no longer yell. :^ )

3. I wish I had something gorgeous, a little dramatic, and Christmassy to wear to Church on Sunday. Brett won't be there, I have to stand up front and conduct the music, and the other people involved in this situation will be sitting in their usual row being their usual dramatic and musical selves. Plus, it's Christmas and I have to conduct the choir (including four of the principals, one of whom is the pianist) in two numbers. I don't know why but for some reason I want to be dressed to the nines in a style they admire. HOw stupid is that?

[GuineaBaby]

I say skizzers when I want to be cute...my grandmother says that too. I call Target Tarjet when I'm with certain family members because that's just what we do and we call good will g.willie. I've never heard of samiches before, though.

1. My grandmother may be dying...even the doctors think so but I've pretty much come to terms with it in the last year so I'm doing fine. My mother on the other hand...

2. The power went out this morning between 9:30 (when I set my alarm) and 12 (When I actually got up).

3. My mother got me VO5 Strawberries and cream shampoo because they were out of my regular raspberry and it's absolutely delish!

[BreezyK]

1. I should have clarified that I don't like it when people call Target 'tar-jé,' not that I don't like the people who call it that!!

2. By the way, I love love love Target! Philippe Starck, Michael Graves, I even think I recall seeing some Karim Rashid scattered throughout.  How do they get those people, and at those prices???

3. All I can think about is getting off of work so I can go home and take my Lush Butterball bath that I didn't get to take last night.  Ahhhhhh! (I still have 5 hours to go, BTW).

[Bugitha]

Three chocolate related random facts (because I'm in the mood for theme posting I guess):

1. Tonight I am making fudge using raspberry flavored chocolate chips for a change. Hope it turns out.

2. These days I'm not nearly the chocolaholic I used to be (she says with a sigh of relief).

3. Of all the fancy schmancy cocoas I have tried, I really like plain ol' Carnation hot chocoalte the best. Although cocoa made with Ghiradelli sweet ground chocolate is pretty good too.

[thunderstorm_19]

1. I LOOOOOOOOVE chocolate

2. I love mail, and had lots of it waiting for me upon arriving home last night, mostly christmas cards, and one finished LMAO of mine, and a couple other things

3. queensara is tremendously sweet. among my mail was a lil' package from her containing a note and some bags of tea. She sent them for no other reason than to cheer me up since i've been so blah so much of the time lately. i almost started to cry i felt so special. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

4. some of the books i've exchanged for on bookcrossing arrived as well - one package containing two so far: she's come undone by wally lamb, and the street lawyer by john grisham.

5. it's so good to be home

6. mom and i stopped for Thai food when we were almost home last night. neither of us finished our yummy meals (and we both had the same thing), so we brought it home and i get to have the leftovers for lunch. we had jasmine tea with it, and i just might have some with it today too, if we have any.

7. i think i'll try some of the tea queensara sent me in a few minutes (currently 10 a.m.)... it smells really good.

[GuineaBaby]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (thunderstorm_19 @ Dec. 19 2002,07:03)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">4.  some of the books i've exchanged for on bookcrossing arrived as well - one package containing two so far:  she's come undone by wally lamb, and the street lawyer by john grisham.  [/b][/quote]
I don't get why people would want to read She's come undone. I got it at my local goodwill for a quarter a couple years ago and it wasn't even worth it. I thought the book was absolutely horrendous.

1. I have not gotten sleep since I woke up yesterday at 12pm and it is now 7 am because of my stupid computer project.

2. i'm getting ready to tell the teacher to screw herself.

3. i'm having problems with simple things that i have been tryhing to figure out for the last two hours.

[thunderstorm_19]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (GuineaBaby @ Dec. 19 2002,07:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I don't get why people would want to read She's come undone. I got it at my local goodwill for a quarter a couple years ago and it wasn't even worth it. I thought the book was absolutely horrendous.[/b][/quote]
i've heard a few good things about it, so I'm curious. I'll let you know later if I concur with your opinion of it.
IT looks interesting, but that is entirely judging the book by it's cover...

1. tea time

2. time to see if the mail's here yet

3. more food time, too

[GuineaBaby]

1. I'm done! I'm done! (Well, as close as I'm ever gonna get today...I just have one minor bug that I'm waiting for hte teacher to email me about, but I don't think it will be fixed. Who frickin cares!)

2. The room is getting wobbly...it's doing that closer farther closer thing hehe.

3. I am going to *try* to stay up for moral support for my sister while she works on hers. I have class at 3. ugh. I wish I coudl just drop this off and come back home, but I think the teacher is goign to make us present it to the class.

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote (GuineaBaby @ Dec. 19 2002,07:11)
I don't get why people would want to read She's come undone. I got it at my local goodwill for a quarter a couple years ago and it wasn't even worth it. I thought the book was absolutely horrendous.

i've heard a few good things about it, so I'm curious. I'll let you know later if I concur with your opinion of it.
IT looks interesting, but that is entirely judging the book by it's cover...

[/b][/quote]

I didn't think it was absolutely horrendous! But I didn't love it either. I thought it was a decent read--I zoomed through it in about three days last summer. I think I gave it a '7' in my bookcrossing review of it.

1. Even with the heater blasting, a sweater, scarf and slippers, I CAN NOT get warm today. Brrr. I hope I'm not coming down with something.

2. I've been working on my resume all day. Possibly a diversion to keep from actually looking for a job.

3. I bought a 2003 journal/calandar at the bookstore today. It's kind of New Age-y--maybe a bit too much, and is called "The Sacred Journey a Daily Journey For Your Soul." It's just the sort of thing I buy with every good intention of making the most of it, and then lose interest. But we'll see.

[thunderstorm_19]

1. honey lemon with Wisers whiskey.. yummy

2. my sis is watching the last few minutes of survivor... i don't like either of the choices much...

3. stumbled into a hint as to what one of my christmas pressies is... i'm intrigued

[Shekinah]

random flax...

1. it's snowing

2. i have a cosmotology practice head covered with beeswax and candle drippings that really needs some help, but is too heavy to mail... (any sacramento folks want to hand off, alter, trade, share? i can email pics to the bored at heart)

3. i burned old artwork last weekend that i hated, and it felt GOOOOD!

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (GuineaBaby @ Dec. 19 2002,07:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">4.  some of the books i've exchanged for on bookcrossing arrived as well - one package containing two so far:  she's come undone by wally lamb, and the street lawyer by john grisham.  [/b][/quote]
I don't get why people would want to read She's come undone. I got it at my local goodwill for a quarter a couple years ago and it wasn't even worth it. I thought the book was absolutely horrendous.[/b][/quote]
i thought it was a beautiful book... not uplifting, but about a raw side of life that no one likes. however, i know this much is true (also by wally lamb) is FAR better.

1. i'm worried. i hate worrying, but i can't help it. aargh.

2. i found an old picture of my al gore shrine, and i remembered a slogan that we had made up for the 2000 election (okay, i "remembered" because it was part of the shrine), so now i'm going to start using it again.. even if he isn't running in '04.http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

3. i love plato's closet. i could spend all of my money on clothes.

[g3d]

Wow, I've missed a bunch and I'm not quite caught up yet, but it's late and I want to go ahead and post before I head to Las Vegas for the holidays.

1. I quit my job just before Thanksgiving (hence my absence from the forums).
2. My wedding songs - me and DH - "September" by Earth, Wind and Fire, me and Daddy - "Stardust" the Willie Nelson version.
3. I am taking a cab home.

Happy holidays!

[littlebird]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (GuineaBaby @ Dec. 19 2002,07:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">4.  some of the books i've exchanged for on bookcrossing arrived as well - one package containing two so far:  she's come undone by wally lamb, and the street lawyer by john grisham.  [/b][/quote]
I don't get why people would want to read She's come undone. I got it at my local goodwill for a quarter a couple years ago and it wasn't even worth it. I thought the book was absolutely horrendous.[/b][/quote]
I read it, I'm still not sure if i liked it or not, but I felt dirty reading it. Always a novelty.

1. I am tipsy on the verge of drunk right now. It's 3 am and I have to work at 8.

2. Once, when at a party, I did something very bad to the shampoo of a girl I hated. I still don't feel bad.

3. My cat is named after an obscure MST3K reference. That makes me a dork and I like it.

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (littlebird @ Dec. 20 2002,01:23)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I read it, I'm still not sure if i liked it or not, but I felt dirty reading it. Always a novelty.[/b][/quote]
i just felt thankful that i wasn't the main character...

1. i'm just posting, because i want to be reply #1200.http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

2. i have to go out to lunch with a friend today, and it's horrible, because i'd much rather stay in my pajamas.

3. i made the mail lady a bunch of soap and bath salts, and now i'm stalking her, because i keep missing her visits.

[mejaka]

1.  I love eenie's avatar.

2.  I'm going on a cruise to see eagles feeding on salmon with my son today. ("I don't care if you come. --long pause, then very fast--  but I SUCK at taking pictures and I want some to send to Lincoln!") :^ )

3.  Last night at a church Christmas party they did that game where you can steal someone else's exchange present, and Suzy Toronto had wrapped up one of her pictures, and my friend Corinne got it, and I want to break into her house and steal it but now the game is over and I can't!! (See Suzy's pics here: Wild Wacky Women (http://www.wildwackywomen.com).)

[thunderstorm_19]

maybe tuck the mail lady's package in the mailbox eenie? she'd probably find it... ??

1. just woke up from a 10 minute doze in front of the TV

2. need some lunch

3. gonna go shopping with my sis this afternoon since she gets out of school early and has time

[BreezyK]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (mejaka @ Dec. 20 2002,08:26)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3.  Last night at a church Christmas party they did that game where you can steal someone else's exchange present, and Suzy Toronto had wrapped up one of her pictures, and my friend Corinne got it, and I want to break into her house and steal it but now the game is over and I can't!! (See Suzy's pics here: Wild Wacky Women (http://www.wildwackywomen.com).)[/b][/quote]
Oh mejaka! I have too much to say about that last fact. 1st... we're doing that same gift exchange at work today... we call it a White Elephant exchange, but we do silly, useless gifts, not nice ones... so I'm not sure if the "White Elephant" name relates to the uselessness of the gifts, or the style of the exchange... 2nd... You know Suzy Toronto?? That's crazy! I just got a general submission from her for her art here at work! It's really great stuff. Small world.

Shekina:
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">2. i have a cosmotology practice head covered with beeswax and candle drippings that really needs some help, but is too heavy to mail... (any sacramento folks want to hand off, alter, trade, share? i can email pics to the bored at heart)[/b][/quote]
Try getting in touch with boojigirl. She's a real-life friend o' mine who just moved to Sac. I bet she'd love to put her touch on your head! She introduced another friend to the site, who then introduced it to me.

1. Can't bring myself to read She's Come Undone 'cause it's an Oprah book, and I have issues with Oprah. I mean, congrats to her for building herself up to what she is, and she does good things for people, but does she have to be so dern self-congratulatory about it? It bugs the h e l l out of me. And all the women on her show that act like friggin 12-year-old when Brad Pitt or George Clooney make an appearance. Makes me embarrased to be female. Okay I'll stop now.

2. I actually got some work done yesterday. I hope I don't use that as an excuse to not get any work done today.

3. I've seen rainbows driving to work the past two mornings. This morning, it was as I was crossing the Richmond Bridge - the Rainbow was betweem me and San Quentin (a maximum security prison on a gorgeous peice of land with an S.F. Bay view), and I thought, "how nice for the inmates to get to see a rainbow." ... which brought up two questions. 1)Would the inmates admit if they liked to see the rainbow? 2) Would they even see the rainbow, considering they were on the other side of it? I kindof doubt it would be there.

Yesterday's rainbow: I got so close to it that it turned into a complete arch just larger and just in front of my car, like it was surrounding it... and it staid just ahead of me (what seemed like 2 feet) for several miles until it disappeared.

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">. Can't bring myself to read She's Come Undone 'cause it's an Oprah book, and I have issues with Oprah[/b][/quote]

I'm not a huge Oprah fan either. Its been years and years since I've seen her show, but why avoid a book just because its an Oprah pick? I try to leave Op out of it. It matters not if its an Oprah book or not. I have a friend who refuses to read Oprah books. I just don't get it. What am I missing here?

1. It seems like I wrote the word "Oprah" an excessive number of times in the previous paragraph.

2. Still checking the on-line grade reports excessively. Only two of my 5 grades have been posted yet. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif Argh.

3. It's supposed to snow again today. Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

[BreezyK]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Bugitha @ Dec. 20 2002,10:28)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I'm not a huge Oprah fan either. Its been years and years since I've seen her show, but why avoid a book just because its an Oprah pick? I try to leave Op out of it. It matters not if its an Oprah book or not. I have a friend who refuses to read Oprah books. I just don't get it. What am I missing here?[/b][/quote]
Yese, Bugitha, you're completely right! It doesn't make any sense, and it's silly! But it just taints it for me... I can't explain it! And it's not like I would refuse to read one of them if I knew I'd really like it, but for some reason it just makes me want to avoid it. I've such an enormous list of books to read already that I've never gotten around to: I guess the silliest thing can make one of them drop to the bottom. But yeah, you're completely right. It's a very unreasonable aversion, but mine nonetheless!

1. My favorite author is Tom Robbins (not to be confused with Tim Robbins, and definitely not with Harold Robbins!). Also David Mamet and Tom Stoppard if I include playwrites.

2. I figured out that the reason my checkbook wasn't balancing was that I was entering a bunch of random items as desposits instead of withdrawals. I wish it had been the other way around-- I'd have had a very happy surprise.

3. My White Elephant gift is a Club Med Dance video. "Learn the Macarena" (sp?). Ahhhhh!

[sistasmell]

I have read a bunch of Oprah books, just because they seem to be passed around a lot, but when I read one in public, I cover up the cover, so no one can see! I can't stand that someone would think I was reading something because a tv personality told me to. The books have been pretty darn good, too, on the whole. I loved that one about the dwarf in Nazi Germany.
1. I have been working like a dog this week. My back is killing me and I am going to be a lazy piggy all night tonight.
2. I am having major friend trouble and don't know what to do about it. She has become very needy and selfish and I find myself not caring at all. I don't know what to do about it. The more I pull back, the more she whines. Ugh.
3. My basement is flooding. Yikes!

[mejaka]

BreezyK, yes, I was lucky enough to move to N. Id. a year before the Torontos moved away. Well, actually, they're moving on the 3rd of January. Al (Suzy's husband) was Bishop where we go to church. He always says in amazement how much I remind him of one of his daughters. Last year, before a church event of some kind, when I was still new to the area, I was sitting in Suzy's car because we were both early--and she referred to herself and me as "people like us" in a positive way--I was flattered to my toenails that she saw similarities!

1. I happen to know that White Elephant refers to the useless gifts.

2. On the eagle tour, some people counted the number of bald eagles they saw. Most saw between 60 and 80. And me? I FORGOT TO COUNT!!!

3. I'm going to address my Christmas-turned-New-Years mailings today. TODAY. I am. Really. These are NOT going to become Independence Day mailings.

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I've such an enormous list of books to read already that I've never gotten around to: I guess the silliest thing can make one of them drop to the bottom. [/b][/quote]

BreezyK--I totally understand needing a screening system. My "to read list" is a mile long too. Whatever works for you. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

1. Even though my reading list is a mile long, I can not help but choose very random books from the library--ones that I never intended on getting but for some reason capture my attention. Falconry? Homeschooling? Biographies of people I never heard of? Yes! It's no wonder I never get to my list. I discovered Kathleen Norris this way--I love her books.

2. I hate it when people lend me books without my asking. I appreciate that they thought of me and think I would like to read a book they have read, but I hate feeling obligated to read something that I wouldn't have chosen myself. I'll gladly take suggestions though! And bookclubs and reading circles are another story--I love them. And if someone gives me a book as a gift, that's great. Books are one of my favorite things to get! Its when they lend me something I didn't ask for, and then I have the pressure of reading and returning it that bothers me.

3. The best thing I have read in the last year is *Love in the Time of Cholera*

[Willow_starr]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3. The best thing I have read in the last year is *Love in the Time of Cholera* [/b][/quote]
I was at a concert and one of the band members was introducing a song and said it was inspired by a book called "Love in the Time of Cholera". I thought he was joking and laughed. I was the only one. It was small venue.

1. I'm a dork.

2. It is Solstice today and since I'm spending Christmas with my family, my in-laws are giving us our presents today. Hooray!

3. I working on knitting a scarf but don't think I have enough yarn. blah. maybe I'll make it a patch work scarf and just add chunks of random colours. I'll let you know how it goes.

[BreezyK]

1. I'm on a cloud right now.

2. I was watching a VH1 special on 1988, and it really reminded me of a friend from high school I hadn't talked to (except via e-mail) in about 7 years. I knew where she recently moved so I got her # from 411 and called (a very bold move for me if you knew me at all).

3. She wasn't home, but her roomie was another friend of mine from high school who I hadn't been in contact at all with since Freshman year of college. We had the most aswome talk, and it wasn't awkward at all. I will probably meet up with them XMas eve in our hometown and hit the bars.

4. The bad part of that plan is that I'd have to ditch my S.O. and leave him w/ my parents, because he's a fairly new recovering alchoholic, and doesn't want to be around a group that's basically just drinking. Guilt's setting in already, and I haven't even mentioned the prospect to hime yet... but I must go! I adore these people. High school was the best four years of my life. I had the most awsome, intelligent, funny, rediculously creative and talented group of friends... I'm still waiting to meet people like them in my grown-up years. At any rate, I must go re-connect with these lovely people. But is it wrong to leave SO behind w/ my fam? He does get along with them... I'm just thinking out loud... don't think you have to respond. Did I mention I've been drinking tonight? Geez, I type just as much as I talk when I drink. I'll stop now. Sorry. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[mejaka]

Isn't there anyplace else you can go with them--maybe a more grown-up thing than hitting the bars /G/? Someplace your SO could also join you? Out to dinner someplace with more food and less drink? Or breakfast? Back home for more talking and catching up and laughing?

I don't do bars, so this is the kind of thing I'd do with old friends of mine. I don't know if it helps you, though... {:^ (

[mejaka]

Uf--forgot three facts!

Do I do six now?

1. I've decided to shop for a new dress today, something to help me get through tomorrow.

2. I feel bad that I'm flying the U. S. Flag in the dark, but our flag bracket is in the weirdest place and since it cooled off so suddenly it's dangerous to get up there and take it down.

3. I didn't send out my holiday cards like I said I would.

4. I've lost a library book and they want $22 for it.

5. It wasn't that good of a book.

6. I have a jumpy stomach--choir practice at 10:30, why am I SO nervous to see the people who are on the other side of this bizarre conflict?

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Isn't there anyplace else you can go with them--maybe a more grown-up thing than hitting the bars /G/? Someplace your SO could also join you? [/b][/quote]

I agree. I'm sure if you explained the situation, your friends would understand. Even if your s.o. does get along with your family, it would suck to be left behind. But then. . . I'm the needy/clingy type which probably explains why I'm single. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

1. The fact that I left the door open for the ex-friend to come back into my life has created chaos to a degree which I could not have imagined. mejaka, you are right, this really is the defining test of our friendship. It is also turning out to be a giant test of my personal character.

2. Four of my five grades have now been posted. So far all 'A's despite doing the worst work of my college career. Yipee.

3. I'm making yet another batch of toffee to give away today. This time I'm trying almonds instead of pecans.

3.

[littlebird]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Bugitha @ Dec. 20 2002,8:21)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3. The best thing I have read in the last year is *Love in the Time of Cholera*[/b][/quote]
Ahh! I just read this. I loved it soooo much. So difficult to read, but it affirmed my faith in love. Have you read anything else of Garcia Marquez's?

1. I saw LOTR's last night with two attractive men. It was good, but a little long.

2. My room is an actual disaster area. I can't actually walk through it and it's spreading down the hallway.

3. When I was in second grade, I thought that I was Abe Lincoln's reincarnation. My mom still thinks that's hilarious.

[thunderstorm_19]

1. had salmon salad sandwich and glass of honey brown lager for lunch, followed by two chocolates.

2. found some more books kicking around i could (And will) register at bookcrossing.

3. i wanna go shopping - specially to Michael's craft store, even though i don't have a specific what-i-want plan in mind.

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Ahh! I just read this. I loved it soooo much. So difficult to read, but it affirmed my faith in love. Have you read anything else of Garcia Marquez's?

[/b][/quote]

It took me three tries before I finally could get into the book--but then it just blew me away! I have not read anything else of his yet. *One Hundred Years of Solitude* is next on my list. I'll try to squeeze it in between the books for my nervousness bookcrossing circles. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif Have you read any of his other work? Suggestions?

Now for three admittedly mediocre facts:

1. I can't decide whether I want to:
a) Take a nap
b) take the presents for my brother's family over to his house.
c) stay home and watch Christmas movies
d) read

2. We tried a new Italian place for lunch today--the food was good but the service was oh so slow!

3. While we were leaving the resteraunt, two perfect strangers who had overheard our conversation stopped to congratualte me on finishing my degree.

[eenie]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Bugitha @ Dec. 21 2002,2:50)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">It took me three tries before I finally could get into the book--but then it just blew me away! I have not read anything else of his yet. *One Hundred Years of Solitude* is next on my list. I'll try to squeeze it in between the books for my nervousness bookcrossing circles. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif Have you read any of his other work? Suggestions?[/b][/quote]
word of advice, do NOT try to squeeze in one hundred years of solitude. it's an amazing book, but definitely one that needs your complete and full attention. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

1. my boyfriend and i made gingerbread houses today. mine is horrible gaudy.

2. i've been addicted to free cell lately, but i cheat and reset my statistics to make it look like i win all the time.

3. the news depresses me. how can people kill their own children?http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

[SilverFlame]

About all the Oprah talk... I love Oprah!! But I too am embarrassed at buying a book that says "OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB!" on the front. If I can find the original book WITHOUT this stupid logo on it, that is the one I will buy. *lol* I guess I'm just reluctant to admit to the world that I'm a stupid *girl* at heart. *hehe* (Ew, I like Oprah, I'm such a girl!!) http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif But I also really hate when they alter book covers. Putting Oprah's logo on a book is just as bad as putting the characters from the new movie on the book. It is irritating!!

1. I read She's Come Undone years and years ago, before Oprah even HAD a book club, and I didn't think it was all that great... The main character was an immature, clueless girl, and she did some really dumb things. I was also not impressed with the somewhat-lesbian parts (they were just dull and lacking in depth), and I was really pissed that the dumb main character did that to that chick's fish (I won't give away details since some of you might read it). All in all... Yeah, it was okay. But I wouldn't buy it. If you're into books like that but would like a little more depth, try something like Pure, by Rebbecca Ray. I randomly buy books at the book store that look semi-interesting, and I was much more impressed by this book than by the Wally Lamb book.

2. I am on my way to the "city" to buy doggie food and carabiners. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

3. I sent my friend who just moved to Colorado and is very lonely and sad a package for Xmas. I sent her, her hubbie, her doggie, and her kitty all a present so that they would arrive on Xmas Eve. It is my second good deed of the month. YAY! I feel good about myself now. I can't wait until she gets it...

4. I have no life. Obviously. Or I wouldn't get excited about dumb little things. *lol*

[miss_jen]

1. I have been ill on and off since my 30th birthday in September.  I put my back out badly, had tonsillitis, had complications from tonsillitis which seemed to clear after a heavy course of antibiotics, then I had a flu, followed by further complications from tonsillitis and ended up with a stay in hospital. Then last week, just when I thought I had done with being sick, I caught a 24 hour stomach bug!

2. All of the above caused a pretty big nervous mountain to form in my house.

3. As of last night, I have caught up with EVERYTHING! I mailed £20 / $27 worth of nervous mail on Friday, and I have another 7 things ready to mail out tomorrow! I am very happy now - I never thought I'd get to the bottom of the LMAO pile!

JEN x

[mejaka]

1. I'm feeling a little repentant now for encouraging you, Bugitha...I hope the friendship thing really does work out. Tests of character are good things, though--One ought to know what one is made of.

2. On those lines: Choir practice went well yesterday, both on a musical level and on a personal level. I was horribly anxious but miraculously didn't entertain any evil thoughts about any member of the family with whom we are having difficulties. :^ ) The teenage daughter, who is our choir pianist, quickly volunteered to offer the opening prayer, a very well-considered prayer under the circumstances, too; and the son who is at the center of their side of things volunteered to offer the closing prayer. Maybe things will just smooth over without any further ugliness.

3. A caroling party that became homeless when the hostess had to make an unexpected trip found a last-minute home at my house, and was a wonderful time!

[thunderstorm_19]

1.  i've had a bottle of beer and a glass of red wine

2. i'm going out for a bit with a friend (She's driving, i dont' drive)

3.  our male cat is very very bad...  last night he broke a mug by knocking it off the counter... he had hoped it had milk in it.  (well, it did, but it also had camp coffee and sugar in it too)...

4. my mother went to the visitation for a colleague of her's' wife today... the funeral is tomorrow. that's a sad story.

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I'm feeling a little repentant now for encouraging you, Bugitha...I hope the friendship thing really does work out. Tests of character are good things, though--One ought to know what one is made of.

[/b][/quote]
No, no, no mejaka--please don't feel bad in the least. The chaos originated from circumstances beyond the control of both me and my friend--and it affects her almost exclusively. It is only because I opened the door that I am now exposed to it--and that's where the test of character comes in. Trying hard not to walk away because of past bad blood (but really because it would be easier for me). I agree that such tests of character are good in the long run. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif Am I making sense?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I was really pissed that the dumb main character did that to that chick's fish (I won't give away details since some of you might read it). [/b][/quote]

Silverflame--wasn't that the worst? oh the poor little fishies!

1. My bro is deep-frying a turkey for Christmas. I've never had that before. Should be interesting--and yummy seeing as how I love Turkey and deep fried anything.

2. I saw "Two weeks Notice" today. I'm lukewarm about it.

3. Tomorrow the job hunt starts in ernest. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[suburbangoth]

okay, i give. here's three random facts about me.

1. Rae is my full first name. not an abbreviation or anything, that's just it.
2. i'm studying religion at college.
3. i spent most of the week before my 21st birthday last summer in a mental hospital.

the end.

[BreezyK]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (mejaka @ Dec. 21 2002,07:05)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Isn't there anyplace else you can go with them--maybe a more grown-up thing than hitting the bars /G/?    Someplace your SO could also join you?  Out to dinner someplace with more food and less drink?  Or breakfast? Back home for more talking and catching up and laughing?

I don't do bars, so this is the kind of thing I'd do with old friends of mine.  I don't know if it helps you, though... {:^ ([/b][/quote]
Thanks, mejaka. That completely makes sense. Unfortunately I'm a rediculously shy soul who hates stepping on anyone's toes (can't you tell from these forums http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif )... so the prospect of asking them to change plans they already had just to accomidate me and my beau is very difficult for me. Breakfast is out, because that's XMas morning, and I'll be with fam. Anyway, I felt out if he was even interested in getting together with them (w/o even mentioning bars), and he didn't really want to. He's very cool about me going alone, and would prefer it, and he's says he's fine with hanging out with my fam alone, and I know he's being honest. He's very lovely that way. So there it is. I think it'll be fine, though it isn't ideal. Hooray for old friends (even the bar hopping ones! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif )

1. All my XMas shopping is finally done. Now I just have to brave the grocery stores for foodstuffs to bring to mum.

2. I bought a bunch of new undies at Gap Body. (Didn't even know there was a Gap Body, but there is). Yes, I shop at evil corporate stores. You know, though... that's about all that's left in metro areas, so I really don't have much choice! (excuses, excuses). Anyway, I did a very long and thorough squirmy dance in the pair I'm wearing today, and they did not ride at all. Hooray!

3. My car is behaving very strangly. It better be okay, because I just spent $900 on it a couple months ago.

[littlebird]

Mejaka- I hope life is smooth for you for the next few days!

Bugitha- I am trying to start "chronicle of a death foretold". I have heard it's incredible! Have you read anything else good recently?

1. My uncle is a folk singer who does a lot of traveling. I have been dropping hints for years that I would love to go on one of his famous trips to China or South America with him. He called me a few days ago and asked me what I was doing over spring break, then when I told him nothing yet, he was very mysterious and got off the phone quickly. Keep your fingers crossed.

2. I NEED to clean my room. The trash on the floor is taking on a life of it's own. It moves when I am not looking. Seriously disturbing. But messes can be good. I found an old pair of jeans with money in the pocket. Neat.

3. I asked my roommate for a random fact about me. "You have a freckle on your ring finger where your wedding ring should be."

[thunderstorm_19]

1. "The Lion King" KICKS MAJOR ASS!!! It is SOOO good!!

2. I'm hungry.

3. Mom spraypainted some twigs, so now it stinks of paint fumes down here...

4. my sis's BF just showed up...

5. i'm highly intrigued to know what he got me for christmas... My sister gave me an inkling that it's something Tolkien-ish...

[sistasmell]

Lobster-girl- it is too bad he just couldn't get the correct phone number for his relative. They could have picked him up. At least I envision people living in Palm Springs have cars. Did you try to save the day with your cell phone? That's one of my favorite things to do. I call animal control when I find a stray dog and I even found a really old man bleeding from the head on the sidewalk. Traffic was just passing him by, but I had my trusty cell phone.
That said- There's no way I'd give a strange man a ride. Yikes!

1. The Christmas candy is made, and it is goooood. I am waiting for my nice lady neighbor to come get her UPS package that got delivered here today. I will spring some bon bons on her.
2. Every single Christmas card we got is addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Blah Blahblah. Uh- I have told people til I'm blue in the face that I didn't change my name when I got married- 4 years ago! I guess I can understand Grandma being stubborn, but people my own age? It seriously makes me mental. Oh, and my in-laws spelled my first name wrong, too. I'm beginning to notice that they are passive/aggressive.
3. I am officially giddy/giggly about Christmas- like a kid. This will hopefully continue, aided by the fact that the in-laws live 3,000 miles away.

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Bugitha- I am trying to start "chronicle of a death foretold". I have heard it's incredible! Have you read anything else good recently?

[/b][/quote]Oooh--I want to read that, too. Let me know how you like it. Besides Cholera, the only other book that blew me away recently is *Rituals of Respect* by Inge Bolin. If you are at all into non-fiction I highly reccomend it. I know when I tell you its by an anthropologist and that I read it for a class on the social History of Peru and Bolivia--you'll be like "yeah, right." But I tell you this--It is easily one of the best (if not THE best book I read in college and the story Bolin tells is utterly charming and harrowing all at once--as fascinating a story as any fiction I have ever read and easy to read too(compared to the work of other anthropologist I've read, that is). Um, I like A Lot of books--but I love relatively few.

What other books do you love?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">There's no way I'd give a strange man a ride. Yikes!

[/b][/quote]

once my mother picked up a clown in full costume and make-up which freaked me out because I thought it was just a disguise and we would surely be hacked to death by the murderous clown. But it turns out he just wanted a lift to the Circus and even gave us free passes as a thankyou. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

1. My darling cat somehow managed to scratch the inside of my ear today, which really hurt. But it wasn't until my ear filled with blood that I totally freaked out and started crying like a 5-year old.

2. I haven't balanced my checkbook since August. I used to do it as soon as the statement came in.

3. Happy Christmas Eve's eve!

[mejaka]

1. Hearing that it's by an anthropologist and was required for a social history class makes me go for a pen to scribble down the title...

2. I'm about to take some Hello Dollies out of the oven. New recipe. Sound kinda like the Girls Scouts' Samoas...mmm...

3. My husband, who can squirt chocolate syrup straight out of the bottle into his mouth, eat maple syrup or buttercream frosting from a spoon, and drink milk with brown sugar mixed into it, just informed me that sweetened condensed milk makes him gag (he said this as I was eating a tiny little bit off a spoon...)

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">. I'm about to take some Hello Dollies out of the oven. New recipe. Sound kinda like the Girls Scouts' Samoas...mmm...

[/b][/quote]

Get out! I made Hello Dollies today! I've never made them before but my mom made them once when I was a kid and I liked them so much that I remembered the name all this time. Last night I went on-line and found some recipes and today I whipped up a batch. This is not the first time I have been on the same wave-length as you mejaka. Eerie.

Oh boy. Three more facts. Aren't you guys sick of me yet?
I'll try to be random.

1. When writing numbers I cross my sevens about half the time. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it.

2. I need new slippers.

3. The relatives are coming up for New Years which means I'll be partying downtown at the casinos--not something I normally do.

[lobster-girl]

heehee...sistasmell, i don't even know how to USE a cell phone...http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

i'm bored and my lips are chapped and my burts bees is at home on my kitchen table in my incredible hulk lunchbox...grrr....so, here's some random facts from third grade...

1. i went to school on picture day, not knowing it was picture day and cried because i forgot the money and i wasn't dressed all purdy. i was wearing a plaid blouse and my hair was in "dog ears" with white satin ribbon. my teacher paid for my pictures and my mom paid her back.

2. when we were good we could bring in music to listen to. i, being the ever hip child, would supply my class with pink floyd's "the wall" and that song called "pop music". our favorite part was when they sang "hey teacher's...leave us kids alone" we would all giggle hysterically!

3. we snuck into the school's science center and caught a bunch of those teeny tiny frogs. after a week or so, the frogs died and we had  funeral for them. we buried them in those "mister bones" canfdy coffin containers.

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">heehee...sistasmell, i don't even know how to USE a cell phone...[/b][/quote]

Me neither (I'm somewhat embarassed to say). Once I was in a car accident and a witness gave me his phone to call the cops and I couldn't figure it out. Finally another witness called for me. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

1. In the accident I'm referring to, I was rear-ended by a guy who offered to give me $2000 NOT to call the cops which made me oh-so-suspicious. It was a very minor accident--one little dent in my fender but THREE people pulled over to help. I had been in a far more serious accident two months before that and not a single person stopped to help.

2. I created a LMAO today that only took half an hour to fill up. I love it when that happens. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

3. I don't really make resolutions for New Years. Instead it is a time of reflection for me when I think about what I'd like to accomplish in the New Year.

[thunderstorm_19]

1. it's 10 pm and i've been yawning for an hour and a half, and it's not because of boredom.

2. i enjoyed the cold turkey and ham dinner tonite much better than i enjoyed it hot yesterday. that's because i was in such an awful mood yesterday.

3. i just met my sister's boyfriend's dad for the first time tonight (they've been going out over 2 years... i've met his mom before)... talk about spitting image. i really like them (both my sis's boyfriend, and his parents)...

4. whenever martin (my sis's BF) is around i feel oh so lonely. but i get over it. you should see them. they are SO cute.

[Katiekat]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3. My cat is named after an obscure MST3K reference. That makes me a dork and I like it.
[/b][/quote]

Littlebird, what's the name? I love MST3K... I was pissed when they yanked it from Comedy Central. Now it's only on the SciFi channel at like 8 in the morning. What the hell? The only time I'm up at 8 am is when i'm at work and can't watch it anyway. Dammit!


</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">2. My room is an actual disaster area. I can't actually walk through it and it's spreading down the hallway.
[/b][/quote]

Ok, are we related?! I tried my best to tackle my messy room today (i got a little bit done), but like you, it's creeping into the hallway. yikes! attack of the dirty laundry!!

1. Speaking of my messy habits, it's morphed into a family joke. My dad started referring to me as "Linus" from The Peanuts cartoons...he really meant "PigPen," but he said Linus and it stuck. Now everytime he's bugged by my messiness, he calls me linus.

2. I have 3 scientific calculators in my desk drawer. The weird part is none of them are technically mine. One is my cousin's husband's, one I got in highschool from a guy who I think had a half-hearted crush on me and insisted that i take it, and the other one is a mystery...no idea where it came from.

3. My desk is a damn mess. Random things infront of me right now: empty Snapple bottle, Anti-Racist Action "Stop Racism" sticker, candles, packing tape, cell phone, cds, Sharpie marker, 2 hair clips, half a baby name book, the first letter i got from my penpal (the fabulous Eenie!), 2 old wallets that I don't know what to do with, leftover unused Xmas cards, loose thumbtacks, a mini lunchbox, a HeMan action figure that's probably as old as me, lots of random paper, pens, and markers, and 3 containers of blank CDR's...
http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

[miss_jen]

1. I have a mini rubiks cube that came out of a christmas cracker - I have twisted it a few times into a cool pattern, but I am afraid to go any further because I won't be able to get it back to normal again!

2. My friend is coming round later this afternoon - we haven't seen each other for over two years, although I have house-sat for her parents a few times.

3. I have eaten over half a packet of french pear flavoured biscuits because I'm too lazy to go downstairs and make myself lunch. . .and I'm pretty sure that there is still some turkey and stuffing left in the fridge!

Jx

[lobster-girl]

moving on to fouth grade http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

1. i was bussed to a different school as an expirement in intergration. the school i was sent to was 99% latino and i was very excited to go. my mom was terrified the bus would crash but she wanted me to learn about other cultures, etc. i was one of 6 blonde kids there. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif after 2 months, the ridiculous parents from my home school freaked out and got all prejudiced and demanded the program to be stopped. they ended up cutting down 8 buses to 2 buses and i got to continue at my new school for the year. my teacher was japanese, i learned spanish and my class was paired up with a school for disabled children. we met with our "buddies" twice a month. it was my best school year ever!

2. that was the year my mom couldn't afford to buy me a coat or jacket. she managed to score a bolt of this floral quilted fabric and made me pants and a vest and jumper. i didn't know it was a necessity, i though i was ultra stylish. i just found out about the whole coat thing 3 years ago.

3. that was the year i met my friend "Faith" her entire family worked in the film industry. i spent easter that year playing poker with David Soul. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[thunderstorm_19]

1. uh-oh! i'm addicted! to what?
a) used books (even ones i won't read, cuz i'll just release them via bookcrossing)...
b) these darn lottery BINGO scratch tickets
c) stickers... mail... coffee... tea... and so many things

2. in a much better frame of mind today, thank goodness

3. i didn't get any mail today. hopefully some will come next week

4. i posted out a couple of nervous envies today

[Diddley]

Well I did this before... but I think it may have been the other one. (forgive me its late at night, and I haven't spoken to anyone for over 6 hours)

Three (more) random facts....

1) I had a breast reduction! (Either tmi, or ask me more about it... Im really happy about it http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif )

2) I talk for a living http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

3) I don't want children of my own... I love my friends kids... but Im just happy with my cats.

Can't say I didn't warn you... http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

MK

[Willow_starr]

1. I spent 15 hours travelling today. *blah* My mom moved to Northern Ontario, far away.

2. Christmas was good but my Mom's is drafty and aways cold.

3. I got my stocking from the in-laws today. Lots of fun stuff including an eletric toothbrush. I haven't had one of those since I was six, it was She-Ra.

bedtime now.

[GuineaBaby]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Katiekat @ Dec. 26 2002,10:04)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1.  Speaking of my messy habits, it's morphed into a family joke.  My dad started referring to me as "Linus" from The Peanuts cartoons...he really meant "PigPen," but he said Linus and it stuck.  Now everytime he's bugged by my messiness, he calls me linus.[/b][/quote]
We call my sister PigPen. She can sit down and make a mess in five minutes. It's absolutely amazing lol.

1. I just got finished dividing socks with my sister (they're all cutesy) so we don't fight over sharing them anymore.

2. I got my room pretty cleaned today.

3. Discovered I have major mold problems on my windows, which so does not help my allergies. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

[miss_jen]

Some random factoids from my early years!

1. When I was very young (between 2 and 3 years old) I put books into the fish tank because I thought the fish wanted to read. They didn't - they died! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

2. I was given a 'tiny tears' doll for my 5th birthday. I used to think that she was so realistic that if I held her 'just so' people would think she was a real baby.

3. When I was about 8 and my sister was about 6, I shut her in the garage at our home - and I had to let her out on the quiet when our parents suddenly announced that we were going out. . .I didn't want to get in to trouble!

Jx

[Xopher]

1. I have a new radio.
2. I just learned that I enjoy reading science fiction stories.
3. I very much enjoy watching the birds at the birdfeeders out side of my dining room windows.


Erin

[Uniquehorn]

1. I'm almost deaf and almost blind and I have a guidedog named Gaston (french name)
2. I am married, don't have kids and we don't want them either.
3. I love green tea

[thunderstorm_19]

1. i'm hungry... all i've had so far today is a few slices of grapefruit and a cappuccino... it's noon. need lunch...

2. weekends frustrate me because there's no mail on saturday and sunday.

3. i wanna go shopping... bad. i'm not a shopaholic, but i do enjoy it sometimes when i'm in the right mood... i wanna go to the mall - there are some things i need; the bookstore, and the art supplies store...

[littlebird]

I'm so glad you know MST3K, KatieKat. There was an episode that had a movie that was a blatant ripoff of the trouble with tribble/ star trek thing. So Mike and the robots got a tribble thing as a pet, and gave it "the cutest name in the universe"- Numiemuffinecoocoobutter. My whole family started to use this as a pet name for each other and pretty soon my friends picked it up too. So when I moved into my town house with my two best friends this August and a tiny 1 lb kitten wandered onto our porch, what else could we possibly name her? For short, we call her Numie or Ms. Muffincoocoobutter. Or satan.

1. I am making an honest attempt to clean my room today because I've acquired several bruises trying to walk through my room. My floor is covered with clothing, art supplies, christmas wrapping, collage materials, typewriter pieces, shoes, postcards and much more. It will be clean today.

2. I just found out that my aunt's husband was a founding member of a very famous british punk band. Pretty cool.

I really enjoy the sensation of dizziness. A lot.

[thunderstorm_19]

oh littlebird, you would LOOOVE to be me today then... i am so dizzy it's not even funny.

1. i don't know WHY i am dizzy, but i think i may be threatening a migraine

2. one friend i invited for tonight can only get a ride about oh uh now... so he's gonna be here 2 hours early... s'ok by me... i just hope that whatever i'm suffering from today isn't catching.

3. had better get ready...

[GuineaBaby]

1. When I was younger...between 5 and 7, my sister and I wanted to see if we could fit in our toy box for some odd reason. She got in, I shut the lid and we said she fit. My turn. I'm smaller than her, why I tried I don't know, but when I got in and she shut the lid, she sat on it and wouldn't let me out. I'm claustrophobic so I freaked. I was in there for probably only fifteen seconds, but it was the longest fifteen seconds I could ever imagine.

2. I have already started plans to get Christmas gifts done early this year because I hate my parents rushing around trying to finish gift buying, especially when they don't have the money.

3. I am behind on my nervousness trades because of Christmas, new years, and my three day visit to grandparents coming up.

[Fiona Blackwolf]

1. When I was about 10 I accidentally got locked on a balcony that had no railing. We were playing hide & seek and the door locked automatically which I didnt know... a neighbor had to go tell the babysitter I was out there

2. I really Miss MST3K

3. I wish I had some cake

[Willow_starr]

1. I also love MST3K. My favorite line is "Movie, I demand to see your supervisor movie!" I use that all the time.

2. I got lots of fun but useless stuff in my stocking, which is great but I'm trying to simplify my life, and who really needs a Lisa Simpson Chuppa Chup stand. I think it would be fun to exchange them but don't want to post half a dozen exchanges for silly things. Hmm...

3. After tomorrow's post office run I will be all caught up on my essay/exams time Nervous backlog! Hoorah!

[miss_jen]

Random facts from my early teenage years!

1. At one point I shared a bedroom with my two sisters - we had so much furniture in our room that we could make it all the way round without touching the floor by climbing and jumping on beds, cupboards wardrobes etc!

2. I used to have a Commodore 64 computer - I was a bit of a computer geek and would spend my spare time working on little programmes that would make words scroll in rainbow colours or a hot air balloon fly across the screen.

3. I went to Italy on a school trip when I was 13. I walked most of the way up the volcano 'Mount Versuvius' - but I was scared of heights and had to sit on a rock while everyone else went right to the top. I had to hold my head teachers hand on the way back down. . .and I couldn't understand how the other people on my trip weren't worried about the HUGE drop to the side of the mountain path.   http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

Jx

[Fiona Blackwolf]

1. A clean house is a happy house

2. I hate cleaning the house

3. I really need to start working on schoolwork again