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January 06, 2002

Things to do before I die
  1. Grow my hair out to shoulder length
  2. See Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower
  3. See London from the top of the Millenium Wheel
  4. Flash someone for beads at Mardi Gras
  5. Roll around on Jim Morrison's grave
  6. Run a 5K race
  7. Go sky diving
  8. Learn karate
  9. Attend a space shuttle launch
  10. See the aurora borealis
  11. File a patent for some useless gadget
  12. Go on an African safari
  13. Graduate from college finally
  14. Learn how to take really great photographs
  15. Swim with dolphins
  16. Run a 10K marathon
  17. Visit the Tower of London
  18. Stand in the Colosseum in Rome
  19. Fly on the Concord
  20. Have my photo taken with Marilyn Monroe's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
  21. Stand in front of the Kremlin in Moscow
  22. Ride a cable car in San Francisco
  23. Find my clan's memorial on the Culloden battlefield in Scotland
  24. Search for the Loch Ness Monster
  25. Have a Guinness at a pub in Ireland
  26. Attend a Day of the Dead festival in Mexico
  27. Learn yoga
  28. Swim with sharks
  29. Celebrate my birthday in another country
  30. Smoke hash in a cafe in Amsterdam
  31. Try to speak Spanish to the locals in Madrid
  32. See Mt. Rainier in Seattle on a clear day
  33. Watch the bull run in Pamplona
  34. Witness the monarch butterfly migration in Michoacan, Mexico
  35. Take a gondala ride in Venice
  36. Go on a whale watch
  37. Go deep sea fishing and catch a fish
  38. Ride the Orient Express
  39. Road trip from coast to coast in the U.S.
  40. Hike into the Grand Canyon
  41. Dive the Great Barrier Reef
  42. Tango in Buenos Aires
  43. Hike along the Great Wall of China
  44. Visit an active volcano
  45. Ride a camel to a tour of the Pyramids in Egypt
  46. Learn fluent Spanish
  47. See the stained glass of Saint Chapelle by the morning light
  48. Bicycle through the French Bordeaux region
  49. Sponsor a college scholarship program for women
  50. See a tornado
  51. car Learn to play the saxophone
  52. Watch the sun rise over the Taj Mahal in India
  53. Stay out all night partying in Manhattan
  54. Bungee jump in New Zealand
  55. Learn to quilt
  56. Appear in a film as an extra
  57. Own a house next to the ocean
  58. Learn how to mix the perfect martini
  59. Build a chair all by myself
  60. Spend a week on a sailboat, just sailing around
  61. Read all the classic novels
  62. Have a beer at Oktoberfest
  63. Visit somewhere specifically to see a full solar eclipse
  64. Design my dream house and see it built
  65. Write a really excellent movie script
  66. Convince Craig to ride horses with me
  67. Figure out how to play craps
** Note: this is an ever evolving list.
Nicole fished at 10:36 AM | comments (7) | trackback (2)
January 04, 2002

Biography of a fish


Name: Nicole
Location: Philadelphia
Age: 31

Long story made short....
Born in February of 1972, Nicole was birthed on an army base in New Jersey but grew up in Berwick, Pennsylvania. Nicole attended public school [K-12] in Berwick and quickly came to know that she did not belong in a small town with small-minded people. She was a cheerleader from 1984-1990, with the exception of 6 months in 1986 when she was expelled from the team for threatening to kill the coach and her family. Nicole's experiment in cheerleading was a subversive attempt to undermine the male dominated neanderthal sports community in Berwick. Aside from her work as a revolutionary, Nicole wrote for a variety of newspapers, poetry magazines, and periodicals while in high school.

Escaping the trauma inflicted upon her by the Berwick school district, Nicole moved to Philadelphia to attend Temple University in 1990. She continued to cheer at Temple, but only as a means of schnookering The Man into purchasing her books. Upon leaving Temple, Nicole held down various careers -- waitress, temporary office worker, sales clerk for art objects, secretary. It was only by accident that she started fundraising professionally. Nicole enjoys making art, cooking, gardening, reading, writing, seeing bands, and obsessively ranting over politics and current events.

Nicole married the oldest friend of her college roommate in October 2000. Nicole and Craig both hate weddings, but love each other and Halloween, so they had a Halloween themed wedding during which they led their guests on a ghost tour of Old Fort Mifflin. They live blissfully in Philadelphia with their cat, Sassy.

Nicole hasn't missed a Henry Rollins or Rollins Band show in the Philadelphia area since 1990 [with the exception of one show].

Want to know more? Read the FAQ!

Nicole fished at 04:44 PM | comments (5) | trackback (0)
January 03, 2002

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Philly now has ring of its own! Woohoo! Join the Philadelphia/Philly area bloggers and create our own little city of Brotherly Love....



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1. You must keep an online blog or journal or diary. It doesn't matter if it is hosted by Blogger, Diary-x, your own homepage, etc.

2. Your blog/journal/diary must be updated at least twice per month. Blogs with no recent entries will be deleted from the ring.

3. You must live either in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania or live close by. New Jersey and Delware residents will be considered as long as they are close to Philly.

4. You must be at least 18 years of age.

5. I don't really care what your journal is about, what you write in it....except for a few things. Blogs that include super sexually explicit content and blogs that promote hatred, racism, sexism, or violence will not be approved for the ring.

6. You must put the webring code on your blog template immediately. You will need to there to be approved. If you remove it you will be dropped from the ring. And make sure I don't have to hunt for it, eh?

7. In additon to the rules of member for PhillyBlog outlined in #5, your site will also be deleted from the ring if I discover that you have violated copyright laws. That means that you are not allowed to use the property of others on your site without their express permission. Don't "borrow" photographs or graphics from the sites of others, don't lift their designs or content. All content on your site that is not created by you must be credited correctly. If the artist or content originator asks you to remove their content from your site, please do so gracefully.


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Nicole fished at 04:43 PM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
January 02, 2002

100 Things

1. My grandmother never learned how to drive
2. My other grandmother never graduated from high school
3. I did graduate from high school and learn to drive, but I hate to drive
4. The only time I've ever seen a tornado was while I was sitting on a plane on the tarmac waiting to take off in Denver
5. I nearly peed my pants when I saw the tornado
6. I lost my virginity at the age of 13
7. It was in the back of a yellow van with red shag carpeting
8. When I was 5 I had a crush on Shaun Cassidy
9. I started dying my hair at the age of 14
10. I don't know what my natural hair color is anymore, but it used to be medium blonde
11. My mother named me Nicole after a character in a movie she was watching in the hospital before she gave birth
12. Even though my name is Nicole, my entire family calls me Nicki
13. I hate being called Nicki
14. It reminds me of the song "Darling Nikki" by Prince
15. I think Prince is sexy
16. I can read a 400 page book in under 2 hours
17. My favorite author is John Irving
18. My favorite book is "A Prayer for Owen Meany"
19. During an average work day I consume 6 cans of Diet Pepsi
20. I have beautiful feet
21. There are only two bones in my body that have ever been broken: my little toe on my right foot and my ring finger on my left hand
22. My finger was broken on an athletic cup while I was in self defense class
23. My brother has broken nearly every bone in his body and the Emergency Room personnel knew him by name when we were kids
24. I bite the skin around my fingernails unless I am wearing acrylic tips
25. I smoked for a month when I was 14
26. The smell of cigarette smoke makes me want to vomit
27. I believe in ghosts and see them on a regular basis
28. I am leery of other people who say they see ghosts
29. I have always wanted to have sex with a woman, although I'm fairly sure I'm heterosexual
30. I never want to have children
31. At one point I had 88 pairs of shoes
32. The Bible is the greatest work of fiction of ever written
33. I was born at 7:32 pm on February 23, 1972 at a military base in New Jersey
34. At exactly 7:32 pm on my sixteenth birthday my teammates sang happy birthday to me and my boyfriend gave me roses
35. I love horror movies
36. I hate to be scared
37. I am scared of touching crumpled up napkins and tissues
38. I pretend to be smarter than I am constantly
39. I taught myself to read by watching Sesame Street
40. I love to travel
41. I've been to London, Paris, all up and down the East Coast, San Francisco, Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Toronto.
42. Having travelled so little, I feel un-accomplished
43. I'm a foody -- I love to cook and I love to eat
44. My mother tried to teach me to cook when I was in high school. I refused to learn under the auspices of not wanting to conform to typically female duties.
45. I taught myself how to cook when I was 23
46. Other than a tonsillectomy at the age of 5 I've never had surgery and I am in perfect health
47. My first newspaper article was published when I was 16
48. It was an article about prom fashions and it was published in The Press-Enterprise, a newspaper that services a large rural area in Northeast Pennsylvania
49. My goal when I was younger was to win a Pulitzer Prize for investigative writing
50. I quit writing for my high school newspaper when I was 17 over a squabble with the editor
51. I can hold my breath underwater for over 2 minutes
52. I am an excellent swimmer
53. I was mugged once during college
54. The mugger got away with 62 cents in pennies
55. My family is made up of mostly farmers
56. My youngest cousin died a few years ago by drowning in a silo filled with corn. She was 5.
57. A second cousin died when I was 3 in the field next our house. He had a heart attack, fell off the thresher and was pulvarized
58. My uncle Ralph makes his own scrapple
59. I watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer religiously
60. I have dated well over 200 men during my dating life span
61. I collect stuff from the movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas"
62. I am chronically 15 minutes early for everything
63. It makes me insane when others are late for events and plans
64. Every single friend I have is late 75% of the time
65. The smell of tequila makes me sick
66. I once mooned a Wawa full of cops because I was drunk on tequila
67. I hate talking on the telephone
68. My husband calls me at work at least 5 times every day, and I usually lie to him in order to get off the phone
69. I prefer to go to the movies by myself
70. It's entirely likely that I will get cancer one day; my mother, grandmother, and several aunts have all had cancer. I'm not scared of the idea, though.
71. I am an aspiring book artist and jewelry designer
72. Last time I was tested I could type 112 words per minute
73. I have always wanted to go through a past life regression
74. I don't know how to play any musical instrument but have always wished I learned to play the saxophone
75. Math is my very worst subject; I count on my fingers
76. I love getting tattooed
77. I take at least one yoga class every week
78. My body is very flexible
79. All my baby teeth fell out at once when I was 6 -- I fell in the middle of the street face-first
80. My teeth are perfectly straight, but I've never had braces
81. I have only had one cavity
82. Only one of my wisdom teeth has ever grown in and it was extracted when I was 19
83. I took all of my pain medication within 12 hours
84. I played a homeless woman in a student movie once
85. I used to line up all of my dolls and stuffed animals when I was 6 and play teacher
86. I could never be a teacher: I hate children
87. I am unable to whistle
88. I take very hot showers
89. My dreams are very vivid
90. I was fired from my second job ever for not sleeping with the guy who made the donuts.
91. I have worn contact lenses since I was 11 years old and glasses since I was 7 -- I am tremendously nearsighted
92. The owner of a local strip club offered me $3,000 to strip one night when I was 14; I said no
93. I hate the color pink
94. My mother repainted my bedroom pink and installed pink carpet the minute I moved out when I was 18
95. Halloween is my favorite holiday
96. I donate blood regularly
97. I have a huge crush on Henry Rollins
98. I tend to be attracted to guys with tattoos and long hair
99. My husband has short hair and was only tattooed recently
100. I love him anyway

Nicole fished at 04:42 PM | comments (21) | trackback (0)
January 01, 2002

Fishies without a country



note: if you would like to be placed in the correct time zone/category, please let me know

Nicole fished at 09:01 PM

International fishies

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PST fishies

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MST fishies

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CST fishies

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EST fishies

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Cast and crew

in alphabetical order


Amber - co-worker, intern in an outside department
Amy - boss, Director of my department at work
Brooke - co-worker
Carole - a friend [ex-college roomie]
Christy - a friend [ex-college roomie]
Cindy - my father's current girlfriend
Craig - my husband [married since September of 2000]
Crystal - my half-sister [parents are my Dad and Sharon]
Dave - my college boyfriend
Ed - my mother's third husband
Eric - Christy's current boyfriend
Janice - my mom
Jay - my mother's first husband [aka: Dad]
Jeri - a friend [and former co-worker]
John - my mother's second husband
Kristi - my cousin
Maryellen - co-worker
Ned - Vice President of my department at work
Rebecca - co-worker
Renee - a friend [since high school]
Sassy - the cat
Scott - my high school boyfriend
Sean - Christy's ex-fiance
Sharon - my half-sister's mother, my dad's ex-girlfriend

Nicole fished at 04:41 PM | comments (1) | trackback (0)

The fine print

Hey, thanks for visiting go fish! I love comments and emails, and I appreciate the fact that you're reading. I would, however, like to set some ground rules regarding being an asshole.

If you disagree with something I say, that's OK. I'm not one of those people who believes they're right about everything, and there's no room for debate. I love debate, and I'm glad to see it when someone has something interesting to say that is in direct opposition to my own viewpoint. Just don't be a jackass. Don't attack me or anyone else who comments at go fish. You can have a differing opinion without being confrontational and rude and mean about it.

If you can't control yourself and you just decide you have to get nasty for no reason, than I reserve the right to do whatever I want with your comments. I may publish rude emails. I might ridicule you publicly. I might just delete your comments. All you have to do is not act like a smacked ass and these things won't happen. It's not a lot to ask.

Also, I'm just letting you know -- if you get pissy with me or other commenters at go fish and you don't currently keep a weblog/online journal, your opinion will get exactly 0 consideration. If you're not brave enough to put your own thoughts out there, you don't get to pick on those that are.

Now that we've got that out of the way, let's talk about how go fish looks. My design changes from time to time. You don't have to keep the design that is currently up. To change the way go fish looks, pick a new skin.

Thanks again for visiting!

Nicole fished at 03:24 PM | comments (0) | trackback (0)