What other ways are you different? Besides the chicken thing :)

[beefy]

Perhaps a better question would be "in what ways am i normal?"

lets see...

I like to eat.

and i breathe oxygen.

i think that about covers it.

 

[redhead83402]

amystours ~ lol ~ what would a good marriage be without some disagreements ~ everyone comes from a different walk of life, and integrating two wildly different ways takes time, patience, and well, sometimes some arguments.
My husbands mom & dad argue ALL the time, shoot, they even argue in restaraunts and stores. And sometimes loudly. and often about the dumbest stuff. And they have been threatening eachother with divorce for lo these many 48 yrs of marriage. But they never do it. In fact, if one of em died, we all know the other one would die right off the bat just cuz they couldn't stand being without eachother to argue with in heaven! :-D
{;>)=
~Red

 

[Break an Egg]

We have 4 tv's and two are plugged in. The smallest one in the kitchen is all we watch. No cable here too.

My husband and I each have a cell phone, but all we call is each other. As a matter of fact, we really don't hang out with anyone else. Some neighbors in the past that made themselves way too comfortable, but really we just like each other.

He's from a family of 6 and I was an only child.

He doesn't like any convenience foods, so I try to cook from scratch as much as I can.

He will eat anything if it has cheese or mayo on it.
I can cook a beautiful roast with nicely roasted veggies and he wants to put cheese on top.

 

[S0rcy]

I still like to play Dungeons and Dragons (Past 30 years old), I think shopping for clothes is the most useless activity on the planet, I NEVER build anything the way it's "supposed" to be done as I think different structurally, I like to take drives just to take pictures of weeds, and my favorite activity is throwing stuff OUT.

 

[mnm]

Wow beefy you have a flamingo???
COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[amystours]

You know, I thought a bit about it after I posted, and honestly, I don't think I'm that "different" than most people, which is actually a shame if most people have a life like mine!!! Unfortunately, I don't have that "white house, picket fence" thing I want, but that's what I would like to strive for. I have my critters and my kids, and I guess I can tolerate DH a little longer. I love that bottom!!!!


Thanks, guys, I was worried!!

 

[TeaLady]

Thank you all for letting me get to know you better! I love being in a community with so much healthy variety.

I'm 57, grew up in a city in a desert (El Paso), put in a few years in L.A., and then moved to a city in a rain forest (Seattle). I've lived in the PNW for over 30 years now, and still see rain as something like money falling out of the sky. I mean, the folks here have good eats for WEEDS! (Blackberries take over everything.)

I'm a technical writer who ended up in a high-tech career largely for the flexible hours. Ever hear of "westward drift"? That's where you stay up really late working on a project... and the next morning you get in a little later than usual... so that night you work even later... and the next morning you start later still... I LIKE westward drift. And I'm a bit of a gadget-geek. My Google home page has RSS feeds for science and technology news.

I use a Fingerworks keyboard and a Dvorak keyboard layout.

Met my S.O. about a dozen years ago. It felt like we'd been married for a couple of decades but had been inexplicably separated for, oh, about as long as we'd been on the planet. We were living together within a week or two. Realized that we were living together a few weeks after that. I had a nice little house in the city when I met him. He wanted to live in the country. Talked me into moving when they were repaving the freeway 2 blocks from our bedroom window -- again. We found an amazing Tudor-style house on 1.25 acres, with a seasonal stream in back. Good layout although there are some things we want to change. Neither of us considers a load-bearing wall to be a Hard Stop -- more of a Serious Consideration.

When I burned out at work and needed to recuperate, this house was a blessing. I love all the green around me -- again, that's magic for a desert-grown kid. Love the critters. We've seen bobcats just outside the window, deer in the garden decimating the roses, eagles and hawks soaring overhead. At night we hear the owls and coyotes and the frogs.

Can we say "predator-proof the run"??

Started a business doing high-end faux-finish walls (I'm good at that, it turns out), but I've let it die down what with gas prices. I can telecommute the tech writing. Don't know how any of you survive without a high-speed internet connection.

I rented goats earlier this year (to get the blackberries and salmon berries under control

). LOVED the goats. Want goats! And for the goats & chicks, a Great Pyr. I've never had occasion to spend much time outside (the heat in the desert would lay me flat when I was growing up), and I'm amazed at how energizing it is for me.

We have 5 cats. They tend to be in whatever room I'm in, which Himself finds a little frustrating since he loves them too.

I like to do beadwork & just got into Ndbele stitch and netting. I like working with size 14 and smaller beads. Some antique beads are like stringing sand.

I like a nice pot of tea (oolongs mostly, or an aged Pu Erh for a treat). For years, working at a big computer company on high-tech projects, people would drop into my office for a cup of tea when they needed a few minutes to decompress. I liked that role -- nurturing, but not to the exclusion of all else. Like with chickens!

 

[goatkeepers]

Well, I grew up in Germany, my dad is american and my mom german. I moved over here to live with my dad's sister and her family in 2002, to finish High School here, just to see what it was like. I met Bryan, my now fiance and we're getting married in October. Needless to say, I now am living in the US permanently (sad b/c my mom, siblings, grandparents and friends are in Germany) and I made my lifelong wish of having a farm come true! DH and I are both vegetarians, we both have been for about 10 years so that makes things easier. He loves our animals and is very compassionate about any kind of life. (Saves a from from the lawn mower.

) We both want kids in the next year or so and I am hoping to work from home with my dog grooming business.

I raise dairy goats (Nubians) for their milk and as pets and I don't like to go out and "party" like most people my age do (23). I'm loving life on our farm and I am so glad that I have a wonderful (almost) husband to live this life with me!

I love reading everyone elses descriptions about themselves.

 

[Aneesa's Muse]

I came in late, but I guess I'm just as weird or "normal" as the next one...

DH and I met and married in 3 weeks, too.. haha! We haven't had a tv in our house in about 7 years. We don't have credit cards and don't use banks. All the cars we've ever had, we paid cash for. He works full time and goes to school, too. I stay at home and may return to finish my M.S. in Eastern Medicine some day. I cook from scratch, bake from scratch ...grow as much of our own food as possible, in our tiny little backyard. I keep chickens ..just two for now ..but Friday is D-day, so we may have quite a few more. I sew and make about 50% of my own clothes. I also operate an Exotics Rescue ..exotic critters, not dancers

..and currently have geckos, snakes, lizards, tortoise, frogs, tarantulas, true spiders, fish, snails, cavies, rats and various tropical "bugs" INSIDE my home!

I also make and sell a few things ..jewelry, gourds, birdhouses, naturalistic vivs for various exotic critters, and so on.


It was great to read about all of you ..weirdos or not!!

 

[The Chicken Lady]

Quote:
Don't feel alone. I like to say I'm "between" chickens. I had chickens of my own (not my parents', MINE, hee hee -- I was a weird child) from fifth grade up until my last year of college, so I have LOTS of chicken experience. Then, when I moved away to the city to start my career, my parents didn't want to keep up with them so we had to make the difficult decision to give them away. I got married last year and we are living in a townhouse, saving for a nice place in the COUNTRY. As soon as I move, it is back to chickens! I keep warning my husband that I'm going to get him a goose, too.

I guess one thing about me is that I'm a semi-girly girl who still prefers outdoor work to housework. My house is nice and clean and decorated, but if I have the choice, I'd rather shovel snow for an hour than iron. BLAH. I'm also relatively young (26) and like "old lady" hobbies like gardening and cooking.

I am very into video games, though I'd rather play console games than computer games. My husband is a collector, so we have EVERYTHING. I'm not even joking. My male students idolize me because I've played Halo, have access to 300+ Atari and NES carts when I want them, and know about video games and Internet memes, which makes my life at work easier.

I collect Depression-era hen dishes. My kitchen and living room are basically all chicken decor. I even have a chicken-shaped glass Tiffany-style lamp.