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51. I like country music... old country music. I mean the Stonewall Jackson, Hank Williams Sr., Hank Snow, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash and the like. I know most of the of the songs from the 60's by heart -- and I wasn't even alive for half of that decade.
52. Due to many reasons but mostly because she was a complete and total idiot (and bigot), my first college roommate had the audacity to ask if the reason I objected to her boyfriend spending every night sleeping with her in our small one-room dorm-room was because I was gay. I really missed out on it. I should have said yes and that I longed for her and it made me insanely jealous to see her and her drunken boyfriend together every night. I could have made suggestive comments to her and drove her complete nuts. Of course, the fact that she and her boyfriend were total rednecks, it was probably best that I just looked at her and told her she was a complete idiot.
53. At Christmas, when I was young, my family and family friends would drive from house to house and do caroling. We would show up at some houses after midnight... we were usually greeted with open arms and refreshments.
54. I have a nasty tendency to dislocate my knee-caps.
55. I own a saddle (western-style) but do not (currently) own a horse.
56. There was a drive-in theatre not far from where I grew up. My folks would take us to the drive-in and we would spend the night watching two or three movies, eating popcorn, drinking soda and having a great time. I still remember watching 101 Dalmatians there.
56. My Aunt Martha was born in 1900 and she would have birthday party every year where she would play bingo and serve hot dogs with sauerkraut.
57. I can make sauerkraut.
58. At my grandmother's birthday parties all the kids would play "Red Light Green Light" and catch fireflies. There would be a big card-playing tournament with prizes (including a booby prize). We would eat egg-salad and ground-bologna sandwiches, with sweet and dill pickles and lots of bars for dessert.
59. I know how to play sheepshead, dominoes and bunko.
60. New Glarus Coffee Stout is my favorite beer.
61. When I was away at college my grandmother would write me one letter a week. I still have them.
62. When I ever had to go home sick from school, I would always go to my grandparents. I remember several times claiming I was sick when I wasn't just to spend time there.
63. When I was growing up we always washed clothes with a wringer washer. Wringer washers get clothes cleaner than any other type of washer. We would then hang the clothes outside. Clothes lines are a very county thing.
64. I used to raise rabbits. Not for sale or for show but for dinner.
65. We raised chickens every summer. We would by 50 chicks in spring and raise them all summer and butcher them in the fall. Chicks are very cute when they are small but get ugly, mean and extremely messy in a couple of months. Now I don't raise chickens, I leave that up to my Aunt. I do, however, help butcher them.
66. We raised pigs for a while. We started with Edith and Archie. Little pigs are the cutest things ever. When they are all in a pile sleeping and you talk to them, their ears twitch. It's adorable. Yes. We raised one or two of the pigs to eat.
67. I am a very good liar. But I generally don't.
68. My family often went snowmobiling. We had one snowmobile and a sled that was pulled along behind it. Our black lab, Boo, would run along side until she was almost dead but she refused to ride in the sled so kept running until my dad broke down and let her ride on the snowmobile.
69. The bridesmaid who caught the bouquet at my wedding did get married next. She married the guy who caught the garter at our wedding. It was cool -- although they were dating before this happened.
70. I lurk in all the fandoms I'm involved in. I hang around the edges and annoy people by having to strong of opinions for someone who isn't at the 'center' of everything.
71. When I was young, I had a stuffed red pig with a music box in it that played Brahms' Lullaby when you wound it up. I still have it. It still comforts me when I play it.
72. As a child my mom rented an audio recording of the animated movie "The Hobbit" and I listened to it all the time. I didn't know that it was from a movie. Recently, I bought the DVD version of the movie and often play it with the TV off, just listening to it.
73. I had mono in both my junior and senior years in high school. I missed a lot of school and I didn't miss a thing.
74. I was hit on at church camp. When the punk got overly friendly, I elbowed him hard in the ribs. He informed me that if that's how I was going to act I'd never have a boyfriend. I said that if all the boys around there were as big a loser as he was, I'd count myself fortunate. Strangely enough, he never bothered me again.
75. We always had wood heat so we would always cut firewood in the fall and winter. We would drive out to the quarter section of forest that my grandmother owned and we would spend the day making sure our house would be warm all winter.
76. I've had a cook out in the middle of the woods when it was about 20 below. It was beautiful. The trick to staying warm at 20 below is to be dressed warm. The woods sound haunting at 20 below -- sound carries forever in the stillness.
77. I saw Hank Snow, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Buck Owns, Roy Clark, Kris Kirstopherson, Alabama, Ricky Scaggs, John Conley, Travis Tritt, Marty Stewart, Loretta Lynn, and Pink Floyd in concert
78. I have written fanfic following shows: Quantum Leap, The A-Team, The Equalizer, Simon and Simon, Hardcastle and McCormick, Stingray, Remington Steele, Magnum PI, V, Blake's Seven, Miami Vice, ST:TNG, WKRP in Cincinnati, SG1, 24... Quite a bit of it is unfinished. Most of it has never been seen by anyone but me.
79. I once won a contest where I could have a Star Trek ship named after me. I chose to have it named after my daughter because I think her name is cooler than mine.
80. I have four very dear friends: one I've known since the early days of Sunday School, one I was friends with in High School, one I met in college (Hi![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
finabair), and one I met after college. None of them live near me. I try not to take it personally.
81. Of all my friends, I'm the only one who's married and has a child.
82. My family always used to drive way back into the woods to go swimming, camping and fishing in this little spring-fed lake. It was very cold and we always tried to float at the top where the sun had warmed the water.
83. I don't swear. I can. I worked in a paper mill, so I know how to do it really well. I just generally don't.
84. I've never used an illegal drug. I have no desire to.
85. I live near a theatre that shows first run movies for 5 and a half bucks. Full price. They also serve real butter on the popcorn and have matinees for $4.00. The screen is small, but prices can't be beat.
86. My bathroom is decorated with smiley faces.
87. Once when I was deer hunting with my dad, it was so windy that two trees blew over near us. The trees we were standing by were just fine. We ended up cutting the fallen trees for firewood after deer season was over.
88. My great uncle died when he fell down the steps at my folk's house. Actually, he had a stroke and then fell. I was downstairs at the time. It's things like that that make you realize you just can't forget things you've seen. You just have to learn to deal. I still can hear the sound he made when he hit the basement floor.
89. One of my daughter's friends thinks I'm "funky". I assume that it's a compliment.
90. I'm an excellent cook. Well, maybe not excellent, but definitely good. I don't do any of the fancy cooking, but I'm killer at comfort food. I can make a good meal out of darn near anything and I'm good at making bread and deserts. You all are invited to dinner any time.
91. I've always wanted to name a dog Thursday.
92. Some day I will have my dream job: parking lot attendant. You don't have to plan for the next days work, you don't have to take home papers to grade or look over, you get to talk to a lot of different people, you get a lot of time to just sit and think or write or read. Yep. That's my dream job.
93. I have been inoculated for Small Pox. It probably isn't any good anymore, but I have the mark on my left arm to prove I had the shot.
94. I am the fourth generation of my family to belong to my church. My daughter will be the fifth. There is something to be said for history.
95. I met my husband at a Science Fiction convention. We also belonged to the same role playing/gaming club. We knew each other for a year or two before we actually "dated". After a party one time, he gave me his number to give to someone else. I never did. He wouldn't have liked her anyhow.
96. I was in my senior class play called "The Curious Savage". The character I played had five lines. I mostly recited long lists of things that I hated. "I hate everything in the world, but mostly I hate..." The thing I hated the most was electricity so I went around turning the lights off all the time. It was a great play.
97. I've written several plays for our Drama Ministry to perform at my church.
98. I skipped school once in my life and was caught.
99. My folks chartered a boat and took us fishing on Lake Superior one time. The weather was bad, we caught only one fish, and most of us were sick at one time or another during the "cruise". The weather got really bad and we kept making jokes about Gilligan's Island and making up strange songs about the lack of fish and the bad weather. The Captain of the boat kept talking to other boats and making cryptic comments about us starting a mutiny.
100. Sam is still my favorite.
Now that that is out of my brain, I can move on.
51. I like country music... old country music. I mean the Stonewall Jackson, Hank Williams Sr., Hank Snow, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash and the like. I know most of the of the songs from the 60's by heart -- and I wasn't even alive for half of that decade.
52. Due to many reasons but mostly because she was a complete and total idiot (and bigot), my first college roommate had the audacity to ask if the reason I objected to her boyfriend spending every night sleeping with her in our small one-room dorm-room was because I was gay. I really missed out on it. I should have said yes and that I longed for her and it made me insanely jealous to see her and her drunken boyfriend together every night. I could have made suggestive comments to her and drove her complete nuts. Of course, the fact that she and her boyfriend were total rednecks, it was probably best that I just looked at her and told her she was a complete idiot.
53. At Christmas, when I was young, my family and family friends would drive from house to house and do caroling. We would show up at some houses after midnight... we were usually greeted with open arms and refreshments.
54. I have a nasty tendency to dislocate my knee-caps.
55. I own a saddle (western-style) but do not (currently) own a horse.
56. There was a drive-in theatre not far from where I grew up. My folks would take us to the drive-in and we would spend the night watching two or three movies, eating popcorn, drinking soda and having a great time. I still remember watching 101 Dalmatians there.
56. My Aunt Martha was born in 1900 and she would have birthday party every year where she would play bingo and serve hot dogs with sauerkraut.
57. I can make sauerkraut.
58. At my grandmother's birthday parties all the kids would play "Red Light Green Light" and catch fireflies. There would be a big card-playing tournament with prizes (including a booby prize). We would eat egg-salad and ground-bologna sandwiches, with sweet and dill pickles and lots of bars for dessert.
59. I know how to play sheepshead, dominoes and bunko.
60. New Glarus Coffee Stout is my favorite beer.
61. When I was away at college my grandmother would write me one letter a week. I still have them.
62. When I ever had to go home sick from school, I would always go to my grandparents. I remember several times claiming I was sick when I wasn't just to spend time there.
63. When I was growing up we always washed clothes with a wringer washer. Wringer washers get clothes cleaner than any other type of washer. We would then hang the clothes outside. Clothes lines are a very county thing.
64. I used to raise rabbits. Not for sale or for show but for dinner.
65. We raised chickens every summer. We would by 50 chicks in spring and raise them all summer and butcher them in the fall. Chicks are very cute when they are small but get ugly, mean and extremely messy in a couple of months. Now I don't raise chickens, I leave that up to my Aunt. I do, however, help butcher them.
66. We raised pigs for a while. We started with Edith and Archie. Little pigs are the cutest things ever. When they are all in a pile sleeping and you talk to them, their ears twitch. It's adorable. Yes. We raised one or two of the pigs to eat.
67. I am a very good liar. But I generally don't.
68. My family often went snowmobiling. We had one snowmobile and a sled that was pulled along behind it. Our black lab, Boo, would run along side until she was almost dead but she refused to ride in the sled so kept running until my dad broke down and let her ride on the snowmobile.
69. The bridesmaid who caught the bouquet at my wedding did get married next. She married the guy who caught the garter at our wedding. It was cool -- although they were dating before this happened.
70. I lurk in all the fandoms I'm involved in. I hang around the edges and annoy people by having to strong of opinions for someone who isn't at the 'center' of everything.
71. When I was young, I had a stuffed red pig with a music box in it that played Brahms' Lullaby when you wound it up. I still have it. It still comforts me when I play it.
72. As a child my mom rented an audio recording of the animated movie "The Hobbit" and I listened to it all the time. I didn't know that it was from a movie. Recently, I bought the DVD version of the movie and often play it with the TV off, just listening to it.
73. I had mono in both my junior and senior years in high school. I missed a lot of school and I didn't miss a thing.
74. I was hit on at church camp. When the punk got overly friendly, I elbowed him hard in the ribs. He informed me that if that's how I was going to act I'd never have a boyfriend. I said that if all the boys around there were as big a loser as he was, I'd count myself fortunate. Strangely enough, he never bothered me again.
75. We always had wood heat so we would always cut firewood in the fall and winter. We would drive out to the quarter section of forest that my grandmother owned and we would spend the day making sure our house would be warm all winter.
76. I've had a cook out in the middle of the woods when it was about 20 below. It was beautiful. The trick to staying warm at 20 below is to be dressed warm. The woods sound haunting at 20 below -- sound carries forever in the stillness.
77. I saw Hank Snow, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Buck Owns, Roy Clark, Kris Kirstopherson, Alabama, Ricky Scaggs, John Conley, Travis Tritt, Marty Stewart, Loretta Lynn, and Pink Floyd in concert
78. I have written fanfic following shows: Quantum Leap, The A-Team, The Equalizer, Simon and Simon, Hardcastle and McCormick, Stingray, Remington Steele, Magnum PI, V, Blake's Seven, Miami Vice, ST:TNG, WKRP in Cincinnati, SG1, 24... Quite a bit of it is unfinished. Most of it has never been seen by anyone but me.
79. I once won a contest where I could have a Star Trek ship named after me. I chose to have it named after my daughter because I think her name is cooler than mine.
80. I have four very dear friends: one I've known since the early days of Sunday School, one I was friends with in High School, one I met in college (Hi
finabair), and one I met after college. None of them live near me. I try not to take it personally.81. Of all my friends, I'm the only one who's married and has a child.
82. My family always used to drive way back into the woods to go swimming, camping and fishing in this little spring-fed lake. It was very cold and we always tried to float at the top where the sun had warmed the water.
83. I don't swear. I can. I worked in a paper mill, so I know how to do it really well. I just generally don't.
84. I've never used an illegal drug. I have no desire to.
85. I live near a theatre that shows first run movies for 5 and a half bucks. Full price. They also serve real butter on the popcorn and have matinees for $4.00. The screen is small, but prices can't be beat.
86. My bathroom is decorated with smiley faces.
87. Once when I was deer hunting with my dad, it was so windy that two trees blew over near us. The trees we were standing by were just fine. We ended up cutting the fallen trees for firewood after deer season was over.
88. My great uncle died when he fell down the steps at my folk's house. Actually, he had a stroke and then fell. I was downstairs at the time. It's things like that that make you realize you just can't forget things you've seen. You just have to learn to deal. I still can hear the sound he made when he hit the basement floor.
89. One of my daughter's friends thinks I'm "funky". I assume that it's a compliment.
90. I'm an excellent cook. Well, maybe not excellent, but definitely good. I don't do any of the fancy cooking, but I'm killer at comfort food. I can make a good meal out of darn near anything and I'm good at making bread and deserts. You all are invited to dinner any time.
91. I've always wanted to name a dog Thursday.
92. Some day I will have my dream job: parking lot attendant. You don't have to plan for the next days work, you don't have to take home papers to grade or look over, you get to talk to a lot of different people, you get a lot of time to just sit and think or write or read. Yep. That's my dream job.
93. I have been inoculated for Small Pox. It probably isn't any good anymore, but I have the mark on my left arm to prove I had the shot.
94. I am the fourth generation of my family to belong to my church. My daughter will be the fifth. There is something to be said for history.
95. I met my husband at a Science Fiction convention. We also belonged to the same role playing/gaming club. We knew each other for a year or two before we actually "dated". After a party one time, he gave me his number to give to someone else. I never did. He wouldn't have liked her anyhow.
96. I was in my senior class play called "The Curious Savage". The character I played had five lines. I mostly recited long lists of things that I hated. "I hate everything in the world, but mostly I hate..." The thing I hated the most was electricity so I went around turning the lights off all the time. It was a great play.
97. I've written several plays for our Drama Ministry to perform at my church.
98. I skipped school once in my life and was caught.
99. My folks chartered a boat and took us fishing on Lake Superior one time. The weather was bad, we caught only one fish, and most of us were sick at one time or another during the "cruise". The weather got really bad and we kept making jokes about Gilligan's Island and making up strange songs about the lack of fish and the bad weather. The Captain of the boat kept talking to other boats and making cryptic comments about us starting a mutiny.
100. Sam is still my favorite.
Now that that is out of my brain, I can move on.
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Date: 2002-11-24 09:27 am (UTC)From:63. When I was a kid, we had a wringer washer, too, although we had a more modern washer/dryer set that we usually used on clothes. Now that I think about it, I think Mom used the wringer washer for diapers.
77. You forgot Neil Diamond.
80. *bouces and waves back* HI!!!!! (As for the not living near you, uh...I didn't wanna be the one to tell you, but...uh, you're living in the sticks...) ;-)
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Date: 2002-11-25 08:05 pm (UTC)From:I did forget Neil Diamond. How is that possible? It was great fun.
Well, actually I'm very happy to be living here in the sticks even if all my friends want to play at being flatlanders...