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Georgina

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About Me

Where the music of Chicago and its woodwind artist Walter Parazaider has inspired me musically, my husband has inspired me in living day-to-day. Seeing everything he's gone through over our last 16 years together, and how he's kept it together through humor, is truly amazing! Our mutual interests run the gambit - music, food, drink, travel, sports, you name it! People say we're not a normal couple because of all the time we spend together. We say to them, "Define 'Normal'."

My Interests

As for my interests outside of music, I enjoy the culinary arts - cooking, wine-tasting, and visiting any new restaurant that opens locally (rating them as I go, along with my husband Dana). Going to the top restaurants in Las Vegas for Dana and me is like going to a cooking class. I've learned so much from their chefs, and many of them were kind enough to offer up some of their recipes to us!

I'd like to meet:

So long as I'm able to continue going to the Chicago fan conventions to keep up with Robert and Walter, I'm a happy camper!

Music:

Chicago, Moody Blues, CSN (with and without Y), America, and just about every other band that came in from 1964 up to 1979. I also have an unofficial website dedicated to Walter Parazaider of Chicago. Check it out! I also have my own music site you can check out here.

Movies:

My most favorite actors are those that are musically-inclined, or have at least performed in a musical. This list includes Richard Harris (he had a beautiful tenor voice, if you've never seen/heard "Camelot"), Peter O'Toole, Albert Finney, Tom Conti (who's also a great classical guitarist, by the way), Anthony Hopkins (a pianist in his spare time. I'd love to hear him just once!), Richard Chamberlain (Remember "The Slipper & The Rose"? What a voice!), Hugh Jackman, Alan Rickman (who composed a song for a film he directed starring Emma Thompson), Christopher Plummer, and others.

Television:

Lakers, Padres, Chargers, and shows that deal with investigations of ancient and/or biblical history/archeology. I also admit, I have a weakness for the World Poker Tour, even though I don't play poker myself (I can't bluff myself out of a paper bag if my life depended on it!).

Books:

Joseph Conrad's "Secret Sharer" (very close to home)and "Lord Jim", Henry Fielding's "Tom Jones", and (of course) anything by Shakespeare!

Heroes:

In order: Walter Parazaider (it's his fault, after all!), Robert Lamm, Mike Pinder, Benny Anderson, Stephen Stills, and (lastly) my namesake George Harrison.

My Blog

Another Piece of Prose...

Just because I was in a mood tonight.  This one doesn't have a title - any ideas?     "There are risks in revealing one's heart to others. Will one be embraced by the mutual feelings of...
Posted by Georgina on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:20:00 PST

Finally - A New Posting - LOL!!

Greetings, All!  Long time, no post! I’m happy to say that since receiving his double-transplant surgery March 4th, Hubby is doing GREAT!  He hasn’t had a shot of insulin since t...
Posted by Georgina on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:31:00 PST

Irish Whiskey Tasting

Greetings! As maybe a few of you may know by now, my husband Dana and I have a fully-stocked bar here at home.  We're not drinkers, really - we both have always wanted a bar for when we have comp...
Posted by Georgina on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:49:00 PST

Another Chocolate Review

Dana and I received a gift card for "Sur la Table" for Christmas, and boy - did we go CRAZY!!    Among the things we treated ourselves to was a selection of international chocolates from Lak...
Posted by Georgina on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:43:00 PST

Tamales, Tamales, Tamales - and Menudo, Too!

Greetings, People! It's that time of year again, when Little Sister (youngest of 6) carries on the family tradition (it's become the law for us, actually) of making our annual Christmas Tamales. ...
Posted by Georgina on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:34:00 PST

A New/Old Verse - Just Because...

I haven't written anything here in a while, so I thought I'd dig up another one of my poems to share.  I wrote this one after my first couple of dates with the guy I'd eventually marry (7 years l...
Posted by Georgina on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:49:00 PST

The Flip-Side of the Weight Thing...

Okay, People - after hearing and reading all this stuff about obesity, diabetes, and high blood-pressure, it's time to take a look at the much-ignored minority in all this.  This involves people...
Posted by Georgina on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:23:00 PST

A Tanqueray Tasting

I can now say I've had the pleasure of tasting four of Tanqueray's major gins - their standard, the Malacca (now out of production, but I have one of the last bottles in my home bar), No. 10, and thei...
Posted by Georgina on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:32:00 PST

Chocolate & Wine

Dana and I came across some select chocolates from Russell Stover recently we just couldn't resist trying!  Each of the four packages contained chocolate from a different country, and all were 60...
Posted by Georgina on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:20:00 PST

Hubby's Latest

Dana got a call from the California Pacific Transplant Center in San Francisco for an appointment with the surgeon, RN, and financial counselor regarding his up-coming double-transplant.  There w...
Posted by Georgina on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:02:00 PST