Heart's Desire

Best thing to come out of the 80s? Me, of course! Seriously, though, the 80s were my childhood and you have no idea how strange it is to read a thread of people wishing they lived back then. I mostly find it funny because my friends always talked about how they wished they'd lived in the 60s and my parents thought they were nuts. I guess I know how they felt now, though personally I'm flattered and happy that everyone seems to like my favorite decade. There is a Mario hat that says "made in the 80s" that I desperately want. Anyway, on with the post... This, this, this. This was my favorite game for a while. Also I have fond memories of King's Quest. My uncle was a programmer for IBM and had some really awesome computers in his house as well as many bootleg games. King's Quest was one of them and we would play it whenever we went over there. Also Combat, it was the first video game I ever beat my brother at. Revenge of the Nerds, Weird Science, and Princess Bride are some of my all time favorites. A few more things I liked; Star Wars collector glasses, Knowing being Half of the Battle, and twirling the phone cord around your finger while you sat tethered to the wall.

More often than not I get a U.S. Cellular ad. I'm not remotely certain how that's supposed to appeal to me, or what that has to do with the part of the site I'm accessing. Honestly I've started tuning them out. They aren't particularly distracting, which is good.

I think pillowpets count. I didn't even think about pets. I always have my dog and at least one cat with me. On more interesting nights I end up with the dog and all four cats but I have a queen size bed so there's plenty of room.

It depends on what dye you used. a natural or vegetable based dye should be fine. Most of the more non-natural colors tend to be those, as are the ones that only last a few weeks.

I have three pillows so I can pick what I want at any point during the night. I've got a fluffy high pillow, a thin hard pillow, and a body pillow. I've always slept on my side, though. I can't stand sleeping on my back and ever since I was a teenager sleeping on my stomach just hasn't been an option... I've also always slept better with the windows open, at least a crack. Otherwise I can't breathe. I even crack the window in the middle of winter. The cold air feels great, and my cats rush to the window like they haven't had fresh air in months.

Love it! (I am, of course, assuming they were all non-toxic dyes.) The colors turned out very well! I have a collie and I often tease her that I'm going to dye her white parts some oddball color but I know her and somewhere in the middle of it she'd shake and get dye all over me and I'd be speckled for a while.

Exactly. I'm sure if you check out the Mars blueprints you'll find a tiny hole somewhere, there may even be some sort of a trench leading up to it. I say we start there.

Whenever doing anything to your hair you should always wait AT LEAST 24 hours between actions. So if you bleach it, wait at least 24 hours before dying. Did she do this herself? 13 is a bit young to be bleaching her own hair. That stuff is dangerous and just leaving it on too long can cause these kind of results. Heck, I'm way older than that and I always have someone else do it for me just to be sure everything is even and gets rinsed properly. I guess all that can be done now is she'll have to find a good hat, scarf, or bandanna to wear until it grows back. She'll probably be crying about it for a while. I'm sure she feels like she's gone and disfigured herself.

As my brother says, we all know it's fake. The fun is in seeing a match so good that you forget that fact. I remember when I was little I used to deny that it was fake and as I got older it kinda depressed me and I lost interest for a little while because I knew it was fake. Then I realized that like many things in life, the fun is in knowing it is but pretending it isn't. Anyone who has a problem with people who like wrestling just has a desperate desire to prove that they're too smart to be tricked. Also, as was stated previously, wrestlers do a damn good job selling moves and they really do put their bodies through hell out there. Just because it's scripted doesn't mean that they aren't taking hits and that bad things can't happen.

I remember when Super Mario Bros. 3 came out there was an arcade version in the entry to Toys R Us. Whenever we went my mom would stop and blow some quarters playing it. Over the years my mom has played her share of games. I remember there was a Xena game she loved on the Playstation, she was really into the Rock Band games for a while, Sims 3, Fable, and a few others. Currently she plays WoW. She's very addicted and has been for a couple of years. I love my mom, she's awesome.

You're not alone at all. A lot of people have this because scent is the strongest sense tied to memory. I have a few things that come to mind on this topic. The smell of orange scented cleansers will always remind me of the Dean Koontz novel Hideaway. I was reading it in freshman year of high school. I had study hall in the cafeteria and they were redoing the floors. One of the chemicals they were using had the extremely strong artificial scent of orange cleaner. I will never forget smelling that stuff while reading some of the horrendous things that were going on in that book. To this day using orange scented cleaner always gives me a creepy feeling and reminds me of that book. The smell of primrose reminds me of my mom getting ready to go out for the evening. The funny thing about that is she's been wearing honeysuckle for a while not but it's the primrose I always remember. The smell of pencils reminds me of countless nights spent with my nose to the paper of my sketchbook drawing my heart out, and the smell of cheap ink pens makes me think of writing certain stories. One of my favorites though is the smell of oranges and tangerines. (the real scent. not those nasty cleansers). Those scents always remind me of Christmas. My mom always put an orange, tangerines, nuts, and chocolate in our stockings so now whenever I peal an orange I think "oooh, Christmas."

Bending is my middle name. My full name is Bender Bending Rodriguez. (Sorry, I couldn't resist) Geek is my middle name. I'm sure others may have other ideas, but that's what I'd like to go with.