I'm starting this thread because I think we should get to know each other better

The task is simple: name 5 random facts about you.

Only share what you want and don't feel pressured in participating. I know we are all a bit paranoid about the info we give out over the internet, and I think it's important to keep personal info to ourselves.
However, the internet can also be a FUN place, so let's do this!

Um...

I'm the one who watches (and plays) sports in my family. H mostly hates sports, except he wrestled in high school.

I have a B.A. from Stanford in Japanese...and no, I never used it for anything, because self-esteem issues mean it's impossible for me to have any ambition beyond learning things that interest me. Therapy has been giving me a desire to go back to school and even have a career that would challenge me someday.

I love to read and write poetry, and wish I made more time for it.

I am incredibly anal about making things match and also about making things symmetrical, if possible.

I can do a lot of things pretty well (music, cooking, etc.), but I can never really focus on one thing enough to truly master it.

Yay, I knew you were game.
Is this inappropriate, this thread? well, too late

LG,

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The other is a bachelor in interior design.

What style do you like best? Like how is your apartment decorated?
I could definitely eat pizza every day for the rest of my life, too!!

Yaku,

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I am incredibly anal about making things match and also about making things symmetrical, if possible.

How do you arrange books in a shelf?

Depends on my mood, symmetrical doesn't really work there, obviously. I've given up with my daughter's books, because they are moved too much. So largest to smallest or by category and author.

Interesting! I arrange them according to their height (first category, then height, but the smallest in the middle)

LG, Tuscan? I googled it. If you were my interior designer, this would NOT be my wish at all I like pottery barn style, I don't know the other one.


I'm so bored, I'm going to answer my own post.
1. I've been collecting flight tickets, stamps, postcards, receipts, random objects from my travels, hoping I will sit down and actually make an album one day.
2. I used to do acrobatics and was on the waiting list for a circus.
3. I hate hearing people eat.
4. I want to learn Italian, Hebrew and Japanese.
5. Out of 10 texts I receive, I answer about 2. Out of 10 calls I get, I answer none. I leave my cell in my bag for days sometimes.

1.I am fairly fluent in 5 languages, but can understand/read about 7.
2.I am so obsessed by mini coopers that when I see an Austin Mini Cooper in the street, I'll actually make a noise that resembles 'Mini!'
3. I've seen You've Got Mail about 100 times
4. My name and phone number resemble the name and phone number of a company that sells hearing aids, so I regularly have to explain to someone on the phone that - although when I answer the phone my name sounds like the name of the company they're looking for - I am not them and I don't have their hearing aid. Of course, since they can't hear that well, that often results in endless horrible conversations with total strangers who think I'm being rude.
5. I've visited 17 countries.

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Originally posted by Mayflower:

5. I've visited 17 countries.

Oh wow! Which countries?

PF,
Cool thread and really interesting question!

1. I got engaged riding an elephant at the Bronx zoo.

2. I left my wedding in a heliocopter.

3. I can tie a cherry stem into a knot using only my tongue (the payoff of a very long drunken night in my wasted youth )

4. The college I went to was founded by the family of the man who invented the steamboat along with Fulton.

5. I really love technology and electronics and home theater. The kids call our great room my digital kingdom.

LG,
I would love to see some of your designs. I love your description of the Tuscan design (although i agree I wouldn't want to live in it.) And I find it intriguing that you have one degree in social work and another in design. May I ask which came first?

Mayflower,
I am totally impressed with your command of languages. And I found #4 totally hilarious. My father in law sold hearing aids, and occasionally when we were visiting our in-laws, I would end up on the phone with a customer. So I totally related to what you were saying.

I can relate to #4 as well. My cell phone is listed, for some reason, as a call-back number for a Kaiser hospital somewhere that is barely in my area code. So, I will get messages on my personal voicemail from people talking in detail about their condition and asking for the test results and such. It hasn't happened lately, but it was for a few months. None of them seemed to bother with the fact that my name did not match whoever they were trying to call. I felt horrible and always called them back to explain I was NOT the right person to call, so they wouldn't be getting angry at their hospital for not returning the voicemail.

1. I like cooking and I think I’m pretty good at it… never actually learned how or follow recipes, its just something I’m naturally good at

2. I have that song ET by Katy Perry stuck in my head

3. I’m in the process of redoing and actually making myself an office for my work which I am very very very very excited about.

4. I have a lush obsession…… a very bad one……

5. I am having chilli and cornbread for dinner tonight… which I should go get started on making!

Great idea!

1. I want to see it snow on a beach someday.
2. I sometimes get random camp songs stuck in my head from being a summer camp counselor years ago.
3. I’m learning sign language.
4. I’ve managed to accidentally get locked INSIDE a library twice.
5. I have a cat and she has a habit of sitting in the shower and staring at the bath mat for hours. HOURS! I have no idea why.

DF - H and I just donated our hair this Summer. His was longer than mine was. He has beautiful, thick hair that he grows out (when I let him). I have fine, curly, uncooperative hair. I usually keep it long, so I can pull it back. This is the first time my hair has been too short to pull back (it's getting long enough again now). Trying to decide whether to keep it short (everyone keeps saying how cute it is short/down/curls everywhere) or grow it out like H prefers. If I grow it out, I guess I can donate again, which will be awesome, but it will probably take until Summer 2012 at the rate my hair grows. Dang H and his perfect hair!!!

1) I am terrified of water slides and roller coasters. That free fall feeling is so out of control that I feel like I'm going to die. Same applies to skiing although I never got off the bunny hill!

2) I think I might be one of the only few remaining people who has never watched Grey's Anatomy

3) I wish I had a cat

4) I can't stand lateness. I feel equally irritated by being the one late as I do by waiting on someone who is late.

5) I qualified to join Mensa when I was a teen, but my parents wouldn't let me submit my scores. I find it funny that I ever actually qualified or gave a crap.