Saturday, October 29, 2005

   Hello? Anyone here?

Woah, you guys are still here! You guys really are the best friends any Panda could ask for. I really love all the support you guys give me when I am feeling icky. You all totally rock my socks. I really do love you guys. I love all the PMs and greetings you guys have been sending me. Love it, absolutely love it. It has been all grey and rainy here in my neck of the woods and you guys are the ray of sunshine brightening my day. Thank you. I would be lost without you. It's really hard not to get a bit depressed when I feel bad and even the weather has turned against me. You remind me that I am loved and not alone. I truly am blessed to know you and call you my friends. Thank you. As a soul bearing thank you I will give you guys a list of random trivia about me. All the deep dark dirty secrets about Panda shall now come to light. You thought you knew me, until now! -I have one sibling. I am the youngest of two kids in my family. My older brother is 2 years, well, actually 1 year 364 days older than me. My big bro Hiroshi was born January 4, 1974 and I was born right before his 2nd birthday on January 3, 1976. I am the best birthday gift he has ever received IMHO. Just kidding. It is kind of sad looking at his birthday "party" pictures since my mom and I were, of course, in the hospital on his birthday and dad was working/visiting the hospital...so he was at my grandparents house. He had a cake and stuff but all the pictures he has this pouty frown on his face. Yup, I put the frown on his face...I am a great little sister aren't I? I know, all you older siblings are ready to smack me. I actually feel bad about that, he looked so sad. Hey, at least I wasn't born ON his birthday. - I have a bizarre fear of guinea pigs. When working in vet med I could deal with snakes, lizards and all the other critters...but guinea pigs bother me. Kweeeek! I cannot reach into a cage and grab a guinea pig. Give me an angry 25 lb python any day. - I sing in the car. No, not just sing, I sing cheesy 80's power ballads. I sing like I am giving a concert. All out, no shame at all. I guess I should also mention I can't sing. I was in band, not choir in school. Current favorite song to sing: Pat Benatar's Invincible - I have my ears double pierced and a tattoo. I had my first ear piercing when I was in grade school but let them close up. When I was 15 my best friend Karyn re-pierced them for me and gave me the second set of piercings. I always wear silver "sleeper" hoops. Those are the earrings that have a hinge in the bottom of the hoop and close completely into a sold circle. The post feeds into the other end of the hoop. Hope that makes some sense. As for my tattoo I got it when I was 18. It is on the inside my left ankle. It is a red rose with barbed wired wrapped around it. It's not a panda...shocking isn't it. I plan on getting a panda but first need spare money and next need to find a design I really love. I am thinking I will have John design a tat for me. He has done a couple tat designs...which is kinda cool thinking that his design is on someone body. Anywho, panda tat when I get around to it. - I do not have a fear of needles. I know many of you already knew this. I have no problem with needles. I get chemo injections weekly and get lab work done on my blood every couple of weeks so I am totally used to getting stabbed with needles. Not to mention stabbing myself with needles at the vet clinic accidently. >_<;; - I have never done illegal drugs. I know many people who have and do, but I myself have never done drugs other than my medication. No shrooms, weed, meth...nothing. Heck, I rarely drink and I am of legal drinking age. I don't smoke either. - I know people who know people. I really don't know many celebrities outside of the anime world. I do know people who know people. For instance: The creator of The Simpsons, Matt Groening's cousin Chris. She gave us a frying pan for a wedding gift. I convinced Actor/Musician Jack Black's little sister to open up a myO account. My uncle (who has past away) was best friends with US Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta. My aunt who is a nurse works for Dr. Levy, the dad of former Washington intern Chandra Levy who went missing, found dead and was linked with the U.S. Representative Gary Condit. I am sure there is more, but those are the people I know who know people. - My dad was interned in a Relocation Camp during WW2. Yeah, my dad's family was moved from Washington state to Wyoming. I am not sure why the government thought they were a risk to national safety. My grandpa was a farmer with 3 kids. My dad's older brother died in the camp. This makes me mad since I will never know my uncle. I have a few family pictures but that is it. I wonder what he was like. Would he have kids now? What would my cousins be like? I will never know and it makes me sad. - Due to a farming accident I am missing my right index finger! True, when I was 3 years old I got it caught in a piece of farm equipment, the gears to a seed planter, and it got mangled. I won't go into the nasty details but it had to be amputated. I write right handed and just modified my typing style to do what needed to be done. One of my biggest disappointments came when a music teacher told me I could never play the piano. Not to worry, I am teaching myself how to play and so far I haven't had any trouble. IN YOUR FACE LAME MUSIC TEACHER! - I find pilots, firemen, musicians, paramedics and artists very sexy. Pilots, I am 100% convinced it is because of being totally in love with Robotech. Yes, anime really influenced me. I wished I was Lisa. I wanted my dashing Veritech pilot to swoop in and rescue me from danger. Thus firemen and paramedics too. The idea that they put their safety after someone else is very heroic to me. Helping others, that is just cool. Musicians and artists, well, the creative nature of those pursuits. A guy who plays the piano melts my heart. I truly am lucky, John is a Certified Flight Instructor, ex-Department of Natural Resources firefighter, can play piano by ear (BTW the first piece he ever played me was "November Rain" by GNR that he just taught himself by hearing the song!), EMT and graphic designer. Phew! Somehow he seemed to fit my strange collection of likes. He's also a cook. Eat your hearts out girls, I got the perfect guy. - I cry easily. I grew up a tomboy so this is really weird for me. I was so rough and tumble I never understood why my mom would get all weepy over a movie. Now I understand: hormones. Damn them! I cried at the commercial for the Land Rover when the couple all dressed up to go to the ballet see a scruffy dog all wet from rain standing at the off ramp on the road. They stop and pick the pup up. That was so sweet! Love that commercial. I cried in Castaway when Tom Hanks looses "Wilson" in the ocean. It's a fricken volleyball!! It just broke my heart when he kept apologizing to the ball as it drifted away. Don't even get me started about Alicia during her dad's funeral in FMA. I read the manga before seeing it and just had me so upset! Oh, better stop, I'll start crying. -I've struggled with my weight my entire adult life. Meh. I am one plump panda. Not much to really report here but now that I have RA it has become very hard for me to exercise. I hurt so it is easier to not move, but I need to move so I don't hurt, but moving hurts, so I don't. It's a vicious cycle and I am just...meh. Pleasantly plump pandas are much more fun to hug than rail thin ones. Plus, who ever heard of a panda being thin? That's just crazy! - I can quote Monty Python skits/movies. I am a nerd. I can quote not only movies like Holy Grail but individual skits from the television series. I won't even open up this big ol' can of worms since I would "just go on and on about how they don't make it right here...." Hey, you just knew I had to put one quote in. - I beat up a boy when I was in the 3rd grade. I told you earlier that I was a tomboy. Well, little boys being little boys...he and his gang of friends were picking on my friends. One of them, the biggest one made a racial comment about "slanty eyes" and I snapped. I pretty much just grabbed his hand and twisted it until he was on the playground lawn crying. The best part. When he went to tell the teacher she didn't do anything to me. I am not sure if she didn't believe a little girl beat up a bully or if she just didn't care he got beat up. Either way, I got away with it. Rawr, don't mess with a Panda! I will close this out with some total randomness. - Random useless favorite quotes: Why are these my favorites? Why not?! These are just quotes that caugh my fancy. "Make it happen with the Cap'n" Ad slogan for Cap'n Crunch cereal. This just always struck me as being a bit, well, like pedophelia. I don't know about you guys, but I don't want to make anything happen with the Cap'n. "Bustin' heads and breakin' hearts" As seen on the cover of the Patrick Swayze movie Roadhouse. That movie is so cheesetasic the quote just added the extra slathering of Velveeta on top. "Where is fancy bread, in the heart or in the head?" Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka quote. How can you not love everything he says. "Shop Smart, Shop S-Mart" Ash from Army of Darkness. Bruce Campbell is a god. He has some great lines. "Hail to the King baby." "Two men enter, one man leaves!" Quote from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. I love that movie. It is cheesetasic and filled with wonderful quotes. Remember: "Break a deal, spin the wheel." "I don't want the world, I just want your half." From They Might Be Giants song Ana Ng. I named my Siamese cat Ana Ng and that just seems like something she would say. She is evil. Pure evil. I don't have to worry about ghosts or demons invading my home since the ultimate evil being already resides here, it just happens to be in the shape of my cat. "If you want to master the technique you must bow to the Panda." Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi. You know it. If you want to be taught my young padawan you must bow to the Panda! Pandas rock. Follow me my evil minions! Hmm, I guess that is about it for right now. I really can't think of what else to tell you guys about. This post actually shaped up nicely. Nice solid long post. Hopefully entertaining and a fun read. If I think of something else I will write a note and use it in my next useless Panda trivia post. Hope you guys got a kick out of reading my ramblings. If you get a chance check out my newest addition to theOtaku site, it's called "theOtaku.com Screening Room". I've done two so far and have a third in the works. The one on the front page right now (in the news section) is for Shadow Skill. Check it out and tell me what you think. Thanks again for being such great friends. I love you all and hope you have a wonderful weekend. Now just don't eat all the trick-or-treat candy before halloween. John's already polished off a bag so I have to go get more before Monday. Oh bother.

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