Writing, reading, growing herbs and peppers, experimenting with dishes I see on the Food Network, ghost hunting (though I haven't tried this yet), and going green.
Fellow writers, editors and agents, and of course readers, especially those who love steamy romance in exotic settings such as a Mexican jungle, a bar on Mars, or a Richmond cemetery...at night of course.
True Blood - Bill + Sookie
Rick Springfield, U2, Duran Duran, Indigo Girls, Everclear, Concrete Blonde, Evanescence, the Buffy musical soundtrack and Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack, Modest Mouse, Live, Oingo Boingo, Bob Marley, and the list goes on...
The classics: the original Star Wars trilogy, the Indy Jones trilogy, Romancing the Stone. Almost anything Jane Austen--let's talk about Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy. And I love the modern versions like Clueless and Bridget Jones Diary. Chasing Liberty, Miss Congeniality, and The Mummy are ones I can watch over and over again.
Classics: Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys, Scooby Doo and the Jetson, Scarecrow & Mrs. King, Remington Steele, Voyagers! A bit more recent: Buffy, Angel, Firefly. Current: Dresden Files, Blood Ties, Dead Zone, 4400, Closer, Ugly Betty, Bones, Numbers.
Tanya Huff's Vicky Nelson series, Laurel K. Hamilton, Janet Evanovich, Dresden Files series, Jane Austen, Marion Chesney, Elizabeth George, Anne Perry, Angela Knight, Mary Janice Davidson.
Joan Wilder (yes, she's fictional, but she's always who I aspired to be), maybe a bit of Nancy Drew or Veronica Mars as well