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[serene]

From kightp and others:

I know very little about some of the people on my friends' list. Some people I know relatively well. Some of you I hardly know at all. Perhaps you lurk, for whatever reason. But you friended me and I thank you.

But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's so and so...she likes spinach."

I'd love it if every single person who friended me would do this. Yes, even you people who I know really well. Then post this in your own journal, if you feel like it.

Comments

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Something about me: this userpic is a [fanciful] self-poirtrait.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Ohmigosh, you made that?? I LOVE it. If you let me use it for the goddess wall, I will kiss your feet.

[sistercoyote.livejournal.com]

I am currently owned long-distance by a fawn, silky-coat, dumbo rat named Gertrude (also known as "fuzzy butt").

She was originally half of a pair (her partner in crime was named Alice). Alice passed away the day after she and Gertie had a checkup at the veterinarian. Both were given a clean bill of health.

Before Gertrude I was owned by a fawn rough-coat non-dumbo rat named "Fat Boy" (hey - he weighed almost a pound). Before Fat Boy I was owned by a previously owned black-and-white rat named Junior (originally called Spike the Wonder Rat and there was no WAY I was keeping that) who got nicknamed Kamikaze rat the third time he dove off the table onto someone's head. He was two when I got him, and lived to be almost six.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

i mostly wear men's shoes, and have for long enough that i have no idea what my women's shoe size is.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I know my men's shoe size (10 W), but they don't really make women's shoes in my size, so I have to try and try and try to find ones that fit.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

My first doll was named "Orangish."

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Oh, adorable! Mine was Ursula. :-)

[deborama.livejournal.com]

I am Deb from the Wombat list. I live in England. I am new to LJ (a week or so.)

This userpic

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

The reason I look so happy in this picture is that I was glowing from a long night of lovemaking with one of my dearest. I'm not wearing a stich of clothing, though it's pretty well cropped.

Re: This userpic

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

It's a gorgeous photo. I'll ask you what I asked browngirl: Can I use it on the goddess wall?

[forbiddenone.livejournal.com]

I have a weakness for long hair (:

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

*flutter*

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

I love cooking and am totally bored by gardening. I enjoy the physical sensations of washing dishes, but would be perfectly happy if I never vacuumed another rug as long as I live.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I love cooking and am totally bored by gardening. I enjoy the physical sensations of washing dishes, and I get in a zen zone when I vacuum. :-)

[leduck.livejournal.com]

I got called a "renegade guerilla bureaucrat" in the national media a couple months ago (and then they called for me and everyone who worked with me on a particular program to be fired). I want my own renegade guerilla bureacrat action figure!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooooooooooooh, do renegade guerilla bureaucrats need groupies?

[kightp.livejournal.com]

When I was five or six, the nun teaching our First Communion class told us that if we wanted something, all we had to do was pray.

I think I must have just seen Pinnocchio, too, because I got it into my head to test the theory by asking God to make my dolls come to life.

Every night for what seemed like a very long time (but was probably days) I'd lay all my dolls out on my bed and get down on my knees and squint my eyes shut tight, and pray my little heart out. And open my eyes truly expecting to see real, live babies where my dolls had been.

There never were, of course. After a while I got bored and gave up, but that was my first real crisis of faith. I never quite believed the nuns after that.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I stopped believing adults the day I found out my mom was santa. Your story is better.

("They fuck you up, your mum and dad
They may not mean to but they do
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old style hats and coats
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats
Man hands on misery to man
It deepens like a coastal shelf
Get out as early as you can
And don't have any kids yourself")

[misanthropoid.livejournal.com]

I've already spent almost half of my "new plow truck" money on christmas presents. (but no Earnhart dolls)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, prezzzzzents. Edumacational stuff, I know, but what? Games? Chemistry sets? Munchkin The Elder is getting a telescope on request.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, I become an astrofizzypissed - in the British sense, where 'pissed' means, 'inebriated', never angry.

My father's mother's father was born in what is now Toronto, Canada. His family de-emigrated back to England because of his mother's ill-health.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

astrofizzypissed

I love it.

[bafleyanne.livejournal.com]

I think you know already about me that I have a 2 year old son named Jamie who is (mostly) a sweetheart, but something you may not know about me is that I am an avid cross-stitcher in my (not very copious) spare time. natalieann and I just finished stitching this (http://www.victoriasampler.com/Catalog/Vsamplers/p05child.asp) for an online friend of ours. It's the first joint project we've ever done and it was lots of fun. :)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's beautiful! And I love doing counted cross-stitch, but I haven't done any in a while. Started something tiny for sogwife earlier this year, and never finished it.

[hfnuala.livejournal.com]

I like spinach :)

I don't sound very Irish anymore and have a tattoo of a biohazard symbol on my right shoulder blade.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I like spinach :)

*grin* Me, too.

I don't sound very Irish anymore

I was sitting next to the phone when you called bitty's house in November, but I didn't get to hear your voice. :-)

and have a tattoo of a
biohazard symbol
on my right shoulder blade.

Way cool.

Anything at all

[mama-hogswatch.livejournal.com]

I love to read in the bathtub. But I don't have a bathtub right now and haven't for two years. So now, I read in the shower.

Re: Anything at all

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I would read in the shower if I didn't have a tub. Prolly not.

[lcohen]

well i do like spinach. most of the vegetables i disliked as a kid i ultimately learned to love or at least like (mmmm, mushrooms). but i still don't like fresh tomatoes.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

This, my darling, is clearly a More For Me situation.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

A major step in my path here was publishing my first fanzine in 1977. As a result, there are people here I've known for more than a quarter of a century. In those pre-Net days, it was considerably harder for a socially challenged person to make friends via the printed word, but I managed.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

The internet changed my life. That is a huge understatement.

[saoba.livejournal.com]

I sometimes turn the music up really loud and dance around the house and sing.

I met the Mamas and Papas down in the Virgin Islands before they were famous.

One of the first things I did when Himself got his big job offer was count up the number of on-line folks I would now be close enough to meet.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I just like you more and more every time I read something new from you.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I like English novels. (I just finished reading Sense and Sensibility.)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I loved "Jane Eyre," even though I had the impression from my literary-minded friends that I shouldn't love it. I have read no Austen.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

I used to square dance as a teenager.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Oh, I loved square dancing when I was young. If I think of it this weekend while I'm doing the goddess wall, I'll scan in the photo I have of me dancing with my dad in our matching outfits.

[kshandra]

When I originally delurked in alt.callahans (nine years ago, now - jeez!), I called myself the Invisible Girl.

Sometimes I still feel that way.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Count me as one person who is glad you're not invisible.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

I was a stand-in poster child for Easter Seals as a kid.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

'cause you were so kee-yoot!

[nolly.livejournal.com]

I like spinach :)

I went to a public residential magnet HS for 2 years.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

We have a public residential school around the corner, but it's different, as it's one of California's two residential schools for the deaf.

[ailbhe]

I am happy with my life but I feel deeply insecure about the fact that others misinterpret my choices as either parasitism or slavery.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

nobody who actually knows you, i am sure.

Hi! I'm Jennifer! :)

[sisterfish125.livejournal.com]

I'm 5'5, and 31 going on 90. I work as a Forensic Biologist/DNA Analyst for the Georgia state crime lab. I used to be a "fish pimp", I adore cats (and only have one fluffy one). I'm originally from Nebraska, have lived in about 17 different homes, and currently live just outside of Atlanta. I miss snow. I think it's time to change the color of my hair again, and my family drives me nuts sometimes.

How's that for starters??

Re: Hi! I'm Jennifer! :)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

:-) Thanks! Fish pimp?