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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 09:42 AM
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What are you passionate about?
What would you spend your time doing, given a choice? Doesn't have to be something that you're good at, just something that you love doing.

What is it?

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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 09:51 AM
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1. Guess...
:P
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 09:59 AM
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2. LOL!
Behave!

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

:P

:hug::hug:
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 10:01 AM
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3. But seriously folks...
Edited on Tue May-01-07 10:02 AM by lizziegrace
Music, volunteering, the gardens around my house, quilting and being a good friend.

:)

oh, and :evilgrin: too

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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 10:09 AM
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8. oh you like massages too!
:)
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 11:11 AM
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20. Heh...
Edited on Tue May-01-07 11:34 AM by lizziegrace
:)
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 11:15 AM
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27. ...
:hug::loveya::hug:

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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 10:01 AM
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4. History
If I had all the time in the world, I'd spend it immersed in dusty old stacks of books and documents, happily poring over things that happened a long time ago to people who are dead.
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 11:07 AM
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12. I love history!!!
:hi:
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cobalt1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-02-07 08:28 AM
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42. Good choice.
Just load those stacks of history books onto a sailboat with a few cases of good red wine, then I'm one content man.
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ThatsMyBarack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 10:05 AM
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5. I'm doing it now!
Hangin' 'round DU! ;)
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 11:07 AM
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13. Fun, isn't it?
:hi:
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 10:06 AM
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6. Exploring the entire country on a bicycle
It'll never happen but it's fun to fantasize about
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 10:09 AM
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9. Ive done a couple of smaller countries that way
but not the entire US. yet.

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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 11:08 AM
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14. Don't say that...
it CAN happen if you want it to badly enough. Who says you have to do it all at once? You can do it a little bit at a time.

:hi:
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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 10:07 AM
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7. film and literature
both watching and reading as well as creating it from time to time.
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 11:10 AM
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17. Yup...
I love literature and good films. Even the bad stuff, because you can always learn from it.

:hi:
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 10:33 AM
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10. smoking crack
just joking, i am passionate about living right now.
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 11:10 AM
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18. Possibly the best passion of them all...
the living, I mean. Not the crack.

:P

:hi:
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 11:10 AM
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19. Oops
Edited on Tue May-01-07 11:11 AM by reyd reid reed
The dupe monster's at it again.

:eyes:
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MedleyMisty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 10:39 AM
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11. Reading
Researching. Writing.
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 11:12 AM
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22. I love the reading and the writing...
Research I need to be in the mood for, but when I am there isn't much better.

:hi:
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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 11:09 AM
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15. animals
not passionate that way x(
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 11:13 AM
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23. Heh.
:hi:
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 11:13 AM
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24. GAAAAH!!!!
Edited on Tue May-01-07 11:13 AM by reyd reid reed
x(
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 11:10 AM
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16. Pretty much what I'm already doing...
DU

Photography

Writing

And of course........:evilgrin:

Life is good, dammit!

:hi:
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 11:14 AM
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25. All of them are fun.
And life is good, isn't it?

:hi:
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1gobluedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 11:11 AM
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21. Gardening, reading
and my family. Equally passionate about all of them.
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 11:14 AM
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26. ...
:hug:

:hi:
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aljones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 11:18 AM
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28. The Genealogy of the European Monarchy!!
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 08:51 PM
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31. And what, exactly,
have you learned? Speak slowly and simply -- I just got back from an elementary school band concert.

:shrug:
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Liberalynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 11:19 AM
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29. Politics, Pets, Reading, Watching Julian Mcmahon on TV
Edited on Tue May-01-07 11:31 AM by Liberalynn
net surfing, writing a number of things.
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 08:52 PM
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32. At the risk of sounding like a moron...
who's Julian McMahon?

:shrug:
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Liberalynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-02-07 08:10 AM
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40. You don't sound like a moron at all. Hug! Julian Mcmahon
is one of the two main stars of the hit FX series Nip/Tuck. It is a show about the racy lives of two best friend plastic surgeons from Miami, this coming season, the characters are moving to L.A. though.

Julian also plays Dr. Doom in the movies of the Fantastic Four and recently co-starred with Sandra Bullock in Premonition, and he has an upcoming starring role in the independent film Prisoner set to be released nation wide in July.

On TV, He also had supporting roles in Another World, The Profiler, and Charmed. I first saw him on Charmed.

He is orginally from Austraila and his father was the appointed Prime Minister for awhile in the 1970's. I beleive but am not sure his father was a liberal! YAY!

Like Stephanie Miller has a dellusional crush on Keith Olberman, Julian is my dellusional crush. Completely accept I have no chance of ever meeting him or anything like that, just like to dream and drool. :rofl:

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kay1864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 11:21 AM
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30. Learning!
Whether reading or watching the Discovery channel or going to a new exhibit at the museum, I love learning new things. Especially in science, but also art, movies, history, lotsa stuff.

And of course chocolate...
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 08:53 PM
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33. Belgian, of course....
and there are lots of things to learn about chocolate, y'know. VERY interesting stuff.

:P
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 09:44 PM
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34. Cycling and reading.....but not at the same time.
:D

:hi:
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 09:57 PM
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36. If you had one of those stationary bikes
you could...but think of all the scenery you'd be missing. If you tried it in the middle of real scenery, think of all the teeth you'd be missing.

Hmmmmm...

I need to get my fat backside on a bike...I'm a-skeered to, though. Somehow, when they coined the expression, "It's like riding a bike -- you never forget how," they didn't have me in mind.

It wouldn't be pretty.

:eyes:
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 09:46 PM
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35. reading non fiction, i try to buy a fun book but i always end up in non-fiction.
on the other hand i'm the go to person for politics and world events and dead dictators.
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 09:58 PM
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37. See, I'm just the opposite.
I try to buy non-fic so that I can improve my mind -- and I always wind up with the light, fun, fluffy stuff.

Well...not always, but I do tend to lean toward fiction.

:hi:
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cobalt1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-02-07 09:13 AM
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44. IMHO, non-fiction books ARE fun books.
The stories are that much better and easier to get into because they ACTUALLY happened.

Fiction is just like reading about someone's dream...not that interesting.
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hiaasenrocks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 10:12 PM
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38. Writing and reading. n/t
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 10:13 PM
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39. What else is there, really?
Two of my passions, as well.

:hi:
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-02-07 08:11 AM
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41. Reading, drawing and gardening. (n/t)
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-02-07 08:35 AM
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43. I love to create, imagine, and invent.
I also love to figure out puzzles, riddles, and dilemmas. Any activity that allows me to do all of these things at once, makes me VERY happy. Playing tabletop RPGs, writing poetry and prose, painting, writing songs, devising an imaginary and (IMHO) more-perfect system of government, doing crosswords, playing Scrabble, figuring out new ways to train my dog, dreaming up business plans. These are all things I absolutely love to do. :)
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-03-07 03:41 PM
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45. Politics, music, reading, dogs, computers, and writing
I'm very passionate about impeaching Bush and making sure none of the Reagan wannabes running on the Repuke side get the Presidency! I consider all of their candidates to be quite right of the real center in this country. I am anxious for the general election season. I love acquiring new CDs for listening pleasure. Music is a big part of my life. Writing wise, I write reviews, lists, and poems mostly. My lists keep track of my music and celeb crushes. The celeb crush list I posted today is one I'm very happy with, and will likely be unchanged for a least a while. You might have noticed that many names never change. I love dogs and almost always have a book to read. I'm anxious for Harry Potter - The Deathly Hallows!
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-03-07 04:44 PM
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46. Riding & training horses, travel, the beach, reading, swimming, gardening & politics. nt
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