15 Random Things About You

[Songbird]

Tell me all your secrets! I swear it'll be just between us.

1. I'm really a Ninja Jedi Parkour Rescue Princess God. It's super fun.
2. I love speed. My birfday's coming up, and you may leave the Ducati on the drive.
3. I luurve people - what makes them tick, their idiosyncrasies, annoying habits, and interests.
4. Not a fan of diamonds.
5. I have a three-mile-wide knee-jerk anti-establishment contrarian streak.
6. I have a strong distrust of cartography.
7. I've wanted to be a rock star since I was five.
8. My family has a history of both mental illness and genius.
9. I have neither.
10. Or do I?
11. I do not.
12. About two years ago I had a Dark Night of the Soul experience when my dad was diagnosed with cancer. Somehow his dying was a catalyst for my up to that point slow de-conversion from Christianity, as well as the point where I acknowledged how screwed up, scared, and unhappy I was from years of spiritual, physical, and emotional abuse by him. There were nights I wondered if my family would be better without me. I recall badly wanting not advice from well-intentioned friends who said to exercise or take up a hobby, but someone to get in that dark pit of depression with me and see who I was.
13. I pulled through. My dad passed away a little over a year ago, and I'm sure he's looking up at me and smiling.
14. I have a black electric violin.
15. I wonder if nothing short of selling everything I have and giving the money to the poor is enough.

Your turn! Please play! :hug:

 

[sandandfoam]

1 I'm a Dad
2 My wife is my best pal
3 I like mountains
4 I like the ocean
5 I like storms
6 I like bikes
7 Cycling is fun too
8 I'm not as pushed about going fast as I used to be
9 I think Wish You Were Here is the best album ever
10 I'm a communist
11 I love a good laugh
12 Coffee is my favourite treat
13 Don't like meat
14 I want to visit Montsegur
15 I'm a bookworm

 

[Songbird]

1 I'm a Dad
2 My wife is my best pal
3 I like mountains
4 I like the ocean
5 I like storms
6 I like bikes
7 Cycling is fun too
8 I'm not as pushed about going fast as I used to be
9 I think Wish You Were Here is the best album ever
10 I'm a communist
11 I love a good laugh
12 Coffee is my favourite treat
13 Don't like meat
14 I want to visit Montsegur
15 I'm a bookworm

2 - Aww, very endearing.
6 - I know you do!
11 - Awesome.
13 - Vegetarian?

 

[Rakhel]

Don't know if I can come up with 15 things but I will try


1 My first C-section was my last child, who is my only son
2 I love dogs and cats, you can keep the reptiles.
3 I can count on one hand the number of people I have slept with.
4 My mother died 4 years ago.
5 I have mental illness all through my family
6 I want to be a diesel mechanic.(Big rigs)
7 I am the descendant of a slave owner who was also a minister
8 I am the descendant of a Union soldier
9 I am the descendant of a Shawnee
10 I can trace my heritage to 70 CE Scandinavia.
11 I love reading
12 I love puzzles
13 I didn't plan my wedding. My husband did.
14 I "almost" died 8 yrs ago when I was misdiagnosed with lung cancer.
15 I don't wear make-up, don't go out for expensive bags or designer shoes.

Wow. Talk about a bunch of stupid random facts. LOL

 

[ChristineES]

Hmmm...
1. I am a mom of three teens
2. I love Southern Gospel music
3. I love Star Trek in any form
4. My favorite sitcom has always been M*A*S*H
5. I am non-partisan in politics
6. I love cherries and chocolate
7. I like the people on the RF, at least most of them.
8. I have a facebook
9. I love the Bee Gees, Stevie Wonder, The Statler Brothers, Josh Turner, and America and much more music wise.
10. I listen to classical music at night while I sleep.
11. I was born in San Jose, CA
12. I spent my teen years in Colorado Springs, CO
13. I was in the Navy for nearly 7 years in the late 80s and early 90s.
14. My husband is a 20 year veteran of the Navy
15. My two oldest children have autism on the A/a scale (one very mild and one pretty severe)

 

[Kilgore Trout]

1. I
2. have
3. an
4. irrational
5. fear
6. of
7. typing
8. more
9. than
10. one
11. word
12. on
13. a
14. line
15. I'm bringing sexy back.

 

[Songbird]

Don't know if I can come up with 15 things but I will try


1 My first C-section was my last child, who is my only son
2 I love dogs and cats, you can keep the reptiles.
3 I can count on one hand the number of people I have slept with.
4 My mother died 4 years ago.
5 I have mental illness all through my family
6 I want to be a diesel mechanic.(Big rigs)
7 I am the descendant of a slave owner who was also a minister
8 I am the descendant of a Union soldier
9 I am the descendant of a Shawnee
10 I can trace my heritage to 70 CE Scandinavia.
11 I love reading
12 I love puzzles
13 I didn't plan my wedding. My husband did.
14 I "almost" died 8 yrs ago when I was misdiagnosed with lung cancer.
15 I don't wear make-up, don't go out for expensive bags or designer shoes.

Wow. Talk about a bunch of stupid random facts. LOL

6 - SWEET.
7 - Wow.
10 - More wow!
13 - I'm gonna keep saying wow.
14 - How does that happen?? Glad you're alive.
15 - Me neither.

Thanks!

 

[Songbird]

Hmmm...
1. I am a mom of three teens
2. I love Southern Gospel music
3. I love Star Trek in any form
4. My favorite sitcom has always been M*A*S*H
5. I am non-partisan in politics
6. I love cherries and chocolate
7. I like the people on the RF, at least most of them.
8. I have a facebook
9. I love the Bee Gees, Stevie Wonder, The Statler Brothers, Josh Turner, and America and much more music wise.
10. I listen to classical music at night while I sleep.
11. I was born in San Jose, CA
12. I spent my teen years in Colorado Springs, CO
13. I was in the Navy for nearly 7 years in the late 80s and early 90s.
14. My husband is a 20 year veteran of the Navy
15. My two oldest children have autism on the A/a scale (one very mild and one pretty severe)

1 - My condolences!
7 - Me too!
15 - Oh, I'm sorry. May I ask how old they are?

 

[Songbird]

1. I
2. have
3. an
4. irrational
5. fear
6. of
7. typing
8. more
9. than
10. one
11. word
12. on
13. a
14. line
15. I'm bringing sexy back.

1 - Indeed
15 - Had it left?

 

[Rakhel]

They found nodules in one of my lungs and told me I had cancer and 6 months to live. Drew up a will. Ran all the tests they could.
6 months came and went. The doctor that did the initial diagnoses left me hanging, so to speak, so I called my GP. He did an x-ray, looked at the end results from the other tests and said, "They were wrong, obviously, because it's been longer than 6 months. It was probably worms." (I don't know, I don't wanna know, but they are gone and have been gone)

 

[Engyo]

1. I actually enjoy my job (mostly)
2. I enjoy building or assembling things.
3. I read way too much sci fi.
4. I can sit seiza for about 30 minutes at a time.
5. I am a "contraption Captain"
6. I am a workaholic.
7. except when I am extremely lazy.
8. My wife is an ordained Buddhist minister.
9. I have two elderly Akitas.
10. I have broad musical taste.
11. I am obsessive about pockets.
12. I am allergic to shoelaces.
13. I wear hats.
14. I am seldom found without an implement of higher education.
15. Puns! The worse, the better!

KT #15 - where did it go?

 

[Koldo]

1. My first name starts with the letter R.
2. I have more than 20 years old.
3. I have less than 40 years old.
4. I like to play games.
5. I have a dog.
6. I eat pizza 3 times a week.
7. I am not fat.
8. One of my grandfathers is/was portuguese.
9. Men, in my family, live a lot less than women.
10. I would love to learn how to draw properly.
11. I practice tai chi chuan.
12. I like chess
13. I didn't question religion until the day my father died.
14. I am pessimist.
15. I hate the heat.

Ouch...took me longer than i expected....

 

[bobhikes]

1. I'm at peace
2. My family is my life.
3. I love the outdoors.
4. After the 3rd snow storm I hate the winter.
5. I love the beach.
6. Would rather walk.
7. Fall is my favorite season.
8. Traveling is fun.
9. My house is a money pit.
10. Cars are just for going places.
11. I don't travel enough.
12. People are interesting.
13. I like NY City.
14. I like Atlantic City.
15. I don't have enough money.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

1. According to family legend, I'm descended from a Danish sailor who jumped ship in Belfast.

2. Also according to family legend (though on the other side of the family), one of my ancestors hid William Lyon Mackenzie on his farm for four days after his rebellion failed, until he left to make his escape into the US.

3. I'm an auto racing nut. I've done just about every role in racing at one time or another except:
- steward
- starter
- race car driver

4. Unlike Engyo, I cannot sit in seiza for 30 minutes at a time. My limit is about 5 minutes. However, I'm pretty good at jumping up from tatehiza to block or strike with a sword.

5. In addition to being an auto racing nut, I'm also a martial arts nut. Specifically, about iaido - the best martial art that nobody's ever heard of, IMO.

6. Unlike a few other people here, I was already a fairly firm atheist when my father died.

7. My "religious texts" shelf used to hold the Bible, the Quran, a book of Upanishads, and the Brew Master's Bible... until my wife moved the brewing book.

8. I'm a licensed amateur radio operator.

9. I still have a black dot on my left thigh from where one of my classmates semi-accidentally jabbed me with a pencil. The tip broke off and made a quasi-tattoo.

10. I hate taking my car to the mechanic. It feels like an admission of failure about my own car repair skills.

11. I am very allergic to cats.

12. Because of an allergy test when I was little, I grew up thinking that I was allergic to corn. For most of my childhood, I was forbidden from having anything with any sort of corn product in it (BTW - do you have any idea how much stuff has corn in it?!) When I was 14, I got re-tested and corn came up negative. I asked the allergist what happened, and he told me that my previous test was probably a false positive, because the allergen in corn is pretty close to grass, which I am allergic to (but don't eat, normally).

13. In my entire life, I've only had a massage by a massage therapist once.

14. I like summer and I like winter. Spring and fall, not so much. Warm weather's fine, snow's fine, mud I could do without.

15. I'm an awful swimmer. When I was doing kiddie swimming lessons, I failed "sharks" (the level before Red Cross blue in our local Parks & Rec grading system).

 

[Revoltingest]

1) I have little discipline.
2) My facility with a shovel is a divine gift.
3) I've crushed fingers & toes several times.
4) I plan to stop doing #3.
5) I play go, but not very often.
6) I have over 400 Hawaiian/loud shirts.
7) I hate travel.
8) I was a draft resister.
9) I'm pretty frugal, except that when I make bad financial decisions, they're on a large scale.
10) I think Aliens is the greatest movie ever made.
11) I buy 30 lbs of chocolate at a time.
12) I like chocolate.
13) I once scored an E- on a thermodynamics test.
14) I have a masters degree in mechanical engineering.
15) The best decision I ever made was letting my real estate broker license lapse.
16) I've been married 32 years & have 2 kids who haven't served any jail time.
17) I sometimes ignore limits & rules.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

13) I once scored an E- on a thermodynamics test.

You must be very endothermic.

 

[Rakhel]

9. I still have a black dot on my left thigh from where one of my classmates semi-accidentally jabbed me with a pencil. The tip broke off and made a quasi-tattoo.

Jeremy? I thought I got you in your right arm???

 

[Revoltingest]

You must be very endothermic.

It was a perfect storm of a day....unprepared & sick as a dog....very exothermic.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Jeremy? I thought I got you in your right arm???

Maybe this is a more common occurrence than I thought.

Unless you went to high school in the Toronto area and used to be a guy named Chris, you can be pretty sure that you weren't the one who stabbed me.

 

[Rakhel]

Maybe this is a more common occurrence than I thought.

Unless you went to high school in the Toronto area and used to be a guy named Chris, you can be pretty sure that you weren't the one who stabbed me.

Nope and nope. Ohio, during Theater class, my name isn't Chris and I'm pretty sure it was his right forearm. with a mechanical pencil at that.