friends & family, cats, laughing, buying & selling at flea markets, writing/blogging, sewing, ballet, crafts, soldiers' angels, gardening, museums, writing letters with colored pens, camping, anything to do with home decorating, reading my favorite milblogs, restoring furniture, braiding rugs, reading, women's domestic history, film--basically if it is thought of as women's work, i love it! i feel strongly about community and do a lot of volunteer work--it's great fun, valuable, and a good way to meet great folks! my guilty pleasure? trading celebrity news back & forth with my sister. the funnier & more ridiculous, the more we love it! (although we'd definitely prefer if the lady-folk would keep their underwear on. that's just not funny!).
...anyone with a story to tell, people who appreciate there are many different types of intelligence, members of SA, those who look at the bright side of life despite their circumstances, the author of any MilBlog (mudvillegazette.com)), anyone who is part of the Milblogging community (Milblogging.com) or in animal rescue, animal lovers, crafty folks...Anyone, really. :) If you're an interesting person with a good heart, I'm happy to know you. If you neglect & abuse any living being (past or present tense), you best be movin' on. You are the evil so many of us are working against. That said, I also try hard not to interact with mean, elitist, negative, judgmental snobs (unless we're related or you're a cat). My Life is too precious to waste on your bad attitude!
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pride and prejudice (a+e bbc version), amelie, particles of truth, spitfire grill, sixteen candles, bride and prejudice, a very long engagement, serenity, period or historical films, mysteries, bollywood, foreign films, anything really: drama, romance, comedies.
firefly, gilmore girls, medium, ghost whisperer, agatha christie, hercules poirot, a haunting, the muppet show, sensing murder, psych, little house on the prairie, queer as folk, monk, law + order SVU, fawlty towers, the magic garden, anything on HGTV or BBC America HGTV, British TV. my favorite shows are detective/mysteries and stories with eccentric, quirky characters (being i am one myself!).
daphne dumarier, jane austen, beatrix potter, noel streatfield, doris lessing, pema chodron, ken goodman, temple grandin, michelle tea, eudora welty, alice munro, maeve binchy, ee cummings, tristan crane, patricia cornwell, lillian faderman, many others...
my brother & sister; women courageous enough to be themselves; my cat Cody; honest + kind people; anyone willing to give their lives for what they believe in (not necessarily in that order), and every Soldier in every branch of the military.