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/
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[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