Posted by spoc on May 1, 2004, at 18:39:04
In reply to uh oh! kk found another friend :) » spoc, posted by karen_kay on April 30, 2004, at 18:58:19
OK, YOU ASKED FOR IT! :- D
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>> i must say, i read this post early this morning and have had a smile on my face every since. even when (bad stuff)... even when (more bad stuff), i just reread this post and kept laughing.... <---
<<<<<< GOOD GRIEF!!! Now I have to follow my own act, oh, the pressure!! I probably have your attention for only mere NANOSECONDS, in which to succeed again!! Ok, here I go, but my hand is trembling, so I hope you can read my writing! I mean, you actually READ what I wrote? Out of consideration for your paranoia of having people actually READ you, I put on my tin foil hat, closed my eyes, put my hands on the monitor and just ABSORBED your meaning through my skin! Would you PLEASE have the courtesy to do the same?? : )
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>> snip: Now I must go and find you in the early days to see examples of what you consider 'crass,' and get in touch with your transformation! <>> oh, did i mention that i'm paranoid? i like to think that noone listens or reads anything i write here....it still makes me paranoid to think that someone would want to know something about me... trust me, there are plenty of much more interesting people here to know about. honestly, i'm really very boring. honestly...<
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<<<<<< Ok ok, I'll cross it off my list. Seriously. You’re probably not as much improved and less crass as you think anyway (harrrr!). Curious Georgette over here, my list is too long already. Quite a healthful hobby though, huh? Spending hours inert in my chair, reading archives like a novel, sometimes reemerging only to miss people I never met. But, at least current research shows that archive-diving burns as many calories as are burned posting to current boards; but not as many as through the robust activity levels often achieved in Open.OOPS -- hope I haven't given anything away -- You DID realize this is all just a weight loss study, didn't you? Your boyfriend is testing whether as many calories are burned through habitation of a civil message board, vs. more cardiovascular frontiers where angst roams free... Preliminary results indicate that so-called "high adrenalin fat-burning sites” actually are in the lead. So if I ever disappear from here for good, it won't be because I couldn't behave myself or anything, it will be because I was getting too fat….
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>> i'll not get into an arguement about paper clips, staplers, or 3 ring binders with you today. i will tell you however, that i do have plenty of silver binder clips available in a variety of sizes in case i need them. the different sizes are in fact: 1-1/4 and 3/4. does that help to get on a better footing at least? <
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<<<<<<< Well Karen, you're showing a respectable ability to get up to speed on the subject, but please note that a size in between these two is also available; and one might even say is THE size preferred by responsible people who, for personal reasons that we should respect, elect to purchase only one size. Statistics show that the households of individuals who lack the mid-size binder clip are frequently in total disarray across the board, and that these people will never be loved, marry or have children. So it’s your decision, but I must caution you. However, no final pronouncements as to your character will be made as of yet.---
>> on a side note, when i staple, i staple on the right hand side of documents. i find it is easier for those people who are right-handed to turn pages that way. i'm right-handed and try to be considerate of those like me. <---
<<<<< This I do find genuinely intriguing. It would seem to make perfect sense and I'm having a hard time thinking of something to shatter your illusions and make you feel silly. Hmmm….. I think I tried this once, way before you did I’m sure, and found that it was somehow disruptive to other objects on the desk or in relation to some sort of spatial and congruency issues. Yes, that was it. But nice try. : )And along those lines, please expand: When you do staple on any given corner of a document, do you do so horizontally, vertically, or on an angle in the corner? When your stapler gets jammed, do you pull out the offending staple and dispose of it neatly with safety-consciousness in mind; or do you instead flick it across the room? Do you concur that people never have to actually purchase staples or paper clips within their lifetimes; that these are amongst the class of objects that perpetuate themselves; and often you open the box to see that there are more of them than the last time? Can you describe what must be going on in that box, while still remaining civil?
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>> i don't recall ever wearing a bun in my hair. never. my pony tails always sit very high on my head. and they are very messy as well. not that i have clumps and bumps sticking out,... <---
<<<<<< Those clumps that make your hair look greasy, even if just washed it?? I HATE those! Ok, pony tails, but no buns, we are in agreement. Where do you stand on hair clips with hair attached to them (intentionally -- by the manufacturer; not by consumers with messy hair ripping them out hastily)? What if it does look fake and everyone knows it, but the person's appearance is actually greatly enhanced by the additional volume? Is it then excusable, or even worth it? Who should they listen to?---
> snip: Do you ever slip in a quick pass over the bikini line; or do you uphold the standard of professional waxing? <
>> ...that's strange you should mention this subject as i was discussing just the very thing last night..i'll try to answer....then everyone will know exactly what i shave or don't shave, what i wax or don't wax, ...everyone will feel accused and put down, my life will be in shambles, i'll quit shaving or not shaving, waxing or not waxing, going to get it done, or not getting it done...people will say "whatever happened to karen kay?" the answer will be "well, she was confused about a question about her bikini line...from there...she never fully recovered...never did rejoin the land of the living..."---
<<<<<<< I'm so sorry I exposed you here; I think I know what's really going on: you don't shave, wax, OR have it done for you... You don't do it at all, do you? You don't have enough familiarity with these objects and/or procedures to even make up an answer.... I apologize, that is a matter between yourself and your old man and I won't bring it up again... Besides, with you being so nice and fuzzy yourself, you can get rid of all the stuffed animals taking up room on the bed.---
>> I always ask people how they sleep. i sleep ALWAYS on my belly. i talk in my sleep... i sleep on my belly, drool and toss and turn all night if i can't sleep...i jump around alot when i first get into bed until i become comfortable.---
<<<<<<< You and me do not even belong to the same species! I sleep ONLY on my back, and never move a centimeter. You could place a glass of water on my sternum and it would never spill all night. In fact I often sleep all night with my laptop there, and wake up with the screen staring me in the face, all ready to go again (which is just greaaaaaat because I definitely don't spend enough time on it already). I am SO still that -- when I lace my fingers together over my chest, as I often do -- if you just slipped an orchid into my hands I'd be picture-perfect for a mortuary brochure.---
> i had a rough encounter once with an electric blanket. it almost cooked me. never again!! <---
<<<<<< I have two electric blankets and a space heater, and all evening long I go from feeling chilled and cranking them up, to feeling hot and turning on the fans (no, this technology-induced, not menopause). Electric blankets have changed since you were a girl you know (don't you dread the day everyone your own age starts using that phrase). I tried to be self-indulgent when I got mine, and got the kind that are much more expensive but are supposed to adjust to room and body heat by themselves. Well, in reality they do what they want, when they want; often depriving you of warmth when you need it most. I prefer a subservient blanket myself.I also have a top-of-the-line white noise/sound machine, which is a bare necessity of life for me; and other apparatus that have the effect of nailing any of my senses shut that might keep me cognizant that there is a world out there. I used to use a dainty, frilly little eye mask, but could see too much light around the edges. Now I pull one of those knitted band hats over my eyes. I used to use foam earplugs a lot, but found them annoying since they were hard to get in right and after pulling them out a couple times, lost their firmness. So now I use sound-resistant hunting earmuffs, the big plastic kind they also use to land planes with (well, there's more equipment than that involved in landing a plane but you know what I mean), since I never roll over when I sleep anyway.
So. You think YOU look funny, drooling and tossing and turning. Picture me, laid out with an orchid in my fingers, wearing a ski mask and hunting earmuffs. But wait -- you sleep on your stomach, probably giving yourself wrinkles on mainly one side of your face. Since I sleep on my back, I figure mine fall backwards and get smoothed out. So yes, you do have it worse!
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>> sometimes i sleep naked, sometimes i wear underpants, sometimes pj's. depends on how much i had to drink the evening prior or who i'm sleeping with. <---
<<<<<< Almost always, I wear men's style pajamas (NO I don’t have men leaving them here! Do you think I go out with men who bring their jammies with them on sleep-overs??). Anyway, it MUST be something with a waistband, which falls below the belly button – EXACTLY. Do not even TALK to me about letting it fall anywhere else!! I can’t STAND *not* having the feeling of a waistband around me. Very odd, because as a child I could not STAND to have a waistband ON me, and had to wear dresses and culottes all the time.---
>> i always ask people who would play me in my made for tv movie, but people always used to say molly ringwald... my sister says i look like clea duvall. i have another friend who says courtney love, and yet another who says melanie griffith. so, the results are varied.---
<<<<<< Ya know, as I was reading this I actually immediately got an image in my head of someone who’d look like all these people. There is some common thread there, certain angles. I feel like I do know what you look like now -- I bet I could spot you in a crowd! (But I won't do anything to you, promise, just a little harmless following you around..Maybe a photo or two..) ;- )
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