Jacked from a good number of people on my friends list

[apocalypsos]

I know very little about some of the people on my friends' list. Some people I know relatively well. I read your fic, or we have something else in common and we chat occasionally. Some of you I hardly know at all. Perhaps you lurk, for whatever reason. But you friended me and I thank you.

But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's so and so...she likes spinach."

I'd love it if every single person who friended me would do this. Yes, even you people who I know really well. Then post this in your own journal.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_redpanda_/]

I DO like spinach. :)

[meinterrupted]

I friended you because you are quoted on metaquotes more than any person alive. Nearly every post makes me laugh. :-)

Random fact: When I was 10, I sat underneath a trampoline and my cousin did a sit-drop on my head. The creepy one-armed ER doctor thought my parents had pushed me down the stairs or something and threatened to make them leave. I have never watched Peter Pan or Hook the same way again. *shudder*

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

Wow, I've done a lot of these and I'm running out of stuff.

I grew up in a house where we heated with wood stoves so I used to chop kindling and carry wood, and I can make a fire in a wood stove faster than most people.

I sleep with my blankets over my head, and with books in the bed.

[randomfrog.livejournal.com]

I have a poster of that painting in your icon hanging in my room... heh.

Sorry.

I didn't learn how to tie my shoelaces until around 6th grade. Also, I like to highlight random objects in my spare time (shoes, phone, arms, etc.)

[paradise-city.livejournal.com]

I don't know how old I am. When someone asks, I have to stop and count because it's not something I remember off the top of my head.

[elorie.livejournal.com]

I was the Junior Honey Queen for the county fair. I had a tiara and everything.

I actually helped my father keep bees, which was how I got this position.

It was even more funny because I am mostly not the type. Think Wednesday Addams as the Junior Honey Queen. Except I didn't plot anything painful with the bees.

[raindroproses.livejournal.com]

When I was 13, I cried because my sister stole my favorite teddy bear.

[wolfshark]

I have 5 cats and I love spinach :D

sharkie

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

oh! spinach - eh, not so much but at the ripe old age of 36, I did finally decide to try green vegetables again (mom gave up trying when I was 8 so it had been a while) and you know what - they weren't that bad. I especially like snap peas.

And two non-vegetable and incredibly random factoids:
- I went to 4 Monkees concerts in the summer of '86
- My first word was "adios" (which was odd because no one in the house spoke Spanish)

[azurelunatic]

My natural hair color was navy blue before the aliens gave me to my parents.

[irishblessing.livejournal.com]

I'm Nancy. I'm 24, and don't write fic anymore because I've been suffering from writer's block for the past three years. Or I've been really f'n lazy, choose one. I'm also a self-styled pervert who has a thing for skinny feminine japanese guys who play in rock bands, and I make it my business to corrupt everyone around me to liking Dir en grey :D

....

I also have an unholy fascination with bass players that could get me arrested for stalking if I ever go to Japan

<3.

[xanphibian.livejournal.com]

I've never killed anyone before.

[cmstephens.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, neither have I. The difference is, I was in the Army for three years, and everyone that I worked with in high school expected me to just flip out one day and bust into a McDonald's with an Uzi...

[akacat]

I adore trees. I accepted my current job because it involved relocating to a state with many trees.

[ficangel.livejournal.com]

I can drink a full case of Mountain Dew in a day and still sleep that night.

[karenbear.livejournal.com]

Before I die I would really like to be responsible for the death of someone else. Especially if it was someone I hated - I just think it would be immensely satisfying.

I also love it when people think I'm scary. ;)

[fallofrain.livejournal.com]

Steve, at Diversified, actually asked Chris Amptman if I were a satanist just before I got hired on as a Supervisor for 3rd shift. Chris told him no, but you have to wonder, sometimes /why/ I got the job for /that/ particular shift.

[marag.livejournal.com]

The first book I remember is the Hobbit, which my father read to me when I was 6 or 7, along with the entire LotR trilogy.

[glitterdemon.livejournal.com]

I'm neurotic about my books and magazines. When I buy them, I hate having to let the salesperson handle it, and I cringe if they bend it in any way. When I was in junior high, the girl who would become my best friend years later initially hated me and thought I was a freak, because she picked up a book on my desk to read the back, and I screamed at her. I've gotten better, but just barely.

[leelee-cakes.livejournal.com]

I friended you because purple_smurf loved a fic you were writing at the time.

Hmm. My sister and I were jumping on my bed once and she was throwing me and catching me. Except then she threw me on an angle and my face hit the wall. The cartilidge in my nose flattened out and I had to go to the hospital. I've had a bump on my nose ever since.

Leelee

[errantman.livejournal.com]

I'm more than a little bit insane, and I'm more than a little bit less insane than I make myself out to be.

I also like it when people think I'm crazy, which partially explains why I often say, "I killed a man in reno.. just to watch him die", when people are talking about what they did the previous weekend. The other part of that explanation is because I'd be a cultural elitist if I had the cultural knowledge, and that's a great quote from a great artist.

[tviokh.livejournal.com]

Um.

I don't feed my cats or dog kibble? You probably knew that.

I like brussel sprouts, raw or lightly steamed.

[castalie.livejournal.com]

First, I friended you because --uh, wait, at this point, you should ask your ego to go and take a nap cos it wouldn't do for it to hear what I'm going to say-- you are one of the wittiest and funniest user I found on LJ.

I just lurk, as you might have noticed since you actually don't know me, because I usually don't really know what you're talking about --we don't have the same references apparently-- but each time you crack me up, I swear! What can I say, I just love the way you think, and the way you write. I mean, why the hell shouldn't I tell you, right? *g*

Now... a little something about me. Hmm, oh yeah, I know. When I was a kid, I was pretty much a TV junkie-- okay, okay, so I'm still a TV junkie, that's not the point! The thing is, we used to live in a small apartment, and I don't know what happened in my brain, but each time someone switched the TV on, I had this sorta 'pop' in my head that told me a TV had been, well uh, switched on. It wasn't that I heard the TV or anything, I would be in my bedroom, playing with my sis or something, and suddenly something in my head went 'pop'. What can I say, TV was calling to me! My mom was sorta worried because that shouldn't happen to a normal human being (well, to our knowledge that is) and because that's a mom's job, to worry about their children, but it never hurt me... anyway, one day, it just stopped.

And now, you also know something else about me, I actually can ramble and ramble about the tiniest of facts- making a one-liner story into a real essay *sigh*

*frowns* Know what? I guess I could have mentioned the eleven year old girl who fell in love with me when I was nine because she thought I was a little boy, but let's say this a story for another time *g*

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

But I wanna hear the story!

[bnh.livejournal.com]

I like Michael Vartan. :D And Arthurian legend.

[divide-by-zero.livejournal.com]

initially, i "met" you through metaquotes, and figured, hey, why wait for things to percolate through there when i can get my hysterical laughter fix directly from my friendlist. also, the more you talk about your politics, the more i find myself immitating one of those head bobbing birds (as in i agree with you).

thing one: i am incapable of using one word when i could use seven
thing two: i am a book slut to end all book sluts
thing tree: i lurve spinach

[ismelljello.livejournal.com]

I have an irrational hatred of eating in fast food restauraunts. (not the food, just eating in there.)

[howifall.livejournal.com]

I'm a professional lurker, so seeing as how i lurk on Metaquotes i found you and decided to randomly friend you, i'm very glad i did too... it's going to take me forever but i'm slowly going through your fics ! :D

Something to remember me by ? I'm French but i find it easier to write fics in English. Also i have nothing against caps, i'm just lazy ;p