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Introduce yourself here! October 2015
New month means new introduce yourself here!!!
This is a place to say hello and tell us a bit about yourself.
We have this tradition where we ask you 5 questions every month.
Pretty much everyone jumps in and answers the questions for themselves, not just our new peeps, which is pretty awesome i reckon.
Questions for this month are:
1) Do you have a hobby? What is it? Tell us about a thing you made or did recently? 🙂
2) Have you ever chucked a sicky from work? What kind of sickness did you say you had? 😛
3) If you had a TARDIS or a way to go anywhere in time or space. What event or thing would you want to witness or be a part of?
4) What is the closest thing to you that's coloured purple?
5)What's one thing you would like to get out of our little online community this month? What's one thing you would like to give back to the other people here?
Welcome @Lahna what do you play? What kind of music do you make?
Hey @Hashbrown42 welcome to the forums, what's your favourite video game that you've played recently? I know I'm way behind, but i just discovered Blood Dragon and am probably going to have to chuck a lot of sickies so I can play it through :P.
Hi @Ben-RO
I have been playing NBA 2k16 lately. It's really good and I'm thinking about getting paid tv so that I can watch it.
Its really cool all the tricks they can do 🙂
1) Do you have a hobby? What is it? Tell us about a thing you made or did recently?
Not really. I like doing all sorts of things, but I don't have a set activity that I'm dedicated to. My mind likes to wander!
2) Have you ever chucked a sicky from work? What kind of sickness did you say you had?
Ohhh, so guilty! Numerous times, have I chucked a sicky. The usual suspects are colds, flus, and gastro. Some of these were genuine, others - not so much haha.
3) If you had a TARDIS or a way to go anywhere in time or space. What event or thing would you want to witness or be a part of?
In QLD, there's a company which allows you to hire a Tardis for weddings, functions and conventions! So this is totally a thing If I could go anywhere in time or space, I would go back to 1985 to check out Back To The Future Part II and find out what Robert Zemeckis' thoughts were about the year 2015.
4) What is the closest thing to you that's coloured purple?
My glasses, which are on my face That's as close as you can get!
5) What's one thing you would like to get out of our little online community this month? What's one thing you would like to give back to the other people here?
Hm, I want to know what sorts of resources that community members find most useful. Quizzes, factsheets, podcasts, videos, stories~ everyone's different so not everything works! One thing that I want to give back to the other people here are laughs and funny pictures
I have never faked a sicky from work
I would go back to the wild west with all the cowboys
There is a purple coloured lego piece to the left of me
I would like people to talk to and i would like to make people laugh
You have never chucked a sicky @Hashbrown42? Sounds like your uber committed- I'd hire you!
Im New so here i go
1) Do you have a hobby? What is it? Tell us about a thing you made or did recently?
I play the piano. Not really a hobby more of a passion that i get sick of once in a while.
2) Have you ever chucked a sicky from work? What kind of sickness did you say you had?
I dont work. But Ive done that for school- I said i had a headache-i n reality i had an exam lol.
3) If you had a TARDIS or a way to go anywhere in time or space. What event or thing would you want to witness or be a part of?
Watching Beethoven compose piano pieces when he was deaf haha
4) What is the closest thing to you that's coloured purple?
A picture of me and my cousin whom is wearing a purple jumper.
5)What's one thing you would like to get out of our little online community this month? What's one thing you would like to give back to the other people here?
Im not really sure tbh
Welcome @hopethepiano! Watching Beethoven compose would be incredible, what a unique choice! Have you had a chance to check out some of the threads here on ReachOut yet?
yeah i have looked at heaps of the fact sheets-even before signing up for the forums.
1) Do you have a hobby? What is it? Tell us about a thing you made or did recently?
I play piano and currently attempting to teach myself to play guitar. I recently learnt how to play "Samson" by Regina Spektor on piano.
2) Have you ever chucked a sicky from work? What kind of sickness did you say you had?
No actually I haven't. I've always hated skipping out on anything for fear I'll miss something or be left out.
3) If you had a TARDIS or a way to go anywhere in time or space. What event or thing would you want to witness or be a part of?
I'd love to attend a Victorian-era Ball or the like. Something where I get to wear one of those ridiculous whale bone dresses and dance their dances. Just for the experience, wouldn't want to live there!
4) What is the closest thing to you that's coloured purple?
Surprisingly, I am not wearing any purple today but there is a blanket nearby me on the floor.
5)What's one thing you would like to get out of our little online community this month? What's one thing you would like to give back to the other people here?
I actually have no idea. This is my first time on anything like this so I guess it'd be something like finding out what it's like, what the online community here have to say. I'm sure I can give something back but I don't know what that is yet.
Welcome to RO @LadyCat. Cool username! Please explore at your leisure.
I will gladly accept you as my travelling companion, @N1ghtW1ng. Now where did I park my Tardis?
1) Do you have a hobby? What is it? Tell us about a thing you made or did recently?
I enjoy baking, so when the neighbours gave us a heap of lemons the other day I made some homemade lemon butter. Toast now tastes a thousand times awesomer 😛
2) Have you ever chucked a sicky from work? What kind of sickness did you say you had?
I think 99% of people have 😛 I haven't taken one for a while, but usually I'll say I've got a bad headache that Panadol won't cure.
3) If you had a TARDIS or a way to go anywhere in time or space. What event or thing would you want to witness or be a part of?
Hmmm, I'd like to see how my ancestors lived. Also it's the most cliche thing ever but I'd love to see how my life has turned out when I'm, say, 80 years old.
4) What is the closest thing to you that's coloured purple?
A purple cushion sitting on the couch
5) What's one thing you would like to get out of our little online community this month? What's one thing you would like to give back to the other people here?
I always get a smile from coming on here so I hope that continues (I know it will). I hope I can make other people on here smile too 🙂
GAH! It is October already! Is there a better month? If you think so, be prepared to back it up!
1) Do you have a hobby? What is it? Tell us about a thing you made or did recently?
I love Arts and Crafts as well as taking photos of sunsets and sunrises on my phone. I would say that they are my hobbies. Hahaha. I'm more crafty than artsy. At the moment I am working on a blanket for my aunt. Lots and lots of granny squares, copious amounts of wool being used and it is looking majestic as fk!
2) Have you ever chucked a sicky from work? What kind of sickness did you say you had?
Umm not that I can remember, well not technically. Hahaha. A few years back I got bacterial and viral conjunctivitis all at once. YUCK! Anyway, all had cleared and such. Got the a-okay to go back to work from the doc even though viral was still lingering. So my 2nd last shift before I went back to uni town, I somehow managed to turn my last shift from a 3hr to an 8hr shift. When I woke up the next day, I just wasn't feeling it, so I blamed it on my conjunctivitis flaring up again.
Long story short, conjunctivitis.
3) If you had a TARDIS or a way to go anywhere in time or space. What event or thing would you want to witness or be a part of?
That is a tough one! First of all, I would go a few weeks back with @N1ghtW1ng to prove it wasn't me who took the parcel. 😛 The falling of the Berlin wall, the meeting room of whomever had the bright idea to tell women that hairy legs are ugly so I can slap them in the face. Meet some Vikings as rumour has it that they were in fact female unlike what history tells us. I would also like to visit wherever pixies live! The day Australia became a nation! And of course, some time in the future.
@KitKat would you bring their inventions back to earth if it would benefit us? I so totally would!
4) What is the closest thing to you that's coloured purple?
A coloured pencil, of the purple variety. 😛
5)What's one thing you would like to get out of our little online community this month? What's one thing you would like to give back to the other people here?
Some light hearted fun! Pretty much what already happens here. I would like to continue to share snippets of my story to people who may benefit from it, to help them realise that they are not alone in what they are going through.
@stonepixie I will gladly come with you, to sort this out. (the only thing it would prove is that I was right, though). And I will definitely accompany you to the slapping of the idiot who suggested women can't have hairy legs, keep men wearing heels (because they wore it first and only stopped because women did, I'm pretty sure).
Being completely honest I'd just go check everywhere out.
Welcome @pippy123 !!! Awesome first post, can't wait to see you around!
1) Do you have a hobby? What is it? Tell us about a thing you made or did recently?
I like to make up stories and characters and stuff! One day I hope to actually finish a novel, but for the moment it's just a hobby! Most recently I had a night shift so I just kept myself awake by dot-pointing a few scenes.
2) Have you ever chucked a sicky from work? What kind of sickness did you say you had?
I'm super boring and have only ever had a sick-day off because I've been sick, haha. I have gotten out of staying back at work though by saying I have to pick up my sister and take her to work and stuff though, haha.
3) If you had a TARDIS or a way to go anywhere in time or space. What event or thing would you want to witness or be a part of?
Being a huge Doctor Who fan you would think that I would have thought about this long and hard, but I really haven't, aha. I'd proabbly be more interested visiting alien planets and all that cool stuff! If it had to be related to hummanity, I'd travel forward in time to see all the cool inventions that have come about!
4) What is the closest thing to you that's coloured purple?
One of my Game of Throne books has a purple cover (:
5)What's one thing you would like to get out of our little online community this month? What's one thing you would like to give back to the other people here?
I want to learn a new fact or something this month! I love that I always learn interesting things here whether it's from fact sheets or something that another member has mentioned! In return, I would like to make someone smile at their computer screen this month. (: (:
1) Do you have a hobby? What is it? Tell us about a thing you made or did recently?
My hobbies include reading and hiking. I've just finished reading The Secret River by Kate Grenville, and I have also just come back from an overnight hike along the coast with my family.
2) Have you ever chucked a sicky from work? What kind of sickness did you say you had?
Not from work, but from school, I try! I say that I have a headache or sore stomach but somehow my mum always sees through it so I have to go anyway.
3) If you had a TARDIS or a way to go anywhere in time or space. What event or thing would you want to witness or be a part of?
I would want to be on the First Fleet coming into Australia. It's such a pivotal point in our histoy which I would like to have been a part of.
4) What is the closest thing to you that's coloured purple?
My business studies textbook.
5)What's one thing you would like to get out of our little online community this month? What's one thing you would like to give back to the other people here?
I'm pretty new to ReachOut, so I'd like to explore a bit and get involved in the forums. I guess I could give back by joining in on the discussions and being here to support people!
Writing. Drawing. Reading. I recently wrote my Ace Coming Out story, or a version of it suitable for writing since it was over text 😛 I recently drew a snake-witch. The other day I attempted to draw Hagrid. And I'm almost finished the third book of Percy Jackson in German. Oh and playing piano, which I have recently begun to learn Arrival to Earth from transformers. It's not too bad either.
And I think that's all.
Actually I forgot photography, that is another one of my hobbies.
@Ben-RO that photo of the tiger is beautiful! I read it as 'photographised' instead of photographed and was so confused as to why you'd said that 😄
@pippy123 hello and welcome to RO!!! Ah, hiking is also a great thing! I've done it quite often in Europe because the scenery is just so beautiful and the places to go hiking are beautiful too. In Australia I don't find nice places since I live in the suburbs surrounding by other suburbs but I still enjoy hiking. On the coast sounds beautiful!
Mums seem to always know when we're lying!
See you around the forums!
2) Have you ever chucked a sicky from work? What kind of sickness did you say you had?
A few times. The first time was when I was with friends and we were playing music and stuff like that so I said I had food poisoning from Sizzlers 😄
3) If you had a TARDIS or a way to go anywhere in time or space. What event or thing would you want to witness or be a part of?
The death of the dinosaurs.
4) What is the closest thing to you that's coloured purple?
I cannot see a single thing in the kitchen that's purple. I'm not kidding. Is there nothing purple??? I'm going to go with a painting, because I think it's purple 😛
5)What's one thing you would like to get out of our little online community this month? What's one thing you would like to give back to the other people here?
There's nothing I wouldn't already get out of it to get out of it 😛 And I would like to give back... whatever people would like. It doesn't fuss me 😛
Welcome @pippy123 thanks for saying hi! See you around the forums! 🙂 I love a good hike too! Expecially if i end up at a nice beach at the end of it 😄 Are there any particular trails that are your favourites?
@N1ghtW1ng i understand your confusion, i certainly have the capacity to write something like that too
I think we should make a show off your snaps thread i am meant to be posting in the photo a day thread. @j95 is an awesome shooter too. Also regarding question 5 i think you have already given quite a bit back by resurrecting like 2x10^8 threads last night 🙂 I tried to respond to them all but i couldn't keep up!
These are my two favourite MTG cards 😛
1) Do you have a hobby? What is it? Tell us about a thing you made or did recently?
Footy, my team recently won our grand final and I kicked three goals during that game. I also got in the top 10 for our club best & fairest vote count.
Its my job, but I'm passionate about it and I consider it a hobby - landscaping & construction. I love working outdoors, making everything look great and learning about different plants etc. We recently finished a huge job which included a set of 4 display homes, it was hard work but everytime I drive past it I smile because I know that I helped create it.
2) Have you ever chucked a sicky from work? What kind of sickness did you say you had?
Yeah a couple of times and I've usually spent the day at the beach! Last time I said I had the flu, I didn't.
3) If you had a TARDIS or a way to go anywhere in time or space. What event or thing would you want to witness or be a part of?
The first step on the moon, just such a huge event and I think being able to see it live on TV would just be outstanding!
4) What is the closest thing to you that's coloured purple?
An eggplant in my fridge.
5)What's one thing you would like to get out of our little online community this month? What's one thing you would like to give back to the other people here?
I have been given so much support for all sorts of things on here in the past year and a half and I just want to be able to do the same for others, because I know how helpful it is.
Love magic the gathering! Haven't played in a few years though 😞
My favourite deck is a Tribal Squirrel Legacy deck that i built a few years ago. There's nothing like destroying your enemy with an endless torrent of squirrels.
1) Do you have a hobby? What is it? Tell us about a thing you made or did recently?
I am a photographer, i photographed this Tiger recently. It was right before her feeding time so I'm pretty sure she was working out how fast i could run :s
2) Have you ever chucked a sicky from work? What kind of sickness did you say you had?
Yep! Said i had gastro 😛
3) If you had a TARDIS or a way to go anywhere in time or space. What event or thing would you want to witness or be a part of?
1000 years in the future and right where i am now.
4) What is the closest thing to you that's coloured purple?
This Toaster.
5)What's one thing you would like to get out of our little online community this month? What's one thing you would like to give back to the other people here?
I think it's awesome when i see people come on here with a problem and walk away with a solution. I get a lot out of that.
This month I will start working on giving back by finding more ways to give recognition to our regular forum users who do that, because it's awesome.
My hobbies include painting and photography. And magic the gathering.
2) Have you ever chucked a sicky from work? What kind of sickness did you say you had? 
When I was at school I skipped a lot of class due to my mental illness. I was open about it. I told my teachers before I told my parents.
3) If you had a TARDIS or a way to go anywhere in time or space. What event or thing would you want to witness or be a part of?
I would probably go to Victorian England and get to wear cool corsets and outfits. (those who don't know I'm into steam punk so it would be cool to go to the era) I would like to see the the rise of the industrial era
4) What is the closest thing to you that's coloured purple?
My shoes. I have these really cool purple work boots.
5)What's one thing you would like to get out of our little online community this month? What's one thing you would like to give back to the other people here?
I would like to expand on my hearing voices tips thread. I'm determined to find more strategies to deal with voices and pass those tips onto other people.