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Something you didn't know about me.....
- Thread starter Heneni
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I have a compulsion for buying little trinkets, including pens and pocketknives.
I am well-versed on the theory of tying up necktie knots, and in fact I have an (awfully outdated) webpage on the matter.
I used to contribute to a site about comicbook characters.
I am well-versed on the theory of tying up necktie knots, and in fact I have an (awfully outdated) webpage on the matter.
I used to contribute to a site about comicbook characters.
Nanda
Polyanna
I collect Pinky Street dolls and My Little Ponies.
I dress like a 15 year-old emo boy, but I'm turning 30 this June.
I have five cats.
I have two degrees, but I work as a costume seamstress because I love it.
I have a husband, a son and a boyfriend, and we all live together in a little cape in suburbia. (I also have a girlfriend, but she lives far away.
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I drive a minivan.
I dress like a 15 year-old emo boy, but I'm turning 30 this June.
I have five cats.
I have two degrees, but I work as a costume seamstress because I love it.
I have a husband, a son and a boyfriend, and we all live together in a little cape in suburbia. (I also have a girlfriend, but she lives far away.
)I drive a minivan.
doppelganger
Through the Looking Glass
I'm more of a "cat person" than a "dog person" though there are both cats and dogs in our family.
doppelganger
Through the Looking Glass
I have a genetic defect in my pinkie toes that make them point upwards when I'm barefoot.
1) I paid my college room and board to study philosophy by fighting fires for the city.
2) I once owned and operated a small business with 13 employees, including my bimbo ex-secretary, who I was especially fond of, in part because she taught me better than anyone else that people with absolutely no intellectual interests could be lovely, wise and compassionate.
3) When I was 16, I hitchhiked around the Western United States, living on the streets of the cities I found myself in. At that time, I was one of four people I met who were 16 or younger. Nowadays, there are thousands of kids younger than 16 living on the streets.
4) I didnt figure out Id married my first wife for her looks until after I was divorced the obvious often escapes me.
5) I was raised in a tiny Mid-Western American town of 2,500 people in which the dogs were allowed to vote in local elections on the theory they knew everyone in the community just as well as anyone.
6) My second marriage was to a brilliant, but abusive woman who herself had been abused as a child, and it created in me an intense interest in fighting against all manner of abuse.
7) At thirty-seven, I lost nearly everything I owned, including everything Id built my self-identity on, and consequently discovered the art of dying. I havent felt afraid of death since.
Apart from the seven things mentioned above, there is nothing else about me that could possibly interest anyone. Thats the greatest tragedy of my life: I havent enough personal stories to keep up my end of a good bar conversation a fact I feel compelled to compensate for by indulging in endless drunken jokes about farts.
2) I once owned and operated a small business with 13 employees, including my bimbo ex-secretary, who I was especially fond of, in part because she taught me better than anyone else that people with absolutely no intellectual interests could be lovely, wise and compassionate.
3) When I was 16, I hitchhiked around the Western United States, living on the streets of the cities I found myself in. At that time, I was one of four people I met who were 16 or younger. Nowadays, there are thousands of kids younger than 16 living on the streets.
4) I didnt figure out Id married my first wife for her looks until after I was divorced the obvious often escapes me.
5) I was raised in a tiny Mid-Western American town of 2,500 people in which the dogs were allowed to vote in local elections on the theory they knew everyone in the community just as well as anyone.
6) My second marriage was to a brilliant, but abusive woman who herself had been abused as a child, and it created in me an intense interest in fighting against all manner of abuse.
7) At thirty-seven, I lost nearly everything I owned, including everything Id built my self-identity on, and consequently discovered the art of dying. I havent felt afraid of death since.
I think of myself as a "car guy", but except for my first car (a K-car) I have only ever owned minivans.
Don Penguinoini
Modi.
I still go to school
I hate it
But i hate the morning more
Im a pretty boring person/unevenful life.
Maybe thats because its still only 13 years long.
I hate it
But i hate the morning more
Im a pretty boring person/unevenful life.
Maybe thats because its still only 13 years long.
Truth_Faith13
Well-Known Member
I have a phobia of the Sea/Rivers. I normally say water, but its not the water itself, its whats in it so I am fine in swimming pools though wont swim in them at night!
Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
I didn't drive for 22 years after getting my driver's license because I was afraid to. This was a closely guarded secret. I would do anything to keep people from finding out, kind of like someone who is illiterate goes to great lengths not to let this be known.
I'm not bothered by reptiles, but the tiniest spider imaginable scares me absolutely to death. I'm actually afraid of most insects, expecially flying ones. This fear even extends to some extent to butterflies.
I'm afraid of garbage trucks. When I was a little girl, the man who drove the garbage truck once threatened to pick me up and throw me in the back of his truck and grind me up with the garbage. I've never quite gotten over it.
Two things I've always wanted to do, but probably never will are (1) skydiving and (2) volunteering with the Peace Corps.
I'm not bothered by reptiles, but the tiniest spider imaginable scares me absolutely to death. I'm actually afraid of most insects, expecially flying ones. This fear even extends to some extent to butterflies.
I'm afraid of garbage trucks. When I was a little girl, the man who drove the garbage truck once threatened to pick me up and throw me in the back of his truck and grind me up with the garbage. I've never quite gotten over it.
Two things I've always wanted to do, but probably never will are (1) skydiving and (2) volunteering with the Peace Corps.
ranjana
Active Member
totally relate!!!! ive been completely scared of fish my whole life! forced myself to go snorkeling in the red sea and totally hyperventilated! i can swim in lakes and ocean if the water is clear and there are no fish that i can see!!!
Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
Me too! I wouldn't say I'm afraid of rivers, but I am afraid of the ocean and of any body of very deep water. I'm also okay in swimming pools -- but not at night. Funny, huh?
Truth_Faith13
Well-Known Member
For me, I think its from my over-active imagination as a child of a shark bursting through the bars of the wave machine which scared me and at night there are lots of shadows which give me heart attacks!
Nanda
Polyanna
I never want to drive anything else. They need to hurry up and make a hybrid minivan, or I'm going to have to switch to a car or an (*shudders*) SUV in a few years, and I really, really don't want to! :sad4: I love my minivan. I've lived in my minivan - comfortably, I might add.
1. Not only am I known as a "whore" here at RF, the people at my Dharma center call a "whore," too. I proudly wear the title like a badge of honor. It's all fun.
2. I have a weird habit of knocking on the car door twice getting in or out of the car. I started doing it to discharge whatever static electricity was created by the friction, but I've just been doing it ever since regardless of how dry the air is.
3. I'm deathly afraid of balloons. I cringe every time I'm around one that's been inflated, and if I have to inflate one myself. One time I went to a large party where there were balloons everywhere, and people were told to start popping them all around to get to little gifts inside. I covered my head and was almost in tears the whole time.
4. I chased Madonna through Central Park in New York City..........twice. The second time my girlfriend and I acted like we were jogging before we spotted her. Carlos Leon (the father of her daughter Lourdes and who was jogging with her at the time) yelled at us to get away from her.
5. Unlike many of my friends in the performing arts industry - I don't have a myspace page or a facebook page. I'm constatly nagged by everyone to get one, at least to promote my work. I just have no interest in it.
6. I've been able to get into concerts, bars, clubs, sporting events and to get drinks and dinners for free after talking to someone who was a complete stranger just a few minutes before. I've also been able to get into the VIP lounge in clubs in New York for free. But I've still never been able to get out of paying a speeding ticket. Somebody please tell me what I could be doing wrong here........
7. I've been a victim of rape, and my life since is testimony that rape survivors can still enjoy their sexuality fully and completely.
8. Troublemane here at RF is my oldest brother. We have a brother between us, but he and I are estranged. I hear how he and his son are doing through Troublemane - who I've felt close to nearly all my life.
9. I'm 4'11", and I weigh 108 pounds. However, as a dancer, I'm seen as someone who is on the more "meatier" side of physique, even though my body-fat percentage is 18%. I yearn for the day when professional dancers are not harassed about their weight in our industry, and that one day we will be harassed about our health.
10. I have one tattoo on my left ankle. It's a rose with a banner around saying my husband's name on it: Steve. My hubbie has one tattoo on his left arm - a sword with a banner around is saying my name. We got them both on December 26th, 2003, as a way for us to stay viscerally connected to each other shortly before he was deployed to southern Iraq and Kuwait for 14 months.
2. I have a weird habit of knocking on the car door twice getting in or out of the car. I started doing it to discharge whatever static electricity was created by the friction, but I've just been doing it ever since regardless of how dry the air is.
3. I'm deathly afraid of balloons. I cringe every time I'm around one that's been inflated, and if I have to inflate one myself. One time I went to a large party where there were balloons everywhere, and people were told to start popping them all around to get to little gifts inside. I covered my head and was almost in tears the whole time.
4. I chased Madonna through Central Park in New York City..........twice. The second time my girlfriend and I acted like we were jogging before we spotted her. Carlos Leon (the father of her daughter Lourdes and who was jogging with her at the time) yelled at us to get away from her.
5. Unlike many of my friends in the performing arts industry - I don't have a myspace page or a facebook page. I'm constatly nagged by everyone to get one, at least to promote my work. I just have no interest in it.
6. I've been able to get into concerts, bars, clubs, sporting events and to get drinks and dinners for free after talking to someone who was a complete stranger just a few minutes before. I've also been able to get into the VIP lounge in clubs in New York for free. But I've still never been able to get out of paying a speeding ticket. Somebody please tell me what I could be doing wrong here........
7. I've been a victim of rape, and my life since is testimony that rape survivors can still enjoy their sexuality fully and completely.
8. Troublemane here at RF is my oldest brother. We have a brother between us, but he and I are estranged. I hear how he and his son are doing through Troublemane - who I've felt close to nearly all my life.
9. I'm 4'11", and I weigh 108 pounds. However, as a dancer, I'm seen as someone who is on the more "meatier" side of physique, even though my body-fat percentage is 18%. I yearn for the day when professional dancers are not harassed about their weight in our industry, and that one day we will be harassed about our health.
10. I have one tattoo on my left ankle. It's a rose with a banner around saying my husband's name on it: Steve. My hubbie has one tattoo on his left arm - a sword with a banner around is saying my name. We got them both on December 26th, 2003, as a way for us to stay viscerally connected to each other shortly before he was deployed to southern Iraq and Kuwait for 14 months.