It occurred to me last night that I post alot in Rants and Raves, and I think maybe sometimes I come off as really serious and uptight and too politically correct. Then I got to thinking, boy, I bet the people on the board would be surprised to know this fact or that fact about me.

So, I thought it would be fun to post something about ourselves that people here on the board would be surprised to know. It can be one thing or more than one thing.

I'll start:

I love celebrity gossip and am addicted to tabloids and gossip Websites.

I love pop culture and love learning about fads in history as well as current.

I will admit that I mostly go to art movies, but I equally love really dumb mainstream comedies like Talladega Nights, Scary Movie, and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.

I collect anything vintage, like cookbooks from the 50's, antique clothing, and black and white photos.

Now, how about YOU?

that sucks...I have a cast iron stomach meself, might explain these extra pounds heh..

that sucks...I have a cast iron stomach meself, might explain these extra pounds heh..

I can watch and help my dad do surgery on animals with no problem, but give me a whiff of diarrhea or vomit, and you better give me space to puke, too. VERY sensitive to odors.

Poo makes me gag. That's one reason I didn't go into nursing. Weak stomach, sympathy barfer, etc.

HA! I'm a sympathy barfer too.

There is a trick to not smelling stuff. Carmex or Vicks placed on your upper lip. I used to keep the stuff in my pocket at ALL times at work.

I worked next to a sewer plant for 2 years, I just got used to it

I worked next to a sewer plant for 2 years, I just got used to it

I think I would have quit. I know one thing, as much as I love Mike Rowe and Dirty Jobs, I don't envy them at all.

Mike Rowe is hot.

Mike Rowe is hot.

Yes, yes, he is. :eyebrows::faint:

Totally agree on Mike Rowe!!

My brother had snakes as pets for years.....he was given his first python by a friend who bought it without his Mom knowing in high school....when the pooh hit the fan, my brother got Monte (kid had no imagination). He had him for probably 7 years, and inherited a Boa (Julius....Julius Squeezer),from someone. He lost Monte to an accident in the house, he was crawling free, and crawled up on a book on the closet shelf, and it over balanced, and he fell, and the book hit him, killing him. And then Julius outgrew my brother!!! One night the heat rock went out, and it was too cold for him without it, so he put him in a pillowcase, and put him in the foot of the bed with him, it apparently pissed him, off and he had hell fending him off the next day when trying to put him back in his "cage" a 4 foot by 4 foot glass enclosure. So he took the snake to a friend who owned the pet store, and he now lives in the check out counter, is the store mascot.

I am not a huge snake fan, but with him having them around, I am not a run and shriek kind. I did gross out on him shaking the poor mouse in vitamin powder before letting it loose in the cage to be devoured!!!

The closest I ever came to physically hurting my DD was over a bone popping incident! She knows I hate it, so one night we are in the kitchen cooking dinner, and she keeps saying her neck hurts. When all of a sudden she grabs her chin and turns her head and the most God Awful crunching cracking LOUD sound---I about peed my pants! She is laughing her ass off, she had taken an uncooked egg noodle we were getting ready to dump in the boiling water, and put it in her mouth then when she fake twisted her head she bit it. She came damn close to getting her neck broke for real!!!

Kat

Mike Rowe is hot.

Ummmm...Mike Rowe

I'm afraid of Bunny Rabits...they creep me out. With their beedey little eyes and sharp teeth and all that twitching. OMG, I just got the willies thinking about it.

I'm kinda fasinated by little people, at the State Fair I paid $2.00 to see a 26" woman, and I rented midget porn before...but, that was a little too weird even for me.

HA! I'm a sympathy barfer too.

I always thought it was just me.

I *very* rarely puke. This is a weird thing to know, but I've puked twice since I was 13. That's almost 20 years. Both times I had a stomach virus.

BUT, I can wretch at the drop of a hat. What will do it for me? Seeing snot, or saliva. I SWEAR! I HATE IT so much when the driver in front of me opens their car door and "hocks a lugey" onto the street. If I see that, I'll dry heave. And it's the same in movies when it shows - say - a big brother teasing a smaller by letting the phlegm/saliva dangle from his mouth -- uhhhhhh *shiver*... that will make me wretch.

Smells will also do it. TMI, but from time to time DH will have gas that not only wakes me up from my sleep, but wakes me up to wretching. I could tear his nuts off when he does that.

Growing up my mom had a lot of sinus problems, and got sick a lot, sometimes with no notice. And of course our house had 1 bathroom, and my bedroom was right next to it. If she started to get sick, I would (and I'm not exaggerating) wrap one arm around both ears (over the head- like raising your arm, and then bending it over your head to cover the opposite ear with your hand), pinch my nose with the other hand, and go "la la la la la la" until I could get away... because if I could see, hear or smell it, I'd start to heave. To this day she'll stand behind me and make heaving sounds. Chuckle, chuckle.

I used to do a lot of volunteer work at a hospital. One of the things I did wash push people from their rooms to PT and back. People always like to puke after PT. That was a nightmare.

Can I add that the trend of showing puking on TV, without warning that it's going to happen, is something I'm 100% against? Why can they do that? It's just wrong!

Well, I can dig poop out of someone's rear end but if a baby spits up on me I have to go barf and I'm gagging all the way to the bathroom.

If my dog barfs it takes me forever to clean it up because the closer I get to it the more I am barfing myself and I have to keep running for the bathroom. It can take a good hour to clean dog barf.

Yet, blood and pus are cool. Weird, I know.

Blood and pus are cool for me, as long as I don't smell it. My dad did a necropsy on a rottweiler a few months ago that had apparently died of internal hemmoraging. I gagged when I walked in the room. That old blood smell, you know?

But yeah, that's one reason I'm not fond of small children. Shit, snot, and puke all make me want to puke.

Little kids are draining something out of somewhere ALL the time. Their noses, butts, eyes, mouths... gahhhhh

I wonder why I never had kids?