Tell Us About You!
This idea for a thread was originated by Ladybug back in January 2008. I think it would be good to start a new one since a lot has changed in almost 7 years and hopefully some of our newer posters will join in. I've added a couple new questions to the original list.
What town do you live in? Oxford
What's your age range? Mid 40s
Male or Female? Female
Married or Single? Married
Children/Pets? 0 children, 1 dog, 3 cats
How long have you lived in the area? 18 years
If not local, where are you from? Essex County, NJ
What originally brought you to HL? Looking for carpet recommendations
What do you do for a living? Accountant
Hobbies/Interests? Reading, running, beer, watching sports, guns
Where would you rather be right now? Happy hour
Calico696 Has it been 7 years already? Where is ladybug. Have not seen her in a while.
What town do you live in? Hackettstown
What's your age range? 52
Male or Female? Female
Married or Single? Married
Children/Pets? 4 children, 3 boys, 1 girl and 3 grandsons, 2 dogs
How long have you lived in the area? 50 years
If not local, where are you from? Born in Illinois
What originally brought you to HL? Looking for info on town history
What do you do for a living? Originally Radiation Therapist, Radiology Tech, store owner now disabled from MS.
Hobbies/Interests? Scrapbooking, cooking, Sports being with my grandkids, beaches.
Where would you rather be right now? On a warm white sandy beach.
Christine Hackettstown
50's
Male
Married
3 adult sons, 6 cats, 4 dogs
45 Years, with a couple year break in the early 1980's
Originally Iceland, but emigrated in 1965
Found the forum in a search
Geek, specializing in large system architecture
Fly Fishing, environmental issues
A river, any river.
Agust 
Concerned What town do you live in? Mansfield
What's your age? 32
Male or Female? Female
Married or Single? Single
Children/Pets? 2 Dogs, 1 cat
How long have you lived in the area? 25 years
If not local, where are you from? Born in Texas
What originally brought you to HL? Interesting things going on in the area; recommended by a friend
What do you do for a living? Program Manager of Child Care and School Age programs
Hobbies/Interests? Steelers football, Mets baseball, walking with the dogs, spending time with family and friends, reading anything relating to history
Where would you rather be right now? Pittsburgh
LAS 
Mark Mc. What town do you live in? Great meadows
What's your age range? 42
Male or Female? Female
Married or Single? Separated
Children/Pets? 1 teenager 1 cat
How long have you lived in the area? 3 years
If not local, where are you from? Bergen county NJ
What originally brought you to HL? Info on area when moving
What do you do for a living? Pharmacist
Hobbies/Interests? Reading, watching bad reality tv , watching football
Where would you rather be right now? My own place !!!!
Missrx I live in Great Meadows
I am 46 yrs old today
I am a
Married 23 yrs
2 sons
No animals
Lived in GM all my life
Sherry I live in Long Valley
23yos
Female
It's complicated
3 adorable kids with 3 daddy's and 6 cats
Lived here to long, hate this place no good men
What brought me to hackettstownlife is that Longvalley moms sucked. I don't fit in with those long valley.
I run a Foundation for transgender inmates , to provide support
My children keep me very busy, so not much. I make my own wine as well as drunk it haha
I rather be with te father of my second child
This was fun! Thanks hl for reading
MommaOf3
maja 
Live in: PV
62 yrs. old (oldest to post so far!)
Female
Married (42 yrs..Good Lord!!)
2 adult children & their spouses
3 grandchildren
I have 1 dog, 1 cat, assorted fish & birds - the complete food chain.
Lived here 33 yrs., moved from Bergen County
Originally looked to HL for info regarding moving my MIL to the area
I am an Esthetician (skin care)
Reading; hiking; gardening; lots of outdoor stuff.
I am there!
lola What town do you live in? Hackettstown
What's your age range? 64 wonderful years
Male or Female? Male
Married or Single? Happily Married
Children/Pets? Adult daughter (previous marriage), Adult step-son, almost 17 year old step-daughter (uggghhh teenager), dog, and assorted fish
How long have you lived in the area? 12 Years
If not local, where are you from? Born in Brooklyn, lived in 10 different states before coming here
What originally brought you to HL? Marriage to my beautiful wife
What do you do for a living? Infrastructure Support at a data center for an international company
Hobbies/Interests? Reading, photography, computers, baseball
Where would you rather be right now? At a Yankees game or any baseball game anywhere
MK If anyone is interested, here is the original thread started by Ladybug in 2008.
http://www.hackettstownlife.com/forum/11004
What town do you live in? Mansfield Twp.
What's your age range? Mid 40s
Male or Female? Male
Married or Single? Married
Children/Pets? 0 children, 1 dog,
How long have you lived in the area? 26 years
If not local, where are you from? OHIO
What originally brought you to HL? Looking for info on Hackettstown after moving here
What do you do for a living? Annoy the hell out of mistergoogle and gadfly
Hobbies/Interests? Guitars, guns, music, hiking/backpacking, running
Where would you rather be right now? Robert's Western World on Lower Broadway in Nashville, TN
Mark Mc. - we did the photo thread not too long ago!
JeffersonRepub That was for what people "thought" we looked like... We just didn't follow the rules ;)
lola, we stayed in Palmetto Dunes in late August and all of that was true! Low tide went so far out, my Nike app said I was running on water. We love HHI.
MeisterNJ Hackettstown
50's
F
Married
Children- 0
Pets- Bird
Lifelong (family been here since 1890)
Sister
Spend my husbands money
Fishing
In bed having sex
auntiel What town do you live in? Cary NC
What's your age range? 41
Male or Female? Male
Married or Single? engaged
Children/Pets? 5 children, 1 dog, 0 cats
How long have you lived in the area? < 1 yr (07840 resident for 8 years)
If not local, where are you from? NYC
What originally brought you to HL? First Aid Squad
What do you do for a living? Engineer
Hobbies/Interests? Reading, guns
Where would you rather be right now? Happy hour
Skippy All this talk of "rather be at happy hour"... I just realized... it's FRIDAY!!! AND it's BEER-THIRTY!!!! And I'm LATE for it!!!!
Cheers!
What town do you live in? Washington
What's your age? 85
Male or Female? Male
Married or Single? Widowed
Children, 1 girl and one girl deceased
How long have you lived in the area? 10 Years
If not local, where are you from? Born Elizabeth Raised family in Westfield.
What originally brought you to HL? My Daughter was on it as Pet Artist and I was a lurker for years. I joined in about a year ago.
What do you do for a living? Retired from the staff of ME Dept of Stevens
Hobbies/Interests? Giants, other wise, just work.Wife and I put an addition on our house. Fixed my cars, Fixed neighbors things. Jack of all trades master of none. Severed on every committee of my Church and razed a lot of money with friends for St Judes .Hospital.
Where would you rather be right now? Ohio.
Old Gent This is too funny, Quoted from another thread:
"It's not a forum to discuss people's personal lives and medical issues."
Sure looks like personal info to me... And too much.
People today put too much personal info on the web, just what identity thieves are looking for.. please keep this stuff out of public forums..
My life is an open book.I am sure the government knows more about me than I do and they get hacked all the time. I do no banking on line.
I didn't know that someone could steal your identity with info. such as how many pets you own and a list of your favorite hobbies? lol
JRT What town do you live in? Hackettstown- actually Independence Twsp.
What's your age range? 73- soon to be 74
Male or Female? Female
Married or Single? Married 25 years next year to my wonderful husband.. The Duke..
Children/Pets? 2 children- 2 stepchildren- l beautiful spoiled cat. 9 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren
How long have you lived in the area? 53 years
If not local, where are you from? Middletown, New York
What originally brought you to HL? another HL poster named Cbel recruited me
What do you do for a living? Currently retired. Used to own Ladies Dress Shop in Hackettstown and former Secretary
Hobbies/Interests?Writing children's stories, being with my wonderful husband and spending time with good friends..
Where would you rather be right now? Right where I am in good Ol" Hackettstown
joyful Yeah, we're not giving out addresses, net worth, phone numbers, or even out real names.... nothing here a thief could use.
Altho if there are any thieves watching, I'll add a question to the survey:
"Do you protect your home and family with firearms?" YES. If you are found here tonight, you WILL be found here in the morning.
Old gent I got my ms in ee from Stevens ! Good to know you
Current home defense weapon - winchester srx 12 gauge loaded with fragmentation slugs
Do your research on frangible rounds. Some require a solid hit against metal in order to break apart, which means overpenetration can still be an issue (drywall may not be hard enough). An overpenetrating 12 gauge slug is not going to be a pleasant experience for your nearest neighbor or two...
Even the "go-to" 00 buck will easily travel through several walls and possibly exit your dwelling.
It's a bit harder to find, but I've got #1 buck ready to go.
What town do you live in? Hackettstown
What's your age range? 30
Male or Female? Male
Married or Single? Single
Children/Pets? 0 children, 1 dog
How long have you lived in the area? 3 years
If not local, where are you from? Goshen, New York
What originally brought you to HL? Looking for an apartment
What do you do for a living? own a landscaping business / work for mount olive board of education
Hobbies/Interests? Taking my dog out to the parks, playing music occasionally. I toured / made records for most of my adult life, gave it up a few years ago for something a little more stable. Now it's a hobby, not a job.
penningslandscaping I'll look for that - I'm using the pdx 1 - 12 gauge ammo. Supposedly over penetration is not an issue
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/04/robert-farago/in-defense-of-winchester-pdx1-12-defender-ammo/
penningslandscaping: I grew up in Middletown, New York but spent most of my summers with cousins who lived in Goshen, New York.
When I worked at Minolta some years ago, the programmer that I worked with was from Goshen farming onions and originally from Poland. I think he's a bit older than pennings, but not much.
GC GC: Near Goshen, New York were two towns...One was called Pine Island, New York and the other Florida, NY. Consisting mostly of Polish people and black dirt farmers very much like our Great Meadows area here in NJ. We used to go to Polka dances at the Jolly Onion Inn in Pine Island, New York...
Joyful, that's awesome. One of the things I love about Hackettstown is how reminiscent of goshen it is. Older houses, nice main st, just the overall appearance is similar. Great meadows is a lot like pine island and Florida. GM is pretty rural but nothing compared to up there, those black dirt farms are enormous.
The jolly onion has been closed down for awhile now. The area is so rural and there's so much in Middletown and Warwick that no one has taken over the property yet. While working for my cousin's lawn business up there we did a clean up there once, and the property is in major disrepair unfortunately.
What town do you live in? White Twnshp
What's your age range? Mid 50's
Male or Female? Male
Married or Single? Divorced
Children/Pets? 0 children, 2 1/2 dogs
How long have you lived in the area? 30 years
If not local, where are you from? Bergen County, NJ
What originally brought you to HL? Boredom
What do you do for a living? Accountant
Hobbies/Interests? Drinking and walking the dogs
Where would you rather be right now? On vacation
MikeL I live in Washington Boro, came here to work for WCCC (the newspaper gig and this-n-that with WRNJ came later)
I've lived in the area too long, grew up at the Jersey Shore when it was much different than it is now, I'm old enough to remember watching Richie Ashburn play, old enough to have interviewed Mike Schmidt when he was a rookie ... old enough to have voted for Richard Nixon...
I'd rather be in Baltimore watching the O's, better yet, covering them in the media.
Andy Loigu *your
That's should say "your" not "you" above. LOL I don't want to get accused of being in love with you MikeL. You know how rumors fly on HL. :-)
Aquarius GC, I work with a programmer that "farmed" onions during some of his high school Summers. Definitely a humbling experience with life lessons. Today, I would estimate his net worth over 2 million dollars. Work ethic lessons stay with you and provide benefits in the years to come...
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