25 Things About You

[Soft*Silver]

1. I dont like most people. But I believe in the good of people. In theory and in general but not direct and in practice...

2. I fell in love once with a Franciscan monk who use to be a satanist. I went to him for counseling when my brother committed suicide. More happened than counseling over time. He left to take his final vows and left me behind. He called when he left the order. Our first date was at the wedding of my first love. Who told me during a dance that my ex priest was out in the parking lot fucking my best friend. What a night that was...

3. I now have two pink cowboy hats. I am eyeballing a third. It came in on consignment in my shop. I might have to buy it too...

4. I sometimes have to go to sleep angry when I am fighting with someone. I cant process well when the fight reaches a certain point. As I sleep tho, its worked on and when I awaken, I have it all sorted out and the beginnings of resolution can be found

5. I really dont like cats. I like other people's cats. I just dont like to own them myself. I have two. One is sitting right beside me. He really likes me. In fact I am the only living thing he relates to at all. So we stick together. But I dont like it. But I love him. I just dont like owning cats.

6. I am allergic to Tide laundry soap. I only use Gain. Tide can make my skin turn red, itch and swell.

7. I have never read Shakespeare

8. The one thing a lover can do that can destroy my faith in him/her, is to let someone make fun of me or talk ill of me to them or to anyone else in their presence and not stop them. I have only had this happen to me once, with one partner. I was told to be the bigger person and ignore it. It destroyed us, on different levels between us.

9. I write poetry but dont like to read it at all.

10. I am reading The Hunger Games. Still.

11. I am dreadfully afraid i dont know the rules about growing old and will end up looking like the Bingo Ladies with their mesh scarves around their curlered hair and the drastic make up over their wrinkles.

12. I have no patience for toast

13. I can tell the difference between a white oak and a red oak, a sugar maple from a silver maple, and a chinese pine and a white pine.

14. I took care of 18 families in a shelter when they all broke out in chicken pox in waves over a period of 2 months. Then I did. And my daughter did, who was only 8 and had a cast on her arm from falling off her bike.

15. When I moved to Florida in my 20s, my landlord tried to market me out sexually to his buddies, in exchange for reduced rent. He thought it was a great deal. I didnt.

16. I am an introvert and an extrovert. Its an interesting balance.

17. I want a black and white tv

18. I bought a grill last year for my sub to cook on. And he is afraid of it.

19. I am putting in my big garden again this year. I had to give it up for a couple years because I couldnt breath while gardening. Now that I have had surgery and things have been repaired I am better. My lung that was collapsed will never fully be ok and so I still get winded but I dont think I will be passing out while I weed anymore.

20. and I am getting my flock of hens this year too. The fencing is being put up next month. Its sitting outside waiting to happen...

21. my favorite of all colors is a deep rich indigo violet blue

22. My new eyeglass frames are Ed Hardy's

23. There is nothing more comforting of a sound to me than to listen to snoring. I am listening to my dog snore while I type this and it is so soothing...

24. I dont use any condiments on sandwhiches unless its a hot dog. On hot dogs I put mash potatoes, sauerkraut and mustard (usually brown) on them

25. I need a horse...

[deathbypoem]

1. I love Real Mayo, dislike Miracle Whip.

2. Can't stand grape, orange flavored anything but will eat oranges/grapes.

3. I enjoy extremely quiet days-silence intrigues me. A lot can be said.

4. Reading is a huge turn on. I love to look over and catch my boy with his brain buried deep in a book. Intelligence at its finest.

5. I don't salt my food because I find "salt" in other condiments to be sufficient.

6. My great dane and I have both have separation anxiety from each other

7. Cannot watch a movie twice. Unless its THAT good. Usually its only once.

8. If the beat to a song sucks, I wont listen to it.

9. I have listened to Snow Patrols Albums more than the law should allow.

10. I hated tomatoes until I turned mid-20's.

11. I am obsessed with reading online blogs/forums.

12. I am on the fence w/ the death penalty.

13. My favorite Saturday morning cartoon as a kid was Looney Toons and Mighty Mouse

14. Love belts. I have enough to fill a department store.

15. I'm an Aquarius

16. I hate buying things at full price.

17. I read everything from books, magazines, cereal boxes, labels, etc.

18. One day I would love to visit Martha Stewarts Vineyard

19. If its lemon flavored I'll eat it. Well, only edible things. Food.yeah.

20. I would drive the Mystery Machine.

21. 2 is my favorite number

22. I love hole in the wall rest, taco stands, etc. Small, privately owned seem to take extra time doin it right.

23. Not a morning person

24. I have a piece of chocolate at least once a day.

25. I can speed read

[laruss]

1. I am a Capricorn.
2. I never understand what people like about me.
3. I live in a city I have been trying to get out of my whole life... and keep getting drawn back.
4. My living situation is "unusual" at best.
5. I am learning the hard way about what is truly important in life.
6. I take full responsibility for my life, something that is very unusual I am finding.
7. I am writing 2 books.
8. I have a "need" to be creative every day.
9. I believe there is no truth, only perceptions.
10. I have spent my whole life "working" on myself.
11. I don't have relationships, I have projects... lessons to learn.
12. I love my dogs, but I am truly a cat person.
13. I don't do needy.
14. I am not as fiercely independent as I used to be, but I always know I am responsible for myself and can if needed always look after myself.
15. I love to help others.
16. I sometimes wish I didn't have to pretend to be so strong.
17. I wish I was living overseas.
18. I envy my brother and his life.
19. I have never been hurt as badly as I was in my last relationship.
20. I have been widowed and divorced.
21. I have two beautiful daughters and two amazing granddaughters (born 13 days apart)
22. My brother is gay, my mother was gay (deceased).
23. I have always been let down by my parents.
24. Some days life is a real struggle.
25. There are times I wish I was not a seeker and could go through life oblivious to the work that it is... but that doesn't last long.

[Scots_On_The_Rocks]

Let's see:

1. I am a Gemini
2. Also am a Fire Snake according to Chinese Astrology
3. I HATE ketchup
4. I refuse to eat grapes or raisins (AKA: freakish grape zombie corpses)
5. I don't believe in heaven or hell as places, they are states of existence only
6. I have been to all but one of the 50 states
7. I was once dragged out of a bathroom in an international airport by TSA officials and airport security because someone thought I was in the wrong bathroom
8. I used to live across the street from Frank Oz in West Cornwall, CT
9. I like to mix a little orange soda into my Coke
10. I have complex focal seizures
11. I have currently 18 tattoos and 7 piercings
12. I am the youngest of my siblings
13. I have been able to trace my genealogy back to 397 AD
14. I have eaten chocolate covered grasshoppers..and liked them
15. I was once trapped in a glass revolving door at a bank cause the power went out and it auto locked with me in it
16. My 2nd eldest sister died when I was 8
17. I cry at Hallmark commercials
18. I know ASL
19. I also know how to speak one "dead language"...Chinook Jargon
20. I have hiked 1/3 of the Pacific Crest Trail (Washington, Oregon and Northern California)
21. I have travelled coast to coast on a Greyhound bus 7 times
22. I once hitch-hiked during a tornado
23. I once lived somewhere where they had a frostbite warning on the radio saying that exposed skin would get frostbite in 45 seconds
24. I am terrified of the dark
25. I got kicked out of kindergarten on the first day

[GeeGina]

Which might be more than anyone really needs or even wants to know about me!! (haha)

1. I think Rachel Maddow is hot.
2. I love when my nieces and nephews rub my freshly shaved head.
3. I can't stand grapefruit. It's my Kryptonite.
4. I love to travel and wish I could do more.
5. I love to cook and bake - it's my passion and my favorite way to unwind after a long day or week.
6. I couldn't work in a job that wasn't creative in some way.
7. I love long hot baths when I have the time to take them.
8. I always find something charming about a crumbling subway system.
9. I don't really drink hard liquor, but do like a well made martini.
10. I love the Pacific Northwest. If I decide to move, that's where I'll go.
11. I prefer older partners than my peers. They're more fun, more secure, and know how to show a girl a good time.
12. I love my parents and respect them for loving me even when they didn't really understand me.
13. I believe that food really is love.
14. I'll never understand vegans. Live as you like, but I've been to places in the world where people scramble to find protein.
15. I dated a lawyer whos children were closer to my age than I was to hers.
16. I am blessed to have a family that loves me as I am...even when sometimes I do things that make them shake their heads.
17. I love my beat up jeans...and my new black cocktail dress.
18. I think skinny dipping is still a lot of fun.
19. I would love to live in Paris...but I'd be 300 lbs in a month from the breakfast croissants alone!
20. I chewed tobacco while riding horseback on a trip out West. I am many things, but I am not a cowgirl. I liked the hats and boots, though.
21. I find body hair to be sexy and underrated. At a party, I once complimented someone on her hairy armpits by saying "Your underarms are like, Sean Connery-great".
22. I have a serious weakness for an aggressive partner.
23. Iced tea is something of a religion in the South.
24. I like to listen to thunderstorms.
25. I couldn't ever live in the suburbs. I have family that does, and after a few hours I miss the sounds - chaotic as they are - of the city.