Getting to know you!

    • Gold Top Dog
    1. Name: Mary
    2. Age: 38 (39 in a month) 
    3. Location: New York 
    4. Last book you read: Janet Evanovich - 10 for the something 
    5. Do you live in a house or apartment: House 
    6. Married or Single: Common law married (LOL after 15 years) 
    7. Do you have kids: no, except my furkid Riley 
    8. What do you do for a living: ;Personnell assistant 
    9. Where were you born: Brooklyn NY
    10. One thing you want to do before you die: Purchase a large house with a huge backyard and run a rescue for dogs.
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    1. Name: Diane
    2. Age: 26  
    3. Location: SE Michigan 
    4. Last book you read: Ummmm...I think "The Doberman Pinscher, Brains and Beauty" last November. I don't have alot of time to read and what I do read is on the internet on forums or news websites.  
    5. Do you live in a house or apartment: House on a dirt road
    6. Married or Single: Happily married
    7. Do you have kids: HECK NO!! Child free here! (Will only have 4 legged kids) 
    8. What do you do for a living: Desktop Support (IT)
    9. Where were you born: Lapeer, MI
    10. One thing you want to do before you die: Visit the town where my grandma was born in Mexico
    • Gold Top Dog
    1. Name: Erin
    2. Age: 28
    3. Location: Boston MA but moving away in the fall! 
    4. Last book you read: The Man of my Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld
    5. Do you live in a house or apartment: Apartment
    6. Married or Single: In a LTR 
    7. Do you have kids: No
    8. What do you do for a living: Decorative Painter
    9. Where were you born: Connecticut
    10. One thing you want to do before you die: Adopt (human child)
    • Gold Top Dog
    1. Name: Shannon
    2. Age: 22
    3. Location: Shasta Lake City, California
    4. Last book you read: "It's potty time!" (Kelly loves it, the book flushes)
    5. Do you live in a house or apartment: House
    6. Married or Single: Engaged, saving money for wedding
    7. Do you have kids: 2 daughters and one on the way
    8. What do you do for a living: Office Manager for property management company (Only employee)
    9. Where were you born: Anchorage, Alaska
    10. One thing you want to do before you die: Open a wildlife care center
    • Gold Top Dog
    1. Name: Maryanne
    2. Age: 52
    3. Location: west central Ohio just off I 75
    4. Last book you read: Memory in Death JD Robb
    5. Do you live in a house or apartment: house in an established neighborhood
    6. Married or Single: Happily married (30 years on Monday[:D])
    7. Do you have kids:  Have one adult, employed married daughter
    8. What do you do for a living: school psychologist/behavior consultant 
    9. Where were you born: Indianapolis IN near the Speedway
    10. One thing you want to do before you die: Visit Christ Church New Zealand
    • Gold Top Dog
    1. Name: Becca
    2. Age: 37
    3.Location: NC (almost VA)
    4. Last book you read: I have multiple books going at once - last night finished Surprised by Joy, CS Lewis (reread) and Ivars Peterson's marvelous Islands of Truth - history of major 20th century math landmarks
    5. Do you live in a house or apartment: House
    6. Married or Single: Married
    7. Do you have kids: 2 sons, 5 and  7
    8. What do you do for a living: Raise sheep and dog training for goose control
    9. Where were you born: San Francisco, CA
    10. One thing you want to do before you die: See the Scottish sheepdog championship and the International Sheepdog Society Supreme Championship, but I hope to do that way before I die! And spend a month or so on a NZ sheep station.
    • Gold Top Dog
    removing  threads due to a pm I received.
    • Gold Top Dog
    The few times I have spoke to her she just keeps telling me how grateful she is that she wasn't hurt :(

     
    I'm sorry to hijack, but that is the most self-centered, crass statement a person could make considering what she caused..
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    removing  threads about my deceased granddaughter due to a pm I received.
    • Silver
    1. Name: Paige (I saw another Paige! how exciting!)
    2. Age: 23 -- 24 in a few weeks.
    3. Location: Orange County, CA
    4. Last book you read: Confessing a Murder (terrible)
    5. Do you live in a house or apartment: Apt
    6. Married or Single: Single-ish. Live with my long time b/f
    7. Do you have kids: nope.
    8. What do you do for a living: Animal Care Specialist at an animal shelter
    9. Where were you born: Bryan, Texas
    10. One thing you want to do before you die: Equine Rescue/Sanctuary; get PhD in Animal Behavior (starting back at skool soon!)
    11. Animals in the house: 2 dogs, Cash and LT and 2 rats: Arttie and Ford
    • Gold Top Dog
    1. Name: Helena
    2. Age: 26
    3. Location: Toronto
    4. Last book you read: Blue Angel by Francine Prose (I do not recommend it)
    5. Do you live in a house or apartment:  Apartment
    6. Married or Single: Married
    7. Do you have kids: No
    8. What do you do for a living: Nothing right now.   I'm waiting for my work permit and permanent residency.   I volunteer.
    9. Where were you born: Sweden
    10. One thing you want to do before you die:  I would like to write another book.
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    I didn't realize how many people are only in their 20's!
    • Gold Top Dog
    1. Name: Jean
    2. Age: 50--no one ever believes me though, thank goodness [&:]
    3. Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
    4. Last book you read: Just finished Clouds End by Sean Stewart (nope, not a good book), reading Dark Cities Underground by Lisa Goldstein. Her writing is somewhat amateurish...
    5. Do you live in a house or apartment: Apartment/house Landlord lives upstairs in this house, I live in the basement apt. Please send really strong good vibes that I can buy this place to be my own!
    6. Married or Single: Single, boyfiend lives in his own waterless bachelor cabin.
    7. Do you have kids: Yes, triplets, the zygote just didn't separate.... that's a joke, folks...just one grown (but do boys ever grow up?) 25-yr-old. [:D]
    8. What do you do for a living: teach fiddle, mandolin, guitar, bodhran; perform as a musician in two bands, Tanana Highlanders and Chile Gumbo. Sell flags and celtic goods at fairs and on the internet (my online shopping cart is all messed up...I'm working on it...) I'm also a freelance writer most recently published in local papers. Yes, paid jobs.
    9. Where were you born: Michigan, like about half of all i-doggers!! LOL!!! We have a joke here in Alaska that everyone is from Michigan, if you trace it back far enough. [:D]
    10. One thing you want to do before you die: I have to get a book written and published, preferably more than one. It's a real drive. I HAVE to do that.
    • Gold Top Dog
    We'll be going to Louisiana next May. A few towns north of Baton Rouge. Our younger neice will be graduating high school, already. Just yesterday, she was 6 years old. Well, that's what happens when you let them out in the sun and give them water.
     
    • Gold Top Dog
    About 1980, I read "The Screwtap Letters" by C. S. Lewis.