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Godhumor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 02:27 AM
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So what silly, small, or petty accomplishments are you secretly proud of?
For me it's beating expert level of Minesweeper (99 bombs) in 199 seconds. I find myself wishing there was a professional Minesweeper league to compete in.
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buzzard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 02:36 AM
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1. Just got my Padi open water diver, no more resort certification n/t
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 02:46 AM
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2. Having an awesome Soulpatch
At least that's what the woman who I served a beer to said:D
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 02:54 AM
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3. I have rhythm
I didn't work to get it, I didn't practice and yet there it is. Turn the music on and I can instantly move to the beat without embarrassing myself. :D
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 08:46 AM
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8. Who could ask for anything more?
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darkstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 04:39 PM
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20. Haha!!!!
:toast:
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Catsbrains Donating Member (352 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 07:43 AM
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4. I quit smoking a year ago. :-)
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 07:44 AM
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6. that is no small accomplishment
:thumbsup:

good work
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Road Scholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 07:05 PM
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37. Good for you. No small acomplishment indeed! I quit too a while
back. It was one of the most difficult things I ever did.I'm still pleased with myself about that one. You should be too. Stay away from other smokers until the temptation is completely dead.:toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 07:44 AM
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5. I ran a 10K
considering I used to weigh almost 300 lbs., I think that's pretty awesome.
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hisownpetard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 12:16 PM
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13. That IS amazing and awesome. You should be proud! Congratz.
:bounce: :toast: :bounce:
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 12:23 PM
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14. That is totally awesome!
Wow!

You've definitely got me beat. :)
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 04:54 PM
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23. wow
that is awesome and not small

:wow:
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 07:46 AM
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7. I managed to make an essay justification of
The Plymouth Agreement (a colonial document) as a valid Constitution, rather than just a simple compact. I dunno if my argument will fly with the Professor, but I was extremely proud of myself for pulling it off. :hi:
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 08:49 AM
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9. Getting the highest SAT score in my graduating class, despite being barely...
...above the middle grade wise.

My high school can suck it.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 08:51 AM
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10. Just about everything I do is silly, small or petty. :P
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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 06:40 PM
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29. this is totally an accomplishment hehe
It's mine too maybe! :headbang:
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 11:02 PM
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52. I do what I can. :)
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 08:51 AM
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11. Every time I win a free game at Adams Family pinball.
Its one of the more difficult pinball games out there and it took me a very long time before I could win a free game. Now I win a free game maybe 1/3 of the time I play it. I'm very proud of myself for this. :)
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Godhumor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 12:53 PM
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16. Pinball related successes are great; I also feel the same way about air hockey
I was never very good at the Addams Family machine but I rocked the hell out of the Star Wars one.

Air Hockey is the greatest non-sport in a family environment you can participate in. I am ashamed to admit I trash talk in air hockey.
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 04:31 PM
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18. don't be ashamed
i always trash talk air hockey. its part of the fun.
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 08:33 PM
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46. that is my favorite pinball game ever
i used to rock at that game but i can't find it anywhere now
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 10:00 AM
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12. I am better at Tetris than everyone.
If I could make money from Tetris, I'd be a gajillionaire.
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Omphaloskepsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 12:27 PM
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15. I found a bug in Magpie RSS..
I reported it to the developers and they implemented my fix.

Go Go Open Source Software.
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puerco-bellies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 12:54 PM
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17. I killed the original Kudzu thread
Greatest thread killer of all time.
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 04:35 PM
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19. I got a Winterspring Wintersaber mount on World of Warcraft.
It's purty...


Yes, I'm a geek.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 04:41 PM
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21. Playing Zerg and beating the Protoss in Starcraft,
with zero units killed.
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Zodiak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 05:05 PM
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24. That, sir, is an accomplishment!
As a member of the throngs of Starcraft losers, I salute you.
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Cannikin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 04:52 PM
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22. My photoshop youtube vids.....I'm such a geek
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Zodiak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 05:07 PM
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25. For me, it is being one of the more popular bass players on youtube
Edited on Sat Jan-26-08 05:08 PM by Zodiak Ironfist
500+ subscribers and hundreds of thousands of views....all for me playing along with Rush, Primus, 311, etc. in my living room wearing pajamas.

They even made a website and a musicians youtube club based on my idea of "Living Room Rock Gods"

http://www.youtube.com/user/zodiakironfist

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hisownpetard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 05:47 PM
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26. It's edifying to me that, having gone out on a limb with a post about Bill Clinton
(before I'd heard anyone express such an opinion), it seems to be all the talk on TV now
and in the press.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4187550&mesg_id=4187550

Feels good to have gotten in under the radar, before the hub-bub 'bout Bubba abounded.
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Coyote_Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 05:55 PM
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27. Minesweeper in 147
Still have the bmp copy of the screen shot. I probably have between 15 and 20 screen shots of minesweeper wins below 200. Yeah, I need to get a life....
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Godhumor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 06:57 PM
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35. That's great! Now I have a new goal to shoot for...
I'm pretty certain I will not be doing that anytime soon, however.
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Darth_Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 06:37 PM
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28. My hairdresser complimenting me on my naturally soft, wavy hair.....
saying people pay to get hair like mine but don't always get it. ;)

vain DK. :)
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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 06:46 PM
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30. I've moved 13 times
I'm sure other people have too but WHATEVER x( shut up.

I worked at the World Trade Center for a few months.
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 06:47 PM
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31. I'm openly proud of my silly, small and petty accomplishments. Ask me anything. -n/t
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 06:51 PM
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32. I used to walk from telephone pole to pole on the wires
Most of my friends chickened out, but a few fools would follow me. I guess that stunt was somewhere between daring and stupid, but it was an accomplishment nevertheless. :shrug:
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 06:54 PM
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33. Winning every comic book convention art contest I've ever entered
At least I got paid
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 06:57 PM
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34. .....
I wake up in the morning


lost
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Godhumor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 06:59 PM
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36. I'm replying to myself, I know, but something just happened that I'm ridiculously proud of
I just changed out a corroded car battery on a 2000 Ford Taurus in the dark and during a snowfall. The screws holding the shield in place were pretty much rusted to the battery itself, and the entire ordeal took around 95 minutes with the tools I happened to have in the trunk of my car. I'm still giddy the damn thing caught on the first cold start.
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opiate69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 07:08 PM
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38. Minesweeper, eh? Here's a movie right up your alley then..
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Generic Brad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 08:05 PM
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39. Caught over 700 fish last year
Don't worry. I released the majority of them back where they came from.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 08:19 PM
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40. My cooking.
My husband thinks I'm the best cook ever.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 08:25 PM
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41. Committing stuff like this to memory:
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel*
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel

There's nothin' Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the raisin' of the wrist
Socrates himself was permanently pissed

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill
Plato, they say, could stick it away — half a crate of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle was a beggar for the bottle; Hobbes was fond of his dram
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: "I drink, therefore, I am"

Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed




...and many, many more. :)



*Per the version on "The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief" LP. In their stage performances, it was "Schopenhauer and Hegel."



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Joey Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 08:27 PM
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42. My softball team won a championship
In the days of my youth, I was the player/manager of a softball team that won three championships. That was so much fun and it was a real kick to take home those trophies.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 08:28 PM
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43. I still have my foosball-tournament trophies from over 30 years ago.
Redstone
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Joey Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 08:31 PM
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44. Fooseball is a blast
Couldn't play worth a damn, but it was fun. Haven't played since I quit drinkin'.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 08:44 PM
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47. Christ, my right wrist still clicks when I rotate it, from playing so much.
Redstone
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Joey Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 01:45 PM
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53. It's a very addicting game........... n/t
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 08:32 PM
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45. I made it out my front door today
and went in the car with a friend

my mind said fuck it

stay home

but I went

:hi:
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triguy46 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 08:57 PM
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48. I've did 43 triathlons, and no one at my work had any idea I was athletic.
This might be more of a secret than and accomplishment.
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Godhumor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 09:07 PM
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49. I'd say it is a private accomplishment
I have one like that too where very few people know I speak Japanese. Of course, I think your's is much more impressive. I'd be quite proud of that, too.
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lightningandsnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 09:19 PM
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50. High score in "Sweet Tooth" at pogo.com
Over 7,000 points in one round.

I love pointless puzzle games.
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 09:33 PM
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51. That game is godly.
Edited on Sat Jan-26-08 09:33 PM by WritingIsMyReligion
Fuck, I used to be a Pogo addict. Haven't played there in about 6 years. ;) My favorite game was Word Riot.
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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 02:06 PM
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54. The blistering speed at which I complete the daily crossword puzzle
I finish them in under the estimated completion time which amazes friends and family if they happen to see me working on one
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 02:09 PM
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55. i have been monogamous for 1.5 years now. it might seem trivial to others but it is hugely
significant to me.
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The Animator Donating Member (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 02:39 PM
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56. I'm learning how to make bread.
And I made a kickass soup the other day, from a copy cat recipe site.
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