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Kathryn

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I'm a native Floridian, which makes me a rare species. My husband and I share our house with Elsa (a great dane), Isabella (a very aloof little persian), Scarlett (a red-eared slider turtle) and Sonoma (a cockatiel). We got Elsa from our local great dane rescue group and Isabella came from the Humane Society. I cannot stress enough how important I think it is to seek your pets from shelters and rescue groups. You will never spend better money.Recently, we also added Baby, a 12-yr-old siamese, to the mix. He belonged to a dear friend of mine who'd been suffering from cancer and lost the battle just after New Year's. That upset has kept me offline quite a bit as of late, but I'm trying to get my act back together now and start catching up with everyone. Baby and Isabella are still defining their respective territories, but have finally started to play together a little.We live in a small woods which we share with numerous squirrels, songbirds, racoons, possums, an armadillo or two, a family of hawks and a large owl. Never a dull moment in the backyard.I am an avid reader. I practically worship books. When I was a little kid, I was more excited by the arrival of the Book Mobile than the ice cream man. I'd rather be reading than doing anything else. My favorite book list gives a surface idea, but I will read about anything that interests me: fiction, non-fiction, history, art, science, murder mysteries, cookbooks, religion, philosophy, mythology, archaeology...I even have a book on how to blacksmith cause you never know when you might need to learn a new skill.
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You are an Earth dragon. Cool and calm, the everyday dealings of the world do not affect you in the typical ways. You are patient and willing, which often draws others to your cause, even if you don't feel you have one neccesarily. You have a vast influence on those around you, which can be used for good or bad depending on how you see fit.
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My Interests

Reading,writing, movies, theatre, cooking, traveling, herbalism, wine - drinking & cooking with, studying different religious teachings because there are many paths to the divine, holistic medicine, things of the earth and earth mother, always learning new things. Also, I love good juke boxes, spicy food of any ethnicity, going to Ren Faires, the Grand Canyon, cats in general and Great Danes in particular. I collect dragons. I collect Scooby-Doo memorabilia. I'm fascinated by ancient Egypt, medieval history, really any kind of history.

I'd like to meet:

The Dalai Lama, Jane Goodall, Alton Brown, Paula Deen, Elaine Stritch, Maya Angelou, Dennis Hopper, Queen Latifah, Jimmy & Rosalyn Carter, Peter O'Toole, Bill & Melinda Gates, Stephen Hawking...and then I'd have them all to a dinner party, but I'd have it catered so I could just sit back & listen to the stories

Music:

Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Norah Jones, Ray Charles, Bette Midler, Joni Mitchell, Pete Seeger, Jay Ungar & Molly Mason, Sweet Honey in the Rock, John Mayer, Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, Classic Rock, Broadway Show Tunes, Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, the Beatles, CCR, Green Day, Springsteen, Tony Bennett, Diana Krall What Type of Alcoholic Beverage Are You?
You're a Glass of Wine!
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Movies:

Gone With the Wind; Casablanca; It's A Wonderful Life; Inherit the Wind; Local Hero; Schindler's List;old horror movies, especially Vincent Price and all the Hammer Studio productions, and particularly, the Peter Cushing/Christopher Lee efforts; War of the Worlds (with Gene Barry, not that sucky Tom Cruise thing); Planes, Trains and Automobiles; My Favorite Year; It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; The Great Race (which has the best pie fight filmed in color); The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming; Around the World in Eighty Days: To Kill a Mockingbird; The Petrified Forest; The African Queen; The Maltese Falcon; Arsenic and Old Lace(which contains the greatest pratfall over an item of living room furniture ever); To Catch a Thief; Bringing Up Baby; Rear Window; Harvey; Arabesque; Gambit; The Trouble With Harry; The Princess Bride; Galaxy Quest; Christmas in Connecticut; The In-Laws (the Peter Falk/Alan Arkin version); The Burbs; The Lost Boys; Passage to Algiers; Ed Wood; North By Northwest; The Usual Suspects; Best in Show; The Ladykillers (the original one with Alec Guinness, not that crappy remake); The Guns of Navarone; Sleuth; Fiddler on the Roof; An American in Paris; Chocolat; Roman Holiday; Memento; The Uninvited, all 3 LOTR fims, Monty Python and the Holy Grail; ...somebody stop me!

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Television:

Older shows: grew up on Bob Keeshan's Captin Kangaroo; then, Mission: Impossible (but only the first three seasons with Martin Landau & Barbara Bain...I wanted to be Cinnamon Carter when I was six); Lost in Space; The Wild, Wild West; The Man From U.N.C.L.E.; Get Smart; The Andy Griffith Show; The Dick Van Dyke Show; The Mary Tyler Moore Show; Kolchak: The Night Stalker; M*A*S*H; The Muppet Show; Newhart; Cheers; Frasier; Current shows: Boston Legal; My Name is Earl (I know people like that!); lots of History channel, Discovery channel, Food Network, & PBS stuff(will watch ANYTHING made by Ken Burns); also love older British tv shows: The Avengers; Monty Python; Last of the Summer Wine; Mystery Theatre;

Books:

Anything by Amy Tan; anything by Jasper Fforde; anything by Arturo Perez-Reverte; Dorothy Parker; Katherine Neville's The Eight; Jack Finney's Time and Again; Christopher Moore; Tim Dorsey; Umberto Eco's Foucoult's Pendulum; T.H. White's The Once and Future King; anything by Mark Twain, especially The Innocents Abroad; pretty much anything by Patricia Highsmith, most things by Joanne Harris, historical bios ala Carrolly Erickson, Martha Grimes' Inspector Jury series...let me stress I will read almost anything, including the back of a cracker box if no other reading material is available.


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Heroes:

Jimmy Carter, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Bono, Stephen Hawking, J.K. Rowling - for getting so many kids to read, Doctors Without Borders, Starhawk, Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward - for their kid's camp, my grandparents
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Kathryn, Your Karmic Alignment is: Zen Intuition!
Score: 16 You have a direct perception of truth. You are very keen and don't use it to take advantage. When you commit positive deeds, you don't do them to get ahead, you do positive deeds simply because it makes you feel good. Your intentions are almost always meant well and all this positive karmaic energy is bound to come back to you in a great way! Which Irish Goddess Are You? (awesome pics)
You are Brighid, the goddess of poetry, healing and craft (especially metal craft). Your name, meaning "bright arrow," serves as the inspiration to all bards, artisans, scholars and any who work with words. You see art and beauty in so many things that you emulate creativity.
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