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Post by Shadowstalker on May 31, 2013 16:02:35 GMT -5
I taught myself how to throw knives (although I'm a bit rusty from lack of practice). I want to also learn to fence, I'm going to start taking archery, and I'm going to teach myself close knife combat. I know a lot about edible Texas plants. You could find me regularly eating some pursalne, a weed that grows between cracks in pavement. ( looks like this) It's actually got this pleasant, negligible nutty-slash-lettuce flavor to it. I have a good book idea that I'm getting confident about. Jotting down notes about it. I wasn't allowed to watch PG-13 movies until I was 13. You also werne't allowed to sit in the passenger seat of our van until you were 12 (saftey reasons). I've got three brothers and a sister, a family of seven. My parents could have gotten a normal minivan, but it would have been a tight fit. So they instead got a 12-seater van (the kind you see plumbing guys have). We had it for 12 years before we got rid of it last year. We gave it away to another young family with four little kids from our church, and they love it. My family is close. My two oldest brothers can be distant since one's going into medical school and the other (who left college on his second year) has a nice, steady and full-time job. But we always have birthdays and holidays together.
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Post by Snowfeather on May 31, 2013 16:08:52 GMT -5
I often practice my archery by setting my target on the other side of the yard, then going back to the furthest side and climbing the tall tree in my backyard.Aim at it through the branches.surprisingly I got 2 bulls eyes doing that.
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Post by Dawnsky on Jun 1, 2013 11:29:06 GMT -5
I actually prefer typing to writing because I'm almost as fast typing as writing, it doesn't tire my hands out as much, and it looks neater. (My handwriting is kind of messy. ) EDIT: Yay I'm a skilled apprentice now! 99 posts till warrior!
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Post by Shadowstalker on Jun 1, 2013 13:03:15 GMT -5
^ I'm the exact same.
The reasons I hate writing by hand: When I was in kindergarten, our teacher was showing us how to hold a pencil. She said, "Hold it so it's comfortable." I didn't know she meant in a certain style, so I held it so it rested what I felt was more comfortable. So now I hold a pencil different from everyone else, and if I write for more than an hour I get a blister on my finger making it painful to write.
I also hate pencils. I can't stand them.
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Post by Snowfeather on Jun 1, 2013 13:13:14 GMT -5
Funny story really back in pre-k i was being taught how to write and in pictures like examples it looked like a paper with sqiggles V _____________ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ____________ So i litterly thought this "~~~" was word so i just filled my paper with them (dumb four year old self) I also prefer mechanicals over pencils
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Post by ★Leopardstar★ on Jun 4, 2013 21:40:55 GMT -5
I truthfully don't like ketchup, but I like tomatoes. I don't eat lettuce, mustard, pickles, etc. And that my friends is why I eat a cheeseburger with meat,tomato, and cheese.
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Post by Willowleaf on Jun 4, 2013 22:16:56 GMT -5
My family does not share a great bond. Fortune tends to do that.
I am an Asian.
I have two turtles, but one has been attacked by the other.
After the celestial clockwork contraption leads it's protruding lever of a bright white orb through the sheep-gray clouds onto thr bed of hills and bushes, I enjoy writing increasingly elaborate and fanciful contrivances of literature.
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Post by Snowfeather on Jun 4, 2013 22:29:25 GMT -5
I have many ethnic backgrounds.I'm mostly Native American (cherokee and comanche with a little wichita)Black dutch, British, caucasian, French, Irish, and swedish.
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Post by Shadowstalker on Jun 5, 2013 10:51:49 GMT -5
My ancestry is majorly Irish (my sister an I are very proud of this), then about 20% Russian and 10% German. We also have some distant Welsh and about 25% Canadian. I have the 9th most common surname in America, Moore. My mother named me after both my great grandmothers (first and middle name). I have curly dirty-blonde hair.
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Post by Snowfeather on Jun 5, 2013 19:09:36 GMT -5
(ah german thats what i missed.)
My middle names after my aunt
My nicknames are J and jackie (jacqueline)
I have light brown hair with strands of blond
I have light brown eyes
I'm always wearing a wristband or a dog tag necklace
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Post by Willowleaf on Jun 5, 2013 22:37:28 GMT -5
Guess what hair color I have? That's right, black. (Although I can't say I'm not a tiny bit proud of it.
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Post by Mod Blackbolt on Jun 6, 2013 7:25:14 GMT -5
My ancestry is quite small compared to some here. On my mothers side I have English descendants and Danish descendants (my grandfather is English-Danish and my grandmother is English) then on my fathers side I have Slovenian and Hungarian descendants (It is actually quite confusing due to a lack of solid family lineage, birth places and the such. For example my father was born in Vinkovci, Croatia on November 11th 1956. (His father was Hungarian and a mixture of some other Baltic ethnicity and his mother was Slovenian) My uncle was born February 26th 1954 in Teherje, Slovenia (Its funny, my grandfather`s birthday is February 26th 1929, my uncle is February 26th 1954 and my birthday is February 27th, not to mention my grandfathers uncle was born on February 27th as well) my great-grandfather was born sometime in 1894 in Žitkovci which is on the border of Slovenia and Hungary. That is pretty much all that is known, we even have a family tree that we can trace back to early 1800`s but no birthdates and rarely death dates (birth place is a bit more common and is often same as death place)
My grandparents and my uncle and dad immigrated to Canada in 1958, my mother`s family had been in Canada since atleast 1870 (on my grandfather`s side) and 1900`s (on grandmothers).
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Post by Dawnsky on Jun 6, 2013 10:22:43 GMT -5
My ancestry is mostly Scottish on my dad's side, and English on my mom's. In a couple lines we have traced it all the way back to Bible times, but we aren't sure that what we have for that far back is reliable.
I also have a few kings and queens of England somewhere on my mom's side.
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Post by Mod Blackbolt on Jun 6, 2013 11:00:09 GMT -5
My ancestry is mostly Scottish on my dad's side, and English on my mom's. In a couple lines we have traced it all the way back to Bible times, but we aren't sure that what we have for that far back is reliable. I also have a few kings and queens of England somewhere on my mom's side. Interesting fact: Pretty much everyone in Europe is related to the great emperor Charlemagne (of the Carolingian Empire), and some say he was related to Jesus (either by his brother or Jesus himself. However that is more of a conspiracy theory)
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Post by Dawnsky on Jun 6, 2013 11:31:11 GMT -5
My ancestry is mostly Scottish on my dad's side, and English on my mom's. In a couple lines we have traced it all the way back to Bible times, but we aren't sure that what we have for that far back is reliable. I also have a few kings and queens of England somewhere on my mom's side. Interesting fact: Pretty much everyone in Europe is related to the great emperor Charlemagne (of the Carolingian Empire), and some say he was related to Jesus (either by his brother or Jesus himself. However that is more of a conspiracy theory) Yeah I think I do remember seeing Charlemagne somewhere in my family tree when I was looking at it online.
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Post by Shadowstalker on Jun 6, 2013 12:51:28 GMT -5
Charlemagne had nine children, so I'm not really all that surprised.
My mother's father was born in Italy, had a Hungarian father, and was raised in Louisiana. My mother's mother was born and raised in Canada, but had a German father and Russian mother. I'm a direct line of Irish decendant. My great great grandfather (paternal) was an Irish immigrant and left Ireland around the late 1800's. I also remember my grandfather telling me that he (great great grandfather) had an uncle that also immigrated...
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Post by Snowfeather on Jun 6, 2013 18:16:02 GMT -5
Anything ever given to me by my friends i will keep (drawing, necklace ect.) Most of it is in a box under my bed, but some i like to keep in the front face of my school binders. (I even still have pictures from kindergarden) Just because I'm sentimental like that. I don't like meeting the eyes of my own reflection I'm more like my dad then my mom (My mom and I are close to nothing alike except for looks, she's basically the oppisite of me) My dads probably the oldest out of any dad here I'm extremely swift on my feet, i have a creek behind my house (which i love to hang around at ) that has a rocky slope about 6 feet wide down(not in any path order just big rocks tossed around).i can easily jump from rock to rock with out hesitating to the bottom and across the water using small pebbles (and not get wet) I can climb any tree in my backyard in less then 10 seconds (did that all the time when i was younger ) I've gotten into a total of two physical fights in my life
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Post by Shadowstalker on Jun 6, 2013 18:38:09 GMT -5
^ snowfeather: How old is he? I'm very impatient and get snappy over nothing. Cockroaches are the scariest thing ever to me. I swear I have a phobia. But spiders don't bother me. When I have my own place, I'll have either a pet lizard or snake (a small one, like garder snake size). I'm a control freak and hubris of other people's ideas or work.
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Post by Snowfeather on Jun 6, 2013 18:46:31 GMT -5
66.. ;w; Once in 5th a vet came for a job show and tell day and she brought a huge tarantula spider.I was the only one in the class that raised there hand when she asked who wanted to hold it.when i was holding it i was like "AW it's so cute!" My friend's look was close to the funnyiest thing I've seen
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Post by Dawnsky on Jun 6, 2013 18:55:34 GMT -5
When I first started getting into the Warriors series, I would playfight like a cat with my siblings all the time. I would even teach them some "warrior moves" that I got from the series. I still playfight with them every once in while. I also used to play mossball with them. It was basically monkey in the middle, but on all fours.
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