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Besides books, what else do we have in common?
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May 17, 2017 08:45AM
Let's see, I love to crochet and I'm a photographer on the side. Also I have two kids that keep me very busy with sports.
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Aly wrote: "I want to go see "Snatched" this weekend. My mom loves Goldie Hawn, so I will take her from a belated Mother's Day. I thought this movie looked funny and I hope it is."I also want to see that, it looks like it would funny.
I love old black and white movies, working my way through all the Sherlock Holmes :-), love long walks and relaxing with my son
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I don't think I've seen very many black and white movies.
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Besides books, I enjoy hiking, birding and spending time with my dogs. I also love to travel, but haven't been able to do much of that recently. I was an exchange student to Maizuru, Japan (in Kyoto prefecture) my senior year of high school, and later taught English as a foreign language for two years in Morocco. Now I have to try to satisfy my travel bug by exploring different places in Illinois, where I currently live. Luckily, it turns out that I love to visit prairies!
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I am born and raised Illinois! but I have not done as much as you in the travel department.
Aly wrote: "Emily wrote: "Besides books, I enjoy hiking, birding and spending time with my dogs. I also love to travel, but haven't been able to do much of that recently. I was an exchange student to Maizuru, ..."That's awesome, what part of Illinois? I live surrounded by cornfields in the middle, between Decatur and Bloomington.
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I am from Decatur!
Aly wrote: "Emily wrote: "Aly wrote: "Emily wrote: "Besides books, I enjoy hiking, birding and spending time with my dogs. I also love to travel, but haven't been able to do much of that recently. I was an exc..."OMG. what a small world! I work at Decatur Memorial Hospital.
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Yeah, that is funny. I worked for almost 5 years at Sarah Bush in Mattoon.
I love birds and birding; if I could, I'd be outside birding all day long. My favorite indoor activity is reading! About bugs, my husband would be delighted to have a pet Praying Mantis or Walking Stick. As for me, not so much.
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I feed the birds so I can see what all we have living near by or what comes to visit. I can see your love of birds.
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I love binge watching series on netflix or watching movie at cinema and also love traveling. But since I have a kid, I don't travel as much as before.
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Sarah, we have these things in common. I want to see the movie called "The Commuter". I think this looks like a good movie. I also love to rent movie in my spare time from Red Box. I will go to St. Lucia this year. I have not been to this country before but I am looking forward to it. I am also looking forward to the next "Maze Runner" movies this year.
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Aly wrote: "I am really looking forward to the movie "Death Wish" with Bruce Wills. Anyone else interested in seeing this one? I also really like Elisabeth Shue from Adventures in Babysitting."Hey, did you get to see death wish? looked good! I enjoy world simulation games such as sims 4 and fall out. Also I enjoy everything make up and binge watching netflix.
This is fun!Things I loved to do BC (Before Children) included travelling, CREWEL embroidery (as in with wool, and more artistic and not like a craft, although I did craft crewel embroidery with lovely kits from my aunt first as a kid/teen), photography--mostly slide photography because my eldest was born BDTO (before digital cameras took over), hiking and some camping.
I finally have a good digital camera so I can get back into photography, but so far I'll I've done with it is to buy a shotgun mic, etc, and record my son's auditions for several things last fall (hours and hours and hours and hours while he Got Things Right, or as well as he could).
I love knitting, but took a break for tendonitis and have yet to start again, but soon I hope. I hope to get back to crewel work and finish the large project I started 12 years ago (what was I thinking? My kids weren't grown up enough.)
And I love to sing, so am taking voice lessons at my age, but since my mother started taking lessons when she was in her 70s (she is 79 now, but quit last summer) I figure I'm ahead of the game.
Board games--yes, I like some of these. I really prefer ones like Taboo and Scattergories now to the ones that depend on dice (used to love Monopoly but not so much now.
I avoid video games because I always want to beat my score so it is not healthy for me personally. This doesn't mean I don't like them:).
TV - yes, I like some TV but it's easy for me to get "addicted" and then lazy and also stop reading much, so I make Rules for myself. Right now I tend to enjoy comedies, but not most comedies. I like Scorpion, Speechless and Psych at the moment, but I am also going to be watching season 3 of The Colony because my brother is going to be in several episodes (so I binge watched the first 2 over the holidays).
I only have my baby (a joking nickname that he thinks is funny) I still chauffeur to activities, but he's in grade 12/a senior so this may end fairly soon. It used to be sports for all 3, and some dance, but now it's mostly music for him.
I love jazz, chess, and have three Maltese dogs. I also have an obsession with World War II history, and build historically accurate WWII models and dioramas.
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Death Wish was very good. I am looking forward to Tomb Raider, I know it comes out March 16th but I maybe have to catch it a weekend or two later. Crazy schedule sometimes, you all know I'm sure. I am watching the new season of Jessica Jones on Netflix and I love the Sims 4. I saw they came out with a new expansion for a vacation. I will have to get it soon and check it out. I loved the Sims 3 vacation expansion with the tombs, mummies, and more. I hope the Sims 4 vacation expansion has cool things like this in it.
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I am sure I watch way too many TV shows but I love Special Victims Unit, Magicians, Scorpion, Once upon a Time, The Gifted, 911, all the Chicago shows,( med, fire, PD), The Good Doctor, The Orville, Shield, The Resident, Shadow Hunters and I can't wait for the new Siren TV show coming out on Freeform. I record most of these show and catch up with them on demand or on my DVR when I get time. I'm sure there is probably more I am missing.
I love to sing and have been singing since I was 5 years old. I took singing lessons all through school and I loved them. I would sign up for more anytime.
Have you played Scene It? I love them and there are soo many version. Scene it music, Scene It 80s and more.
Aly wrote: "Megan wrote: "Aly wrote: "I am really looking forward to the movie "Death Wish" with Bruce Wills. Anyone else interested in seeing this one? I also really like Elisabeth Shue from Adventures in Bab..."I have jessica Jones saved on my to watch list. Think I will wait that one out until I have more time on my hands too. Sims 4 and 3 vacation isn't something that I rush out to buy but I do love adding to my neighbourhood so I might wait till next month. Speaking of Sims 3, i prefer the game play but sims 4 graphics is soo much better.
Upon retiring in 2001, my late wife insisted that I create a bucket list and follow through completing it. Sitting at home doing nothing was not an option. It contained four items.1. Date night twice a week. (Completed! - Still date occasionally.)
2 Eat out at least four times a week! (Completed! - Still do.)
3 Write a novel. (Completed!)
4. Visit all 50 states by car. A minimum of 3 days to qualify as a visit. (Visited 43, so far. 7 to go!)
Aly wrote: "I have 2 yorkies and 1 pug all girls. And we can't forget, my Adriana, she is my calico Manx cat. She is about 16 years old now. All pets for me and traveling. Keep watching my blog you will see wh..."Yes, to Scorpion, one of the shows I enjoy and have followed since it first started! My daughter and I used to watch Once Upon a Time, but the first season was by far the best in our opinions. I tried the Orville, but not my kind of humour much of the time (I watched it for about a month or so).
Jim wrote: "Upon retiring in 2001, my late wife insisted that I create a bucket list and follow through completing it. Sitting at home doing nothing was not an option. It contained four items.1. Date night tw..."
So, how do you eat out at least 4 times a night ;) ? Just my kind of typo (one that I might make and funny).
I’m curious about how you intend to visit Hawaii by car- lol. Does driving to the airport count?Just teasing. That’s a great list. I’d love to travel to all the stares by car.
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1. Date night tw..."
I have not been to all 50 states yet either but I would love to a fly that travels with you!
Sarah wrote: "I’m curious about how you intend to visit Hawaii by car- lol. Does driving to the airport count?Just teasing. That’s a great list. I’d love to travel to all the stares by car."
Well, my parents brought their volkswagen station wagon, bought during my dad's sabbatical/2nd year of surgery residency, home by the ship we took home, so it is possible to transport cars ;). Of course, there aren't really ships that take people overseas for regular travel anymore now that airplanes have taken that over.
In 2006 two Canadian university students once hitchhiked to all 50 US States in 50 days, although not always by car. Their rule was they couldn't pay for any rides.
There have been numerous imitations since then, so it was hard to find it at first. When I remembered it happened shortly after One Red Paperclip I searched for it, then googled what I wanted with the following year and, voila, found it! I was going to offer them a ride, but they got through New England in one day or something like that, starting in NYC, because not all states would go that quickly. It was on the news, etc.
http://www.hitch50.com/
Karin wrote: "Jim wrote: "Upon retiring in 2001, my late wife insisted that I create a bucket list and follow through completing it. Sitting at home doing nothing was not an option. It contained four items.1. D..."
Karen,
Thank you for noticing the typo regarding eating out. It has been corrected. I appreciate it when people pay attention and appreciate constructive criticism even more.
Sarah wrote: "I’m curious about how you intend to visit Hawaii by car- lol. Does driving to the airport count?Just teasing. That’s a great list. I’d love to travel to all the stares by car."
Sarah,
I just read an article featuring the recent successful testing of a flying car. By the time the Hawaii visit comes due, traveling by car may not be impossible after all.
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Just teasing. That’s a great list. I’d love to travel to all the stares by car."
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I was thinking traveling to Hawaii might be possible by car soon, myself, so I thought it sounded like a fun idea.
I watch So Many TV shows.. The Magicians, Black Lightning, Legends of Tomorrow, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Good Place, Jessica Jones, One Day At A Time.. To name just a few :DI like traveling but currently I don't have money :c I've been in Turkey, Czechia, and Germany.
I kinda learn languages
Also, I play Pokemon GO
I study architectural engineering in my first year, I love it but it takes away a lot of time I could spend reading :)I live in Belgium and visited lots of european countries (Italy, Spain, Germany, UK, France, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Portugal...) but never been outside of europe. It's one of my dreams to visit each continent at least once!
Besides books I also really love music, movies and TV shows. I play the flute. Some of the TV shows I'm watching are shadowhunters, the bold type, girl boss, grown-ish, jane the virgin...
And my love for food is endless.
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I like traveling but cur..."
I watch many TV shows as well! Love The Magicians!
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I live in Belgium and visited lots of european countries (Italy, Spain, German..."
I love to travel as well. I have been to Bahamas, Australia and soon St. Lucia.
I would love to visit all 50 states! I'm actually from Hawaii, so the car thing is pretty much out of the question! So far I've been to: California, Nevada, Washington state, Oregon, Texas & Minnesota. Guess I'd better get going....
Next year we plan to take an Alaskan cruise for our 30th anniversary. I would love to see some of Europe before I get to old to enjoy it.
I've never been to the United States but I would really like to. I'd love to go to New England and Maine during autumn because of all the pretty colored leaves.
I write, i love to travel and i want to move to America one day
I love to travel. I’ve travelled around a lot of SE Asia and now live in Australia (from the UK). Have a trip to Nepal coming up this year and so excited to see the Himalayas!
I love CATS! Anyone else share my passion for felines? I have four rescue cats at home, and am thinking of getting a fifth one.
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I love cats as well but hate the cat litter! I have one cat her name is Adriana and she is a Manx calico. She is the light of my life. My sister on the other hand got the love of cats "bug" more than me, I think she owns (mostly rescues) about 8-9 cats now.
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I like bats. They eat mosquitos! And they’re cute!
I love dogs and cats! I have a Yorkie named Lily, a Schnauzer named Toby, and a cat named Jazz. We also used to have a hedgehog named Winston. He passed away about 1 and a half years ago.
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Yes, I agree!
I'm a dog lover. I had a shelter for 12 years and mourned her like a child. My daughter use to say "you love her more than me!" I'd reply "that's because she doesn't talk back!" I probably scarred my daughter for life. I keep thinking about getting another sheltie but haven't yet.
Don't forget birds! I have a sun conure named Wiggy, and four cockatiels, Cupcake, Syd, Tiberius and Nicky (aka PotPie). You just can't look at a cockatiel and not smile!
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My nephew loves birds!
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