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Leyla

Leyla

About Me

Hi, looking to find old friends and make new ones too!
I run my own eBay store ( www.BayouTools.com ) if you want to check it out. I sell tools, everything from wrenches to high end mechanic/shop equipment. Owning and running my own business is a lot of hard work, but I can't beat being my own boss.
I like outdoor activities - hiking, swimming, canoeing. I enjoy watching movies, listening to music and playing poker.
I'm a big kid really, I like to play and get dirty, and I don't ever really wanna grow up.
I'm married with a son, that and 3 dogs keeps me busy.
And yes, named after song, just spelled different.

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My Interests

GeoCaching, Ebay, Texas Hold Em' Poker, music, reading (don't have enough time to do it as much as I'd like) and of course the internet. .. RPG (Role Play Game) I played Asheron's Call forever.
Enjoy Ren faires and historical re-enactments. I dress in period costume and attend Renaissance faires and fests as often as possible. I like all kinds of things. Always open to try new things too.

I'd like to meet:

Happy to meet new friends with all kinds of interests.
Also looking to say hi and reconnect with some people I knew in California, from Ventura School. I'd also like to meet a pirate, 'cause pirates are cool. Ok, and ninjas are cool too.

Wanna make a few bucks just for reading your email?

Music:

Weezer, Murder The Stout, Anna Nalick, Gorillaz. Celtic, Blues, Zydeco, Pop, Classic Rock, Rock, Heavy Metal and even Country. My taste is varied and changes frequently.
I like all types of music. Depends on what mood I'm in that day.
Ever heard of "The Eels" - Novocaine for the Soul?

Movies:

Underworld, Layer Cake, Who is Cletis Tout? Shaun of the Dead. Eulogy.
Obscure BBC films, Sci-Fi, comedies, thrillers. Not so big into the gore/horror. Had enough in real life.
Also like a lot of the old black and whites. Of course I'd have to add in Lord of the Rings and even as a grown up Harry Potter is ok by me.

Television:

Lost, Buffy, X-Files. Once again heading in the sci-fi direction. Also enjoy reality shows, like Amazing Race, Treasure Hunters (great first season) and Survivor(although at season like what 90? now I'm a little burned out) My Name is Earl, The Office (SO FUNNY), an obscure sci-fi series: Surface.

Books:

Beach Music by Pat Conroy.
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver.
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman.
Used to read everyday, then life got hectic, now get lucky to finish 1 book a month.

Heroes:

"Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money, or the daughter who held her tongue again and again. All this anonymous heroism." -Peggy Noonan
********* Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. -Thomas Fuller

My Blog

What I Learned in 2006

This year I learned:   800 & 1000 Thread Count bed sheets are sooooo worth the extra expense. Dogs dont' live forever - I knew this - but once again sadly reminded. To a 6 year old - Santa ...
Posted by Leyla on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:44:00 PST

Internet Terms

The Internet has given birth to a quirky range of modern addictions and maladies, the British weekly New Scientist says in its Christmas issue published this Saturday. They include these: - EGO-SURFI...
Posted by Leyla on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:01:00 PST

Where has the love gone?

Where has all the customer service gone? Am I just too old-fashioned to think that, as a customer, the retailers and merchants owe me a kindness. Has it come to the point that there are so many consu...
Posted by Leyla on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:39:00 PST

Soo busy

It's almost Christmas .. hard to believe where the entire year went. Blows my mind how fast time really goes. Never seem to have enough of it to get all the things I want accomplished. Christmas and ...
Posted by Leyla on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:25:00 PST

ARRG- Bellsouth Sucks!

So my Mother-in-Law's phone had so much static on it that you could not hold a conversation&so long story short&I call the phone company and report the problem, they claim they come out (we never saw...
Posted by Leyla on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 04:31:00 PST

Addicted/Fallis coming

Getting close to my fave time of year, the fall holiday season. Halloween is awesome, I totally decorate my whole house. Tombstones in the yard, 7 ft spider on teh roof, skeletons and ghosts in every ...
Posted by Leyla on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:15:00 PST

Geo-Cache-ing

So a friend calls us up and says OMG!! You have to go Geo-Caching with me! Geo-Caching? According to: http://www.geocaching.com/ What is Geocaching? Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for ...
Posted by Leyla on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 07:56:00 PST

COMCAST SUCKS!!!

So Comcast bought out Time Warner - which sucked, and now Comcast sucks. I have high speed internet that is slower than my old dial up and I have been calling in complaining for the past several month...
Posted by Leyla on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 05:28:00 PST

Katrina - 1 year later and still crying!

Welllllllll.......here we are 1 year after hurricane Katrina; and the whining still goes on. People still standing in the streets, oh FEMA didnt help me, FEMA hasnt helped me ENOUGH! Oh whatever. I a...
Posted by Leyla on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:36:00 PST

Arg - Monday

Well, every Monday seems to have it's unique challenges. Today, more than usual. Oh well, I have to remind myself of the quote: The man who has no problems is out of the game." Elbert Hubbard Guess I'...
Posted by Leyla on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:54:00 PST