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Sparks9

According to Lynn, I'm looking for a Nike...

About Me

* I am an Aries, which apparently makes me a leader, but I've never taken that seriously for any amount of time. * I could fall in love in 5 minutes, but the deepest love I have ever had for anyone developed for 5 months before I knew I was in love at all. * I talk to the squirrel that lives in the tree at my apartment complex. Usually he just stops and looks at me, sometimes he runs away. * I am obsessed with Sharks and absolutely refuse to go in the ocean. It's like walking into someones house that you've never been into before, by yourself and with the lights off... you are bound to run into something! * I am way more self conscious than I've ever let on to be. * I hate loud eaters. * I love macaroni and cheese, but only the Kraft Spiral Mac. * I love the really funny commercials and would watch a channel designated for just funny commercials. * I have a hard time controlling myself when I watch sports on TV. I gasp, scream at the TV, and cheer as loud as I can thinking that it will help out my team's cause. Sometimes it's a little embarassing. * Despite the general consensus, I love my hair short. * Secretly I want to be a Harley chick. * I'm obsessed with Skinny Boy, my cat in Florida. * No one has ever sent me flowers. * I have this collection of CD's that my ex boyfriend made for me that I listen to on a regular basis. If there was anything I could ever attribute to him, it would be my fairly diverse and wonderful taste in music. * Meghan is one of two of the funniest people I know, luckily I am related to the other... Ashley Boogins. * Because my family is so amazing, it makes me want to have kids to keep it going. * I sometimes crave oatmeal, even though I make fun of one of my friends for eating it every morning. * I hate the word "moist". * I have a hard time believing that I am nearing 30. I feel like I am 23 and usually act like that. * I can't wait to fall asleep and wake up next to the same person for the rest of my life. * I accidentally scalded my goldfish 10 years ago and I still feel bad about it. * I have never hated anyone. * I teach yoga but have only taken yoga 3 times in my life and one of those times I cried. * I hate feet, they are gross. * I have this hot little black dress in my closet that I have never worn because I've never been taken out on a really nice date to a really nice restaurant with a really nice guy. * When no one else is in the yoga room at the gym, I have my own personal dance class. * I used to be a Dental Assistant. * I used to be a muscial theatre major. * I love people watching and making up my own version of what's REALLY going on in their lives. * When I get mad, I cry because I'm so angry that I've actually let someone or something get to me. * I don't regret anything in my life. I believe everything shapes who you are, the good and the bad. * I truly believe that if I laugh more, I will live longer.*

My Interests

DCI, WGI, BOA... band geek stuff... I love traveling, going to the gym, painting, writing in my novel (its gonna be AWESOME!), jumping in mud puddles, standing in the rain, laughing... laughing a LOT, oh and I love to dance... modern, jazz, hip hop, salsa...10 Things You don't know about Women 1) We're way more vulgar than you. We're just not as loud. 2)We don't really mind when you leave the toilet seat up. It's evidence that you didn't piss all over it. 3) We drink till you're cute, too. 4) whoever told you that we love spooning is wrong. You fall asleep immediately and we're pinned under your heavy, sweaty limbs, trying desperately to break free before you start snoring. And yes, you will start snoring. 5) No, we don't want to listen to you play the Guns N'Roses song you just learned on your guitar (or bass or drums). We're not in college anymore. Sitting on your couch while you struggle through "November Rain" is painful. Have Mercy. 6) "You're so smart" actually means, "you're so adorable when you try to act smart." 7) Sexy beats cute. Smart trumps sexy. Funny takes the pot. 8) When we say cool, really, wow and huh, we're not listening either. 9) We don't really expect you to like romantic comedies. We just make you watch them as payback for all the baseball games, Metallica concerts, and super bowl parties we sit through with you. And for the record, we, unlike you, haven't fallen asleep in the middle of any of them. 10) we never fake orgasms. okay once in a while we do. But only for the sake of expediency.

I'd like to meet:

My Grandmother on my Dad's side...

Music:

Built to Spill, Centromatic, Will Johnson, South San Gabriel, Sorta, Death Cab for Cutie, Roger Waters, Mono, Copeland, The Beatles, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Twista, Jack Johnson, Bob Marley, The Rolling Stones, Queen, David Bowie, The Doors,Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Jeff Buckley, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Counting Crows, Fleetwood Mac, YES, Angie Stone, Deathray Davies, Flickerstick, Ben Folds, Coldplay Tori Amos, Sarah McLaughlin, Patti Griffin, The Grateful Dead, Led Zepplin, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, Damien Rice, Remy Zero, Iron & Wine, Zero 7, Colin James Hay, Massive Attack, REM, Stevie Wonder, Patsy Cline, Frou Frou, Elliot Smith, The Shins, Travis, Nick Drake, Keane, Everything But The Girl, Gomez, The Polyphonic Spree, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Eva Cassidy, Grandaddy, Wilco, Radiohead, The Postal Service, Notwist, John Fogarty, John Legend, Ryan Adams, Helen Stellar, Usher, Keller Williams, Joss Stone, Kaskade, the Killers, G Love, Marc Broussard, Stereolab, Digable Planets, JayZ, Beyonce, Sade, the Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Modest Mouse, Muse, My Morning Jacket, Belle and Sebastian, Ludacris, Peggy Lee, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, A-ha, Prince, Sting, The Police, Joshua Radin, John Mayer, ...

Movies:

Garden State, Napolean Dynamite, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ANCHORMAN: The legend of Ron Burgundy, Zoolander, The Notebook, Pretty Woman, Simply Irresistable, Crash, Birth, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Beauty and the Beast, SAVED, Centerstage (embarrassing I know), Footloose, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Waynes World, Dirty Dancing, Seabiscuit, Friday Night Lights, Big Fish, American Beauty, Almost Famous, The Fugitive, Best in Show, Waiting for Gufman, Million Dollar Baby, Birth, Crash,

Television:

Adult Swim, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Scrubs, Curb Your Enthusiasm, SPORTSCENTER!, LOST, Megastructures on National Geographic, Law and Order, CSI, any sort of sporting event...

Books:

I have been meaning to read... really...

Heroes:

Grammy... this woman has the strength and the heart of a thousand men, the compassion of a million woman, and a love for life that is unmatched by anyone I've ever met. I aspire to be like her everyday of my life.

My Blog

Hobie Cat!

I am a mother!!! My little guy is a little under a year old and his name is Hobie Cat... A Hobie Cat is actually a type of catamaran ( a boat, for all ya'll that didn't grow up on the ocean)... He's v...
Posted by Sparks9 on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:57:00 PST

Happy Graduation

This is my gift to you, seniors... I am always here if you need me... print this out and put it somewhere you can see it everyday... MAKE EVERYDAY COUNT!   THE STORY OF LIFE Sometimes people come...
Posted by Sparks9 on Thu, 25 May 2006 08:15:00 PST

Fish out of water

I am about to be a fish out of water... For the last 10 years of my life, I have been involved with drum and bugle corps. It has been my life, my love and my passion. I get the opportunity to escape r...
Posted by Sparks9 on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:59:00 PST

Home... I think

So my stuff is in a big Uhaul truck outside... I am currently in Fort Worth, waiting for the thunderstorm to finish so I can drive to my apartment and do the moving in thing.... I am VERY excited to b...
Posted by Sparks9 on Tue, 16 Aug 2005 04:18:00 PST

WHAT A DAY!!!

Holy Moly!!! I had a CRAZY day! I woke up to realize I missed my ride, so I walked about 3 miles to a Home Depot, where I rented a truck to move the furniture I bought yesterday... a red leather chair...
Posted by Sparks9 on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

So lucky...

I have to say that I truely feel like one of the luckiest people alive! I woke up this morning and looked out my bus window at the most BEAUTIFUL mountains ever... I am in Utah today and the weather i...
Posted by Sparks9 on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Hoarse...

My voice is SHOT! I have been teaching now for about 2 weeks, and my voice is on its way out the door! I am in Dallas/Fort Worth right now. I am teaching a week long camp to the high school kids I wil...
Posted by Sparks9 on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Rockford, IL

WHEW! Its has been quite the week... and its only Monday! The cool part about what I do, is being isolated from the outside world... we don't have time to watch T.V, we rarely see a newspaper, and we ...
Posted by Sparks9 on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

BTW

By the way... I will have you all know that I was leaning back while sitting in a chair today and fell over... yes... it does happen... when your parents tell you to keep all 4 legs of the chair on th...
Posted by Sparks9 on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

An Ex...

Ya know, I didn't think I would get into this blog thing... but I had the strangest desire to write in it today at work... so here is what I was thinking about....   I have these episodes wh...
Posted by Sparks9 on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST