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Oct. 13th, 2005
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10 little known things about me
Oct. 13th, 2005 08:13 pmGacked from a few people...
1. I have tried smoking dope (years ago and yes i inhaled) but i never got a lot out of it so i never bothered with it. Booze was legal and i got a better buzz off it. I also tried hash once or twice. (Dad would add here, "yes so did i but i couldnt' get the corned beef lit")
2. I can sew, knit, cross stitch, and oil paint (ok you knew that last one) and i've loved taking pictures since i got my first camera, a polaroid, at the age of 12.
3. When i was growing up, i used to fill pads of paper with drawings of fashion designs. I was one of the two best "artists" in class in elementary school, for drawing posters and project murals and such.
4. Speaking in front of the class was one thing, but you know how, in seminars you sometimes break out into groups and one of you has to present the discussion you had to the rest of the people? That was me. I think it was either in Vocational School or my first job, and the "rest of the people" were several hundred!!! I vaguely remember the incident but the rest is a blur!
5. I have always had infatuations (one sided) but I have never truly been in love or been truly loved in return until last year, at the age of 45.
6. I have fired a rifle and a shotgun. (in an old quarry, not at anything living)
7. I was caught cheating on homework once, I let someone else copy mine and we got caught. We had to stay after school and when we started getting weepy because the teacher was hollering, he softened right up and starting explaining to us why it was wrong. He always was a sucker for girls' tears!
8. I was taken on holiday to Montreal with my Mom and Dad when i was 3, visiting Mom's sister. I got hit in the stomach by a swing and it caused some sort of infection. I also caught a strept germ that settled into a kidney infection. Between the two i was in hospital quite sick and had to have an operation for the infection thing. Then when i finally got out of the hospital, i got a very bad case of chicken pox. A 2 week vacation turned into a 3 month stretch. The kidney infection recurred when i was 7 and again when i was 11, both times hospitalized.
9. I hate white milk. I can't drink a glass of it. I can have it on cereal or in hot drinks. I think it stems from a hospital visit where they either gave me powdered milk or it absorbed the hospital medicinny smell and tasted disgusting.
10. I think i'm a bit psychic. Or something. I've sometimes made up little stories in my head just to pass the time, things that *could* happen or plot lines for a favourite soap. Sometimes they actually have happened! Once, i knew i was visiting a friend who lived on an army base. I imagined running into someone i used to know from when i was married and living on a base elsewhere. This person wouldn't know i was divorced and would be surprised at who my ex ended up with (a former neighbour). Well the odds of meeting up with someone weren't that huge but the conversation when almost exactly as i had imagined it.
1. I have tried smoking dope (years ago and yes i inhaled) but i never got a lot out of it so i never bothered with it. Booze was legal and i got a better buzz off it. I also tried hash once or twice. (Dad would add here, "yes so did i but i couldnt' get the corned beef lit")
2. I can sew, knit, cross stitch, and oil paint (ok you knew that last one) and i've loved taking pictures since i got my first camera, a polaroid, at the age of 12.
3. When i was growing up, i used to fill pads of paper with drawings of fashion designs. I was one of the two best "artists" in class in elementary school, for drawing posters and project murals and such.
4. Speaking in front of the class was one thing, but you know how, in seminars you sometimes break out into groups and one of you has to present the discussion you had to the rest of the people? That was me. I think it was either in Vocational School or my first job, and the "rest of the people" were several hundred!!! I vaguely remember the incident but the rest is a blur!
5. I have always had infatuations (one sided) but I have never truly been in love or been truly loved in return until last year, at the age of 45.
6. I have fired a rifle and a shotgun. (in an old quarry, not at anything living)
7. I was caught cheating on homework once, I let someone else copy mine and we got caught. We had to stay after school and when we started getting weepy because the teacher was hollering, he softened right up and starting explaining to us why it was wrong. He always was a sucker for girls' tears!
8. I was taken on holiday to Montreal with my Mom and Dad when i was 3, visiting Mom's sister. I got hit in the stomach by a swing and it caused some sort of infection. I also caught a strept germ that settled into a kidney infection. Between the two i was in hospital quite sick and had to have an operation for the infection thing. Then when i finally got out of the hospital, i got a very bad case of chicken pox. A 2 week vacation turned into a 3 month stretch. The kidney infection recurred when i was 7 and again when i was 11, both times hospitalized.
9. I hate white milk. I can't drink a glass of it. I can have it on cereal or in hot drinks. I think it stems from a hospital visit where they either gave me powdered milk or it absorbed the hospital medicinny smell and tasted disgusting.
10. I think i'm a bit psychic. Or something. I've sometimes made up little stories in my head just to pass the time, things that *could* happen or plot lines for a favourite soap. Sometimes they actually have happened! Once, i knew i was visiting a friend who lived on an army base. I imagined running into someone i used to know from when i was married and living on a base elsewhere. This person wouldn't know i was divorced and would be surprised at who my ex ended up with (a former neighbour). Well the odds of meeting up with someone weren't that huge but the conversation when almost exactly as i had imagined it.