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Yeah it is slightly sick isn't it. I am just strangely attracted to them Well when you grew up with a geek for a father, a geek for a brother, then married a geek, become really good freinds with all his geeky friends, well you can pretty much consider yourself an expert I do have to say i do find them to be the best class of men. Partly because they are so glad a girl looked at them they will do anything for her Just kidding

Hmm.. about me, most of this you probably already know, at least bits and pieces, I tend to let it all flow out at un-stoppable speeds and later say, ohh I told everyone that Name: Michelle Age - 26 Married 6 years in June (met TF when he tried to pick up a friend of mine in college) 2 Kids, 13 month old today and a 3 1/2 year old who tends to go by his later-ego of Aaragorn from Lord of the Rings. Job - mostly stay home with my kids, watch two other kids, and work as a child facilitator at a homeless shelter (the best way to descirbe it is I work to teach family betterment skills to parents and children) Orgin - I'm all American. Grew up all over as my father was in the military. Was born in Guam and returned there a few years later, lived all over the US and moved to Texas. My family is from Texas mostly, so that is the area I proudly claim. My ancestry is a mix from Polish to Scotish to Cajun to Native American. My grandpa used to saw our family wasn't proud we slept with anyone. Favorite movies - I like the dumb ones, Airplane, French Kiss, Dude Where's my Car. Anything that makes me laugh, I also love romantic comedies. Faovrite books - The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich, Paul Kidd's series with the Justicar, Anne of Green Gables. Hmm... There are so many books I love Hobbies - Gardening, reading, visiting with my friends, playing with my kids, playing with my husband, hiking, camping, anything outside, dancing, I agree with what someone posted last year, I love to have fun and basically am up for most things involving fun. I love playing sports but have no hand-eye cordination so I suck at almost all of them.

sorry, i thought you were discussing topics in general. They wouldn't have been sent out without a reason. But as a proud US citrizen, I can say that the US does like being a big brother and getting involved in other people's problems especially if we feel it in some way does involve us. Sometimes this can be a great thing and sometimes it is not (and I don't think this is an appropriate place to debate that at all). I'm not sure of the country's mind set so much at the time, but I don't think it has changed that much. WWII was a great boost to the US's ego, but I think the country, as a whole, has always appreciated many of the blessings we have and has felt that everyone should be entitled to the same. Many Americans still feel very close to their ancestry. At that time, we had many citizens who had immigrated from Europe themselves or had parents who had. My thought is that with enough media coverage of the hollacuast, the US would have had the support to get involved. Maybe too late, but they would have eventually gotten involvoed. Another point to remember is the president can order troops into a war zone for 90 days (I beleive that is right) without congress ever voting on it. The control factor there is that congress votes to pay the military while at war, so if the president wants to stay involved with willing troops and supporting families and voters back home, he normally gets congressional approval or at least support before hand. On the other side, there has to be strong US dissention for congress to deny pay to militray. I mean, how would you look during re-election to everyone knowing that you voted agains paying US soliders. Finding good reason really just depends on what you consider good reason. Spreading democracy and choice, had for many years, been good enough reason.

adding on to the previous subect, I don't know, while congressional approval would have been hard to get, eventually I think the us would have become involved. There are too many Americans who have family of Jewish and European descent who were being persecuted. It may have taken a bit longer, but with FDR wanting to get involved so badly, eventually there would have been some cause to really push the US in it. Pearl Harbor just sped it up. You were asking for a new topic, here is one I often pondered, if a child was raised in a world were they never saw violence, not at home, not in society, not in the media, would they still have the need to act out violence, would they have any violent tendencies (which we all have now). I have watched many little boys automatically pick up swords and guns and play with them, little girls don't seem to do this as often, no matter how the kids are raised. So is it biology pushing them, or the examples they get in society and the media.

I think this is the point where we need to define these terms, clarify things a bit. My definations are as follows Nerd - someone with a lot of knowledge and ambition to use that knowledge to in someway further some greater project, definate type A personality Geek - someone with a lot of knowledge and no ambition. The knowledge they have normally consists of totally useless trivia and information that may or may not exsist or have ever exsisted in the real universe. They tend to use this info only to further their hobbies. Dork - soemone who has no higher ambition (if they do, they can not seem to acheive it at all) and has no store of knowledge. Dweeb - I'm not really sure about this one. I tend to look at a dweeb as an annoying dork, while a dork just goes about their business in their own little world a dweeb annoys others. Well those are just my definiations of them and going by my thoughts from what I've seen you are all pretty much geeks, maybe a few in the dork catergory (at least I am )of course you can always have crossovers. I have a nerd/geek friend.

You have got to be kidding me!!! It is a sad, world I know. My mom has always been a great cook and made a lot of things from scratch, but juice was never one of those. I think moving around so much she was never guranteed to have fresh produce so she just bought juice from the bottle. I try to make a lot of things home made at least once to really get that flavor some has really failed and somethign have come out really well (you should taste my apple pie ), but I'm not really a cook, and reading directions in cook books confuse me. So yeah, i have never seen fresh juice made and have never tried to make it. Maybe I will embark on a new adventure.

I wish I could say the same. I do great in emergency situations. My thinking becomes completely clear, I am in total control, I lead (I normally, prefer to just be the "nurturer" and let someone else do the leading), I am as calm and collected as can be. It is the little day to day stuff that gets me. I have always beleived in never going half way, the bad thing about that is it normally means extreme emotions, Im really happy, or totally depressed, or very angry. Fortunately, I also have no staying power so it vanishes rather quickly, at least the negative moods. But I think, due to that, I often can make a mountain out of a mole hill, I dont' need to be perfect, but I want to try my best. As I get older, I keep trying to learn that sometimes the best I can do is to let it go, it's a slow process, but I feel a bit calmer every year. And I'm learning better ways to cope with the stress. But sometimes it is just plain fun to get all worked up over something, so I don't think I will give it up completely On another note, as much as I love and enjoy my mother, doing anything with her is basically and automatic steressful experience

Huh ? You mean that's not a normal state of being ? Nahhh, I'm feeling fine. .... honest .... shaking ... I need some more caffeine Well I get the normal caffine buzz and then some. When I was pregnant with the 2nd one, I had a lot of pre-term labor, meaning tons of contractions for 6 months. They had me on everything from narcotics to anti-convulsion type drugs to try and control the contractions, I remember one day the pain got really bad so I had TF buy me a bottle of coke. I drink the whole thing and was so numb I finally felt pain free. Of course then I wanted to go and charge up the credit card to buy a whole new baby room basically. But after everything that I was on, the caffine gave me the nicest break from the pain. Of course, utimately it can cause more contractions and boy does it give the baby quite a kick also. I dont' recommend it, but since I so rarely drink it and drank it even less while I was pregnant I figured once surely wouldn't hurt. Anyhow, when we go out to bars with our friends I just order cherry cokes, after about 2 I'm pretty fun, get about 4 in me and I'm so wired, well lets just say the impulse control starts lacking a bit. I really need some reminders of what good girls should do Seriously I've never gotten into to much trouble but I try to really watch the caffine intake because of that.

This may sound totally stupid, but I have never made my own oragne juice and have always wondered. Is one orange enough? Do you add water then? How does this whole process work? I love fresh squezzed but grew up on concentrate, I'm finally moving to the world of bottled but not conentrated, maybe eventually I will cross over.

I love tea, hot tea, ice tea, tea is great. Not a coffee drinker which is odd considering I was raised on it. LOve apple juice but fresh orange sure does hit the spot.

I kind of have a weird caffine thing. It gets me really hyper and uninhibitated. When I drink acohol I tend to go from fine to the room spinning, head pounding feeling. Enough Caffine can get me to that happy drunk feeling pretty easily. The only down side is I remember everything I did the next day

I love moments like that. went to a Christian festival for a fortnight last summer, it was amazing. :D:D I was raised Roman Catholic and as a teenager went on a retreat. We had a reconcilation service and at the end of it this rainbow appeared over the bell tower. It was an awesome rainbow and the timing was enough to bring everyone to tears. Very humbling. Had a few moments like that sense, you just want to hold onto them forever.

Nope my feet are horribly ticklish. I see a massage therapist once in a while and she can't even rub them out I agree. I have been using the time when I walk/run lately to pray or just alk to God, it does really help, help me connect feell his presence.

I can't seem to get rid of my headaches no matter what, but mine are all migraine, TF gets migraines and tension and the tension seems to get better with relaxation and my babying him. My philosphy was always I run when I'm being chased, plus being more umm.... "top heavy" running never came easy for me, there was a lot of bounce if you know what I mean. Well this summer, TF was trying to get back in shape so we got me a really good sports bra and I started running with him. I actually completed a whole 5K running it. For a girl as atheltically un-inclined as I am that was a big deal. I have no higher aspirations though.

I used to do prenatal yoga when I was pregnant with my oldest. I wouldn't let TF come i nthe room while I was doing it. It was calming and I enjoyed it, but the instructor (on video) was a woman in a turban who said, "squat like you are giving birth in the woods surrounded by beautiful women"

I've thought about yoga, but I apparently have little will power and I fine yoga and excercise that seemst o test your willpower. Running, walking, hiking, dancing, it all seems to work with me, but to stay quiet and meditative in an uncomfortable postion just doesn't seem my thing. I don't like weightlifting either for the pain factor.

Call up a friend who is not so good at Rebellion and challenge him, then just play around with him before you crush him to the ground! ...music is also nice. I love it. nothing like a good arse whipping

Oh the 9 for uni student. I remeber my university days, no one used the library for research but everyone slept there. I had some of the best naps in my life while in college. Learned to play poole also.

Oh Honey, they need no encoruagement

I work a lot of nights till like 9:00 pm so getting up at 5 is taking some work, but it was nice this morning, I got up went walking got to actually see TF before he left, and had time to clean house and get ready and all before the kids woke up. It worked pretty well TF keeps saying it should be a book, I'm thinking more articles or column type thing. I have trouble with my attention span so I'm tryingt o decide how I would really do it. I think that when I eventually sit down to really write I will see what feels write.

I have more dang typos today, I'm going to try and edit this one again - mental reminder proof before you send- I keep telling TF that I want to write a series of articles on the benefits of being married to a Geek. I truly think Geeks are highly overlooked in the dating pool. I have been brainstorming ideas and one point was they won't beat you when they are angry, they simply tune you out and take their agression out on video/computer games. I guess I can add this one about not being dirty to that list.

Umm, who would've said this ? You haven't missed that much, but you were certainly missed Ahh thanks I missed you guys too. I told TF one of the things I had to find time for was to cehck out swreb. So I actually got up at 5 am this mornign for you guys, well I went walking first but i was able to get my time in. You should feel honored

I'm confused as to whether I should feel that it is well deserved or somehow umm... what is the word I want, dirty

Hi everyone, Trying to unwind from a very busy few weeks, (I watch two kids plus my own two in the day time and then I work part-time as the child facilitator of our homeless shelter that added on to a bunch of other little stresses and you can imagine...), I have been battling the question about ways to unwind and am tryign to develope new strategies. So here's the question, what is your haven when stress gets to be too much? A few for me... Digging my toes into wet sand - I grew up in Guam for a few years and can't get the ocean out of my system. When I get really stressed there is nothing like going to the beach and sitting there watchign the waves while I dig my toes into the sand Which is probably why I'm pushing to spend the weekend at my brother's place on the southern coast of Texas. eating chocolate - used to really indulge in other foods, that's why further on the list you will notice walking/running Laughing - TF is very good at knowing when I need a great laugh Walking/running - I used it to deal with the postpartum baby blues after having my second baby and lost a ton of weight. Gardening.

Knowing now why I haven't gotten any e-mails alerts lately. You know I had to cut and paste that to enlarge it so I can actually read it.