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Sam

About Me

I'm a Children's Librarian. I grew up about 10 minutes from the ocean and go home often to visit my parents. I have a younger sister who lives in Boston. I have a kitten named Patsy (well, not really a kitten anymore-she's two years old). She is named after my aunt who lives in Florida who has always loved cats and encouraged me to get one.I graduated from high school in 1993 and went to Trenton State College where I majored in history. After graduation I worked at Pier One for over a year and then went back to school for my Masters in Library Science at Rutgers. While I have a great job and work with wonderful people, I love my days off and sometimes wish I was on a permanent vacation.I love to travel. One of my favorite places to visit is Disney World (I'm a kid at heart). One of the most beautiful places I've ever visited is Montana. Words do no justice to that beauty-it's just breath taking. I've visited London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, AR with my friend Christine (you know-London Bridge is falling down-that bridge). I went to Hawaii in November 2007. It was beautiful and I can't wait to go back. I guess the next place on my list to visit is Alaska. And I'd like to visit my friend Viola in Geneva in 2008.My parents live about 15 minutes from the beach so I try to get to Ocean City as often as possible. I think the best time is September when most of the tourists have left for the summer. I love sitting on the beach, listening to the ocean, with the sand beneath my feet. It's probably the most relaxing thing to do.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Samantha
Birthday: January 30, 1975
Birthplace: Philadelphia
Current Location: Vineland, NJ
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5'5"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Left Handed
Your Heritage: Half Chinese
The Shoes You Wore Today: White flip-flops with flower and sequins
Your Weakness: Chocolate
Your Fears: Never getting married and being a bad parent
Your Perfect Pizza: Tomato or Eggplant
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: To lose some weight
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: brb
Thoughts First Waking Up: Do I really have to go to work?
Your Best Physical Feature: Smile
Your Bedtime: Anywhere between 9 p.m. and 12 a.m.
Your Most Missed Memory: Rick
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: MacDonalds
Single or Group Dates: Single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Lipton
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: Cappuccino
Do you Smoke: No
Do you Swear: Occasionally
Do you Sing: Sometimes, hopefully when no one is listening or in the car
Do you Shower Daily: Yes
Have you Been in Love: Yes
Do you want to go to College: Already been there
Do you want to get Married: Yes
Do you belive in yourself: Sometimes
Do you get Motion Sickness: No
Do you think you are Attractive: Sometimes
Are you a Health Freak: Not really
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: Yes
Do you play an Instrument: the piano
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: only prescription
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: Not an entire box
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: No, unfortunately, but hopefully soon!
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: Maybe
Ever been Beaten up: No
Ever Shoplifted: No
How do you want to Die: Peacefully
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: a professional traveler
What country would you most like to Visit: Australia
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Blue
Favourite Hair Color: Brown
Short or Long Hair: Short
Height: Anything taller than me, but at least 5'9"
Weight: Not obese
Best Clothing Style: Preppy or casual
Number of Drugs I have taken: Too many prescription drugs to count. Tom Cruise would disapprove.
Number of CDs I own: A lot
Number of Piercings: 2 in each ear
Number of Tattoos: none
Number of things in my Past I Regret: not sure
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My Interests

Traveling, reading, history (particularly U.S. history), going to the opera and theater, shopping, going to the beach or pool.

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Music:

Billy Joel and Elton John, Everclear, Live, Faith Hill, Chely Wright, ABBA, soundtracks to Rent and Aida, Queen and Freddy Mercury

Movies:

My favorite movies are The Goonies and Stand By Me. I love anything Disney (101 Dalmatians, Monsters, Inc., The Incredibles and Finding Nemo are some favorites) Other favorites: Sweet Home Alabama, How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days, Serendipity (love John Cusack), Swiss Family Robinson, Moulin Rouge, My Neighbor Totoro (one of my current favorites-it was so cute!) and I can't think of any others right now.I joined Netflix so I get all the movies I want to see without having to go to blockbuster. It's a great thing! I've also watched almost all of 24 this way. You gotta love Keifer Sutherland! Luckily, the library has a great selection, so I try to watch as many of those as well.

Television:

Grey's Anatomy, Lost, CSI, How I Met Your Mother, 24, HeroesSandcastles in the Sand
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Books:

Inkheart and Inkspell, Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books, anything by Tamora Pierce and Meg Cabot, Harry Potter

My Blog

Emmy's again

I do have one complaint about Blythe Danner's speech last night. She couldn't remember everyone in her catergory and only said a couple of their names when saying the other women in her category were ...
Posted by Sam on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:33:00 PST

dad part II

Blythe Danner signed my dad's yearbook.  She wrote "To a REAL (in caps) nice guy.  Good luck in college next year."  Or something like that.  She was two years younger than my...
Posted by Sam on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:20:00 PST

My dad

So, tonight I was watching the Emmy Awards with my parents and Blythe Danner won best supporting actress in a comedy series.  Blythe Danner was with her brother Harry Danner and my dad says, "Har...
Posted by Sam on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:55:00 PST

The River by Chely Wright

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Posted by Sam on Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:59:00 PST

Zoo Animals

Here are some of my favorite zoo animal pictures from Florida. I think the giraffes are my favorite: :   The kangaroos were just lazing around. These fish were begging for food.  It was l...
Posted by Sam on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:35:00 PST

I went to Florida!

I visited my aunt and uncle in Melbourne Beach, FL.  Here are some pics. Friday we went to the Melbourne Zoo and fed the lorikeets.  That was fun. Saturday we went to Kennedy Space Center.&...
Posted by Sam on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 05:39:00 PST

Bratsy Patsy

Here are some pictures of my bratty kitty.  She was so cute: ...
Posted by Sam on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 05:27:00 PST

That was then, this is now.

So was I looking through old photo albums and I found the cutest Halloween picture of me in 1977-I was Raggedy Ann and I think my costume was taken from my Raggedy Ann doll.  I can't believe I fi...
Posted by Sam on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:31:00 PST

Stuff

Well, I've been debating for a long time how I want to use my blog.  I want it to be different from the normal journals you see.  So I decided to take two things I like-reading and photograp...
Posted by Sam on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:13:00 PST