Meme-a-riffic

[ladysprite]

Okay, since everyone else has already jumped on the bandwagon, I guess I'll play along.

Ten Things I've Done That You Probably Haven't:

1) Milked an alpaca.
2) Been hospitalized in the terminal ward with a rare blood disorder.
3) Translated the entirety of Fabritio Caroso's 'Il Balarino' from 16th-century Italian to modern English.
4) Cow surfed.
5) Fended off drunken advances from a Babylon 5 actor who mistook me for a professional dominatrix.
6) Snorkeled with manatees.
7) Posed for portraits at a late-night garden party in Tennesee wearing nothing but a chain mail bikini.
8) Had a major pop star give me an autographed pair of his undershorts.
9) Entered the Pillsbury Bake-off.
10) Jumped backwards down the entire staircase in the Statue of Liberty.

Not nearly as exciting as most of my friends, somehow....

Comments

[tpau]

see, nothign surprises me there, but i do wnta to know WHY you did that at the statue of liberty, and WHICH blood disease?

[jtdiii.livejournal.com]

forget those... which B5 actor... :)

[tpau]

ah, but i know the answer to that one...

[oakleaf-mirror.livejournal.com]

Me, too. But the story should come from ladysprite. She tells it in a way that would lose something were it not in first person. :)

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

Why at the Statue of Liberty? Because I was seven years old, and I was bored, and my cousin (who had severe ADHD, back before there were meds for it) suggested it. Also because it scared my dad, so it was fun.

The blood disorder was Henoch-Schoenlein Purpura.

[tpau]

ah. *does a google search* i think that is what irina slutskaya has...

[danceboy.livejournal.com]

The blood disorder was Henoch-Schoenlein Purpura.

You too? I admit, I wasn't put in the terminal ward. The first hospital my parents took me to told us "We don't know what it is. Go home, give him aspirin. It'll work itself out.", so we went hospital hopping...

From what I've read, that wasn't too far off from what they'd have done if they did know what it was (modulo a bazillion tests to make sure there were no complications), but my mother did not take well to being told they didn't know and weren't interested in figuring it out...

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

Aspirin? I think I had a slightly tougher variant.

My mom noticed the first signs, a couple of days later I was in the hospital unable to keep anything down, and within 48 hours I was too weak to sit up, with about 3 red blood cells to my name.

I made it through just fine, eventually, but it required about a week in ICU....

[danceboy.livejournal.com]

Dunno. I was in the hospital for something like a week. The big thing I remember is that they wanted to poke me with needles. I was on an IV for a few days and I really did not like the idea. I have no clue if I was able to eat or not, that would have been so incredibly less important to me at the time...

I remember being convinced that my parents would think that I faked up the spots on my legs with paint to avoid school for a few days.

Everything that I've read about HSP seems to say (granted I'm not a doctor, and I may be missing doctor-speak clues in the texts) that they're not really sure what causes it, it generally goes away on it's own, and the big thing is to make sure that renal failure is caught at the "impending" stage.

Admittedly, that doesn't jibe with either of our "extended stay in the hospital" treatments...

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I want to know what you entered in the Bake-Off! :-)

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

Peach Dumplings. They didn't even make the first cutoff, but I was vaguely proud of myself for making up the recipe....

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they're yummy!

[oakleaf-mirror.livejournal.com]

I've snorkeled with seals, which is as close as I can come to #6. I don't come close on the others though.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Cow surfing?

[sebastian-tombs.livejournal.com]

This is my question exactly!!

[warinbear.livejournal.com]

I'll wait for an explanation from Banshee, if she's willing, but I already have the mental picture of her with one foot on each of two cows, with a rope that leads from one cow's nose ring through her hand to the other, and a wild rebel yell echoing across the pasture as they amble along.

[tafkad.livejournal.com]

I've done #7. Except it wasn't in Tennessee. And I was wearing a lot of clothes. And there wasn't a chain mail bikini anywhere within a mile, much less than on my person. And it wasn't all that late at night. And it wasn't at a garden party.

OK. I've had my picture taken.

[braider.livejournal.com]

I don't know, that one made me stare and say "wow" more than most I've seen.

...milked an alpaca? I knew about the translation thing already, and while still utterly amazed, it's not a novelty. Cow surfing? ...*which* Babyl..nevermind. Snorkling with manatees=very cool. Did the major pop star happen to have a spare pair on hand, or...none of my business.

Anyway, yeah. You're more interesting than you think.

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

I'll have to write up the cow surfing story, and at least one or two others.

The pop star was Weird Al, and the underwear was part of a concert schtick. He was vamping audience members; a friend and I decided to play back and run down the aisle to swoon at his feet. He threw his underwear to me, and I stuck around after the concert until he appeared to autograph them. :)

[braider.livejournal.com]

*grin* Brilliant.

[gmkieran.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to the write-ups! I've heard or lived through most of the stories, but the memories make me smile!!!

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

Cow surfing? No shit cow surfing?

<jealous> I didn't know anyone actually did that; I thought it was just an urban legend. (In Iowa it was usually pig surfing though.)

I'm guessing I know the garden party. That was a year or two before my time.

[thebeardedone.livejournal.com]

You got me. I haven't even come close to doing any of those.

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

I want to know which B5 actor!

[rosinavs.livejournal.com]

I hate to say it, but I have also gone snorkeling with manatees. Darn, that's one less thing I can put on my list.