what's your story..

[Sharon Kay]

Originally Posted by AmberK

Sharon- I will PM you! I don't know if its ok to put the link to my personal website on here.

I'm not sure what the rules are for that either ... but glad you are sending me info ... wonderful! Thank you!

[Sharon Kay]

Originally Posted by HappyLilGrahamCracker

My cabbage patch kid almost killed me.

Seriously. I had a water bed and the doll slipped under the bed and got caught in the heater. She melted the plastic because she caught on fire, and water started dripping into the electrical system. I was being electrocuted to death, and my mom heard me whimpering and came to save me.

That is soooooooo scary!!! WOW!

[Jengerbread88]

Originally Posted by Sharon Kay

That is soooooooo scary!!! WOW!

It's definitely scary to think about, but I don't remember much (since I was asleep and all...) I just remember my mom waking me up and the panic that ensued, and I also remember when the company came and replaced the bed... I saved the frame for quite some time, but they gave me a non-water bed mattress, and now I'm terrified of water beds and never ever ever ever want one again.

[Joy2Scrapbook]

I know, most of you with think this is so boring. However, I love music. I play the piano, flute and my favorite instrument, the violin. I hope to audition for a local symphony in a year or two. If I didn't love music so much I would probably scrap all the time!

[gabbygirl]

Ummm...I'm not really that interesting....I'm 26 and I just learned to swim this summer. Oh and some people think its weird that I'm afraid of birds.

[ariesfl326]

hmmm, interesting facts about me...

I can't rollerskate or ski.

I can play a little piano.

I'm addicted to gaming (Farmville, Wizard 101 etc).

I hate raw onions.

I've never been outside of the U.S.

I was dumped when I was 4 months pregnant!

OHH and I'll be 40 next year!

I thought of 1 more thing (LOL)...I was almost kidnapped when I was about 1 or 2 years old. It was in Atlantic City NJ on the boardwalk (where most of the casinos are now) and this lady was dragging me out of a store when my mom turned around just in time! That's how my mom tells it anyway.

All for now.

[HeatherKS]

I grew up on a farm and used to show cattle in the summers, go to livestock judging contests, and was in FFA. I hated it but now I live on a farm and my girls are starting to show livestock.

[Sharon Kay]

Originally Posted by Joy2Scrapbook

I know, most of you with think this is so boring. However, I love music. I play the piano, flute and my favorite instrument, the violin. I hope to audition for a local symphony in a year or two. If I didn't love music so much I would probably scrap all the time!

Wow ... that is actually fascinating! I never got good enough at the piano to inspire me to continue. Two of my boys are taking lessons on electric guitar but neither has any inspiration to do something really WITH the music...it's just for their enjoyment.

[Dottie]

My mum and her best friend came out to Australia together, lived together, then still lived together after they each got married - two couple in the one house. After kids came along - 4 in total - we all lived together, but my mum's friend stayed home while the other 3 adults went to work. We call my mum's best friend "Mum" and my (birth) mum - Aunt. All of us do. They had a deal. My(birth)mum would have me but she would return to work and "mum". "Mum" adopted two son's and my Aunt had my sister. As afar as we were concerned we were all brothers and sisters. It got very confusing when we started school back in the early 70's. Is that intetesting enough?

How about I met my husband the first year we started school in 1974? There fore I have know him for 36 of the 41years I have been alilve.

[Sharon Kay]

Originally Posted by Dottie

My mum and her best friend came out to Australia together, lived together, then still lived together after they each got married - two couple in the one house. After kids came along - 4 in total - we all lived together, but my mum's friend stayed home while the other 3 adults went to work. We call my mum's best friend "Mum" and my (birth) mum - Aunt. All of us do. They had a deal. My(birth)mum would have me but she would return to work and "mum". "Mum" adopted two son's and my Aunt had my sister. As afar as we were concerned we were all brothers and sisters. It got very confusing when we started school back in the early 70's. Is that intetesting enough?

How about I met my husband the first year we started school in 1974? There fore I have know him for 36 of the 41years I have been alilve.

I think I need a genealogical flow chart for that one!

[breakingbrie]

Originally Posted by gabbygirl

Oh and some people think its weird that I'm afraid of birds.

I am totally with you on this one!!! They really creep me out. I like them ok, when they're in a cage, like the canaries my mama used to have, but I hate going into pet stores that let those really big colorful birds just hang around without being caged. Some are pretty, I'll admit that, but don't ever let one get close to me, or I freak out!!

Sharon, I'll pm you and tell you a bit about the stuff we have!!

[Ebony]

Originally Posted by nun69

I spent 5 days in Vegas....same time as Ebs's boyfriend and NEVER ONCE ran into him! I guess it's not a small world afterall! and you know I was looking for an Orlando look alike!

LOL. I only realised Orly was your celeb crush AFTER I told you where he was staying. Had me worried HAHAH

[Ebony]

Originally Posted by Sharon Kay

Sounds like you're taking the wrong tests!!

I'm not taking any tests yet - highschool finished for me two years ago. was just sick of the lack of choice of subjects. BUT Uni next year... boy that's gonna be a riot! Seriously, I'm super excited.

Maybe if I'm lacking in the memory department, I can write songs out of my notes?

[Gabbina]

Mh... Maybe you don't know I've played the piano for 15 years, then college kinda got in the way and couldn't do both.

[Gemma]

I was a young mum, I was 16 when Jack was born! Then 3 years later Harry came along!!

Due to my first pregnancy my own mum sort of disowned me and won't(and I don't mind one bit as she doesn't deserve it) let my 2 boys call her nana as she thinks she's too young!!! All birthday cards come signed from aunt! I don't even put them up!!

[DeepGirl]

Hmmm... in no particular order:

1. I hate tomatoes. But I love ketchup or tomato soup
2. My husband is my first love
3. I have played piano since I was 9. I love playing especially 20's and 30's tunes (swing, boogie-woogie, jazz etc.)
4. I have spent definitely more than 1000 USD (being afraid to known the exact number) since I joined SweetShoppe a year ago.
5. I love Celtic, Irish, Folk and Worship music. I own more than 300 original CDs because I hate copies
6. I can do HTML & PHP programming - so a bit geek, eh?

Maybe this could make into a great portfolio challenge!

[mkcdaisy]

I'm pretty boring. umm..

I took 9 years of dance (ballet, tap and jazz) 4 of those years as an adult. And yes I got on stage in my costume for recitals then too

[Jengerbread88]

Originally Posted by Ebony

Maybe if I'm lacking in the memory department, I can write songs out of my notes?

This. We did this all the time at my old uni, when studying.

[Sharon Kay]

Originally Posted by breakingbrie

Sharon, I'll pm you and tell you a bit about the stuff we have!!

Oh please check your PM! My 16yo is biting at the bit wondering if you have something in stock! He's all excited that there is a new place he can check for discontinued/older games and systems from.

[adrianka]

Originally Posted by MamaBee

Hmm... I'm an open book... don't really know what to tell you of something that you don't know... I'm an only child, my first kiss was at 28 *blush*... my hubby was my first and only boyfriend. I'm such a looser...

Like, why? You foolish girl, you're a happy one! :-)

[adrianka]

Dunno what might interesting.

I don't have a driving licence, nor do I wish to. Nobody deserves me on the road.

I couldn't ride a bike until I was 32, and, let's face it, I'm still no star at it.

I used to write Harry Potter fanfiction.

I'd be pretty much grey-haired if I didn't colour my hair. It's in the family.

I'm not addicted to chocolate. We do exist.

I never wanted to leave my home country (it would be a long story how it happened), but now there's no way now I'd want to return.

[adrianka]

Originally Posted by lliella

i never learned how to ride a bike.

I love you! I thought I was the only one. Actually, I had learned it, at about 32, but I'm still not very good at it. Considering that I try it like once in a two years (true), no wonder.

[adrianka]

Originally Posted by suladesign

I got keys from 3 different continents on my key ring! All are mine, used them all at some point!
That interesting enough for ya, La?

How very European. :-)

ETA: I read "3 different COUNTRIES" instead of "continents"... so my reaction seems illogical now. Time to go to bed, I guess. Anyway, what a fun thread to read. :-)

[Sharon Kay]

I'm loving this thread!

[MamaBee]

I've gone to state for Forensics (drama) high school 3 years in a row and always missed gold by one lousy point!

I was on our school's FFA debate team... don't remember it at all, but have a plaque to prove it! LOL!

I was on the pom pon team for a year.

I started college in paper science (think chemical engineer for the paper industry)... switched majors 4 times and still graduated in 4 1/2 years with a major in Communication and 2 credits short of a double major with Computers.

I'm terrified of the police.

[joelsgirl]

I've thought of like ten different things while I was reading this thread, and now I can't remember any of them.

I am terrified of dying. When I am in the car I have to talk to myself to keep from having panic attacks when another car gets close to me. I hate to fly, but I live on an island, so I fly a lot. Every time I have to talk myself out of freaking out whenever the plane takes off or hits a bump.

I am obsessed with Malcom Gladwell and try to get peope to read his books all the time.

I want to be a better person but I don't actually want to put the effort into becoming a better person.

I want to move back to the States just so I can be a foster parent. I am obsessed with adopting and wish it wasn't so expensive so that I could do it more than once.

When I was a kid, I never wanted to grow up and have a job. I always wanted to be a SAHM. I would eat beans and rice before I would go back to teaching.

I daydream about what I'm going to say on my Oprah interview.

[MandaT]

I'm not a huge fan of chocolate, but LOVE brownies.

I've never dated anyone close to my age (always at least 3 years older)& I'm still friends with all of them.

My DH is 17 years older than me.

I competed on the FFA debate team & I highly dislike arguing.

I've showed sheep, pigs in livestock shows & trained a horse.

Love music & can remember most lyrics very soon after hearing a song, my DH thinks there isn't a song I don't know. 80's are my faves.

[Lauramarie]

Originally Posted by strawberryredhead

hmmmm...I was on my high school swim team.

Me too Jaimie!

[Lauramarie]

Originally Posted by SmallMoments

I've eaten guinea pig.

I don't want to know...

[Lauramarie]

Originally Posted by FlirtatiousBrat

ok um..about me

I'm slowly becoming a hermit..I HATE leaving my house. I haven't even been to Target in a couple weeks!

Not even Target?? I wish I could stay in, probably have more $$.

[Scrapper007]

I am a 3.5 year breast cancer survivor.

[Sharon Kay]

Originally Posted by Scrapper007

I am a 3.5 year breast cancer survivor.

Congrats on that!! ... and your siggy line told me something I didn't know about you ...

Paper scrapping for 10 years; digi scrapping since May

Welcome to the digi side!!! I was a paper scrapper before too.

[ColleenSwerb]

What a fun thread!!

Let's see, what can I add......

I'm a bridge engineer.
I never in a MILLION years thought I would want to be a SAHM, and now it's almost all I can think about. The baby fever is killing me! Lol!
I sucked my thumb until I was 11 or 12. I really hope my kids take to pacifiers so they don't go through what I did.

[Sarah8914]

I used to want 6-8 kids (ha, hahahah)

Now I wonder if I will even make it to 5.

My girls are the only granddaughters on my side. 3 of my siblings only have boys!

I sang God Bless America (with a backup choir) this summer. I was as nervous as could be but really loved doing it. It made me want to do it more. And I still don't know why they picked me.

If I thought I could homeschool, I would. It's too hard for me with little, little ones. They take a lot out of me and I need some quiet moments during the day. Maybe when they're all older.

I have a teaching degree but never want to teach.

and I'm sure there's a lot more, but that's all I can think of right now.

[aggiefamily]

I have a fear of throwing up and will talk myself out of it if I am sick. If I can't stop it I will have a panic attack after throwing up and basically become a pile of crying, shaking mush. But other people throwing up (my kids) doesn't bother me at all.

[lauren grier]

Originally Posted by aggiefamily

I have a fear of throwing up and will talk myself out of it if I am sick. If I can't stop it I will have a panic attack after throwing up and basically become a pile of crying, shaking mush. But other people throwing up (my kids) doesn't bother me at all.

I do this when i barf too... like since i was a kid. My mom use to stand over me and yell @ me & tell me to "pull up the boot straps" and deal with it..... which of course, just made it worse.. and probably helped ingrain the panic reaction through adulthood

[melmos75]

I am (almost) 34 and I have never been drunk. Not even buzzed.

I changed my major 5 times in college.

My oldest son was kissed on the check by Taylor Swift.

[Kara]

I've eaten guinea pig.

Any chance you were in Ecuador when you ate it? It's a delicacy there.

[pomi]

Originally Posted by ColleenSwerb

I sucked my thumb until I was 11 or 12. I really hope my kids take to pacifiers so they don't go through what I did.

I stopped when I was 10... Hi Col!
My younger DD does that. Still hope it won't be for so long.

[DawnMarch]

Some things about me

- I almost drowned when I was about 4 years old. A (mentally retarded) boy pushed me off a dock into a lake and a 14 year old girl saved my life [the lifeguards were all out trying to catch a snake someone had seen].

- I jumped out of a perfectly good airplane.

- I have no cousins. My father's brother and my mother's sister are both gay.

- I met the band AC/DC in a sushi bar in Jacksonville, FL.

[AmyM]

Recently diagnosed with diabetes. I was told I'd be on medicine the rest of my life, there was no hope of controlling it, and had a reading of 269 and a1c of 8.7 when it was caught.
I got mad and switched doctors.
Now in 4 weeks I've lost 12 pounds, drastically changed my diet, and never took the meds. Reading 96-114 in the mornings and 108-136 after meals (depending on what I eat) and working hard to get that even lower.
So take that and shove it former Dr. office.
Stubbornness can be a good thing sometimes.
At first it rocked my world in a very bad way. Now I'm thankful for having it because it forces me to take care of myself.

[AmyM]

Originally Posted by joelsgirl

I am terrified of dying.

Me too! And it makes no sense because I know where i'm going.

[AmyM]

Originally Posted by Scrapper007

I am a 3.5 year breast cancer survivor.

That is awesome!

[sevenupps]

Oh how funny. Ok here is one about me ... I have my diary from that year ... and inside my diary is a postcard of the hotel Donny stayed in when he came to KC ... the news reported what floor he was staying on ... so I have a heart drawn on the room I thought he was in. LOL

Ok remind me NEVER EVER to eat at your house...I have a few food allergies ... and those items I was NEVER tested for (hmmm allergist didn't have a scratch test for crickets!) ... ewwwwwwwwwww

Sharon, I didn't eat any of those things at my house, LOL.
I met Donny Osmond once when he and the whole family were in Ohio for the State Fair. He had purple socks on! LOL I remember being crushed when he got married.

[Giseli Freitas]

ummmm. my middle name in English literally means "bunny".
Does that count? No?
BTW I've eaten guinea pig too while in Peru, Kristin. Eew!! Things we have to do to stop annoying husband during a vacation...

Originally Posted by lliella

i never learned how to ride a bike.

what she said applies here too

[alaskan]

can I play too even though I am a newbie?

I home school all my kids, 5 boys, but I actively school only 4 of them. They are in 6th, 4th, 1st, and preschool (age 4 is preschool right?), and the baby is 2 (no school for him yet).

I love birds, especially parrots(have one right now), but I like bird watching, and chickens (have some).

How was that?

And I thought the ladies whose husbands were their one and only are COOL and very blessed....NOT boring!

[terrab]

I've previously lived in The Netherlands and Norway but discovered there is no place like home.

[webseitler]

Originally Posted by AmyM

So take that and shove it former Dr. office.
Stubbornness can be a good thing sometimes.

Oh, YES-HUH! Way to go, girl! Congrats!

[xboxmom]

Lets see.....I was engaged at 16 and wore my engagement ring all through High School. Everyone thought I was nuts! And I have currently been married to that man for almost 15 years now!

[lliella]

thought of something else..

i underwent 2 failed IVF treatments, but ended up having 2 kids "the natural way"