What are ten things we do not know about you?

I have a big collection of Betty Boop stuff.
I always have at least 1 lava lamp going.
I cannot stay in the same room with someone biting their fingernails or chewing with their mouth open.
I usually carry a gun.
I once worked in a costume ballroom in New Orleans.
Music can move me to tears, not much else can.
I have been known to actually gag over sobby stuff on tv.
Coffee is a food group at my house.
My next car is going to be a hearse.
I am psychic with certain people.
I have an 11. I am the survivor of a set of identical twins. My sister died at birth.

krazy kat - coffee is a food group IMHO!!!!

11) Although I'm Irish by descent, my family immigrated to Canada first (Prince Edward Island), so I can claim to be part Canadian. Mom's family is Polish and German.

12) 3 of my 4 grandfathers (both Mom's and Dad's parents divorced) served in WWII. My uncle served in Vietnam, but my Dad was not allowed to serve because he was the only surviving son of a deceased war veteran.

13) I'm afraid of dogs, and have to get to know them on a personal basis.

14) I use cocktail sauce on my scrambled eggs, and ketchup on my mac and cheese.

15) I only drink diet sodas because I hate the corn syrup in regular sodas.

16) I hate having food stuck in my teeth, so I have floss at home, at work, in my briefcase...

Very interesting things! Here's my 10...

1. I got married when I was 18. I've now been happily married for over 1 1/2 years.
2. I will be getting my real estate license next Spring.
3. I am a twin. I have an identical sister.
4. I have 3 sisters and 1 brother.
5. When I was younger, one time we had over 30 gerbils.
6. I love to buy stuff off eBay.
7. I hate the snow, yet I've lived in Chicago all of my life. (20 yrs.)
8. I love Hello Kitty stuff.
9. I can't live without music, and I love to sing in my car.
10. I have many penpals who live in Finland.

and # 11. My brother is getting married tomorrow, so I've been running around with my head chopped off like a chicken. :LOL:

KrazyKat, I have a '64 Cadillac hearse, stored at my son's house. When Bill retires, he's going to finish the restoration for me.

Coffee and chocolate ARE food groups.

My mother is the surviving twin. Her sister was anacephalic and died at 5 hrs, old.

Besides cats, most of us have a LOT in common.

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...I always cry when I see someone with Parkinson's Disease. I don't know why.

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My father had this...but not until he got older....I hated to see the way his hands shook...I cried too.


Big Kat (your user name always reminds me of those big Kit Kat bars that I love so much! ) I think Jean is a pretty cool middle name!! But noone ever calls me that anymore, it was only my mom who used my full name whenever I was in trouble!!! "DEBRA JEAN!!!!" :laughing:

Lisa, so how much older are you than Ryan? 16 years? Well if you are happy, then who cares!

Spooky....I never had that many gerbils, but when I was married to my first hubby I had about 20 hamsters and a rat.

Debby, where do you think the user name came from?! (My boyfriend always said if we got a cat that would have to be it's name since he loves those candy bars, but when we got little Pepper he was just way too cute and small to be called big kat, so I said I'd at least make it my user name on the cat site!). As for Jean, no one has ever called me that either really, and I for one, never even liked it much! But it sounds nice with Debra Jean. . . :tounge2:

1. I am a HUGE fan of Tom Hanks and Michael J. Fox

2. I think 'The Lord of The Rings' is boring

3. I cannot swim

4. I collect giraffes

5. I get severely depressed at Christmas

6. I have one sister

7. I hate dogs

8. I live in the United Kingdom

9. Im a fantastic cook

10.Im terrible with money

What a great thread, you guys are so interesting!

1~I never owned a cat growing up so when I met my husband, I treated his cat like I would treat a dog, rough house, etc. Now I have a totally different attitude to them, they rule me! and if there is anything I love more than cats - it's cat themed stuff! Calendars, mirrors, mugs, anything!.

2~I'm scared. Of people, strange men, tall women, people who don't speak english (are they talking about me?), co-workers (I know they're talking about me), everybody on the bus (what are they thinking), homeless (I'm going to get mugged), I'm scared of disappointing anybody. I know most of these fears are groundless, but I think them anyway.

3~While growing up, mom always fed us macaroni and cheese with weiners. After I moved out, I couldn't eat them for three years. I still have a problem with those real cheap and small weiners though. Yuck!

4~I was excellent at Biology in school but couldn't comprehend Chemistry or Physics. And I needed all three to be a school teacher. Which is what I wanted to do since I was a child.

5~I got into caring for the elderly totally by mistake. Well, I volunteered with a group from school once a week and all we did was sit there with them while they told us stories. One day someone told me that I could get paid $20/hr to sit there, so I went into the course thiking that. Little did I know I would have to clean up old people diarrhea! But it's ok now. I love the elderly.

6~I hate cleaning but I have my standards. You must wipe all tables and counters before vacuuming or you'll hear from me. and "Don't just tidy the mess, Darrell, clean it. Put stuff AWAY" Weird. Oh, and all the towels have to be folded perfectly or I'll re-do them.

7~I secretly dream of being a seamstress in the 1600's and making gorgeous dresses for the Lady's and Duchess's of the Queen's court.

8~I'm left handed.

9~I've never met my real father. and don't really care to...

10~I can't sing. But I do when I think no one can hear me. :tounge2:

I also believe in alien life, I think it's amazingly egocentric to NOT believe in other life somewhere in the universe. But I add that I have a good enough comprehension of physics to understand that the likelihood of our encountering other life (or it encountering us) is essentially none.

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I absolutely and whole-heartedly agree with you. The universe is so vast, it's neverending. I believe it is very vain to think that we're the only thinking, creative beings in the entire galaxy. We may never meet anyone else, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

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11) My dream job would be to work in palliative care in a children's hospital or a book editor (I know they are 2 really different jobs)

12) I own over 600 books

13) I hate panty hose!

14) Almost became a nun

15) addicted to simulation games (played my new one for 8 hours Christmas day)

Big Kat, spend some time in Indiana and you'll meet a whole lot of people middle-named "Jean."
Debby Jean
betty Jean
Willa Jean
. . . even men!
Timmy Jean
John Jean
Billy Jean

Of course none of these people go by first name alone: It's always first and middle.
Jean, Ann,Lou, Bob, and Lynn are the official middle names of Southern Indiana and Northern Kentucky.

Tamme -I grew up with similar fears and worries. NO matter how hard you try to fight it, you worry about everything little thing, logical or not.
I have an acute anxiety diorder.
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it is very vain to think that we're the only thinking, creative beings in the entire galaxy

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Humans are thinking beings? You had me fooled!

-Ryan

SOME people are thinking, creative beings, Ryan. Only some, and that number is getting smaller and smaller by the day. Especially if you go by how people drive.

Mankind disappoints me. So much power and possibility in their brains, and so much of it wasted. I'm no Objectivist, but I think most people have more potential than they have the patience or the will to utilize.
Sorry to be so cynical!

-Ryan

Ryan - Hubby thinks humans are poor excuses for animals. Try that on for cynical!

1. I did competitive cheerleading in High School (NOT a High School cheerleader).

2. I was in gymnastics and was about to start competing but dropped out to do competitive cheerleading in High School.

3. I have 2 little half sisters (by my mother): Stephanie is 9 and Kaytlynn is 7 (I'm 24).

4. When I was 10, my dad got custody of me and I never heard from my mother again until I was 20.

5. I'm 5' 7 1/4" and I'm still shorter than both of my parents.

6. I absolutely love to sing, but since I've never been properly trained, I wont let anyone hear me outside of church.

7. I would LOVE to learn how to play the cello.

8. I used to want to be a vet so I used to work for a vet in High school, it was a preliminary for Texas A&M vet school. I changed my mind because I didn't think I could do it because I'm horrible at chemistry.

9. I am very afraid of the dark; nightlight please!

10. I've visited England and would love to go back.

Natural selection is nautre's way of making sure genetic defectives do not get bred into animal populations. This is why you see contests for dominance in males of many animal species. The strongest one has the best genes, so he gets to mate -thus insuring offspring with strong genes. Lionesses will actually tend to choose a mate who has a long, black mane. Sometimes, when a lion gets hurt, its mane falls out. Then, it is effectively shuffled from the breeding pool. Big, dark manes mean good genes, so lionesses pick dark-maned lions in order to pass good genes on to their young. Also, if you watch the Discovery channel, you'll see predators culling the weak and the sick from herds of prey. Bad genes, strained from the gene pool.
Now, think about how we humans treat our sick and our weak. Think about how many genetic diseases there are floating around in our gene pool. We do not weed out genetic defectives because we, as moral animals, believe in the "value of life."
We are a very badly bred species!
Of course, there is good within us. There are intelligent, beautiful, and artistic people out there. We humans're not all bad.
-Ryan

Here goes:

1. I broke my back falling from my horse 1 week after Christopher Reeves did. Luckily, my injury was nowhere near as bad and am basically fully recovered except for pain when I overdo it.

2. I travelled through the US for 3 months in 97 and was there again in 2000 when the Olympics were on here at home.

3. I HATE flying.

4. I didn't have much interest in cats until my mum adopted one called Toby, then I had to get my own and along came Peugeot.

5. I became an aunt for the 1st time on December 13th.

6. All the dogs I have ever had in my life (6) have been rescued from a pound and so was Peugeot.

7. My mother adopted a dolphin for me for Christmas and I now contribute to researching and saving them and will be going to southern Australia for field work.

8. I was riding horses before I could walk.

9. I don't like queues which made for a lot of fun at Disneyland!

10. I can't eat fast food.

I have really been enjoying reading this "hot" thread.

About me:

1) I found out I was an Irish Twin today when reading Okeefecl's post in this thread! My sis is 50 and 1/2 weeks younger than me. My Sweetie is also an Irish Twin.

2) I have over 400 pieces of jewelry. I like costume jewelry and really don't care for diamonds and precious stones.

3) I have had the tornado dream too. But periodically I dream that I go in to the beauty shop and the stylist goes wild with the scizzors and my hair is about 8 inches shorter than when I went in.

4) I love bargain shopping also, particularly at Goodwill and the Salvation Army. Just today I bought a beautiful "Limited" brand vest with leather on it for $1.99. Yes it is very addictive when you can get deals like that.

5) When I was six, my dad brought a TV set home from the Television factory where he worked. I kept waiting for him to be on TV, thinking they put those shows in the TVs at the factory!

6) I have had psychic experiences throughout my life.

7) My mother's cooking was so unexciting that when I got to college I found all kinds of new and different foods being served in the dorm cafeteria. My friends could not believe foods that I had never had before. I never complained about dorm food-it was delectable, in my opinion.

8) My ancestors on my mother's side came to Kentucky from North Carolina and Virginia. Two families had three children who married each other. Then more descendants married one another throughout the years. Most people do not know that if they study their family tree this was the common practice during the 1800s. I am my own fourth cousin! And no, I don't have three heads and I have a bachelor's degree. We now have descendants in numerous states and have a three day family reunion every August.

9) My middle name is Bridges, after my mother's (see above) family name.

10) The "person" I most care to sleep with is my cat!

We are a very badly bred species!

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Kitty, case in point! We all come from inbred stock.
-Ryan