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About Me

Wow, I really gotta sum myself up right here, right now? Well, I yelled at two policemen a couple days ago, so I can be angry (man, I was rude)...but I cry when I watch Animal Planet. Umm, the hipper you are, the more I distrust you. I love raw truth in people, which is probably why I love animals more. I love my bike and ride it everywhere, even in the rain. I'm my own worst critic, but I'm proud of the things I've set out to do and accomplished. My goal is and has always been to do things I believe in, and am still learning to put my action where my mind and heart are. I'm a personal trainer right now but I hate how that sounds because even my first thoughts are matching workout pants & jackets and Tony Little, with his short, squat muscular body and his pony tail, screaming really, really positive things at people. Ugh. What I do is, uh, definitely NOT like that. But that's a whole other blog subject. I also helped dream up and put into action a little place called the True Love Coffeehouse here in Sacto, CA with Kevin, my husband and partner in crimes and projects. Umm, THAT definitely is the subject of yet another blog entry. Before that I taught ceramic sculpture to developmentally disabled adults. And I was the main photographer for Alive & Kicking for a couple years there, and did band photos for some local and not-so-local bands and publications while I was at it. I'm a singer, and I play guitar and keyboards. But really, really, really I just have a knack and a love for singing harmonies and had to learn to play some instruments so I wouldn't just stand there feeling silly. I'm a big softy that LOVES flowers and DIRT and propogates plants and recycles and composts. One year I grew 42 tomato plants from seed & supplied several friends with complete gardens of their own because I couldn't bring myself to kill any of the plants. But I'm no DAMN hippy, I'm full of hate like the rest of you. I've just got my own ideas on sunshine.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

That's tricky. I used to think I'd like to meet some of my favorite artists until I was invited to a breakfast with John Doe, who I love and feel like I sort of grew up listening to in my rebel (ha) teens. But I turned it down 'cause I knew that I would just say silly things like, 'I love you, John Doe' and then stare at my lap. Well, I'm probably exaggerating but I'll do my best to not turn down any chances to meet interesting people because that's just dumb. Honestly I love meeting anyone who inspires, from the neighbor kid I just met who is fascinated that strawberries will grow in spring off the vines I planted out front (and who I see sneakily peeking every couple of days at the leaves even though it's the middle of December) to my favorite artists and especially people that I've judged wrongly. Happened recently. Lars Frederikson is really funny and nice.

My Blog

help...me...!

Okay, I need some help here...WHERE are all of the old school video games located in this town?I was at Country Club Lanes today for my friend AJ's b-day, which was one of 2 reasons that lured me out ...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 23:37:00 GMT

Is it weird...

Is it weird that I have a little crush on Jeff Corwin?
Posted by on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:18:00 GMT

Bunnies cannot what?

After the last post about the trauma & stench of cooking animal flesh wafting down into my apartment from the neighbors above, I thought I'd follow it up with some positive animal action news. Althoug...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:01:00 GMT

disGUSTing! AAAaaaa!!!

Okay. Everytime this happens I just want to scream and make a super big deal of it and throw a fit but I just can't, so I need some way to vent and, well....hello MySpace, eh? Once a week, like clock...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:16:00 GMT

love this

"There's so many people to see So many people you can check up on And add to your collection But they keep you hanging on" Elvis Costello predicting "MySpace" in 1979?
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:57:00 GMT

must be a smoker

Man. I'm sitting in a cafe right now on-line and trying to paying bills and look up some stuff and a bunch of other things and cannot believe how I've let this man sitting next to me just creep under ...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:32:00 GMT

Liquid Day (January 1st, 2006)

Water. Liquid. Everything had something to do with these things today. Woke up late to the sounds of water on the streets, on the window panes, and the wind blowing it all and everything else around...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 02:03:00 GMT

My Special Day!

37 years! That seems like quite a few birthdays but in so many ways I feel like I've just begun (not trying to be poetic here folks, I swear).. So the other night I wrote this long post about how I d...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Dec 2005 23:32:00 GMT

Kitty, kitty

So, if you're like me you're a cat lover. And if you're a cat lover, you know that a kitty can start out with one name and end up with dozens of nicknames.. Take my little black kitty, Girlfriend. S...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:40:00 GMT

Wanna massage?

Do you want a massage? I mean it. I've got your girl. I remember talking to David Houston one evening, wishing to meet a good massage therapist that I could do a trade-out with for personal training...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:56:00 GMT