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Shasha3100 · June 2010

I can't wink

no one in my family has ever gotten divorced

My cousin was the screen writer for Monsters Inc

katiewhompus · June 2010

- I have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and once won 1st place at a breaking/sparring/forms tourney.

- I'm a trained professional archaeologist and when I was active I mainly focused on Civil War, Early President's (Madison/Washington) and prehistoric Shenandoah Valley.

- I was born in Wisconsin, and have lived in 24 places over 26 years.

-My family lost everything they owned in Desert Storm.

shannonalise · June 2010

I am really good at crochet and make cute baby blankets and dishcloths for friends/family. Exhibits A & B:

I LOVE crossword puzzles.

I sucked my thumb until I was 13 years old.

I fantasize about having my own classroom one day. I want to be a teacher so. bad. I've been fantasizing about it since I was a little girl.

I have two compression fractures in my spine and chronic back pain that no one has ever been able to address. I will not take Rx meds for it either.

shannonalise · June 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_did-13?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:dd268b66-166d-4e10-aad4-8b8947cded4aPost:7694726c-38bc-41ec-a9af-9f311ea53993">Re: did you know?</a>:
[QUOTE]I can recite almost line for line on Saved By the Bell. I like to listen to old school Michael Jackson and Spice Girls at work. I don't drink beer or coffee.
Posted by FutureMrsDudley55[/QUOTE]

I'm so excited! I'm so!... I'm so!... Scared! <img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-embarassed.gif" border="0" alt="Embarassed" title="Embarassed" />

shannonalise · June 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_did-13?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:dd268b66-166d-4e10-aad4-8b8947cded4aPost:aaeea621-15b5-42a9-8600-a0f47d1f6320">Re: did you know?</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: did you know? : Is it wrong that I am ridiculously jealous of this?? I watched that show every.single.day when I stayed at my grandmother's house during the day in the summers.
Posted by FutureMrsTR[/QUOTE]

Our summers were identical. <img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-smile.gif" border="0" alt="Smile" title="Smile" />

MissLeahM · June 2010

I can count on 1 hand the amount of times I've worn make up in public.

I have never done a cartwheel.

I was supposed to be a motorcycle

I never wanted to get married

katiewhompus · June 2010

Shannon, will you next door to me so we can have crochet night? In college 4 of my girlfriends and I would get together, watch Top Chef/Project Runway and crochet. People always made fun of us but I love making things.

shannonalise · June 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_did-13?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:dd268b66-166d-4e10-aad4-8b8947cded4aPost:079068da-88a0-49db-962c-a4cc30a60cfd">Re: did you know?</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: did you know? : No, sadly, they do not. I just always had an interest in the process, and felt that there would be no better time in the life of a family to help them than after a loved one passed away. I still think that, even though I am no longer practicing. Perhaps rightfully so, not many people were convinved that they should be dealing with a 20 year old after grandma died, so I often ended up behind the scenes (which is fine too but honestly, not nearly as personally satisfying). It's truly a fascinating line of work, and working around death and dying has taught me so much about life.
Posted by mrs.jesse[/QUOTE]

I feel like you would be a really interesting person IRL - you are here, too, don't get me wrong. But I would love to pick your brain. (Which, for some reason, feels like a pun here - which is just beyond wrong.)

Cantia · June 2010

This is such an interesting thread. I love Monster Inc! Being an arqueologist must be awesome Katie.

Cantia · June 2010

And I have just had to go and watch a Saved by the Bell episode. Damn this thread.

shannonalise · June 2010

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[QUOTE]Shannon, will you next door to me so we can have crochet night? In college 4 of my girlfriends and I would get together, watch Top Chef/Project Runway and crochet. People always made fun of us but I love making things.
Posted by katiewhompus[/QUOTE]

That's awesome! I don't know anyone else under the age of 87 who crochets, so this makes me feel better. <img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-laughing.gif" border="0" alt="Laughing" title="Laughing" />

katiewhompus · June 2010

It was awesome until the year I graduated college. Then the economy started tanking the the first thing to go was funding for archaeological investigations

I'm hoping I can volunteer for my old boss over the summer and get back in once things improve.

superheroprincess · June 2010

A few months ago I was the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. I won the role having beat out people who have been taking singing lessons their entire lives.

I used to be in Karate when I was younger. I quit when I reached Green belt in grade 7.

I've been with FI 8 years. We went to high school together and graduated in the same class (he even asked me out and I turned him down). We both moved away for college and ended up in the same town working at the same store. We went on a date and have been together ever since.

Cantia · June 2010

Yeah, the economy sucks. I fully sympathize, my career has also taken a hit because of the economy

I'm glad you want to get back into it, once you find a career you love it sucks not being able to do it.

katiewhompus · June 2010

Yep, I think I will be a volunteer forever though. It's not a job that is easy/possible to have without living out of hotels and having uncertain funds.

I love to crochet

I mostly make purses and bags, but am starting to expand to blankets. My wedding present from my great grandmother was an afghan she crocheted specifically for my wedding. My grandmother apologized that it was only half the size it should be, because ggma passed away 5 months before the wedding. I treasure it and cried when I opened the gift bag.

shannonalise · June 2010

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[QUOTE]My wedding present from my great grandmother was an afghan she crocheted specifically for my wedding. My grandmother apologized that it was only half the size it should be, because ggma passed away 5 months before the wedding. I treasure it and cried when I opened the gift bag.
Posted by katiewhompus[/QUOTE]

Oh my god... how absolutely touching. <img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-embarassed.gif" border="0" alt="Embarassed" title="Embarassed" /> That makes me well up... <img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-cry.gif" border="0" alt="Cry" title="Cry" />

mandysmear · June 2010

I love crochet. I haven't made an afghan for a long time. I should pull some wool out one of these days.

katiewhompus · June 2010

Oh and crocheting hats is my new thing too. I give them to my mom's knitting club and they donate them to the local hospital.

Oddly enough, I cannot knit. I have tried to knit since I'm 10 but just cannot do it.

NuggetBrain · June 2010

I am buttf*ckingly terrified of heights and the dark.

Sometimes when I watch Ghost Whisperer at night by myself I get freaked out and can't go to sleep because I think there's a ghost behind me watching me.

I've never been to Canada or Mexico.

I can't go to sleep unless some part of me is touching Noodle.

When I get nervous or stressed out, I pop my jeans.

Pirata13 · June 2010

I can knit a little, but not crochet. I want to learn. I made tons of scarves last year for Christmas. Several while I was on leave after my foot surgery.

mandysmear · June 2010

i cannot knit. my grandma always tried to teach me but i couldn't do it.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown · June 2010

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[QUOTE]...That Peter from Peter, Paul & Mary is a close family friend?
Posted by crfische[/QUOTE]

Are you kidding me? My mom almost cried when Mary died last year. When I stayed home from school as a kid when I was sick, my mom would put Puff the Magic Dragon on the record player.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown · June 2010

... my mom taught me how to crosstitch when I was 6.

... I still sleep with my baby blanket.

... I got a perfect score on the writing portion of my GRE.

WildRumpus · June 2010

I've never been on an airplane

I could eat PB&J every day and not get sick of it

I have 13 first cousins on my mom's side

I have a freckle on the bottom of my right foot

andy71781 · June 2010

I know all the words to most of Jay-Z songs?
I sang at Disney World when I was 16?
I've never broken a bone - only had a stress fracture?

pooh8402 · June 2010

I have an ancestor who fought and died at the Alamo.

H claims to be descended from Jesse James (the outlaw, not Sandra Bullock's ex).

the only people in my family on both sides that have died below the age of 80 were both squished in freak accidents. everyone else died of old age.

I can play basketball equally well left handed or right handed. other than that, I'm a total righty. can't even use a spoon with my left hand.

pooh8402 · June 2010

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[QUOTE]I lost the hearing in my right ear at age 7. I lost most of the hearing in my left ear - overnight - at age 25 (I now have a cochlear implant, and you probably would never know I have a hearing impairment if you met me and I didn't tell you). I am not engaged yet (but we've been ring shopping twice in the past two weeks!). I was born in Fargo. My 8th birthday party had a Cabbage Patch Kid theme (because I had gotten a CPK for the Christmas before my birthday).
Posted by Sing2phins[/QUOTE]
yea me too. I'm just short of being a candidate for a cochlear implant. but most folks on this board know that already, so I didn't put it on my list of things.

mags0607 · June 2010

Everytime I sneeze, its more than 6 times in a row.

I am abnormally frightened of people dressed as animals, yet I let Fi talk me into going to Disney for our honeymoon.

I am a terrible driver. TERRIBLE.

karbar42 · June 2010

I've been to over 35 DMB concerts, and am in the Central Park DVD.

I was born Oct 24, and my brother and sister were born on Oct 25 at 5:30pm 5 yrs apart.

I cracked my tailbone getting thrown from a horse.

I can crochet too

(Though I haven't in a while)

And my 1st concert was also NKOTB... in Lake Placid NY, I have an autograph from Jordan Knight.

soontobehimes · June 2010

I'm way late, but this is too cute!

I'm allergic to fruit, I hate vegetables with a passion, and ever since I got the flu on my honeymoon and threw up steak, I can barely eat beef. I see this becoming a huge problem.

If my husband would let me, we'd have a house full of boxers and any other dog that has a physical/mental disability.

I met Mario Lopez a couple of years ago and all I could say was "you smell delicious!"

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