Wouldn't You Like To Know?

[strangevisitor7]

Pillaged from ithidrial

I know very little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know relatively well. I read your journals, or we have something else in common and we chat occasionally. Some of you I hardly know at all. Perhaps you lurk, for whatever reason. But you friended me and I thank you for your interest in my words.

But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself? Any old thing at all, the more trivial and fascinating, the better. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's so and so...they have a giant birthmark shaped like a wildebeest on their right buttock."

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 and see what gems of knowledge appear.

No obligation to post it on your journal if you leave a comment. Pick the parts you want to do, the usual :)

Comments

[dhark-charlotte.livejournal.com]

*waves

Hey there! I have very little to say at the moment. I'm furiously working on my WIP's, but I wanted to say hey.

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

I hope your muse is cooperative!

[kreutzmarie.livejournal.com]

I love to bake. My neighbors and friends get fresh homemade breads (sourdough, rye, pumpernickel, croissants, etc) pretty often during the winter. Plus, the smell of things baking in the oven always makes an apartment feel so much cozier. Leaving the oven cracked open when finished to let it cool adds warmth to the apartment. Yay energy conservation!

[arathisiewen.livejournal.com]

I love cooking!

Good tip on energy conservation with the oven!

:D

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

See we have something in common because I love baked goods. *hee* The smell of fresh baked bread is amazing. Thanks for sharing

[satyrnfive.livejournal.com]

I own 2 comic/game stores. And about 50% of the time wish I didn't and just worked for somebody else.

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

We used to own a small grocery - I feel your pain. I miss the free food because my grocery bill skyrocketed when we sold the place but I don't miss the long hours

[arathisiewen.livejournal.com]

I am one inch shy of being a midget - the official heihgt break for being a midget is 4;10" as the tallest... I am a little over 4'11"; this is, coincidentally, the same height as Sailor Moon (at least in the first couple of seasons).

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

I did not know there was a specific height at which someone was officially a midget. So now I have it in my my mind that you look like a cross between Sailor Moon and Kristin Chenoweth from Pushing Daisies.:)

I'm 5'4" and short for my weight. *hee*

[arathisiewen.livejournal.com]

See, someone was making fun of me and telling me I was a midget, and I thought the breaking point was 4'8" - buy was I surprised when i found out if you were 4'10" or below that you were considered a midget!

My hair is short-medium, so in REALITY I probably look a little more like Sailor Saturn visually, and Sailor Moon height wise.

*shakes at you and your five inches of height*

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

Trying to capture that visual.
I'd like to say i look like a slightly overweight version of Sondra Bullock but I'd be lying. I am a brunette - that's close right.

[arathisiewen.livejournal.com]

Heh.

Sailor Saturn is fairly tiny, and has kinda short, bluntly cut black hair that has a purply tinge to it; except I'm a dark blonde with bright blue eyes (and I MEAN bright).

So... yeah...

My icon is actually a pretty fair depiction of me right now.

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

I always wished i were ginger as the Brits say. So if we all get to be cartoon characters, then i want to be Daffney from Scooby Doo. *hee*

[arathisiewen.livejournal.com]

LOL...

I wanted to be platnium blonde again after my hair started changing colour to the shade it had been coloured to now....

But I'm very pale and platnium blonde hair would have made it worse.

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

My son Brett has the most amazing auburn colored hair. I have actually died mine a similar color so most people think its my real shade.

[arathisiewen.livejournal.com]

awwww... lovely! I was the only blonde child out of three, and even with the blue eyes I STILL don't look like my parents...

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

Its is funny sometimes how the genetics get spread around. Brett looks a lot like my brother - auburn hair too. In fact Brett looks more like his cousin than his brother.

I joke alot about haveing my own Sam and Dean. But its true at least physically. Brett is 4 years younger, leaner and will be taller than Seth who is much stockier.

[arathisiewen.livejournal.com]

LOL!

See, I look more like my maternal grandparents - of which I look more like my grandfather and an not biologically related to!

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

Yep Genetics is funny thingz.

[arathisiewen.livejournal.com]

Genetics is funny - I miss my really light blonde hair but I guess puberty really screwed me there. That and I totally stopped growing after it started....

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

Seth wasn't growing - no suprise since his dad's side of the family is all shorter people. So we took him to be tested JIC and now he knows that if he's lucky he'll hit 5' 6". While Brett takes after mine and every man on my side hit 6' (i'm the shortest by far)

Seth has a good sense of humor about it and just keeps reminding his brother that shorter people live longer ;p

[arathisiewen.livejournal.com]

LOL!

I would disagree with your son about shorter people living longer because we have to find inventive ways to reach top cabinets and such.

*smirks*

my sister and brother, SOMEWHOW, all ended up over five foot five.... I got my mother's stubbyness and they got the skinny lankyness

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

*hee* Step stools are a must

[arathisiewen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, more like hydraulic lifts for me. And yeah, we have a little kitchen stool but sometimes it just... isn't enough. And my husband REFUSES to help me get things down even when I can't reach with the stool.

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

LOL The meanie ;P

[superbadgirl]

I have 10 brothers and sisters, all from one set of parents, no twins.

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

I've always wondered what it was like growing up in a big family. TV always makes it seem like a lot of fun ;P

I'm just one of three and have two boys of my own.

[superbadgirl]

I think circumstances play a lot into that. We were dirt po' and so it wasn't all sunshine and roses, and we certainly didn't all get along or even know each other (how do you hang with a brother who's 17 years older than you?), but there were plenty of good times among the hard.

I would never recommend that large a family to anyone, though! ;)

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

It seems that two is the norm these days. I was hoping for more but circumstances got in the way.

[arathisiewen.livejournal.com]

Wow! Sounds like my dad's family, except he had eight brothers and sisters from the same set of parents. Also no twins.

Eleven cousins though.

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

I come from such a small family that I only have 4 cousins total. They are all so much older and we're not close so i probably wouldn't even recognize them if I saw them on the street.

[arathisiewen.livejournal.com]

LOL..

my family is so big (extended family that is, jsut dad's side) that if ten random people were hungry at the place we were holding the family reunion, and walked into our buffett line... we wouldn't know!

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

I've always been a little jealous about not having cousins i could really know. i am glad that my boys are becoming close with theirs

[arathisiewen.livejournal.com]

:D

I like mine, I'm only close to a couple now though.

[superbadgirl]

I had lots of old cousins and a few my age/younger. My dad was the youngest in his family and my mom the oldest. Quite an age spread with the relatives.

I have 19 nieces/nephews, with one officially on the way and a possible adoption. And a grand nephew, and I'm far too young for that! ;)

[arathisiewen.livejournal.com]

LOL!

My dad is the oldest at fifty-two, and my aunt is the youngest at... 35; I remember going to my aunt's HS graduation in like, 1991.

I'm the third oldest grandchild (the oldest is 27), and there are three to four by adoption; my sister is having the first great-grandchild.

:D

Weeeeeee!

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

When I was in junior high (way back in the day), they used to separate the boys and girls two afternoons a week. The girls got typing classes, the boys had basketball practice. And yes, I mean on actual typewriters: this was AT LEAST a decade before workable personal computers. At the time, my budding feminist consciousness was outraged, but long term, I'm sure I've earned more money through knowing how to type than any of those guys ever did playing basketball!

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

We must have gone to high school around the same time. I was told to take typing too but I told them to take a walk. Trying to remember if i was polite about it - i was a bit mouthy in high school - so probably not. I took an elective science class instead. Taught myself to type later in college.

But basketball would have been more fun I'm sure

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Basketball (volleyball, softball) all qualify as things I would rather face hellhounds than do.

This was junior high, circa 1973.

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

Well when you put it like than i guess typing isn't so bad :D

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Sports I like: bowling, miniature golf, shooting pool, bocce, shopping.

Which is not to say that I'm actually any good at any of the first four, but I enjoy playing at them.

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

I love to bowl. I actually bowl in a league. The kids are crazy about mini golf and we play all over the country when we're on vacation. My Icon is the boys at an in door course in Canada that had a scifi theme and yes it is supposed to be the Stargate.

Those are pretty much my two favorite sports to participate in :)