Nightingale

no... but I don't have much money either. Or a family of my own. My parents have enough sense to take care of my cats, but beyond that, my brother would prolly take the computer, and my uncle would want the knife and sword collection, but that's pretty much the only valuable stuff I've got. No point to having a will at this time in my life... but if I happen to somehow acquire a lot of cash, or get married and/or have kids, a will would be one of my first orders of business. However, I do have something that's kinda like a will, because it says what I want done with certain stuff after I don't need it, but its even more important than a will, because it deals with people, not things. Its an organ donor card.

OMG! what happened?!

hehe... LOL. I am a GIRL (see pic a few posts up). Why does everyone assume I'm a guy?

I've been on the list for about six years now... a guy who was in my class in college got leukemia. I didn't know him well, but I gave blood to the registry when everyone else did. everyone tried for months to find a match, and we couldn't... he died. However, something like 4000 more people ended up on the registry because of him, so hopefully some other lives can be saved.

Congrats!!!!!

thanks. the website stuff isn't real difficult... I use Xara for my graphics. www.xara.com the program is called webstyle 3.1 an easy hint for web stuff is under your "view" menu, there's something that says "view source." and that lets you see the code of the site, so you can see how other people do stuff. that's how I learned.

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thank you! I had fun making it.... AFF photos will be up next week.

Thanks, everybody! you've made me feel a lot better about this. I just finished posting all the photos from my tandem on my website... www.nightingalesnest.net Today I found myself staring up at the sky thinking "I want to be up there..."

I'm just going to be up in the hollister area in two weeks for renaissance faire. driving up on friday, faire on saturday and sunday, nothing to do monday, and drive home monday night... just figured I had a dead day in there and could fill it with something fun like jumping out of an airplane. I can wait til after I finish AFF if that's whats best, tho.

Hey! I AM a girl!!! see?

Perris Valley Skydive.

I do martial arts... Kenpo Karate. I'm a brown belt.

its weird... I wasn't at all afraid as long as I thought my friend was going too... but now that he's backed out, I'm kinda scared. I'm not sure if its just that I was scared deep down but didn't want to show it to my friend, but now that I'm going alone, I can admit it to myself? I dunno. I'm still going to do it, but I think its going to be harder when I can't look across the plane and have someone else there for support. am I making any sense at all??

hoping to start AFF this saturday at Perris.

I did a tandem with a friend who swore he was gonna do AFF with me... and just backed out. I really want to do AFF and get my license and all that... but I feel weird about doing it alone! I don't know anyone else who skydives... and my other friends all look at me like "jump out of a plane?! you're freakin nuts!" sigh.

do you have to do all your AFF at one dropzone? or can I do level 1 at Perris and level 2 at Hollister, then back to Perris for the rest?

in california, you only have 90 days after termination of employment to apply for COBRA... at least, this is what I was told when I applied three weeks ago.

The waiver I had to sign stated that if I filed a lawsuit that I would be responsible for all legal costs incurred by the dropzone, so basically, I'd have to pay not only my own legal bills, but THEIRS as well, for a lawsuit I'm not gonna win.

normal life?? (looks around) what's that??

I went on my first tandem jump on saturday 9/20/03. Before the jump, I figured it would be my only jump. I just wanted to be able to know that I'd done it at least once... however... when I landed, I decided I wanted to do AFF in January... and now, I'm thinking of doing AFF on October 5. I can't think about anything but that next jump. I'm completely obsessed!!!! is this normal?! -N-

Name him Tamlin Tam Lin is a celtic legend... he was a captive of the faeries and lived in the forest and was a hit with the chicks.... kittens are chick magnets.

when you leave a job, whether you're laid off, quit, or fired, they should offer you something called COBRA benefits... with the COBRA program, you can pay out of pocket to continue things like health insurance. Mine cost around $200 a month to continue til my new insurance kicked in, but it was worth it to not be without insurance, because you never know what's going to happen. Better to pay $200 a month and not need your insurance, than not pay $200 and end up paying $10,000 because you were in an auto accident or something and didn't have your insurance.

congrats!!!

thanks, everyone!!!