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My interests are my children (my inspiration) being a good mom and being a good friend ~ trying to make a dent in this big world with some kindness and empathy towards others. I'm pretty much an open book once you get to know me. I trust my friends unless they betray me and then there is no going back. I know who my good friends are and I'd share the world with them. I'm not a complete health nut but I eat healthy and try to take care of myself.I work out on a regular basis. I love yoga, reading, music and dance. I absolutely love to dance~thanks mom & dad for those lessons when I was a kid! I can't sing a note but I can dance. I want to take ballroom dancing and adult ballet next. I like to scrapbook because it feeds into my need to be artistic and since I'm a photography nut I need something to do with all those pictures I'm taking all the time. I have much appreciation of photography and enjoy taking pictures-especially taking black and white close-up pictures of the kids. I also paint and draw. I am becoming addicted to my laptop and my palm (cell phone with internet) I have to be connected!! I miss my friends so much since moved here the end of 2006. We were the javamamas. We still are but I don't make the coffee "meetings" at the local coffee house anymore (sorry guys) Now I hit Barnes & Noble and Starbucks alone but always looking for an interesting and intellectually stimulating "potential" friend. I'm spiritual as well as Catholic but my interests and causes I stand up far are vast and as eclectic as I find myself. Yoga is more than just fitness and relaxation for me. It is a way of life. I rarely have the time to really meditate these days because I'm too busy. I love the way I feel when I'm practicing daily. I pray to Christ (not the budhha) but I look at it because he's so centered and focused. The buddist way is to look inside oneself for the answers, not to others. I always look to Jesus first and always. I am pro-life and have started the babysave.org group, please check it out. I am active in our church and I take faith in the Catholic beliefs. I don't judge others for their beliefs as long as they believe in something. I guess it's easy to go through life acting like an ass if you don't believe in heaven and hell. At different points in your life you will see things differently and I get that too. I love animals, I am a vegetarian but "fall off the wagon" occassionally. I don't eat pig anymore but I occasionally eat cow.I am against animal cruelty and mass farming. I am not for "animal rights",I'm for the ETHICAL treatment of all animals-against animal abuse. I am still very interested in the law and entertain the thought of returning to school to pursue that dream. I'd like to work for the prosecution. I don't know if I could handle being a defense attorney which was my original plan back in the beginning of college. I don't know, we'll see.
Music, I love it all:) the blues, earthy and inspirational music like Enigma and Enya, I love old 70s music like Carly Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles (etc.) I'm not a huge country music fan, though I do like a few country songs here and there. I love Led Zepplin but I like to listen to classical when I'm home alone. I like to dance and workout to hip hop/rap, yeah the stuff with the nasty vocals too, I get it. I know a lot of people suffer and have it bad. They have the right to get it all out and I choose to listen to some of it. You take someone that had it so bad and throw millions in their laps and then ask why they don't have any class and behave like they are back in the hood. Money doesn't change morals. I don't let the kids hear it but sometimes it's like throwing a vase when you are angry, it just feels good to sing along and get it out. I love Carly Simon and her song YOU'RE SO VAIN and Janet Jackson's later version SON OF A GUN.I know who these songs were written for AND THEY PROBABLY THINK THAT SONG IS ABOUT THEM. I have so many favorites. I live my life to music and the channel sometimes changes.
An Officer and a Gentleman, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Witness, Titanic,the Stepford Wives (the original) The Passion of Christ, all the Bond movies, My Cousin Vinny, Planes, Trains and Automobiles-good message hidden in this comedy, and OF COURSE Office Space -my absolute favorite comedy. I love to laugh(It's better than crying) Although give me a Sunday afternoon, a box of tissues and a Steel Magnolias dvd and I can't stop myself. I liked watching old movies with my mom when she was ill like Rebecca, Sabrina and Hitchcock movies. I love movies about legal issues like the Rainmaker. I hate to waste two hours of my life watching a bad movie.
I don't actually watch much t.v.much. I keep it off all day. It's nothing but Law & Order and Court t.v. for me most of the time. I really HATE REALITY SHOWS. I love Forensic Files. I don't like to waste my time sitting watching t.v. unless I'm getting something out of it. Why bother?
I read all the time, love non-fiction murders solved especially murder mysteries and serial murderers books. I read books on other cultures and religions like buddism, art expression, yoga styles and practices and lots on self-help/improvement.
First there is my mom who fought the toughest battle I've seen in my life. She sadly lost the battle to leukemia January of 2006. My hero is also my dad.He has shown me and my husband what a good man should be through his actions the past few years while my mother was ill right to the end. My friends are heroes too and have received so little credit for all they do. They truly were lifesavers when I was in my time of need. There are many heroes in this life. The song "how to save a life" and "someone saved my life tonight" are songs I dedicate to dad, my aunts, and my best friends. The soldiers fighting for freedom deserve all our support -whether you agree with the war or not