That story-making stuff is amazing. The memory is far more fallible than not, it seems. A friend of the family once told us a really interesting story while my parents and I were visiting -- only, it had actually happened to my dad! How awkward.
Dave Barry is published in the Boston Globe too, by the way. He is hilarious.
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
I read the Batman article and had to laugh at the image of a guy dressed in car floor mats, haha!
The thing about my lies is that they're not worth telling. Like once when I was about ten I was at a friends house. We were in his back yard jumping on a trampolin. This car pulled up in front of his house, sat there for about thirty seconds, and drove off. When I got home I had this incontrolable urge to everyone a slightly different version of this where the guy in the car used cliche' kidnapping techniques that D.A.R.E. officers warn you about like "hey kid, come here. I've got somthing I want to show you." and My parents got all upset and called the police. I had absolutly no reason to make that up. It wasn't significant in any way. That's only one example that I can specifically remember out of a life time of little lies. But none of them are actually good stories that I could write and sell.
...Also baby duck hat would be good for parties.
Originally posted by amuse
and from once when i saw this beautiful girl's hair on the bus in junior high, i've been obsessed about split ends. she was gorgeous, but her hair was so split the roots of her shiny black hair were a dirty yellow. i can't STAND my own. spend at least 15 minutes daily checking for them.
[/B]that happens to me too... i detest hairdressers so much that last time I let my mum cut my hair a bit before split ends took over... I'm still rather black up on my head, and getting too clear on the ends...
As for the topic...well I can't think of any obsession of this kind I have...my father has so many that some have been passed to me, but mostly cos I like to avoid being shouted at for days if i forget to do something...(like, I found myself checking 3 times if I closed the car, just like he does!)... I've never been obsessed about tidiness but I found myself annoyed when my English guy used to leave things everywhere, just because I've been shouted at for 20 years when I did so... But I can't think of any obessions of that sort I have which are not originated by my paranoid parents... Oh well excpet when I put cds or things like that in obsessive chronological order...
dead on the inside, i've got nothing to prove
keep me alive and give me something to lose
oh. man. I have so many. I'm gonna totally out disfunction all of you. I'm selectively anti-social, to the point of being an outright rude snob. It's something I hate about me, but really can't help. I can't talk to people I don't want to;like I can't hold a conversation for the sake of holding a conversation, openly sniggering at people who ask if I saw american idol. I can't be nice for the sake of being nice. I ate hot chocolate with marshmallows for the first time in my life one week ago. as of two days ago, I am now officially creeped out by trains. I seem to always wind up sitting next to/near a REALLL creep. *shudder* this sucks, because I used to really like trains
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
(Mark Twain)
Feye, I like to think of actually watching American Idol as a malfunction.
...Also baby duck hat would be good for parties.
LOL. True!! Least I don't have that one.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
(Mark Twain)
but...but....but...
is all reality tv watching a malfunction??
Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side, and marvelled that we had found each other.
uh... Osbournes is acceptable, but only if you acknowlege that its mostly staged. Do you like ALL reality tv? Cause I think it blows.
...Also baby duck hat would be good for parties.
no, not at all. although, i got a good giggle out of "the simple life" and i did really love that show "house rules". but mostly for reality tv i watch "American Chopper" like a religion....
i am in the process of drafting a scathing letter to FOX network for their participation and promotion of the most disgusting show society (women in particular) have ever had the unfortunate opportunity to be subjected to:
"The Swan".
i dont know how many people have had a chance to hear about it, but it is absolutely sick. They take a group of about a dozen women, all 'ugly ducklings' and by way of surgery a la "Extreme makeover" they remake them into beautifully sculptured chunks of plastic...but they dont stop there....then they go on to hold a competition, beauty paegent style, for these women, where they are subjected to elimination for still not being beautiful enough.
I have not actually seen the program, but have only seen ads for it (my son is virtually always absorbed by the simpsons on fox), and that is bad enough.
yuck....
Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side, and marvelled that we had found each other.
Oh man, your giving Simpsons a yuck, but you want to be on "the swan"?!?!? Come on! Although I do approve (although I don't watch) of American Chopper. But the simple life, unghh :vomiting emoticon:. Paris Hilton needs to stay in porn and out of any other form of entertainment.
...Also baby duck hat would be good for parties.
no.no.no kik. you misunderstand me.....we watch the simpsons...alot.
i do NOT want to be on the swan!! in fact, i would be utterly pleased if the producers of the swan all developed carpal tunnel (or worse) and had to scrap the show..
now, american chopper is on now....must go!
Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side, and marvelled that we had found each other.
Ok, your forgiven. Watch those beautiful bikes go!
...Also baby duck hat would be good for parties.
I cried in Finding Nemo. Where's my dysfunctional award???
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
(Mark Twain)
Oh God, I almost died during that whale mouth scene. Giganto whale, dark enclosed space, water, cavernous throat....eeeee... heart attack material. The fish were just a few hundred times too anthropomorphized for me to get into, though. But that's Disney. And the seagulls kicked ***.
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
I didn't actually cry, but I may have misted up when Bubba bought it in "Forest Gump."
Uhhhh...
What's with this crying during sappy movies, it's disney!
Well of course, everyone cried like babies during Forrest Gump, didn't they? Well...I was 9, so at least I did...but that's beside the point.
I don't know, simon, sappy movies usually make me laugh spitefully. Except Disney -- Disney makes me vomit like Linda Blair.
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
I truly have found a forum that I can identify with. Compairing dysfunctions!?!? This is my type of group.
I have OCD when it comes to my books and schoolwork (I love homework. Is that a dysfunction all on it's own?) , but extremely lazy with housework. I actually hate cleaning with a passion. I think I have some form of ADD with housework. It seems that I can clean all day, and nothing looks done. But the closets are organized, until I notice that the sock drawer has a sock sticking out, then I move to that, till I notice something else.
I also fear big cities, especially being in lots of traffic. I grew up in a very small town, with very little traffic. I will hyperventilate if I have to ride in a car that is driving through a major city like New Orleans or Houston. If I have to drive it, I feel like I am having a heart attack. Medication is helping though. It better because I'm about to move to Houston in the next few months.
I suffer from severe depression. I was also very obese, until I lost 70 pounds (30 to go). I do suffer severe self esteem issues. I still see myself as the person I was before I started losing weight. I can not see that I have lost any weight. I just see the areas that are still too large.
Last, but not least, I have dependency issues. I fear abandonment and being alone. So I really have no friends. Only my husband. I figure that if I don't have any friends, than they can't abandon me. I guess this stems from ALL of my friends abandoning me in high school when I found out I was pregnant. I have had very few friends since, and no one I actually keep in touch with.
Now, how's that for an introduction?
Welcome, CBW. Hehe, we're all mad here.
Congratulations on your dieting successes, and I'm sure on many to come. I also have depression/low self-esteem -- but it's amazing how much this forum helps with the latter. Having somewhere where you are appreciated for the real person you are inside is an extremely valuable and uncommon thing. I hope you stay for a long time -- I intend to. (hope that's not a disappointing thing for anyone to hear
Em*~
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
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