Ten Things...

[kitanzi]

Ten things I've done that, if you've ever done them, I'll be interested to know the story. (Though ACat was there for one!)

1. Rolled a car - in such a way that it landed straddling a stream.
2. Seen a cow being born.
3. Had 13 or 14 (I forget which) "permanent" addresses by the time I was 16. (And no, not a military brat.)
4. Driven 1100 miles in a day and a half, with all my worldly belongings split between the backseat and trunk.
5. Hiked the Angel Trail of the Grand Canyon in midsummer, all the way down and then all the way up.
6. Worn casts to correct pigeon toes before being a week old. (Or so I'm told - certainly I don't remember.)
7. Sold writing to an online magazine which promptly went out of business before paying me. (I may still have the contract kicking around...)
8. Joined with two housemates to take a third housemate to small claims court for back rent and utilities. (We won.)
9. Set up an exchange on computer equipment for Phil Foglio's assistant.
10. Had a stepbrother who I never did meet in person for something like.... ten years, was it? Something like. (Too late now, he's no longer my stepbrother!)

and one for good measure - traded a pile of books for a boa constrictor. (Which later escaped and frightened off the real estate agent who found it wrapped around the hot water pipes in the basement - but that's a whole other story.)

Comments

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

2. Seen a cow being born.

I've seen a few, while I was on my large-animal clinical rotations. It never ceases to be truly incredible, though. :)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I should have figured you would have. I've also seen puppies being born, but I was a lot younger when I saw the cow, and somehow it just seemed to have more impact. Yeah, it was incredible. :)

[spiritdancer]

Even moreso when it's a c-section :-) (yah, me too. but that figures, doesn't it?)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Ok, then, here's one I suspect would stand up better as a replacement.

2. Agreed to donate an egg to a couple trying to have a child.

[gingicat]

My sister had casts, but I think she was older than a week, probably about 5 months, since I remember one of them getting caught in Grandma's apron pocket while we were visiting her that summer, and my sister was born in March.

I just had the special shoes to correct fallen arches, after I'd already started learning to walk.

[chatworthy.livejournal.com]

Number Five.

Me, too. In one day, which is Not Recommended.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Ok, there's got to be a story behind that. Why both ways in one day, fer crying out loud?

[chatworthy.livejournal.com]

I was working there, it was my day off, and there were no cancellations at Phantom Ranch. Also I was Young and Indestructible. :)

[musicmutt.livejournal.com]

#6: I was in and out of casts for the first few years of my life to correct rather severely clubbed feet. I cam dngerously close to never having walked.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Ouch! I was nowhere near that bad, from what I understand. I'm glad that worked out for you.

[surrdave.livejournal.com]

OK, the snake story begs. Great hook line.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I had a boa constrictor, Cecelia. She was a bit of an escape artist, and managed to make herself scarce while I was cleaning her cage. I happened to be living at my boyfriend's family's house at the time, over summer vacation (I think) and they were trying to sell it, so realtors came by fairly regularly. One was showing the basement to a couple of prospective buyers, and came up to ask why there was a stuffed snake wrapped around the hot water pipe. Needless to say, I went flying down the steps yelling something along the lines of "You found her!" The realtor and prospects left abruptly - and, oddly enough, never did come back. :) Then there was the time she pulled the same disappearing trick in my dorm room at college... but that's a whole other story. :)

[little-cinnamon.livejournal.com]

this is going to go on like this, is it? *sigh* So tell us this other story... *grins*

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Well, lacking anything better, I left her on my bed when I took the cage into the bathroom to clean. I came back, she was gone. The dorm room was just not that big, and she was over 5' long! I hunted, my friends hunted, I was just about to break down and ask my dorm mates if anyone had seen a 5'4" boa constrictor (who was there VERY illegally) when one friend said "Did you check in the radiator?" I looked at her like she was crazy. "Have you seen the size of this snake??" But lacking anything better, I looked from under the radiator - couldn't see her. In desperation, I took the radiator cover off - and she had, god knows how, wedged herself up into and around the coils of the radiator to such an extent that she could not be seen unless you took the cover off.

Shortly after that, my boyfriend quit college and went home to live with his parents, and I gave HIM the snake. Sadly, she died a month or two later.