About you...

[stranger]

Oh....you're no fun at all!

What, it's funny!

Btw, I am fun, but at the right moment. :animwink: :lol:

 

[stranger]

I just started a new job at the local PBS affiliate. From CBS to PBS -- the most watch network to the least watched. :lol:

No wonder I haven't seen you around in awhile... :lol:

:wave:

 

[DisneyPhD]

I just started a new job at the local PBS affiliate. From CBS to PBS -- the most watch network to the least watched. :lol:

I LOVE PBS. Not only the kids shows (which are good and no comercials) but BBC stuff, Nature and other documenterys. PBS ROCKS!!!!! The only reality shows I like is the PBS ones where they "send people back in time" and make them live like that time period. Really PBS used to be the only sation that showed stuff like that, then cable started decicating whole channels to the things PBS showed.

BTW, Sound of Music is possibly one of the best movies ever made. I got curious one day and did a search on line and found out more info on what happened to the family after the movie, it is very interesting.

Oh and Stanger "YOU GO GIRL!!!!!" I was 30 before my 1st child was born and happy about it. However if I want to have more then 2 and want to wait awhile I might be in for it next pregancy! (we were married 8 years before Little PhD was born, grad school kind of got in the way.)

 

[WDWScottieBoy]

Christian music is very important to me too! I love Michael W. Smith. I am a Lutheran and attend church weekly, which is one of the reasons why the cp was a little hard because I often had to work sunday mornings and couldn't change my availability to have mornings off and work evenings.

I also am a Lutheran (ELCA though, not MS). I love working with my church and have done two mission trips, one in Key West, FL and another in Atlanta, GA.

-I enjoy being around kids more than adults (Sorry, Speck....)

I am just the opposite. I enjoy being with people much older than me rather than people my age or younger. I guess it's because of the education level or something. I like being with people that carry on intellectual conversations and don't talk about ______ and alcohol all the time, and getting wasted and high at parties. Adults are awesome! :sohappy:

 

[garyhoov]

My brother and I once ate an entire package of Oreos "Double-Stuff" while sitting in the back of my grandfather's pickup truck during the hour drive from his house to his cabin.

My grandfather wasn't happy - not because we had just eaten enough sugar to kill two 8-9 year old boys, but because there weren't any left for him.

My grandfather was cool.

He used fart really LOUD.

 

[disneytati]

do you want some of mine? My dad is 2nd youngest of 8 kids (all alive with a sig. other, plus some with ex-others) and mom is the oldest of 4 girls (all alive, the younger three each with one ex, and one new husband).

I have 80 (with one more on theway) first cousins. (first cousins, their husbands/wives, and their children who would be first cousins once and some twice removed).

Not to mention SEVERAL more cousins on the 2nd level (my parents first cousins) and one or two on the 3rd (my grandparents first cousins). As well as great aunts and uncles.

please. take a few.

My father has only 1 brother and my mother has only 1 sister. My aunt doesn't have any children, my uncle has 2 daughters. These are the 2 first cousins I have!

About age, I really don't care about it very much. I am 29 and I will always be a kid! :lol: Now seriously, I don't care. I think everyone has something interesting to share, and being in contact with all kinds of people is very important...

 

[tigger248]

I also am a Lutheran (ELCA though, not MS). I love working with my church and have done two mission trips, one in Key West, FL and another in Atlanta, GA.

Cool! It isn't too often that I meet other Lutherans. In fact, I've had friends before who would ask what a Lutheran is. Just last week, I mentioned something about the reformation being sunday and a coworker asked me if I was catholic. :brick:

 

[DDuckFan130]

Since you guys brought up the subject of families, mine is very large. I won't even go into the extended family because that would take forever. But, on my mom's side I have 6 cousins and the interesting part is that we were all born in the same order. Girl, boy, girl. There's me, my brother, and my sister. My cousin Patty, Willy, and Marcia. Then my cousins Maria Fabiola, Richard, and Alexandra. Woo...and that's just my mom's side.

I have no idea how many cousins there are on my dad's side because my dad's brothers and sister and entire family is back in Nicaragua. I think there may be 20 of them but who knows :lol:.

 

[wdwhoneymooner]

I am just the opposite. I enjoy being with people much older than me rather than people my age or younger. I guess it's because of the education level or something. I like being with people that carry on intellectual conversations and don't talk about ______ and alcohol all the time, and getting wasted and high at parties. Adults are awesome! :sohappy:

I guess I should have been more specific: I meant young children (infants thru 10). I truly enjoy their unspoiled view of life and to know that I can somehow be a positive factor after spending time with them. I guess you can call me an idealist.

 

[disneymoc]

No wonder I haven't seen you around in awhile... :lol:

:wave:

My goal is for CBS to become everyone's favorite network. It will never happen, but I like torturing myself.

 

[WDWScottieBoy]

My goal is for CBS to become everyone's favorite network. It will never happen, but I like torturing myself.

What exactly did you do at CBS and what do you do now for PBS?

I love Survivor and have every show of every season on tape!

 

[ClemsonTigger]

Here goes

Well, I guess there are enough of you in the water for me to wade in.

I don't like talking about myself or being in pictures (so I take them), but I'm not in the least bit shy.

As a teenager (back when I did know everything) I made it clear that I would never come back to New Jersey (having escaped to school), never get married and never have kids. Well, I have been married for 25 years, have three kids and live in NJ about 11/2 miles from where I grew up. I did learn my lesson and don't use the "N" word anymore...and as an extension, believe the world is mostly gray with very little black and white.

While I'm still not great with kids, I love mine and stay actively involved with their world. I make it a point to keep up with current music, TV and other issues to know where they are coming from...and to remind them on a regular basis that I DO KNOW what they are thinking.

I was a band geek playing in both bands and orchestras throughout HS, college and for a while after. While never a thespian (I am very stiff onstage, somewhat monotone and have difficulty memorizing lines), I have for years played in pit orchestras, so have an ongoing love for musicals. We have "encouraged" our children to learn both piano and another instrument, and the two older ones have played in HS (although my daughter constantly rebels as it is so uncool!). She is also mortified that as we will be paying for college, we will require band participation the first year. (Hopefully they will understand and be able to thank us later)

As per my member name...I did my undergraduate at Clemson University in South Carolina...a wonderful escape from the northeast. I was fully indoctrinated in the magic of college sports and social life (in HS, we didn't even have homecoming and only band and football parents came to the games). My degrees are in microbiology and biochemistry and have worked in the pharmaceutical field my entire career. I've had the luck to be involved in some of the most interesting and successful drug compounds available and love my work.

I have always had too many interests for the time available to me including music, movies, books, science fiction, gardening/landscape design, travel, art, and various crafts. I can be obsessive with my interests, for example when we built our current house, while it was a standard builder design, I had to research and design the bathrooms including tile and fixtures, all lighting (including location and types of switches), flooring and colors. I even specified structural support materials.

My favorite holiday by far is Christmas. I do all the decorating and some of the cooking. We have six decorated trees in the house including a 15' one in the entry. I make many of the ornaments myself, having started in my teens. I give some away as gifts that are well received...except that with each one taking 8-20 hours to make becomes rather taxing.

I've loved Disney since forever. Seeing Disneyland on TV was a terrible tease knowing I would NEVER be able to get there (it was just too far to drive, and only rich people could fly). When the Florida construction was followed on WWoD, I thought that was within reach. First visit was in '73 as part of college visits. Of course all there was was MK, Contemporary and Poly. Part of our honeymoon was spent staying at the Poly in '79, next visit was in October of 82 for EPCOT. Luckily we've had the opportunity to visit many times since, and to be amazed at the growth and change of WDW and Orlando over that time. The HS band has performed at both WDW and DL (score one for the band geeks!) with the '03 visit to DL as my current avatar. Thanks to travel with work, I finally got to see DL for the first time in the early 90's. Going there still feels like a trip to Mecca.

Oh yea, I can also be long winded.... sorry!

 

[tigsmom]

Wow! I've just learned so many neat things about you.

I think the most suprising to me is your affinity for making/giving away Christmas ornaments...I do the same thing. :lol:

By the way...one tree is more than enough. :wave:

 

[barnum42]

By the way...one tree is more than enough. :wave:

Which is one more than I have in my house - I know, I'm a miserable old bah-humbug Scrooge.

And poud of it

 

[ClemsonTigger]

I think the most suprising to me is your affinity for making/giving away Christmas ornaments...I do the same thing.

Yea, it's kinda' one of those closet things...doesn't really fit with the rest of my personality...then again it does. One source I have that I really enjoy is:

http://www.crackerbox.com/ pictures are just a sampling of what they have. I've known these guys for over 20 years, and actually have made some of the balls photographed for their catalog.

By the way...one tree is more than enough.

Now you sound like my wife!...it's just impossible! How could I rotate the ornaments as the just don't fit on one tree.

The big tree is the "family" tree that everyone decorates and includes all that stuff the kids have made in school and just about everything. I had live 16-17' trees until about 4 years ago...got tired of cutting them and hauling them myself. Then there is the 71/2' tree in the LR that I decorate and a third tree in the den/TV rm. where we spend much of our time.

The kids each have one in their room that they do with as they please. They get some new ornaments bought and made each year, and have their own "ornament boxes". We will send the boxes off with them as they venture out on their own, so they will have some memories to start off with. :xmas:

 

[tigsmom]

Yea, it's kinda' one of those closet things...doesn't really fit with the rest of my personality...then again it does. One source I have that I really enjoy is:

http://www.crackerbox.com/ pictures are just a sampling of what they have. I've known these guys for over 20 years, and actually have made some of the balls photographed for their catalog.

Very nice...

They get some new ornaments bought and made each year, and have their own "ornament boxes". We will send the boxes off with them as they venture out on their own, so they will have some memories to start off with. :xmas:

Again we walk the same path. :lol:

I started collecting my ornaments in the 70s when I was in HS, so our first tree was not bare.
I have gotten/made ornaments for the girls each year since they were born (sometimes more than one), add to that the ones they've received as gifts and have made themselves and they are well on their way to a great collection.

My favorites have to be the "Radko" style ornaments that my grandparents gave to us. There aren't many left because they are so easily broken (and very old), but I cherish them.(side note: never put candy canes on a tree if you have a dog. :brick: )

 

[disneytati]

Wow! I've just learned so many neat things about you.

I think the most suprising to me is your affinity for making/giving away Christmas ornaments...I do the same thing. :lol:

By the way...one tree is more than enough. :wave:

I just loooooooove Christmas! I start waiting for Christmas in October every year!!!! :lol: Well, better arrive home and watch one of my xmas videos... :xmas:

 

[speck76]

My favorites have to be the "Radko" style ornaments that my grandparents gave to us. There aren't many left because they are so easily broken (and very old), but I cherish them.(side note: never put candy canes on a tree if you have a dog. :brick: )

I like the Radko style ornaments too......mainly toy soldiers and santas.....Speck does not bother the candy canes, she is afraid of the tree.

 

[disneymoc]

What exactly did you do at CBS and what do you do now for PBS?

I love Survivor and have every show of every season on tape!

I was the sales development coordinator for the CBS affiliate. I put together sales packages and plans for the account executives to sell commercial time to local businesses. For the local PBS station, I am director of public information and community outreach. I am in charge of all marketing, public relations and event planning for the station. A fun job

 

[stranger]

My goal is for CBS to become everyone's favorite network. It will never happen, but I like torturing myself.

You want people to watch CBS or PBS? (Aren't you currently working for PBS?)
I don't recall watching shows on CBS, but then again I don't watch much t.v..

I just loooooooove Christmas! I start waiting for Christmas in October every year!!!! Well, better arrive home and watch one of my xmas videos...

Same here...I enjoy christmas very much (except the shopping) :lol: . I'm a sucker for holiday movies especially It's a Wonderful Life and The Night They Saved Christmas.
I'm going to Disneyland this sunday to see the holiday lights up :xmas: