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[mare]

Yes, I am stealing this from facebook and yes you might have even done it on there but I thought this might be fun for our forum.

So tell us anywhere from 5 to 25 facts we do not already know about you that may surprise us. They can be writing related or totally random, your choice.



Just trying to get some life back into this place. Fall and Winter are the dead zones in here.

[Carter-Orange]

OK here's a few to start it off...

1. My favourite chocolate is Toblerone
2. First band I saw live was INXS
3. I'm useless with directions and end up lost on road trips, even with a sat nav!
4. I have a huge DVD collection
5. My first crush was John Taylor from Duran Duran
6. I'm terrified of spiders and wasps

[mare]

OK here's a few to start it off...

1. My favourite chocolate is Toblerone
2. First band I saw live was INXS
3. I'm useless with directions and end up lost on road trips, even with a sat nav!
4. I have a huge DVD collection
5. My first crush was John Taylor from Duran Duran
6. I'm terrified of spiders and wasps

I HATE spiders too! I also have a horrible sense of direction and my first crush was Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran lol

[emilo]

A few from me:
1.) My first (and only!) piece of published fiction was a short story in an educator's magazine when I was in second grade.
2.) The only degree I have beyond a high school diploma is a doctorate. Most pharmacy schools don't require a bachelor's before admission as long as you have so many hours and all the required pre-pharmacy curriculum.  So, if the pharmacist's market drops out from under me, I've got nothing to fall back on.
3.) My older brother is also a pharmacist and graduated three years ahead of me from the same school, though I decided that was what I wanted to do way before he did.
4.) My childhood best friend and I still keep in touch.  She and I have the same first name and the same initials.  It was very confusing back in school.
5.) I hate cooked carrots.  I like raw ones just fine.
6.) I used to be in a show choir in high school, but they lost their funding from the board of education years before Glee came out and show choirs became trendy
7.) The mother of my best friend from pharmacy school taught Kevin Richardson in high school.
8.) My dad coached high school girls basketball for 16 years.  I always sucked at basketball.
9.) I met my husband when I was 15 and he was 22.  We started dating when I was 17 and he was 24.  It was scandalous
10.) On the way to my first Backstreet Boys concert back in 1999, we hit a deer and totaled our car.  Still made it to the concert, though.

[mare]

^ I love cooked carrots! And yay to show choirs but boo to funding!

Poor deer

[mare]

I feel like everyone knows a lot about me already so I will try to come up with new facts people may not know. lol

1) I am left handed but consider myself ambidextrous since I write on the chalkboard with my right hand...weird, I know!

2) I absolutely love to cook

3) If really given the opportunity I could be a hermit. I hate leaving my apartment. Sometimes I think I'm agoraphobic.

4) My three biggest fears are popping sounds, water fountains (not the kind you drink out of, the other kind) and robots!

5) When I was in second grade I scored 12th grade reading levels so I was always separated from the rest of my class during reading time. I had to do 'independent' reading while everyone else got to get into groups. I used to hate it and cry about it. I always looked at it like a punishment for some reason. I would have skipped several grade levels if not for my moronic relationship with math. LOL

6) My guidance counselor was SO mad that I chose music as my major that when announcements were made via speaker about who got into what college, she purposely omitted mine! She said I was making a huge mistake. Still not sure if she was wrong lol

7) Berklee actually came to recruit me which I thought was cool. LOL I felt like a football star or something.

8) I spent most of my college life as a Resident Assistant and even won an award for it. Woot!

9) Bonnie Raitt handed me my college diploma

10) I have never been on a roller coaster and never plan to be.

11) I still keep in touch with my junior high music teacher and frequently ask him for advice.

12) Nothing makes me happier than Chinese food.

[emilo]

My childhood best friend (Emily!) was also somewhat looked down on because she chose to be a music major.  She had the highest ACT score in the school.  I, too, had the "problem" of being above the reading level of everyone else in elementary school.  I ran out of books to read at my level in the library and had to either go below my reading level or to the high school library.  And that poor deer either never knew what hit him or was suicidal- Jumped right out in front of us. 

[mare]

Ah, the trials and tribulations of just being too damn smart! LOL

[emilo]

Sadly, that's not a problem I seem to have these days. haha

[mare]

Same here lol

[usako]

1) I have a boring life. Seriously. lol

2) I've never been drunk. Actually, I don't drink because I don't like the taste of alcohol.

3) I'm a maniac for cleaning. Even if I'm dead tired, I can't rest until I've done my cleaning routine in the house.

4) I love baking and cooking.

5) I suffer from compulsive downloading. If I like one song, I have to have the whole discography of that artist. Even if it's some unknow singer. lol

6) I have a small form of dyslexia, especially when I'm tired: I get confused while reading, so I read the right word in my mind but I say another out loud. Still, at school, I was the first learning to read and I was the fastest.

7) My biggest fear are thunders and suddenly loud sounds.

8) For my 25th birthday, my friend and I took the car and drove to France just so that I could celebrate my birthday at Enrique Iglesias's concert.

[Carter-Orange]

I HATE spiders too! I also have a horrible sense of direction and my first crush was Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran lol

We are soooo alike! lol

[Carter-Orange]

I also hate roller coasters and when I went to Disneyland a couple of weeks ago, Holly had to go on them alone as Josh is also scared of roller coasters lol.

I hate cooked carrots but love them raw.

Chinese is also my favourite, I could eat it every day if I could afford to.

[julilly]

I found this really hard, I don't think I'm as interesting as you guys LOL

1. When I was 12 years old I broke my neck. I was swimming in a pool at daycamp when the lifeguard and her boyfriend (who were messing around on the side of the pool) suddenly fell into the pool onto the back of my head. I spent just over a month in a hospital in Germany.

2. Unlike some, I have a very good sense of direction. I can drive in cities I've never visited and get around with no problem.

3. I've always been athletic but I'm terrible at group sports. As a result, I excelled at things like track and field, figure skating, speed skating and skiing in my youth and now powerlifting as an adult.

4. When I was a child I used to snore so bad/loud that I wasn't able to go to sleepovers at people's houses and when I did their parents would usually comment in shock about the noise. It was because I had a very small opening in my throat. I now am unable to snore because when my tonsils and adenoids were removed the doctor also removed my uvula (the hangy thing at the back of your throat) so that I would be able to sleep like a normal person.

5. I was voted Most Accident Prone in all but one of my high school yearbooks. The only one time I didn't win was Grade 12 and the reason was not because I was no longer accident prone (quite the contrary) it was because I was in charge of superlatives and I fixed the vote.

6. I'm a bit of a kleptomaniac. I take really random things like all of the little jam packages on the table at a restaurant, or table cards (I have a complete set of desk markers from the press room at Fenway with the reporter's name and where they work) or most recently... an entire plate of brownies, including the plate.

7. I'm almost a certified personal trainer and as soon as I finish this exam I plan to get certified as a nutrition and wellness specialist also. Not to make money from it, just for my own benefit.

8. I am skilled in cutting fruit. I can cut a mango or get all the seeds out of a pomegranate really quickly, so I eat those types of fruits more than things like apples or bananas.

9. I don't really like to read. Surprising, given why we're all here, but my attention span is about as short...

10. The first concert I ever went to was NKOTB. My sister was obsessed with Jordan (she is six years older than me) so my mother took my sister, her friend, and me to a concert in 1991. All I remember was that it was pouring rain and I screamed my face off because I thought that's what you were supposed to do.

[mare]

You have no freaking face? Like Ohmygodz!!