Normally I don't do these things, but...

[zyzyly]

I know very little about some of the people on my friends' list. Some people I know relatively well. Some of you I hardly know at all. Perhaps you lurk, for whatever reason. But you friended me and I thank you.

But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's so and so...she likes spinach."

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, if you feel like it.

Comments

[seasoulsky.livejournal.com]

i'm laura f.
i have 2 daughters, who have nicknames of frog and trout. and a little "newt" on the way (due in june).
i'm a geek.
music obsessed.
write poetry, when inspired. or when i have time.
fan of movies. some t.v.
addicted to caffeine, but currently without my addiction.
i enjoy making up stories about people i see on the street. on the train. out in life.
i love the ocean.

laura f

[myasma.livejournal.com]

I love the nicknames!

[myasma.livejournal.com]

I do too. I want a pizza with spinach on it.

[hermit-crab.livejournal.com]

My jaw dislocates very easily, and I have to go to the ER to have it put back in. It sucks.

And I'm not a woman. And I like spinach.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Not only did I think you were a woman, I thought you were a 35 year old asian woman who wears glasses, who didn't like spinach.

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

I'm Lynn, and (in addition to what's in my profile) I'm homesick today because the cool, fresh, windy weather reminds me of home. (Upstate PA.) Of course, at home they already have a lot of snow on the ground.

Oh, and this icon is actually me.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

i'm vicki, 52 years old, mother of two sons. i majored in italian at IU back in the early 70s, occasionally write poems that will never see print, and am forever interested in religion and good writing and music.

[tiwonge.livejournal.com]

Hi. I'm Colin. I think I'm allergic to your house, but I appreciate your hospitality nonetheless. :)
I procrastinate horribly, but I think I might be able to send Christmas cards out for Christmas (and not Advent).

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Allergic? Maybe it was the cats.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_chandra/]

I'm Chandra and I love my kittens and my friends more than anything. I have 13 tattoos. I like karaoke and I play Yahoo! Dominoes way too much.

Another thing that you should know, is that I'm glad that I've had the opportunity to get to know you. :)

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Oh, me too!

[zeppo-marx.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm.... where to start.

I have two sisters - both named Kathy.
I am the only member of my family who hasn't circumnavigated the globe.
I was a CBC-recorded musiscian at 17 - and gave it up.
I've never seriously taken up a sport that I haven't wound up teaching.
I had completely given up on the idea of marriage and kids.

but most of all... I really, really, really hate spinach!

[myasma.livejournal.com]

My baby sister is named Kathy.

[ldygwynedd.livejournal.com]

I converted to Catholicism when I married Bill in 1976. Our faith and Church has been a big part of our lives ever since. We sent our children to Catholic Schools and are active in the Music Liturgy still. Our Church family is our extended family.

The most strange and unexpected thing occured when our daughter left the Catholic Church and became a Presbyterian after her relationship with her fiance became serious. It was a compromise as he was raised as a non-denominational Christian. He couldn't see converting to Catholicism and she couldn't see converting to a Fundamentalistic point of view.

This was a very difficult thing for me to understand and get my heart around but I've come to the conclusion that part of raising kids is to let them go to make their own choices, even if they aren't the ones we would have made.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Some members of my family were quite surprised when I became a Catholic in 1990. My Lutheran godparents were distressed. But I had to go where I was led.

[thirdreel.livejournal.com]

I'm 'drew, which is short for Andrew, which is actually my middle name. I've gone by some variant of it all my life. I have a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing, for which I completed a collection of short stories entitled Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. I collect the books in L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz series, as well as the lesser-known EW Hildick's McGurk Mysteries series.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

And you live in an abbey in Detroit. I already have a "she likes spinach" thing on you.

[coollibrarian.livejournal.com]

I was raised as a Jew.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Funny, you don't sound Jewish.

[sonria.livejournal.com]

I'm Catherine. I'm 28, and I'm seriously screwed up, as anyone who read ladyfirebird over the last year well knows. I moved over to sonria about a month ago.

I was born in Indianapolis and had lived in four states before my fourth birthday. I've still only lived in four states. For all practical purposes I grew up here in North Carolina, though a couple hours east of where I am now. I've never worked or gone to school outside North Carolina.

I'm a first generation Catholic on my mother's side. My father was a first generation Catholic on his father's side. Which means that only one of my four grandparents began their adult lives Catholic.

I am allergic to mushrooms. I am addicted to peanuts.

I hate Christmas. I love Halloween.

My father died when I was fifteen. My mother left the Church when she met and married a fundamentalist minister.

I am currently stressing over school.

I have worked in the field of governmental human resources since 1996 and love it.

I am full of random annoying facts about myself. :)

[sonria.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and I'm the daughter of a kidney transplant recipient. :)

[serratia.livejournal.com]

Deb, 42, mother to 2 grown sons, adore spinach (both cooked and raw), and hey...we share a profession! Of course you knew that... Med/Surg/GI/Transplant specialist since 1987. Urology since 2001- still learning that one ;-)

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Urology. One of my friends used to work in urology and he can toss a foley in anyone--it's saved us a few times.

[jayspec.livejournal.com]

My name is Jason. I'm getting married to Paula (mollyx) on March 21 of next year. I've never had a close relative pass away, and still have all four grandparents. I love spinach, and just had a slice of pizza on my way home from work today that was covered in it. I'm a unix geek and a musical theatre geek. I was born with a heart defect, and they thought that I wouldn't survive, but I had open heart surgery and, well, here I am. :) I win most scar contests with my open heart surgery scar. I'm very afraid of dying suddenly, like John Ritter or that guy from NBC News, though. I'm a slob. I used to bite my nails until Paula recently weaned me from that habit. Over the past two years or so, I've lost about 40 lbs on a diet of my own creation, which includes spinach.

[sonria.livejournal.com]

March 21 is my birthday. :)

[bekkle.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm Becky and I friended you because I liked your journal content. I thought you were a great guy with good opinions.. and all that.

I like music, sleeping, and reading. My current favorite bands are The Postal Service, Bjork, and The Beatles. I am currently reading a biography about Rasputin and Native Son. I am a sophomore in high school, and I am fifteen years old. I live in Orlando, Florida.

<3<3

[myasma.livejournal.com]

I liked your comment on my rose picture. That's why I added you back.

[eleanor.livejournal.com]

I live in New York City, 600 feet from where the towers used to stand. I was home that day.

I'm planning on going to law school, despite being, um, older than average. I have two step-daughters, am essentially getting divorced nowish and I'm moving down the hall, and I was born in Amityville. As in horror. Some people have made a great deal over this fact.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

You can never be too old to learn something new. When I was in college, there was a guy named Floyd Brown who popped up in some of my classes. He was retired, and decided to take every class the college offered, one class at a time.

[stephaniebird.livejournal.com]

I have lived in Maine, Wisconsin, New York, California, and Illinois, in that order.

I have a degree in art history & French. It's been of little use lately. I also have a little certificate in copyediting. I never took an English class in college, and now all I do is read novels.

I love a lot vegetables. I hate mushrooms.

I was born in 1971. My husband was born in 1975. He is an only child. My sister is a decade younger than I.

I have never met my real father.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

So you're the "older woman"?

Felix Bunay is not my real name, either

[felixbunay.livejournal.com]

What, you don't read my entries!?

Hi, my name is David, but you can call me 'David.'

I think people who always try to make humorous comments on other people's LJs are pathetic, and that one user-icon is one too many.

I also lie a lot, but only when it gains me some advantage - the truth is perfectly acceptable when there's nothing to be gained by falsehood.

OK, those last two are big lies. Actually, so is this one. But at least I'm being honest about it.

Oh, and I have visited all fifty states. Really. No, really. Fifty. States. All of them. Really.

Re: Felix Bunay is not my real name, either

[myasma.livejournal.com]

There are fifty states now?

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I am so wordy, I always worry I say "too much" about myself. Here's a few vital stats, though:

age: 44
occupation: attorney
hobbies: poetry, chess, hiking, fishing
married? yes
children? no
live? north Texas, 25 miles north of dallas
constantly re-read: Lord of the Rings
middle name: Howard
born in: TX
grew up in: Gurdon, Arkansas
lived in: CA
practice in Garland, TX, the "model" town for Arlen in King of the Hill
likes: kites, guppies, nice people

Hmmm....this is all so mundane, but I guess it is me :)

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Where in california did you live?

[parisgarters.livejournal.com]

- Carrie
- from Texas
- currently living in NYC
- more currently procrastinating instead of reading articles about liberation theology or Divine Sophia
- love pickled okra

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Oh you live in NYC? How did I miss out on that fact?

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

You may already know some of this:
-I'm incredibly not a morning person. I can block out wicked noises and still sleep.
-Before I had cats, I would have insisted that I do not have a nurturing bone in my body.
-I was born with a dislocated hip, a congenital double hernia that was not discovered until I was four. Due to the dislocated hip, learning to walk was delayed.
-until I was 7-8, I had recurring dreams of being unable to walk, as if my legs were tied to the floor.
-when given the choice, I will always laugh before I cry.
-As much of a sick and twisted humor person that I am, every so often, I'll watch the "Anne of Green Gables" mini-series.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

I was supposed to wear leg braces when I was a toddler, but when my mom saw them on me it freaked her out and she never put them on again. Now I walk like a duck.

I can quack like a duck too.

[bigpancakes.livejournal.com]

I am woman, hear me roar.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Haha!

[zhenzhi.livejournal.com]

every day i do a sky meditation. i've been doing it since i was a child. i can't remember when or why i started, it has always just been a part of my day. :-)

[myasma.livejournal.com]

What does a sky meditation entail?

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

i'm paul, 61, retired for a year, addicted
to writing poetry(as you probably noticed)
and am now luckily able to be a full-time
unpaid poet, with my own little garret(read
computer room). i love spinach, cooked or
raw, canned or fresh, and was a sailor for
three years, 11 mos. and 27 days, but who
was counting! i'm a Zen Baptist. the userpic
is me about 5 years ago.~paul

[lovelightlife.livejournal.com]

whats a zen baptist?

[fathoming.livejournal.com]

Wow, it's a little intimidating to post the thing that you know might be the one thing this person forever thinks of when they see your name.

So I'll see if I can think of something good. Or at least somewhat unique. Or innocuous.

My father is a movie-holic, but I never really liked movies until I became a film major. Then I finally understood that movies aren't perfect, and I learned how to see what the makers were *trying* to do, and from that perspective I began to love movies, even bad ones a lot of the time.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Shortly before I graduated, I needed to an elective class and I picked History of Film because all you had to do was watch movies.

It turned out to be one of the best and most valuable classes I took. It opened up a whole other dimension to my movie watching experience.