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zoebob -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/19/2008 2:23:11 PM)

Definately a girlie girl. I did not like sports, getting dirty, working in the garden, etc. I had to wear dresses to school and couldn't wait to get out of them. however, I loved to get a really pretty church dress: the budget didn't allow that too often. It was tuff growing up with a tomboy mom and 2 brothers and dad. I did the camping and stuff and could deal with a little bit but hated extended hikes and sports, etc.

Here's the funny thing. My mom was the oldest and very much a tom boy. Her sister was just the opposite and hated my mom's hand me downs. This aunt had a daughter that was very much a tomboy like my mother: atheletic, etc although she always has her makeup perfect, hair done, etc. I am more like my aunt. I am girlie girl but never wear makeup and just pull my hair in a pony tail. Actually on my mom's side of the family I was the only girlie girl of my generation. My other cousin was more athletic and tomboyish too.



phosadaud -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/19/2008 3:00:26 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Jenny-Fair

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That reminds me of a choir retreat in high school. A friend and I happened across a group of baby garter snakes. We thought it was so cool...


....The guys were freaked...

In the fifth grade I was the only person on my team who would actually dissect the cow heart. The others just watched[8|]


You should have seen me dissecting the frog in 7th grade science class... We, uhh, had some fun with it... [8D]



Jenny-Fair -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/19/2008 3:13:01 PM)

LOL, dancing frog?



crh737 -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/19/2008 6:44:37 PM)

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ORIGINAL: BugLady

Well, are you gonna share how you paid, crh737?


Ok Buglady~
I'll paint the picture for you. This goes way back, my older sister lost her alone bedroom priviledges and I had to share with the slob! Yep she was, so picture this the wicked witch of the east and west combined that was my mother. (she started menopause and then got pregnant, so her hormones took an 360 degrees. Oh yeah)
So I had to clean our room in which my older sister did not, all her clothes in a pile. Well when I cleaned and made her bed I added the frogs, several of them. Believe it or not they were very quiet, must have been sleeping.
Well OS broke curfew, which I knew she would, so when she crept in and tried to slip into her bed, the frogs awoke, rotfl!!!!!
She screamed from the top of her lungs and woke my mother, my infant brother, and younger sister.
So being from a dysfunctional family you would have thought she would have got in trouble for breaking curfew, no I got in trouble because she woke the *witch* up! I had to do her chores for weeks....

Anyhow this did not stop, because I got her back. I had my OS check the mail. (I raised my younger brother and told her I thought the mail came early, my mom was not home.) So you could here her scream in the house from the outside. I had put a baby snapper in the mailbox.
Yup, Won again!
I must have been board, I also got my mom back, cuz when I made her bed, I slipped a rooster claw on her pillow, so when she slipped in it got caught in her hair.
Yeah you don't want to know how I paid for that now!!!!!!

Unfortunately as I grew older, even when I didn't do anything I was always pointed out and accused.

Honestly when I was married the first time and not even living there, they found a mouse in the house and accused me of buying one and letting it go in their house! Can you imagine.
I mean I was a rotten kid, but puleeze, buy a mouse! I would have caught one first [;)]
CRH



phosadaud -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/19/2008 8:17:09 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Jenny-Fair

LOL, dancing frog?


All I remember what we figured out how to get his tongue to poke out by jabbing a probe just right from inside his belly... [8D]



karlie -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/19/2008 8:20:35 PM)

LOL and ewwwwwww!!! I would have been one of the girly girls in the back inching away and getting grossed out!



phosadaud -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/19/2008 8:24:40 PM)

I was a strange child.... [:D]

Come to think of it, I'm a strange adult...

Maybe there is a connection there... [8D]



humbleinspirit -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/19/2008 8:25:09 PM)

I always like starting threads in She Says, as it is always interesting what all ya gals have to say. [;)]



Cherished3 -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/19/2008 10:25:35 PM)

Mostly Tom Boy with 25% girly girl. I get along better with men in the business world. I never had time for gossip nor was it appreciated in our family.



karlie -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/20/2008 12:31:38 PM)

Being a girly girl doesn't mean one automatically participates in gossip. I was/am nearly all girly-girl, but my mother would have strung us up for idle gossip!



Jenny-Fair -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/20/2008 12:45:10 PM)

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my mother would have strung us up for idle gossip!

So productive gossip is ok? [8D]



zoebob -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/20/2008 2:33:20 PM)

LOL



karlie -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/20/2008 7:02:29 PM)

no such thing...if it's productive and accomplishes anything worthwhile, it isn't gossip. [8D]



Cherished3 -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/20/2008 8:21:48 PM)

Qualification of gossip: early childhood to 19 years of age. We weren't allowed to discuss if "Johnny liked Mary type stories" and I was only allowed to play with my Barbie doll for 6 weeks because my brother felt that it would put me in a fantasy world of make believe and there were alot of girls at church that he felt who were in a fantasy world. On the flip side - my sister and I arm wrestled the boys when we were young until we were in the 8th grade when my brothers told us it wasn't a good thing to do. I swam on the boys swim team because I had a mean backstroke and always came in 2nd place. I was raised on, in and under water and was the first female in my high school in the 70's to get on the team. You have to admit that was a lot of gossip going on when we were younger about who liked who and did you knows? That's what was forbidden.

I'm sure I'll be hung out to dry on this post.



karlie -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/21/2008 12:40:15 AM)

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I'm sure I'll be hung out to dry on this post.

Nah...because that would be getting too off topic for this thread [:D]



car2ner -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/21/2008 10:39:24 AM)

I LOVE the frog story! No wonder you bring cookies to the dark side...

I wonder if anyone has changed their perspective since growing up? I was so very much a tomboy but at the ripe old age on almost 50, I dabble with the girly side of me more often.



phosadaud -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/21/2008 1:14:07 PM)

That reminds me... I will need to bake some more cookies soon... My cookie stock is getting low... [8D] The dark side must always be prepared... [;)]

I think as an adult I'm a bit of a contradiction - not much different than what I was as a child. Our executive pastor thinks it's hilarious and told me I'm like an onion - every layer you peel back, there is another new one... [:D]I'm full of surprises!

I still love rough and tumble stuff. I love my sci-fi shows and cop shows. I love my Nintendo. I have a warped sense of humor (definately not "girly" [:D]) and don't mind a good sweat. I can't STAND romance novels and love a good spy novel. On the other hand - I'm addicted to crochet. I love my flower garden. I love to bake (although mostly because I love to eat...). And I could spend all day at craft stores, jewelry stores and bookstores...



manda_24 -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/22/2008 12:30:33 PM)

I've always been a tomboy, still am in many ways. I always prefered spending time with guys, doing things outside, getting dirty, things like that.



-Emmanuelle- -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/22/2008 1:54:12 PM)

I was quite chubby so I never really felt good trying to dress like all the other little girls. I wished that I could, but I never did. My personality, however, wasn't girlie girl to the extreme. I didn't mind wrestling, playing football, or jumping in mud. Now I dress like a girlie girl but I still have the same personality.



Jess77 -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/31/2008 7:38:55 PM)

I was both. I had an older brother so I enjoyed playing hotwheels with him. But then he would come into my room and brush my Barbie dolls' hair when it got messy because I didn't have the patience for it. I used to ride my bike, climb trees, and pretend I was an explorer. That was my favorite thing to do. Sometimes my friends and I would even hang from the swingset and pretend we were in a circus. Other times I played with my dolls, jumped rope, or played video games. My room has always been painted in a shade of pink and my linens always have pink or purple flowers.

Interestingly, now that I am adult, I still love pink, still love flowers, still love dolls, but hate make-up, dressing up, fixing hair, and all the other "girly" things. If you want to torture me, take me to a store and make me shop for clothes. Ugh!!!



redcarpet -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (1/31/2008 10:24:07 PM)

Tom boy. Loved to climb trees and try to build a shack. I would have been great at sports had I not live with a relative who gave me exactly 30 minutes to get home daily, every minute had to be accounted for past that time.

So, Id take short cuts, jump over fences:) I was great at that! goofed off for 15 minutes and just about jogged the rest. ha!

Hated wearing dresses, I didnt like pink (its one of my fav colors now though). I still prefer pants though.



Tinkerbell_ -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (2/1/2008 8:44:09 AM)

I was such the girlie girl growing up. Daddy's Little Princess, had everything pink, every Barbie doll, and dressed up just about everyday if I could get away with it.

It was as I grew older that my taste changed to the...less girlie side if you will. Now I think I'm a healthy balance. [:D]



Judah1966 -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (2/10/2008 12:13:48 AM)

I was somewhere in the middle I was never a girlee girl although my Dads did love me dearly.I played with dolls and my dogs.I made mud pies and tried baking pies.I hung out with girls and guys.I loved watching my parents at their crafts my step Dad was a Carpenter by trade and my biological Dad was great with creating things. I also asked alot of questions including while my Mom cooked and she was a great one by the way.Yep I was somewhere in the middle of both.



lissabeanhead -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (2/10/2008 12:22:16 AM)

I have no idea what I was lol. I wanted to be a girlie girl but the moment I was dressed up and playing dolls I wanted to be a 'boy' play in the mud, build forts ect. I must say that now I am very happy being the girlie girl who can throw down with the boys!!



gracefulgirl -> RE: Were You A Tomboy or Girlie Girl While Growing Up? (2/10/2008 9:08:50 PM)

I was definitely a tomboy. I played with the boys, made mud pies, played football, tackled them, hunted and fished with my dad. In fact, I still love to do most of those things though finding the time to do so is a little more difficult. As a teacher, when I see the girls playing with their dolls, I am reminded of the dolls I had. I had contests with them. I swung them around by their hair, and tried to guess which one would go the farthest when I would let them loose.[:D]



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