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kimana83

Survey!

Jul 29, 2010 15:39

I've been writing this survey for a while, adding questions here and there when I thought of them. It will be fun to see if this one comes back around in a few months like the last one I wrote did. =o)

1. Did you ever wish you had a different name? Not anymore, but when I was a little kid I wished my name ( Read more... )

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katharhino July 29 2010, 19:59:08 UTC

#18: Who wouldn't! Dude, I'd do it for ONE thousand.

#26: Oh girl. I have been trying to figure out the same thing for myself. Is it that I'm not open enough with people in offline life? Is it that most people are over-scheduled? Is it that most of my online friends are vastly more Amish than average? All of the above? At any rate, it STINKS. If I lived in the same town with you, I'd call you up like a million times a week, like "Bethany, wanna come over and eat my homemade bread? Bethany, wanna watch a girly movie with me? Bethany, you wanna come over and laugh at my dogs?" hehe.

kimana83 July 29 2010, 20:44:36 UTC

Apparently you've never seen The Amazing Race? Every few seasons they have a Fast Forward (gives you a huge leg up on the other teams, and at least once has basically given that team the million dollars) that involves both team members shaving their heads bald. There have been several teams who didn't do it. Crazy people. If I had a 1 in 3 chance at a million bucks if I shaved my head, well, get the clippers and call me Bruce Willis ( ... )

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kimana83 July 29 2010, 23:21:06 UTC

Wow, I can ditto almost your entire first paragraph. That's actually how I've felt almost my entire life, like I am forgotten. Because I am. Even though people are 100% entitled to invite other friends out to lunch and not me, it still hurts when I find out about it afterward, if I am friends with both of them. I think it's mostly because everyone else has a best friend, and apart from Isaac, I never have. If you have a best friend, you are guaranteed to have someone who always wants to hang out with you. I have never had that. I was always the "substitute person". And I still am, at least here. If that. Usually I am completely forgotten, as you said. And I'm quite sure that if I were more active at calling people and hadn't gotten frustrated at the lack of response when I used to do that, I would be closer to people, but I really don't *like* calling people. I know that's my own issue, but jeez, half the people I know here are outgoing extroverts, and they can't remember me? Isaac says he thinks it's because I a very independent and ( ... )

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onetravelsfar July 29 2010, 20:41:02 UTC

You've just inspired me to go eat a homegrown tomato with salt and pepper on it!

I think it's just easier to meet people online because that's what people are online to do. You can be open and vulnerable with people in a way you wouldn't be IRL. It's really hard to make friends as an adult when you aren't in school or if you don't work in an environment with lots of like-minded people around! I'm trying to be better about just inviting people over to do things even if I don't know them very well.

onetravelsfar July 29 2010, 20:42:41 UTC

P.S. I'd do your survey, but for some reason I can't copy/paste it. Boo :(.

onetravelsfar July 29 2010, 20:44:12 UTC

Just kidding. Turned out it was Google Chrome's fault.

kimana83 July 29 2010, 23:31:00 UTC

I wish I had that option! =o( My few attempts at growing tomatoes here were total failures.

It's really hard to make friends as an adult when you aren't in school or if you don't work in an environment with lots of like-minded people around!
I think that's my main problem! And people at church are SO BUSY. The one childless couple left is really busy. The ones with kids can never do anything because 3 kids make doing anything so involved. *sigh*

I'm trying to be better about just inviting people over to do things even if I don't know them very well.
I do that, and then we get bored because I suck at small talk. *sigh again*

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kimana83 July 29 2010, 23:31:27 UTC

I KNOW. Although back then I kinda was. I was super-girly till I was about 7 years old.

=oÞ ;o)

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kimana83 July 31 2010, 20:33:09 UTC

Same here. And pink and purple were my favorite colors. (Purple has returned to being my favorite color, but for different reasons. Hehe.)

LOL. It can't bother you too much, or you wouldn't have asked me to proofread CC. Which reminds me - after I finish catching up on comments, I need to proof a few articles.

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kimana83 July 31 2010, 20:58:11 UTC

Do it! I love writing/reading these surveys. =o)

live_brave July 30 2010, 03:12:58 UTC

But the bike shorts with large, baggy t-shirts, and canvas shoes were pretty bad.

I think everyone who lived through the late 80s/early 90s suffered this same fate. :) I know that there's photographic evidence of me rocking that look...what were we thinking?! :D

kimana83 July 31 2010, 21:00:13 UTC

The sad thing is, I was late to the party so I was still wearing that when everyone else was into grunge or the homeschooler look. LOL.

So um... do I know you? Hehe. I see we have a mutual friend and several shared TV interests.

live_brave August 3 2010, 00:50:14 UTC

:) Sorry about not introducing myself earlier - I think I friended you awhile back when therightfangirl was having a friending meme. I don't have nearly enough conservative folks on my f-list.

I'm not as active on LJ as I used to be, but I catch up on my f-list every couple weeks, and your meme made me laugh so I had to comment. :D