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  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 6,162
    edited January 2008

    I want to throw in my 2 cents. I play mandolin in our church bluegrass band. We have played at the local 4-H camp during pioneer days and also play at local nursing homes.

    Sheila

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2008

    A female firefighter and a feminist?!? Umm, that's pretty darn special in my book, Snowyday!



    And add Sheila to the list of musical folks on the board! Pretty cool that your church has a bluegrass band, too...



    My name is Felicia....and I'm a RECYCLER!!

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  • BethNY
    BethNY Member Posts: 2,710
    edited March 2008

    WOW.  You guys are so incredible.  I feel like you guys know everything about me.

    I went to a performing arts high school, and then was the first female saxophonist accepted to study at Peabody Conservatory. But a lot of you knew that.

    Janis, jazzercise...I pass by there every day.  Thats an interesting fun fact about you.

    We are somewhat green.  We recycle, and use all ECO bulbs, and I know there are reports about them giving migraines, but I have to tell you, the one room where we don't use them, b/c of dimmers, is the bedroom, and thats the room where I always get a headache from the light. go figure.  In Long Island the garbage men are starting to put these huge OOOPS! stickers on your garbage can if you don't recycle.  They are white and red, and I think it's great.  We have seen a difference on our energy bill after we switched out every light bulb.  We also started buying the new poland spring water bottles, that use 30% less plastic, although I know we should get the huge gallon thing for our house, and that would be better.

    I wish I had some great unknown fact about me.  I guess I'm so busy always talking about myself (tee hee) that I've never mentioned that my older brother is a farrier (shoes horses) which is super cool b/c it's done exactly how it was in the 1500's-- with the anvil, etc.  And my little brother just won an Emmy award.  He's a meteorologist in TX, and recently did a story on skydiving.  He jumped out of a plane with the Army's Golden Knights during an airshow.  I'll find the link and post it, I'm such a proud sister.

    Laura what kind of car do you drive when you're not out there kicking butt on the track?

    hey felicity (tee hee) thanks for starting this thread.

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  • AnnNYC
    AnnNYC Member Posts: 4,484
    edited January 2008

    Pearl (SnowyDay), Felicia took the words right out of my mouth!

    Firefighters are all pretty special, but especially a female feminist firefighter with two sons!

    So: among us we have sax, mandolin and bass players, and a(budding) guitarist player, and a singer, ravdeb (guitarist too?)... cool!  Can we start a band?

    I'll be looking for AnneShirley's book...

    And Felicia -- although we DO know about you that you're a martial artist -- it's STILL awesome!!!

    And NuttyNickiNurse, I'm an aging hippie too -- I was in high school in 1968, inspired by watching Chicago convention scenes on TV ("the whole world is watching")

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2008

    Ooo! I have one more: today I went for my first ever massage (Swedish - awesome!). Strongly recommend it...



    Bethany (lol) - I didn't know all that about you! Congrats to your brother the Emmy winner and the farrier. Do you still play the sax?!?



    Ann - what was your final Jeopardy! question?!?



    And Emelee, Paulette and Darya - don't think we didn't notice that you didn't tell us anything about yourselves!



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  • ravdeb
    ravdeb Member Posts: 3,116
    edited January 2008

    Yes, I'm a guitarist..not a great one. I prided myself in my singing more than guitar playing when I was younger. I still play the guitar and sometimes lead services at our synagogue here using the guitar.

    I love this site. So many interesting jobs and professions, hobbies and interests. I'm finding it fascinating.

    I collect things. I have millions of collections that I can't even name them all here. My favorite one is my collection of dolls that started when I was a little girl. Our grandparents took a trip around the world and sent the grandchildren dolls from each country they were in. I still have them and have since added other dolls,..all kinds..to the collection.

    I also collect musical instruments. Aside from my guitar, I have a ukelele, dulcimer, drums, tambourines..and a piano handed down to me from my grandmother. I take the drums and tambourines with me to services when I'm leading services.

    I'm getting started on my list of collections. Not good. I also collect art supplies and junk for making things..crafts. I have tons of things. I have an art studio but I do more collecting than art!

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  • AnnNYC
    AnnNYC Member Posts: 4,484
    edited January 2008

    Felicia -- Final Jeopardy! was my downfall!  I was in first place going into Final Jeopardy -- and this was me at 53 in 2006, going against two young guys around 30, with fast buzzer fingers doubtless trained by years of video games, one of them a 3-day champion! -- so I was feeling okay (category, World Literature) until I read this:

    "Last name of Sir Clifford, whose war injury posed a problem for his wife."

    Well -- if you know it, you know it, but I'd never read the book -- and if the clue had said something about "the gardener, Mellors" I'd have known the answer, even though I never read the book! -- but I didn't know the Lady was "justified" in her search for extramarital passion by hubby's incapacity...

    "What is Chatterley, Alex?"

    Dang! and I almost always know everyone else's Final Jeopardy answer!

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  • anneshirley
    anneshirley Member Posts: 1,110
    edited January 2008

    Ann--did you wager it all? I hope you returned home with some money.  I love jeopardy and you're the first contestant I've known outside the tube. Just getting on jeopardy is an honor. 

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  • AnnNYC
    AnnNYC Member Posts: 4,484
    edited January 2008

    hi anneshirley,

    I wagered "correctly" (that's what my boyfriend said, and told me he was proud of me for doing so!): I had the most money going into Final Jeopardy, and bet only the amount I needed to beat second-place guy by $1 if he were to bet everything and we were both correct.  Left me with about $800.  Actually, the amounts they pay the 2nd and 3rd place finishers are fixed -- so in my case, I won more than the $800 -- but people who end up in second place with $20,000 only take home 10% of it.

    The wagering was the scariest part!  That was the only point at which my stomach was flipping and my knees were shaking!  I just kept doing the math over and over during what was probably a 3-minute break!

    It was a lot of fun -- the best part was the other contestants -- we're all kept together in a pool of about 20, and they were really great people.

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  • caaclark
    caaclark Member Posts: 936
    edited January 2008

    Darya,

    Yes, Emily and her birth sister have seen each other several times.  When they met the first time they were so similar in their mannerisms that, well, it was just scary.  It really is absolutely amazing to see them together.

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  • silvergirl9114
    silvergirl9114 Member Posts: 381
    edited January 2008

    Anneshirley---I LOVED Anne of Green Gables---my all time favorite books as a kid. Still have them, as a matter of fact.



    I once rode a camel in Morocco and have traveled to Thailand and Istanbul---does that count? Walked over the bridge over the River Kwai too---which is actually quite dangerous. The tracks are still in use, there are only little balconies half way across over open ties and a very deep and fast river if you fall in. Fed an elephant on the other side---they are very slobbery and their spit STINKS!



    Jeannie

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  • Diana_B
    Diana_B Member Posts: 287
    edited January 2008

    Caaclark, that's fantastic.



    I always find it interesting to meet my friends' families, because I realize that the gestures that seemed so uniquely "them" to me are actually genetic and that the whole family has them!



    Re: the thread, I wish I could say something interesting about myself. Let's see ... I used to be an experimental animator and I was also a negative cutter in the film industry.

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  • anneshirley
    anneshirley Member Posts: 1,110
    edited January 2008

    Jeannie,

    Everything counts, particularly camel rides! 

    We visited Prince Edward Island three years ago.  I wanted to buy a vacation home there, somewhere near the Lake of Shining Waters.  It's wonderful, and Anne's house is very close to what the books describe.  I kept looking around expecting Marilla to come out of the kitchen.  It's a great visit, and the people on the Island are very friendly and kind.  We wound up coming back through Downeast Maine and purchased there instead, but my husband wants to sell and try PEI again. We visited all the areas where LMM set her scenes.  Have you been? 

    Ann (without an "e"),

    You're right.  You did what you're supposed to do, but I would have lost my  nerve.  I also think that buzzer thing is very difficult. Anyway, it's great that you got on.  Do they ever do reruns?  Would love to see it. 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2008

    Wow...I am absolutely amazed with all the talent here. I love it! I'm green too! Big on recycling! Are waxed OJ containers re-cycleable? dh and I are always at odds about that one! LOL

    Carol - Your story is awesome!

    Beth - When I'm not racing, I drive a Ford Explorer (my license plate is a Komen one with a bc ribbon and it says: A CURE). We live on a very wooded property, so I'm always hauling crap! LOL Plants, lumber, etc.

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  • LAphoenix
    LAphoenix Member Posts: 452
    edited January 2008

    I'm a writer, too, mostly educational books and articles about the arts.  I also work part-time at the Motion Picture Academy in Beverly Hills--a very boring, tedious job.  But I've been to the Oscars 3 times with my teenage daughter.  Last year, when I was still bald and worn out from chemo, my friend took my daughter, so she's actually been there 4 times.  We sit in the nose-bleed seats and sneak down to the lobby during the commercials to watch the stars drink and use the restroom.  Yes, they are all shorter, more wrinkled and skinnier than they look on screen!    

    Amy

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  • LAphoenix
    LAphoenix Member Posts: 452
    edited January 2008

    I forgot to add that I'm VERY impressed with the accomplishments of the women on this board and the range of our interests!  We are not our cancer, but it is fun to see how our cancer has brought us together.

    Amy

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  • LisaSDCA
    LisaSDCA Member Posts: 2,230
    edited January 2008

    When I was not even 13 I surfed the big waves on the North Shore of Oahu. I was too young and naive to be properly scared - I just went out with my best friend's older brother and his buddies. Now I'd never dream of doing such a thing!

    One day at Sunset when the waves were too big and blown out for any surfer to get a good ride in, I was on the beach when a little girl of about 5, playing on some of the large lava rock formations in the shallows, got swept out by an especially large swell. Her parents were right there on the beach, but probably 50 yards away and momentarily oblivious. I reflexively, instantly went in after her.

    When the waves are 20' high, among the rocks and in the undertow is the worst place to be - but you don't think of that - it's all adrenaline. Amidst the roar of the tons of water all around us, I managed to grab an ankle as she was being drawn out to sea. Of course she was totally panicked. I remember lifting her by the chin as high as I could as I went under the next crashing swell, trying to brace my limbs, all akimbo against the lava mounds I had body surfed us back towards. I heard her father's shouts as I resurfaced. I remember noticing my knees were bleeding as I climbed out. I remember her blonde mother was hysterical. I had never seen that before - true hysterics.

    Somewhere I still have the 'thank you' note her mother wrote to me.

    More along the lines of Jeopardy! and game shows, years ago when my younger sister came out to visit me and wanted to visit "Hollywood" and see famous stars homes, I took her up to LA. We drove by CBS Television City and I said "What the heck, let's see if we can get into a taping!" I finagled us into The Price is Right. I got picked. You have to understand, I don't watch TV, I don't know the gimmicks and games. I started winning. Bob Barker had on GOBS of makeup. I won some more. My little sister was having a blast! Which was the whole idea, after all. I ended up financing the whole next year of graduate school thanks to CBS.Laughing And that night, we didn't drive back to San Diego, but got a fancy hotel room and had dinner at an elevated, rotating restaurant where my sister had her first sips of champagne. She went home with many stories of CA to tell her schoolmates and didn't even care that she didn't get to see Rod Stewart's house. Cool A few months later, when the show was broadcast, she had a party at her house and everyone was amazed to see how much the camera was on her, 'coaching' me, applauding, etc. so she was a local 'star'.

    So - that's a couple things you didn't know (and would never have imagined) from my past!

    Lisa

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  • ravdeb
    ravdeb Member Posts: 3,116
    edited January 2008

    wow Lisa! I'm impressed...with the life saving in particular and then with making big bucks to do all that. How terrific!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2008

    Carol, I remember reading that story in People magazine!!

    I'll tell mine later, want to let Carol know how impressive her story is ... it was incredible, I remember it vividly and the pics!! 

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  • mke
    mke Member Posts: 584
    edited January 2008

    I'm starting to think that every life is extraordinary.  Of course by definition that can't be, so perhaps we need to rethink "ordinary", it probably doesn't exist.

    I was raped by a stranger when walking home from kindergarden.  My mother had been keeping an eye out for me, saw me appear aound the corner and then ran up the street when I disappeared.  I think she caught him in the act or just finishing - I was unconscious.  The police picked him up within an hour or so and I know he spent at least 10 years in jail.  If this happened now, tens of millions of people would know about it.  Then, I doubt that the local paper in a town of a few thousand carried it.

    This isn't the most interesting thing about me, but I hope it is the most unique.

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  • Fitztwins
    Fitztwins Member Posts: 7,969
    edited January 2008

    Wow those of you on games shows is so cool!! I love price is right. It was my grandma's favorite show.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2008

    Darya, animator and film cutter is pretty amazing!



    Laura, I think waxed OJ containers are recycleable. At least they always end up in our paper recycling bin (after I dig out H2B and my son's fruit juice containers from the regular garbage can, lol). Maybe I should put it this way: I haven't gotten any nasty "This is not recycleable!!" letters from the garbage guys yet...



    Nice try, Rocktober! Shame on you for leaving us HANGING like that! Come back and spill it...

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  • caaclark
    caaclark Member Posts: 936
    edited January 2008

    O, Rocktobermom-  Tell YOUR story!!

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  • AnnNYC
    AnnNYC Member Posts: 4,484
    edited January 2008

    Lisa in San Diego -- what amazing stories!

    The Price is Right -- talk about being in the right place at the right time!  What a wonderful trip for you and your sister!  It's great to read about a real-life adventure that was so fun and happy!

    As for the surf rescue -- you really are heroic.  That is absolutely stunning.  Makes me think you are the archetypal BCO sister -- you see this other girl in trouble and you throw yourself wholeheartedly into helping her -- but you did it in a physical way so far beyond what most people will ever experience.  I just feel so proud of you -- you're like firefighters who run INTO the fire to help -- which reminds me again that Pearl/Snowy Day is a firefighter

    to me this kind of physical courage puts you ladies in a special, heroic category all its own.

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  • my3girls
    my3girls Member Posts: 3,766
    edited January 2008

    Wow!!! You ladies are impressive!! Some wonderful stories on here!

    LisaSDCA...great, great story!! How lucky your sister was to have you as a big sister and treat her to all of that fun, after your winnings! Thank God you were there for that little girl!

    Carol...I too remember that article in People. As soon as you mentioned the cover with Sheryl Crowe...I remembered the article.  I love adoption stories.  I have a great one to share...at another time..it will take too long now. haha.

    I like to think that I am green.  I try anway I can to be conservative, when it comes to heat, recycling etc.

    Anneshirley...I too am a fan of Ann of Green Gables.  My oldest daughter who is now 23 and in grad school in Chicago, actually was the one who introduced me to the book.

    I am trying to think of what I have done that is exciting or what you don't know about me..well that's allot...I do love to draw.  I never take the time to use my God given talent.  I always dreamed of being an artist when I was little.  I used my talents to come up with themed elaborate b'day parties for my daughters as they were growing up.  Even the homemade cake was decorated like art work!

    Oh yeah...I went skydiving when I was 42!! It was right after my oldest graduated from high school.  My brother is an avid skydiver, and he offered to take us and it was his treat!  My daughter said yes, and it was something I had always wanted to do...but then as I got older and had children, was too chicken to go.  Well, when my daughter said yes...I thought...I have to do this too!

    WE LOVED IT!! I WOULD DO IT AGAIN...WHAT A THRILL..LIKE NO OTHER!

    LauraGTO...u go girl.

    Kudos to everyone on here!! What a great group of women!

    xoxo

    Lisa

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  • OneBadBoob
    OneBadBoob Member Posts: 1,386
    edited January 2008

    Sky diving Lisa?  I am so impressed at your courage!!

    I took flying lessons with my hubby, but never got enough courage to solo--so, I guess I am the "woosie" in this group of brave, courageous women.

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  • my3girls
    my3girls Member Posts: 3,766
    edited January 2008

    you are not a woosie at all!

    It really was a great experience!! Like I said, I would do it again.  Now, this was a tandem (two people hooked together) skydive!  All the same when it comes to awesome experience.

    Now see..I would have been scared to death to fly a plane, but I will jump from one!!

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  • my3girls
    my3girls Member Posts: 3,766
    edited January 2008

    Hey Jane,

    I am flying into NYC on Monday morning just for a little day trip with some co-workers!  I'll think of you!

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  • OneBadBoob
    OneBadBoob Member Posts: 1,386
    edited January 2008

    Have a great time in NYC Lisa!!  I will be thinking of you also.

    When is your flight?  They are predicting snow tomorrow, but hopefully it won't interfer with your plans.

    Are you flying into LGA?

    he he he--flying a plane is a breeze as long as you have another pilot with you with dual controls. . .

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  • my3girls
    my3girls Member Posts: 3,766
    edited January 2008

    Thanks Jane (is it Jane)?

    I am leaving here...Akron Canton Ohio at 6:30am...and flying into LGA..leaving there about 4:30pm to come home. I will watch the weather...if it looks like it will be windy or not that great of weather, I won't go.  I don't want to get stuck there, especially since I have to work in the morning.  LGA always has weather and traffic delays!

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