PLFXpert

That's exactly why I'm not bothering w/ the extra 3 classes. I am going into pharmaceutical sales.....TONS OF MONEY!!!!! I love sociology, but it doesn't pay the bills. I knew that a long time ago. I needed a minor and decided if I was going to minor, I might as well double major but at the last minute, I just made it a minor. I'll be graduating in December w/ a Bachelor's of Science (major in Communications) and my minor in sociology.

Hmmmm, I like manly toes....i don't mind them painted on a man, but i prefer them not to be. I don't want a man prettier than me.

AWESOME...I had a double bachelor's for a while in communications and sociology. I am graduating in December with my bachelors in Communications and minor in Sociology b/c I'm ready to be done w/ school and I'd need 3 more classes to have my bachelor's in sociology. I know it's only 3 more classes but I'm ready to start my job after graduation and make some GOOD MONEY! That is AWESOME, though. I LOVE sociology!

Yea...I was pretty stoked. Like I said, my family is VERY distant and I don't know any of them, we don't even send Christmas cards or celebrate B-days. I don't think I've seen anyone in my family but dad/stepmom, mom/stepdad in 8 years. I guess my mom keeps in touch w/ my uncle and she called me out of the blue one day and said to be at home around 0-400 b/c I'd be receiving an important call. Ha ha ha. It was my uncle and he asked how much a good rig would cost. I told him you could get a nice, used rig and cypress, helmet, etc. for $3,500 and that's what he sent. He basically bought me my gear for life, b/c I've since, sold my original gear and bought a new javelin container, sabre 135 and reserve (I kept my original cypress) and I didn't have to pay a penny extra than what I made selling my first rig.

ME TOO! My entire first rig and jump suits were free. I'm very, very fortunate. My family is very distant and I knew I had an uncle in some military secret service but I'd never talked to him or met him. When I started jumping, I was going to take a student loan for my rig, cypress, etc. but then I received an anonymous check in the mail for $3,500. My uncle, whom I'd never met, wrote me a letter saying he LOVED jumping in the military and b/c of his job, he felt bad he never had the chance to meet me or do anything an uncle should do and asked that I please accept the check to purchase my rig b/c skydiving was something he never got to do for fun, even though he wanted to. I'm VERY fortunate and now, every time I skydive, I think of my aunt/uncle. I even get/send e-mails to them once in a while. I got my first suit for free b/c when people send back suits that don't fit, they just kinda sit there. So, the suit maker had me try a bunch on and we found one that fit me pretty good so I took it. I think it all happened b/c I was just MEANT to skydive...ha ha ha ha.

Ha ha ha.....I remeber Freddie telling BZ, "GOD, I'm glad she's jumping here!" Ha ha ha ha.

Hell yea! I was stoked and SUPER relaxed! I knew I would enjoy skydiving, I just didn't know I'd LOVE it so much.

I DEFINITELY believe dreams have meaning. However, I don't think it's anywhere near easy to figuring out exactly WHAT they mean. I have very vivid dreams EVERY NIGHT. One night, I had a dream, while I was shopping to buy a home w/ my boyfriend, a black bat fell from the ceiling and landed on my boyfriend and he threw it at me. It landed on my shoulder and did not want to get off. I wasn't scared of the bat, at all. I just was worried he would get hurt and I tried to put him outside. However, when I opened the door outside, the bat did not want to leave my shoulder and refused to get off me. When I tried to decipher what this dream meant, I looked up "bats." It said if you dream of a black bat, it means someone close to you will die or you will experience an extreme personal trauma. So of course, the fact that in my dream, my boyfriend was the one who threw the bat on me, made me quite mad. Jokingly, I yelled at him all day, "YOU THREW THE BAT ON ME AND NOW I'M GOING TO HAVE EXTREME PERSONAL TRAUMA." Obviously, I don't believe that I deciphered the dream correctly. I think each person is different and for a person who might be afraid of bats, it might mean what I looked up. However, I'm not afriad of bats and wasn't afraid of it in my dream, so I"m sure it means quite another thing. My point is, while dreams DO have meaning, in my opinion, don't bother too hard trying to decipher them b/c 99% of the time, you'll probably do it wrong.

Geez, I hate explaining myself. Nope, didn't start skydiving for much of a reason other than skydiving. As I said, I've been involved in extreme sports my whole life. I had always meant to try skydiving b/c I'd been good on every other board, why not try a skyboard. That year that I shut myself off from people, I pretty much put all my plans to skydive and everything else on hold. Then I met a woman named Rena at my car insurance place. She is a skydiver and talked to me about a trip to Thailand she had made during the summer that, that thing, happened. I thought to myself, "damn, that was the summer I wanted to try skydiving and it's been a year." So, that's when I said, "f*ck this, I"m getting my life back together and whatever happens, happens."

You read my message, wrong. I didn't need to prove, shit to myself. I've been involved in extreme sports my whole life and there's pretty much nothing I think I can't do. I started skydiving to start a new life for myself, not to prove anything.

I hope you guys read my comment to Viking sarcastically. I was the only virgin in my friendship circle until I was 20. I only tease the ones I love.

Wow, Pammi....awesome...I never would have guessed a lot about you. That is what is cool about this thread. I believe this, too. I always say I have no regrets b/c, at the time, whatever I did is what I wanted to do. You learn and you grow. You wouldn't be who you are today had you not done the things you did. That's what I always say. There is one situation in my life that I put myself in that caused me a LOT of trouble at the time. I allowed myself to be vulnerable and payed a price. However, looking back, I definitely don't feel sorry for myself or dwell on what happened b/c, had it not happened, I might not have ever become a skydiver. It sounds like a twisted turn of events but I was very depressed for a year and locked myself in my room at college and shut myself off from the world. I still made great grades in school, worked and planned for my future, but I just basically did not want to be around people. In class I would sit far away and my business was as a swim instructor so I only had to deal w/ children. Finally, I just said, "f*ck this, I'm jumping out of a plane and getting my life back together and whatever happens, happens." By this time, only my best friend since K-grade was still my friend, so of course, I showed up to the DZ by myself and didn't know anyone all through my AFF b/c I could only come on weekdays since I worked on weekends, back then. My instructor commended me and said he never had a student that came alone, everyone he taught had started w/ a friend. I replied to him there is nothing to commend and that I was just doing something to move on in my life. Not only did I fall in love w/ skydiving, I fell in love w/ a skydiver and skydivers in general. I now have a family at my DZ, I have someone (my boyfriend) who knows everything I've been through and still loves me, and I have a sport that relaxes me and helps me get away from the stresses of everyday life. Skydiving is, quite literally, the best thing to ever happen in my life.

Damn, Viking, I'd thought you'd had sex for the first time, when I read the subject line. I did two new things as well: 1. Manicure 2. Pedicure Both were part of a gift certificate. I'LL NEVER get another manicure, again. My fingers feel sooo heavy w/ that crap on my nails. I haven't painted my nails since that paint and peel nail polish I played w/ when I was 4. The pedicure, I might get again, once in a BLUE MOON. I don't care about the polish so much as i LOVED sitting in a massage chair w/ my feet in a spa as someone spent an hour massaging my feet. NOW THAT IS WORTH IT...but definitely only as a treat once a year. Ha ha ha.

I bring a small cooler to the DZ w/ about 2 gallons of gatorade. Usually they're 3 for $5 at Publix.

Yea, it's funny how many people on here agreed w/ me not liking chocolate. 99% of people I mention that too, look at me in utter shock. My favorite candy is REESE'S PIECES! Sugary peanut butter in a candy shell....mmmmmmmm...and I require a bowl of vanilla bean ice cream every day. I buy the tubs of it at Sams. Ha ha ha.

0 jumps...my canopy was getting new lines. But: 1 outfit bought for job interviews (I'll be grad. in Dec. and I'll be thankful to ditch my current job) when Cache' had it's 75% off sale, and 1 pair of Nine West shoes at the 50% off sale. 1 visit to my mom, whom I haven't seen since Christmas. 3 loads of laundry, 1 good srub inside the refridgerator, 3 hours cleaning house, 1 hour looking through textbooks brushing up for the fall semester, 2 hours reading about/studying my investments, 1.5 hours swimming in the ocean and 30 minutes on the phone w/ Skymama while I was stuck in traffic. Even after all that, though....I'd rather have been jumping

Dove, very cool! We have some things in common: #2. ME TOO! A dirty mind is terrible thing to waste. #5. Sort of. I wouldn't say I heal remarkaby fast but I have a remarkably high pain tolerance. #6. ME TOO! Except when I get up to shower, my boy-toy is still in bed so I make it as soon as he gets up. I'm a clean and organizational freak, but like you, I don't force my preferences on others. #9. CONGRATS!!! We don't have this one in commong but I just wanted to say congrats. I'll be graduating college in December but it's not suma cum anything.

If it weren't for your IM's I would have been a disgruntled employee a LONG TIME ago! Thank GOD you put up w/ me. Keep being so good and I just might reward you....HA HA HA HA.

Jack, THAT IS AWESOME. I've always thought you guys were cute but I had NO IDEA you'd been together 34 years! It's relationships like yours that give me hope. Being a child of divorce, obviously I NEVER want to have that happen. I hope in 32 years, BZ and I will be celebrating our 34th! Congrats!

THANK YOU, CRYSTAL!!! There are so very few of us blunt people left. I'm so happy to hear this. I'm very blunt with friends, however, with people I don't know, sometimes I'm blunt, sometimes not, depending on the appropriateness of the situation. But like you, if I have a spider in my web (sky-booger in my nose) PLEASE SOMEBODY TELL ME!

My name is PLFXpert, I'm recently 22, I have not ever, nor do I ever want children. But, I LOVE playing w/ other people's children. I ran my own swim instructing/coaching business and tutored first grade SLD kids. I also used to volunteer at the Boys and Girls Club in downtown Orlando. People always say, "I bet you can't wait to have your own." HELL NO! Every time I hear one screaming in a restaurant or toy isle I'm SO THANKFUL they're not mine! I know I'm young, and I could change my mind, but in my entire life, I'VE NEVER wanted them. It seems selfish, but if you think about it, for someone like me who wants to travel and wasn't raised in a traditional form, it's actually the most unselfish thing I could do.

HEY! I'm not a post whore! Until this past week, I haven't posted in months and after next week, it will probably be months again. Sheesh!

I had to look that one up. Learn something new everyday. To save the rest of you time: EUNUCH--eu·nuch Pronunciation Key (ynk) n. A castrated man employed as a harem attendant or as a functionary in certain Asian courts. A man or boy whose testes are nonfunctioning or have been removed. Informal. An ineffectual, powerless, or unmasculine man.

Since this thread isn't going anywhere...will someboday tell me what the flames on a thread mean? Does it mean "heated" or "beware of graphic material" or "about to get deleted" or "be careful what you post." Explain:

Okay.....so back to what makes you guys unique. I'd love to know! Come on, I know skydivers LOVE to talk about themselves so SPILL IT! I think I've spilled ENOUGH in this thread...good thing this is a non-judgemental thread.