• Issotta
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      • In response to: "What's the one thing you're never gonna give up?" Dreaming....and probably food that is bad for me. Naps also, yeah...naps!
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    • My Gift Wish List

      • I am not asking for much.


        Dog Tags 2

        At the top of my list is my wish that my husband doesn't volunteer to deploy (again) to Afghanistan. He wants to. I am less keen on this issue, to put it mildly. I just started being able to imagine being happy and having a normal (whatever that is) life for me and for my toddler and for my newborn daughter. I don't want anything else. I just want him home.

      • answered by Issotta on 12/01/2010
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    • Hello, Mother Nature

      • Don't Panic Badge

        Instruction manual for finding big spiders in the bedroom:

        If spider is particularly large, or at least large enough to see that it is hairy.....

        1. Abandon dignity immediately
        2. Flee in a disorderly fashion, preferably while screaming
        3. Pace around outside in hallway, reminding self that "It's probably more afraid of you than you are of it."
        4. Ignore the self-reminder and find someone to get rid of it, preferably by removal rather than smashing. (Do not want spider guts on my wall.)
        5. If no one is available to help, take several calming breaths, collect a broom and some sort of a jar. Attempt to sweep large hairy arachnid into jar and place entire jar outside. *Very important- do not try to remove creature from jar, lest it jump out unexpectedly
        6. If removal attempt fails, close bedroom door and sleep on couch.

        *Please note, the following procedure is null and void if big spider was found ON one's person at time of discovery. In this event, a full panic freak out is most appropriate.

      • answered by Issotta on 11/08/2010
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    • My Dating Deal Breakers

      • lying
        Can't deal with liars.


        more lying
        Seriously....can't stand it.


        bad hygiene
        This requires no explanation


        closed mindedness
        These people are just insufferable.


        anything that even resembles lying
        In case I didn't make it clear.....I'm not so crazy about the lying.


      • answered by Issotta on 10/29/2010
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    • A Voyage to the Moon

      • Now, wait just a minute..........


        Bonsai Moon

        I would more than likely go. I mean, it's the moon, right? Furthermore, it's free, an even more important feature in the offer. I would have to consider a couple of things, though, such as:

        1. Who is running this free-moon operation? Is it the usual, generally qualified space roaming professionals of NASA or a well organized technology corporation with some experience? Or....is it a pack of yahoos who have built a rocket on their cousin Clem's huntin' grounds who are pretty sure that this here rocket thingie will probably work out all right?

        2. Are we expected to come back? I'd like to come back. I have a lot to get done and staying on the moon until death just isn't going to fit into my schedule.

        3. Who else is going? If my ex husband is going, I don't care how awesome or how free it is, I'm so not going. Unless, that is, I am allowed to jettison him into space during the trip. In such a case, I may reconsider.


        Those are just some preliminary considerations :) I expect I would likely go.

      • answered by Issotta on 10/05/2010
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    • Our Neighbor

      • Day 585 / 365 - Apathetic and Annoyed

        There's that woman again, from across the street. I'm not exactly sure how she maintains her sanity. Maybe she's not maintaining it all and shortly, I will see her on the news, running naked down the street covered in peanut butter. I would, if I were her. First of all, she works full time. I don't know what she does, but I know it has something to do with crazy people. And then she comes home to a circus of sorts. She has kids but they seem decent enough. Cute, pleasant. Still, that husband of hers! I don't know really how she has managed to keep from smothering him in his sleep. The guy's a nut; an agitated nut. Everyone around here just watches to see what he'll do next, whether it's jumping in front of cars to tell them to slow down, or posting a sign on his rarely-driven car out front...usually something about "Tell your congressman to vote no on...." some proposal no one has ever heard of. (It's important not to tell him that though, or he will spend the next 30 minutes of your life educating you about it.) He's constantly looking out the door and peering around, as if waiting for someone to pick a fight with, or a speeding car to yell at or government storm troopers coming to take away his constitutional rights.

        She often looks tired. On occasion, she looks annoyed. In fact, she will sometimes look very, very annoyed. Right now, she also looks very very pregnant. My guess is that at some point, I'm going to hear a shuffling, scraping sound along her driveway at 3am, and look outside to see her stealthily dragging a large husband-sized parcel wrapped in an area rug to the trunk of her car.

      • answered by Issotta on 10/05/2010
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