A bit about you.

[Gayla]

I have a half brother and a half sister but only by law and not by blood. We are not close and never really have been. I'm FB friend's with my brother and my sister and I exchange phone calls or emails a couple of times a year at xmas and birthdays. They are both older, we did not grow up together and have never lived in the same house together although we did travel together a few times a year when I was younger. My family skied often and I have a wall's worth of photos of different configurations of us at the top of the mountain where the pro photographers hit you up when you get of the ski lift.

And, oddly enough, hanging on the wall above my desk is a portrait of my sister and I that we had done by one of the artists on the square during a trip to New Orleans when I was in high school. We look like sisters even though that's not possible. I don't think it looks much like either one of us but I was very young and my hair was very long.

I like cookies but I don't like the eat the same ones all the time.

I also stopped watching television a few months ago when I started using the spare room as an office. I don't miss it. I also don't really listen to music anymore. In the car, if I'm not listening to a ball game, I've got the news channel on so I can hear the traffic reports.

I am a Cancer, and a very typical one. Except when I'm not.

[Martina]

Another Cancer. And an only child. And i have never had children. Can you spell "self-absorbed?" i fight against it, but that's the natural inclination.

My favorite cookie is the cocoa cayenne at Hot Cookie in the Castro, home of the penis shaped cookie. My second favorite are Ginger cookies. i am not eating gluten right now, so no cookies for me.

Basically a midwesterner although i live in northern California.

Favorite drink: Diet Grape Soda -- which, it's appalling to relate, cannot be found in the State of California. i miss you, Diet Faygo!

My favorite alcoholic beverage is Bell's Expedition Stout. (also not drinking now, so . . . sigh. i doubt it can be found in California either though i haven't looked.)

My favorite drink that i can actually drink is half fizzy water, half orange juice.

i have two adorable cats. i also would also like a dog, but am too busy. If i got a dog, it would be a Border Terrier. A couple weeks ago, i was sure i wanted a German Shepherd. So who knows what it will be when the day finally comes. Probably an amiable mutt from the shelter.

i love the the ocean, boating (which i haven't done in forever), live music (alt country), and reading. i meditate.

My favorite TV shows from the past are The Wire, West Wing, and Alias. Now i watch In Plain Sight, Bones, Supernatural, Sons of Anarchy, and whatever gets my attention on Netflix.

Which of the arcade games, if any, do you play? i play WOW Connect.

[cara]

I'm an Administrative Specialist. Currently, I support 11 people in 3 departments in 4 locations, which include the Board Office, Consumer Participation, and Resource Line/Transportation Assistance Program. I like my boss and most of my co-workers. I also work very closely with the Board Chair, since I am the Correspondence Coordinator for the Board. That is what I consider one of the toughest of my daily tasks.

I like both creamy and crunchy peanut butter. My mom never bought the kind with sugar in it while I was growing up, so naturally that's the kind I like the most.

I don't have a television so I don't watch American Idol.

I used to live in Edinburgh, Scotland and if I could travel anywhere, it would include a stop there. I would also like to visit New Zealand, Thailand, Petra, Italy, and...well...I love to travel so anywhere is fine by me.

My favorite British bands are: Depeche Mode, The Cure, Texas, Robbie Williams, Dead Can Dance, and many more.

My newest random hobby is hula hooping. I am also a letterboxer, artsy-craftsy, and a classically trained singer.

I have one older brother. He's married, lives about 300 miles away, and his wife just gave birth to my very first niece!

I'm a pisces and pretty much reflect everything I have ever read about the astrological sign.

I think the birth order theory is interesting, but I'm not 100% convinced it's the only one worth paying attention to when it comes to siblings and all that. I'm the second-born and youngest in my family.

I live with one bossy but skitterish Molly .

[Merlin]

I have ten chickens.
Two cats.
A dog.
And three fish lol.

[Gráinne]

I'm a typical Aquarius-strange, individual, dreamer, contrary, brilliant

Very much youngest of four. I had three brothers; the two oldest are deceased.

Grew up in Ohio, but have lived in Arkansas for a decade.

I am a science teacher, secondary schools

I see your peanut butter with bananas, and raise you PB on celery, with raisins (my mother would call this "ants on a log").

I rarely watch television, unless it's classic movies, documentaries, public television, or sports :P.

I will go absolutely anywhere. I'm not much for beaches but you could twist my arm . Russia, way out in front, followed by Ireland, Scotland, the rest of England (I only saw London quick and the Midlands), China (again), really anywhere I can learn and grow.

God, I'm old: The Hollies, Herman's Hermits, any of the British Invasion, Doves, Def Leppard, Zepplin-you name it. Some bands I loved for years before realizing they were British.

I play chess, once for competition but now just for fun.