self-indulgence...
(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)
✓ I miss somebody right now. (i miss a lot of people all the time. mostly i miss people who don't technically exist anymore, since they are very different people by now.)
✓ I don't watch much TV these days. (but i do watch a lot of tv on dvd... err... tvd. 'home movies' is pretty much constant background noise in my room.)
✓ I own lots of books. (most of which are in boxes in the basement.)
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses. (because without them, i can't see 2 feet in front of me.)
× I love to play video games.
× I've tried marijuana. (i've never taken a non-prescription drug. i have a hard time taking prescription drugs.)
× I've watched porn movies.
× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.
× I believe honesty is usually the best policy. (i believe policies generally reduce people's level of honesty.)
✓ I curse sometimes. (more lately than is usual for me.)
✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year. (a lot has happened over the last year.)
× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.
* * * * *
× I have broken someone's bones.
× I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal.
× I hate the rain.
× I'm paranoid at times.
× I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.
× I need/want money right now.
× I love sushi.
× I talk really, really fast.
× I have fresh breath in the morning. (oh, if only.)
× I have long hair.
× I have lost money in Las Vegas.
✓ I have at least one sibling. (two older sisters, to be exact.)
× I was born in a country outside of the U.S.
× I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past.
× I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.
× I like the way that I look.
× I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months.
× I am usually pessimistic.
× I have a lot of mood swings.
× I think prostitution should be legalized.
× I slept with a roommate. (i think we're all aware of my voluntary virginity.)
✓ I have a hidden talent. (i'd show you, but it's invisible.)
× I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have.
× I have a lot of friends. (i have few people i consider friends. but all of my friends are very dear to me.)
× I have pecked someone of the same sex.
× I enjoy talking on the phone. (i see my phone as a means of making plans.)
× I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.
× I love to shop and/or window shop.
× I'm obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal. (i spend far too much time on myspace, though.)
× I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
✓ I have a mobile phone. (who doesn't?)
× I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months. (i think we're all aware of my lack of alcohol consumption.)
✓ I've rejected someone before. (i actually told a girl i wouldn't go out with her, and when she asked why, i told her i was gay. yeah.)
✓ I currently like/love someone. (yep. it's true.)
✓ I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life. (that's why i'm here right now. i'm trying to figure that out.)
✓ I want to have children in the future. (i want a family. it's true.)
× I have changed a diaper before.
× I've called the cops on a friend before.
× I'm not allergic to anything.
✓ I have a lot to learn. (anybody who claims otherwise is simply displaying their ignorance.)
✓ I am shy around the opposite sex. (but only if i'm attracted to the person.)
× I'm online 24/7, even as an away message. (i'm online more like 15/7.)
× I have at least 5 away messages saved.
× I have tried alcohol or drugs before. (i think we all know... yeah.)
× I have made a move on a friend's significant other or crush in the past.
× I own the "South Park" movie.
× I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal.
× I enjoy some country music.
× I would die for my best friends.
× I'm obsessive, and often a perfectionist.
× I have used my sexuality to advance my career.
✓ I think Halloween is awesome because you get free candy. (yeah! candy!)
× I have dated a close friend's ex. (almost. aimee was my close friend's crush.)
× I am happy at this moment. (i am working on that.)
× I'm obsessed with guys.
× Democrat.
× Republican.
× I don't even know what I am.
✓ I am punk rockish. (haha, i think so.)
× I go for older guys/girls, not younger. (i'd like to try it, honestly.)
× I study for tests most of the time.
× I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met.
× I can work on a car.
× I love my job(s).
× I am comfortable with who I am right now.
× I have more than just my ears pierced.
× I walk barefoot wherever I can.
× I have jumped off a bridge.
× I love sea turtles.
× I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup.
× I plan on achieving a major goal/dream.
✓ I am proficient on a musical instrument. (and i'd like to make something of it.)
× I hate office jobs.
× I went to college out of state.
× I am adopted.
× I am a pyro.
× I have thrown up from crying too much.
✓ I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved. (mmhmm. hearts are not toys, people.)
✓ I fall for the worst people. (and i ignore anybody who warns me while it's going on.)
× I adore bright colours.
× I usually like covers better than originals.
× I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays.
× I can pick up things with my toes.
× I can't whistle.
× I have ridden/owned a horse.
× I still have every journal I've ever written in.
✓ I talk in my sleep. (though the only person who has told me this was aimee.)
× I've often thought that I was born in the wrong century.
× I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions.
× I wear a toe ring.
× I have a tattoo.
× I can't stand at LEAST one person that I work with.
✓ I am a caffeine junkie. (mountain dew pretty much owns me.)
× I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all.
× If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder. (i am afraid of being drafted because i think i'm incapable of killing anybody.)
× I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.
× I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner.
✓ I'm an artist. (and i'd like to make something of it.)
✓ I am ambidextrous. (not entirely, but i can do a lot with my left hand that most righties have difficulties with.)
× I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed.
× If it weren't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudist colony. (if i were the only one clothed, i'd live in a nudist colony.)
× I have terrible teeth.
✓ I hate my toes. (and i never wear sandals.)
✓ I did this meme even though I wasn't tagged by the person who took it before me. (i did it because it seemed intersting.)
× I have more friends on the internet than in real life.
✓ I have lived in either three different states or countries. (iowa, utah, michigan, portugal.)
× I am extremely flexible.
× I love hugs more than kisses.
× I want to own my own business.
× I smoke.
× I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else.
✓ Nobody has ever said I'm normal. (and if they did, i'd know they were lying.)
✓ Sad movies, games, and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then. (i think i nearly cry at basically any emotional display.)
× I am proficient in the use of many types of firearms and combat weapons.
× I like the way women look in stylized men's suits. (thank you, 1987.)
✓ I don't like it when people are unpleased or seem unpleased with me. (i want everybody to be happy all the time.)
× I have been described as a dreamer or likely to have my head up in the clouds.
✓ I have played strip poker with someone else before. (i haven't, but jes, if you're up for it...)
✓ I have had emotional problems for which I have sought professional help. (and he said "take these pills." yeesh.)
✓ I believe in ghosts and the paranormal. (i believe in the immortal energies of those passed.)
× I can't stand being alone.
✓ I have at least one obsession at any given time. (i have at least 7 obsessions at any given time.)
× I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again.
× I consistently spend way too much money on obsessions-of-the-moment.
× I'm a judgmental asshole.
× I'm a HUGE drama-queen.
✓ I have travelled on more than one continent. (i've lived in europe. i want to go back.)
× I sometimes wish my father would just disappear.
✓ I need people to tell me I'm good at something in order to feel that I am. (i'm not entirely sure this is always true, but i sort of feel it is, so i'm checking this one.)
× I am a Libertarian.
✓ I can speak more than one language. (rather, i used to be able to. i'm not sure how much portuguese i can conjure up at any given moment.)
× I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be.
✓ I would rather read than watch TV. (reading makes my brain happy.)
✓ I like reading fact more than fiction. (i like essays by people like chuck klosterman.)
✓ I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do. (i have done an assignment in one night that i was given a month to do.)
✓ I have no piercings. (but my mom convinced me to pierce my ear when i was 15. i hated it and took it out after a week.)
✓ I have spent the night in a train station or other public place. (in portugal, i missed the last train home, and i slept outside in the middle of december. if you want to call it sleep... i was freezing.)
× I have been so upset over my physical gender that I cried.
× I once spent Christmas completely alone because there was a miscommunication on which parent was supposed to have me that night.
× There have been times when I have wondered "Why was I born?" and may/may not have cried over it.
× I like most animals better than most people.
× I own a collection of retro games consoles.
× The thought of physical exercise makes me shiver.
× I have hit someone with a dead fish. (this sounds fun.)
× I am compulsively honest.
× I was born with a congenital birth defect that has never been repaired.
× I have danced topless in front of dozens of complete strangers.
× I have gone from wishing I was a girl to revelling in being a boy to feeling like a girl again in the span of five minutes, and not cared a whit for my actual sex.
× I am unashamedly bisexual, and have different motivations for my desires for different genders.
✓ I sometimes won't sleep a whole night or eat a whole day because I forget to. (i'm hoping to change this.)
× I find it impossible to get to sleep without some kind of music on.
× I dislike milk.
× I obsessively wash my hands.
× I always carry something significant around with me.
× Sometimes I'd rather wear a wig in day-to-day life than use my own hair.
× I've pushed myself to become more self-aware and thereby more aware of others.
× Even though I live on my own I still cry sometimes because I miss my mother.
× I hand wrote all the HTML tags in this document.
✓ I've liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird. (does maroon 5 count? i think maroon 5 counts.)
× I have been clinically dead for a brief period of time.
× Instead of feeling sympathy/empathy with people and their problems, I simply become annoyed.
× I participate/have participated in auto drag races and won.
× I do not 'get' most comedy acts.
× I don't think strippers are money-greedy or slutty for dancing.
× I don't like to chew gum.
× I am obsessed with history/historical things and can't wait for someone to build a time machine so I can be the first to use it.
× I can never remember for the life of me where I parked the car.
× I had the TEEN ANGST thing going for at least 2-3 years.
× I wish people would be more empathic and honest with each other.
× I play Dungeons and Dragons weekly.
✓ I love to sing. (but i hate my voice.)
× I want to live in my mother's basement when I grow up.
× I have a custom-built computer.
× I want to create a certain someone's babies, even though there's a 0% possiblity of ever achieving it.
× I would be in a relationship with one of my pets if they were human.
✓ I've gone skinny-dipping. (mmhmm.)
× I've performed in three plays.
✓ I enjoy burritos. (i wish i had one right now.)
× I'm Irish and loving it.
× I have a thing for redheads.
× I am a twin!
× Most of the times, I'd rather do something intellectual instead of doing something generically 'fun'.
× Once I set out to finish something, I always stay at it until it is completed before I move on to something else. (i feel right now like i've failed at everything i've ever set out to do.)
✓ I wish there were a way to erase past mistakes. (but i constantly remind myself that regret is counter-productive.)
× I sleep more than 12 hours a day.
× I wish I could be prouder of what I've accomplished, but it's never enough.
× I need more time to myself.
× I wish I was more open-minded.
× I hope that I go really prematurely grey.
✓ I download songs from the internet. (and i buy the things that i like. i've honestly purchased more music because of this system than i would have otherwise.)
× I've just reenacted chapter 58 of Death Note with my best friend.
× I say random things to freak people out.
× I'm still a little mad about the ending of Death Note.
× I love playing Truth or Dare.
× I love listening to slow music, but I hate singing to it.
✓ Music helps me remember that I am not alone. (and about a million other things.)
× Playing my favorite sport makes me temporarily forget my problems.
✓ I think this survey is particularly long. (but i'm finishing anyway.)
× I prefer my LJ friends to my real-life ones.
× I can only hate someone that I love.
× I've ordered an extra two shots of espresso to an Americano at Starbucks.
✓ I miss somebody right now. (i miss a lot of people all the time. mostly i miss people who don't technically exist anymore, since they are very different people by now.)
✓ I don't watch much TV these days. (but i do watch a lot of tv on dvd... err... tvd. 'home movies' is pretty much constant background noise in my room.)
✓ I own lots of books. (most of which are in boxes in the basement.)
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses. (because without them, i can't see 2 feet in front of me.)
× I love to play video games.
× I've tried marijuana. (i've never taken a non-prescription drug. i have a hard time taking prescription drugs.)
× I've watched porn movies.
× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.
× I believe honesty is usually the best policy. (i believe policies generally reduce people's level of honesty.)
✓ I curse sometimes. (more lately than is usual for me.)
✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year. (a lot has happened over the last year.)
× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.
* * * * *
× I have broken someone's bones.
× I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal.
× I hate the rain.
× I'm paranoid at times.
× I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.
× I need/want money right now.
× I love sushi.
× I talk really, really fast.
× I have fresh breath in the morning. (oh, if only.)
× I have long hair.
× I have lost money in Las Vegas.
✓ I have at least one sibling. (two older sisters, to be exact.)
× I was born in a country outside of the U.S.
× I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past.
× I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.
× I like the way that I look.
× I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months.
× I am usually pessimistic.
× I have a lot of mood swings.
× I think prostitution should be legalized.
× I slept with a roommate. (i think we're all aware of my voluntary virginity.)
✓ I have a hidden talent. (i'd show you, but it's invisible.)
× I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have.
× I have a lot of friends. (i have few people i consider friends. but all of my friends are very dear to me.)
× I have pecked someone of the same sex.
× I enjoy talking on the phone. (i see my phone as a means of making plans.)
× I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.
× I love to shop and/or window shop.
× I'm obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal. (i spend far too much time on myspace, though.)
× I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
✓ I have a mobile phone. (who doesn't?)
× I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months. (i think we're all aware of my lack of alcohol consumption.)
✓ I've rejected someone before. (i actually told a girl i wouldn't go out with her, and when she asked why, i told her i was gay. yeah.)
✓ I currently like/love someone. (yep. it's true.)
✓ I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life. (that's why i'm here right now. i'm trying to figure that out.)
✓ I want to have children in the future. (i want a family. it's true.)
× I have changed a diaper before.
× I've called the cops on a friend before.
× I'm not allergic to anything.
✓ I have a lot to learn. (anybody who claims otherwise is simply displaying their ignorance.)
✓ I am shy around the opposite sex. (but only if i'm attracted to the person.)
× I'm online 24/7, even as an away message. (i'm online more like 15/7.)
× I have at least 5 away messages saved.
× I have tried alcohol or drugs before. (i think we all know... yeah.)
× I have made a move on a friend's significant other or crush in the past.
× I own the "South Park" movie.
× I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal.
× I enjoy some country music.
× I would die for my best friends.
× I'm obsessive, and often a perfectionist.
× I have used my sexuality to advance my career.
✓ I think Halloween is awesome because you get free candy. (yeah! candy!)
× I have dated a close friend's ex. (almost. aimee was my close friend's crush.)
× I am happy at this moment. (i am working on that.)
× I'm obsessed with guys.
× Democrat.
× Republican.
× I don't even know what I am.
✓ I am punk rockish. (haha, i think so.)
× I go for older guys/girls, not younger. (i'd like to try it, honestly.)
× I study for tests most of the time.
× I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met.
× I can work on a car.
× I love my job(s).
× I am comfortable with who I am right now.
× I have more than just my ears pierced.
× I walk barefoot wherever I can.
× I have jumped off a bridge.
× I love sea turtles.
× I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup.
× I plan on achieving a major goal/dream.
✓ I am proficient on a musical instrument. (and i'd like to make something of it.)
× I hate office jobs.
× I went to college out of state.
× I am adopted.
× I am a pyro.
× I have thrown up from crying too much.
✓ I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved. (mmhmm. hearts are not toys, people.)
✓ I fall for the worst people. (and i ignore anybody who warns me while it's going on.)
× I adore bright colours.
× I usually like covers better than originals.
× I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays.
× I can pick up things with my toes.
× I can't whistle.
× I have ridden/owned a horse.
× I still have every journal I've ever written in.
✓ I talk in my sleep. (though the only person who has told me this was aimee.)
× I've often thought that I was born in the wrong century.
× I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions.
× I wear a toe ring.
× I have a tattoo.
× I can't stand at LEAST one person that I work with.
✓ I am a caffeine junkie. (mountain dew pretty much owns me.)
× I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all.
× If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder. (i am afraid of being drafted because i think i'm incapable of killing anybody.)
× I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.
× I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner.
✓ I'm an artist. (and i'd like to make something of it.)
✓ I am ambidextrous. (not entirely, but i can do a lot with my left hand that most righties have difficulties with.)
× I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed.
× If it weren't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudist colony. (if i were the only one clothed, i'd live in a nudist colony.)
× I have terrible teeth.
✓ I hate my toes. (and i never wear sandals.)
✓ I did this meme even though I wasn't tagged by the person who took it before me. (i did it because it seemed intersting.)
× I have more friends on the internet than in real life.
✓ I have lived in either three different states or countries. (iowa, utah, michigan, portugal.)
× I am extremely flexible.
× I love hugs more than kisses.
× I want to own my own business.
× I smoke.
× I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else.
✓ Nobody has ever said I'm normal. (and if they did, i'd know they were lying.)
✓ Sad movies, games, and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then. (i think i nearly cry at basically any emotional display.)
× I am proficient in the use of many types of firearms and combat weapons.
× I like the way women look in stylized men's suits. (thank you, 1987.)
✓ I don't like it when people are unpleased or seem unpleased with me. (i want everybody to be happy all the time.)
× I have been described as a dreamer or likely to have my head up in the clouds.
✓ I have played strip poker with someone else before. (i haven't, but jes, if you're up for it...)
✓ I have had emotional problems for which I have sought professional help. (and he said "take these pills." yeesh.)
✓ I believe in ghosts and the paranormal. (i believe in the immortal energies of those passed.)
× I can't stand being alone.
✓ I have at least one obsession at any given time. (i have at least 7 obsessions at any given time.)
× I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again.
× I consistently spend way too much money on obsessions-of-the-moment.
× I'm a judgmental asshole.
× I'm a HUGE drama-queen.
✓ I have travelled on more than one continent. (i've lived in europe. i want to go back.)
× I sometimes wish my father would just disappear.
✓ I need people to tell me I'm good at something in order to feel that I am. (i'm not entirely sure this is always true, but i sort of feel it is, so i'm checking this one.)
× I am a Libertarian.
✓ I can speak more than one language. (rather, i used to be able to. i'm not sure how much portuguese i can conjure up at any given moment.)
× I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be.
✓ I would rather read than watch TV. (reading makes my brain happy.)
✓ I like reading fact more than fiction. (i like essays by people like chuck klosterman.)
✓ I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do. (i have done an assignment in one night that i was given a month to do.)
✓ I have no piercings. (but my mom convinced me to pierce my ear when i was 15. i hated it and took it out after a week.)
✓ I have spent the night in a train station or other public place. (in portugal, i missed the last train home, and i slept outside in the middle of december. if you want to call it sleep... i was freezing.)
× I have been so upset over my physical gender that I cried.
× I once spent Christmas completely alone because there was a miscommunication on which parent was supposed to have me that night.
× There have been times when I have wondered "Why was I born?" and may/may not have cried over it.
× I like most animals better than most people.
× I own a collection of retro games consoles.
× The thought of physical exercise makes me shiver.
× I have hit someone with a dead fish. (this sounds fun.)
× I am compulsively honest.
× I was born with a congenital birth defect that has never been repaired.
× I have danced topless in front of dozens of complete strangers.
× I have gone from wishing I was a girl to revelling in being a boy to feeling like a girl again in the span of five minutes, and not cared a whit for my actual sex.
× I am unashamedly bisexual, and have different motivations for my desires for different genders.
✓ I sometimes won't sleep a whole night or eat a whole day because I forget to. (i'm hoping to change this.)
× I find it impossible to get to sleep without some kind of music on.
× I dislike milk.
× I obsessively wash my hands.
× I always carry something significant around with me.
× Sometimes I'd rather wear a wig in day-to-day life than use my own hair.
× I've pushed myself to become more self-aware and thereby more aware of others.
× Even though I live on my own I still cry sometimes because I miss my mother.
× I hand wrote all the HTML tags in this document.
✓ I've liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird. (does maroon 5 count? i think maroon 5 counts.)
× I have been clinically dead for a brief period of time.
× Instead of feeling sympathy/empathy with people and their problems, I simply become annoyed.
× I participate/have participated in auto drag races and won.
× I do not 'get' most comedy acts.
× I don't think strippers are money-greedy or slutty for dancing.
× I don't like to chew gum.
× I am obsessed with history/historical things and can't wait for someone to build a time machine so I can be the first to use it.
× I can never remember for the life of me where I parked the car.
× I had the TEEN ANGST thing going for at least 2-3 years.
× I wish people would be more empathic and honest with each other.
× I play Dungeons and Dragons weekly.
✓ I love to sing. (but i hate my voice.)
× I want to live in my mother's basement when I grow up.
× I have a custom-built computer.
× I want to create a certain someone's babies, even though there's a 0% possiblity of ever achieving it.
× I would be in a relationship with one of my pets if they were human.
✓ I've gone skinny-dipping. (mmhmm.)
× I've performed in three plays.
✓ I enjoy burritos. (i wish i had one right now.)
× I'm Irish and loving it.
× I have a thing for redheads.
× I am a twin!
× Most of the times, I'd rather do something intellectual instead of doing something generically 'fun'.
× Once I set out to finish something, I always stay at it until it is completed before I move on to something else. (i feel right now like i've failed at everything i've ever set out to do.)
✓ I wish there were a way to erase past mistakes. (but i constantly remind myself that regret is counter-productive.)
× I sleep more than 12 hours a day.
× I wish I could be prouder of what I've accomplished, but it's never enough.
× I need more time to myself.
× I wish I was more open-minded.
× I hope that I go really prematurely grey.
✓ I download songs from the internet. (and i buy the things that i like. i've honestly purchased more music because of this system than i would have otherwise.)
× I've just reenacted chapter 58 of Death Note with my best friend.
× I say random things to freak people out.
× I'm still a little mad about the ending of Death Note.
× I love playing Truth or Dare.
× I love listening to slow music, but I hate singing to it.
✓ Music helps me remember that I am not alone. (and about a million other things.)
× Playing my favorite sport makes me temporarily forget my problems.
✓ I think this survey is particularly long. (but i'm finishing anyway.)
× I prefer my LJ friends to my real-life ones.
× I can only hate someone that I love.
× I've ordered an extra two shots of espresso to an Americano at Starbucks.