Being outside and being active is what I’m all about. Exploring the world and traveling. Weekend road trips to the San Juans, the coast, Olympics and Cascades. Traipsing across Europe to Spain, Italy, Austria and Germany (I always keep some Euros on my person, just in case). Y México, La Paz encantador, es uno de mis lugares preferidos a ser. Spending time conversing with friends, enjoying good food & wine and consuming fruity blended drinks in the hot tub! Dancing and carousing late into the night, multi-sport adventure races, triathlons, running, sports (playing, not watching), Hiking and camping (something about sitting around a campfire and the view from the top of a mountain...). Snowboarding, x-country skiing, snowshoeing, mountain biking, volleyball, frisbee golf. Anything having to do with being on the water: kayaking, canoeing, sailing or fishing. (Yes, I bait my own hook, but I prefer to catch them, not filet them!) And I absolutely, 100% love what I do for a living and being artistically creative..
Other fun, open-minded, laughing, optimistic, full “participants of life†who enjoy new adventures, playing outdoors and getting off the couch are always welcome into my world. I enjoy the variety that life has to offer when it comes to meeting interesting people and learning about people’s passions and goals. I’ve found that it is amazing how great an impact that strangers can have on each other once we allow each other to enter our space.
I hope to touch and be touched by inspiring and interesting individuals - and in return I hope to equally inspire them. I also enjoy reconnecting with "lost" friends and forgotten friendships. The past is what shaped us and brought us to where we are - sometimes we learn so much by revisiting that past - if only for a quick "hello" and a laugh about the changes in the details of each others lives.
Two of my favorite quotes:
"If you hear a voice within you say, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means paint…and that voice will be silenced." — Vincent Van Gogh
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to." - Kahlil Gibran
I like a huge variety, but don't have much of a collection of anything as I spend my $ elsewhere. Blues, Rock and alternative are the styles I like to watch perform, while house, lounge or techno is the style I like to dance to. Anything with a sexy beat I can move to is game - so bring on the world music and whip up a batch of margaritas. Okay, I've been outed: I'm a closet butt rocker & goth girl. LOVE the early 90's industrial/alternative scene: TKK, NIN, Ministry - those who know, know what I'm talking about!
Haven't in the last 15 months...
Voracious book reader:
Some titles I finished recently and liked: The Kite Runner; The History of Love, Marley & Me, My Sisters Keeper; Eat, Pray, Love; Time Travelers Wife; Blink; MiddleSex; Post Secret (most gratifying!) and Running with Scissors.
Some authors: John Irving, Erica Jong, Greg Iles, Mitch Albom, Jennifer Weiner, Bill Bryson and (for practical reasons) Rick Steeves. The list goes on, I DO love to read!
Who I really follow though are those amazing illustrators...
Not heroes, but verbal inspirations:
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. -- M. Scott Peck
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses . . . on your powers, instead of your problems. -- Paul J. Meyers
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great. -- Mark Twain
"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." -- D. Diderot
"The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." -- unknown
"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." -- Dolly Parton