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| HisGirlFriday | Posted – 1/31/2008 9:51:27 PM | show profile 1. Has there ever been a period in your life when you thought you were truly losing your mind? Post-partum was pretty bad. I also had a bad reaction once to Darvocet (apparently, side effects include pyschiatric reactions) - suffice to say that I had one, wound up screaming at my husband in a really fancy famous restauraunt, fleeing to the bathroom, sobbing, running back, snatching the car keys and leaving him there. 2. Who is the biggest pervert you know? Uh. Probably me. And the husband. 3. Have you ever had to make someone?s funeral arrangements? Nope. 4. Have you ever lived through a tornado, earthquake, hurricane, flood or other natural disaster? One big tornado when I was a kid (damage not near us, but in same town) In one year I covered a blizzard, a flood and a heat wave. Also, a few minor hurricanes. (If we're talking man-made disasters, add a plane crash and 9-11.) 5. Do you know any true psychopaths or sociopaths? I suspect one of my best friend's husband - seriously, if I heard tomorrow that he killed 6 people I would not be shocked at all. The first time I saw him, the husband and I looked at him, looked at each other and whispered AT THE SAME TIME: "Who's the serial killer?" Then we learned he was married to my pal. 6. What lie do you continue to perpetuate? That I'm 5'8. I'm really 5'7. 7. Have you ever walked in your sleep? Nope. 8. What are some of the deviant aspects of your personality? JBE - the baby thing cracked me up. some sexual things I'd rather not get into, many food issues. If alone I will happily eat ridiculous amounts of junk food - cheetoes, ice cream, etc, instead of dinner. I mean, plan on eating that crap - like shop specifically for ruffles and onion dip and eat that as dinner. 9. Have you ever been falsely accused of anything? No. 10. Do you know anyone that is undeniably ugly? I'd like to say somthing about inner beauty but two women spring to mind who REALLY really would benefit from a visit to the eyebrow waxer. Seriously. Major unibrow. Like from one ear to the other. Scary. ~Bonus Question~ Do you have any pet names for specific body parts? When referring to any feminine problems I'll say that I've got some issues "downtown." |
| mad fingers | Posted – 1/31/2008 10:14:30 PM | show profile 1. Has there ever been a period in your life when you thought you were truly losing your mind? Now. 2. Who is the biggest pervert you know? I used to be in porn, so I know a lot of pervs. 3. Have you ever had to make someone?s funeral arrangements? No. 4. Have you ever lived through a tornado, earthquake, hurricane, flood or other natural disaster? Small tornado, minor earthquake. Does perimenopause count? 5. Do you know any true psychopaths or sociopaths? Oh, baby, do I. 6. What lie do you continue to perpetuate? While I choose to believe things that are no longer true, I'm not sure if they count as lies. 7. Have you ever walked in your sleep? Not that I know of... 8. What are some of the deviant aspects of your personality? Hmm. Define deviant. 9. Have you ever been falsely accused of anything? My senile high school French teacher, Mme. Goldfrank, once accused me of never doing my homework. I always did my homework. It was my brother who never did his, and was a wise-ass to boot. She got us confused. 10. Do you know anyone that is undeniably ugly? Yes, but not physically. ~Bonus Question~ Do you have any pet names for specific body parts? Mutt & Jeff (one breast came in first, although, they're about the same now. Pretty freaky a teen, though) |
| jr_designer | Posted – 2/1/2008 9:32:39 AM | show profile writesonwater - And I thought me and my friends where the only ones that say "the girls." I'm glad we're not alone! :) |
| Janetblueyes | Posted – 2/1/2008 11:31:25 AM | show profile A couple of my friends refer to their breasts as 'The Twins.' My question is are they fraternal or identical twins? |
| Mag Girl | Posted – 2/1/2008 12:00:10 PM | show profile JBE, likely they're fraternal, as one is usually slightly bigger than the other :) |
| GGG | Posted – 2/1/2008 12:08:39 PM | show profile 1. Has there ever been a period in your life when you thought you were truly losing your mind? - only once, but I found it soon after 2. Who is the biggest pervert you know? - is it utterly boring to say I don't know any? 3. Have you ever had to make someone?s funeral arrangements? - thank God, no 4. Have you ever lived through a tornado, earthquake, hurricane, flood or other natural disaster? - many tornados, one earthquake, still breathin' 5. Do you know any true psychopaths or sociopaths? - hope not 6. What lie do you continue to perpetuate? - Though I'm a self-proclaimed shoe-lover, the truth is I'd rather be barefoot at any time. I love looking at shoes, not wearing them. That's my little secret. 7. Have you ever walked in your sleep? - too many times to count. as long as I don't walk out the front door, I consider my night a success. 8. What are some of the deviant aspects of your personality? - I used to want to be a pole dancer (wait, maybe I'M #2!) 9. Have you ever been falsely accused of anything? - being a CIA agent while in Russia. Yeah. Yikes. 10. Do you know anyone that is undeniably ugly? - yes, but I'm happy to report, they also have the best personality of anyone I've ever met. ------ Check out the blog! www.girlgoesglobal.com |
| nandy | Posted – 2/1/2008 2:38:43 PM | show profile keltoi Yes, seven...Irish Catholic...I need say no more. We usually blamed the youngest. They were too young to talk. |
| pholiday | Posted – 2/1/2008 3:23:06 PM | show profile Keltoi & Nandy I am one of seven, too. Irish fam - but more so hippy parents that just refused to stop ... lots of stories to tell! The "big kids" always blamed "the little kids" and vice versa. Good times ... I LOVED growing up in a large family. |
| ProofBoutique | Posted – 2/1/2008 4:02:11 PM | show profile These questions are the best for procrastinating! 1. Has there ever been a period in your life when you thought you were truly losing your mind? No, not really. 2. Who is the biggest pervert you know? My sister's new puppy. He humps her other dog like a maniac. 3. Have you ever had to make someone?s funeral arrangements? I've had to help, but never done it all on my own. 4. Have you ever lived through a tornado, earthquake, hurricane, flood or other natural disaster? Earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods. 5. Do you know any true psychopaths or sociopaths? I don't think so. 6. What lie do you continue to perpetuate? That I've lived through earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods. 7. Have you ever walked in your sleep? Yes. 8. What are some of the deviant aspects of your personality? Along the lines of wanting to smack babies, whenever I hold a small bird or hamster in my hand I get the urge to squeeeeeze it. I think it's because they feel so fragile. In my defense, I would never do it, I'm quite an animal lover. 9. Have you ever been falsely accused of anything? Nothing springs immediately to mind. 10. Do you know anyone that is undeniably ugly? No, not in the way they look. I know some people who act ugly sometimes. ~Bonus Question~ Do you have any pet names for specific body parts? No. My favorite name for breasts, though, has to be "The Pointer Sisters." I heard it on a TV show and thought it was hilarious. |
| keltoi2 | Posted – 2/1/2008 5:01:17 PM | show profile nandy and pholiday--5th of 12. Irish Catholic, natch. And, for the most part, I loved growing up in a huge family. Strangely enough, most of the women I dated had one or two siblings at most. They could no more imagine growing up in my world than I could imagine growing up in theirs. My wife is one of 2, but her mother was one of 11 and her father one of 5, so a huge extended family acquainted her with the big family thing early on. |
| caitlinkelly | Posted – 2/1/2008 5:36:42 PM | show profile 12 kids...7 kids... wow. How many of us here are only children, besides me? (I have 3 half-siblings but all from different relationships and marriages so it's not what I would call family.) I am now, de facto, "the oldest" of 4 kids my father created...one of whom I have never met and likely never will, ranging in age over 24 years. |
| PublicityChick | Posted – 2/1/2008 7:13:36 PM | show profile only the lonely i'm an only! i was a little lonely as a kid and always wanted siblings. But, now that i'm older, i'm really happy to be an only b/c i got to know my parents really well. not just as parents, but as people. this might sound lame, but they're my best friends. i just feel very blessed to know them. |
| Janetblueyes | Posted – 2/1/2008 7:21:38 PM | show profile Caitlin- I'm an only child. I was terribly lonely as a kid but it enabled me to cultivate my imagination which is probably why I'm a writer. My husband, (soon to be ex), is one of 13. And that's just the 13 they know about. His dad was a man whore and no doubt there are other spawn sprinkled up and down the East Coast. I think my husband's mother should have her womb bronzed when she passes away. That thing is a marvel of science. In all, she was pregnant 17 times and lost 4. We are pretty sure that my husband was supposed to a twin and he absorbed his sibling in the womb. He was born with three sets of adult teeth nestled way up in his sinuses. When he had his first set of dental X-rays as a kid, his dentist almost passed out. He had never seen anything like it. He also has an extra body part but I can't give that one away. And no, it's not a third nipple. |
| Donna Chang | Posted – 2/1/2008 7:46:58 PM | show profile I'm an only! |
| writesonwater | Posted – 2/1/2008 9:32:29 PM | show profile LOL on the Pointer Sisters. I'm the baby of five siblings (some are halfs, but we don't notice that much) AND I was terribly lonely as a child, still! My closest sib was 4 years older and quite mean. (She says I was quite whiny, so there you go.) We are dear friends now. My husband is second in seven, and there's a set of fraternal twins in there -- with six boys, she had a boy in each of 6 pregnancies. That's amazing about three sets of teeth, JBE! |
| mad fingers | Posted – 2/1/2008 10:13:34 PM | show profile I've always had a brother. At age 40something, I was suddenly gifted with (half) sisters. Twins. We don't live anywhere close by, but talk on the phone a lot. Gotta love it. |
| HisGirlFriday | Posted – 2/1/2008 10:19:38 PM | show profile I'm an only! While I would not describe my childhood as lonely I often spent wonderful hours alone writing, reading, imagining things - I see my kid who will likely be an only, doing the same things .... There are times when I think (maybe wish) I could have a large brood. I just don't think I'm cut out for it. I get too annoyed at one rugrat. |
| keltoi | Posted – 2/2/2008 12:14:32 AM | show profile Of my 11 siblings, only 1 had more than 2 kids (he had 3), and 5 of us have no kids at all (though I married into 3 stepkids and now 4 grandchildren). |
| Astera | Posted – 2/2/2008 1:09:26 AM | show profile A little late on participation this time around...it's been a bad week. 1. Has there ever been a period in your life when you thought you were truly losing your mind? My senior year of high school, I went through a major depression. When I did not improve with therapy, my counselor and a psychiatrist asked if I wanted to try antidepressants. Unfortunately, I had bad reactions to several of them and ended up having very scary auditory hallucinations...hearing voices. Not the most pleasant time in my life, but eventually, everything got resolved. Oh, and when I was on Prednisone as part of my chemo routine, that screwed with my head pretty good, too. 2. Who is the biggest pervert you know? A college buddy of my dad's. He has a very chauvinistic attitude toward women and is just kind of slimy in general. 3. Have you ever had to make someone?s funeral arrangements? Not funeral arrangements, but I did write the obituaries for both of my maternal grandparents. 4. Have you ever lived through a tornado, earthquake, hurricane, flood or other natural disaster? I'm a native Californian. I've lived through several earthquakes. When Loma Prieta hit in 1989, I was at a tech rehearsal for "The Sound of Music." Maria was singing "My Favorite Things" and she got to the line about the thunder and the walls starting rattling. We thought it was just sound effects at first. 5. Do you know any true psychopaths or sociopaths? I have twin cousins who may be deeply disturbed. They pretty much keep to themselves and are only friends with a guy 10 years their senior. We don't know what to think at this point. 6. What lie do you continue to perpetuate? That I have my life together. 7. Have you ever walked in your sleep? No. 8. What are some of the deviant aspects of your personality? I have some quirks, to be sure, but I don't think any of them rise to the level of deviance. 9. Have you ever been falsely accused of anything? Yes, in high school by a jealous girl. It was a smear campaign. 10. Do you know anyone that is undeniably ugly? Yes, inside and out. I actually pity her more than anything, though. ~Bonus Question~ Do you have any pet names for specific body parts? No. ------ www.adventuresofastera.blogspot.com |
| writesonwater | Posted – 2/2/2008 6:14:39 AM | show profile | email poster Mad -- with your half-sibs, and Keltoi -- with your stepkids and stepgrands -- how cool to come into more rellies later in life! Was the adjustment easy or tough? ------ http://writingporch.blogspot.com/ http://jlouiselarson.blogspot.com/ http://familyrootsandwings.blogspot.com/ |
| nandy | Posted – 2/2/2008 10:54:35 AM | show profile keltoi--strange but only one of my siblings has more than two children, too (a sister had a singleton, and then twins, so it wasn't that she planned three). At least four have only one. I don't know that it's a rejection of large families so much as it is a reflection of the times...economically. Only one is a stay-at-home parent (a brother). Both parents work or worked in all the other couplings. I was the first one to have a second child and I think they were egging me on for more, but at 40 I knew I barely had the stamina to handle the two I had. I've passed that torch to the younger sibs, but they're getting up there in age, now, too. The females are definitely out of the baby-making business, and only a couple of the males have any potential for more heirs. But many of the cousins have relationships that border on sibling-ship. So that goes a long way to sustaining the feeling that the next generation shares in many of the good things we got from being one of a pack. |
| pamelabeth | Posted – 2/2/2008 11:21:02 AM | show profile just thought of another pervert candidate there's this guy--an acquaintance of my dad's (from temple, no less). any time i've ever encountered him, he's stood way too close to me, touched me too much, and in general tried to invade my personal space. i'm an affectionate person, but it's not like this guy is expressing a natural closeness to me--i barely know him. i get the distinct feeling that he is challenging me--that he knows what he's doing is creepy and wrong but also figures it would be very awkward for me to confront him in an aggressive way. and indeed, so far i've been more polite than i need to be while keeping him at bay--but next time i'm just gonna say, "you need to take a big step backward right now"--or just "get the fuck away from me." i wonder about that aspect of raising girls. so much in society encourages them to be polite and agreeable--even to their own detriment. how do you help a daughter learn to defend herself and her rights in the face of other influences? then again, it's a problem for boys as well. i just read a story about 2 boys, now men, who were raped by a nun at their school years ago (!). she's finally being prosecuted. |
| keltoi | Posted – 2/3/2008 12:47:25 AM | show profile wow--it's worked out quite well. My wife's children were all pretty much grown when we got married, and all of them have been very accepting, as I have been of them. And the grandkids are all quite young, so I'm Grandpa from the start. The're good kids, and a lot of fun. Nandy, I think it's mostly this day and age too. These days, the huge families of 50 or 75 years ago are few and far between in the US, and usually those few are from very strong religious convictions. |
| foto | Posted – 2/3/2008 11:36:09 AM | show profile Originally, I just had one sibling. When I was 12, my dad remarried. Suddenly I had 4 extra siblings. 6 kids in all. Coincidentally, that was the Fall when the "Brady Bunch" first aired. Believe me, it was nothing like the Brady Bunch. (We didn't have Alice either.) |
| caitlinkelly | Posted – 2/3/2008 5:37:26 PM | show profile Good to know there are a few other onlies out there. I met one of my half-brothers when I was 15, the other was born when I was 23 (so I am old enough to be his mother) and I have never met my half-sister and doubt I will. Technically, we are all related but we have little in common and repeated attempts to get to know over many years have come to naught. I didn't mind being an only; I think it forces you to be self-reliant, deal with adults a lot and be gregarious if you want to make friends beyond your family. pamelabeth, women are heavily socialized (rant alert) to be Forever Nice and not ruffle feathers or make a scene, even when they/we are deeply uncomfortable with someone's behavior, especially when that person is older and/or male. Read "The Gift of Fear", an excellent and practical book on this subject by security expert Gavin de Becker. As he points out, "'No!' is a complete sentence." My own book deals in detail with violence against women and when and how they choose to fight back against it. But you have to be willing to make that choice. |
