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« on: April 22, 2008, 04:35:20 PM »

  i  always  put  my  right  shoe  on  first :urcrazy;
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« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2008, 09:07:30 PM »

I eat my french fries largest to smallest.
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« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2008, 04:05:38 AM »

I try to not to entertain negative thoughts because I believe in the law of attraction.  Reading the book titled: The Secret. It's not easy to change old habits but I'm trying.
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« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2008, 08:49:19 AM »

I have to apologize to God every time I say GDamm it--- ever if I only say it to myself
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« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2008, 11:16:09 AM »

I knock wood, throw salt over my shoulder and bless sneezes. My grandma said you always need to leave a house through the same door you entered in - not sure why but her superstition sticks in my head!
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« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2008, 11:18:34 AM »

I also knock on wood, bless sneezes, won't walk under a ladder and won't step on cracks on the sidewalk. I know  :urcrazy;
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« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2008, 03:01:55 PM »

I eat everything but I REFUSE to eat kidneys as in  steak and kidney pie so don't bother telling me how "nice" it can be.  I don't eat kidneys and I ordered them once, by mistake, in France and just couldn't do it.  Silly but true.
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« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2008, 07:00:43 PM »

if i'm playing black jack i never cut the deck, or play a hand where the dealer has just shuffled the cards. (am i weird or what)
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« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2008, 08:04:03 PM »

My grandma said you always need to leave a house through the same door you entered in - not sure why but her superstition sticks in my head!

My Mother in Law says the same thing!
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« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2008, 07:21:47 AM »

I say knock on wood frequently but not as a superstition.  I actually knock on my head when I say it more as a joke than anything.  I figure it's about as thick as a block of wood some days though.
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« Reply #10 on: April 24, 2008, 09:23:42 AM »

My grandma said you always need to leave a house through the same door you entered in - not sure why but her superstition sticks in my head!

My Mother in Law says the same thing!

My grandma said it was bad luck if you left a house through a different door.  I'm not sure about this, but I always do it.

Yes, I'm quite superstitious in my life...but, I don't know if it's really superstition or just my routines (putting the right sock on, then the left, then the right shoe, then the left -- and stuff like that).  When Marvin and I set up for his home hemo treatments, we always do the process in a particular order, and we always put his supplies in a particular place on his chair-side table (band-aids down first, two gauze on top of them, bedadine in the front corner, needles in the middle of the table, etc.).  This way, we can take a quick glance at the table and see if anything's missing.  We're creatures of habit.
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« Reply #11 on: April 24, 2008, 07:38:29 PM »

I knock on that wooden head of mine too Hawkeye.
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New upper-arm fistula April 2008
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(2 1/2 hours X 5 weekly)
Self-cannulated, 15 gauge blunts, buttonholes.
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« Reply #12 on: April 24, 2008, 09:55:53 PM »

I do not like my food touching or icky vege water all over my plate.
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Take it one day, one hour, one minute, one second at a time.

"If we don't find a way out of this soon, I'm gonna lose it. Lose it... It means go crazy, nuts, insane, bonzo, no longer in possession of ones faculties, three fries short of a Happy Meal, wacko!" Jack O'Neill - SG-1
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« Reply #13 on: May 21, 2008, 12:10:33 PM »

Never sing while fishing and never take a white-handled knife on a fishing boat.
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« Reply #14 on: May 21, 2008, 02:09:36 PM »

To open an umbrella in the house is to bring bad luck
Cold hands, warm heart
It is bad luck to light three cigarettes with the same match
It's good luck to find a four-leaf clover
It is bad luck to kill a ladybug


I didn't realize I had these superstitions and old wives tales in my head!

Found more here: http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/scary.html
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« Reply #15 on: May 21, 2008, 02:14:56 PM »

I have to apologize to God every time I say GDamm it--- ever if I only say it to myself


I do that to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   I also say sorry when I'm mad at people and say bad things about them!!!!
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« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2008, 02:51:59 PM »

I always worry bad things come in threes.
So when two bad things happen to me, I always start stressing about when the 3rd one is going to hit.
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« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2008, 03:17:21 PM »

don't  know  if  this  is  the  right  place

i've  startted  looking  in  the  death  notices  when  i  read  the  paper

just  making  sure  i'm  not  the  there :urcrazy;
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« Reply #18 on: May 21, 2008, 03:25:32 PM »

I thank God each time I pee. Goofy!
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« Reply #19 on: May 21, 2008, 03:38:24 PM »



When I find a parking place we say "Thank you Jesus"
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Jenna is our daughter, bad bladder damaged her kidneys.
Was on in-center hemodialysis 2003-2007.
7 yr transplant lost due to rejection.
She did PD Sept. 2013 - July 2017
Found a swap living donor using social media, friends, family.
New kidney in a paired donation swap July 26, 2017.
Her story ---> https://www.facebook.com/WantedKidneyDonor
Please watch her video: http://youtu.be/D9ZuVJ_s80Y
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« Reply #20 on: May 21, 2008, 04:35:21 PM »

in the hospital, this time, everytime I urinated I'd high five the Lord :urcrazy; thankful for every drop
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« Reply #21 on: May 21, 2008, 08:07:03 PM »

Okarol, is that "thank you Jeeaasuuuss"?? :rofl; :rofl;
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« Reply #22 on: May 21, 2008, 11:28:03 PM »

Never walk under a ladder,   If you knock one elbow always knock the other,  If you see one magpie, unlucky you must see two,  Never ever cross someone on the stairs, 
If you break a mirror, seven years bad luck,  If you see an ambulance, hold your color and never swallow until you see a dog. :urcrazy;
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« Reply #23 on: May 22, 2008, 12:09:56 AM »

My grandmother told me never put a hat on a bed
I know it is just a superstition but I cannot bring myself to do it
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« Reply #24 on: May 22, 2008, 08:26:38 AM »

I make an effort not to be superstitious, so I purposely do the things that I am not supposed to do - like open an umbrella in the house, put my bag on the floor (bag on the floor, you will always be poor).
In Barbados, if you sleep with your nightie on the wrong side,  they say that you slept with a duppy (ghost).  I went to live in Antigua and there they say that you must sleep with your nightie on the wrong side to keep away jumbies (ghosts)!!!
It was in Antigua that I first heard about leaving a house through the same door.  I had gone downstairs in my dad's office.  I walked out the door and there was a girl from the village.  we played about and then she came in my dad's office with me.  Then we went upstairs and she spent nearly an entire day with me.  We ended up at the front door when she was ready to leave. I opened the door and she was horrified.  She had to go back downstairs to the office and leave through that door.  She said it would 'tie' her otherwise!
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