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Aug 23, 2016 09:41PM
This is a little getting to know you game. Tell the group five fun facts about yourself. Who knows? You might even make a new friend! :D
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I tried to find facts I never discussed here yet, so here we go:1. One of my pets is a vegeterian lizard name Crixus (from a character in the Spartacus TV show)
2. I love travelling and already decided where I'm going to go for the next two years
3. I love listening to a specific album or artist while reading a book, then when I listen to the music I remember the book. When I was a teenager I listened to an Eminem album while reading The Lord of the Rings and some songs just make me things of gobelins now haha
4. I spread the love of audiobooks to three of my colleagues who became almost as much addicted as me
5. Some of you know I'm spreadsheet-crazy, but did you know my books spreadsheet has 17 tabs? (yes, I know, I'm crazy)
1. I live in the Great Lakes state, Michigan. It's the best place to spend the summer...at the beach!2. I went to a tiny two room school for 1st thru 8th grade. I would rush to finish my schoolwork so I could sit in the reading corner with my favorite books.
3. I have identical twin sisters.
4. My other favorite hobby is cross stitch.
5. I LOVE fresh ground coffee any time of day (I work 3rd shift, so there is no morning, lol)
1. If there were more hours in a day, I'd study literature just for fun.2. I think I like planning a challenge more than reading for it, because I seem to put 'should-read' books into it. This is also a confession, not a fact only.
3. I can't recall when I read a book in my mother tongue, as lately they are without exception in English. This isn't a good thing at all.
4. I thought LOTR #2 was very boring.
5. I'd love to write a book. Can't decide on the Genre, though, but think they might cover more than one. Eventually. But, see my first answer re:time.
1. My favorite sport is orienteering not a very well known sport unless you live in Scandinavia or Switzerland2. I work for a veterinarian pharmaceutical company
3. I love to travel, I haven't planned two years ahead (yet) but I I could since friends asked me about my plans for 2019 and another for 2018.....
4. I learned to drink coffee 11 years ago while traveling in Australia. I already loved the smell of coffee, just not the taste (now I can't live without coffee ;))
5. I sing out loud to my music in the car while driving to and from work.
1. I moved to China in 2011 to teach for a year so I could pay off my student loan, but I met my husband there within a few months and never left (and our son turned 1 yesterday).2. I play the ukulele and write songs.
3. I finished the 2009 Tokyo Marathon, but got disqualified in 2010 (long story).
4. I'm licensed as a Zumba instructor but I don't have a class.
5. This year I found one of the world's smallest snakes in my classroom (Brahmin blind snake).
Aglaea wrote: "2. I think I like planning a challenge more than reading for it, because I seem to put 'should-read' books into it. This is ..."I thought it was just me!!!
1. I grew up in a SMALL town - currently there are only 27 people who live there. It had a bigger farming community, but my graduating class (the biggest ever) had only 17 students.2. I hate the fact that all 3 of my teenagers don't read :(. I read so much to them as kids, I thought they'd love it now.
3. I'm probably one of the only people here who haven't read any Harry Potter books (or seen the movies).
4. I can't function without my daily Tea Time - at least twice a day I have to sit for a bit with my cup and a book.
5. I have become addicted to challenges very quickly, and I will admit I love the planning as much as the reading.
1. I correspond with serial killers2. my favorite color is purple.
3. I love reading vampire, werewolf and things that go bump in the night versus other type books.
4. I work in a prison as a classification coordinator so basically I determine what level of custody that the criminals are housed.
5. I have 3 children one belonging to this group.
1. I am a book lover. Yes reading is my favorite thing to do, but I love actual books. I currently have 11 bookselves. One day I will count how many books I have.2. Avid dog lover too. I hope to work with pups someday, but right now I love on my own. Bailey (Eskie-Poo), Bauer, & Cooper (Golden Retrievers).
3. I met my husband at a job we had together, but what made me turn around was when he said he loved to read. He was discussing the Harry Potter series with a co worker.
4. I am addicted to reality game shows. Big Brother is my favorite, but Survivor, Hell's Kitchen, Masterchef, Amazing Race, etc are up there too.
5. I have crazy allergies/ailments. One of my allergic reactions has been published in a medical journal!
1. I am a little bit obsessed with the Addams Family2. I don't eat peanut butter, drink soft drinks or coffee, or chew gum. People tend to find this very weird.
3. On a field trip with a group of kids with autism, I once almost walked into a llama.
4. My boyfriend recently designed me a gigantic library in Minecraft, that could easily rival the Beauty and the Beast library. The hard part will be really building it.
5. When I was in fourth grade, my best friend and I had a plan to co-write and illustrate children's books. Now he's a teacher and I work in a day program for young adults with special needs.
1. I happily worked as a librarian in school and public libraries for 35 years before retiring 2 years ago.2. Besides reading, I like to travel, walk, sew and cook.
3. I'm a fan of the Green Bay Packers football team (USA).
4. My husband and I live on 6 wooded acres in the countryside of Wisconsin, USA. Love it, except for the mosquitoes.
5. I love planning for reading challenges!
1) I became a mom to my only biological child at 20 years old. My beautiful baby is now older than I was when I had him. 2) I was married for the first time ever at 40.
3) I finally discovered that I enjoy cooking at 41 when my step-son with special dietary needs moved in. We rock a low-fat, low-sugar, low-sodium diet that is delicious. 30 pounds, pre-diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure are a thing of the past. A happy and healthy young man (and family) are the future.
4) ; (yes, that is it)
5) I am terrible at Monopoly but kick butt at Monopoly junior. Just sayin'. :-)
1. I live in Adelaide, Australia and it's cold here at the moment...2. I love to travel but don't get to as much as I would like. I have have been to Thailand, Malaysia and NZ multiple times, Singapore once and lots of Australian destinations.
3. My favourite books as a kid were The Magic Faraway Tree series and everything The Babysitters Club.
4. Was married at 20 and now have 2 children a boy who is nearly 10 and a 7 year old girl.
5. I enjoy group fitness classes at the gym, reading, going to movies and theatre.
1. I have named every car I've ever owned. Their names have been Fizzy, Baby, Nina, Margot, Viggo, and Annie.2. I am addicted to British TV shows. I often annoy my friends and family by slipping into a British accent for extended lengths of conversation.
3. I don't eat any meat on the bone. I won't eat shellfish in the shell. I don't want my protein to resemble the creature it was when it was living. It really freaks me out to the point that I have considered vegetarianism.
4. I am thinking about going back to school to become a registered dietitian.
5. I just found out today that I'm going to have a baby. My first.
Emm wrote: "2. I am addicted to British TV shows.5. I just found out today that I'm going to have a baby. My first. "
Congrats on your baby Emm!!!
I basically learned English watching British TV shows, so I speak English with a British accent, people often find it weird. Love your profile picture by the way ;) (Fire, exclamation point, Fire, exclamation point... hahaha)
Bec wrote: "2. I love to travel but don't get to as much as I would like. I have have been to Thailand, Malaysia and NZ multiple times, Singapore once and lots of Australian destinations."
I'm spending one month in NZ in November, would you have any tips?
Rachel wrote: "2. I don't eat peanut butter, drink soft drinks or coffee, or chew gum. People tend to find this very weird."
I don't find it weird, because I don't either... You're not alone!
1. I have a miniature poodle named Lexi, she's 13 years old and I've had her since I was 162. I have a 5 year old son named Mika (he's a red-head :) )
3. My fiancee (or fiance? not sure) is awesome to me! He's very loving and supportive.
4. I have Asperger's Syndrome, adult diagnosis
5. I love, love, love animals!
Emm!! That's so exciting!!! Huge congratulations! :) I'm so thrilled for you. Now, onto me, I guess!
1. I was a vegetarian for seven years. This was a long time ago (I was 16 when I started), long before it was 'easy' to be one - there weren't a lot of options, particularly at restaurants, the Internet didn't really exist for idea & information. Consequently I didn't really know how to balance my diet very well and wasn't very healthy, so I started eating meat again. Even now, almost twenty years later, I still don't eat a lot of meat. I suspect my little Spider will at some point flirt with vegetarianism, as she's already very dismayed at the fact that animals have to die so we can eat them. She's a sensitive soul.
2. It took me four years and over $25,000 to conceive my daughter. It was (until last year) the darkest time of my life. I would have loved a second child, but I'm grateful every single day for my girl.
3. I suffered from quite severe depression, which in retrospect I think I've had my whole life, started getting back when I was going through IVF, and then really set in about 18 months after the birth of my daughter. It got bad. I'm doing much better now.
4. I'm from Australia, but have lived in Switzerland since January 2013. Until I was 33, I had never left Australia, and never really had the travel bug - I think this was mostly a self-preservation thing, as the cost of travelling overseas from Australia can be prohibitive. Now, seven years later, I (and my seven year old daughter!) have been to thirteen other countries, and I want to SEE THEM ALL!
5. I'm left-handed and an only child.
Emm wrote: "5. I just found out today that I'm going to have a baby. My first. ..."Congrats Emm!!
Emm wrote: "5. I just found out today that I'm going to have a baby. My first."Congratulations!!
1. I speak almost exclusively in movie/tv show/book quotes and song lyrics, and get disappointed when people don't know/understand what I'm referencing.2. I'm a cat person (although I still like dogs) and have a cat called Ella.
3. I'm the youngest of three girls and I'm incredibly close to my sisters and my parents.
4. I have an awesome nephew and in just over a week I'm going to have another one!
5. My favourite food in the entire world is pasta/spaghetti and I eat a ridiculous and unhealthy amount of it.
Thank you all! We're so happy we can hardly contain ourselves.
Emm wrote: "Thank you all! We're so happy we can hardly contain ourselves."congrats! it's such an exciting time
1. I really love my name. It's Katie and it's not short for anything, which I think makes me special. A few years before I met my husband, I thought, "If I had to choose a new last name for myself, I think I would choose Brown. Katie Brown sounds good together. Nobody will mispronounce or misspell it. And brown is my favorite color." Enter my husband, Dave. Guess what his last name is? No, I didn't marry him just because I wanted my last name to be Brown, but I'm happy with how it worked out.2. Speaking of my husband, he went in for our first kiss while we were watching Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince during the scene when Harry and Ginny kiss. I rebuffed him saying, "You can't kiss me just because they're kissing in a movie!"
3. I went 10 years without eating chocolate as an exercise in self control. I adore chocolate, and I wasn't good at moderation, so I decided to cut it out entirely. Then I just kept not eating it to see how long I could go. It's been almost 2 years since I started eating it again, and man, brownies are delicious.
4. I used to hate animals, not like in a mean way, I just didn't like them or want to be near them. Dave is an animal lover, so we now have a cat and a dog (I'm a nice wife). I now adore animals. I will cry over any sort of sentimental animal video on the internet.
5. I tend to be a snob about things that I consider "too popular." I'm usually wrong about such things. For example, I didn't finish the Harry Potter series until last year because everyone was too into it and I wasn't going to follow the trend. I'd vowed never to read it. (I issued a public apology on social media after I finished for being such a snob about it for all these years because we all know how completely wrong I was.) Another example: I didn't want to see Les Miserables in London because people who liked that musical were just too fanatical about it. (My friends convinced me to see it anyway and I loved it immediately.) I am happy to be wrong about such things and should maybe reconsider my hipster ways.
1. I have two pets, a dog and a cat.2. I love trying new foods/recipes.
3. My favorite color is sky blue.
4. I love doing crafts, especially cross stitch.
5. My favorite author is Robin Cook
EMM! So exciting. Congratulations! Also, I totally hate eating meat on the bone. It's gross to me, tendons and ligaments and all that stuff.I'm in the same boat as Aglaea and Joann where I really just love planning out all the books that fit into my reading challenges. And Sophie, don't get me started on my spreadsheet of many, many tabs. I am up there with you & my spreadsheet may even have more than 17 tabs. I don't know. I don't want to know.
Emm wrote: "Thank you all! We're so happy we can hardly contain ourselves."Congratulations Emm!!
I'm curious about the spreadsheets you ladies are talking about......??I use a google doc to keep track of my challenges but that's it
Congratulations, Emm! I look forward to your updates :)1. I have four grown children. They finished college and moved to the other US coast. Three of them were born in the same year.
2. I enjoy many art forms. Over the last several years, I attended a Muse concert, Franz Ferdinand concert, Wicked performance, Book of Mormon performance, author signings, and Chihuly exhibit.
3. I recently celebrated my 26th wedding anniversary.
4. My pet bunny lives uncaged in the half-bathroom. My German shepherd rules the rest of the house.
5. I was briefly in the Guinness Book of World Records for participating in the largest salsa dance class.
Joann wrote: "I'm curious about the spreadsheets you ladies are talking about......??I use a google doc to keep track of my challenges but that's it"
I also use google doc, but in a really organized manner (at least for me) with a lot of tabs.
Thank you for all the love, guys. I'm like high on bliss right now. I can't believe it's real.
1. I succeeded to keep my true name on Facebook only for 24h, then I rushed to change it to my pseudonym.2. The only time I smoked was when I was 3 years old.
3. I'm at peace only near/in/under water.
4. I do nightmares almost every night but would like to sleep 12 hours per day.
5. I don't like salted, bitter or acidic tastes, I could add sugar on all foods. I can do an exception for lemon pie :p
Emm wrote: "1. I have named every car I've ever owned. Their names have been Fizzy, Baby, Nina, Margot, Viggo, and Annie.2. I am addicted to British TV shows. I often annoy my friends and family by slipping ..."
Congrats, Emm!
1. I love my food to be piping hot (stove hot-not spicy hot), but my drinks the colder the better.2. I didn't speak until well after the age of 3. I had to be taught by a speech therapist and as a result I don't sound like I'm from where I'm from. I have a slight accent that is not anything like the local one.
3. I was a performance theater major in college.
4. I am obsessed with mac and cheese. I eat it at least 4 times a week.
5. I love watching true crime shows. My husband is always making fun of me for it. I find them interesting!
I am kind of feeling that there are lots of facts about me but rather few interesting ones... so maybe an odd combo of facts...1. I am a jack-of-all-trades but master of none when it comes to interests. I love to learn something about everything but rarely go deep. This does not work so well in America where most people are really into their passions but tend to know not much of most other things - I often feel that either people think that I know way more than them about something, or way too little.
2. I am originally from Hungary but came to the United States when I got married to my American husband. Nowadays I pretty much only read (and talk) in English, although I do plan to revisit some of my childhood favorites in Hungarian.
3. I often feel caught between worlds - although I now mostly identify as American, I still observe things from an outsider's point of view, and compare cultures. The being interested in many things is one of those European traits, I think. A lot of my tastes are influenced by Eastern European moody sensitivities but I also like American practicality.
4. I am a software developer. I used to program an internet game once.
5, I have two teenage daughters and two bunnies. They are all adorable :)
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