10 things you didn't know about me

[fc2821]

   Like this thread t is nice to get to know you all better.

    Looneytunes, I'm fluent in hillbilly too. It was my first language. We use to call it Souther Illinois ese though. Use to go over to Cape Girardeau all the time. I know not close to ypu, but not too far away.
    Ok Dan, a challenge, tell us 10 thing we don't know about you.

 

[dwcrawford]

I posted on here way back when.... maybe I'll do it again with some more serious stuff.

Do you mean Cape Girardeau, Missouri... or Illinois.  To the tune of San Francisco:  "I left my tonsils in Cape Giradeau"....

[looneytunes]

Rob...Cape G is about 100 miles and so is Springfield, MO  so we are just about in the middle. 

DW....Spanish with my accent IS comical...I have been to Mexico several times and it always brings a grin from the natives.

NurseW....you have my admiration...I HATE drywall work!   

I have really enjoyed reading this thread!

 

[dwcrawford]

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[fc2821]

I posted on here way back when.... maybe I'll do it again with some more serious stuff.

Do you mean Cape Girardeau, Missouri... or Illinois.  To the tune of San Francisco:  "I left my tonsils in Cape Giradeau"....

   There is East Cape Giradeau,Il....but just accross the river (Mississippi) from Cape Girardeau, Mo. I was refering to the MO one.
   Thanks Dan.
   Looneytones, do you guys get KFVS? Whatched all the time till I moved here? 
   Nursewatchet, I like you. Anyone who has painted and drywalled for a living deserves a lot of respect.

Keeping withe thread:

10 moore things you don't know about me.

1..)  I am my mother's only child

2.) I have 7 half brothers and sisters.

3.) I am a news junkie. Watch it on TV, read newspapers and the internet.

4.) I have this strange ability to identify a language even if I don't know how to speak any of it. Come from years of listening to international radio signals both broadcast and ham.

5.) I was a member of The Radio Australia's listnes club when I was in high school. Listened to their shortwave broadcasts for years. Always thought the horse racing results were neat.

6.) I use to own 1,000+ books. Moved had to find other homes for them.

7.) There was a time when I was not a nice person. Hey, maybe I'm not now   No comments please.

8.)  I wrote a monthly column for two magazines, at the same time for a while.

9.) I never wanted to go hunting or fishing, but that doesn't mean I don't know how to do either or care if anyone else does.

10.) I dated my current wife, before I met my first wife, in college. Things didn't work out. We went our seperate ways to different places too. I "found" her again 31 years later. This time things worked out.

[willowtreewren]

10.) I dated my current wife, before I met my first wife, in college. Things didn't work out. We went our seperate ways to different places too. I "found" her again 31 years later. This time things worked out.

That is so romantic, Rob! 

[pamster42000]

1  My favorite color is Burgundy
2  Before I die I want to stand barefoot on a beach, looking at the ocean without a care in the world at that moment
3  I enjoy being outdoors, weather permitting
4  I really like flea markets, antique malls and garage sales!
5  The four squirrels that live in the tree outside my living room window are getting a surprise in the spring...a new squirrel feeder
6  I'm actually going to plant a garden this year and plant a special flower garden in memory of Sarah...going to call it...Sarah's Secret Garden.
7  I should be more out-spoken, but it's not in my nature...so it probley won't happen
8  I love cats and dogs
9  just love watching my grandson Logan...but you already know that
10  feel privileged being a member of IHD   

[Pam]

This is a great thread!
10 things you don't know about me

1..Favorite color is red
2..I love to sew but don't mend anything
3..Never been to chat. Cannot read and type at the same time
4..I've lived in Mich all my life
5.. My son and GS and all of my in laws live in SE Mo
6..I was a stay at home mom
7..Have been married for almost 39 yrs.
8..I live in the middle of the woods
9..I hate clutter but have a hard time getting rid of stuff
10..to sum things up...pretty darn boring

[jennyc]

5.) I was a member of The Radio Australia's listnes club when I was in high school. Listened to their shortwave broadcasts for years. Always thought the horse racing results were neat.

My hubby always laughs at our accent (he has one of those accents that no one can pick he is an army brat so grew up in a few different countries)

10.) I dated my current wife, before I met my first wife, in college. Things didn't work out. We went our seperate ways to different places too. I "found" her again 31 years later. This time things worked out.

That is soooo sweet!

Anyway on topic 10 more things
1. i'm also a sci fi/fantasy freak... stargate, star trek, dean koontz, stephen king (but NEVER mention the last book of the dark tower....so not happy jan!) firefly etc. my tv is tuned to scifi chanel (i got foxtel just so i could have scifi)
2. i'm a true crime freak as well.... love the Crime chanel and the doco chanels.
3. ancient history was my favourite subject in high school
4. i cannot garden for the life of me.... i can kill almost any plant even with tlc! yet my grandfather was a greenthumb
5. i used to serve a famous australian (nrl) footy player at the first pub i worked at and just to rile him up i pretended i didn't know who he was (he was a god back in the 80's in NSW, back in the days when you went to a fight and a footy match broke out)
6. I have an irrational phobia of holes, but not just any holes.... weird geometric holes clustered together or lotus pods of banksia cones. i feel sick at the sight of them and get all tingly. YUCK!
7. after my son was born i became neurotic. I couldn't let him out of my sight for the first two years becuase i was so scared something would happen. i forced myself to return to work to try and let go a little (i cried if i left him alon with hubby, not becuase i didn't trust hubby but becuase i wasn't in control. My response to renal failure and losing control of my life, i think i micro managed everything else i could) still suffer a little now but i've gotten a lot better.
8. i love spanish food!
9. i make a mean nepali goat curry (yet i don't like goat all that much) my husbands sister in law was jealous becuase i made it better than her!
10. My father in law was in the British Ghurka regiment

[jbeany]

1.  I'd rather have a little vase of tulips than the most expensive bunch of roses.

2. I love reading kids' books, for the tween years.  They're fast, fun, and entertaining.

3.  I'm a thrift store junkie. 

4.  I have a Bachelor's degree with a double major in Physics and English.

5.  The college class I've used the most, and made the most income with, was a blow-off computer art class that I took just for fun.

6.  My sister and I looked so much alike as kids that everyone thought we were twins, even though she is two years older.

7.  I frequently have lucid dreams - the kind where you realize you are dreaming and you can take control and do what you want.  I hate waking up from those!

8.  After years of hating to exercise, I've now become addicted enough that I'm cranky when I can't.  If I could reach, I'd kick myself for taking 30-some years to realize that.

9.  I would have joined the military if I hadn't been a juvenile diabetic.

10.  I thought jumping out of plane was a lot less scary than my first dialysis treatment.
 

[Chris]

5.  The college class I've used the most, and made the most income with, was a blow-off computer art class that I took just for fun.

9.  I would have joined the military if I hadn't been a juvenile diabetic.

10.  I thought jumping out of plane was a lot less scary than my first dialysis treatment.
 

I am very similar to that. I just don't want to be working on computers  because it can become frustrating because I want my projects perfect. I wanted to join the military when they came to my high school to discuss programs, but was told I can't, very disapointing. Last was jumping out of a plane. It was suppose to be a group from work going so we would have had a discounted deal, but as the date approached more and more people chickened out except for me and the person who set it up. So I never was able to go.

[monrein]

10 more things about me. 

1.  I've been living with the same guy since I was 17.  We met when I was 16.
2.  I've lived in Jamaica, two different cities in France and two different Canadian provinces.
3.  Two of the most interesting places I've visited (way back in 1975) were Laos and Burma (Myanmar).
4.  I have epilepsy but very controlled.
5.  Doctors gave me 6 weeks to live when I was 8 months old. 
6.  I've done 11 white water canoe trips, including one up in the Arctic (the Hood River) in Nunavut.
7.  I went to boarding school at ten years old, for four years, and left because I was almost expelled.  Always questioning the rules and then breaking them if the answers given were unconvincing.  If convinced of the logic or necessity of a rule, I'd help the powers that were to get compliance.
8.  My mother lost a baby two weeks short of her due date.  She was beaten up by a fired dairy worker who poisoned our dogs first so he could access the house.
9.  In another violent incident, my father was chopped with a machete and shot by three men who came to our farm on Xmas Eve morning, 1969.
10. I never returned to our house after that morning .

[willowtreewren]

  Monrein

I think I did this ages ago, so 10 more things:

1. I nearly died from encephalitis at age 10.
2. I married at age 17. Never regretted it.
3. I sang my mother to death...well, I was singing to her when she died.
4. I vowed as a child that I would never be a nurse. (Life has a way of playing tricks on us!)
5. I took calculus in college as an elective (I was a fine arts major).
6. I collect autographed books.
7. My mother was a gourmet cook, but I merely manage to keep us fed.
8. I am terribly afraid of heights.
9. I lost my inner ear at age 6 and had to learn to walk again. (see # 8, balance is still an issue)
10. I feel like I have been extremely fortunate throughout life.

[thegrammalady]

i apparently never posted here......

1.   i too am ambidextrous
2.   i have been accused of turning mountains into molehills. (i just see no point in fussing and fuming about things i can't change, which doesn't mean i don't care.
3.   you won't catch me skiing, or sky diving. i class them right along with murder, mayhem and roller coasters.
4.   i used to train customer service reps.
5.   i have 4 grandsons (now that's not unknown)
6.   i love to cook
7.   i think egg rolls are the perfect food
8.   i love to cross stitch and to crochet (especially baby blankets, that i give to a maternity home)
9.   i read and read and read. especially science fiction and murder mysteries
10. i'm fully aware that you have a right to your own opinion and will gladly listen, but i'm well aware that i'm much happier when you do it my way!

[YLGuy]

10 more things you may or may not know about me.

1. I LOVE, I mean really LOVE being a dad and think I do a better job with my kids than many 2 parent households.
2. ERSD has me really scared that I won't live long enough to walk my daughter down the aisle or be a grandpa.
3. I loved being a husband until my ex got knocked up by a friend of ours so I filed for divorce.
4. My ex attacked me and got arrested for felony spousal abuse.  My oldest was home when it happened and that is why he doesn't talk to her any more.
5. I would not let my son testify against her so the charges were dropped.
6. The divorce took 4 years.
7. My kidneys failed 3 months after the divorce was final. 3 friggin months, can you believe it?
8. It is very hard for me to accept help from anyone even when I know I need it.
9. I think my mom is great and talk to her on the phone at least twice a week.
10. With all that has happened I consider myself to be an extremely lucky guy and blessed.

[Stoday]

10 things you didn't know about me:

1) Hospitalized at 10 having blown myself up making nitrogen triiodide explosive.
2) Used to sit at the back of class with the lads, passing dirty pictures around
3) Managed to get an engineering degree
4) Became a salesman, then sales manager
5) Became an economist
6) Got made redundant so started my own international business
7) Lost £100,000 of my savings on the UK stockmarket
Weighed 245lb, felt very healthy but got heart attack after working in Pakistan
9) Built house to retire to
10) Now weigh 190lb.

[MandaMe1986]

Okay so I have done this once already. But seeing that a few people have done it more then once. So here we go.

lets see...
1) I grew up speaking English and Spanish in my household until I was 5 and my mom left my father. And can no longer understand anything unless your telling me off.
2) I pretty much raised my little brother despite the fact that he is only two years younger then me. But we are extremely close now because of it.
3) Both of my parents drank when I was a kid
4) Lived in a homeless shelter when I was 5 for 4 months
5) I love fish, any kind of fish
6) My family thinks my football team is the Raiders, but in reality don't really have one
7) I DO NOT look good as a blond
For some reason I have this addiction to dark lipstick, but know I'm to white to pull it off. (still wear it anyway)
9) I haven't worn shorts outside of the house sense I was like 8
10) I really do prefer the taste of diet soda over regular

[JennyGiggle]

1) When I was 10 I survived a huge car crash where all other 8 souls perished.
2) After that car crash I was told I wouldn't be able to play piano/percussion anymore
3) I proved them wrong and I am about to graduate with a degree in music
4) I want to write a book someday
5) my mum and sister are the most important people in my life
6) I believe I have a guardian angel, each time I have went through a really tough time I have this dream of the same lady who takes my hand and smiles and when I wake up I have always felt they courage to continue on and sort out/deal with the problems at hand.
7) the last time I had this dream was a night shortly after I found about that my kindeys had failed, I was confused and angry and considering stupid things but after the dream I woke up determined to make the best of things
I have been reading a lot of negative things on the site the last few days but think that this site and those who mantain it (as well as those who offer support) are a godsend and I am completely aware that nothing can be perfect. I am very grateful at having a place where people understand what this illness is like.
9) I have a ridiculous giggle. When I get into a giggling fit I usually make everyone else laugh as well simply because I sound so funny.
10) I have a secret (well not secret now) obsession with Hugh Laurie. I think despite his age compared to mine that he is very hansome 

Jenny

[hotnspicyazgirl]

1- I have never seen snow, and I don't care if I never do. I live for the heat, and it's a damn good thing I live in Arizona

2-I secretly have a MAJOR crush on Bill OReilly, and I wish he wasn't married so I could date him. My friends DIE every time I say that. 

3-Sometimes I get really terrified that I could get a kidney from a democrat, and then I would end up liking Obama. KIDDING, but a girl can hope for a republican kidney. 

4-I am very physically fit, and I am a personal trainer. Working out is like being in heaven for me.

5-My Mom is the most amazing woman in this entire universe, and beyond. If I can be 1/4 of the woman she is, I will be doing just fine.

6-I had my heart totally broken on this New Years Eve when my then boyfriend cheated on me, right in front of my very eyes. Ughhhhhh! Two nights later I was in the E.R when my doctor informed me that my kidney failed, and I needed to start dialysis. It sucked!

7-Everyday that I have to do dialysis I think about signing off....It makes me soo angry when people think I don't want to live, it's more like I don't want to live like this.

8-Im VERY sarcastic, and so is my sense of humor. I LOVE to tease, and be teased.

9-I believe in God.

10-My friends are absolutely incredible people who inspire and lift me up every single day. They are funny as hell, and everyday I can spend with them is like having my own personal comedy show. I am a blessed woman.

BONUS 11- I like you!

P.S I really honestly don't care if I get a kidney from a liberal....I just want one!

[YLGuy]

P.S I really honestly don't care if I get a kidney from a liberal....I just want one!

What if you were pretty sure that the kidney was not born in America because it won't show you it's birth certificate? What if that same kidney kept company with known radicals?   

[hotnspicyazgirl]

HOLY CHRISTMAS!!
Yikes, that would be torture for me. Id say since he was "spreading the wealth", that he share the other one while he was at it. 
Then I would tell him to enjoy his healthcare!

[Rerun]

1- I have never seen snow, and I don't care if I never do. I live for the heat, and it's a damn good thing I live in Arizona

2-I secretly have a MAJOR crush on Bill OReilly, and I wish he wasn't married so I could date him. My friends DIE every time I say that. 

3-Sometimes I get really terrified that I could get a kidney from a democrat, and then I would end up liking Obama. KIDDING, but a girl can hope for a republican kidney. 

4-I am very physically fit, and I am a personal trainer. Working out is like being in heaven for me.

5-My Mom is the most amazing woman in this entire universe, and beyond. If I can be 1/4 of the woman she is, I will be doing just fine.

6-I had my heart totally broken on this New Years Eve when my then boyfriend cheated on me, right in front of my very eyes. Ughhhhhh! Two nights later I was in the E.R when my doctor informed me that my kidney failed, and I needed to start dialysis. It sucked!

7-Everyday that I have to do dialysis I think about signing off....It makes me soo angry when people think I don't want to live, it's more like I don't want to live like this.

8-Im VERY sarcastic, and so is my sense of humor. I LOVE to tease, and be teased.

9-I believe in God.

10-My friends are absolutely incredible people who inspire and lift me up every single day. They are funny as hell, and everyday I can spend with them is like having my own personal comedy show. I am a blessed woman.

BONUS 11- I like you!

P.S I really honestly don't care if I get a kidney from a liberal....I just want one!

I LOVE YOU!  OMG I THINK I'M A LESBEON!  JK  OMG JK

[Rerun]

HOLY CHRISTMAS!!
Yikes, that would be torture for me. Id say since he was "spreading the wealth", that he share the other one while he was at it. 
Then I would tell him to enjoy his healthcare!

          
Are you real?  TWINS!  I found my TWIN!!!     

[YLGuy]

You both have me laughing  and just a little bit worried 

[Chris]

I LOVE YOU!  OMG I THINK I'M A LESBEON!  JK  OMG JK

Well then, you would have to either update or write a new post     
 
Or new topic "Things I did not know about myself" 
 
Now lets see what RichardMels reply wil say