This was posted originally on Multiply, and I think it's a good one to repost here now... several "old" friends have made it here, and I've made some NEW ones as well. Awesome! So here's a little bit about me. 
November 18th, '09
"I found this on a friend's page, and took her up on the invitation to see if I could make my own list...
1) I have been a Registered Nurse for over 10 years.
2) I have broken my left wrist twice in one year, when I was 10, and spent April to September in plaster.
3) I have four gaps from having teeth pulled due to abcesses.
4) I have read eight books back to back in just over two weeks ~ Orson Scott Card's "Ender" series of four, and four of the "Bean" spin offs.
5) I just Wiki'd Scott Card ad discovered there have been three more published since, yay!
6) I have cross-stitched several large pieces which I framed and hung up on my walls in England.
7) I have eaten homemade quince pie, made by our hausfrau, Ermi, when I lived in Berlin.
8) I have knitted several monkeys.
9) I have rolled my own cigarettes for over 20 years.
10) I have always been mad at myself for ever starting to smoke.
11) I have interviewed the band Sad Cafe for my school magazine when I was 16.
12) I have Ed "Stewpot" Stewart's autograph.
13) I entered an Ed Stewart radio competition and won a pair of fluorescent yellow armbands. I still remember my winning poem.
14) I have watched my football team win the F.A. Cup Final at the original Wembley Stadium in London.
15) I have grown a garden full of vegetables.
16) I have learned how to can and freeze them.
17) I have no children.
18) I was born in Munster, Germany.
19) I have lived in three countries.
20) I have spent periods of time in three other countries with my first husband, who worked abroad in construction.
21) I have paid £25 to have IV valium administered, for a tooth filling costing £6.
22) I have never overcome my fear of dentists.
23) I have had a wild "pet" raccoon for a month.
24) I have won an Easter Bonnet Parade, despite the fact that the tie on my bonnet broke and I cried all through it.
25) I have blamed my brother for something really bad I did as a child, and let him believe it was him, for years.
26) I have been owned by many cats, at one point by five at once. Dizzy, Tabby, Shreddy, ClingOn and Sweep.
27) I have had a driving licence for over twenty years, but have only been a driver for a little under a year.
28) I have passed the US nursing exam, the N-CLEX, with the minimum of correct answers required and in just over an hour.
29) I studied for it every day, before or after my shifts at work, for eight months.
30) I have grown a pot plant from seed.
31) I have passed the beginners, intermediate and advanced RSA typewriting exams.
32) I have totally forgotten what RSA stands for.
33) I have played Eliza Doolittle in a school production of "My Fair Lady" and hated it.
34) I have started practicing singing "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" for my required "turn" at the family Thanksgiving get-together this year. *Rolls eyes*
35) I have visited Amsterdam three times, with three different men, at three different times ofthe year, and loved it each time.
36) I have visited Stonehenge.
37) I have made my own leather thong knotted bracelet.
38) I have two tattoos.
39) I have several piercings.
40) I have not watched television regularly since I moved here.
41) I have lived with a heroin addict.
42) I have escaped one relationship by packing my belongings and doing a runner while he was at work, after planning it for weeks. It was brilliant!
43) I have not had a bath for over a year.
44) I have dreamed about having a bath for over a year.
45) I have watched the sun set in a desert in Saudi Arabia.
46) I have ridden on the Peak Tram in Hong Kong.
47) I have eaten shark in black bean sauce.
48) I have had a lifelong dislike of raw tomatoes.
49) I have owned a camera for as long as I can remember.
50) I have owned goldfish called Benson and Hedges.
51) I have watched baby pigs being born.
52) I have met several online friends and hope to continue doing so!
53) I met my husband on Yahoo 360 in August 2006.
54) I have survived the US Immigration process!
55) I have worn glasses since I was about 5 years old.
56) I have a fear of becoming sick or having an accident without medical insurance.
57) I have had three written warnings in ten years.
58) I have not spoken to my father for some 15 years, nor want to.
59) I have one younger brother, no sisters.
60) I have celebrated Chinese New Year, in China.
61) I have been punched in the face by a patient at work.
62) I have held more than one patient's hand as they died.
63) I have a fear of not being good enough.
64) I have an obsession with my home being tidy.
65) I have a hatred of soot.
66) I have never read the Bible, though I still have the copy my mum was given when she was at school, dated 1953.
67) I have gotten lost in a hedge maze.
68) I have done naughty things on top of Lime Street Railway Station in Liverpool.
69) I have a love of recipe books.
70) I have kept the first album I ever bought, when I was 11. "Parallel Lines" by Blondie.
71) I have strong memories of a bluebell wood, very close to home when I was very small.
72) I have grown up as an Army Brat.
73) I have stopped dyeing my hair after nearly 30 years of not knowing what it's real colour was.
74) I once lost 1 1/2 stones (approx 9 kilos) by cutting my fat intake to no more than 30g a day and walking everywhere, in four months.
75) I have been a chewing gum chewer since I started my nurse training in 1995.
76) I have worked as a shop assistant, a waitress, a telesales rep, a care assistant and a registered nurse.
77) I have seen sights to make your hair curl when working with elderly/invalid clients in their own homes.
78) I have never been arrested.
79) I have been pulled over by the police here in Thornville, and totally flustered the officer with all my reams of English paperwork.
80) I have fixed a broken muffler with an empty can of peas, tin snips, and a couple of hose clamps.
81) I have had my photograph taken professionally after winning a "makeover" contest.
82) I have crocheted a blanket big enough for a king-size bed. It cost me twice as much to post it here for Shane as it did to make it.
83) I have been living a totally different life since moving here from England, in every way.
84) I have set myself a target of studying and completing 5 hours of Continuing Education for nursing, each week.
85) I have no desire whatsoever to join Farmville.
86) I have played squash in 140 degree heat in Saudi Arabia.
87) I have walked a mile in that same 140 degree heat, loaded with groceries and finding the taxi office closed, only to be told when I got back to the camp that they would have sent the minibus to collect me if I'd phoned them. I cried.
88) I have become friendly with a giant beetle then trodden on it by accident and killed it.
89) I have signed the paperwork allowing the hospital to turn off my mum's life-support.
90) I have wanted to be an English teacher, a librarian, and a mounted policewoman.
91) I have served burgers & chips at half-time at a football match.
92) I have attended more funerals than weddings.
93) I have got drunk and climbed onto a restaurant table, singing along to "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen at the top of my lungs.
94) I have tidied my bedroom, then got stoned later and completely forgotten about it until I've discovered the lovely surprise of a tidy room when going to bed hours later.
95) I have collected empty glass bottles for recycling, and then not gotten round to taking them until they've become an artistic feature on the floor of my kitchen.
96) I have sliced the side of my tongue open, charging over a broken fence and screaming, hockey stick in hand, and running my mouth into the strand of wire that was still there along the top.
97) I have always loved "scenery" ~ sunsets, crowded cities, empty beaches. Everything.
98) I have never liked flashy sports cars. (Except red Mustangs belonging to Boo, of course. 
99) I have started knitting a shrug for Shane's daughter for Christmas. It's killing my wrist but it's looking good.
100) I have managed to think of 100 things. The End.
How about you?
Hi Guys!
)
Still in my PJs & dressing gown, plus snowboots and a woolly hat, ready for anything! And I'm SO pleased I bothered ~ I've taken some of what I think are my best photographs ever... 
Power restored! Electric heater now supplementing the boiler. Coffee nuked in the microwave. Laptop ON!! 
Hi Guys!!!
WOOHOOOO!!!
) I've taken so many photos over the last couple of days that rather than embed them all here, I've sorted them into separate albums that you can access by clicking on the red links. I hope this helps those of you with slower PCs. See how I think about you?
(Actually, it was Shane's
idea ~ I can't take the credit. See how he thinks about you?
There was 
I thought my heart was going to thud out of my body, and I was glad I'd taken my friend Eric's advice and had a good breakfast, plus a couple of chunks of chocolate, on the way. I gave in my details and my Authorisation to Test, and expected to spend an hour running backwards and forwards to the toilet...
It completely threw me!! I just sat there gawping at the monitor for a couple of minutes thinking "wtf??!! " A glance at the clock showed that just over an hour had passed. I couldn't believe it! All those tables I'd learned ~ Erikson's stages of development; the cranial nerves; vaccination schedules; fetal heart monitoring ~ not a single question on any of them! I almost felt cheated!
But there you go ~ it was over, just like that.
It was bustling, colourful, smelt wonderful with all the incense, and I just loved it! The only thing which would have made it even more enjoyable would have been Batty Goth there to share it with me! I treated myself to a gorgeous silver ring shaped like a flower with shell inserts for the petals, and a few packets of joss sticks. Considering the high I was on, I was remarkable reserved in my spending!
Here's the 
Really! I 
Thank you, Sue, for bringing JOY to this day... 
P
time sure flies.
