I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Off-Topic => Off-Topic: Talk about anything you want. => Topic started by: okarol on March 15, 2007, 05:36:55 PM
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Me: I drive barefoot.
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OMG, i hope they dont know about the time.... or the time I.... or even when I.... oh noooo, i cant tell them about the time when We.... and then there was that one time at band camp ::) What can i say, i was a wild child.... :P
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I love sleeping outside in the warm sun.
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If I tell, won't everyone know???
I don't think many people know just how non-social I am. I cringe when the phone rings because I'm afraid it might be someone who wants to gab. I hate spending time on the phone. I get very antsy at social gatherings unless the gathering has a purpose. I enjoy walking with my friends, but get antsy when we stop for coffee after walking if we sit there for more than a half hour or so. Just sitting around with people is a challenge unless there's an activity to focus on.
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Me: I drive barefoot.
;)
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I like getting into a warm car and enjoying the warmth as it seeps up into the bones. AAAH! I must have been a cat in a previous life.
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Yes! LOL!
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I like getting into a warm car and enjoying the warmth as it seeps up into the bones. AAAH! I must have been a cat in a previous life.
As long as you get INTO the car and not ONTO the car, you're OK! ;)
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I like getting into a warm car and enjoying the warmth as it seeps up into the bones. AAAH! I must have been a cat in a previous life.
As long as you get INTO the car and not ONTO the car, you're OK! ;)
Or under.
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Good one, Sluff! :clap;
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heheheheh u guys crack me up :lol;
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Goodynina has been to Prison and worked on the chain gang.
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Hey, no outting other members!
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Goodynina has been to Prison and worked on the chain gang.
See if i tell you anymore of my secrets Sluff, oh, and how were the fish net stockings you wanted me to order for you, did they fit?? :P ;)
(dont worry i wont tell them about the stilleto's or the garter belt, those will remain our secret, hope the shoes were the right color, you did say red didnt you??) lol, ;)
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I guess my secret is out. But I promise to not say a word about your paid overnight trips to LA. We do have to keep some secrets don't we? ;)
Remember this picture? :2thumbsup;
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Kitkatz you got the popcorn and those lawnchairs still? It's time to bring'em out again. This one should be good! :popcorn;
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I guess my secret is out. But I promise to not say a word about your paid overnight trips to LA. We do have to keep some secrets don't we? ;)
Remember this picture? :2thumbsup;
See what i mean, if your going to tell the story, tell it right, it wasnt "overnight" they were for the weekend, i think that does not qualify as overnight, DUH, and as for the pic of my "family" ain't we purty ;)
oh and i called your shrink like you asked me too, she said sorry, there is no hope for you, YOU DONE LOST IT, sorry buddy ;D
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I have a fifth toe on my left foot ... and my right foot.
Please don't get grossed-out :-\
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Proper balance is paramount.
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I have a fifth toe on my left foot ... and my right foot.
Please don't get grossed-out :-\
I have that SAME affliction-my mother says it happened in the womb!! :o
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I like to read trashy novels.
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I want to be on Jeopardy someday.
I watch all the sunday morning fishing shows.
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Hmmmm!
Nope! ;D
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WHY????? What have you been told?????
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I see dead people.
must be something to do with my job (mortician) >:D
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I see dead people.
must be something to do with my job (mortician) >:D
L M F A O! :clap;
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Goodynina has been to Prison and worked on the chain gang.
I was there with her in San Quentin. We were both released after I told the warden about her good cooking.
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Goodynina has been to Prison and worked on the chain gang.
I was there with her in San Quentin. We were both released after I told the warden about her good cooking.
I think that's where she is now. Hurt her back making little rocks out of big rocks.
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Goodynina has been to Prison and worked on the chain gang.
I was there with her in San Quentin. We were both released after I told the warden about her good cooking.
I've heard of being released for good behavior, but for good cooking? That makes much more sense to me! ;)
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Well when I go through the car wash, I choose the one with Tri Color polish. When the all the differents colors are coating the car. I say "Oh, I am cupcake, I am cupcake". :rofl; I did that once with my boyfriend in the car and now he refuses to go through car washes with me.
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sometimes I hate the people I work with :rant;
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Yep! I'm lonely even when i'm around people.
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I love to drive fast, blare my John Denver Greatest Hits CD and sing at the top of my lungs along with him. :yahoo;
Funny thing is, I'm not a country music fan at all, I am more into 50's, 80's and classic rock. :2thumbsup;
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I use to write Mills and Boon novels. Hey Kit may even have read one........
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I like to collect hawaiian shirts.
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I wanted to be on The Apprentice but that is now canceled and now I want to one day be on Big Brother.......
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I still really like Sesame Street even though my daughter has outgrown it. I still sometimes watch it. But don't tell anyone.... ;D
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When I go to the beach, every black iron particle in the sand sticks to me. I become covered in it. My nephew says its definitely a super power. I am Magna-Girl. Don't tell anyone. :secret;
(BTW, this is true. It's from taking radio active iodine treatments.)
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I still really like Sesame Street even though my daughter has outgrown it. I still sometimes watch it. But don't tell anyone.... ;D
Ok, I will admit it I love Barney and watch it even though there are no babies in this house
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When I go to the beach, every black iron particle in the sand sticks to me. I become covered in it. My nephew says its definitely a super power. I am Magna-Girl. Don't tell anyone. :secret;
(BTW, this is true. It's from taking radio active iodine treatments.)
What is radioactive iodine?
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I like getting into a warm car and enjoying the warmth as it seeps up into the bones. AAAH! I must have been a cat in a previous life.
Kitkatz if you were a cat in a previous life you'd be sitting under the car not in it! :2thumbsup;
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Goodynina has been to Prison and worked on the chain gang.
See if i tell you anymore of my secrets Sluff, oh, and how were the fish net stockings you wanted me to order for you, did they fit?? :P ;)
(dont worry i wont tell them about the stilleto's or the garter belt, those will remain our secret, hope the shoes were the right color, you did say red didnt you??) lol, ;)
Goofinina will you order me some size 10 stillettoes. It's something nobody will ever know about 'cos I'll take them off when I get out of bed!
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In the dead of night I disconnect from my cycler and then I ride on the back of a giant dung beetle in the endless search for my toenails. :secret;
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What is radioactive iodine?
It was a treatment for Graves Disease (overactive thyroid).
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i've never driven a vehicle of any kind and i have no bank account.
:canadaflag;
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What is radioactive iodine?
It was a treatment for Graves Disease (overactive thyroid).
I see....I didn't know that is how they treat thyroids.......thanks for explaining us.....
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i've never driven a vehicle of any kind and i have no bank account.
:canadaflag;
How did you get through like this this or should I read all of your posts? If so, I don't mind that at all......I do like your posts and I feel for you.....
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i've never driven a vehicle of any kind and i have no bank account.
:canadaflag;
How did you get through like this this or should I read all of your posts? If so, I don't mind that at all......I do like your posts and I feel for you.....
I have driven plenty of vehicles, but I have been without one since 2004 due to my license being suspended... the only thing that sucks about it is getting rides to go places... other than that, i'm saving money lol... as for bank accounts, I have been without those too, due to owing money to chek systems... I now have a 2nd chance bank checking account that doesn't work through chek systems, and I only have it b/c I like direct deposit better, otherwise I have lived without that for a long time too with no problem.... So I know it's doable! ;)
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well, i was born and raised in Toronto Ontario, and the transit system there is quite efficient.
when i was a kid, all my buds couldn't wait to get a car so they could pick up chicks. i was always kind of a loner, and cars didn't interest me, (chicks did, but i was shy, too) -
my main interest than was drumming. so while my friends were getting their cars and learning to drive, i was learning to drum.
somehow, i never got the urge to own or drive at all, even though i've been across canada several times, through the years as a musician, and down into the states, quite often.
as for the bank account. i used to have one, years ago. one of the jobs i used to have was an alarm monitor for ADT, here in Victoria, BC. we were paid through direct deposit, so a bank account was necessary. after 7 years there, our branch was closed because the new fibre-optic technology allowed the company to move all of the monitoring of alarms to Calgary.(this was in '96.) i received a severance and decided to take my kids to Disneyland with it, and my spouse to Toronto, to meet my family.
When i returned to Victoria, I thought I had 15 dollars left in my account, but i was wrong. my account had been closed. i haven't had a bank account since then. i've always hated banks anyway, so all of my financial duties are taken care of by my wife. my disability comes in her name, as we arranged, and i avoid banks like the plague. any cheques i receive, i simply sign them over to my wife.
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LightLizard,
I agree that Toronto has a very excellent transit system........we were there many years back or should I say with my parents and brother since I was not an adult yet......while my father had to go to meetings all day, my mother just put us on transit so that my brother and I could see the city.....I love that city.....don't remember much now but I love it and the CN Tower........they had the exhibition that year too....so I spent a whole day there.....
This place I now live does not have the best of transit but better then most of US.....only since it is a big city but traffic here is very bad and it is overpopulated and it is going to get worse especially if the Olympics get here which I am praying it won't since this will then turn into crime haven and the slum capital of the world.....
I was forced to learn to drive when I was 16 since my parents no longer wanted me to be on the bus but I didn't have my own car, it was my mother's.......
I bet you are a very good musician.......
I have had bank accounts most of my life....parents opened one for me when I was nine and never went back.....lol......
I have to take care of all the bills and everything so I am the one who goes to the bank.......I also lived alone before I met my husband so I was always writing checks even then....balancing books and all that......I guess that is all now a woman's job....just kidding.....
Take care of yourself and keep us posted :waving;
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thanks tweetysweetie. ;)
it seems a little sexist, i guess, but my wife does enjoy banking and shopping, so it all works out, really.
women seem to fall into the role of handling the money with ease in most cultures, so i think we're just letting nature take it's course, in her way. works good for me!
i know what you mean. when i was a kid i used to just love getting on the' red rocket', (streetcar) and riding from one end of queen street to the other, just for fun! today, i can't handle big cities anymore. the energy in them just makes me crazy-('crazier', i should say..)
i'm really not looking forward to the olympic madness coming to vancouver, soon. we live on the island, some distance away from that nuthouse, but i'm sure we'll get plenty of spill-over from it.
love
~LL~
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Yeah LightLizard, seems that the women handle the finances as well as other things and it makes sense since we do the grocery shopping and all....I also do the taxes every year since we prefer not to go to Block and they take out their fees from our refund so our refund is cut in half because every piece of paper they use costs $50 US and then their profits.....no joke on that.......then we hardly get the refund that is our's.....lol......
Now my husband has direct deposit on his disability checks.....I have to sign my paychecks and put them in the bank....
I would rather shop since I need to read labels and my husband may forget to do that and buy the wrong things.....I mean sodium and potassium and all that good stuff.....
You call it Red Rocket there, we call it the CTA here or the EL......
I pray like crazy that the next Olympics don't come here, let them go to an European country that needs publicity....lol......
What does not make sense is the city workers here do not make enough money to pay their bills and yet the mayor wants to bid high on the games.....he needs to think of his people first but he is not that way.....he is one of the worst mayors we have had in history.......
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to be honest, i have to say that i can shop, but for some reason, whenever i go into a supermarket, i go into a kind of trance-panic. it seems that all the colors, shapes and different products on the shelves just overload my senses to a degree of madness and i totally forget what i'm looking for! it sounds like an excuse, i know, but it really does happen to me. sometimes, my wife thinks i'm just making it up to avoid the task, but it really does boggle my senses and puts my nerves on the high end of pain!
i don't know if this is common in men, or what, but it sure does a number on me!
maybe it has something to do with the lighting, i don't know. but, it has gotten worse since i've aged, it seems.
o well. thank the great pumpkin for wives and their love of shopping! otherwise, i'd be one hungry puppy!
love
~LL~
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I have a crush on one of the professors at my school......
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you, and 1100 hundred other little girls.
heeheee
;)
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you, and 1100 hundred other little girls.
heeheee
;)
Yeah, except I am 41 and supposed to be a professional..... (I hide it well)
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I am usually the quiet one around new people and people I do not know.
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The first time I took my driving road test, I failed before I even pulled out of the parking space. (I hit the car in front of me while pulling out!)
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I always thought this was a great thread. :bump;
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Good bumpin' my friend :2thumbsup;
I have created a language to talk to my cat in. (and i am beginning to think she understands what i am saying) :urcrazy;
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I am obsessed with socks. Yes, you heard it right. I love SOCKS!!!
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I am obsessed with socks. Yes, you heard it right. I love SOCKS!!!
I have never considered myself being "obsessed" with socks, but my family does. I HATE going without socks, and I won't unless I have no choice in the matter. I wear them to bed and everything... 120 degrees outside or not... hehe.
SOCKS ROCK!
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I sleep naked ;D
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I own 1 pair of socks. (and right now I only know where 1/2 of them is.)
:)
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I sleep naked too. But sometimes I worry about a fire and would I have enough time to put something on before embarrassing myself. :lol;
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Keep a robe handy Sluff!
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Hubby thinks I am funny when I jump out of bed during an earthquake buck ass naked and stand in a doorway. He says I will be alive, but naked.
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Socks Suck! If I didn't have to wear them to keep my feet from freezing, I wouldn't at all. Now long johns those are a necessity at least 6 months of the year.
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I HATE wearing socks!! I'm stubborn and even if it's freezing I will wear heels or sandals. The only time I wear socks is with tennis shoes and I even hate it then. Then again I dislike too much clothing in general. It feels too constricting.
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I like to collect cameras. I also wanted to learn to dance. I never danced in my life except to slow dance. My ex wife told me after she divorced me that one of the reasons was because i don't dance.
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I hate wearing tennis shoes. In the summer I wear sandals, and in the winter I wear either boots (casual, not snow) or loafter-type shoes.
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I like to collect cameras. I also wanted to learn to dance. I never danced in my life except to slow dance. My ex wife told me after she divorced me that one of the reasons was because i don't dance.
Well that's just a lame excuse, keef! Most of the men I know don't like to dance - I think it's a genetic thing!
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I am not fond of socks. Or shoes. If you know me in person, that is one obvious fact. AS SOON as possible, shoes and socks come off. Even at work. Serious! I love summer, I don't have to wear socks!!! Now Fall is coming. I'll have to wear REAL shoes now. Life is gonna be such a drag. Sigh.
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i have to admit that i feel silly when i try to dance. i guess because i don't feel that i'm very good at it.
as for socks, they are one of the two things i hate in this world! (the other is lawyers. well, i don't really hate lawyers, just the fact that they are necessary in this world)
my daughters make a point of wearing mis-matched socks.
:)
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my daughters make a point of wearing mis-matched socks.
:)
there is a company in vermont that sells mis-matched socks. their socks for children come in threes. www.socklady.com
my sister has a pair, they are wonderful. another one that has all kinds of stuff including socks is www.littlemissmatched.com
but i hate shoes and socks too
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I love socks. Once it starts getting cooler, I have to wear socks to bed or else I will be cold the rest of the night. No matter how many blankets I have on, socks are the only thing that warm me up.
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Well with socks people either love em or hate em.
Now that it is getting cooler my socks will be coming out.
I love interesting designs.
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I collect ocean glass.
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One thing people don't know about me that I can think off is that I can't remember their name or sometimes their face too. i just talk to them like I remember them and without saying their name. I takes me forever to remember someones name and face.
Are those natural rocks okarol, I have never seen or heard of them. They remind me of rocks you buy for fish tanks.
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I collect ocean glass.
I collected that when I was a kid!!!!! I still have one or two tiny peices!!
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What do you do with ocean glass? they are very pretty and i thought the same thing too, fish tanks :)
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Are those natural rocks okarol, I have never seen or heard of them. They remind me of rocks you buy for fish tanks.
Nearly everything used to come in bottles or jars, and this is basically trash (recycled!) They have have broken and tumbled in the waves. Ocean Glass, Sea Glass, Beach Glass, Sea Gems or Mermaids Tears are the more common names given to pieces of glass gathered at the edges of oceans and lakes all over the world that have been shaped and smoothed over time by wind, waves, and sand.
What do you do with ocean glass? they are very pretty and i thought the same thing too, fish tanks :)
I collect them. ;D
Every time I go to the beach I pick up a little more. Clear and green glass are more common. Brown (beer bottle) is also pretty common but harder to see on the sand. I love when I find aqua or blue or red pieces as they are more rare. I have a small collection of old bottles and I keep the ocean glass in a window with them (I will take a photo and show ya.) As more and more plastic is used I imagine ocean glass will be harder to find.
Some people make them into jewelry http://www.bytheseajewelry.com/jewelry/details.php?prod_id=431
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Is there something about you most people don't know?
I love to take pictures of flowers. I'm no professional but I do okay. The picture of the Lotus flower is one of many I have shot.
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I'm a drama queen.... ;D
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I'm an open book, there isn't much people don't know or can't see.
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I'm a drama queen.... ;D
Hey, it's supposed to be something people DON'T know. ;D ;)
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(alene writing)
I never ever recover from the change to daylight savings time until, until tomorrow, my favorite holiday of the year - The Return to Eastern Standard Time. Happy Holidays everyone!
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I'm a drama queen.... ;D
Really Amanda?
Oh, here's what folks don't know about me...I'm gullable.
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Oh, here's what folks don't know about me...I'm gullable.
Me too :thumbdown;
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Very few people know I have any problem with my kidneys at all. Also, I'm very uncomfortable around people.
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That I am totally addicted to The Sims! I love that game....I have a few of the expansion packs and stuff packs....I got all geeked out over Seasons. Such a geek. But hey, my hubby travels a lot and I record all our shows so we can catch up on them over the weekend and what else is there to do after I put my child to bed? I feel soooo immature!
Beth
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I can feel all by myself in a room full of people.
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I can feel all by myself in a room full of people.
Me too!
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:shy; I am terrified of public speaking. (I hope to overcome this SOMEDAY!)
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:shy; I am terrified of public speaking. (I hope to overcome this SOMEDAY!)
And I on the other hand like to speak in public. I feel comfortable in front of a group. But when I was in HS........no way! When I was young I was painfully shy, didn't talk to hardly anybody, My first date was when I was 18 and I was so shy I don't think I said a word. If you're shy and introverted like I was it's hard. My grandmother used to say I was backwards so I was ashamed of myself when I was a little girl for years. When I was about 19, 20 I made myself start to talk to people, start a conversation. I introduced myself to people even though I was in a panic inside. I actully got a job where I had to work with the public. So over the years it's gotten easier. I just needed time to find out who I was.
Donna
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I used to do dead womens hair. I was a hairdresser for 20 years until I retired and in our community there were 2
funeral homes. If someone died and didn't have her own hairdresser they called me. I also did the hair of my
own customers when they died. Good paying job. :rofl;
Mimi
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I used to do dead womens hair. I was a hairdresser for 20 years until I retired and in our community there were 2
funeral homes. If someone died and didn't have her own hairdresser they called me. I also did the hair of my
own customers when they died. Good paying job. :rofl;
Mimi
And, Mimi -- I'll bet you didn't get any complaints from the "customers" :rofl; :rofl;
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And, Mimi -- I'll bet you didn't get any complaints from the "customers" :rofl; :rofl;
I sure didn't!!!!!!! ;D My Mother was a hairdresser, too. When my grandmother died she did her hair. And when my Mother died I did her hair. I don't know who is going to do my hair, my daughter doesn't do hair. (snif, snif) :'(
Mimi
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You may want to invest in a nice looking wig, Mimi, just in case.....
What do people not know about me? Hm. I'm pretty much an open book, I say what I mean, and my face is very expressive,
which HAS gotten me into trouble before....
I may not always talk about problems, but if people ask me a question, I'll tell them the truth (as I see it!), but not bluntly though.
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I sure didn't!!!!!!! ;D My Mother was a hairdresser, too. When my grandmother died she did her hair. And when my Mother died I did her hair. I don't know who is going to do my hair, my daughter doesn't do hair. (snif, snif) :'(
Mimi
Mimi -- I nominate Sluff! :rofl;
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I sure didn't!!!!!!! ;D My Mother was a hairdresser, too. When my grandmother died she did her hair. And when my Mother died I did her hair. I don't know who is going to do my hair, my daughter doesn't do hair. (snif, snif) :'(
Mimi
Mimi -- I nominate Sluff! :rofl;
OK Sluff it is!!! Sluff when I die you fly from Wisconsin to Atlanta and do my hair. Make me pretty now!!
Mimi
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Bring the straight razor when you go!
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I quilt..
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I was conceived in Alaska and born in Mississippi.
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Alaska, wow, they were probably trying to keep warm.
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No doubt! :bandance;
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I got twirling scholorships all thru college........I don't tell anyone now...They'd think YOU?
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I hate wearing knickers in the summer under skirts. I call it skinny dressing. :rofl;
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http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=3072.0 OMG I knew I had seen that photo before - LOL There's Goofynina and her real family!
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I live with a crazy family!
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I have a small piece of a twig stuck in my left wrist and I used to be in a moped gang! 8)
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http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=3072.0 OMG I knew I had seen that photo before - LOL There's Goofynina and her real family!
Am I missing something? This links right back to this page.
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I never finished high school, But have done more with my life than the majority of the people that I was supposed to graduate with. It is something that will bother me for the rest of my life as something most people will have over me regardless of all of my qualifications and experiences and the hard work and sacrifices that I had to put in to achieve them.
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http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=3072.0 OMG I knew I had seen that photo before - LOL There's Goofynina and her real family!
Am I missing something? This links right back to this page.
oops! Sorry - the family photo with Goofynina is on this post http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=3072.msg43977#msg43977
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I never finished high school, But have done more with my life than the majority of the people that I was supposed to graduate with. It is something that will bother me for the rest of my life as something most people will have over me regardless of all of my qualifications and experiences and the hard work and sacrifices that I had to put in to achieve them.
No one knows who did or didn't finish high school. The majority of people I know graduated college, and I only attended one year, having to drop out to work fulltime. I am very capable and I tell people I attended "The College of Life" - (one woman asked me if that was a Jesuit school :rofl; )
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I was a center fold in high school
I was on the edge of the one and only fold out page of our year book-----
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What about going back to school and getting your GED?
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I never finished high school, But have done more with my life than the majority of the people that I was supposed to graduate with. It is something that will bother me for the rest of my life as something most people will have over me regardless of all of my qualifications and experiences and the hard work and sacrifices that I had to put in to achieve them.
I can believe it! My husband dropped out of high school and got his GED. He regrets not graduating, but since I met him in 1996 he has started and ran two successful companies, sold one of them, and is in the process of starting a 3rd. Learning NEVER ends if you don't want it to! He's amazing to me! Good for you!
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I've thought about getting my GED but I don't have the time right now and when I get posted back to Kingston the unit I will be with is to active and operational with many unexpected deployments I will be unable to commit to it since my little bit of free time will be dedicated to being with Sarah and trying to be a normal family, and getting a GED still wouldn't make me feel better about not finishing high school. But since then I've achieved numerous IT,communications engineering, certifications and am now working becoming certified in IT corporate level management. Fortunately my job in the military works with a lot of civilian equipment and systems and requires that we follow industry standards which require us to have civilian certifications and the military had made it possible for me to do this without high school or a GED.
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On the flip side, concerning the whole education thing, I have worked with some quite "brilliant" people with Phds, publications, the whole nine yards but nada, zip, zilch common sense and limited social skills to boot. So many paths to take in life, and so many different kinds of smarts. In Jamaica we had an overseer who never went past primary school but he was a whiz with engines of any kind...pumps, milking machines etc, Very cool.
Congrats on the path you took Uni.
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Thank you Monrein, I'm thankful everyday for the path that I have taken and also disappointed that more people don't take advantage of what there is out there and use what is available to them to expand their knowledge and better themselves and in my opinion throw away what could have been.
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I know someone who never graduated from high school. He dropped out. He is now a practicing neonatal intensive care doctor.
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My dad never went to high school, yet he ended up as the principal of a high school. He was born in 1906, completed his elementary education at age 12, became a trainee teacher at the same school and started teachers' certificate exams at age 15 until about 17. He was top in our island in the teachers certificate. (BTW, my mother had a similar history - they met when they went to sit the exam. Only when they got married, 18 and 19, my mother could not continue to be a teacher) Then he became a teacher and by 29 he was the principal of an elementary school. At 58 he became the principal of a high school.
The thing is, with all my high school and university education I could never challenge my father where grammar and spelling are concerned.
The principal of the high school I taught at in this country also had the same experience, and he was a great principal. He retired a few years ago and now the school is named after him.
All this is to say, it isn't the piece of paper, it's what you have and what you develop!
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I know someone who never graduated from high school. He dropped out. He is now a practicing neonatal intensive care doctor.
Ok, that one I'm a little concerned about! Does he have a legitimate medical degree? If he does, how on earth did he ever get into college?
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He is very prestigious in the area. He says he got his GED and went on to the junior college. Good grades there and in college and off he went.
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I do not like to eat meat off of the bones.
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I have a highly addictive personality ( Hence the last post wins )
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duh, Kim we already knew that.
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oh there is more, and the name is Alice :waving;
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so Alice is here now?
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Yes Alice is here now..duh !
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which does Buster prefer
Alice or Kim
people do not know that I was one of the first children to live from this kind of heart surgery I had----years ago
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Buster calls me Kim...
thats awesome twirl
People don't know that I was the youngest graduate in my highschool class of over 300
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youngest and smartest
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That I'm on hemodialysis.
8)
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That I'm on hemodialysis.
8)
The secret life of Zach. ;)
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The secret life of Zach. ;)
:-*
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The secret life of Zach. ;)
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:-* Back at ya!
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People don't know I like coffee, from the smell to the different taste from different beans (except Starbucks brewed coffee), that I drive slower around automotive repair shops so I can smell the various fumes from paint, grease, etc, and that I like dark beer served somewhat warm like in the old days before refrigeration :cowboy:(tend to notice the different taste in beers better that way than having the cold dull your senses) :beer1;
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I read every magazine from the back page to the front---- always
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I was born naked.
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I was born naked.
I knew that. :o
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we all knew Flip was born naked
his great grandparents were cousins :urcrazy;
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they were probably born naked too
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My! I was unaware that nakedness was hereditary. :-*
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maybe that's why a lot of us down here still go barefoot
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I love jalapenos in movie popcorn. And on Dodger Dogs at the ball game.
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if God wanted you to wear shoes you would have been born wearing cowboy boots
shoes is for city people afraid to step in a little poo
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I do not like being barefoot ever.
I could sit and watch a show about Egypt, space, Bible Mysteries, and thousand year old cultures ALL day long and not get bored one bit.
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I never wear shoes
I love the same shows
and watched a couple yesterday about brothers who helped build the prymaids
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Awesome :)
I don't like camping at all.
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camping sucks
and go to the bathroom and but it in a baggie
it is just fertilzer anyways ???
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Around here campgrounds have rest rooms and showers.
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My husband and I have done a lot of wilderness white water canoeing and obviously that requires camping but the camping we like is very remote, with little chance of running into any other people. We've done several fly-in by float plane trips and then we paddle the river running the rapids and then get picked up a couple weeks later by float plane. The canoe is strapped to a pontoon and our packs go inside. Our longest trip was 20 days. We dehydrate some of our food and must carry everything we need for the entire trip. We also eat as much fish as Lee can catch. I've done 11 trips and Lee still tries to go every other year now with my brother. Our most adventurous trip was the Hood River which empties into the Arctic Ocean and is a river packed with pretty exciting rapids, some stretches as long as five or six kilometers of paddling fun. No toilets or showers of any kind. Just the river and the woods.
However, I'm not a big fan of car camping and campgrounds full of people and my pet peeve is campers with all the technology of home, especially things that make noise in the woods like radios.
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Around here campgrounds have rest rooms and showers.
so you are not that far in the backwoods of Kentucky
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I'll post some pics this weekend. My house was built in 1882 if that's any indication.
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monrein - your kind of camping sounds wonderful. Someday I'd love to go somewhere far away from civilization. I, too, am not a fan of RV parks that turn into drunken, loud music parties.
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It must be different where you all are from. Around here campgrounds are much different than RV parks and quiet hours are strictly observed. We sit around the campfire, drink a little beer, and the loud music consists of a couple of guitars and Peter, Paul and Mary music. Most cooking is done on the campfire.
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I'll post some pics this weekend. My house was built in 1882 if that's any indication.
You got an outhouse?
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Four rooms and a path
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OK...I grew up on a farm in ND and hauled bales all summer, milked cows all year 2X a day, 36 by hand starting when I was 4 and when I was 14 we finally got automated milking machines and that was like getting a diamond ring now. My dad thought I was his son but I would never change how I grew up. How about u'all???
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In November 1979 I met in person Paul and Linda McCartney. The story behind it is this.
Our daughter Donna was born with Cystic Fibrosis. At about 3 years old she became fascinated with Paul McCartney and his music. She was Paul McCartney mad! I bought her lots of Wings records and albums and at about four years old she started making a scrapbook of any newspaper cuttings and magazine pictures she could find.
Up until this time the drug regime and treatment were working well and from two years old remained very healthy and energetic and a little monkey at times I might add but overall she was just like any other child of her age. But then she started slowly deteriorating. In that summer of '79 she caught a virus which attacked her heart and we were given the heartbreaking news that she only had about six months to live.
As you can imagine Rita and I were devastated we just couldn't believe we were going to lose our gorgeous little girl. I started to think what I could do to make her last months of her life as happy as possible. She had become too weak to ravel to somewhere like Disneyland. At this time it just happened that Paul McCartney and Wings were on tour in England and they would be appearing at the Manchester Apollo in the November for two nights.
So I wrote a letter to him explaining the situation and said how it would make her day to meet him took it to the theatre on the first night and gave it a doorman to give to him. The next day we got a phone call to say 'Be at the theatre for 5.30 pm and we can all meet him after the sound check.'
We sat through the sound check and eventually were lead backstage to meet the great man himself. I think Rita and I were more gobsmacked than Donna because we were almost speechless at first but she chatted away to him from the word go so naturally. While Donna and I were talking to Paul, Rita and Linda McCartney struck up a conversation which sounded like they were old friends. They were both so kind and approachable.
I'm so glad we did that for her because six weeks later she sadly passed away age 4 & half
I'll always remember the hilariously innocent thing she said as we were coming away from the venue. She said 'Mummy, why has Paul got a prettier face than Daddy?' :rofl;
We'll never forget her and though we were young enough to get over it and eventually get on with our lives we still can't reconcile it and it will always be there. We decided not to have any more children because CF is an hereditary disease and there is a 1 in 4 chance of another child being born with CF. There's no way we would have risked it.
I have some pictures somewhere of the meeting and I'll try and dig them out and post them.
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How fantastically wonderful that you did this for your daughter. Keep those memories always.
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Diane Sawyer and I are cousins.
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I have a pre-sternal PD catheter.
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I have a pre-sternal PD catheter.
Cool! :2thumbsup;
Don't they also refer to that type of catheter as a "bath tub" catheter?
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Flip does Diane Sawyer know?
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Yes, we talked at the family reunion last year but we don't keep in touch. My brother lives close to her mother in Louisville and they talk frequently.
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Don't know, David; I've always been kind of a shower person anyway!
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Dear Ken, thank you for sharing a very personal story full of love for your sweet Donna. What a wonderful thing for you to do for her. I have loved Paul McCartney since I was 13, watching the Ed Sullivan show. I now admire him for taking time to be with your family and give all of you a wonderful memory. I saw Wings when they toured in the US, but I can't imagine ever meeting Paul and Linda. And I thought you really did look like Paul!! Thank you for letting us know about Donna. :cuddle;
Something people don't know about me? I am extemely insecure.
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That I am an old person stuck in a young body? :urcrazy;
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Hell, I'm a young person stuck in an old body, still listening to my 8 tracks and Lp's.
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Sweet story Ken. Donna had good taste! :2thumbsup;
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Ken, thank you for sharing that beautiful story.
About me? I used to correspond with the author Tom Robbins.
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when I was a child Dr.Debakey saved my life
I had a hole in my heart
that is about all I can remember
I was the first to live from something about the operation
and I am medical books, out of date now---but there was a time
and Missy was born with a diaphmatic hernia is also in medcial books
she is alive and that is rare
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Twirl is a miracle! :-*
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Something people don't know about me? I am extemely insecure.
Paris. Is it because you fear that you may eventually have to go on dialysis? Don't forget we are all here for you. I can tell you that when I was told dialysis would be inevitable (this was 3 years before I started dialysis) I was devastated and scared to death. When I look back now on many things in fact which you worry about for the future, experience as taught me that the fear is usually bigger than the eventual impact of what ever it is you fear. Does that make sense? I do my dialysis now without feeling anywhere like as devastated as I thought I would feel.
I feel for you, I think you are one of the most kind and caring persons on IHD and you don't deserve to feel insecure. :cuddle;
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Ken, such a sweet story, thanks for sharing! What strength you have for enduring that, something no parent can even imagine. But with sweet memories like that, her life lives through you.
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Aw Ken I just want to send you and Rita a big hug, can't think of anything worse than losing a child and I'm sure time never really heals. :grouphug;
Paris I want to send you a hug too cos I hate you to feel insecure :grouphug;
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I was the class clown
nothing nasty or mean like today's students
always made F's in conduct
passing notes, talking - stuff like that
then I had to change to stay in twirling and get A's in conduct
went from class clown to shy
I am shy - in person
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nothing nasty or mean like today's students
always made F's in conduct
passing notes, talking - stuff like that
Maybe I watched to many American Dad episodes, but I would have said "I see a future CIA spy agent right there". :rofl;