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!

[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.

[hermit-crab.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAAA!

I had no idea my postings were so genderless... or feminine? or....

Um, the asian part is correct, and I USED to wear glasses, until I got lasik surgery. And I really do like spinach. Actually, any kind of ultra green, leafy stuff is pretty good.

[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. :)

[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!

[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.

[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]

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.

[coollibrarian.livejournal.com]

I was raised as a Jew.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

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

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Funny, you don't sound Jewish.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Oh, me too!

[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. :)

[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 ;-)

[sonria.livejournal.com]

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

[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. :)

[tiwonge.livejournal.com]

It probably was. It cleared up a few days after I left.

No permanent harm done. I'd do it again without a second thought.

[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.

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