7 Things....

[Medea]

1. I've been fat since four months old. And this was while on a strict soy formula diet because I became intolerant of my mother's breast milk.

2. My dream is to be a performer. Whether in musical theatre or movies or as a singer, I wish I could do that. But I don't think I have the talent to overcome the predispositions given for my body type.

3. For a reason even I don't entirely know, I spell many words the British way. I don't -mean- to be pretentious about it...

4. I want nothing more than to be in a nice, stable relationship, to be loved. And I treat the person I'm with like gold. However, I often doubt that will ever be in the cards for me because I seem to be un-commit-to-able.

5. I'm more depressed than I ever let on.

6. I like making other people happy. I go out of my way to be there for my friends.

7. I'm hoping to be a hairdresser. I think that it may be just the right job for me.

[lonesomeangel]

1. I was never raised with one religeon. There was always a spurt of them going in and out of my life growing up. I've been subjected to Lutheran, Catholic, Pagan, Wiccan. Hence the lack of knoweldge for the technical terms for these. Even with these religeons in my life, I do not follow any one of them on a continual basis. I believe there is an afterlife of some sort, the elements play a major part in our lives, and that there is a creator to this mess of life.

2. I have many goals and career paths that I am aiming for in my life. Most of my goals are shared with my fiance, which is good, because two heads are better than one. I recently recieved my Office Support Certificate. I plan on going back for either an associates in administrative or business management. I also plan on pursueing an real estate/insurance lisence, and MS Office certificates. I have at least three business proposals in the making. I'm also looking into the porn industry. There are so many avenues of porn that are easy to engage in innocentely that you can make a large amount of cash in. I figure, I love sex, other people do too, and sex sells. All the money in the porn industry that is out there, I'm getting my greedy hands on some.

3. I have traveled to 12 states. Five of which I have had sex in. From Michigan straight down to Georgia.

4. The ten things that entertain me the most in no particular order are movies, music, the Internet, sex, television, drugs, food, gaming of all sorts, friends, and my fiance.

5. I try not to stereotype myself in any particular catergory. I am what I am, I are what I feel. I try to say what I think and I try to wear what I feel. I'm me, and I figure if you can't get past my outer shell, or my personality then you arn't worth my time. It took me a long time to figure this piece out. I've also figured out who my true friends were this way.

6. I'm a giant dork. I say, think and do dorky things. It defines my personality in a way. And yes, sometimes I snort when I laugh.

7. Fans help me sleep too.

(Sorry I got lazy with this one.)

[sass_in_the_pants]

5) I love my friends with tremendous depth and expect the same in return which is very probably completely unrealistic and yet it tends to create itself within those relationships nonetheless.

Good for you Steven. People tell me not to expect much in return from people, but somehow I get TONS in return from people. Though I'd like to believe that friends, family and even strangers are good to me because I'm somehow super fantastic, I actually think it's because they're just some all right people.

Concluding that someone is intelligent because they write well also seems reasonable to me.

This is a very dangerous stance. I write succinctly and clearly. I can conjugate the SHIT out of some verbs. And I'm a complete moron.

that is why I've deliberately chosen to judge a man by his shoes, its much more accurate...

I can't find mine. No really. And not both, just the left one. They're red and have big flowers on them, they really should be easy to spot. So, what does that say about me?

[Steven]

Good for you Steven. People tell me not to expect much in return from people, but somehow I get TONS in return from people. Though I'd like to believe that friends, family and even strangers are good to me because I'm somehow super fantastic, I actually think it's because they're just some all right people.

This is a very dangerous stance. I write succinctly and clearly. I can conjugate the SHIT out of some verbs. And I'm a complete moron.

I can't find mine. No really. And not both, just the left one. They're red and have big flowers on them, they really should be easy to spot. So, what does that say about me?

even if you just have ONE shoe, Love....red with flowers sounds pretty dang cool to me.....(oh and Ive seen you conjugate like MUTHA, you do indeed have talent!!!!)

[Steven]

But how do you know if it's a "justified case"? In most cases you have no idea what that person's situation is, so maybe it would be more fair to withhold the condemnation across the board.

And... you are right, your personal opinion shouldn't really matter to anyone else. But unfortunately the attitude you hold is quite widespread, and leads to a lot of discrimination and unfair judgments in day to day life for a whole lot of people. One of the biggest challenges I face as a special ed teacher is working around the stigma of low intelligence that is so often unfairly attached to all special needs students. So when I see this pernicious and damaging attitude being expressed, I'm bound to comment on it. Every consciousness I raise may be one less barrier down the road for one of my kids.

...I now kiss you twice.....(great post)

[Steven]

1. I've been fat since four months old. And this was while on a strict soy formula diet because I became intolerant of my mother's breast milk.

2. My dream is to be a performer. Whether in musical theatre or movies or as a singer, I wish I could do that. But I don't think I have the talent to overcome the predispositions given for my body type.

3. For a reason even I don't entirely know, I spell many words the British way. I don't -mean- to be pretentious about it...

4. I want nothing more than to be in a nice, stable relationship, to be loved. And I treat the person I'm with like gold. However, I often doubt that will ever be in the cards for me because I seem to be un-commit-to-able.

5. I'm more depressed than I ever let on.

6. I like making other people happy. I go out of my way to be there for my friends.

7. I'm hoping to be a hairdresser. I think that it may be just the right job for me.

you seem like a very like-able (ie Loveable) person to me Medea.....loneliness is a terrible vacancy but your values WILL attract the right person in due time...try to hang in there and be you.

And try not to let your own personal challenges and fears (and we ALL have them) present you as a step down in any relationship.....anythign that lasts needs to have a high degree of value to it, I'm quite sure you are

commit-to-able when the right sort of people (people who also value commitment) set their eyes on you.

as for your dreams......go with them! there are SO many differing types of pre-dispositions when it comes to creative arts and what is and is not popular or accpetable or whatever and it changes day by day so forget about it and do what you want to do. You know when you get to be my age and your still up onstage tryign to rock out you get hit with some of those same short sighted judgements, but the show must go on....

[Steven]

But how do you know if it's a "justified case"? In most cases you have no idea what that person's situation is, so maybe it would be more fair to withhold the condemnation across the board.

And... you are right, your personal opinion shouldn't really matter to anyone else. But unfortunately the attitude you hold is quite widespread, and leads to a lot of discrimination and unfair judgments in day to day life for a whole lot of people. One of the biggest challenges I face as a special ed teacher is working around the stigma of low intelligence that is so often unfairly attached to all special needs students. So when I see this pernicious and damaging attitude being expressed, I'm bound to comment on it. Every consciousness I raise may be one less barrier down the road for one of my kids.

you know, I've decided to add something to this....

over the last ten years or so I've noticed certain struggles with written expression in many people. For example my job requires a great deal of written history and data collection from individual jobs, and I also write many proposals to customers at the corporate level. My subordinates are required to give me detailed and concise documentation every day which I use to build from.

Laura and I also teach bible based marriage courses and have done so for years, and these courses require a great deal of written homework.

so here's the thing: over the eyars I've noticed that there are many people who struggle with written expression, and they are by no means illiterate, stunted, or ignorant. They simply do not have that "natural" ability to move their thoughts and vision into a written medium. I have many times coached peers, subordinates, or students in taking their verbal expressions (these people all speak quite clearly and most are pretty articulate) and thoughts and transposing them onto paper. To some folks, it simply does not dawn on them that they can write out their thoughts, exactly as they would speak them, they literally dont know that that is ok. To others, there is a certain roadblock of sorts that is sometimes fear based: "I'm not a writer". they speak and beleive a cvertain thing, and so it manifests. And finally, some people just do not write well, period.

and that's ALL ok. Just as we all process information and learn differently (such as visual versus audible) we all express differently, none of it is "wrong" or less than and it certainly does not point toward an individual's intelligence. We have to have some grace here and learn one another's unique expressive language, as they vary...

Now speaking for myself, I am a writer. I know that I am. Yes I am flippant, yes I dont bother with spell check (unless its in a professional setting) and yes I break rules and use slang and take liberties with thigns in an effort to add color and texture to a written medium but that is simply how I am hardwired, I have always been a writer, and I have always written this way since I was a little kid. I also speak this way, it iz what it iz and I'm quite satisfied that I know my own style and language and trust it because I beleive in he simple power of the spoken word as opposed to the "proper" word.

by way of comparison between completley differing schools of thought:

take a look at say.... Thoreau as he tread Walden's landscape, and say.... Hemmingway as he tread a different sort of path on "Hill's like white elephants"......

I love both writers. but I lean toward Hemmingway because he is often "wrong" technically with his fragments and run ons and even his rebellious nature in dropping the reader right into the middle of a scene and letting him or her sort it out on their own. I love that, because I'm often irreverant, and impatient....therefore its a language that I speak.

but they are equally brilliant. I have no doubt that Pomba Gira finds brilliance of all sorts in her students as well....

[Msterbeau]

1. I had a habit of wandering away from home. When I was 4.

2. Friends and I from college played "Wipeout" and "Peter Gunn" in a service elevator at the apartments on campus.

3. I have some pretty serious and totally irrational fears. Despite that, I think I'm in a much better place, mentally, then I was 10 years ago.

4. I raced cars for almost ten years. I learned a lot of it from my dad, who did it for over 20. I'll kick your ass at it and then I'll do it again. I have many trophies to prove this. :-P

5. My parents come from Montreal, Canada. I would live there in a heartbeat.

6. I had the opportunity to live and work in Paris after college. I didn't take it, and part of me is pissed that I didn't. On the other hand, I wouldn't have the two beautiful children I have now.

7. I lived in L.A. for a year and decided I don't like the people there very much.

[Crazed Vampyress]

1- i have tried to respond to this five times now, but something keeps coming up and stopping me. first i got called to work. then i was trying to read the posts the other night and i was so tired i was falling asleep. then earlier today i was reading them but had so many comments and questions i was sending everyone PMs and never got around to responding myself, then a bit ago i started to write my response and i accidentally closed the tab. Then i got to writing finally (got to #4 of 7) and my friends showed up and hijacked me.... so i saved my work and will now continue.... Geesh!

2- my mother and father divorced when i was 6 months old. i never heard a peep from her or anyone in her family my whole life. about 3 years ago while working at taco bell i made friends with a guy named derek. after i left taco bell he and i remained friends, only to find out january of this year he is actually my cousin, from my moms side of the family. hes the son of her younger sister. this lead to a very crazy month where i met that whole side of my family for the first time ever, including my birth mother and half brother. i was 27 when i met my mom. most people arent able to say that.

3- i bruise painfully, ridiculously, incredibly easily. im just a natural bruiser. and if im drinking, it gets ludicrous. basically all you have to do is bump into me and the next day ill have a bruise. i dont even know where they come from most of the time because whatever caused the bruise didnt hurt. even right now i have a large purple bruise on my hand and my legs look like i got beaten with a baseball bat by a 2 year old all from helping a friend pack and move last week. this runs in my family, my grandma and aunt are the same way. when i used to waitress people would leave me pamphlets with 1-800 abuse phone numbers on them because i looked so often like someone was trying to kill me. i am a tomboy, i drink with the guys, i fight with the guys, i wrestle and roughhouse with the guys, but bruise like an anemic grandma.

4- i find it extremely hard to make friends. real friends. im socially adaptable (at least a reasonable amount) and find a niche in almost any group i manage to get left with but this is all very shallow. it takes me a long long time to really like someone and call them 'friend' but once i do these people tend to be friends-for-life. this means that my social circle doesnt grow very much but it does stretch all the way back to my childhood. i am still friends with people i went to school with. the plus side is you have a lot of good history to share. the bad side is i was a navy brat growing up so A LOT of these friends (all but two) are in other states and i dont get to actually spend time with them. i spend an assload of time on the computer shooting messages and emails back and forth, though. so many that i dont really feel disconnected the way one might think of when you talk about far-away friends.

5- i was born on the gemini/cancer cusp (june 22) so while i fall smack dab smack into the center of what are considered cancer traits (overemotional imaginative moody protective) i do have a few gemini traits that linger here and there (adaptable youthful witty inconsistent) though they are definitely in the background. I wish i could say I was a lot of things but the truth is I really am a cancer. I have trouble finding an emotional balance in life and that tough outer shell is really how i protect myself. i fear being hurt so the easiest way to avoid it is to keep others on the outside. this is tied into my #4 about finding it hard to make friends, but once i let someone in i tend to stick with them. i know not everyone is a believer in the zodiac, but believer or not i do fit these characteristics. i do not fit the other signs so well.... i do not have leo's pride, aries' drive, aquarius' principles.... so whether or not the day i was born actually gave me these traits is your guess as well as mine. but these traits definitely describe me.

6- i am not a vegetarian, but it has been said im "vegetarian-compatible" I eat meat but not much. there are many i wont eat at all and the ones i do eat i am very very picky about. i love to cook and enjoy inviting my friends over to eat (cuz its just not as fun to cook for just me) and the one of my friends who doesnt eat meat used to be concerned he couldnt come to dinner but i am also a very adaptable cook. so the fact my meals arent extremely meat-biased and that im adaptable it was easy to make sure the food was veg-friendly. i am also not a nudist, tho half a dozen of my friends are and have been to known to walk around naked in front of me (i dont care, its your body!) so Im nudist-friendly!

7- i am a big kid. i love cartoons. i love play-doh and legos. i am friends with 17-19 year olds that used to be my employees when i was working at taco bell, and i fit right in with them and their friends as easily as i do with my friends that are 45-50. i love playing games and am re-learning how to ride a bike. i buy sidewalk chalk at the beginning of every summer and love to blow bubbles (esp when the cats chase 'em) i still play nintendo (dr mario rules my world!) have puzzles and board games piled up on the closet. pranks are the best for a good laugh. playing in the mud never goes out of style and building sand castles can be a great way to spend the afternoon. i still sit with my coloring books and crayons when i just want to spend some quiet time. i still own several of the books i had as a small child and will read through them because they're still good. i love candy and pizza. swimming is the ULTIMATE BEST THING EVER. i love to 'dress up' for city club (tho i hate dressing up for anything else i dont like shopping or getting all made up and dont even say makeover in front of me or youll be slapped) i enjoy playgrounds and parks... i just love being a big kid.

*Whew* cant believe i finally got it done!!

[Lillylu29]

WOW not sure i can do 7 Let me see

1: My parents we truck drivers growing up , so by the time i was 9 I had been to 46 states and canada. Lived in about 10 states and canada(my brother was born over their) My mother divorced my dad when I was 9 tired of the physical and mental abuse that was upon us. Once my dad punched me in the nose for crying over my puppy we had to leave behind when we moved..... havent seen my dad since the divorce, but even after everything that has happened I often find myself wondering about him.. is he stil around? has he died too.. (mom died of cancer 5 yrs ago) ect..

2: I am not very socialible, had a friend of 14 years and found out she was letting her 5 year old daughter beat up on my 2 year old daughter while she babysat for me.. Lost all trust in everyone. I am now 10 years later trying to get over that fear, meet new people and make some friends...

3: Was in a very bad relationship with my ex whom kept me locked inside the house...for the last 4 years of your 7 year relationship ( nothing came out till after we had 2 kids together) then one day I woke up and relized I was falling into a pattern that I had experenced when I was a kid.... Had my aunt help me get a job and got out of their!

4: The job my aunt got me was a huge turning point in my life as that is where I met my wonderful husband, I wouldent trade him for anything in the world... Their is not a bad thing I can say about him... but yet my ex still poses problems for us... but we still manage ...... I would die without him.. I still remember the first day I layed eyes on him and what he was wearing.... Sighs......

5: My husband has brought out things in me I never knew I had..... Lots and Lots of sexual desires...... so many things I want to experience....

6: I am a fat girl, I am somewhat ok with this.... I think its the one thing that keeps me from meeting new people cause I can be super sensitive (super sensitive came with my 3rd child out of nowhere) and im afraid of what people think of me.

7:ummm 7 hermmmmm.... well ok Im a Certified Nurses Aid. have been for 5 years (close to).. I want to be a Nurse, or RT ( I have really been thinking of that one alot latly).... My spelling sucks bad do to my constant travels and changing of schools as a child. I consider myself a good person... when I think I have met someone who gives me good vibes Im an open book... I will give you my heart and do anything I can to help you if needed. I am very easily amused. and have a dry sence of humor. OH and my head is always in the gutter! I have recently done something im not proud of and had never in a million years thought I'd ever do it but I did... yet I somehow don't feel guilty about it..... is that bad? I love going to concerts...but this past 2 years I havent been able to get out and go anywhere.... I havent been to CC in like 7 or so years, went to the lab once like 2 yrs ago... I miss it! but I really dont have anyone to go with. Hopeing to meet some people here to go with I love any type of metal music..... ok not sure what else to say LOL ok enough about me NEXT!

[Msterbeau]

WOW not sure i can do 7 Let me see

1: My parents we truck drivers growing up , so by the time i was 9 I had been to 46 states and canada. Lived in about 10 states and canada(my brother was born over their) My mother divorced my dad when I was 9 tired of the physical and mental abuse that was upon us. Once my dad punched me in the nose for crying over my puppy we had to leave behind when we moved..... havent seen my dad since the divorce, but even after everything that has happened I often find myself wondering about him.. is he stil around? has he died too.. (mom died of cancer 5 yrs ago) ect..

2: I am not very socialible, had a friend of 14 years and found out she was letting her 5 year old daughter beat up on my 2 year old daughter while she babysat for me.. Lost all trust in everyone. I am now 10 years later trying to get over that fear, meet new people and make some friends...

3: Was in a very bad relationship with my ex whom kept me locked inside the house...for the last 4 years of your 7 year relationship ( nothing came out till after we had 2 kids together) then one day I woke up and relized I was falling into a pattern that I had experenced when I was a kid.... Had my aunt help me get a job and got out of their!

4: The job my aunt got me was a huge turning point in my life as that is where I met my wonderful husband, I wouldent trade him for anything in the world... Their is not a bad thing I can say about him... but yet my ex still poses problems for us... but we still manage ...... I would die without him.. I still remember the first day I layed eyes on him and what he was wearing.... Sighs......

5: My husband has brought out things in me I never knew I had..... Lots and Lots of sexual desires...... so many things I want to experience....

6: I am a fat girl, I am somewhat ok with this.... I think its the one thing that keeps me from meeting new people cause I can be super sensitive (super sensitive came with my 3rd child out of nowhere) and im afraid of what people think of me.

7:ummm 7 hermmmmm.... well ok Im a Certified Nurses Aid. have been for 5 years (close to).. I want to be a Nurse, or RT ( I have really been thinking of that one alot latly).... My spelling sucks bad do to my constant travels and changing of schools as a child. I consider myself a good person... when I think I have met someone who gives me good vibes Im an open book... I will give you my heart and do anything I can to help you if needed. I am very easily amused. and have a dry sence of humor. OH and my head is always in the gutter! I have recently done something im not proud of and had never in a million years thought I'd ever do it but I did... yet I somehow don't feel guilty about it..... is that bad? I love going to concerts...but this past 2 years I havent been able to get out and go anywhere.... I havent been to CC in like 7 or so years, went to the lab once like 2 yrs ago... I miss it! but I really dont have anyone to go with. Hopeing to meet some people here to go with I love any type of metal music..... ok not sure what else to say LOL ok enough about me NEXT!

[Lillylu29]

Awwww thanks! I like huggies! wow after typing that i relized im 30 years old and havent even so much as been to the ren center downtown...... ROFL I need to make a list of things to do! Muhahahahaha

[damagedangel]

1. I have an irrational fear of death. If I sit and think about it, I will actually start to cry uncontrollably.

2. I have a way of nitpicking my relationships so much that I end up breaking them off.

3. Even though I don't seem it, I am painfully shy.

4. I didn't get the chicken pox until I was 13, the day before my grandmother died and I couldn't travel across state lines to attend her funeral.

5. I didn't know either of my grandfathers. One died 20 years before I was born, the other 10 months before.

6. I've had the same job for the past 7 years and often find myself trying to find things wrong with it so I will leave it.

7. I am very self conscious.

[sass_in_the_pants]

2- my mother and father divorced when i was 6 months old. i never heard a peep from her or anyone in her family my whole life. about 3 years ago while working at taco bell i made friends with a guy named derek. after i left taco bell he and i remained friends, only to find out january of this year he is actually my cousin, from my moms side of the family. hes the son of her younger sister. this lead to a very crazy month where i met that whole side of my family for the first time ever, including my birth mother and half brother. i was 27 when i met my mom. most people arent able to say that.

Okay, THAT is the craziest thing I have ever read. That's just plain NUTS!!!

How did you find out he was your cousin?

[bean]

1. I hate talking on the phone to everyone, except the eternal. I don't know how that happened. Even before we started dating, we would talking on the phone for hours at a time, and it felt like minutes. I enjoy talking to him on the phone. I talk to my best friend on the phone for 10 minutes and I want to shoot myself. I hate it. I don't know why, but I just do. I've never liked talking on the phone - even when I was a teenager. I'm guessing it's because I need the visual of the person to interact with them. I feel very disconnected on the phone - I can't read facial expressions to determine what the person is really saying (because I feel as though most of what people say is crap and not what they really mean).

2. I don't return phone calls (except to the eternal). My best friend has to stalk me before I call her back. It goes along with the whole hating to talk on the phone thing. Luckily for me, most people call while I'm working or sleeping, so the phone doesn't get answered. I feel really bad about it, and I will think to myself "I should really call back so-and-so," but then the though of having to talk on the phone overwhelms me. I much prefer e-mail if I can't talk to someone in person.

3. I was bulimic in high school. My lowest weight was 112 pounds. My bones stuck out in a gross way, not a sexy way. I have a large frame. For someone of my height and bone structure, I'm supposed to weigh between 132-153 pounds. It was a coping mechanism to control where I had lost control. Then I became so depressed I gave up. I still binged, but I had stopped purging. I drank heavily. I hoped that I would either have a heart attack and die, or that my liver would give out. I gained weight, lots of it. I've lost a good amount, but I still have a lot more to lose before I'm comfortable with myself again. I'm terrified that I will never be thin again. Every day I beat myself up because I let my weight get so out of control.

4. I will be converting to Judaism.

5. I've only visited 2 states: Ohio and Kentucky. I've never flown on a plane.

6. In the past 7 months, I've gotten drunk twice. I hit a very low point, was weak, and drank 2 nights in a row. I was sober for almost 5 months when I slipped. I know now that I will not slip again. I remind myself of the person that I was when I drank, where I was in my life, the people that I hurt, and I do not want to be there ever again. My mind and body are much healthier now, and I want to keep it that way. I used to be uncomfortable telling people that I don't drink, but now I don't even think twice about it. I don't hesitate when people offer me drinks. I say "no" without a second thought.

7. I'm more of a snob than I care to admit sometimes. I'm much pickier about certain personality traits and other things about people. I don't want to go into detail because I don't want to risk offending anyone.

[freydis]

Awwww thanks! I like huggies! wow after typing that i relized im 30 years old and havent even so much as been to the ren center downtown...... ROFL I need to make a list of things to do! Muhahahahaha

Hey.... you could come explore ann arbor with me sometime! I've realised how much i miss not having a wide-ish social circle. I used to have a ton of people i could call if i wanted to go out and do something.... and i havent for a long time....

[pomba gira]

Awwww thanks! I like huggies! wow after typing that i relized im 30 years old and havent even so much as been to the ren center downtown...... ROFL I need to make a list of things to do! Muhahahahaha

from me too...

43Things is great for making lists of things to do... whether they are "trivial" short term goals or life-changing long term ones. You can see how many other people have the same goal and interact with them... really supportive community... I love it! Check it out, I'm YamiNoSensei there.

And- your spelling does NOT suck. Trust me on that one.

[Lillylu29]

Hey.... you could come explore ann arbor with me sometime! I've realised how much i miss not having a wide-ish social circle. I used to have a ton of people i could call if i wanted to go out and do something.... and i havent for a long time....

I stayed in Ann Arbor when i was younger... was in juvy hall for a bit.. i remember the place being across the street from the Ronald McDonnald house.. havent been their since... I loved that huge Cematary their still do.. I so want to go take a stroll in it again... it was very beautiful!

from me too...

43Things is great for making lists of things to do... whether they are "trivial" short term goals or life-changing long term ones. You can see how many other people have the same goal and interact with them... really supportive community... I love it! Check it out, I'm YamiNoSensei there.

And- your spelling does NOT suck. Trust me on that one.

I'll Defently check it out... i gotta work so probly this weekend... and just wait till you get to know me you'll see what im talking about in my spelling

[T3NM1L3SH1GH]

Instructions: Each player starts with 7 random habits/facts about themselves. People who are tagged need to write on their own blog about their seven things, as well as these rules. At the end of your blog,you need to choose 7 people to get tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them that they have been tagged.

1) i need a girlfriend.

2) i have a natural health education degree that allows me to do everything from iridology to reflexology, muscle response testing, nutrition, massage, bach remedies and essential oils, herbology, i know my anatomy and can do energy work too. if anyone ever has any questions or needs some advice i work at the better health store in warren.

3) i was once engaged to a guy from the UP. i actually lived, for an entire year, in a hunting cabin, with NO tv, internet, phone, friends, or anything. the closest store was 35 miles away and i got so depressed i left him and came home.

4) i can drink cheap wine all fuckin night. god i love arbor mist and sutter home. mmmm fill up the bathtub and soak me in it. tomasello blueberry merlot is definitely my downfall. so many great conversations and drunken nights come outta those bottles.

5) i live with and take care of my grandma. i even have to give her showers. my family soooo owes me. i will probably move in jan, but still, im sacrificing my life again...

6) if the world was run completly by me, we would not be over populated. there would be no aids, and youre IQ would determine if you were permitted to breed. i am a cold hearted bitch, at heart, i just cant even stand up for myself. im way to passive. ive never been in a good fight. i rreeeeallly need to let out some pent up anger. ok, a lot.

7) i fuckin hate blue cheese. that would be gone too if i was a world dictator. i tag everyone on my friends list because im new here and really dont know anyone.

ready....go!!

Tag, you're it!

[Msterbeau]

Instructions: Each player starts with 7 random habits/facts about themselves. People who are tagged need to write on their own blog about their seven things, as well as these rules. At the end of your blog,you need to choose 7 people to get tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them that they have been tagged.

1) i need a girlfriend.

2) i have a natural health education degree that allows me to do everything from iridology to reflexology, muscle response testing, nutrition, massage, bach remedies and essential oils, herbology, i know my anatomy and can do energy work too. if anyone ever has any questions or needs some advice i work at the better health store in warren.

3) i was once engaged to a guy from the UP. i actually lived, for an entire year, in a hunting cabin, with NO tv, internet, phone, friends, or anything. the closest store was 35 miles away and i got so depressed i left him and came home.

4) i can drink cheap wine all fuckin night. god i love arbor mist and sutter home. mmmm fill up the bathtub and soak me in it. tomasello blueberry merlot is definitely my downfall. so many great conversations and drunken nights come outta those bottles.

5) i live with and take care of my grandma. i even have to give her showers. my family soooo owes me. i will probably move in jan, but still, im sacrificing my life again...

6) if the world was run completly by me, we would not be over populated. there would be no aids, and youre IQ would determine if you were permitted to breed. i am a cold hearted bitch, at heart, i just cant even stand up for myself. im way to passive. ive never been in a good fight. i rreeeeallly need to let out some pent up anger. ok, a lot.

7) i fuckin hate blue cheese. that would be gone too if i was a world dictator. i tag everyone on my friends list because im new here and really dont know anyone.

ready....go!!

Tag, you're it!

No offense... But purple text on a dark gray backround is unreadable.

[T3NM1L3SH1GH]

No offense... But purple text on a dark gray backround is unreadable.

wow i didnt know it looked that shitty. oops!! sorry guys!!

[Troy Spiral (13)]

wow i didnt know it looked that shitty. oops!! sorry guys!!

Just use that one shade brighter sligtly more on the "red/pink" side. I can read your text becasue i have my monitor set to unusually high contrast, but for most its basicly just not readable. (the purple in your sig is really hard for most to read as well. I can read it fine, but i know most others would have trouble)

Don't let that scare you away though, we love new folks that post. We just want to be able to read your posts! heh

[crunchy_pickle (5)]

1. I'm not as confident as I can come off. I actually used to be really shy, and still have my moments.

2. I blush easily. (thankfully the darkness of City Club hides this fact....)

3. I have two cats.

4. I'm excellent at faking happiness.

5. I wish I didn't have to.

6. I'm generous to friends and strangers when I can be.

7. I wish I had more time.

[Steven]

wow i didnt know it looked that shitty. oops!! sorry guys!!

I've been to your page and you look pretty cool to me and I tend to admire people with self sacrificial lifestyles but I dont know if I can truly trust a woman who does not appreciate Blue Cheese so I hope that does not come between us.....

[Crazed Vampyress]

Okay, THAT is the craziest thing I have ever read. That's just plain NUTS!!!

How did you find out he was your cousin?

well, derek and i went to dennys with a friend of ours. derek likes to wear out tired old phrases like 'your mother' so it was nothing out of the ordinary when i said something smart-ass to him and he went 'yea your mother' and my response to this has always been 'maybe... ive never met her' lol. i had said this many times before but this time for some reason it sparked an interest, derek asked if i knew anything about her i said 'yea... i know her name is Faye Dupree' he laughed and said 'thats funny i have an aunt with that name' and i was like 'and she has a son named michael, my half brother' and derek goes 'how funny... my aunt faye has a son name michael' we both laughed and forgot about the whole thing. i mean what were the chances we had known each other for years and never known we were cousins? so we both kinda forgot about it for a few days. then the following weekend we were just talkin and it came up again. i thought, for shits and giggles why not find out for sure? so derek called his mom and asked about his aunts birthday, age, son, etc... and i called my dad and asked about my mothers birthday, parents names, siblings... needless to say it only took a few minutes to realize everything matched up! we laughed so hard that night! and how odd it took so long for the topic to even come up? lol...