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Lisa T.

I lean like a Cholo.

About Me

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My Interests

Music, reading, writing, playing clarinet, owls, eating cheese, The Old West, Indians, the cool side of the pillow, gardening, cooking and wine, teaching kids stuff, watching and playing sports, the fall season and everything that comes along with it, ice cold beer, Drum Corp International (Go Blue Devils!) crawling under a pile of clean laundry that's still warm, watching ice hockey and hoping for a fight to break out!

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Music:

I love all types of music. But, some of my favorites are Sarah McLachlan, Josh Rouse, Tegan and Sarah, Caitlin Evanson, Chris Mann, Teitur, Kim Richey, Radney Foster, Pat Green, Robert Earl Keen, The Bees, Michael Buble, movie soundtracks/scores, any and everything Chris Thile and Nickel Creek, Radney Foster, The Greencards, Death Cab for Cutie, Iron and Wine, Merle Haggard, George Strait, Frank Sinatra, Billy Holiday

Movies:

The Princess Bride, Anchorman, The Color Purple, Little Miss Sunshine, Love Actually, The African Queen, Roman Holiday, Ever After, Drop Dead Fred, The Little Mermaid

Television:

The Food Network, Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, Mythbusters, Desperate Housewives (I know), Grey's Anatomy, I love Carol Burnet and the first 5 years of Saturday Night Live

Books:

JK Rowling, Larry McMurtry, Tolkien, Gary Larson (The Far Side), Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes), the poetry of Pablo Neruda, Louis Lamour,Dr. Wayne Dyer, Nicholas Evans and Anita Shreve

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My Blog

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My spiritual side. The search for what "spiritual" means to me. The courage to type about it. It's like a whisper. It's like an intrinsic connection to something I know is there, but have never seen....
Posted by Lisa T. on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:59:00 PST

Aufweidersehen Wein!

Tonite, we say a temporary goodbye to Vienna! I look forward to coming back in the summer soon.I have to mention Arabella, the Opera. It was wonderful! The opera house was spectacular and the opera wa...
Posted by Lisa T. on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:08:00 PST

The best meal ever....

Hallo!I have just returned from our meal at Meinl Am Graben. My tummy is full of the most amazing food I have ever tasted. I'm not exaggerating. Joachim is an artist! I know a lot of you aren't that ...
Posted by Lisa T. on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 02:26:00 PST

Merry Christmas!!

Frohe Weihnachten! Merry Christmas!I hope everyone's day has been as good as mine. In Vienna, they actually celebrate Christmas on Christmas eve. So last night, we went to a Catholic mass (I found a n...
Posted by Lisa T. on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:23:00 PST

Observations

Some observations about life, Vienna, and a few new pics:Everyone wears nice shoes.Europeans love to smoke...especially the women.Quilted coats must be the warmest...almost all the Vienesse have one.I...
Posted by Lisa T. on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 04:26:00 PST

Stefansdom. Hofburg and GOOD FOOD

Day 3 in Vienna! It's almost 6 in the evening here, and we just finished a long day of trekking around the city. There is so much to tell, and so little space to do it in. I met Ingrid (Alex's dad's w...
Posted by Lisa T. on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:04:00 PST

Vienna 1....hallo und güten tag....

Well, we made it! I am currently typing on a german language keyboard, and the y and the shift keys are not in the same place as ours-and there are keys like ä and ü to contend with! Forgive any mispe...
Posted by Lisa T. on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:04:00 PST

Stay Tuned

If you're interested, I'll be blogging about my upcoming trip overseas. My first time on foreign soil. I simply cannot wait. More to come....very soon.  
Posted by Lisa T. on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:00:00 PST

The things I don't do...

I was looking at my profile and it occured to me that I may have become one of those people that I swore never to be. I noticed that when I initially wrote all the "about me" stuff, I had plenty of t...
Posted by Lisa T. on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:25:00 PST

Teeter-totters

I am sleepless tonight, so I thought maybe writing a bit would help. I just started working with kids again. I absolutely LOVE it. They say that when you get a pet, it is scientifically proven that s...
Posted by Lisa T. on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:41:00 PST