25 random things about me

[Moxie]

I stole this idea from facebook. Everyone posts 25 random things about themselves so can learn more about each other. Remember Slug1's suggestions on personal security when posting.


25 Random things about Moxie:

1. I became a follower of Jesus Christ four years ago and have no regrets.

2. I watched my brother jump off the roof when I was 7 years old (he was 4).

3. When I was a kid my lifelong dream was to save all the strays.

4. I watched my brother pull the fire alarm at school (he was in kindergarten)

5. I wanted to be a paramedic but never, ever wanted to drive ambulances.

6. I drove ambulances for 16 years.

7. I absolutely love to dance.

8. When I was 10 I tricked my 4 year old sister into eating soap, and I still laugh hysterically over the incident. My sister doesn't laugh.

9. I was a mischievous child; who grew into a mischievous adult.

10. I was a volunteer fireman for two years.

11. I went to the Philippines and watched a father and two children pick up individual grains of rice off the dirt road after dropping the bag; it still makes me cry. We are so blessed.

12. I want to be in the ministry.

13. I went back to school obtained my masters degree.

14. I have taken baths in a creek at my grandmother's home (no indoor plumbing).

15. I have gone into the woods to get water from the underground stream at my aunt's home. (again no indoor plumbing or well).

16. I know how to call for pigs. Wanna hear?

17. I am a die hard UK Wildcat fan. My blood is UK Blue.

18. My dad made me learn to drive a standard shift vehicle and made me cry my first day out.

19. I have driven ambulances, firetrucks (standard shift), dump trucks and steam rollers.

20. I can start IV's with my right and left hand.

21. I started 1st grade at age 5; I never went to kindergarten.

22. I loved playing in the hay loft in my Papaw's barn when I was a kid.

23. I was chased by a cow once and jumped a fence to get away.

24. My cousins and I used to throw cow patties like Frisbees for fun.

25. I shot my first rifle when I was 8 years old. I shoot left handed.

[Jeanne D]

Interesting thread, and you're very interesting also. I can't come up with 25 things about myself. I'm not that interesting... here are a few...


1. I majored in music in college,flute was my instrument.
2. I met my husband when I was 10 years old and told my brother I would marry him (hubby) some day.
3. I was a women's libber in high school and the beginning of college.
4. I am a hopeless romantic
5. some people's voices (tones) bother me
6. I love to chat on the telephone
7. I was the lead singer in a Christian Band called "Throne Together" (in the late 70's)
8. I am and always be a Jersey girl, no matter where I live.

That's about all I can think of for now.

Jeanne

[CoffeeCat]

Moxie, VERY cool list!

And Jeanne, thanks for sharing

Let's see what I can add in that people here wouldn't generally know...

1. When I was a little kid, my favourite thing to do was play cards with my grandfather.
2. My second favourite thing to do was writing long, elaborate stories.
3. I knew I wanted to teach when I was 8 years old; I'm just graduating from teacher's college 15 years later.
4. I really like lizards and snakes, and always have.
5. I'm addicted to chicken shawarmas, which are middle eastern wraps that contain chicken, veggies, and spiced yoghurt sauce.
6. I love going to summer festivals and seeing art and listening to music.
7. I enjoy putting things together and building stuff. It feels really productive and it interests me. I've put together tv cabinets, fans, built bookshelves, and put up a stair-banister.
8. I was saved nearly 5 years ago, and my journey with Christ has been the most real, most wonderful, most life-saving journey I know I'll ever go on.
9. I love having a cat and think I always will have one! They're so funny.
10. I really, really want to travel through England.
11. I'd seriously consider teaching in the UK if my grandparents were a little healthier.
12. My mom just called me a hobo for drinking my coffee with the spoon still in the mug.
13. I enjoy singing at kareoke places every now and then with friends... I usually end up giggling so hard I have to stop.
14. I love the 1920s, 30s, and 40s in terms of film, comedy and music.
15. I garden every year despite not being great at it... and this year I'm planting snapdragons!

Ok, I think 15'll do it.

[nebula_omega]

Wow.. this'll take some thought...

1. I'm 27 years old.
2. I have a brother who's two years younger than me.
3. I started reading when I was three.
4. When I was seven or eight, on Christmas morning I set my alarm clock for 4:30am. Mom was not amused.
5. My favorite toy as a child was a book.
6. I don't like anything with more than four legs (with the exception of butterflies and ladybugs).
7. I once broke a lamp trying to get away from a picture of a spider.
8. I'm one of two natural redheads in my family (my brother's the other one) and I'm the only one with green eyes.
9. I have an eight-year-old cat named Shadow.
10. I routinely beat my mom at Jeopardy.
11. I like the color blue. And green. And purple.
12. I'll eat almost anything not nailed down.
13. I'm a girl.
14. I graduated high school with an International Baccalaureate diploma (like Advanced Placement, only better).
15. Then I flunked out of college twice.
16. I actually get along with my parents.
17. I tried to go swimming in the mall fountain when I was two.
18. My debut acting performance was for my grandparents, also when I was two.
19. I wanted to be a ballerina when I was little.
20. I read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in five hours.
21. I once was engaged to a guy from Great Britain.
22. I lettered in speech and debate in high school.
23. I'm a soloist in my church choir.
24. I started in Girl Scouts in sixth grade and continued through graduation.
25. It took me thirty minutes to come up with all this stuff!

[daughter]

1. I remember lots of things from my first year of life... nappy changes, nursing, and going bright red and screaming because nobody was looking at ME!
2. When I was seven my family turned my pet goat into stew. As you can imagine, I'm a vegan.
3. I was made to write lines at school when I was six, because the teacher insisted that I cheated in the English lesson and wrote a poem from memory - she refused to consider the possibility that I'd written it myself. (I did write it myself, that still rankles.)
4. As a child, I hated all things sporty. Now I love to run and work out.
5. Once at my Dad's school I attended a fancy dress disguised as my father, and caused a girl to scream and faint when she realised I was not "Sir." Annoyingly, I didn't win first prize.
6. I used to think I was good at chess, until I taught my son, who promptly got better than almost everyone else he ever met.
7. I have dyscalculia, and can not remember my own phone number. Sometimes, under stress, I forget my address. Several times so far I've forgotten my birthday.
8. I also have dyspraxia, which is a posh way of saying I'm incredibly clumsy and can't braid my own hair.
9. I used to have a bright orange afro. If I'd been a kid these days someone would have pointed out that I'd been tangoed.
10. Although I'm right handed, I tend to forget and do things with my left. I can't thread a needle with my right hand, and sometimes when I'm knitting, if I'm tired, I'll mess up the whole pattern by starting to knit left handed half way through a row.
11. I speak French, German, English, Irish and Russian well, Dutch, Afrikaans, Spanish, Italian passably, can read Greek, am learning Hebrew, and can get by in Mandarin.
12. I've had two novels published, and three picture books for children.
13. I studied poetry with Séamus Heaney when I was sixteen.
14. If the world suddenly ran out of medicine, I could probably make alternatives for ninety percent of what is in the chemists from local ingredients.
15. I once squatted two and a half times my bodyweight... not bad for a girl.
16. My favourite martial art is boxing. The others look cool, but practice leads me to believe that keeping your feet on the ground is the most important thing in a fight.
17. Speaking of which, I've lost count of the amount of times I've been in a fight.
18. Speaking of which, I've lost count of the amount of times I've been arrested.
19. Speaking of which, I am now a perfectly law abiding citizen, and am glad that God's working on me!
20. I have one son, and he's the best thing God has given me.
21. My brother and I nearly drowned ourselves as kids, building our own submarine... which should have worked.
22. I was saved in a book shop nearly three years ago.
23. I once said I'd rather die and go to hell than worship God... and He saved me anyway.
24. I am so short sighted that if my eyesight deteriorates much more I could end up registered blind.
25. I had more to say about myself than I thought possible.

[Moxie]

1. I remember lots of things from my first year of life... nappy changes, nursing, and going bright red and screaming because nobody was looking at ME!
2. When I was seven my family turned my pet goat into stew. As you can imagine, I'm a vegan.
3. I was made to write lines at school when I was six, because the teacher insisted that I cheated in the English lesson and wrote a poem from memory - she refused to consider the possibility that I'd written it myself. (I did write it myself, that still rankles.)
4. As a child, I hated all things sporty. Now I love to run and work out.
5. Once at my Dad's school I attended a fancy dress disguised as my father, and caused a girl to scream and faint when she realised I was not "Sir." Annoyingly, I didn't win first prize.
6. I used to think I was good at chess, until I taught my son, who promptly got better than almost everyone else he ever met.
7. I have dyscalculia, and can not remember my own phone number. Sometimes, under stress, I forget my address. Several times so far I've forgotten my birthday.
8. I also have dyspraxia, which is a posh way of saying I'm incredibly clumsy and can't braid my own hair.
9. I used to have a bright orange afro. If I'd been a kid these days someone would have pointed out that I'd been tangoed.
10. Although I'm right handed, I tend to forget and do things with my left. I can't thread a needle with my right hand, and sometimes when I'm knitting, if I'm tired, I'll mess up the whole pattern by starting to knit left handed half way through a row.
11. I speak French, German, English, Irish and Russian well, Dutch, Afrikaans, Spanish, Italian passably, can read Greek, am learning Hebrew, and can get by in Mandarin.
12. I've had two novels published, and three picture books for children.
13. I studied poetry with Séamus Heaney when I was sixteen.
14. If the world suddenly ran out of medicine, I could probably make alternatives for ninety percent of what is in the chemists from local ingredients.
15. I once squatted two and a half times my bodyweight... not bad for a girl.
16. My favourite martial art is boxing. The others look cool, but practice leads me to believe that keeping your feet on the ground is the most important thing in a fight.
17. Speaking of which, I've lost count of the amount of times I've been in a fight.
18. Speaking of which, I've lost count of the amount of times I've been arrested.
19. Speaking of which, I am now a perfectly law abiding citizen, and am glad that God's working on me!
20. I have one son, and he's the best thing God has given me.
21. My brother and I nearly drowned ourselves as kids, building our own submarine... which should have worked.
22. I was saved in a book shop nearly three years ago.
23. I once said I'd rather die and go to hell than worship God... and He saved me anyway.
24. I am so short sighted that if my eyesight deteriorates much more I could end up registered blind.
25. I had more to say about myself than I thought possible.

Wow!!

This is really neat; sometimes we forget how wonderfully interesting people can be.

[karenoka27]

I get to talk about me again! cool!

~I like me! I like saying that because it is only by the grace of God that I have come to accept me for who I am!
~I work online-it's not a huge money maker but it's fun and it is extra money
~I love to encourage people in their walk with the Lord!
~I love being a Christian! and yes,even in the hard times...no turning back!
~I love to drive.....fast! whooooohooooo!
~I love Fox news....
~I like Bill O'Reilly
~I like fried clams,clam cakes,clam chowda! A True New Englanda!
~ I love the New England Patriots!
~I can tolerate just about anything but lying...ohhhh lying is like nails on a chalkboard to me...I just don't get the point of it.
~I love hanging out with my sisters...if you ever just want to laugh,come hang out with us!

ok..enough about me....

[HisLeast]

1. My first memory is an image of my dad in the peak of his youth: a tough, fit, infantryman. He was in blue bicycle shorts and a bright yellow t-shirt. A 2x4 wielded high above his shoulders preparing to take a swing at a dog who had attacked me.
2. I wish I had been a soldier.
3. I wish I was a farmer.
4. I'm an only child, and instinctively prefer solitude to groups.
5. I was bullied relentlessly in junior high and part of high school
6. I worked summers at a window and door factory along side a man who had been working there long before my father had been born.
7. I looked exactly like every photo of my father at every age up until my 20s. The only thing I got from my mom was her ears.
8. I was born in Germany, raised in Canada, worked in over half the US states & Bermuda, and currently live in the US.
9. I've been involved in judo, karate, hapkido, kung fu, and very shortly, brazillian jujitsu.
10. I'm a beer snob.
11. In grade 6 I won the science faire for building a simple machine that measured lung capacity, and demonstrating that smoking reduced it on average. My dad took me onto the base and ordered all his men to participate in my experiment.
12. I sprint 6 flights of stairs a day, 3 to 4 times a day.
13. I was claustrophobic before the three occasions I've been stuck in an elevator.
14. I blankity blank blank hate elevators.
15. I can bend my thumb back and rest it on the top of my hand behind the index knuckle. I use it to give "1.5 thumbs up"
16. Someday, I want to be good enough to challenge Slug1 at the grill. BBQ. Whatever.
17. I recognize almost every airport I see on TV and in movies filmed on location.
18. My favorite sport to play is Squash, but there's nowhere to play here, and no one to play with if there was.
19. I don't have a job title, and it takes me at least 2 minutes to describe what it is I do.
20. I nursed a 10 year long porn habit
21. I know what its like to ruin your life by your own hand.
22. I know The Church is alive and well, active and vibrant. It infuriates me to hear people slander it and pretend like the whole institution is lost.
23. I'm a unapologetic pessimist and general skeptic
24. I have a strong preference for french cuffs on my dress shirts
25. I'm openly jealous that my wife's job improves people's lives ever hour of the day.

[Shining_Star]

12. I've had two novels published, and three picture books for children.
13. I studied poetry with Séamus Heaney when I was sixteen.

Wow! These are great!! Your whole post was fascinating, daughter.

I guess my response will be pretty similar to the 'describe yourself' post, but I might as well reply here too

1. I was adopted at the age of 10 months.
2. I am an only child, and have a really close relationship with my parents.
3. I live in Edinburgh, Scotland and have done for the last 5 years - it is where I feel most at home, and really love it here.
4. Last June, I graduated with a degree in English Literature, which I absolutely loved studying for. (Most of the time!)
5. I love reading, writing and learning. I am a bit of a geek, really.
6. My mum is convinced I will be a published writer, and says she has known this since I was 5 years old.
7. I absolutely love cats.
8. At university, I met the best friends I've ever had in my life - they are like family to me, and I can't imagine my life without them.
9. I am shortsighted and have been wearing glasses since I was 9.
10. I seem to be addicted to buying DVD's - especially boxsets. My latest purchase was Season 1 of Heroes, even though I still have about a million DVD's on my shelf needing to be watched...
11. I have been a Christian since I was around 10 or 11 - I vividly remember the moment Christ came into my life, and I realised it was all real.
12. My Christian walk has been a rocky one, but God has proved his faithfulness time and time again.
13. When I was in my first year of university, I started having real problems with depression, anxiety and insomnia and was put on sleeping tablets for 2 weeks.
14. I have started going to the gym again, and am really enjoying it - to motivate myself to keep going, I have volunteered to do a sponsored 12-mile walk in June!
15. I am running out of things to say, so I'll stop here.

[Prufrock]

I get to talk about me again! cool!

Woo hoo! Isn't it fun? This forum is making me even more of an egomaniac than I was before....

1. I have a black kitten named Watson, who ignores me for much of the day, but demands total attention, sitting on my lap, when I'm on the computer. If I ever say anything unwise here, I fully intend to blame it on Watson, who is fascinated with the keyboard.

2. I was born in Tennessee, but spent the first nine years of my life in Los Angeles.

3. As a result, I have a fierce loyalty to the Los Angeles Dodgers, although I don't follow baseball very closely. Sandy Koufax was my childhood hero, and I saw him pitch on several occasions.

4. I enjoy "dressing up," wearing neckties and suits and such, and even enjoy wearing hats (fedoras and the like). Basically, however, I despise wearing clothes, and would probably be a nudist if it weren't so hideously unscriptural and utterly pagan.

5. I have studied Marxism ever since I was a child; I did a book report on The Communist Manifesto in the 5th grade. By the time I got to college, my essay questions on examinations included footnotes from the Marxist writers, which I cited from memory. But I am not a Communist, and never have been.

6. I am not particularly intelligent. People assume that I am, only because I have acquired a certain vocabulary from a lifetime of reading.

7. I love the American west, and find the deserts enchanting. One of my favorite places on earth is the Painted Desert/Petrified Forest in Arizona.

8. Like Daughter, I am a serious fan of boxing, but I have never attended a professional match in person. I have met George Foreman and Hector Camacho, and once wrote a fictional story about boxing that resulted in a "fan letter" from Oscar De La Hoya.

9. When I was a new Christian, my first mentor, who personally "discipled" me, was Kay Arthur, who has since become a successful author and speaker. I accompanied Kay to many of her early speaking engagements and gave my testimony.

10. I have also met and chatted with Francis Schaeffer and R. C. Sproul. But I am only a moderate Calvinist, and a moderate dispensationalist.

11. I am not usually a name-dropper. I only mention these people because, in myself, I'm not terribly interesting or accomplished.

12. More name dropping: I met William F. Buckley Jr. as a teenager, and corresponded with him for years. When I became a Christian, I wrote to him about it; he included my letter, minus my name, in his book Cruising Speed.

13. Last summer, I came within 24 hours of dying, because eating too much black licorice had leached all the potassium out of my system. I developed a very rare (and thankfully short-lived) disease called licorice-induced hypokalemia.

14. I am extremely close, in real life, to two posters in this forum.

15. Still more name dropping: in the late 1960s and early 1970s, I chatted, in their offices, with J. Edgar Hoover and Sen.Ted Kennedy. At a political convention, I once served as an official escort for Sen. Strom Thurmond. These names will mean nothing to younger members of this forum, and, as a matter of fact, mean very little to me. I'm just trying to impress you with ephemera.

16. Most unbelievers who work with me or see me regularly think that my most distinguishing characteristic is my sense of humor. This truly grieves me; I want them to see Jesus, not me.

17. I have never eaten an oyster, and, by the grace of God, I never will.

18. Two of my sons were saved by hearing a Hellfire and brimstone street preacher - - - and this was in the Midwest, not the "Bible Belt." They continue to serve the Lord, one in a full-time music ministry.

19. I once attended a "public blessing" by Pope Paul VI, in Vatican Square. The less said about that, the better.

20. I have always wanted to ride a big, ugly Harley-Davidson motorcycle instead of driving a car, but I'm too much of a weenie and a coward.

21. Contrary to my avatar, I do not want to look like Jeremy Brett. I want to look like Elvis Presley in his 1968 comeback special. Achieving this is very, very unlikely.

22. I do not speak any foreign languages fluently. Daughter's linguistic proficiency evokes nothing but envy and resentment in me. I want to set her down on one of the little islands off the coast of South Carolina and see how she'd handle the Geechee dialect.

23. A Jewish rabbi once told me that I was a "righteous Gentile." Knowing what this meant, I was deeply touched, but I went away sorrowing, for his only response to my testimony had been to commend me personally. He missed the whole point.

24. When I was taking Political Psychology in college, I wrote my final examination essay in Heroic Couplets. It was well-received.

25. I once broke my collarbone while witnessing.

[Equipped_4_Love]

Oh, wow -- Interesting thread. Okay, I'm game:

1. I'm 38 yrs. old.

2. I was raised in a Christian home, but have only been walking with the Lord for about 3.5 yrs.

3. I am an only child

4. My most obscure talent is that I can simultaneously hold one pencil under my nose, one under my lower lip, and hold a conversation at the same time.

5. I love The Three Stooges

6. I do online ministry to women who struggle with pornography, and those whose husbands struggle.

7. I am going on a short-term missions trip to Israel this September.

8. Besides my grandmother, I've never met anyone on my mom's side of the family.

9. I've had 3 head injuries throughout my life, 2 of which required stitches

10. I used to take ballet and piano lessons

11. I love snakes

12. My mother was a beauty contestant in Rhodesia

13. I once played goalie on an all-male ice hockey team, comprised of police officers. I think we took third place.

14. People say I look like Rene Russo. They say that's a good thing, but I'm not so sure (lol)

15. I am fascinated by astronomy, and wish I was intelligent enough to be an astronomer

16. My mother worked for TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network) in the early 70's, and I was on some of their Saturday morning kids shows.

17. I love to sing karaoke

18. I once dated a bounty hunter

19. I can count in binary code

20. I hope to serve on the mission field one day

21. When I was a kid, I almost ran away from home because I wanted to be like Pippi Longstocking. I think I got as far as the end of the block

22. I never learned how to ride a bicycle, and still don't know how

23. My church looks like a barn

24. I haven't watched television in almost 5 months.

25. The last theatrical release I saw was Marley and Me. I guess you could say I'm a bit out-of-touch.

[tango]

1. I confuse the numbers 1 and 25.

[TrophyofGrace]

1. I confuse the numbers 1 and 25.

If mine are missing, well, I didn't do the Random 25 on Facebook either

[NotMyOwn]

1. I am 48 years old
2. When I was a kid people thought I would be a pro baseball player.
3. Instead I have played softball for 23 years
4. I was in the Army and I was stationed in Hawaii for three years
5. I became a Christian on June 15,1990
6. I hate olives
7. I have a 23 year old son
8. I make an awesome lasagna
9. I'm a Pittsburgh Steelers fan
10. I love Ford Mustangs
11. I love reading Biblical history books
12. I went on a mission trip to Juarez, Mexico with my son
13. I have been going to the gym for 15 years
14. I taught myself to swim
15. I have four brothers and two sisters
16. I have blue and green eyes
17. I like to lead small bible study groups
18. I'm glad God has more patience than me.
19. I've been told I have good command of the scriptures, but I know it is all God.
20. I run the soundboard at church
21. I am suddenly hooked on the Beatles
22. I worked in the same place for 24 years
23. I'm too chicken to ask this lady out
24. I want to learn to fly an airplane
25. I'm bored, good thing my list is done

[Christian Sweetie]

Ooh interesting idea!

1. I was saved two years ago at 2:30 in the morning,
2. The first word I ever read was "mosquito" in senior kindergarten which astounded my reading buddy.
3. I once convinced myself I was a ghost and my friend was a werewolf.
4. I enjoy listening to movie soundtracks, particularly the instrumentals
5. I never went to junior kindergarten because of a teachers' strike
6. I've had two dogs and one cat who lived to 19 years old.
7. I have one sister who is 6 years younger than me, born exactly week after me. (I'm July 29, she is August 5.)
6. I took the gifted test in Grade 2 and purposely failed it because I didn't want to leave my friends and go to another school.
7. I still love watching Disney movies, and they still make me cry.
8. When I was little, my goal was to read all the books in my elementary school library before I graduated. Needless to say, I failed.
9. I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid.
10. I'm considered to be a very logical thinker, yet my worst subjects are Math and Science.
11. I was born not breathing, no heartbeat, with the umbilical cord wrapped around my throat. Obviously I'm alive, I guess Christ didn't want me home yet!
12. My goal when I was a kid was to be the youngest published author in history.
13. My favourite number is 17.
14. I hate the colour orange. My favourite colour is purple.
15. I'm a really great actor. And that's about it when it comes to creativity.
16. I have a huge jar of pennies sitting in my closet that I've had for about 7 years. We're talking a 1-2 feet jar FULL of pennies.
17. The sound of metal scraping against metal (i.e. a zipper from my sweater tumbling around in the dryer) is the most awful sound in the world. It drives me insane.
18. I broke my ankle when I was 5 years old by smashing my foot off a rock and doing the splits. It's the one and only time I've ever done the splits.
19. I'm obsessed with personality quizzes.
20. Forget puppies and kittens, baby ducks are the cutest thing God has ever created.
21. I cannot eat food that is touching. Before I eat, I move each food to seperate places on the plate.
22. I have never been to a wedding before.
23. I have broken a washing machine. And a microwave by dropping it.
24. It is impossible for me to fall asleep in moving vehicles.
25. I have never been outside my province of Ontario. The furthest place I've ever been is Niagra Falls.