Because If All My Friends Jumped Off a Cliff ...

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(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.  (I miss my mom)	✓ I don't watch much TV these days.  (There are only a few shows that I actually watch ... and some days I only have it on for background noise.)	✓ I own lots of books.  (It's an ever growing collection)
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.  (I wear them sometimes ... not as often as I should.)	× I love to play video games.	✓ I've tried marijuana.  (Brownie-style ... I wasn't really impressed. Drunk is better.)
✓ I've watched porn movies.  (Some of them are pretty funny.)	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
✓ I curse sometimes.  (I forced myself to stop when I was about 11/12 because I didn't like sounding common (I was a snooty kid). Now I only do if I hurt myself or am having rage issues.)	✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.  (I don't notice it until I go back and read old journal entries and articles.)	× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.

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× I have broken someone's bones.	× I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal.  (I work to not do things I would be ashamed of becoming public knowledge.)	× I hate the rain.  (I LOVE the rain!)
✓ I'm paranoid at times.  (There are days when I think that the faeries are screwing with me just because they think it is funny.)	× I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.	✓ I need/want money right now.  (I could use a boost in income or a reduction in bills.)
× I love sushi.  (I HATE sushi! Yuck :oP)	× I talk really, really fast.  (LOL - in highschool, my best friend spoke at breakneck speeds. I was her translator.)	× I have fresh breath in the morning.  (Pfft, no one has fresh breath when they first wake up.)
✓ I have long hair.	× I have lost money in Las Vegas.	✓ I have at least one sibling.  (have two, actually (three if you count the SIL))
× I was born in a country outside of the U.S.  (I was born in Washington state)	✓ I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past.  (acrylic nails ... they are too much trouble, and my own nails can be pretty with a little effort.)	× I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.  (bpbppbbbttt :oP)
✓ I like the way that I look.  (More or less, yeah. I am pretty damned cute. I just need to get my butt in gear and lose this extra pudge.)	× I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months.	× I am usually pessimistic.  (I am bizarrely optamistic. Even when I was having depression problems, I was usually in a decent mood.)
× I have a lot of mood swings.  (only when I am PMSing, and I am trying to get that under control.)	✓ I think prostitution should be legalized.  (And unionized.)	✓ I slept with a roommate.  (Well, WD has been my only roommate, but I think it still counts.)
× I have a hidden talent.	× I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have.	× I have a lot of friends.
× I have pecked someone of the same sex.  (pecked? I have visions of hammering on somone's head with a pointed stick. lol)	× I enjoy talking on the phone.   (I hate phones)	× I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.  (pants are for the weak!)
✓ I love to shop and/or window shop.  (I actually do like to window shop. Even when I have money, I usually just look at stuff and get ideas for making my own stuff. I blame my grandmother.)	✓ I'm obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal.	× I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.  (I would kill to have one more day with my mom :o()
✓ I have a mobile phone.  (It is really my house phone, and it is usually shut off because I hate it and it is broken. I need to get a new pay as you go for emergencies and stuff (I don't have a landline), but I hate phones, so it isn't high on my priority list.)	× I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.  (I have never passed out from being drunk :o()	✓ I've rejected someone before.
✓ I currently like/love someone.	✓ I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life.  (Unless 'be independantly wealthy' counts)	✓ I want to have children in the future.
✓ 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.	× I am shy around the opposite sex.	✓ I'm online 24/7, even as an away message.  (Cable, baby ... I am always connected)
× I have at least 5 away messages saved.	✓ I have tried alcohol or drugs before.  (Yup)	× I have made a move on a friend's significant other or crush in the past.
× I own the "South Park" movie.  (I don't, but my brother does.)	× I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal.  (I wish I could do that)	× I enjoy some country music.  (Yick)
✓ 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.  (I think Halloween is awsome on all levels, but free candy is nothing to snear at ;o))	× I have dated a close friend's ex.	✓ I am happy at this moment.  (I am happy most of the time.)
× I'm obsessed with guys.	× Democrat.  (No Green?? Pfft!)	× Republican.
× I don't even know what I am.	× I am punk rockish.	✓ I go for older guys/girls, not younger.  (Younger people are starting to look like babies to me.)
× I study for tests most of the time.  (nope. too lazy, and a partially photographic memory.)	× I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met.	✓ I can work on a car.  (I can change a tire and add oil! Everything else is WD's job.)
× I love my job(s).  (I don't like my job, but I have had worse.)	✓ I am comfortable with who I am right now.  (More or less, yes.)	× I have more than just my ears pierced.
✓ I walk barefoot wherever I can.  (socks are for the weak!)	✓ I have jumped off a bridge.  (I am sure I have when I was a kid ... there were bridges over our swimming holes.)	× I love sea turtles.
× I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup.	✓ I plan on achieving a major goal/dream.  (One day I will finish my damned novel!)	× I am proficient on a musical instrument.  (Working on 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.  (Lots actually. That's apparently what families are for.)
× I fall for the worst people.	× I adore bright colours.  (As long as they aren't bright primary colors, they are ok. I prefer jewel and earth tones, myself.)	× I usually like covers better than originals.   (I have heard some pretty amazing covers.)
× I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays.	✓ I can pick up things with my toes.  (That's what toes are for!)	✓ I can't whistle.  (I try, but I suck at it.)
✓ I have ridden/owned a horse.  (Awsome exercise.)	× I still have every journal I've ever written in.	× I talk in my sleep.
✓ I've often thought that I was born in the wrong century.  (And then I remember that they used to stone women like me. :oP)	✓ I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions.  (well, I don't *try* to, it just happens)	✓ I wear a toe ring.  (I love toe rings, they are cute.)
× I have a tattoo.  (Not yet, but soon!)	✓ I can't stand at LEAST one person that I work with.  (do I only get to choose one?)	× I am a caffeine junkie.  (Not really. Coffee is medicinal for me.)
✓ I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all.  (Trees need love too!)	× If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder.  (nah, not worth it.)	× I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.
✓ I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner.  (emphasis on a *nice* glass of wine.)	✓ I'm an artist.	× I am ambidextrous.
× I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed.  (I used to.)	× If it weren't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudist colony.	× I have terrible teeth.
× I hate my toes.  (I have teh keyoot toes!)	✓ I did this meme even though I wasn't tagged by the person who took it before me.  (beh, I am a meme junkie.)	✓ I have more friends on the internet than in real life.
× I have lived in either three different states or countries.	× I am extremely flexible.  (Used to be.)	× 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.  (But I am working on it.)
✓ Nobody has ever said I'm normal.	✓ Sad movies, games, and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then.	× 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.	✓ I don't like it when people are unpleased or seem unpleased with me.  (this depends entirely on my mood.)	✓ 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 have had emotional problems for which I have sought professional help.	✓ I believe in ghosts and the paranormal.
× I can't stand being alone.	× I have at least one obsession 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 sometimes wish my father would just disappear.  (No need to wish for it.)	× I need people to tell me I'm good at something in order to feel that I am.
× I am a Libertarian.	✓ I can speak more than one language.  (Not fluently, but yeah.)	× I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be.
✓ I would rather read than watch TV.	× I like reading fact more than fiction.	✓ I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do.  (Sometimes when I am on a roll, I just can't stop until I get everything out of my head.)
× I have no piercings.	× I have spent the night in a train station or other public place.	× 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.  (No, but now I want to! LOL)
✓ I am compulsively honest.  (I try not to be, but I have to think to lie, and if I just speak without thinking, it is always the truth.)	× 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.  (Oh yeah, and my blood sugar LOVES it when I do that too :oP)
× 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.
× 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.  (Well, I don't care about time machines, but I do love me some history!)	× 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.  (Is this the same as 'I wish people would stop sucking so hard'?)	× I play Dungeons and Dragons weekly.	✓ I love to sing.  (I stink at it, but I it is still fun to sing.)
× I want to live in my mother's basement when I grow up.	✓ I have a custom-built computer.  (It is what I get for having a computer nerd as a fiance ;o))	× 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.	× I've performed in three plays.
✓ I enjoy burritos.	✓ 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.  (Pfft, I wish!)
× I wish there were a way to erase past mistakes.	× 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.	× I've just reenacted chapter 58 of Death Note with my best friend.	✓ I say random things to freak people out.  (Sometimes)
× 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.	× Playing my favorite sport makes me temporarily forget my problems.	✓ I think this survey is particularly long.
× 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.  (eeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww!)