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Laura

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About Me

I'm going to start giving you random facts about myself here. Fact #1: I love early-to-mid 20th century composers. See my "music" preferences...Fact #2: I make mean pork chops. Ha!Fact #3: I put a dent in my skull when I was six and fell into a wall.Fact #4: I spent the first summer of my life in a barn in MA.Fact #5: I've written about 4,500 pages of journal entries since I was 12.Fact #6: If I could only take one thing onto a deserted island, it would be my chap stick. :-DFact #7: I didn't lose my last baby tooth until I was 17.Fact #8: I've lived in Pennsylvania for over a year (all in summertime) and I've still never seen snow!Fact #9: My earliest memory is of going to a restaurant in Tampa when I was 18-months old.Fact #10: I love writing research papers, but the actual researching drives me crazy.Fact #11: Sadly enough, I still fit the same T-shirts I wore in middle school.Fact #12: I LOVE apple pie.Fact #13: My cat kills cockroaches.Fact #14: I am really scared of heights.Fact #15: I've lived in the same house my whole life.Fact #16: I am ticklish almost everywhere except my hair and fingernails.Fact #17: One thing I cannot do is whistle a tune.Fact #18: The only bone I've ever broken was a toe.Fact #19: My most treasured possessions (besides my horse) are my dozens of journals and photo albums.Fact #20: My favorite flowers have to be roses; tulips are a close second.Fact #21: I have recently become addicted to 24.Fact #22: I'm not scared of doctors, but I am scared to go to the dentist.Fact #23: I stopped growing when I was 14.Fact #24: My late-night snack of choice is inevitably air-popped popcorn. :-DFact #25: I didn't get my drivers' license until I was 19.Fact #26: I've been terrified of fire since the episode of Sesame Street where Big Bird's baby nest is distroyed in one.Fact # 27: I love being far out to sea, where you can't see anything but water meeting the horizon.
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My Interests

Writing, horses, church stuff, spending time with friends, boating/fishing, hitting the gym (or actually working out at the gym) reading, watching (good) movies, walking on the beach, debating literature or history or politics or anything else that's just fun to argue about, daydreaming (wish I had more time for that these days), cooking -- and not necessarily in that order. And just hanging out with Danny. Doesn't matter what we do -- it can be shopping at Wal Mart, and it becomes an adventure. :-)

I'd like to meet:

Cookie Monster, Elmo, and Grover.

Music:

Jars of Clay; Wayne Kerr; Caedmon's Call; Newsboys; Derek Webb; Third Day; Relient K; Switchfoot; Shane and Shane; Starfield; Josh Groban and classical: especially Rachmaninov, Barber, Gershwin, Bernstein, and Copeland. And if there's anyone out there who's familiar with Gilbert & Sullivan's comic operas...I'm not kidding.

Movies:

Pride and Prejudice -- the 1995 version with Colin Firth; the Lord of the Rings trilogy; Charade; Moulin Rouge!; Sense and Sensibility; Singin' In The Rain; The Black Stallion; Everything is Illuminated (Jonfen!); On the Waterfront; The Philadelphia Story; Emma; Kingdom of Heaven; Hotel Rwanda; Arabesque; Pirates of the Caribbean; North by Northwest; Little Women; Seabiscuit; The Notebook; A Little Princess; Sabrina (the Audrey Hepburn version); Troy; The Great Escape.

Television:

24, LOST, old Britcoms, A & E or BBC or PBS "old fogie" mysteries (haha), baseball, and other sports.

Books:

The Bible; To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis; Nine Horses by Billy Collins; The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck; The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde; Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Pascal's Wager by Nancy Rue; Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell; the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling; the Emily series by L.M. Montgomery; EVERYTHING by Jane Austen.

Heroes:

Jesus, and missionaries.