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Terrie, I bite my nails too, at age 52.......But, I now have nails on my right hand..... the reason is that it has been in a splint for 3 weeks, so I couldn't bend it to my mouth! 
I want very much to keep the nails, but have no idea what to do to take care of them.........they feel soooooo weird. 
Ellen
Terries BearsEllen, Iam sorry to hear that you arm is in a splint! That's a hard way to try and grow some nails!! 
Kim-Bee BearsLL - glad you got out of that situation! :hug: I was ina horrible relationship before I met my hubby... he was emotionally abusive at first and then it ended with physical... and I am proud to say that the first time he laid his hands on me was the last time I saw him! JERK!
Back Road Bears!
Ellen, I'm sorry too that your hand has been in a splint.
To take care of those new nails of yours....
DON'T BITE THEM! They make icky tasting stuff you can put on them.
Put some pretty nail polish on them.... you won't want to ruin them!
Wear gloves!
Find all sorts of good uses for them so you won't want to loose them....
Opening candy bar wrappers
Peeling price tags off things
Opening christmas presents
Scratching an itch
Tapping them on the table when annoyed to get your point across
Flying Fur StudiosSueAnn wrote:I'm going to quote Patty Duke here . . . "Thank goodness for Teddy Bears!"
And, interestingly, Patty Duke is bipolar.
Hmmm... There seems to be a pattern here...
:)
Shelli, you and your patterns and connections. My boyfriend and I really have to play the "what are you thinking" game.
Kim-Bee BearsI bought my hubby the icky stuff to put on his nails becuase he bites them but for some reason, the bitter taste didnt stop him! I think the stuff in it is Bitrex which is in some nail polish remover... nasty!
Posts: 8,574Aw you gals with your beautiful hands and nails. I keep mine super short to play piano and do all the other stuff, golies teds gardens etc.
Miss Kim ESQ. now we can differentiate from Kimmy and Kim and Miss Kim ESQ. I think you probably add to society in ways that your lawyer friends could never conceive. And if your copywrites get used inapproprietly, well, you DO know who to call. Therefore I nominate you the official
TeddyTalk NONPRACTISING ON-NON-RETAINER-NEVER-HAS-TO-ANSWER LAW-QUESTIONS (unless you want to) LAWYER.
Whoohooo
Think about gus and dolls, gollies and teds, We have PHd's, lawyers, scientists, nurses, what? no docs? we have such a wonderful polyglot of training here, educations, religions, ethnic backgrounds and countries.....
The UNITED NATIONS has nothing on us....PUT THE TEDs in charge and the world will be a better place indeedy-do. 
Hey Miss Louise, (love you darlin, but you know that already) Great question....look what you stirredup and brought out!
Flying Fur StudiosOkay, very interesting. i loved reading about all your dirty little secrets. Although, not too dirty if you ask me.
I may have depression, but I haven't done anything about it. I'm fine most of the time then I hit a 'funk' and I don't want to do anything.
That leads to my one dark dirty shamefull secret. I hate working. Yeah, we all do. But I really hate it. And when I'm' in a funk it gets worse I do stupid things. I can't tell you how many jobs I've had and I"m just 26. Plus, all the jobs that I just stopped showing up for. Poor employers didn't know if I was dead or what. I don't know why I do this, it just snowballs, I miss one day without calling in, then it turns into 2 and so on. I realize that the only way I'm getting out of it is to make up some really huge lie. But I just can't , so I don't go anymore. Just sometimes I wake up and can't deal with anything, so I go back to sleep, wake up grossly late, realize I didn't call in to work and it starts.My boyfriend has left me a few times over this.
I am proud to say I've been at my current job for just about a year now, with only a few sick days, almost all mental health days though. :twisted: :redface:
I can also be a closet eater. 
I'm soo glad I'm not the only one!! Sometimes I stay up way too late to wait for my boyfriend to go to bed so I can eat something. Hungry or not. I think about it all night, just minutes after dinner. I think it's an addiction and I just dont' know how to break it. I'm thinking of going on weight watchers like Marion. At least something to get me started.
Oh, and I'm probably the only one, and I should really keep my mouth shut, but
I quit smoking cigarettes almost 3 months ago 
, but that's all I've quit smoking :redface:
Okay, I should stop while I"m ahead.
I feel like I know you all soo much better now.
MerBear OriginalsHeather I'm shocked at your revelations and especially that you didn't offer to share when I visited in July. Shame on you!
:lol:
Marion
Kim-Bee BearsI'd love to visit some of my TT friends.. ok, who can I come and visit?? he he he 
Flying Fur StudiosYou can visit me KIM!!!!! But if you don't like cold, you might want to wait untill summer. I can take you to our teddy store.......................
Kim-Bee BearsAre you all the way out near Montana? That is far away! I have never been to a teddy bear supply store!
Upstate New Yorkcome on up to corning kim; then we'll get in the car and go bug kelly in rochester.
Kim-Bee BearsBut that would mean I get to see what you look like! he he he... Is that upstate NY? Do they make corningware there? LOL
Upstate New YorkBut that would mean I get to see what you look like!
Fat & ugly :lol:.
Is that upstate NY?
Yep; barely over the PA border ... Route 15 North.
Do they make corningware there? LOL
Yes, but Corning Incorporated no longer owns that piece of the business. Sold the Consumerware business a few years back, but I think we still get the 30% employee discount at the Corning/Revere stores. Go figure.
You girls are punchy today.
Heather, I'm into connections because I'm a psych-major, ex-clinical-psychologist-wannabe, master's-level-elementary-school-teacher, with some nursing training, who married a marriage and family therapist.
If you want to overanalyze things to death, come visit me and MY house! I sometimes tell my husband that I wish he were a mechanic rather than a therapist! And by this I mean no offense to mechanics; it's actually a compliment. What I mean by this comment is that a mechanic, for instance, will look for a problem; find that problem; have the tools and parts to fix that problem; or won't, and will order them, in a straightforward way. And then that mechanic, wrench in hand, will fix that problem.
It goes: A, B, C, D, E. And voila; problem fixed. Over and out.
With a therapist beside me in my life, the problem gets fixed... but then, we have to talk about how the problem got fixed. Why it started in the first place. How we can keep it from happening in the future. What the problem means, in terms of its implications on the larger whole of humanity. Why we exist. Who invented liquid soap, and why. And so on.
Mechanics are a good thing. Dirty fingernails, maybe... but with a mechanic what you get is in, out, badda bing, badda bang, and you're done. And moving on to item #2. End of story. Finito.
You get the picture, I'm sure.
Still, I've been trained to take something and think about it, and then think about thinking about it -- that's actually called meta-cognition. It even has a name.
It's a blessing and a curse. People think I'm enlightened. And also, sometimes, incredibly annoying.
:)
PS Anyone can come visit me anytime they want. I have "hostess neurosis." I LOVE having people over, but am convinced anything and everything I have to offer won't meet expectations, so I get anxious! But I have a big house and in the summertime, especially, Chico is a wonderful, nature-filled place to visit. We're 1.5 hrs. north of Sacto and 3 hrs. north of San Francisco so it's not really "close" to anywhere spectacular. But if you're ever passing through Northern California, look me up, one and all!
About the fingernails.....I have tried the icky stuff, just chewed it off to get to the nails! 
BUT! this time I am determined to keep the 3 I have on the right hand. Thanks for all the suggestions.
If anyone wants to travel, you are more than welcome to come for a visit. As a matter of fact.....we can arrange a weekend at my camp 
:dance: :hug: Camp is about 1 hour from Watertown, near Black Lake. We are on a small lake, have a cabin we built, and a lean-to, heat, hot & cold water (non-drinkable) No Electric, so any bear making is done without electricity. We have 3 1/2 canoes, an antique boat (if it works), a 1 person sailboat and a 4-wheeler......I LOVE to have visitors. If anyone is interested, I will set up a date between June and September, 2006......(can't believe it is almost 2006)
I am close to a Corning Plant also.......but they don't make the Corning Ware stuff either....very technical stuff made there. Out in the sticks, don't know it's there unless you have been by it.
Back Road BearsMy hubby is trying to get into one of the Corning facilities in NY State.... we have a few here in New England but he wants to be back out there in NY! Maybe we'll be neighbors with Deb or Kelly or Ellen some day?
Ellen, 3 1/2 canoes?????
Wild Thyme OriginalsHow we can keep it from happening in the future. What the problem means, in terms of its implications on the larger whole of humanity. Why we exist. Who invented liquid soap, and why. And so on.
Shelli, this had me doubled up in laughter! I can only imagine. Though isn't that what most women complain that they don't get enough of!? I guess the grass is always greener.
As a lawyer married to a lawyer... we have the most outrageous fights you can imagine! Though I can't argue my way out of a box in the courtroom, my husband is a down and dirty, no holds barred REAL LAWYER, lawyer, with all the stereotypical lawyer like tendencies. And, in the privacy of my own home, I can hold my own fairly well. Try having a good old fashioned, typical marital disagreement with someone who will actually shout "Objection!" and cite a legal rule of evidence when things get hot and heavy! The last time he did it I just started laughing so hard I think I actually peed my pants. When he realized what he had done, he cracked up too, and fight over! It's sort of an inside joke for us now. He can NEVER, simply never admit to any kind of fault, even when it's staring him in the face. It's just not in his character. Promise me, if I ever run into any of you at a bear show, you won't say, "Objection, your honor, inadmissable hearsay. I move to strike the comment from the record!" He'd just die!
And Dilu, I humbly and graciously accept your offer!
Beary truly yours,
Kim Basta
Wild Thyme Originals
Kim-Bee BearsLOL... sounds hilarious! I often wondered what the lawyers I work with are like out of the office LOL
Patsy Lake BearsDilu..... you crack me up with your humour thankyou ...... I really enjoy coming on to see what you have come up with .... :hug: :hug:
Upstate New YorkMy hubby is trying to get into one of the Corning facilities in NY State.... we have a few here in New England but he wants to be back out there in NY! Maybe we'll be neighbors with Deb or Kelly or Ellen some day?
Well now that would be pretty cool!
Kim-Bee BearsI want a bear making neighbor so I can raid the mohair stash!
Back Road BearsKim - I LOVE to share my mohair stash! Every month or so I have a bear club meeting here and I'm always trying to get rid of some unwanted mohair!
My bear mentor, friend and club member, Diana, lives 30 minutes away and I can always count on her to have what I don't and vice versa. It IS fun and handy having another bear artist near by!
I'm only a day's drive away from you!
Posts: 8,574Oh Shelli.....with a mechanic what you see is what you get?
Think again my love......Mr. Hubs, who was an engineer ( they are so weird) and a Buddhist, for awhile, and now happily putters in the garage and at his part time job, analyzes everything to death.....I'm a betting he could give your Mr. a run for the money. And not just us. He anaylizes the news, and is always wanting to know if a politician is lying-he keeps track of who I say is lying and eventually the truth comes out and Mr. I-can-read-it once-and-remember-it-forever , turns to me and says, you missed that one, or you got that one right.Well good grief!
Never marry someone with a photographic memory...... 
well....at least be fore-warned 
How funny all our lives are.....but its a darn sight better than the alternative 
