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Who Are You?
FOUND by Sioban
in Ontario, Canada
I found this in a basket of scrap paper at the local library, which makes me think it was written to be found.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
I think this person is just trying to reaffirm him/herself of what his/her life is about.
It sounds like the statements he would have made up for "two truths and a lie," except maybe he's playing "three truths and a lie."
I think the umbrellas is the lie
I like this! Its like they are listing things they should be grateful about and they should be!! Not too long ago my list was like this:
I am divorced
I live in my grandmothers basement
I have two kids and a fish named bob
I am a telemarketer
Except for my daughters (they are always awesome!!) That was a low point lol
Anyway I like it!! It would be awesome to sell umbrellas!! Especially here its been raining A LOT!
okay. so you're a married, apartment-dwelling, umbrella-selling cat owner.
BUT WHO ARE YOU, REALLY?
I simply must know.
I am in a...relationship
I live in a suburban house
I have two puppies
I am a student
I think it is so the man remebers who he is. Perhaps he was struck by amnesia and is rediscovering who he is.
UtahChick, doesn't it get confusing when both your kids AND your fish are all named Bob?
sounds like the results to a good old game of MASH!
Chicken, I think you're right about the game. That's a fun game. I think the apartment or the marriage or the cat is the lie. The umbrellas is too obvious. It sounds weird, but someone has to sell umbrellas, right?
sarasara, let me know what you find out
any handwriting analyzers out there? i think i's dotted like that indicate a good sense of humor. little crescents.
oh man kelley, i didn't even think about it being mash, until you said that, and now it makes complete sense! we always had names for who we were marrying and how many kids we would have, oh and what car we would drive. oh MASH, the greatest junior high girl game ever.
Funny, I had more guys play mash than girls when I was school. Even out of school. We always did who we would marry, how many kids we would have, the car you would drive & what kind of house you would live in.
I am single but sometimes sleep with him
I have...mono and a large collection of children's books?
I live in a blue room with a daffodil
Some people pay me to talk to them. (I sell my conversations).
(When I played MASH, I wouldn't have predicted this. But, I've got a few more rounds in me).
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I AM SALT. I SPEAK ENTIRELY IN DECLARATIVE SENTENCES.
whoa, i have NOT thought of MASH in like 20 years. it's pretty fuzzy in my head-- can someone lay out the rules so i can play it again (in my old lady-hood).
This reminds me of that game I played as a kid when I couldn't fall asleep (and I still do): A my name is Anna and I live in Arizona, my husband's name is Albert and we sell artichokes. B my name is Beth and... Said game left me with a tendency to list things in my head in alphabetical order in the quest for sleep: flowers, fruit and vegetables, cities...in three languages, I sometimes get so involved I forget to sleep at all!
I am married.
I live in a tiny apartment.
I have a blue budgie.
I sell recondite knowledge.
Look it up.
That's the most personal info I'll probably ever post on here.
**HEY!!** I think that Found is having another Glitch Niche .. I can't sign in, even with all the correct data!! Oh well...
So, once again I've been 'biggened' by a Found... *blush* I've never heard of a jr.-high-game called Mash -- I've only known mash as a TV show (great!), a verb -- or as part of a useful phrase "mish-mash". I'll do some research.
Perhaps this (Found) list is one of those self-affirmation program-your-future kind of things. Put it on your refrigerator and your bathroom mirror. Repeat to yourself while looking in your own eyes...
I am a tad confused, though, about the Umbrella Sales career -- do people go thru a lot of them? Are they Designer Accessories that need to match each outfit? (Shoes, bag, 'brella) Maybe they're like Bic lighters, or one-use cameras -- you have to toss 'em & replace 'em after a bit?
And then -- are you laid off during summer? On unemployment??
i am a newlydivorced
i have bliss and peace
i live in a pet-dander-free western-view-facing most-of-the-time-empty apartment
i sell myself to the devil every day
i like this game.
next.
i am waiting for him to ask
i have a boy and doggs
i live in a vine tangled cottage
i sell magic
this is fun! next-
i am married
i have twins, a dog and two cats
i look after people...
i have a house
minphx..every time i see you , i speak your name out loud.. lol. it makes me giggle
anyone know about the six word love stories? or six word life stories? this reminds me of that.
Strange you all assume a man. Made me think of Mimi in La Boheme (she of the Tiny frozen hand) --
'They call me Mimi but my name is Lucia
I make imitation flowers
I live in an attic
I cook my own meals
That's it -- I'm just your neighbour who's a nuisance'
I am a goddess. (I was called a goddess fairy tonight.)
I have a GIANT cat. (He is a Maine Coon.)
I live in the wild west. (Boise, Idaho.)
I sell peace of mind. (and everything else.)
I am single.
I live alone in a big house.
I have 3 dogs and 2 cats and no children.
My job is to manage people who hate their jobs... but I love mine!
I'm a ghost.
I'm dead.
>>I have a GIANT cat. (He is a Maine Coon.)
ophelia, we also had a maine coon, and he was also giant...don't know why, but I just had to share that!
Anyway...
Mom of 4
Married
Suburban ranch home
This "bunnee" scares me
i am married (6 years next month)
3 dogs, no kids (not parent material)
i live in a house (but i want a farm)
i teach people how to build houses out of mud, for real! (www.HomeGrownHideAways.org)
next...
I am in a wonderful relationship.
I have two cats and a ghost.
I live in the same room I have since I was a kiddo.
I go to Community College and sell business cards.
(Not at the community college mind you, they are separate occupations.)
I miss my deployed bf (I really do)
I have a rottweiler and a cat (they are great!)
I work at a zoo (Well, sometimes it feels like one)
I love sleep(when I can get it)
I'm married to the same person for 23 years.
I've lived in the same house for 24 years.
I have a cat, but no children.
I've worked for the same company for 29 years.
Oooh...how fun!
I'm married.
I live in an apartment.
I have two dogs.
I compile and investigate information.
Also...it's a funny observation but a good majority of us have no kids!
I am married.
I have twins and a cat.
My job is to keep people organized.
I live in the suburbs.
i am going to be married.
i live in a cabinet.
i have a teddy bear.
i read books and complete scantrons.
I sabotage my relationships.
I have a siamese cat named Crash.
I live in a big house with a big yard.
How did I get here? Same as it ever was.
Sound like a librarian.
My turn! My turn!
I am married (5 months next Wednesday).
I have 1 dog and 2 cats who... all sugar pigs.
I live in a very small condo.
I am a professional boondoggler.
A black one.
And today's my birthday!
I am married
I have 4 kids
I live on a large ranch complete with oil well, in an old house where the porch faces the west.
I have Cows, dogs, cats
I sell myself GD everyday
Happy b'bay to JodaBabes
If you're writing to me Pepp, I am far from being a librarian. Not that there's anything wrong with being a librarian.
Is that SALT or pepper. I can't figure that out.
Oops! I get it. You're talking about the find for once.
I have thought Pepper was Salt just acting stupid.
Looks like a suicide note to me.
i am not married and probably won't be for at least ten years.
i have a little sister and parents and a cat named Liebchen.
i live on an air force base in washington, but we'll be moving to Hawai'i soon.
i sell nothing because i'm a teenager. BIG surprise, right? mwahahaha
this IS fun! *bounces*
Oh no Ell- in g- ton, I was writing about the find. I hadn't read the comments when I posted.
I like the sabotage relationship part though.
I am a cat.
I have married.
I live in an umbrella.
I sell apartments.
(Tee hee.)
Actually, since we're all sharing:
I am not married.
I have two cats.
I live in a house.
I investigate complaints
Next . .
I am The Farmer.
I live in The Dell.
That is all, sadly.
Farmer, those are the two blankest lines I have ever seen. :(
I am Married
I have one son and four daughters, a dog, a crab, and a crayfish
I live in a house which is not small, but feels that way with so many inhabitants
I do freelance natural light photography
MASH certainly did not predict all this! I used to try to rig it so that I could be single, have one child, and we could live where ever in the world the missions I worked would take us. Then my husband had to come screw things up by loving me and all that and not letting me live a world-as-home life with my bastard child... who would have incidentally been raised on the magic money that would've appeared in my bank account as we traveled the world! ah, the innocence of childhood.
I am about to propose soon.
I have a dog named Margot.
I am a recent homeowner.
I am a first year 6th grade teacher.
At 24 it seems that my life is coming together for once. I suppose this is a good thing, though there are days when adulthood scares the crap out of me.
I I, I, I I I... Seriously, writer, you are not all that interesting... Of course it IS interesting that the r's vaugely resemble l's... Maybe he was maulled by his cat in his apartment with an umbrella?
So I see MASH and my grew-up-in-the-70s brain thinks 'oh, a fun game about M*A*S*H'. Guess I missed out on the other game of mash. Although it sounds like something I spent some time doing in a vw bug (and that was all, folks, because there just wasn't enough room for anything else and darn those bucket seats).
I hope everyone takes their little blurb about themselves and posts it in their profile here. In the meantime, keep it up...so fun for my curious little mind learning about you all.
Trishia: is your husband the crab or is that the smelly kind that lives in a shell?
Happy B-day, Jodababes! Are you wearing a hat that says 'Today is my Birthday?' You shoulld!
So, how did one play mash (not M*A*S*H)?
@ironcladhero in a state of self-reflection - i'm 43 yrs old, and adulthood still scares the crap out of me.
I can see this being MASH results,
but I sort of saw it as translations.
I know, when I took Basic Spanish,
and we had to translate sentences
of this nature. Ridiculous, really.
However, I still want to play, so:
I'm single.
I'm allergic to cats.
I live in suburbia.
I make stickers, but it's not a job.
Kat- actually it's a tee-shirt that was just given to me... it says 'Spank me. It's my birthday.'
I don't know what the game of MASH is! Please tell the rules! I want to play! I may not check back until later, but I WILL check back, maybe tomorrow when I'm at the airport. Or sooner if I finish packing. I'm going to FRANCE! (It's so exciting!)
Happy Birthday JodaBabes!
Oh I didn't bother to sign in, I'm sorry! Here you go.. (now back to the suitcase).
This is fun. Ok, I'll share.
I am single.
I have 2 kids and a cat.
I live in chaos.
I'd sell my soul for a day of peace and a clean house.
I have a huge cat, who I found in a vacant lot in North Philly when he was a newborn kitten. (I nearly stepped on him.)
I write plays in my spare time
I am single and sans children (for the time being)
… I am having a hard time thinking up a 4th thing to say… It’s a tie between: “I will only post pictures of myself on myspace or facebook if I am between 1 and 5 years old in them” and “I am probably taller than you.”
CuriousKat- while my husband is often crabby- he is not the crab- we have an actual crab as a "pet". My son won the crayfish at school (woo hoo, right?) and I called my dh at work to tell him to pick up a small aquarium on his way home. He picked up an aquarium AND a crab. Because you know, the crayfish would need a friend. They both stay in their corners and randomly wander about- pinching at each other if they get too close. Rather amusing, really, but kind of stinky if my son doesn't clean the aquarium often enough.
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To all those wanting to know how to play MASH: the best rules are on wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MASH_(game)
though there are a few online versions:
http://www.playmash.com/ and
http://www.middleschoolsurvival.com/mash/
enjoy!
I am desperately single.
I have a dog.
I live in a small town, in a small room.
I am an office girl.
>>Winston in Durham wrote:
Also...it's a funny observation but a good majority of us have no kids!<<
I think that's why we have time for FOUND! :-/
As an immigrant to this United States of America I must say I have no clue what MASH is... but my first hunch when I read this sheet was that it resembled a "Write it Down, Make it Happen" technique (that's the title of the book).
Rather than saying adulthood "scares the crap out of us," shouldn't we say it causes us to pinch a loaf, release the chocolate hostages, back one out and snap it off...(newcomers see http://www.foundmagazine.com/comments/1173)
Let's always return to 1173 when we are frightened.
And I think we took this find all wrong. It's clearly a highly enjambed haiku -- with a coda -- but the size of the paper threw off the line breaks:
I am married. I
have a cat. I live in a
apartment. I sell
umbrellas.
My turn:
I am biggened. I
have 2.5 boys*. I live
here in town and sell
rain showers.
* 0.5 in utero
My thoughts were "someone's gotta sell the umbrellas", what a cool job that would be.
I want to play too, so here it goes,
I've been married almost 25 years.
I have two almost grown sons, one beautiful daughter-in-law (working on the second one!).
I have a very spoiled dog, and a very old cat.
I spend my weekends making your anti-lock brakes work.
Happy Birthday, JodaBabes!!
I love dancing in the rain
I was raised by hippies and grew up on a farm
I work on Wall Street
I think hedgehogs are perhaps the coolest things EVER!
I never played mash, but this reminds me of the "A my name is Alice and my husband's name is Al..."
I am married
I have 2 kids (one of each gender) and two cats, one of which I loathe.
I live in a rented house on a canal
I am currently unemployed (husband works enough for both of us)
UH! Happy Birthday JodaBabes!!!
Yesterday it rained here a lot and I saw a lot of people who sell umbrellas on the street... how appropriate.
I am single
I live in a tiny apartment on a beautiful salt marsh, but am about to move a few states away
I have a tarantula
I play with amphibians and reptiles
About the Found: I thought it was one of those exercises of "Where do you see yourself in 10 years?" (or maybe 20, because of the umbrella thing).
About me: I am married to an amazing man.
I have one dog and one billy-bumbler
I live in a haunted bungalow.
I sell ideas.
HB, JodaBabes! Hope you get lots of spankings.
This reminds me of a game we played at summer camp: You had to say four things about yourself, three of which were true and one of which was false.
(1.) I love avocados 2.) I am one of a set of identical twins 3.) I was once chased - and treed - by an angry rooster 4.) I deliberately failed my first driving test)
Everyone else had to guess which was real and which wasn’t.
Mansion
Apartment
Shack
House
MASH is a game little girls play to determine your life. You list four of a kind: 4 boys names that you might be married to, 4 types of cars you might drive, 1 2 3 & 4 to determine how many kids you will have, and any other categories you can think of. Then, the person you are playing with starts drawing a spiral. When you tell them to stop, you count the lines drawn, and that is how you count it out. You go through each, and every time you reach your special number, you mark that entry out, until there is only one entry left in every category, and then that is how your life is suppose to turn out.
Now it's my turn:
I'm not a cat person, but I have a cat.
I'm not a hard worker, but I work hard.
I live in the middle of nowhere.
I a law student.
@Monkeywrench: #2 is the lie. You are NOT an identical twin.
Come on! Tell me I'm right...
Monkey- You hate avocados, don't you?
@Not So Clever: Hahaha yeah, I'm not. You're one of only three people who got that one right though: The 1st time my little cousin was in the group and she shouted the answer out, and the 2nd time was not so much a guess but rather an “oh g-d please tell me there isn’t another one like you out there!” from one of the camp counselors.
Never posted before but I feel like sharing out of boredom...
I'm married
I have 2 boys and a dove
I live in a house
I work at taking care of the boys
Welcome, Nybor!
i would also like to point out that MASH was always the time when you giggle about what boys you like and what boys are gross. we always played where the person who's future is being predicted picked 3 out of the 4 things, and then the friend would pick the 4th, usually trying to think of the worst possible option. i miss playing this!!!
did anyone ever play zap? where you write zap on someone's hand and a time, and then the name of a boy (or girl i guess) on their palm, and if they looked at the name before the time they had to ask that person out???? i'm not sure what the point of that game was, but we played it all the time!
Fuck it, I'll participate. I haven't been to summer camp in a long time.
I'm unmarried, but spoken for by my dream girl.
Who needs kids when you have the coolest niece ever?
I live in an awesome apartment and have incredible landlords.
I help people fight the IRS.
@CuriousKat -- you like it when we post our stas, but you didn't post yours! Play with us, please?
So, here goes...
I live in sin.
I have two horses, nine dogs, three cats, a guinia pig, a snake, a tarantula, two fish, and two drunken midgets.
I live in a double-wide, way in the middle of no-where-land.
I am a medical language specialist.
Happy Birthday Joda!
I am addicted to Tagolongs.
I am addicted to Samoas.
I am addicted to Do-Si-Dos.
I wish I ordered some of the awseome new lemon ones.
Unlike Monkeywrench's game, however, all of the above are true.
I like my name better backwards, too. Welcome Nybor!
@Flargy: Oh all the first things I posted are true. It's the second batch that has one lie. Or a half lie, I guess I should say.
I'm 1/2 of an amazing 3-year relationship.
I don't have kids yet. Nor pets!
I live with my parents while saving $$.
I don't work at anything worth typing, but I want to leave my mark in the world.
Uh, I just realized how pathetic I sound from that post above... I'm MUCH cooler than that I PROMISE! hahahaha.........
I've lived in 4 different countries, attended 6 different educational institutions in my lifetime... I speak 4 languages...
I'm a Latina Jew :)
Mash sounds like those paper things that you put over your fingers, and you'd count as you opened them one way, then the other... cootie catcher? I'm too lazy to google it. But, same thing - who your husband would be, where you'd live, etc.
I have been separated over 4 years, but we're not divorced.
I have two kids, a dog, 3 cats and a ghost.
I'm renting a wonderful house.
I unschool with my kids.
And as Lloyd Dobler said, "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that."
The first thing I thought was: Ooh! A riddle. So what is married, lives in an apartment with a cat and sells umbrellas?
Okay here's my riddle:
I am live in the moment
I have two joyful children and a cat
I live in old row house full of ghosts
I wouldn't have it any other way
So many people seem to have ghosts...
I have two in my townhouse, but I'm related to both of them so their night-bumping doesn't bother me as much as it does my housemate :-P
Yep, cootie catchers. I can still make them. My finger muscles must have kinetic memory. I don't even have to think about it when I make them. Good clean fun, there.
I am a vegetarian.
I live underground.
I keep humans as pets.
I recycle stuff.
Brain Problem: Melborp Niarb? Sounds like a bodily function gone very wrong.
Gin: would that make you a Jewess? My friend Robin (not Nibor) calls herself a Jewess but we mostly call her the Half-Jew.
Monkeywrench: I've looked for you. Any tips?
Okay--I'll play. And everything will be true although it's tempting to make up big fat glamorous lies.
I have a husband (read into that what you want).
I have two cats that I pretend to loathe but secretly enjoy, a dog named Gatsby that is super smart whom some of you have met, and I raised two stepdaughters who now, thankfully, live on their own and, I'm very proud to say, are amazing women.
I live in a big house with a big yard and I want to downsize to a small condo with patio.
I sell myself short.
First post, here I am!
I'm with a nice boy
I have three fighting fish
I live with my mom in her basement
I sell liquor
Peace reigns today at Found!! See? We all can get along. I bet Jason and James are proud of us. Oh--and why aren't they here playing our game??
CuriousKat: Looking for me where?
YOU'VE SEEN MY NAME BEFORE PEPPER. MY LEGEND PRECEDES HER
Wow. So many folks have ghosties. I'd love to hear the stories. The ghost of my chow-chow dog came to visit a time or two, but I believe she has since reincarnated into our cat.
I want to play!
I am massively in love with my husband of ten years.
I live in a two story in the suburbs.
I lost a baby at 36 weeks pregnant one year ago (but had another one 11 months later).
I write interpretive signs for state parks.
This is a fun game. Here goes:
I have been married for 27 years to my law partner.
I have 3 cats and a Papillon.
I live in a house that is too big for us now that the kids are gone.
I help people file bankruptcy.
i'll play too:
i am in a sweet relationship, and love a lot of wonderful people.
lizards run like tossed skittles across my driveway.
i live in a small, sunny, rented house.
i'm a med student, still.
@mona: http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/ (life stories in six words)
@sleeping: zap! oh-wow. we played too, at recess in elementary school, but our details were a little different. it also involved a color: it only applied if the person was wearing that color? and, now that i think about, nothing Ever came of it. it was just something to giggle about.
@curious: thanks for the dobler quote. lovely.
Freonz: one of those cats I mentioned thinks he's a dog. My old dog Buck (now in dog heaven) thought he was pig. He could snort out rocks in the ground like pigs in Italy look for truffles.
Monkey: I've been looking for you in a place where I thought you might be and now I'm pretty sure you are.
Chow-chows have many cat-like qualities, so I'm not surprised to have her back in my life. Besides, it was a bit unnerving to hear her panting and walking about when there wasn't a dog there to be seen.
I'm single
I have no pet
I live where I don't belong anymore
I'm a graphic designer -- at least that's sort of cool ;)
@Curious: Yes, I usually am. But are you sure it's me?
So though I have only posted on here a few times, I check in just about every day. Strange how you become familiar with people who don't even know you exist, which I have with all of you for the past couple months I have taken on this obsession with Found. Now we all know a little something about each other, which is rather cool. Let's be friends. (Okay, so that was possibly the dumbest thing I have said all day, besides some off-topic ramblings with my students.)
I am in a relationship.
I have a dog and a cat.
I live with my boyfriend in a house.
I sell custom, archival framing.
I am single due to my very high standards (and nothing else).
I have a cactus.
I live in a smelly dorm room.
I'm trying to avoid having a career.
:)
ironcladhero, I'd join hands and sing Kumbaya with you, if for no other reason than I'll be 50 this coming Tuesday and life as an adult still scares the crap outta me. (That and I haven't decided what to do when I grow up.)
ironcladhero & Freonz: I'll join you. I'll even sing Kumbaya if I get plenty of beer beforehand.
Ok, I'll bite.
I'm the co-creator of FOUND.
I started this website in 2001.
I live in Brooklyn, but I'm from the Midwest.
I'm taken, and yes, we have two cats.
BITNER is my last name. But if google me, don't confuse me with the drummer.
Oh, and I love spicy food and cheese.
There seem to be a lot of us who visit this site who have cats, which I think is great since I love cats. I wonder if it's because foundmagazine people are naturally curious. :)
I am in a relationship with a nice guy who moved across the country for me!
I have 2 cats... and a few strays...
I live in a house with lots of other people, some who I know and some who I don't really know.
I work in sports television.
Jason: is is possible you're from the north side of the cheddar curtain? I sort of thought maybe your were a flatlander but the cheese thing is throwing me off. Unless of course the cheese part is your false statement of the bunch.
Monkey: I'm pretty sure the Monkey I found is not you. But I'm still looking. I'm highly inquisitive so I don't give up easily.
Funny how SALT showed up about the time I mentioned peace.
Um... I forgot the fake one. I guess I'll have to add "I'm totally smart" to my list.
@Curious: If it's an exceptionally hairy guy with a sweet yet devious face... That's not me.
I am single
I have a Weimaraner named Annie
I live in a house
I want to work with the chronically ill
This really is fun!
@kelly in heaven,
oh my god!!! I remember MASH. Classic.
That must be what it is. Thank you for that flashback.
I live with my husband of five years.
I am considering getting a dog, but fear the responsiblity it will bring. Don't even get me started on kids.
I live in a recently renovated house.
I am learning to be an editor.
I asked my kids if they ever play MASH with their friends and yes, they do. Then they told me that they also play LEMON. At first I couldn't remember LEMON, then my son said--"five body parts, five things you can do to a lemon..." Ah, yes, I remember that game. And my kids always tell me stuff you're not supposed to tell your mom, like that they play LEMON and some kids are nasty (but not them, of course).
I'm married
I live in a duplex
I have a cat, two parakeets, two fish
I have two kids
I do property manager type stuff for our landlord. I've also done daycare and sold things on ebay.
Monkey: Did I mention I'm also seriously impatient? Any other clues for me?
CuriousKat in LG WI: I'm actually full Jewish, not half. Both sides of my family are Jewish, and they both happened to immigrate to Paraguay (in South America) 3 generations ago. So I'm full Latina and full Jewish on both sides :)
We were supposed to make up one too? Oh well.
Gin: is today a Jewish holiday?
My friend Fred swears gin is the cure-all for everything. Toothache? Gin. Stomach ache? Gin. Car sick? Gin. Hearbreak? Gin.
I want to play! This is my first post here and I feel like the shy tag-a-long that always shows up but can never muster the nerve to say something. I am addicted to checking in here every day! BTW, I always played MASH with my sister and did secretly love to sabotage the game.
I am unmarried but fear he may propose and I won't know what to say. I love him dearly but commitment scares me.
We live in a little house in the country.
We have a cat and two dogs.
I am a student who would love to be a doctor or physical therapist but I tell myself I can't do it just to put off growing up for a little while.
Purim is tomorrow :)
And I totally know someone like that, except he's Jamaican so the cure for everything is RUM. Sore Throat? Gargle with Rum :)
Mary in Procrastination mode: SO glad you decided to start posting! I think we all lurked for a little before we had that one FIND that drove us over the "commenting" edge :)
Dang. I forgot to include a false one. Ok, how about this:
I once made a lamp out of 8-track tape cartridges and an 8-track tape player.
I won first prize in a karaoke contest at a local bar.
I have own one car and two houses.
My cat was two-weeks old when I found her in some duct work under my house.
i am finally, happily single.
i live in the house i got in the divorce (he gave me his share of the equity for the kids' sake).
i have a thing for my Froggie.
i scrounge thrift stores for treasures.
@Curious: Go to myspace, search for "Troubled Monkey," scroll down to his top friends, and look at the first person listed. That would be me.
Or he may just be "Trouble Monkey" now...
I think it is first prize at a karaoke bar that is the false statement.
I am in a great-but-sometimes-confusing relationship.
I have a noisy, co-dependent cat.
I'm living in an apartment for the first time since my early 20's.
I sell bureaucratic bullshit.
Dang, you're good Winston.
This made me laugh... and even though it is off topic, I thought you Foundees might enjoy it.
http://paperdragon.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/
I am in a great-but-sometimes-confusing relationship.
I have a noisy, co-dependent cat.
I'm living in an apartment for the first time since my early 20's.
I sell bureaucratic bullshit.
Here's mine:
I was born on Christmas.
My grandmother was born on New Years.
I once owned a Ferret named cocoa.
I'm the most unsouthern southerner as I hate grits, tea, and Canteloupe and I have a nasal accent due to my German background.
I am single.(and sooper sexy)(on the moon)
I have a cat that doesn't pee in laundry baskets.
I live in a crappy apartment with two of the most inconsiderate messy fuckers you could ever meet. But my rent is $150.
I sell rock and roll.
By the way..I meant to say one of those statements is false.
married 15 years
two kids, two cats
live in a rural, but suburbanized house
school volunteer, house maid, chef, personal shopper, family psychiatrist, chauffeur, laundress, doctor, nurse, groundskeeper....
I need a real job
Your grandmother's birthday wasn't on New Years. Is that the right one?
P.S. You don't have to like canteloupe to be southern...only if you are an armidillo. But, how are you on okra? That's the acid test.
I like okra and my grandmother's birthday is on New Years.
I guess that's good then...I'm somewhat Southern. YAH!
Winston, you aren't as unsouthern as you think you are if you like okra.
Ok, the nasal accent. I just can't image a Tarheel/German accent.
i am married.....5/9/98
i have 3 kids and two dogs
i love my house
i spend most of my time with my family
i miss my mom
I came from Virginia originally...from the mountains. There is a large community of German immigrants there.
German immigrant descendents is what I mean to say since they are second and third generation.
The ferret?
Yep...your correct Monkeywrench. I think if I did own a ferret. I'd name him/her cocoa or Bob.
Time for lists:
1. Dang, I must be a South-American-turned-New-Yorker SOUTHERNER then because I ADORE okra!
2. I think it's fabulous that the creator of this website posts comments :) And oh, your fake one couldn't be that you're not smart because you're quite genius!
3. What's with the cats?! And where are the dog people?!?!?!?!
Monkey: Goodness that was more than a hint. That was more like a roadmap. Found it. I think.
Gin: Purim?
I am far from married.
I have 121 teenage children.
I live in an apartment.
I peddle knowledge.
I love MASH (the game, not the show)!
Curious: I'm hard to find if you don't know where to look. And if you don't know my real name :-P I'm stealthy like that.
Gin in Tonic, being from South America probably makes you more Southern than Winston or me! At least geographically speaking.
I'm a dog person (see chow-chow reference above) but when she (the dog) saw fit to reincarnate into a tiny little, sickly, rejected and abandoned kitten, I had no choice in the matter and had to take her in to nurse to health and take to raise.
I am not married, but we say that we are.
My daughter has a cat, who things that I belong to him.
I have a daughter who is grown up( almost) and a dis-abled son who is not( and never will).
I live in a late Victorian house, in a town full of Victorians.
I sell nothing, but I am an autism whisper-er.
( it just occured to me, I shall hence forth refer to myself as THE autism whisper-er, rather than A......everyone needs a title, it is the American Dream....)
On TV the other night, a talk show host asked a woman if she was in a relationship. She said, no, I am in a SITUATION.
I thought that was so funny and it so aptly described many of my relationships, er, situations.
Monkey: Y I do believe I did find you.
I used to like cats until I met my roommate's obnoxious little fuckers.
kc in the sunshine van: You have billy bumbler? I so want one.
@Mary in Procrastination mode
Welcome aboard! We're in Happy and Friendly mode today. Sometimes we get snippy but you know that if you've been lurking a while.
*waves* hello! If it's the person who sent him the video of the dancing transvestite superheroes than yeah, it's me.
Gin: I was a dog person before my ex boyfriend decided to sic his horrible Pit Bull on me as a “joke”. I had to climb on top of my car, and have been just a little leery of dogs ever since. At least if a cat tries to savage you, you have a fighting chance and a good 100 pounds on it. (As witnessed by the fact that my Stinky Pete has yet to successfully kill me, no matter how often he tries.)
I've never heard the Sioban before, but there seems to many people named that (according to Google). I wonder what is the origin of Sioban.
Nadine: I think it's Irish. The Sioban (pronounced Shivaun) that I knew was half Irish, half Australian. She had the most confusing accent EVER! (But the guys loved it.)
Gin: I was a dog person before I moved into my current house. The neighbors have 5: A weener dog, a collie, a mutt, a white fluffy thing, and a black fluffy thing. I swear that most days all it takes is me flushing the toilet and suddenly it feels like the house is going to fall down from the barking!
i want to play.
i just started seeing a very nice boy, but i don't know what i'm looking for anymore.
i have a horse, a cat and a fish, and a dog that belongs to my parents.
i live in a beautiful old house, but i don't belong there anymore-- i want to live alone.
i'm a writer, but not a real one.
this is my favorite comment thread ever!
Freonz, you are not the only one to have been haunted by a past pet. My beloved cat of 10 yrs could be heard scratching around in his non-existent litter tray, several months after he had crossed the rainbow bridge.
I still miss him. I don't want another cat. I want Saul back.
Not sure but I think Sioban is pronounced "sha-vahn" (that's the best I can do). Once dated an Irish guy named Liam who had a bunch of sisters and one was named Sioban. The other sisters (and brothers) had very traditional names as well. The only other one I remember was Grainne. There were poetic enough though that I made him write them all down.
>>CuriousKat in LG WI watching b-ball: Purim :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purim. It's the Jewish time to do the dress-up Halloween stuff, except it's not for scary reasons!
>>Freonz freak in g hallucinations: You've got a point. But I'm VERY much a Northener and as much a SOUTHERNER then! ;) And as far as the kitty is concerned: Okay, I'll allow it!
>>Monkeywrench in The Works: What did YOU do to your ex for him to unleash his pitbull on you like that?! You know, they say that every joke has a little bit of truth in it, so if he did it as a joke... I'm sorry that happened to you!
>>Alice Looking in The Glass: I can hear it with the way you describe it! hahaha.... awww!
Gin: I broke up with him :-/
I know it sounds bad, but honestly that's all I did. I stopped by to drop some stuff off and he said something to the effect of “a trespasser! Get her Sheba!” I don’t think he expected her to get as worked-up as she did though: She had never met me before.
This was also the ex who, after learning that I’m absolutely terrified of water that I can’t see the bottom of (do they have a phobia for that?) chucked me into a swimming pool at night. He felt bad later though, when his 14 year old brother had to pull me out. (Same brother ended up saving me from the dog.)
I am in a relationship with a great guy.
I have a dorm that doesn't allow me to have pets, and I don't have kids.
I live with an obnoxious roommate.
I sell my soul to college.
@Orinoco, so sorry to hear about Saul. When I had to put Sonya (chow-chow) down at age 14, it almost killed me. I never thought I'd have another pet because of the garranteed heartbreak at the end. But now I've got my kitty who acts so much like Sonya, it's got to be her. Perhaps, in due time, Saul will make his way back to your burrow in a new guise.
If you need something to thwart dogs, I can sell you an umbrella.
Turbo, you almost always make me laugh!
>>Freonz freak in g hallucinations wrote:
Turbo, you almost always make me laugh!<<
I like this *almost* fully a compliment! hahaha.
Turbo, what about pyronecrobeastiality? I hear that can thwart a dog too.
By the way, is it safe to assume that your cat is safe from pyronecrobeastiality as long as it keeps not peeing in your laundry basket?
I probably shouldn't admit this, but I keep reading "Umbrella" as "Umbrage." I don't know why. Makes me laugh every time though, and the idea of Turbo selling "offense, pique, indignation or resentment" to thwart a dog has actually sent me over the edge into mild hysterics.
Which, in turn, has sent the dogs next door over the edge into mild hysterics: One of them is actually howling. I think it's the wiener.
Monkey- I can relate… sort of. I am a total dog person and I’ve never had a fear of dogs, but I decided a long time ago that I would never get a dog larger than 15 pounds.
As a kid I used to freak myself out imagining myself in these post-apocalypse type situations. I mean REALLY freak myself out… I would basically have a 7 year olds version of a panic attack. This fear has carried over into adulthood, but in totally impractical ways. The lap-dog thing being one of those ways… I’ve always wanted to be assured that if I was ever sealed inside of my home due to some disaster and I only had one ham sandwich left, that I could easily overpower my dog if it came down to battling for that sandwich.
Of course I married now to a man who easily has 75 lbs on me. I better rethink this.
I'm a dog person...I have a Chihuahua/Beagle/terrier mix but she looks just like a small version of a pembroke welsh corgi...I call her my homemade corgi.
I have a bunny ghost that visits me in my dreams from time to time. It was my poor bunny Sebastian that met a very unfortunate and untimely end. Funny, though, because Sebastian really kind of looks like bunnee in my dreams.
1. I can't commit to one woman.
2. I have a pet pickle in my pocket.
3. I reside in the dreams of lonely women everywhere.
4. I earn my keep by swinging and running around.
My best friend's roommate had an ancient, blind, arthritic Chihuahua who she adopted to be one of those accessory dogs: She used to dress him up in little outfits and clutch him to her when she watched TV, but she never took care of him (i.e. walking him and feeding him, taking him to the vet, playing with him, bathing him… most mornings she slept so late that after whining and scratching and snuffling at her bedroom door for hours, he ended up weeing forlornly on the carpet.) He was the ugliest little dog ever so I nicknamed him Sméagol, and since my friend and I were the two who actually paid the most attention to him, it got so he answered to that name and not the one his owner gave him. ("Bruiser" after the dog in "Legally Blond.") Poor little Sméagol… We considered dognapping him when my friend moved out but we figured the roommate would get mad. She already hated us for changing his name :-P
Wow, what a lot of personal info (even if not all true).
Happy Birthday, JodaBabes! Hope you get lots of spankings.
And Happy Easter, everybody.
If you search all the six-word sagas on http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/ you will find mine.
Meanwhile --
I live in a box
I am not married (nor currently in a relationship or even a situation)
I love cats but don't have any of those either
I sell words about music.
Anyone else worried about the hyphenation of 'umbrellas'? Like she/he couldn't see it coming and put the whole word on the next line?
And was going to hyphenate it after 'umb-' and thought better of it? But '-llas' is the least acceptable of the various possibilities.
No, no one else cares. But it's the sort of thing I have to worry about in my job.
I am single, live in an apartment, and never use umbrellas.
I'll be 39 in twenty-four hours.
In my spare time I'm writing a novel about an ice harvester.
I dream in Technicolor.
I just can't resist playing, too!
I am married.
I have 8000 dust bunnies.
I live in complete disarry.
I eavesdrop for a living.
Also:
I wish I had Winston's job!
I think I need to hire Tori!
I didn't have time to read the entire thread, so I am wondering if I am the only one who (a) does not know what a boondoggler is and (b) did not have time to google or wikki it!
I live in complete *disarray*
Sheesh!
No one's going to read this so OK I'll participate today:
I was an Americorps member for two years.
I live on Easter Island.
I've never had a bad dream in my life.
Someday I want to walk on the Moon.
Only one of these statements is true, can anyone guess which one?
Jonathan, you only have to worry about that if Raindrops are Falling on Your Head!
Flargy, if the carcass is a smokin', don't come a pokin'.
M.A.S.H. the next era. doesn't matter who you are married to just that your are an animal lover with a job.
I am single (I think)
I have no children
I live in an apartment
I work for a mouse.
This is an amazing thread and I wish I had had time to put in my two cents earlier!!
I am betrothed.
I have a dog who thinks she's a baby (she's a nice pit, Monkey)
I am a new townhouse owner.
I sell nothing, but feed people daily.
I am also a "new" adult, but there's something amazing about the feeling of making it work, even though it's difficult.
---spam protection---
I have an English degree, I can't multiply!
::singing:: know that it's you and me together, now it's raining more than eva', you can stand under my um-ba-rella, ella, ella, ey ey ey....
::stops singing & gets self-conscious about wrong lyrics::
Rhinanna. Yay.
I've been with a very nice boy for a month.
I am a daughter.
I live in a lovely house with lots of roommates.
I am an office girl with an office window.
Oh and I have partial custody of cats in different countries. And we don't use umbrellas here.
I am single (and a gorgeous saint, a drunk just told me)
I live in a townhouse
I have no pets
I open my heart and do good
http://www.playmash.com/
Play!
Lance Pants -- yeah, those hyphenated umbrellas are useless, they let all the raindrops in.
Cassisu -- Oh Lor', that's just set me off remembering an old music hall song (well, Google remembered it for me)...
Toora luma luma, toora luma luma, toora ly aye
Any umberellas any umberellas to mend today?
Bring your parasol it may be small, it may be big
I can mend them all with what you call a thingamyjig.
Pitter patter patter, pitter patter patter, here comes the rain
Let it pitter patter, let it pitter patter don't mind the rain.
I'll mend your umbrellas and go on my way singing
Toora luma luma toora lye, toora luma luma toora lye
Any umberellas to mend today?
@jonathan: the hyphenatin' jumped out at me too, but i resiiiiiiisted commenting on it. whew what a sigh of relief this is. thanks for that, for getting it out there.
@ small bear: your true statement is wanting to walk on the moon?
@James. Do you think we could get a private message feature, like at PostSecret's comments?
How many comments on the record day's found? Will today beat it by a mile?
Gin: I want to be you. What's cooler than a Latina Jewess? Unless it's maybe a Puerto Rican Jew. (let's hear it for Juan Eppstein!) Joyful Purim to you.
JodaBabes - We got our Bumbler by accident. She was masquarading as a puppy at the pound but no one wanted her because she was labeled a "pit mix." Had we known what she was, she certainly would have been named Irl, not Wonder.
Small Bear - I think Americorps is the true one.
ok, i'm game...
i am married
i have 3 kids, all of whom are girls
i sometimes miss my glory days (but then realize i never stopped living them)
i have 2 dogs whom i pretend to dislike and 1 cat whom i love dearly but pretends to dislike me
btw, before the game got started, my original comment was going to be how much this find reminds me of the movie Memento.
I live in a small town
I live in a big house
Married 16 years, 3 kids
I have a really fat cat (www.bagladyblues.blogspot.com)
I also have a dog named Sam. I wanted to name him "Deppidy Dawg", but my family voted me down.
Oh, and I have never eaten Amber's (famous)Koolaid pie.
wow, i've been totally engrossed by all these posts...
i'm single
i have two cats
i inhabit an apartment in the nh hills
i won't grow up.
Wow, you guys have some very interesting jobs!
I am married.
I have 2 wild young sons.
We looooong for cats but husband is too allergic.
I have a gold belt in kung fu - and am on my way to orange.
I am a dealer of vintage and antiques, and volunteer teaching modern art to young children.
I love the term pyronecrobeastiality.
I am recently un-engaged, but still in a situation.
I have racy dreams all the time and often wake up giggling.
I only prepare foods that start with S- soup, salad, stir-fry, spaghetti, stew....
I am vegan.
I work on people's bodies and minds.
I can't wait to follow all the links on today's page.
I'm completely unattached
I want a cat!
I live in a tiny room with a stranger I barely talk to.
I sell teenage ivy league ennui and sass.
I am supposed to be doing my Honors Linear Algebra exam.
now just who doesn't like to talk about themselves ?!?!
Let's see
I'm married with children (two girls)
I have a senior citizen dog and a 4 month old puppy and a Guyana Wood Turtle of unknown age named Marshmellow.
I live in a snobby town, where clearly I don't belong.
I am a stay at home mom during the day, waitress in an fantastic Italian Grill by night...
I'm 43 years old - with 53 year old hands.
Married 12 years - my son is in college.
I have 6 birds, two cats, a dog and a ferret.
I work with emotionally damaged kids, trying to set things right.
I should have been a photographer.
My husband took pictures of me pinching Davy Rothbart's butt.
I have a huge crush on James Molenda.
I live in an Igloo in Texas, but I'm from the Midwest, too.
I rent out my maternal instincts.
(I'm grateful to Salt, and my best friends know why!)
Apologies in advance! I've stored up LOTS to say, but I was -uh- sidetracked... So, instead of tastefully interspersing my notes, I'm just gonna dump 'em!
MY turn:
Short version --
I have been married
I have a cat
I have no kids
I live in a small house with a private yard
I am currently "between jobs"
Longer version (a slightly bigger picture)
-- I’ve been married; am not now
[Married 16 years. Lived with hubby for 6 years, then separated by 600 miles for 10. Then I wrote to him & said 'well hon, I think that 10 years is long enuff for a 'trial separation'!!)
-- I have a cat
(Told a former landlady that if she ever needed to 'get rid of' cat, pls check with me to see if I could take her... she did, I could, and I did!!)
(Cat had an eating disorder [bulemia-sp?], but that's been fixed)
-- I have no kids
(Although I'm 'everybody's mother' or 'mother hen' most of the time)
-- I live in a small house
(800-sq-ft cottage with a yard! way behind a 2-story family home & yard, in a pretty quiet family neighborhood)
(my place is not very elegant; basically it's a former outbuilding in the back garden area.)
-- I am currently "between jobs"
(Currently on short-term med disability due to taking a form of chemotherapy for 6 months... gotta get that stuff out of my system, & seek & win a new position.)
yummy yummy, at first I read that you were a 'stray' at home mom and I thought, I'm a stray at home mom too!
Okay, I'll bite. I think it'll make someone happy.
I'm divorced. I have a friend who comes here.
I have three children and a six month old puppy.
I have three houses. I need to sell two of them soon but the real estate market has tanked.
I sell corn. And buy corn. And sometimes soybeans. I'm not a farmer but I've been to the Dells.
It reminded me of Memento too!
I am secretly engaged.
I have a white fluffy dog thing named Trooper, but I call him Frank.
I work with Autistic children on my college breaks.
Although I am outwardly young, I'm inwardly aged.
@ Not-so-Clever (yes u R)-
I agree that we should keep
http://www.foundmagazine.com/comments/1173) in our reference lists –
And, when we are frightened, let’s also refer to
(http://www.foundmagazine.com/comments/651) (specifically FYF!)
@ Mary in ProcrastiNation –
Be SURE to look up (http://www.foundmagazine.com/comments/651) !!
And – remember, you don’t have to stick to just one career… try lots of things, then maybe combine your favorites?
A few years ago, it was my turn to talk at a peer support group meeting – and I opened with
“Since I’m the PRO in procrastination, …..”
When it was my friend Gail’s turn to speak she said:
“Well, if [..Camelia..] is the Pro in Procrastination, then I must be the Crass in Procrastination!”
(I still giggle when I remember that)
I live with my boyfriend
I have a beautiful beagle
I live in a creaky bungalow
I am a designer, but was just laid off
I am trying to not feel too sorry for myself.
@ pouring coffee – I’m with you! See below.
@ mona lisa, @ ironcladhero , @ Not-so, and @ mary in Pro:
Adulthood still scares the crap out of me – AND I’ve successfully avoided it!!
However, sometimes I have 2nd thoughts:
When I was 14? 15?, I looked at all the adults around me – and they all seemed miserable! At that time, I decided that Peter Pan had the RIGHT idea, and that my best Lifepath would be to “never-grow-up”.
Now, at 58 (really? that always surprises me!!), I sometimes wonder what my life would be like if I hadn’t made that decision long ago…
sarasara - what goes into your vegan stew?
This is the best comments section ever, even tops the euphamism one. It's so nice to meet all of you! [Insert rousing chorus of Kumbaya here.]
oh! me too! me too!
I am living in sin
just moved to the third apt in the same building (its a nice building...)
I would love a cat named Oscar
I dig up dead people and their trash for a living
I am engaged.
I have two daughters, a step-son, a granddaughter, two dogs and a fish.
I live in a house on an island.
I sell flower photographs, kill bugs, fix cable and play hockey.
I meet a wide variety of people every day and learn something from all of them.
I love to give gifts.
oh, I'm so happy to see my find here! I sent this in a year and a half ago and was sure it was rejected long ago. And now it's here and has inspired such an great conversation.
I like the mash idea, I also like the momento idea.. although that might mean that by taking this note I've taken someone's identity?
I think I have to play.
I'm separated
I have a wonderful daughter
I live in my favourite city
I am a wiper of tears, a giver of tickles and a cozy place to rest
And to clarify, I don't have a confusing accent
I am not in any type of situation.
I have a cat who has around a dozen middle names.
I am drawing blueprints for a house that will probably never be built.
I am a published writer but have not been paid for my work.
I live in a split-level house in suburban New England.
I sell randomness to the world at large.
Excuse me, I was looking for Found. How did I end up at MySpace?
(Puckhog in Nut's Hell is one sexy grandpa!)
Great Find, Sioban.
I am in a relationship.
I have two goldfish.
I live in a room.
I go to school.
@Camelia in sight still, but slowly receding - I'm so happy to see you here. Nice to know there are others posting that are well seasoned. I actually 20 years older than I ever thought I'd be and frequently shake my greying head in wonder.
I think that not having kids makes not growing up much easier.
I'm to young to be a widow!
My cat is too fat and only likes me.
I live in a house on the lake.(still frozen)
I touch peoples feet for a living.
kc in the sunshine van-are you a DT fan?
I am married and still in love.
I have two kids, two dogs, two fish, two plants.
I swear too much.
I gave blood today.
whoa....222 comments? omg
I know. It's fucking amazing, isn't Mona? Just goes to show you how much people like to talk about themselves....
@Your shirt...
I am also too young to be a widow. I'm sorry for our pain.
@Freonz freaking hallucinations (I hope they're at least good visuals and friendly spectres).
I thought not having kids made not growing up much easier, so I waited and waited. Then, oops, I had some and for ME anyway, towards the end of my childlessness I grew up without knowing it and having the kids regressed me in a good way. Not that I'm recommending you procreate if you don't want to, but get around some kids. Want mine, they're driving me nuts?
I think we see ourselves IN each other, too.
I am single.
I have two cats.
I live in a house.
I am a student.
I got married last August in San Francisco.
I have too many pets. My favorites are the dog and the banty hen.
I rent a small house in a nice neighborhood, but can't wait to be a home owner.
I work as a behavioral clinician with the MR/DD population.
Now did everyone copy and paste their little thing about themselves into their profiles? I hope so!
Cheers! And go Badgers!!!
I am independent
I have a cat who doesn't live with me
I live amongst peers
I learn about society, and welcome patrons on the side
OMG 234 comments!
OMG 234 comments!
I didn't post that twice.
I am married, and it has been a very long time.
I have a daughter and a cat who is fat and missing a few marbles.
I live in a house that I love in a town that I love, too.
I speak French.
@ MonkeyW, Ironclad, Freonz –
re: Team-building and hand-holding and singing Kumbaya, etc.
I’ll join in too!! And -- It's a good thing I planned ahead – ‘cause in my younger Olden Daze, I drank that “plenty of beer”, so much so that I can now sing with y’all, over 10 years past that last beer!!
@ Freonz
“I think that not having kids makes not growing up much easier.”
I agree! and re
“20 years older than I ever thought I'd be…” One of the (still shocking) shocks in my life is that I *didn’t* “perish” before I was 30!!
@ Brain Probs…
I agree (with you too) that proximity to kidz helps keep the Wonder & Laughs alive!! It’s just always nice to have fun with them, then give ‘em back to their mom!
[ -- I warned y'all -- I've got lots of feedback & it's still comin'!! -- ]
@ MonkeyW, Ironclad, Freonz –
re: Team-building and hand-holding and singing Kumbaya, etc.
I’ll join in too!! And -- It's a good thing I planned ahead – ‘cause in my younger Olden Daze, I drank that “plenty of beer”, so much so that I can now sing with y’all, over 10 years past that last beer!!
@ Freonz
“I think that not having kids makes not growing up much easier.”
I agree! and re
“20 years older than I ever thought I'd be…” One of the (still shocking) shocks in my life is that I *didn’t* “perish” before I was 30!!
@ Brain Probs…
I agree (with you too) that proximity to kidz helps keep the Wonder & Laughs alive!! It’s just always nice to have fun with them, then give ‘em back to their mom!
[ -- I warned y'all -- I've got lots of feedback & it's still comin'!! -- ]
Yeah, Clover -- *I* didn't post that one twice either!!
@ Clover – HAPPY FRANCE! [how do you say ‘clover’ in french??] <-- i kept wondering why you didn't respond... I hadn't POSTED it yet!! oh.
@ JodaBabes – HB 2U!!!
@ Coffeeclouds – Happy hippo b-day (sooon)
@ Freonz – HB 2u also, in case I’m not here… And -- not to worry about this half-century mark. Y’see, I figger it takes fifty years to practice & experiment with living, then the next fifty years is clear sailing!! (truth-to-tell, tho – Most things never “come out like the book sez”, sigh)
@ not so clever – congratulations on the half-baby-in-the-bucket!!
@ CuriousK & Gin in (“full Latina and full Jewish on both sides” :)
-- That makes you a Jewessa!! (Yes, there are a lot of similarities to Contessa)
@ kc in the sunshine van
re: “This is the best comments section ever, even tops the euphamism one.”
Oh no!! Did I miss the euphemism one? Or was that the ‘medical thesaurus’, #1173??
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@ shelly – OMG! Another kindred spirit!! My replacement ‘drug’ lately has been to haunt yard sales (in sunny weather), and Goodwill & thrift stores (in drizzly etc. weather)!!
@ Alice Glass-Looking – You’ve proven a theory my mom & I came up with (decades ago): “The next generation will rebel by ‘going straight’!”
@ Martina Indy…
“Some people pay me to talk to them. (I sell my conversations).”
HMMM, is this one of those close-personal-conversation 900-number careers? Interesting!!
@ ecogyrl –
Cool website! I’ve got a friend who, last I heard, was planning to enter the Strawbale Housing movement/industry.
@ chillin –
Nah, you have *plenty* of real jobs – you just need a job that really pays!!
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AND a riddle:
If Nybor is Robyn (hi Nybor!), then what is:
minphx in (the) west
Xhpnim???
@ kc- though i fear rotton tomatoes being flung at my head for sharing (eek) a recipe, here goes the latest and best. I called it my sweet moroccan stew: onion, sweet potato, carrots, celery, potato, golden raisins, lentils, cinnamon, tomato, cauliflower, pepper, curry, and probably more cinnamon.
I never write recipes down so that's my best guess. i might also have thrown a fair amount of ginger in and a tiny bit of garlic.
...Maybe there weren't tomatoes in that one. I vaguely remember worrying about the tomato, cinnamon, ginger combo, with which I have no experience of which to speak...
@ Siobhan, your response brought me to tears. To be fair, many of today's responses brought me there, but I only started this particular read from where I left off, and I lack the memory skills to remember just exactly what made me kind of weepy before....
sorry.
Oh yes,
Happy Birthday Jodababes!
SleepingInYourBed. Dude MASH. we play it at work sometimes when we have nothing to do..thats what happens in retail..superfun!
Especially for Jonathan (and anyone else who's interested):
Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say:
"Please share my umbrella."
Bus stop, bus go, she stays, love grows
Under my umbrella.
Every morning I would see her waiting at the stop
Sometimes she'd shop and she would show me what she'd bought.
Everyone would stare as if we were both quite insane
Some day my name and hers are going to be the same.
Gotta love the sixties...
Looks like something from an ESL class I teach.
I am watching you.
I have the knowledge you need.
I live everywhere. I live nowhere.
I sell something you might want.
Hugo, I think you mean
"I watcheg you"
I make things,
I do things,
I write things.
I'm just about done moving... AGAIN.
I think you can actually google me now. My dream is fulfilled.
Oh, and.. Jason, is this the record for number of posts?
And JodaBabes, happy belated birthday!
Clover, travel safely, and send me a (virtual) postcard!!!
Your shirt and Brain Problem -
I have 2 dear friends who lost their husbands...on at 26, on at 24. Far too young to be widows. Your loss pulls at my heart and I wish you both the best.
Plano chick - I am addicted. I have just started Book VI. My husband got me hooked, and Oy is our favorite character.
Sarasara - that sounds delish. I think I will try that. Thanks for risking the rotten tomatoes.
Yep, Puckhog's about the hottest Grampa I've seen...
I am lonely.
I have two macaws, 6-7 fishes and overprotective parents.
I live in a poo country.
I study *cough*YEAHRIGHT!*cough* and listen to my iPod 24/7.
=D My life sounds very interesting, doesn't it?
P.D.: Seriously, my iPod does not leave my side...
I used to be in a relationship
I used to live in an even smaller box
I used to have someone else's cat
I used to be a librarian
So some things get better.
Fun!!
I am solo (for now).
I have a dog called Molly (a mostly white dog owned by someone who wears black jeans).
I live in the middle of nowhere (the timeless wonder of why anyone would live in the English countryside [voluntarily]).
I study sciency things.
Hey, Rose! Jonathan lives in England, too!
It's very interesting that Indy in Philly digs up dead people and their trash. And also I wonder how Camelia fixed her cat's bulimia.
I'm soon to be married.
I have no pets, no kids and my finace is in the middle of the ocean most days.
I live in a newly renovated apartment in the city at the beach...and pay way to much.
In the eyes of creditors, I'm the bad guy. But I'll get you half off of your debts!
I got here too late...I don't care.
Anyway,
I help families who have children with disabilities.
I live in an apt.
I have two cats.
I'm horrible at relationships.
i think that is just a game of M.A.S.H....yeay childhood!
Well, if its MASH, its not a traditional game of MASH. In regular MASH, you decide WHO you will marry rather than IF you'll be married. Also, i never played where you find out what your career will be...omg that explains so much.
259 comments! This must be a record. (Now 260)
I swear I thought the last line was "I sell unique bras".
i am in a dead-end going nowhere relationship.
i have no pets.
i live in his apartment.
i sell jewellery i don't like
I don't know how I missed this one!!!
Anyway...here goes--->
I am 38, and married for 22 years.
I have a 20 year old son, and a 4 year old Rottweiler.
I live in Canada!!! YEAH BABY!
I sell all my unwanted junk at garage sales!
Rather late but...
I am in a 10 year situation with my headteacher
I live by the largest river on this island
I speak 5 languages after living in 4 countries
I worked in space but I am now (back) on track
I am in a two year relationship.
I am enjoying college.
I am working at having a healthier lifestyle.
I am meeting many wonderful people!