10 Things You (Maybe) Don't Know

[noxious.sunshine]

I'm kind of addicted to US Magazine (mmhhmmm) and that whole "25 things you don't know" article usually annoys me 'cuz none of the celebrities put anything super interesting. SO, I'm shortening it to 10. What're 10 things we don't know about you?

1. I learned how to swim when I was 2 and was on my hometown's swim team when I was 3 (I was the youngest kid in the county).

2. I can "sing" in 6 different languages, but I'm only any kind of fluent in 2.

3. My dad and sister are both Googleable - but my dad is more interesting to look up.. 'Cuz you can find a couple of old photos of him in his sprint car.

4. I'm the only person in my family actually born in TN - everyone else was born in Ohio.

5. I'm only 3rd Gen American on my mom's side - my great grandparents came over on a boat from Ireland.

6. I'm also the only redhead in my family - I got it from my dad's mother, who we know nothing about.

7. I've lived in 3 different states (Arizona, Texas, Tennessee), but I've "moved" probably around 20+ times between '96 & '06.

8. I'm obsessed with bright colors - but my favorite is Yellow (my Ford Focus is yellow).

9. I can drive a standard shift car (& run) in heels.

10. In theory, I know how to drive a big truck (I used to sit in my dad's lap and he'd let me steer when I went with him. He taught me how to keep the center of the hood aligned with whatever lines are to the left). No one could pay me enough to actually turn it into a career, though.

[Loony BoB]

This is extremely hard for me as quite a number of you know so much about me. So it's safe to assume these are ten things the average member who isn't a close friend of mine might not have heard or read about already that are to do with me. xD

1. I was nicknamed 'Flip-top lid' by my parents when I was really young because when I started talking, I wouldn't shut up. I still make concious efforts these days to stop talking at certain points. You can imagine how hard it is for me making a podcast. xP Despite this, I love conversation, so I think I'm at least tolerable. >_>;

2. I had a 'cackle' laugh as a kid that I got teased over heavily, and ever since I have not really had a specific laugh due to my insistence on changing it (successfully, I might add). Some people have noted this saying that I laugh differently all the time... I can't think of what a default laugh of mine would be like anymore. Even uncontrollable laughter changes for me. I don't know if this is normal or not.

3. When I was younger, my role model was Dave, my third-cousin who boarded at our house. He was a very good motorcycle racer, winning many races and multiple divisions, and I always wanted to be one too. I had all kinds of posters of my favourite motorbike racers on my wall at the time. Naturally, though, as I aged, girls replaced bikes and my dreams changed. I can still certainly appreciate a nice bike, though, and I look forward to returning to the bike races someday.

4. I am very good at keeping secrets and I do not use the world 'promise' lightly at all. I find these things to be very serious. When I was about seven or eight years old, I was told by a friend of mine that he liked a girl and told to keep it secret, and I told someone else, and they teased him about it. I lost my friend that day, and he wasn't my best friend or anything, but I learned a lesson quickly and to this day if I promise something, I mean it, and if I'm told a secret, I bloody keep it.

5. I have changed my avatar... once. Someone else has changed my avatar once, too. The latter person had my blessing, though.

6. I'm fairly certain I have been in hospital or a 'super clinic' (for surgery, so I count that) at least once every year of my life for the first eighteen years of my life. Because of my frequent visits to hospital and how many times I've been put under anaesthetic, the dentist was able to put me to sleep simply to remove some teeth. I woke up something like within five minutes of the time they expected me to!

7. I have been to every town in the North Island of New Zealand, and never set foot in the South Island at all. The closest I had gone to overseas before moving the the other end of the world (UK) was when I went to Great Barrier Island off the coast of North Island.

8. I once wrote an encyclopedia on Dinosaurs at around the age of nine or ten. It was a combination of information from about three or four different dinosaur books I had. It's presumably gone now - I think it was typed out on the 186 or 286 PC we had at the time.

9. Perhaps more common knowledge, but not so to some of our newer members - inspired by Final Fantasy and Lord of the Rings, I created my own world in high school. It has history, it has lore, it has religion, it has politics, it has characters, it has trade routes (I kid you not), it has villains, it has fantasy races unique to Aiyon... I have many, many maps and a few books on it, not to mention files. My dream is for it to be turned into both an RPG and an an MMORPG which, in my head, is very different to the MMORPGs seen today - imagination allows this, if hardware and money do not, ha!

10. According to all reviews I've been given, I give a fantastic shoulder/back massage. Only about five to ten people know this because only five or ten people have ever suggested I give them a massage (or been my girlfriend, thus meaning they don't need to ask). The last girl I massaged that wasn't Danielle was someone at work who demanded it of me jokingly so I gave her a 5-10 second massage and she actually groaned out loud right there in the office, and everyone just stared. It was embarrassing but hilarious. xD She insisted I give her more massages but I wouldn't do it because I was scared she might do it again. When I was about fifteen years old, before I properly understood exactly what 'power' I held in my hands, I gave a very attractive friend of mine a massage and within a minute or two her bra was off and she was lying on the ground requesting I cover a wider area. I mean, I liked her and I didn't get the hint. I was such a massive idiot back then. Either way, I still get asked for rubs and massages by Danielle on a regular basis. I do guys, too. Yes, go on, take that out of context, I know you want to. xP

[Chris]

1. I am of Danish, Filipino and Spanish origin.

2. I almost exclusively listen to music from the '40s and before.

3. I'm 5'10".

4. I have five half-brothers, all of which are adults (30-45).

5. I was a junior wrestling champion. No really, I have a couple of gold medals.

6. In his yougner days, my dad was a famous dude here in my country.

7. I have yet to achieve that. ^

8. I'm not sure if I believe that it is okay for a gay couple to adopt or have children. I just think that there are some things that a father can't teach her daughter, and a mother can't teach her son. I dunno. Perhaps I am old-fashioned.

9. I am incredibly sensitive and I fall hard, and too easily, in love. I wish I knew how to change this aspect of myself, but on the other hand, I don't believe anyone should ever apologize for being able to feel too deeply.

10. I don't watch or read the news, so half of the time I have no clue what is going on in the World around me.

[Citizen Bleys]

[Freya]

1. I have trouble saying accent without a texas/southern accent.
2. I like to make maps in my spare time.
3. I'm afraid of earthworms
4. I'm an excellent shot with a rifle
5. I collect teacups
6. I have never been able to tie a balloon. Water balloons are included.
7. As a child my siblings convinced me aspen trees were watching em and would kidnapped me if I looked at them.
8. I have a thing for circles. I love rounded things, my apartment is covered in circley decorations
9. I'm allergic to tequila! It makes my tongue swell and I get itchy. It's not too dramatic but enough to be irritating. All other alcohol is fine.
10. On that note, I'm allergic to near every pain pill. Advil, ibuprofen, aspirin. Only one i can take is Tylenol and I have a slight allergy to that too!

[Shorty]

1. If it came between picking the love of my life or my dog to separate from, I would keep my dog.

2. I have four rings that I wear all the time that have not come off my fingers since I got them. Not when I sleep, not when I shower, not when I go swimming, not if I'm cleaning. Three of them I got in 2006, one was recently in the last couple years. If I were to lose any of them, I would go nuts, both for extreme sentimental reasons and because I would feel naked and uncomfortable and sad.

3. In relation to #2, I put way too much sentimental value on certain possessions of mine that I've either had for many years, that were given to me or that I acquired from my grandmother's death. I feel like sentimentality is a pretty common thing for most people, but I'm afraid of my level turning into hoarding when I'm older, especially since I've had to purge so many things I didn't want to purge with moving around the past couple years. When the apocalypse comes, I am going to lose my trout.

4. I never met my father's father before he died. His name was Billy and he was a true hermit, prone to agoraphobia and anxieties and mental problems of every kind, leaving him with a crippling fear and hatred of leaving the house and interacting with anyone at all. I think he died... two or three years ago, and he never met any of his couple dozen grandchildren. Only in the past few years have we (my dad and my sisters) realized we are predispositioned to some of the ailments from him.

5. I want to dye my hair teal and pretend I'm a mermaid.

6. I'm left-handed.

7. I missed out of my fifth grade spelling bee on the word "coercion" and have hated that smurfing word ever since (I was certain it was spelled "coersion" and had blasted through words that seemed much harded that that). Made it to the last five, though!

8. My dad looks and sounds so much like Harrison Ford to me that when I watched Raiders of the Lost Ark for the first time when I was five, I truly believed that my dad was Indiana Jones, and I was absolutely dumbstruck at how they made him look older and different than he was. Couldn't figure it out, but it felt super cool that my dad was Indy.

9. Sweet and sour food of any kind makes me puke, and just a whiff of it will make me gag and DANGER ZONE. (I'm getting a rock in my throat just thinking about it now.)

10. My memory problems make me increasingly concerned that I will develop Alzheimer's when I get older. That scares the trout out of me because when your life has come and gone and you have no memory of it, what do you have?

[Shiny]

A lot of those things I knew about you, Shorty. Do I get a prize? It is hard to come up with ten things abour myself and especially hard to come up with things worth noting, but here goes...

1. A lot of you know I did ballet, but I also did tap dancing. I won things for both.

2. I didn't bother learning how to drive until I was 21.

3. Regardless of my short stature, I am extremely good at basketball.

4. I always have trouble spelling definitely when I am writing it because it looks weird to me. Some how I have no problem spelling it on my phone.

5. Speaking of phone, this year, 80 percent of my posts I do on my phone.

6. I once convinced a girl that I was related to Scary Spice. She almost cried when I told her I couldn't get her concert tickets.

7. I was born a yellow baby. Like actually yellow. Not azn yellow.

8. Despite doing well academically, I would frequently piss some of my teachers in high school off by being late or argumentative. I got away with saying a lot of crap to them. Comments on my report card were always, "works hard, is a pleasure to have in class". Wtf?

9. Many people think I am adopted as I look nothing like either of my parents.

10. Can't think of a #10

[Citizen Bleys]

1. I have a thing for circles. I love rounded things, my apartment is covered in circley decorations

Time to learn to write in Gallifreyan

[Pumpkin]

1. I have a 3 year old son named Michael.
2. I was a surrogate and gave birth to twin girls, named Alyssa and Liliane.
3. I used to spend my childhood allowence (when I had one) on an adopt a whale program.
4. I like to donate a Christmas dinner to the Church every Christmas so they can give it to a family in need.
5. I'm Catholic, and I believe in private worship, but midnight mass and Easter I like to go to Church.
6. I've wanted to go to Italy ever since I did a school project on the country in 4th grade.
7. I have a stuffed bear named Teddy that a strange man gave to me when I was 4 and I have had ever since. I won't even travel without him.
8. My favorite movies are Donnie Darko and The Fox and The Hound.
9. I have a book crush on Vimes from the Discworld series.
10. I have always wanted a ferret. I will one day get a ferret and name him Hubert.

[Shorty]

A lot of those things I knew about you, Shorty. Do I get a prize?

what the trout, how did you know all of those! I swear I wrote some things on there for the first time ever xD

Yes, you get a prize. I will make you tiramisu.

edit: oh, you said a lot. I will still make you tiramisu.

[Polnareff]

1. I am about 55% black, 45% Native American, and 5% white.

2. I once owned about 950 video games. Since then, the biggest amount of games I've had is about 465. I've rebuilt my collection a total of 3 times since I was 4 years old. Now that I don't have much disposable income, I've had to sell most of my games and systems again.

3. I am the second child my mom has had out of 3, and the only one to live. The other 2 were girls. One would have been 28, the other 14. I was given a 10% chance to live at birth, and was born a month prematurely. I attribute my not dying to the bad luck I've had my whole life.

4. I have Marfan syndrome, which is a disease that affects the skeletal system and (usually) the heart. Luckily, I don't have any of the heart problems, just the disfigurement and problems with my joints. As a result of the joint problems, I already have arthritis at 24.

5. I look nothing like either of my parents, and like Shiny, I was born with jaundice, and was completely yellow.

6. I can't eat Rolos. There's some ingredient in them, that every time I have eaten them, I've gotten sick. To this day, I haven't figured out which ingredient it is.

7. Despite being mostly black, I have a non-black-sounding voice. This has led to many occasions where people who heard me on the phone were surprised to see that I'm not A. white or B. an old man. I also get mistaken as being slow, since I talk with a slur as well, which is only noticeable in real life. Some people don't notice anything wrong with my speech, while others do for some reason.

8. I have a large variety of music on my MP3 player, ranging from Paramore to Steely Dan to Prince to Diana Ross to Hoobastank. It throws people off when they ask what I'm listening to and I tell them.

9. I used to draw a lot. Like, full comic books. Even used to print them multiple times and sell them. Don't have the time to do it now though. I think my old art thread from 8 years ago is still here too.

10. Up until a year ago, I still had my old Little Tykes ride-on bulldozer. That is the possession I've had the longest (20 years), other than the dresser in my room, which I've had for about 17 years.

[Lawr]

6. I'm left-handed.

Hey so we can't be friends anymore.

Weirdo.

[Shorty]

but honeybunch, I love you so much!

shiny's left-handed too if I'm going under the bus I'm taking her with me

[Bunny]

1. If I was born a girl, my name would have been Elizabeth. I know this with 100% certainty because my parents thought I was a girl up until the point I was born.

2. I have lived in 9 different states.

3. From 4th grade until I was roughly 20 years old, I moved at least once every year, mostly in and around San Diego county.

4. I have almost died a dozen times from random and bizarre circumstances.

5. I was named after my great-great-grandfather on my mother's side.

6. I am significantly Polish on my mother's side of the family, significantly German on my father's side, and Native American on both. I also have some English and Irish in me.

7. I did not know where I was born until I was in middle school.

8. I frequently think about my mother's death without shedding a tear but whenever I think about my cat Kirby I get fairly emotional.

9. I have a tendency to purposely burn bridges every couple years in order to prevent people from getting too close to me. There is no real reason to this, and it is pretty stupid because I later regret doing it, but I cannot help it.

10. Despite the image that I present anywhere on the internet and in real life, I am actually severely depressed and hate myself to an almost obsessive degree. I used to fantasize about committing suicide but never went through because I was afraid of what people would think, specifically family and friends, if I failed. Nowadays I do not actually want to die, but I still think about it from time to time.

[Gzussaves]

man.. how the hell do i follow that.... alright i will try anyway

1. I often think of strange ways to die (not picturing anyone in particular.. lets say i use a dummy in my head for it).. like if things happened on accident or maybe not... for instance just jerking the wheel all the way to the left... or falling off something tall..

2. My father was an orphan and 1st gen us born.. he is also 100% Italian

3. I have been homeless and had no job, no money and come back from it

4. I have lived in 4 different states, Maine, Mass, Florida, and i am back in North Dakota for the second time

5. I took algebra in 9th grade and passed with an A... I then moved to ND and took it for the next 4 years not actually getting graded it on since they accepted the grade from the previous school but did not have advanced placement (so much for getting ahead in life early)

6. I got all my partying days out of the way before i was 18, did lots of drinking and drugs

7. (SPOILER)I used to have a prince albert

8. I don't really talk to people much in person, I find most common talk to be boring, whether it be politics, sports, or cars, or bla bla bla, about the only thing i care about talking about most of the time is movies, music, video games, women, or porn (yes porn, I used to work in a porn store and i still try to keep up with my knowledge of toys and videos and whatnot)

9. I hate most people in public, I find way too many people to be stupid and i also hate myself for thinking that because sometimes it isn't that person's fault, I just have a hard time dealing with stupidity, I also get really annoyed at people who are trashed drunk to the point i just want to punch them in their slurring mouth

10. I dated a girl for 3 years, she got pregnant, had the child, 11 months after she was born I found out it wasn't mine. became severely depressed, gained a bunch of weight, smoked over a pack a day, drank quite a bit.. took me a while to calm down from it all but sometimes when i see small children whether it is irl, online, or even in commercials, i cry