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Joanne

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About Me

I trained in fashion design, but now work for the DVLA.I don't hate my job bit I don't love it either. I love reading, music, films, gardening and my 3 ragdoll cats Molly, Ellie and Brooke. I've just taken up swimming after a several year gap and am gradually building up to 60 lengths. After X years being overweight and feeling very unattractive I've lost 1 1/2 stone still have a long way to go but I'm looking forward to unleashing my inner sex Goddess! I moved up to Exeter about 8 years ago from Penzance in Cornwall, I love Devon it's just so much more alive than Cornwall. Cornwall is beautiful with an amazing heritage, but at the end of the day you can't live on the veiw. I wouldn't go back now, there are so many more possibilities in Exeter, if I had stayed in Cornwall I think it's very possible that my life would still be the same now 8 years on. I love stories, books, magazines, tv and movies. I'm not a great writer but do try occasionaly. I'm a total girly girl. I don't see why things that are useful can't also be beautiful, it's the artist in me. Architecture is a prime example of this and in the future I hope to see a full scale destruction of "link housing" and 90's shoebox homes. People who concrete over their driveways not leaving any plants at all make me want to cry.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Joanne
Birthday: 23/06/75
Birthplace: Truro, Cornwall
Current Location: Devon
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Auburn
Height: 5 foot 5
Right Handed or Left Handed: right
Your Heritage: Cornish born but not breed
The Shoes You Wore Today: Adidas trainer
Your Weakness: Chocolate and ragdoll cats
Your Fears: never really falling in love
Your Perfect Pizza: Prawns
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: to live more fully
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger:
Thoughts First Waking Up: oh do I have to
Your Best Physical Feature: Naturally curly hair
Your Bedtime: Early
Your Most Missed Memory:
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: neither KFC
Single or Group Dates: single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: don't know
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: I'm English! Tea!
Do you Smoke: No
Do you Swear: sometimes
Do you Sing: only in the bath or the car
Do you Shower Daily: Yes
Have you Been in Love: No
Do you want to go to College: I've been
Do you want to get Married: Yes
Do you belive in yourself: I'm getting there
Do you get Motion Sickness: no
Do you think you are Attractive: I'm Ok
Are you a Health Freak: no
Do you get along with your Parents: with my dad, building bridges with my mum
Do you like Thunderstorms: Yes
Do you play an Instrument: no
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: yes
In the past month have you Smoked: NO
In the past month have you been on Drugs:
In the past month have you gone on a Date: no
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: yes
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: no
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: no
In the past month have you been on Stage: no
In the past month have you been Dumped: no
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: no
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: no
Ever been Drunk: yes
Ever been called a Tease: yes but only once
Ever been Beaten up: no
Ever Shoplifted: yes
How do you want to Die: peacefully
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: I wish I knew
What country would you most like to Visit: Australia
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Blue but I'm not fussy
Favourite Hair Color: the blokes more important
Short or Long Hair: short
Height: not fussy
Weight: not fussy
Best Clothing Style: casual
Number of Drugs I have taken: only perscription
Number of CDs I own: too many to count
Number of Piercings: 3
Number of Tattoos: no
Number of things in my Past I Regret: I try not to count
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My Interests

Music, films, good books, gardening, baking, swimming, spirituality. I've been learning to read Tarot cards, but I'm not very good yet!

I'd like to meet:

New friends

Music:

Seth Lakeman,went to the gig in Exeter on 14/12/06 totally amazing!!!!! Natalie Merchant, Sarah Mclachlan, Snow Patrol,Jem, Michelle Branch a bit of everything really except for R & B and heavy metal. Sorry Beyonce but you don't do it for me

Movies:

any chicks flicks but also like a bit of sword & scorcery, fantasy and adventure Favorite movies are Practical Magic (I want to live in that house) Romancing the stone, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Goonies, Indiana Jones Triology, The Da Vinci code (though I thought the book was better)

Television:

I like dramas,(much as it pain me the americans are doing drama better than us at the moment)Lost, Greys Antomy, ER, Bones, Meduim, sorry I don't watch soaps and I Hate Big Brother. I loved Afterlife but am also a bit of a sci-fi geek and love Dr Who, Torchwood, Andromeada and Battlestar Galactica

Books:

Love Marion Keys, Katie Fforde,Jennifer Weiner I'll read anything once. I'm terrible for spending large amounts of money on Amazon, my wish list is 4 pages long. I think I own more books than anything else. I love to read it's a escape a way to travel when you have no money. To explore other lives and rediscover history. To all the people out there who look down their noses because I don't read the classics, I say BOO to you, it's my time and my mind, I'll pollute it anyway that I want!

Heroes:

My Dad, he brought my brother and I up on his own after our mother left.

My Blog

why must we work?

Well I guess we all work to earn money and buy the huge amount of material possesions that society had convinced us that we need. I just wish that I enjoyed my job a little bit more because at the mom...
Posted by Joanne on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:10:00 PST

Anatomy of a Crush

      Anatomy of a Crush A crush is a funny thing, one minute the heady rush of lust, the next the crash of reality. A crush makes you feel special, like you have a secret all of your...
Posted by Joanne on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:31:00 PST

Dream a little dream

I had a dream last night, it was one of those dreams that is so beautiful that it made my heart ache when I woke up and realised that it wasn't real. All day little bits of it float through my mind ma...
Posted by Joanne on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:23:00 PST

Review; The Giver by Lois Lowery

"There was absolutely nothing remarkable about the apple. Jonas had tossed it back and forth between his hands a few times, then thrown it. And - in the air, for an instant only - it had changed." I c...
Posted by Joanne on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:12:00 PST

Richard Curtis should be hurt

My best friend has just sent me a picture of the Vicar of Dibley, and has started me off again. Richard Curtis should be punished, he's given hope to fat girls everywhere that one day we too may find ...
Posted by Joanne on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:42:00 PST

Jenna's Bench by Joanne

This is a story I wrote last year, so I'm going to post it as it is and not muck about with it altering stuff as I usually do! Jenna's Bench     Jenna sat huddled on the bench, she...
Posted by Joanne on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:18:00 PST

How cold is it???

Well I don't know what the rest of the country is like but it's bloody cold in Devon, car was all iced up this morning and it was really foggy in Exeter. My office however doesn't seem to have an...
Posted by Joanne on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:12:00 PST

another day and a little insight

The trouble with life is that we spend so much of it at work, so much of ourselves invested in the job that we do, our social lives, our self worth and yet most of us hate the jobs that we do. My job ...
Posted by Joanne on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:47:00 PST

Most boring blog on earth!!!

Well I think this is the most boring blog on earth as I am amazingly average! I  was going to go to my work xmas lunchtime buffet today as I had made cheese scones but got  a call from ...
Posted by Joanne on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:39:00 PST

a very normal day off

Had a day off from the wonderful world of Cherished Transfers and personlised number plates ( why would you bother!!!) So finished some of my Christmas shopping. Really didn't want to get up this morn...
Posted by Joanne on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:04:00 PST