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Ann

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About Me

One of my prized posessions is a mummified squirrel. I don't like thinking about my veins and arteries and why bruises occur. I do like to think about puffing down packfuls of heaters when I'm 87 because when I'm that age it won't matter that they're bad for me. I like to chortle and guffaw. I scowl a lot, but laugh easily. I have feet like Fred Flinstone which creates a bit of a problem when I want to purchase cute shoes. I like to say "television" instead of "teevee". I don't care to drive because I'd rather stare out the car/bus/train window at the world. I generally root for the underdog. I I'm a disappointment to my grandmother because I don't attend church anymore. I'm pretty much scared of heights. I used to play piano concertos with my mother. I enjoy buying things on the internet. I'm getting more progressive as I get older. I have a very nice singing voice, but pretend I don't. I I teach small children that Motorhead is the greatest rock and roll band in the world.

My Interests

Music, Twins baseball and sitting in the cheap seats, Cat paws, visual arts, ceramics, bicycles, cats, glossy magazines, mummies, religious art, big rings, estate sales, bugs, sleeping in (which rarely happens because I need to accomplish too much crap during the weekends), phone calls to distant relations, playing Scattergories, Sorry and Skip-bo, driving down the road with the window down and letting my hand bounce around in the air currents,ableskiver and salty salt licorice, dreaming about retirement and not having to work because I cry a little inside every morning I wake up and realize I need to get ready to work for the next 8-9 hours, making pesto, nerdin' it up, Trader Joe's dark chocolate, words, the smell of pavement when rain hits it, road trips with friends which don't include listening to Elton John's Greatest Hits cd, the smell of frozen pastures melting in the spring.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet people who don't chew food with their mouths gaping open and people who don't live under rocks because those kinds of people are pale and scary. I'd also like to meet people who don't pepper their speech too liberally with "like", "I mean" and "y'know" because that nonsense is really getting on my nerves these days. People with intelligence behind their eyeballs.

Music:

Pop country radio makes my teeth hurt less than regular pop radio. I was raised on the Stones, Beatles, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Anne Murray, Buddy Holly, Dionne Warwick, the Turtles, piano concertos on Prairie Public Radio and the green Lutheran hymnal and then I found the Metal Edge with it's posters of Nikki Sixx and Mark Slaughter....eeeeeeee! On today's playlist: Motorhead, Dictators, Waylon Jennings, Jason and the Scorchers, Demented Are Go, Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam, Freddie Cannon, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck, Izzy Stradlin, Tom Jones, Radney Foster, Roy Orbison, The Quakes, Hasil Adkins, Hayseed Dixie, Loretta Lynn, Meteors, Munly, Conway, Marty Stuart, Slim Cessna, Jimmy Dawkins, Tom T. hall, Toots and the Maytals, Nomads, Ralph Stanley, Rank & File, Herb Alpert, Beausoleil, Magnolias, Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys, Willie Nelson, Solomon Burke, RL Burnside, Fenton Robinson, Narvel Felts, Boozoo Chavis, Springsteen, Blasters, Supersuckers, Tarantella, Stupid Birthday, Twistin' Tarantulas, Zeke, Rosie Flores, Phantom Rockers, Boxcar Willie, DeadBolt, blah de blah. I'll listen to anything provided it doesn't make my teeth hurt.

Movies:

I rarely see the inside of a movie theater, but I do watch some of the Netflix the hubby chooses which are normally political and/or musical documentaries. Or horrible crap like Talladega Nights.

Television:

Dr. Who, Antiques Roadshow, Jack Van Impe Presents, Innercity Fishing, Charlie Rose, Letterman and Conan (if I can stay up late enough), Ugly Betty, CBS Sunday Morning, Independent Lens, NOVA, American Experience (almost anything on PBS, even the Suze Orman specials, but not the Celtic Women concerts!)city council meetings on public access (or any other weirdness I might happen upon), infomercials in order to marvel at the difference between horrifying "before" pics and beautifully retouched "after" pics, CSI Miami only to make fun of David Caruso's acting.

Books:

I was a regular user of the Bookmobile when I was a kid, but my book reading has lessened as an adult. I blame it on televison, the glossy magazines I love to look at and me being lazy. I'm a big Richard Scarry and Edward Gorey fan.

Heroes:

Joel Sternfeld, Robert Adams, Joel Meyerowitz, Richard Misrach, Stephen Shore, William Christenberry, Lemmy (again), Waylon, Keef, Eggleston, Lee Friedlander. What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die?
You will sink in a mire. You like to think you're normal, but deep down you really just want to strip off your clothes and roll around in chicken fat.
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My Blog

Ch-ch-chicagoland

Come July, the mister and I are heading down to Chicago to catch the Metal Masters tour... it makes me laugh to think about what the crowd is going to be like, but I'm sure it'll be a foray into the g...
Posted by Ann on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:51:00 PST

Baseball’s back!

And the drunken frat boys who won’t sit down are back too. Yippeeeeeee!!!!!...
Posted by Ann on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:43:00 PST

Im so jealous of anyone who saw this in person:

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Posted by Ann on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:02:00 PST

I’ve got lutefisk in ma belly and Jimmy Burns on the brain!

So earlier this evening, I went to Richfield Lutheran with my mom-in-law and friend, Kim, to dine on their (not so) delicious lutefisk.... I mean, it was good because I hadn't had lutefisk in, oh, 4 y...
Posted by Ann on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:28:00 PST

doh.

I killed my camera in a sea of Minute Maid orange juice.I needed to get a new one anyway since the one that just passed on to the great junk heap in the sky has been kicking along for 5 or 6 years... ...
Posted by Ann on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:24:00 PST

I hate this sort of thing

Earlier this evening I went down to the laundry room to get a load from the dryer and I couldn't help but overhear the couple who lives 10 feet from the laundry room in the small studio apartment "You...
Posted by Ann on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:15:00 PST

I HATE it when commercials wreck perfectly good songs

I'm not sure how long this commercial has been playing, but last night was the first time I saw it and since I'm particularly susceptible to earworms it's been driving me NUTS ever since, so of course...
Posted by Ann on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:17:00 PST

my summer photo project

I haven't shot on a regular basis in so long that when I started shooting while we were on vacation this spring the camera kind of felt like a foreign object in my hand. I'm still not shooting as muc...
Posted by Ann on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:59:00 PST

picnics are good

Yes they are!
Posted by Ann on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:10:00 PST

I added some new photos...

...of my recent trip to Albuquerque - the only problem is that some of them are still turned on their side because I was viewing them through a program that allowed me to rotate them and I was under t...
Posted by Ann on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:01:00 PST