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kyburg25 Things You Didn't Know About Me.
1. My favorite flavor of Jello is Cherry. My least favorite flavor to remove from fabrics as well, ironically.
2. First thing I ever learned to cook was canned soup. I think tomato. I might have been 7. No, I didn't burn it.
3. I learned to sew by making clothes for my Barbie dolls. We never could afford to buy them. I also got VERY good at making clothes out of paper towels, tissues and toliet paper. How old? 9.
4. I learned how to embroider even earlier - right after Dad died when I was 6. I remember it vividly because I took over a project of Mom's that she didn't have the heart to finish after Dad died. She had to show me how to do outline and lazy daisy stitches - and that was all it needed. I embroidered on pieces of rags with regular spool thread for my grandmother - and mailed the pieces to her. (So I remember when mail used to be .08 cents, bite me.)
5. I grew up in Hemet, which was (and still is, to a great extent) a battle between the retirement community and agriculture. I spent a lot of summers putting up jam, jelly and raw packs. I have a long list of things one can do with apricots, plums and pomegranates, believe me. I can also describe the life cycle of a walnut. Oh very yes.
6. I once helped glean a field of potatoes - and found out freezing fresh ones doesn't work so well. They were also the type of potato they made potato chips out of, and boy those tasted great baked.
7. I've bottle-fed a number of baby animals, including rabbits, goats, lambs, puppies, kittens and pigs. The biggest success was the baby pigs and I still think they're insanely cute.
8. I was in high school before Hemet had a McDonald's. I used to dream about getting a Slurpee at a 7-11 because the nearest one was 30 miles away.
9. I was the only Trekkie I knew until I was 15, and met a nun who had left her order in San Diego with an interest in the show. She was also the person who took me to my first SF convention - so if I look a little confused when I hear about con parties, consider the source. Parties? What are those? The idea of going to a convention to get laid STILL sounds weird.
10. I also won an award for costume design that convention as well. First try.
11. I had dinner with Marian Zimmer Bradley at the awards banquet, and discovered that coffee with cream came in cans and the whole thing about not being seen in public pregnant because it was proof you'd had sex...and of course, found the latter rather silly. She agreed.
12. Jean Lorrah wrote me 11 pages of recommendations for what to do after high school, and what kind of college education I should try for. I've never forgotten and she was dead nuts on every time. (I hear her when I talk to people about this subject. People think I'm smart. I've got a good memory and remember well. Thanks, Jean.)
13. Melanie Rawn knew me when I was 19 and a dork. I knew her when she permed her hair and wrote Starsky & Hutch fan fic. GOOD TIMES. (Wish I could get her to return a phone call now. But - dork. Yeah.) Blame her for my wine jones. She started it.
14. I've told you about Katherine Kurtz and her planning to quit her security guard job after selling her fifth book. Same con.
15. I got to see a group re-enact a Logan's Run 'runner' scenario - where the runner got shot and fell into the hotel pool that con. Within a year, I believe it might have been the same group that had a really BAD accident doing one of these re-enactments and conventions banned 1) runs and 2) weapons of any kind at conventions going forward. Yup, I can remember when you could bring a bang-bang to a con. (Oh man, Alan Dean Foster was at that con too. Sheesh.)
16. My first anime has a copyright of 1961 on it, and has Frankie Valli and Jonathan Winters doing some of the voices. The only other person who remembers seeing it in its original release (that I've been able to find) is Wendy Pini. Trish Ledoux doesn't even go as far back as I do.
17. My first job was in a print shop. My second job was working for Jack in the Box. My third was working for a home health agency, and I quit after two weeks because it broke my heart - and I never went into anything related to patient care again. Clerical, sure. Bedside? Not until Cliff, and I did that for love. Nothing else would make me do it again.
18. My dream car always involved a double-size bed and a kitchen built in. I was packing my bags to live on my own when I was 10.
19. I wrote my first story when I was 9, and like everything I've ever written - I never showed it to anyone, and ended up throwing it away. I could sit for 8 hours a day at the typewriter - with my back to the wall. If my little brother snuck up on me, he'd tease me for DAYS over the four or five words he caught before I shooed him away. That's stuck, unfortunately. If I let you see my stuff while I still working on it, you're inner circle, baby. Inner INNER circle.
20. I made most of my clothes in high school. And got teased. Oh well.
21. When really stressed, I get agoraphobic. Not housebound level, mind - but I can certainly believe it can happen, and how. Always transient and a very good indicator that I need to sit the fuck down and chill out.
22. Nothing says home to me like dirt, foxtails and 110 degrees in the summertime.
23. I learned to take my coffee and tea without any cream or sugar very early on because it was easier than telling someone HOW much to put into it.
24. My first meal in my first place on my own was gingerbread made out of a cheap-ass Jiffy box mix. The next day, I went to a Starsky & Hutch fan gathering and brought home the leftover Chinese food. Day after that, I discovered the joys of cold chow mein for breakfast.
25. I ate enough pizza growing up I was sick of it before I was 10 years old.
...yaaaaaaaay i finished it....
1. My favorite flavor of Jello is Cherry. My least favorite flavor to remove from fabrics as well, ironically.
2. First thing I ever learned to cook was canned soup. I think tomato. I might have been 7. No, I didn't burn it.
3. I learned to sew by making clothes for my Barbie dolls. We never could afford to buy them. I also got VERY good at making clothes out of paper towels, tissues and toliet paper. How old? 9.
4. I learned how to embroider even earlier - right after Dad died when I was 6. I remember it vividly because I took over a project of Mom's that she didn't have the heart to finish after Dad died. She had to show me how to do outline and lazy daisy stitches - and that was all it needed. I embroidered on pieces of rags with regular spool thread for my grandmother - and mailed the pieces to her. (So I remember when mail used to be .08 cents, bite me.)
5. I grew up in Hemet, which was (and still is, to a great extent) a battle between the retirement community and agriculture. I spent a lot of summers putting up jam, jelly and raw packs. I have a long list of things one can do with apricots, plums and pomegranates, believe me. I can also describe the life cycle of a walnut. Oh very yes.
6. I once helped glean a field of potatoes - and found out freezing fresh ones doesn't work so well. They were also the type of potato they made potato chips out of, and boy those tasted great baked.
7. I've bottle-fed a number of baby animals, including rabbits, goats, lambs, puppies, kittens and pigs. The biggest success was the baby pigs and I still think they're insanely cute.
8. I was in high school before Hemet had a McDonald's. I used to dream about getting a Slurpee at a 7-11 because the nearest one was 30 miles away.
9. I was the only Trekkie I knew until I was 15, and met a nun who had left her order in San Diego with an interest in the show. She was also the person who took me to my first SF convention - so if I look a little confused when I hear about con parties, consider the source. Parties? What are those? The idea of going to a convention to get laid STILL sounds weird.
10. I also won an award for costume design that convention as well. First try.
11. I had dinner with Marian Zimmer Bradley at the awards banquet, and discovered that coffee with cream came in cans and the whole thing about not being seen in public pregnant because it was proof you'd had sex...and of course, found the latter rather silly. She agreed.
12. Jean Lorrah wrote me 11 pages of recommendations for what to do after high school, and what kind of college education I should try for. I've never forgotten and she was dead nuts on every time. (I hear her when I talk to people about this subject. People think I'm smart. I've got a good memory and remember well. Thanks, Jean.)
13. Melanie Rawn knew me when I was 19 and a dork. I knew her when she permed her hair and wrote Starsky & Hutch fan fic. GOOD TIMES. (Wish I could get her to return a phone call now. But - dork. Yeah.) Blame her for my wine jones. She started it.
14. I've told you about Katherine Kurtz and her planning to quit her security guard job after selling her fifth book. Same con.
15. I got to see a group re-enact a Logan's Run 'runner' scenario - where the runner got shot and fell into the hotel pool that con. Within a year, I believe it might have been the same group that had a really BAD accident doing one of these re-enactments and conventions banned 1) runs and 2) weapons of any kind at conventions going forward. Yup, I can remember when you could bring a bang-bang to a con. (Oh man, Alan Dean Foster was at that con too. Sheesh.)
16. My first anime has a copyright of 1961 on it, and has Frankie Valli and Jonathan Winters doing some of the voices. The only other person who remembers seeing it in its original release (that I've been able to find) is Wendy Pini. Trish Ledoux doesn't even go as far back as I do.
17. My first job was in a print shop. My second job was working for Jack in the Box. My third was working for a home health agency, and I quit after two weeks because it broke my heart - and I never went into anything related to patient care again. Clerical, sure. Bedside? Not until Cliff, and I did that for love. Nothing else would make me do it again.
18. My dream car always involved a double-size bed and a kitchen built in. I was packing my bags to live on my own when I was 10.
19. I wrote my first story when I was 9, and like everything I've ever written - I never showed it to anyone, and ended up throwing it away. I could sit for 8 hours a day at the typewriter - with my back to the wall. If my little brother snuck up on me, he'd tease me for DAYS over the four or five words he caught before I shooed him away. That's stuck, unfortunately. If I let you see my stuff while I still working on it, you're inner circle, baby. Inner INNER circle.
20. I made most of my clothes in high school. And got teased. Oh well.
21. When really stressed, I get agoraphobic. Not housebound level, mind - but I can certainly believe it can happen, and how. Always transient and a very good indicator that I need to sit the fuck down and chill out.
22. Nothing says home to me like dirt, foxtails and 110 degrees in the summertime.
23. I learned to take my coffee and tea without any cream or sugar very early on because it was easier than telling someone HOW much to put into it.
24. My first meal in my first place on my own was gingerbread made out of a cheap-ass Jiffy box mix. The next day, I went to a Starsky & Hutch fan gathering and brought home the leftover Chinese food. Day after that, I discovered the joys of cold chow mein for breakfast.
25. I ate enough pizza growing up I was sick of it before I was 10 years old.
...yaaaaaaaay i finished it....
