Tell us something INTERESTING about yourself
 

Yeah, this was long overdue. People sometimes post things about themselves in the 'extremely uninteresting' thread... And oftentimes funny uninteresting things as well.

Just like the title says, post something interesting about yourself.

This way we get to know each other better and learn some interesting and cool things about each other.

I'll start.

I don't like spiders like most people. Most people react scared, grossed out, or want to smush it. I'm guilty of that too still.

I've been bitten by a house spider once around my eye while I was sleeping four years ago. That was not pleasant. It looked like I had pink eye a little for a week (just by the surrounding swelling which was a little, but that's more than enough) and it had a lingering pain from the bite.

I had to put concealer on it for a several days to look normal while I was working.

At that time, I was working at a State Park making reservations for cabins, campgrounds, informing about the trails etc. One of the many interesting jobs I have had, but that's another story.

Anyway, that's the only time I have been bitten by one so far. I hope I don't again.

But there are only one kind of spider I have always liked in a way.

Ever since I saw Home Alone and saw Buzz's tarantula, and also later when I saw a book about them and a beautiful (but deadly after reading what kind it was and researching it) one on a book cover, I liked them.


I don't know why. They just remind me of fuzzy mammals even though they aren't (that's not hair). I want a tarantula stuffie now, lol (that kinda creeps me out too, but I have mixed feelings about it just like in real life with them :) like it, yet somewhat scared)

And I wanted to own one at least once one day. Not more than times than that, lol

So I don't know how long it's been. Maybe four months...

I got a pink toe tarantula from a pet vendor. They are black but have pink toes and silky hair. I don't like every spider I see at the shops, but I liked him. He had just molted and looked extra pretty. But I think he just does, because he still is now.

I like looking at animals and seeing the ones with extra personality than normal, or that just call out to you and give you that little tug in your heart.

Sometimes you can't always get them though, so you treasure that moment with them and move forward.

Yeah, my best friend allowed me to keep him in our place, lol but she was scared. She still is, but warmed up to him because she asks me how he is from time to time. She rarely looks at him though. It creeps her out to.

She has frilled dragons and loves reptiles (and got me to like them a lot too) but is scared of tarantulas more than I am, lol

I have a tall critter aquarium that locks shut. I also make sure to feed and water him (and clean his entire home when it is much needed) in a way to make sure he doesn't get out. He's an arboreal type of spider and CAN walk up anything, walk fast, and hop (but USUALLY just walk slow and relaxes, that's all I have seen, I try to be careful not to find out). I got a little more comfortable after going through that a few times. I was scared though. Still am a tiny bit each time, but I've learned some .

I named him Harry.

I hope he's not a girl, lol
then it's short for Harrietta.

I dunno, I just feel he's a boy. Or I would have called her Charlotte :D

I'll add a pic sometime and post here.

Sorry for the long post to start off. I'll sum it up in the next post to get everyone started ;)

I'm Joanna, and I have a pet tarantula named Harry ( ~ hairy).


(Long version above)

I have eaten deep fried tarantulas. They taste a bit like soft-shell crab, but with a weird insect after-taste. You can try them in Myanmar, or Thailand (they sell them at the street food carts along Khao San road in Bangkok).

At least you have a diverse taste palate like me. Even though I haven't tried that, lol

Meanie :p

I'm siccing Harry's relatives on you :D

Anyway...

I chanced upon a rare sale yesterday and bought a stereoscope (among other things) and fourteen stereographs (double photographs used in stereoscope) one of them being this print of the famous inventor Thomas Edison.

Luckily it doesn't have to be EXTREMELY interesting.

To continue in the animal-meat department, i own quite a few mammals and non-mammals: two dogs, a rabbit, a horse and a few chickens.

None of these animals were harmed during the typing of this message.

I live in a house with my best friend. I'm only going to talk about the pets I have.

4 bettas, 2 African Clawed frogs, 2 bullfrog tadpoles, 1 pinktoe tarantula, and a female German Shepherd.

1 betta and all the frogs were given to me, I didn't ask for them...

At least all of them are hardy animals. They aren't too much of a fuss (except my dog is a bit of a princess :) just how she has always been)

Last night I baked Sea Bass (Dorade) with a special spice mix that I put together and it was awesome. My dinner guests were recommending I open a restaurant. I declined on the grounds that Stuttgart Backed Dorade doesn't have the same ring as KFC.

I am a good cook and baker as well...

Lol, cut the excuses Rune. You and I both know one of us could come up with a catchy name for it :p

We're writers, it's what we do :)

I actually own a quill and ink. It was gifted to me along with a black hardcover journal from my Secret Santa at work last Christmas

and

I love fountain pens.

I used to be good at calligraphy. But I haven't touched a calligraphy pen in decades.

I just bought a five shelf bookcase for my growing book collection yesterday. That makes it two bookshelves in my room now.

And I have air plants.

I just got back from a country where they keep the bad old internet at bay with a great wall. The food is awesome though.

I don't know if it's interesting but here it goes.

I can't spell letter "L". I know the technicque, I know what I'm supposed to do, but when I try I get a bit crooked smile and sound goes sideway. It sounds silly, hard to describe.:D

When I was smaller I was extremely self conscious about that, and avoided words containing letter "L" (easier in my native language). So, you can guess, I was a slow speaker, can't imagine how many people thought that I'm a bit slow in general.

Now I understand that most people don't pick up on that, but when they do they never hear me the same.:)

This weekend I plan to cook my famous spaghetti in parmesan and truffle, followed by grilled golden sea bass in a salt crust.

Pasta la vista, baby!

There are some accents here in the UK that lead to the pronunciation of L at the end of words as W.


My fact is..since my partner and I are a bit strapped for cash this year instead of buying a Christmas tree we've simply decorated our chilli plant.

I once chipped my tooth on a doorknob. Happened when my brother and I were younger and messing around by the front door and he just took the back of my head and drilled it into the doorknob. The missing piece is still noticeable.

I have lived (defined as, for >3 yrs) in four countries in my life. In total, I have visited 34 countries and 87 cities so far.

I have the beauty of being double-jointed around my thumb, so I can push it to go behind my knuckle of my index finger. Try it and you can find out if you're special too.

Sometimes I wake up very early in the morning to watch meteor showers.

Totally celebrated my birthday early with my family this weekend, was really nice.

When I was 14 I tried out for my schools track and field team and qualified for all events I did ( 100m dash, 200m dash long jump)

I chipped my tooth on a door knob as a child after my brother pushed me into it head first.

Carrots give me the hiccups

The 4074 came up from an old username I used for an online game years ago as a child.

I have way too many bikinis but I keep wanting to buy new ones and keep old ones

An episode of Scooby Doo interested me in hypnosis as a child, which blossomed into my kinky side as I grew up.

I have a vein that leads to my heart.

I spend a lot of time going on and offline. More time online because that's how the internet works.

When you eat them, or when you use them as a substitute for... ahem... toys?

As you can see, I have a pretty active imagination.

The part of Japan my ancestors are from, wasn’t originally a part of Japan. It was its own kingdom and anthropological research has shown that the people of this part of Japan have different origins than those of mainland Japan. My people would be more likely to have origins that tie back to the Cretans which is why my ancestors were known for more olive like skin and more body hair. This could also explain why so many people think I’m not full Japanese. I have some features that some would state are more Caucasian...for example, my natural hair color is light brown.

The first money I ever made in my life (other than mowing lawns for neighbors) was by selling a computer game that I made when I was 12. It was a text-based RPG for the Sinclair Spectrum 16k written in Sinclair BASIC, saved on audio cassettes. I sold a total of 12 cassettes (3 to friends and the rest via an ad in a computer magazine), and I didn't report the income to the tax department. I hope that doesn't come back to bite me one day.

In my early twenties, when I would go clubbing, I would begin to back it up into any guy around me haha. One day, I did this to a random guy so he grabbed my hips and I started to grind. He turned me around so I was looking at him and whispered in my ear, “Next time, you might want to see someone’s face before you dance on them like that. For all you know I could have been some old creepy guy.” Of course that didn’t stop me. It was more fun not to know what a guy looked like so I could fantasize about the guy who was touching me hahaha.

When I was a kid, I once hatched a chicken egg as part of a school project. I got so fascinated by that, and decided to do a further experiment. I got another fertilized egg from our neighbor (who used to keep chickens), made a tiny hole where the air pocket is, and dripped in some Gentian Violet using a syringe and needle. I was hoping to hatch a purple chick. Needless to say, the egg didn't hatch. That failure didn't stop my hopes of becoming an evil mastermind one day with an army of mutants, though.

I once wrote a poem in high school. My teacher cried when I read it in class. I posted that poem in a blog that no longer exists and it ended up getting published in an anthology of poems on the very first page. I later received an Editor’s Choice Award for the poem. This fueled my writing and soon enough, I had a whole notebook full of poems. My senior year in high school, I was given a silly made-up award called the “I Got Mad Rhymes” Award haha. But then I had suffered with writer’s block for over a decade until a couple weeks ago when my delectable dom brought that side out of me again.

Sweet crêpes and coffee right now. Yum... *happy dance* :p

(What people eat sometimes is interesting as well ;) )

That was pretty interesting.

I need a shave.

That is pretty interesting Ellie ;):p Shave where?

As for me, my slavegirl asked me to use her to tonight (after finishing writing a couple more entries), so that could be interesting :D

Maybe you'll hear about it.

I keep a bottle of 2004 vintage Laurent Perrier Rosé Champagne in my cellar to pop if KIC 9832227 merges and forms a luminous red nova visible to the naked eye in constellation Cygnus in 2022 as hypothesized. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem very likely according to the new studies.

Previously, this bottle was reserved for Betelgeus going supernova... another giant celestial disappointment :SMH:

I wrote ten books in the last ten years and I am currently working on one about bdsm and the psychological backgrounds. But writing is a lonely business, believe me...