5 Things No One Would Know About You From BFP Alone

[Laerkin]

• I opt for laughter in life and really try not to take myself too seriously (life is too short for that crap).

• I think compassion and education are the two salves that will heal the world, if only we'd give them a chance.

• I love those posh, expensive, not-enough-food, Michelin starred restaurants...I try to visit a few new ones each year and I always learn something new about food and flavors I'd never imagined. Then I try to recreate them at home (I will be honest and admit my failures slighty outweight my successes )

• I'm graceful when I dance, but the rest of the time I'm somewhat clumsy. Walls and I meet too often. Gravity and I disagree frequently. It's when I catch myself apologizing to the wall that I know I'm having a bad day. LOL.

• My largest phobia in life is needles. My therapist and I are working very hard at helping me overcome it as it's paralyzed me for my entire life and my health suffers for it. So yeah...needles and Laerkin = tears, but I'm trying to get better.

[jenny]

• I love, love, love rollercoasters. LOVE. Which, I realize, is in contradiction to my fear of heights. *shrugs*

• I hate trying things on in stores, so I usually just buy stuff then return it if it doesn't fit.

• My house is generally neat as a pin, but my office looks like a disaster area.

• I wear a pink shirt to work every Tuesday. Actually, everyone who works with me wears a pink shirt on Tuesdays. It's always fun to see the customers looking around, puzzled...

• I love playing card games.

[Jet]

I never open mail except for checks
(If companies need to reach me they can save a tree and call me.)
My cousin won a bunch of things on The Price is Right years ago
I love Jeopardy
I'm not tall, just very stocky
I love the ocean

[Arwen]

• I don't like talking on the phone unless I like talking on the phone in which case I'm all about talking on the phone
• I frequently try to give up caffeine but I just can't quit him
• I know secrets that I'll never tell
• I like to push buttons
• I'm available for a hugathon starting 8/19 and running through 8/22
  

[jenny]

Originally Posted by Arwen

[LIST][*]I don't like talking on the phone unless I like talking on the phone in which case I'm all about talking on the phone

EXACTLY!!!!!

[Kätzchen]

- I always have a million-squillion back-up plans in case my current plan of the moment isn't working out the way I would like to see it play out.

- I tend to have a curiousity driven side to my personality: I'm always wondering and daydreaming and trying to come up with a feasible plan of action.

- I don't give two flying flips if I ever see a doctor for care or treatment or have health insurance: I've been without medical care for so long that I believe that the alternative treatments I find to help myself are working just fine (even if society doesn't think it's proper- I'm gonna do what I have to do to take care of me and so far, it's working just fine; it's about quality of life issues for me, seriously).

- It doesn't matter to me what type of shoes I wear because I'm pretty talented at making my feet take me wherever I need to go and I usually end up where I'm supposed to be anyway, LOL!

- I don't think of myself as a too bright or too intellectual or too smart for my own good: I do possess some talent, some intuitive intellect but for the most part, I tend to take life slowly and what I don't understand and am not able to find solutions (for current dilemmas), I do tend to defer to alternative knowledge sources to help me figure out what to do next - if that makes sense at all.

[Duchess]

Ms. Pac Man rawks my world!!
I only buy HTC cell phones.
I LOVE Scrabble, the board game!!!
I only wear red or black toenail polish.
My favorite room in my house is the bathroom.


Duchess

[Jet]

I hate clowns (except for Emmet Kelly)
I like rainy nights in Georgia
I used to collect Stephen King in hardback (and since tossed them)
German wines are my favorites
I once had a 13 hour phone conversation

[Soft*Silver]

I am suspicious about almost everyone. I never was this way until recently. Before, I trusted long before I should have. This resulted in my suspiciousness.

The one person in my life that I will have to bare my soul and all my sins to, my AA sponsor, I had no suspicions about. She is the only person in the last few years that I instantly trusted. Goddess spoke. I listened.

I abuse the inside of my car. I have hauled wet plants on my leather seats. Sick dogs have thrown up on them. All my fast food wrappers (I rarely eat FF but when I do...) are on the back floor and all my pop cans are on the front floor.

I had a dream about a mirror, that when you look into it, it can morph your face into an animals face. It is intended for children to play with. I even have the design details and how it works given to me in the dream. Isnt this odd and wild and fun?

I sleep on my couch because my old dog can no longer climb the stairs. She cries when I have made her do this. She will never be asked to do it again. I will sleep downstairs until she passes...

[jenny]

~ I have a bad habit of biting the insides of my lips when I'm stressed...

~ I can't seem to throw away my old pocket calendars when I get a new one... I have several years' worth in my desk drawer, and although I'm not sure why I'd ever need to reference them, I can't bring myself to toss 'em.

~ I'm completely, totally fascinated by "Lockup" and other prison documentaries.

~ I'm an incessant worrier.

~ I have a chip in one of my front teeth that, for years now, I've pondered having fixed.

[Medusa]

Pick 5!

* I was raised in a church that handles Rattlesnakes as a form of "trust in the Holy Spirit".

* I can drive a stick shift, a Quad bike, a motorcycle, a motor home, a forklift, and a backhoe.

* I rode horses when I was younger and competed in barrel racing, barrel pickup, and pole competitions.

* Im an expert marksman.

* Im kinda fascinated with scars, reclaimed deformities, and interesting teeth.

[UofMfan]

Originally Posted by jenny

~ I have a bad habit of biting the insides of my lips when I'm stressed...

~ I can't seem to throw away my old pocket calendars when I get a new one... I have several years' worth in my desk drawer, and although I'm not sure why I'd ever need to reference them, I can't bring myself to toss 'em.

~ I'm completely, totally fascinated by "Lockup" and other prison documentaries.

~ I'm an incessant worrier.

~ I have a chip in one of my front teeth that, for years now, I've pondered having fixed.

I think we may be twins.

[Arwen]

1. I can make your poodle look like a topiary given enough time.
2. I will pick up snakes if I know they are not poisonous (I don't love the Lord enough, Dusa).
3. I have no middle name legally-yet.
4. I cannot pass up creme brulee on a dessert menu.
5. I often want things for years without ever actually getting them.

Crouton: A Poodle With Pride. RIP. 7/6/91-1-04/99 My beloved first poodle.

[ravfem]

-i am obsessed with the lemon tartlet from Whole Foods. i had one in Atlanta and ran to the local WF to get more...only they don't have them here

-i love joking around with people i like

-Sometimes i forget boundaries

-i thread-stalk moderators occasionally to see who is getting fussed at

-i have one person on this site on ignore

[JustJo]

Originally Posted by ravfem

-i am obsessed with the lemon tartlet from Whole Foods. i had one in Atlanta and ran to the local WF to get more...only they don't have them here

-i love joking around with people i like

-Sometimes i forget boundaries

-i thread-stalk moderators occasionally to see who is getting fussed at

-i have one person on this site on ignore

I thread-stalk ravfem and Massive when I've had an icky day, cuz their love makes me smile.

I want to steal ravfem's but so far she has refused to share.

I sometimes feel like my boundaries are being crossed when they aren't really....my stuff, working on it.

I have two people on ignore.

And yes, I'm copying ravfem...just cuz

[jenny]

~ I don't like odd numbers. (Except for prime numbers, but that's another story entirely.) In fact, since I was three years old, I've only lived in even numbered houses, and all of the house numbers (I've lived at six different addresses since then) have been divisible by four. Four, it so happens, is my favorite number.

~ I once went on a blind date with a rabbi. I always thought it would make a great short story... "The Rabbi and the Atheist." (Okay, so I'm more agnostic than atheist. Still.)

~ Until puberty, my eyes were bright blue. During puberty, my eyes changed to green, and for most of my adult life have been a very deep shade of green. Since perimenopause, my eyes have changed again, and now vacillate between green and blue.

~ During my nursing career, I witnessed literally hundreds of births, and I got teary at every single one of them.

~ Years ago, one of my employees fell down the stairs that go into the basement of my office, and her foot went through the wall. (Yes, she went to the hospital. No, she didn't sue me.) To this day, I keep a row of boxes of paper against that wall, so if anyone falls down the stairs again, at least I won't need to patch another hole in the wall.

[Soft*Silver]

My sister is a hoarder. When she moved, I said i would take some of her stuff and store it in my garage. Some months later, I am the one going thru it and sorting it out and getting rid of things one way or another. Painless for her. Damn shitty job for me but its another way to serve her for the countless things she has done for me.

I have two tables in my house and I sit at neither of them to eat.

I am getting a housemate in Sept. A young, straight male. Can you imagine? He is the fiance of one of my former 4H kids who is now in college and her BF needed a place to live short term until he gets settled in Ytown. Its perfect timing because he is going to help me when I am getting my surgery.

I am now addicted to that dang game in the arcade..with the colored bubbles. I spend hours playing it. And I NEVER played arcade games before. I might try one now and then but have resisted. I am hooked on that one now.

I am still obsessed about horses.

[Lynn]

It feels like autumn, and that makes me very happy. I love the chill in the air and the comfort of my jeans and long sleeves.

I have lost 17 lbs and am easily into another size down. It's very gratifying. I hope, by winter, my medical tests will be improved, too. My partner and I are doing this together--she's lost more than 20 lbs. So proud of us.

My favorite skin care line is Jafra. I finally found a distributor--several states away. No matter. He's wonderful. My next treat will be the Royal Jelly Milk Balm.

In the past two weeks, my daughter moved from NY to Florida for her first "real" job and the start of her adult life. I am so proud of her, I feel like bursting!

I turned 50 earlier this month, and my sweetie gave me a party with some of our local friends. It was a surprise party, and I was surprised! xo

[DamonK]

It is hard for me to remain respectful when someone is disrespecting me. I will, however, remain respectful because I won't stoop to their level.

Pride, honor, and integrity mean everything to me. If you don't have those, I don't want you in my life.

I would kill to protect those I love.

In my line of work, you see a lot of death. You never forget a single one. I can see all of their faces. However, it doesn't devastate me like it once did. Now, I realize it was probably best.

When we had a critical situation at work, I was the idiot that tried to wander off. However, I didn't know there was something bad going on, and once told, I did as told.

[Leader]

• I once got a concussion (playing rugby) so bad, that I “woke up” twenty minutes later not knowing where I was, who I was, or even knowing what my personality was like. I have to say that this was the scariest moment of my life.

• I still don’t have much memory from that day, only snippets that have no order to them. However, one snippet of memory was of me being half out of my body and being able to see myself on the field right after the hit, and knowing that if I got up and tried to continue playing that I would die. Apparently, I just got up and wandered the field for a bit. (no memory of that)

• I can chug a beer FAST. In my twenties, I would go out with my friends and they’d find the biggest, most macho guy in the bar and bet them $20 that they couldn’t beat me. One night, I made $120 bucks, and I never lost a race. I also knew when to quit, lol.

• When I was little, I’d sneak into my parents bathroom and put my Dad’s shaving cream on my face in the shape of a beard and mustache. Then I would pretend to shave it off. I thought I looked so much better with a (white foamy) mustache and goatee.

• Apparently I tried it with ice cream too.