fresnelly

I would suggest something to do with burst plumbing. There's nothing like catastrophic water damage and a late, expensive plumber to demand your attention and garner sympathy. The possiblilities are endless: Isn't your dishwasher past its warranty? And I heard your upstairs neighbour has a leaky bathtub drain. And doesn't your sprinkler system go off with the slightest rise in temperature? And where the hell has your Super been these days.

Any camping plans this summer? We're looking at a weekend in a Provincial park on Georgian Bay in August. I cant' wait.

CaliLivChick

I collect thimbles. My mom is a travel agent, and she wanted to be able to get something small for my sister and I wherever she went. My sister collects spoons.

I'm not really a camping person. However, I am going to a cabin in a very secluded area of Northern California (almost to Oregon) for Memorial Day Weekend.

What is your favorite televion show? I've become hooked on How I Met Your Mother, and it is the only show where I actually laugh out loud every episode.

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nrclark

You just cant beat the Simpsons in my opinion, (the past couple of seasons have been spotty, for humor, but over all its consistently Hilarious!)

What would be your last meal?

Mine would be a 16 oz. barbeque'd rib steak, with lobster, a cherry cheese cake and a ice cold pepsi ... i'm getting hungry

BigBen

I would look at the Warden and say "I'll have what the President of the United States is having."

Are you a good swimmer? I'm not. I look like a dog humping a football when I am in the water.

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CaliLivChick

I have been in the water since I was six weeks old... I love swimming, the water (have to be near it), oh, and yes, I am a good swimmer. =)

When I was moving across the country the first time (CA to FL), we stopped somewhere in Texas to get gas and food. While we were checking out, the clerk noticed the 15' moving truck with my car on the trailer on the back, and asked where we were moving to. I told her we were going to Florida. She said (and this is not indicative of all Texans, I know) "Aren't you afraid of being near all that water?" I told her that I was moving from California, and would feel lost without being near an ocean. But that's not my best stupid person story (hey, is there a thread on that already?)....

What is your favorite sound? I would have to call a tie between rain on a tin roof (reminds me of my grandmother's place), and the sound of pots and pans being taken out of the cabinets on a weekend morning when I'm staying at my mom's house (the smells of breakfast usually follow shortly).

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777

I have two faves too. It would be the sound of lightsabers clashing and the sound of drywall as my fist goes through it.

I'll make a pb and j sandwitch when I'm hungry. What do you eat when you have a case of the munchies?

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"I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something - or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip."

Roger Zelazny

Toaster126

I collect turtles. I'm not really sure why, but I do. My most unusual one is probably an ocharina that is turtle shaped.

What is your favorite sexual position?

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"The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me." (Ayn Rand)
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." (M. Scott Peck)

CaliLivChick

777 - Depends on my craving (the joys of being a woman). Sometimes it's chocolate, sometimes it's something carby, sometimes it's salty, just depends on the craving.

Toaster126 - Favorite sexual position is doggy style... great access for both of us. =)

What do you do when you're happy? I have a tendency to jump up and down, all giddy at the initial excitement.

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maleficent

i can't recall the last time that I was truly happy without having something else bring down that happiness... it's always something... I'm not sure, I'm not the jump up and down type... Smile maybe? sing?

After three solid days of rain -- and no end in site according to the weatherman - I'm contemplating building an ark and gathering animals... How's the weather by you?

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CaliLivChick

It's off and on rainy, but that's Florida summer for you. Right now, it's sunny and humid, but there were thunderstorms a few days ago (love being inside and hearing the rain and thunder).

What do you use when washing your clothes? I use laundry soap, OxyClean, and fabric softener.

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nrclark

Generic laundry detergent, and then a bounce sheet in the dryer

Where do you plan on spending your retirement?
I plan on having a small cottage somewhere overlooking the ocean on Prince Edward Island ...

Grasshopper Green

If I had my druthers..I'd spend it in Mexico. Hubby and I have decided that that's the place for us

I never sleep well Sunday night before the work week begins again. How about you?

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"They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings; steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king"

Formerly Medusa

SirLance

I sleep great, but I lead a very active lifestyle, so when bedtime rolls around, I'm ready to hit the sack!

Were you ever between a rock and a hard place at work?

I have to deal with someone who is in a very bad situation personally and professionally. As their manager, it makes it difficult... I understand and empathize, but we have a business to run and goals to meet as well.

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AVoiceOfReason

Happens to me often--having to make hard choices. I'm an attorney.

Did you ever study a martial art? I just started taking Tae-Kwon-Do about a year ago, as my son studies it, and it was something we can do together.

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A Voice Of Reason, not necessarily the ONLY one.

CaliLivChick

No, never did study a martial art. Took a self-defense class once in junior college... watch out, I might actually remember some of it! =)

What does the color purple symbolize to you? To me, it represents royalty, beauty, and passion.

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mixedsubstance

To me, it symbolizes mystery. passion is another good description when I think of or see the color. Depends on the shade. To me- the deeper the shade, the more mysterious.

What kind of personality traits of yourself (good or bad) can you stem from your upbringing or past relationships? Do you think that the way you are today is because of how you were raised?

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Well, isn't that just kick-you-in-the-crotch, spit-on-your-neck fantastic?!?

*Without energy, there would be nothing.*

CaliLivChick

Ooh!!! My best one is from a past relationship (and I'm very proud of how things turned out... not exactly proud of how I got here, but the ends justify the means). I'm not a jealous person. I used to be. I was the crazy, psycho, stalker girlfriend who latched on, made one man in particular my entire life, and lost my identity completely. My insecurity made me latch on even more, and the vicious cycle ensued. When I broke it off with him for the last time, that was the end of that nasty behavior, and I haven't been jealous since. =)

It's late, and I can't think of a good question off the top of my head, so if you could think of a question that you would love to answer, what would it be, and what would the answer be?

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maleficent

Ok.. so the question that you would have asked had you not been sleepy.. .is HOW do you make a decision?
I make a decision by listing out the plusses and minusses for each choice and deciding from there which is the lesser of two evils and go with it.

I have a big decision coming up, and I honestly haven't made up my mind yet which way I'm going... my usual method isn't working because no matter which way i go, i'm going to let someone down and they are going to be disappointed... I'm not good with that at all.. and i avoid it at all costs, often at the expense of my happiness.

How do you deal with disappointing other people?

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BigBen

Disappointing other people makes me sick to my stomach. No, seriously. I get violently ill, almost as if I have heartburn.

I lose sleep, trying to make ammends and fretting about what I should have said or done. I then over-compensate, sacrificing my own personal good and well-being so that the person forgets about my disappointing them.

Sheesh. Talk about something I need to work on.


Do you have a favorite card game? Can you find online rules and link them here please? Mine is Texas Hold'em. If you don't know the rules, please turn off your computer and turn on ESPN. I am sure they are showing it right now.

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Hey, if you are impressed with my memorizing pi to 10 digits, you should see the size of my penis.

CaliLivChick

My favorite card game is 52-card pickup.

When you moved out to be on your own, how far from your family did you go and why? I moved across the country to help out/spend time with my then best friend and her two sons (but I get to visit home in 8 days!!!).

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Poppinjay

I moved from North Carolina to Kansas. No more shall be said about that.

What are you dreading? I'm dreading a visit this weekend which includes my codependent uncle.

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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet

maleficent

the phone call at 2:00pm this afternoon when Ihave to make up my mind - and i have absolutely no clue as to what i'm going to do...

Lately I have this complete fascination with cranes... ya know those big ole things that are used on construction sites to assemble even bigger buildings... Part of my fascination with them, is I have no idea how they get built... they seem to magically grow out of the ground out ofa great big concrete block... they also appear overnight it seems... They seem too large to transport by truck- some are 10 stories high or taller... I'll figure it out...

What's your random fascination?

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CaliLivChick

Along the same lines... whenever we'd go down to visit my dad's family in San Luis Obispo, they have these machines along 101 that I think are going down for oil or water or something, but my sister and I called them hammerheads, because their heads looked like they were almost hammering into the ground.

When you get sick, what makes you feel better? I'm a fan of a warm blanket, the TV remote, a bottle of Gatorade, and someone to take care of me.

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nrclark

My bed ... just my bed

Do you have any children?
I have a wonderful (but full of attitude) sixteen year old daughter

maleficent

Nope... (my mother said to me when I was in my teens, may you have a child just like you are... at that point... god decided that it wouldn't be fair to punish me .. with me... so he said -- nope no kids for you lady... )

The canadians have a long weekend this weekend (victoria day?) and the us has along weekend next weekend (memorial day), How did/Will you spend the long weekend, if you indeed get a long weekend (I spent too many years in retail working every holiday known to man) Me? No plans... got nothin' to do at all... and really don'twant to do anything.

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healer

Our next public holiday is Youth Day, on June 16th. It falls on a Friday so it becomes a long weekend. Mandy and I will probably do something together and there's a chance a friend of from outta town will come down for a visit, but no plans yet.

When I was 9 or 10, I stole 13c from my piggy bank and went off to buy sweets. Obviously my parents found out where I'd got the money and I got a whoopin' so bad I remember it to this very day.

When you were a kid, did you ever get caught stealing?

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maleficent

Nope, never stole anything, because if i got caught, i wouldn't have lived to tell about it.

when's the last time you had a bandaid on any part of your body.

Currently I'm sporting a sponge bob bandaid on my top of my index finger on my right hand... hurts like hell to bend it... I have some very sharp knives in my kitchen because sharp knives are supposed to prevent injuries... (dull knives can slip and cause cuts) Well I'm a klutz and clearly should be using plastic cutlery because i was washing a knife in the sink last night, it slipped in the soapy water and came down on my index finger... I have a half inch gash on my finger now - bled like a stuck pig... wasn't fun.. but sponge bob is cool..

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Grasshopper Green

I have a bandaid on my finger right now...to keep a wart disc on, not because I have a boo boo. Damn warts.

Do you use ebay? I use it occassionally, mostly to peruse vintage shoes, which is quickly becoming my newest obsession.

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Formerly Medusa

Poppinjay

No. I like to go and look.


How long has it been since somebody broke your heart, and are you better off now?

<- 6 years ago, and yes.

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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet

Toaster126

I have never had my heart broken. Hopefully that will not change.

What is the one thing about you that others would be surprised to learn about?

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"The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me." (Ayn Rand)
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." (M. Scott Peck)

maleficent

Too many things... especially lately... when I haven't had a conversation with anyone that's remotely person in months... but i'd go with how indecisive I am...or how intolerant I can be...

what's your least favorite household chore?
mine would be taking out the trash... cause it means getting dressed, putting on shoes (which I hate), packing up the trash, leaving my apartment andlocking the door, walking outside, and downt he hill to the dumpster and then walking back up the hill and unlocking two sets of doors to get back in...

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Ample

IM a total clean freak, vacuuming, moppin, and cleaning the bathroom every week, the whole shabang. Dusting though I hate it. I only do it maybe once a month. Dust seem to like to play hide and go seek. I hate that game.

What was the angriest letter you never sent?

nrclark

Arn't we supposed to answer our own questions also?

One time when my current girlfriend and i were taking "a break" i wrote down some things that i never sent to her ... when we got together again, we both sat down and went over it, and turned some of the negative things itto positive things.

When you have some free time on your hands, what do you do to relax?

In the summer, i like to hop on the motorbike and go for a nice slow drive in the country. in the winter i'm a couch and tv kinda guy.

itch vaccine

Sit in front of the computer and browse my mp3s, surfing a tech forum, looking at gadgets, feeling the breeze of the a/c, looking at the lava lamp, doing occasional skratches on the dj set, and play DotA.

Talk to the girlfriend.

What's the sweetest thing you've ever done for Mom?

I told her I loved her on Mother's Day. In the family, hardly anyone says it. So I guess that's sweetest so far

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When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours.
That's relativity."
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Puddintane

last week I drove to see my mom in the ICU at 1 in the morning, 5 hours away. It was one of the scariest, but sweetest moments of my life. She is fine now!

Apple or PC? We have a divided household. I'm on the PC.

SirLance

We have a PC, but my wife is a Mac bigot. She uses one at work.

What's your pet peeve? Mine's rudeness. It doesn't take that much effort to be polite.

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Poppinjay

Rudeness has many forms, and I think all of my pet peeves are tied to them. I guess that chief two would be related to bablies, keeping them in normally quiet areas while they are crying, and using their strollers to bull your way through a crowd.

I kid you not, my wife and I went to a weekend festival where there were two seperate couples who left the baby with someone else, but brought the stroller to navigate crowds.

That, and strollers that are now approaching the size of some European cars.

When was the last time you had to let down an unrequited crush? Me, college.

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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet

little_tippler

Me, twice in the past few months. Sometimes if I'm just naturally nice some guys seem to think that's a form of encouragement.

When was the last time you really had a good time?

I went out last weekend dancing and had the best night out I've had in absolutely ages. I thought maybe I just didn't have it in me anymore but I was wrong! ;P

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918

fresnelly

Last week on vacation in France. A highlight was on our second last night, in Paris, when my wife's parents looked after our son. We so rarely get out at night together, and being able to do so in Paris was wonderful. We took the metro up the to the far end of the Champs de Lessay, and then strolled back downtown, eventually settling in at a cafe in the Left Bank for some sublime coffee and creme brulee. We're so spoiled. I'm still on a bit of a high.

What is first on your list of dream vacation spots? I'd very much like to see the Alps.

maleficent

i'm a low maintenance kinda gal... i want a cabin in the mountains, with a fresh water lake nearby (that's super clean for swimming) with Mondak's beer fridge, a grill in a covered area, a king size bed with a down comforter, fire place., A/C , plasma screen television, DVD player and tons of movies and a T3 connection with a computer... maybe someone to share it with...

I've been to so many places that people would consider dream vacation spots, Tahiti, St Barts, most of the carribbean, Australia, Europe... I'm over it - I want simplish..


What is the strangest thing on your desk right now?
I have a train ticket from the LIRR and a train ticket from the DC Metro... and I live in NH... they were at the bottom of my bag and haven't made their way into the trash yet...

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