Describe Yourself
 

I would like to know how everyone considers their personality and ambitions to be. If we were to meet you in real life and live with you, what could we expect?

I am an out going person, I'm a loud laugher and I clap if you say something really funny. I turn a lot of conversations sexual but am a good listener. I hide my feelings internally but no matter what **** life deals me I still can laugh and be upbeat on the outside. I like sleeping in and can't stand it when people wake me up early. I'm a huge Marilyn Monroe fan and have a ridiculous amount of pictures and books of her. My favourite colour is pink which is spread all over my room which is incredibly feminine.

I hoard tons of books, PC games and DVDs as I eventually want my own library. I am a keen gamer and spend all day on a computer both for study and leisure - that is when I'm not in hospital for the millionth cyst on my ovary. I am ill a lot because of two conditions but still try to work and study. I want to be a data analyst and a website designer, and am 7 months away from being experienced enough.

My favourite magazine is Marie Claire and I've watched Star Wars more times than I can count. I'm obsessed with cats but can't own one till I can manage working fulltime. I'm a keen baker and my specialty is Lemon Meringue Pie. The type of books I like to read are war, period, and dystopian. I can't stand crime books. I tend to wear feminine clothes with bright and bold colours because I'm pale.

Now tell me about yourself!

I am very private and probably the complete opposite in real life to how I come across on here.

In real life? I am very laid back but ambitious. I know what i want . I like to think i am quite intelligent. I am not necessarily organised but i respect people enough not to make a mess of shared space as opposed to my own private space. I like making friends and meeting new people. I am quite agreeable, people dont usually takw a dislike to me. I am sociable but go through periods of social insulation. I love my friends, close knit ones and less close knit ones.I tend to say unpredictable and unusual things at times, not to be quirky i just dont mind sharing weird thoughts, mostly they go down pretty well with people.ehhh, i have been told im quite a nice/ genuine person by people but i don't necessarily agree. I love animals. And i hate talking about myself lol.

Nice thread Vanilla :)

i luuuv talking about myself <3

im 29 and im a single father to a 3 yr old girl named emily
in RL im very reserved though once you know me im very opinionated, My friends are my family because my family never gave me any emotional support
i could be very cynical or very optimistic at any given time, im very opend minded and practically hold nothing sacred.. i try not to take life too seriously is what i mean, i poke fun at everything including myself i also hardly get mad and im very tolerant. (within reason ofc)

i luv individuality and ppl with a genuine passion, it could be anything just show me that you truly care about something

i hold human interaction above everything, im a gamer also but i find real ppl more interesting :)

You did well. I'm also social but tend to isolate myself too much.

Awesome, it's nice to meet a guy looking after a child it's usually the mother. What games do you like to play?

Thank you ^_^

Mostly old school rpgs, like the FF games or Shin megami tensei games, i don't really keep up with new games, just a few

Are you a gamer as well?

Awesome. Yes as I said in my self description. I play the Fallout series religiously and Oblivion, Diablo, Baldurs Gate and many more.

i luv fallout and oblivion as well
Diablo i heard that it was great, it has quite a loyal following but i didn't grew up with a PC at home so i never got to play those kinda games

I'm scatterbrained, I'm eccentric, I'm creative. I'm indecisive, I'm confused, I'm in the yesterday and the tomorrow. I'm very self critical, and hold myself to very high standards. I try to be as affable as I can, despite great amounts of anxious inner dialogue. I make a great deal of effort to remember dreams I enjoy (or just scenes in them) as thoroughly as I can, and recall them as clearly as I would a real life memory. I enjoy anything dealing with the senses. I think too much. I take things apart and question them. I'm too sympathetic. I'm tired.

I was gonna just post "I'm a dork", but after reading through the mess, I'll try and be a bit more civil and respectful to the question at hand.

I'm a Dad.

In the grand scheme of things, I like to think I contribute some form of compassion and understanding to the world. I give and never expect to recieve anything back, whether it's monetary, my knowledge, or just an ear to lend. There's too much disrespect in the world today, and I'm on a mission to try and change that, starting with my daughter (who is an incredible young woman).

Not sure what the future brings, but I plan on being an old crazy guy down the road at some point.

you're a really good guy plankton.

Honestly, I play a lot of video games, I read a lot of books, I write a lot of poetry, and I make some music. That's pretty much me in a nutshell.

Meh, honestly I don't know who I am. Kind of all over the place. Something then the opposite. I try to be considerate but sometimes can turn out to be an *******. Always considered myself a clash. A red and blue coloured person with multiple personalities. Of course, being bipolar kind of contributes to that.

If you're a clash, you're an awesome clash.

Describing myself is hard, but most people who know me in real life seem to find me friendly and funny and I've been told by quite a few people that I'm a good conversationalist. I do think, though, that I'm not nearly as much of an extrovert as people tend to think I am—I definitely require a decent amount of alone time. I also kind of pride myself on being honest and really can't stand people who lie.

And I feel like a navel-gazing bastard for writing all that.

Thanks Jansz. I also really appreciate your persona and believe that description fits very well. :)

That's great Jans, I'm very similar with being extroverted but really like my alone (recharge) time.

i relate to that, i need my space U_U

i always found this Kashmir lyrics described pretty well that side of me

"Please be my next morning flower
But don't be there all the time
Leave me a couple of hours
Then bring me food and wine" -the cynic

You can actually find out a lot about me here (Trollheart's in-depth profile) but for those who don't want to click a mouse...

I was born in... nah seriously. I'm watching over my shoulder as my fiftieth birthday sneaks up on me like a slasher in a boathouse (July 6, in case anyone wants to send birthday greets. Or presents. Send presents!) and have lived in Dublin, Ireland all my life. I wear glasses and have thinning hair. I left school at 17 and worked in the same job until 2009, when I took voluntary redundancy in order to look after my sis, who had been diagnosed with MS in 2001 and let go from her job the following year. She's 42.

I love animals, have three cats (used to be five) and all through my life our family have had cats and/or dogs, can't remember any time when we didn't have one or both. I have a quirky sense of humour, tend to learn things like Black Adder, Red Dwarf, Young Ones etc off by heart and then refer to them in life. Things like (for those who know RD) when I'm feeding the cats their twice-weekly fish treat, tuna on a Wed/Fri, I usually say "FISH! Today's fish is trout a la creme. Enjoy your meal!" If you dont know what that means check by Couch Potato journal.

I have two brothers and two (including Karen, the disabled one) sisters. Two bros couldn't give two shiuts, ain't seen them for several years not even at Xmas. Sister is great but very busy. I'm now Karen's official carer, so that's what I do now. I enjoy TV mostly sci-fi, some crime (Sopranos, Underbelly, Criminal Minds, SoA etc), documentaries and drama-docus like IRT and Ax Men, the odd reality show (seriously, like ONLY The Apprentice and Dragons Den) and lots of other stuff. I'm sort of a Trekkie but not a mad weird one and I actually prefer Babylon 5. I love quizzes, am not too bad at them.

I'm very emotional and cry easily. I hate hypocrisy and cruelty to animals. I go out hardly ever, with the sitch being as it is, and so spend most of my time in my room, either watching telly or working on my journals. I do have the luxury of only having to get up about 10:30 so that's good. I do not miss work, though I miss some of the people there. Life is tough on a carer's allowance but what ya gonna do? I keep my spirits and Karen's up as much as possible, though like every human we have the odd fight. Usually nothing serious.

I like movies but seldom get to see them. You would think since I'm "not working" I'd have loads of free time but I don't: everything has to be planned around Karen --- waking up, feeding, afternoon nap, meals, settling down etc --- and it leaves me with probably less free time than I had when I was working! Weird huh? I like to read (mostly sf/fantasy) and have a large collection but these days seldom get the chance. I can't drive so have no car (sharp intake of breath from the Americans: how does he get around???) nor could I afford one if I had.

I believe in seeing the good in people, but if someone crosses me (or worse, Karen) they're in for a rough ride! I stand up for myself though I am skinny and not at all a fighter. I communicate much better through the written word than speech. My relationship with Kar is so strong that we can joke about me coming in one night with a hammer to kill her, or putting poison in her milk, and there's no offence taken, or any slight doubt that I'm joking. I sing to Eddie our fattest cat and he hates it, run away (don't blame him!) which makes me sing at him even more. I chase Ritchie, one of our other cats, around the house and he loves it.

I'm not religious and I don't believe in God, but Karen does and that's fine. I don't mock or question her religion. That's personal, and whatever helps her is fine by me. People think I'm a fricking saint for looking after her and it constantly baffles me: how could I not? Just dont' get it.

Oh, and I'm secretly Lord Commander Zog, from the Ninth Galactic Nebula, here to invade your --- WHO PROOF READ THIS? You were supposed to cut that bit OUT! Now what can I ---? Ah, just forget that last bit, yes? That's it. Okay, now I'm going to need you to look into this bright light. See how bright it is? Keep your eyes on it....
FLASH!
(Phew! That was close!)

Now then, as I was saying, I was born in....

You are so damn awesome and I wish I could have a Guinness with you. You're a saint. xx

I think the same. Trollheart, you really are a unique guy, and I love that about you. You're always up for listening to new things, and you're an all around fun guy. Glad you're here, honestly.

Fantastic thread. The people in here are all the kinds of people I would like to meet, which is killer.

I'm a consummate nerd. It's not that I seek it out; nerddom comes to me. Or is attributed to me. Whichever.

I work 40 hours a week at a job I'm completely ambivalent to, and I like to drink because that feels like the complete opposite to work for me. I also jampack my schedule with all manner of nonsense I know I'm not going to be able to realistically do with my work schedule, but I really hate missing out on anything. Consequently, I seldom get an appropriate amount of sleep.

My parents are both extroverts. Both of my sisters lean on the extroverted side of the spectrum. I've always been more introverted (not at all anti-social; just needing some time for myself) and independent. My mother says that I always wanted (needed?) time alone when I was a kid, and that they never had to worry too much about me, because I was pretty independent. I learned to read and write before I was three years old, and entertained myself doing such.

When I was in Elementary school, my parents never grounded me from TV: They always grounded me from non-school related books. That was torture. They really knew how to straighten my act up.

I'm always up for something fun. Even if it doesn't really sound fun, If the person who wants to hang out is excited about it, that makes me want to check it out at the very least. I'm all about experiencing new ****, whether it's resultant from a call at three in the morning, or a pre-planned adventure. I prefer spontaneity though. I mean, I'll keep the plans regardless, barring some huge issue at home, but spontaneity is my jam.

I like to relax alone, also. I need time to recharge. This may be where my sleep deprivation comes in, because I need time to think and "just do me." Not in a sexual manner (okay, not usually) but just to have time to think, write, play music, watch wrestling from an analytical standpoint, check out TV and movies...I really need more hours in my day. And less of my body naggin' me to sleep all the time.

I am horrible for making puns. I don't know what comes over me. One of my worst is that anytime someone says anything is/was intense, my immediate response is, "Like camping!"

I know. It's really not that funny, but I can't stop myself. I don't know what my problem is. I also like to randomly quote movies, although this can often prove to be at inopportune times. My intention is to alleviate my own personal tension and make light of a situation, but it's gone to extremes on a few instances. One was a sexual experience, in which I was so nervous and unsure of what to do, that I decided for some reason that quoting "There Will Be Blood" would be hilariously awesome: "I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!"

Turns out, it wasn't.

I'm always the one who wants to do something wild and spontaneous amongst my group of friends. They'll be all, "We haven't gone bowling in a while," and I'll be down, but sometimes, I'm all, "Let's drive to Cincinnati (two and a half to three hours a way) and paint the town red!"

I get restless.

I like wearing my default uniform of skinny jeans, Sperrys or Toms, and t-shirts with a hoodie of late. I also always, always, always have my black frame glasses on. Sometimes I wear my hair up, if it's flat and lifeless. If I've just taken a shower and decided to let it air dry, I wear it down, because it's wavy and looks like I spent time curling it or some ****.

I also love both of my main axes more than anything in this world, (their names are DJ Jazzy Jeff and Milla) and actually almost cried when my uncle picked up DJ Jazzy Jeff to play and dropped him.

Also, people like me. I don't really know why, but they do. Even if I'm uncomfortable wanting to go home and curl up in my bed with my laptop and a blanket, people are all up in my ****. It may be attributed to my inability to be mean. Who knows.

You are seriously the man. You seem to be amongst the most fantastic folks on this forum, and you're definitely one with whom I would share a pint or two.

Couldn't agree more.

:beer:

Cheers Trollheart.

I am a happy-go-lucky, but often very serious, adventurous girl. I work on any task appointed to me with extreme precision and work very hard at everything I do, even when there is no end in sight. I often bull****ted my way through school because I have a very excellent memory for figures, facts, and languages. I'm left-brained but no mathematician or scientist! In fact, I'm so absorbed in the abstract that I have stacks of unfinished drawings and stories.

I paint, I take pictures, I travel, I make short documentaries of everything happening around. I do all of these activities with the support of music.

I am largely sex-oriented and while having a boyfriend is nice, I find myself frustrated quite frequently. Then I remember how volatile my single times were and I work it out.

I wanted to be a diplomat so I studied "international affairs" at college, went on to score an interview at the State Department's oral exam, failed only by a margin, and decided to leave that idea behind. I moved to Turkey, where I'm having way more "international affairs" than that line of work could have offered me!

Mostly the me that I have to describe is fun-loving and can't get enough out of life. I am a constant opportunist and if it's free, I always take it! I only like secondhand clothes and I hate feeding the consumerist nightmare most of us live in.

So that's that!

Trollheart. I will be in bhaile atha cliath at some stage soon. Pints¿?

I'm a tall college male with brown hair and brown eyes. You've seen them one, you've seen them all. Apparently I look like my father, so that's what makes me somewhat decipherable.

Apart from that, I'm mostly independent and introverted. When I'm with my friends I can do some crazy ****e, but when I'm new to people, I need some time. I suppose that most people are like that, though. I prefer to do most things on my own, and will only ask people to help when I actually need it.

I listen to avant-garde music for most of my day. I go on the computer and listen to it in the morning, put it in headphones and listen to it at school, work, or elsewhere. I also make quite a bit of it. I have over 600 recordings of either my band Wolves In Sheepskin (aka WISK) or of myself playing either theremin, guitar, saxophone, trumpet, clarinet, violin, feedback, throat singing, piano, keyboard, bass, or some instrument that I made from **** around my house. All of these are sometimes provided with vocals.

I write lyrics for my vocals often as well, in a black book that I keep on me for when I get ideas. I've sort of used up all of the vocals that I have at the moment in one fifteen minute song already, though, so I'll have to write more soon. I also write some literature, but I've fallen out of the habit with school and work.

I work at a mortgage company that's one of the larger ones in San Diego, but I work for the funding department as an intern. My bosses are really nice and throw amazing parties and events for the office quarterly.

I go to school at Palomar College, where I am getting my general education, which I then would like to transfer to a university. I plan to do this next spring, because I only need sixty credits and I have my fall semester planned out to compensate for that. My major will be journalism with a public relations focus, which should get me a very good job. My great uncle on my mother's side works in the field for a big company and he says that he has a lot of free time on his hands because the company is rarely ever controversial. I'd love to do that because it would give me time for music and writing.

I live right next to my school with my parents. I'm staying with them because the location is good for me being able to walk to school, being that I don't drive. I plan to get my licence before the end of this March because my parents will give me a car if I do.

On me not having a car, I haven't really cared that much about getting to places. We have a very good train station and bus station next to my house that's only about a dollar a ride, and there's a lot of cool **** within walking or biking distance, plus it helps me get exercise. Exercise is something I've sort of fallen down on, I haven't gone to the gym in a couple of months.

I'm a big fan of movies as well, which is why I try to watch at least one movie a week. However, I've been watching a couple of episodes a week of Lost lately, and that kind of interrupts it.

I try to be nice to people for the most part, but I come off as an ******* sometimes because I don't engage in conversation as easily as some people do. The people that I hang out with realize that they're going to be made fun of if they're doing something hilarious though, which makes some people not like me that much.

People like how genuine I am. I'll try not to bash a song if I can tell that a friend liked it, because that'd just be rude. If they ask my opinion on the song, I'll tell them the truth though.

Sometimes I feel a bit loony, like some form of mental disorder is hiding from me and it won't engage until I'm thirty. My drug history which included two overdoses did somewhat mess with the way that my mind thinks.

I do smoke pot quite a bit, but I don't do it when I have anything to do like a test or driving. I also drink, but I've decided to cut back on that in the past week. I have a pretty tight Gandalf-style pipe and I just got my medical marijuana card too.

I'm a big fan of nature. People who buy into **** about aliens don't realize just how crazy the world can be. I see things from a different perspective since my overdose and the world looks pretty strange on this side of the mirror. I've found that if you pay attention to the most commonplace parts of nature that you just ignore after having seen it, you will notice something foreign looking about it. Or maybe I just like to play mindgames on myself.

I wish I could man, but getting away from the ball and chain, sorry, sister I love is next to impossible. There's no-one --- and I mean no-one --- to give me a break if I need it. I also don't really drink; I'd have a pint very occasionally if I was out, but as I don't get out much that sort of takes care of that really. I can very easily exist without beer.

However, let me know when and sure I might be finished this polystyrene and latex model of me ... sure she'd never know! :laughing:

Seriously, give me some notice and maybe I'll be able to do it. Unlikely to be evening though, which I know is a sort of the whole point...

Thanks to everyone for the compliments! Not sure that I deserve them, but they're certainly appreciated. :thumb: :)

This is a great thread, and should be in the running for an award next year. I'm learning (like us all) a lot of interesting stuff about people here, which is always nice.

Now, when does HHBH post? :eek:

Wow thanks hun! It was really cool to learn more about you, I also wish there was more time in the day to do all the internet stuff I like to do. I get rather addicted to certain websites. I think the 'there will be blood' was funny in that situation! Some people just have no humour.

I am sensing a trend here of introverted types on MB. It's quite cool! It shows that even in our recharge time we like to socialise with others on the internet.

^win.

I dunno what I'm really like from the outside in.

But I'd like to think I'm a good listener, I'm very private and don't talk about my own problems but I have a way of getting people to tell me what's up. I'm really chatty but only once I get to know you otherwise I can seem shy. I'm pretty negative and probably have trust issues. I like to spend some alone time, I live in the country and I have loads of places I like to go to with my dog and just lay for hours. I love reading books but find it hard to find the motivation to open them. I like to collect my favourite films too, I have a separate collection for the good ones. I never give my DVDs out anymore because I don't get them back. I'm pretty easy to get on with all round and would consider myself a little funny, not because I strive to be funny but people laugh at little things I say. I have major road rage, seriously. I have quite a temper and a smart mouth so if you push me (it takes a great deal of pushing), I will make you feel about an inch tall. I think I'm a little smart and I love biology and art, although I wish I had more time for art. I love playing sport and driving a lot, driving especially. I live in Scotland just up the road from one of the greatest rally drivers in the world (Colin McRae RIP) so there's loads of fun roads, especially since my brother taught me how to drive. I love cars, especially fast cars. Preferably ford. I have owned two fiestas myself. I like dirt bikes and I'm thinking of buying one if I come across one cheap. I love animals, especially dogs. My favourite breeds are Great Danes but I love any big dogs that I can get a decent fight from. I'd say I was kind because I find it difficult to say no to others. I like to zone out to music or listen while driving, that's the best. I'm very impatient and restless. I like designing fashion items and wanted to be a silversmith. When I get old I'm going to own loads of animals and be the crazy pet lady because the older I get the more I realise I hate people.

Dunno if that was really on the right tracks...

I'm going to do this in bullet form because **** word blocks...

• I'm very sarcastic. I find humor in a lot of things even if those things shouldn't be funny.
• I'm obviously very into film. I average a movie a day.
• I love to write but am horrible at sentence structure and punctuation. Spelling is usually okay.
• I'm also very into music obviously. The reason I don't post more in the music sections is I have a very hard time writing and describing music. I don't know how some of you do it.
• I'm very honest to strangers. If you do something I don't like I'm going to tell you about it. On the contrary I hold a lot of things back when it comes to people I care about. This has gotten me into trouble a bunch of times.
• My anxiety is insane. I have to deconstruct and weigh out every situation that occurs in my life. This has led to me making a lot of good decisions but missing out on a lot of fun.
• I have the most common first and last name in America.
• I swear WAY too much.
• I'm a very sensitive person on the inside but react to things in a very cold and robotic manner. This has led to people thinking I don't care about anything.
• I have a two year degree in college. It took me five years. I've always had a problem with school. I consider myself a very logical and intelligent person but I have serious application problems.
• I procrastinate and NEVER finish anything I plan on doing. Look at my threads.
• I'm a secret pack rat. My room is filled with things I bought just because they looked cool and I never throw things away unless it's garbage.
• I love bizarre things and am always trying to watch listen and read something new.

That's good enough

Nah well work somethin out that suits you. Ill buy you 7 up!

Exo....are you John Smith? THE JOHN SMITH??? :)

You got the last name right.

The bolder is so me. My sarcasm gets me into trouble a lot.

I love sarcasm. I'm very sarcastic also. It's like black humour with a little bit of light to it. I don't know how so many people take offence. I guess they just take it seriously or how it's pressed. Possibly taking it too personal. I always thought it's meant to be just humorous.

Some people just can't pick it up in my experience, less fun for them haha.

But seriously people do get worked up by the easiest of things.