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05/18/2002 entry: "Survey!"
1) Name: Rachel Ann Hoover
2) Name Backwards: revooH nnA lehcaR
3) Were you named after anyone? Not that I know of. My parents basically wanted to name me an R name. My dad's name is Ronald, and my mom's name is Joyce, so... my sister and I are Rachel and Jodi. Silly, huh? :D
4) Does your name mean anything? It means "ewe" in Hebrew. Yes, female sheep.
5) Nick Name(s): stinker (thanks dad), rach, rachie/rachi-poo (thanks sara :D)
6) Screen Name(s): rachelsstorm
7) Date Of Birth: September 19, 1982
8) Place of Birth: Oak Lawn, IL
9) Nationality: Mostly Polish (Mom's side) and Swiss (Dad's side)
10) Current Location: Naperville/Alsip, IL
11) Sign: Virgo sun, Libra moon, Virgo rising
12)Religion: Well, kind of my own at this point. I've merged some different religious and spiritual philosophies to make something uniquely me. But I'm still Wiccan and pagan to some extent.
13) Height: 5'5"
14) I'm obliterating question 14.
15) Shoe Size: women's 9 and a half
16) Hair color: black and red. I noticed the other day how much my hair's grown... at the beginning of the year, it was a little past my ears. Now, it's a little below my shoulders. That's impressive.
17) Eye color: Depends on a lot of things. Sometimes blue, sometimes green.
18) What do you look like: A zombie? I dunno. A girl.
19) Innie or Outie? innie
20) Righty, Lefty, or Ambidexterous? Well, a little from column A, a little from column B... I'm technically left handed. But I do use my right hand for a bunch of stuff. I play guitar right handed. I throw and bat right handed, but I CAN bat left handed pretty well too. I can write with my right hand, but it looks like a Preschooler's writing :D
21) Gay, Straight, Bi, or Other?: Straight like an arrow. Or a straightedge. Or.. yeah :D
Do You Have...
38) Any sisters: yes, one.
39) Any brothers: nope!
40) Any pets: My family has a dog, Belle. I have a cat, Sabrina. Sabrina lives with my family though since I can't have pets here.
41) A Disease: Only mental ones. :D
42) A Pager: nope.
44) A Cell phone: I have an old one in my car right now, but I'll be getting a new one this weekend.... sweeeet.
45) A Lava lamp: no, but I used to.
46) A Pool or hot tub: At home we have a pool.
47) A Car: 198..4? Pontiac stationwagon. I forget all the extra details I'm supposed to know, like the number. It's great though.
Describe Your...
48) Personality: I'm strange and inconsistent in my personality traits. Generally quiet unless I'm really comfortable around you, and even then it's hard to say. But I'm friendly and helpful as long as you're a decent person. If you're someone I like a lot, I'll pretty much do anything for you. Good friends are worth it.
49) Driving: I'll quote my drivers ed instructor for Behind the Wheel... "You're not the worst driver I've ever seen, but you're not the best either." That's my driving in a nutshell. I've been in one accident, sometimes drive a little fast, have been really lost twice, don't brake very smoothly, sometimes change lanes without looking well enough, and have almost ran over some of the members of First Grade Crush. Nobody but Peggy and I remember that.. I was turning right into a parking lot, and I didn't see until the last second that there were people walking out of the entrance, and so I had to brake really quickly so i didn't hit them, and caused the cars behind me to honk their horns. Then Peggy yells out, "Hey, that's First Grade Crush!" Later that night when Peggy was talking to one of the members, I couldn't really look them in the eye because I was so embarrassed. Even though apparently no one else noticed that I almost hit them. Anyhow :D
50) Car or one you want: My car, just in better condition. I <3 stationwagons.
51) Room: Right now, kinda messy but not as bad. I have some of my artwork up, a couple posters, some books and videos thrown about, and I made a little shelf for my bigger stuff with the bunk beds. We moved the top bed up allll the way so now I have this kind of canopy thing going on. it's sweet. I put a plastic tablecloth I bought over it and it looks fabulous. I have some fake flowers scattered through the room as well. It's beautiful when it's clean :D
52) What's missing: Some of the people I care about the most :\ Stop being far away! Gahhh!
53) School: Don't get me started on my school. Let's just say all they care about is money. Yeah, most colleges are that way, but most colleges have it better than us and pay less. They get about $20-$25,000 per year per student. There should be no complaints.
54) Bed: Just a single bed. Kinda small. But I have that canopy thing going on now :D
55) Relationship with your parent(s): It's pretty good now. I guess I appreciate them more after living at college. I talk to my mom more, and my dad and I have more in common now that I've taken this large interest in computers. I still sometimes go crazy when I'm living at home, but what kid doesn't?
Do You
56) Believe in yourself: Not really. I guess that's my first problem, huh? I sometimes do, but mostly when I let other people convince me to believe in myself. Once in a while something nice happens and I think maybe I can do the things I really want to do.
57) Do you believe in love at first sight? That's a tricky question. I'd say no, though. There are so many other things that are involved with love, and I don't think you can get all of that in just the first look at someone. That's not love, that's attraction and infatuation. While I have always suffered from susceptibility to infatuation, I'm also big on romantic love. Platonic love. All that sort of thing. Mostly romantic though. I'm pretty soft, even though I seem so cynical and protected.. Yeah. There's something I'm protecting.
58) Consider yourself a good listener: Yeah, but after years of good listening, I sometimes slip up and want to talk for a while. I can be a little obnoxious once in a while :D
59) Consider yourself a good friend: Yes. I'm not perfect by an means, though. Like I said earlier, I would do just about anything for my good friends because I love them to death.
60) Get Along with your parents: yeah probably
61) Save your e-mail conversations: Hehe, sometimes. Most of the time. I also sometimes save IM conversations, though I've cut down tons on that.
62) Pray: Not in the typical Christian way, but sometimes. I don't pray like some people do, like "Goddess please get me a new car" or "Make something bad happen to so and so because they suck". I'm more intelligent about it than that. I mostly "pray" (hate that word) for the strength or inspiration to do things myself.
63) Believe in reincarnation: Sure, why the hell not?
64) Like to make fun of people: Yeaaaah I can be kinda mean in that way. But it's people that either deserve it, or will never know I'm making fun of them. I don't like to make fun of too many people to their face, unless they're someone I know really well and I know they won't take it to heart. I don't want to hurt people :\
65) Like to talk on the phone: Yeah, but I have issues. I have a hard time calling people, and have a phobia regarding prank calls.
67) Like to drive: Yeah, but to a point. Too much is bad.
68) Get motion sickness: If I read in the car I get kinda sick.
69) Eat the stems of broccoli: I have, but it's not that good. the top part is the best.
70) Eat Chicken fingers with a fork: No way, they're meant to be eaten with the hands.
71) Dream in color: I think so
72) Type with your fingers on home row: yes, and it drives me nuts when people don't type that way,.. probably because we were taught it in grade school so much it's been permanently stapled in my head.
73) Sleep with a stuffed animal: Nope. I used to though.
What Is/Are/Was...
74) Right next to you: garbage can. and no, that's not my pet name for my room. i mean the real garbage can.
75) On the walls of your room: posters, artwork, a STAR cardboard thing I cut from a Converse box, plastic fedoras, a star black and white thing i made... that's about it.
76) On your mouse pad: a cat in a net hammock. don't ask. it's not something i picked out, i think it's something my second roommate gave me. hm.
77) Your dream car: I don't know I don't really have one. Although I really like some old cars, but I don't know their names or anything.
78) Your dream date: nighttime walks are nice :D
79) Your dream honeymoon spot: hmmm i don't know i'll get back to you on that.
80) Your dream husband/wife: haha silly question. :D
81) Your bedtime: uh, when i feel like it?
82) Under your bed: dust. boxes. bags. etc.
83) The single most important question: you expect me to come up with that at this time of night?
84) Your bad time of the day: morning. ohhhhh boy is it morning.
85) Your worst fear(s): someone breaking into my house. snakes. spiders. falling. death.
86) The weather is like: coooold
87) The time? 11:30 pm
88) The date?: may 18th 2002
89) The best trick you ever played on someone: i've never played any tricks on anybody i don't think.
90) The weirdest food or drink that you like: I don't know.
91) Theme Song: I don't really have one.
92) The hardest thing about growing up: not being a child anymore i guess. finding out all the things you never knew and kinda wish you didn't know.
93) Your funnest experience: damn, i can't pick one.
94) Your scariest moment: Once when I thought someone might be lurking outside my house. Any time I've gotten prank phone calls. When I got in a car accident. I'm sure there's more.
95) The silliest thing you've said: I could give you a long list, if only I could remember them.
96) The funniest or most desperate thing you've done to get the attention of the opposite sex: Hm. Well, I guess you could say one of the funny/desperate things I've done is IMing the person every single time they were online. Bugging them non stop. But that's a bit of a stretch..
I do have one though. Back in my sophomore year of high school, I was kind of getting out of Reel Big Fish. I also had a crush on one of a set of twins at the time. I found out they were kinda into Reel Big Fish, and so I got a Guitar magazine with the tabs for Sell Out in it, and brought it to school so they might see. And I learned to play Sell Out. And that got me back into RBF. I'm such a silly girl. I do weird things for boys.
97) The scariest thing that's ever happened while with your friend(s): Probably the thing about almost hitting members of First Grade Crush. Oh, oh except the time where I thought someone was lurking around outside my house, and I made one of my friends drive over because I was alone at the time, and I searched the perimeter of my house with a butcher knife hidden in my jacket. Damn I was scared. Like I mentioned, I'm very afraid of that idea.
98) The worst feeling in the world: Feeling like you have no future. Also the feeling that someone you care about doesn't realize that you care about them, or that they don't care about you. Hm. Or that feeling you get when someone you care about is going to leave you. Yeah. That kinda sucks.
Okay, that's all for tonight. Later.