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Cate

"What is essential is invisible to the eye."

About Me

I'm a bit of a drifter. I'm very open-minded, adaptable and tolerant. I love variety. I roll with the punches, am generally laid-back and fairly quiet. In groups, I often default into the role of observer. I tend to just launch into life, along whatever path happens to seem right at the moment. While being somewhat cynical & sarcastic, I am however a blatant optimist, always just assuming that things will work out fine, which they tend to do, one way or another. I am strong & independent. I love art, have some natural ability in need of refining. I would be more apt to put my life in someone's hands & accept rides from strangers than I would be to believe what they say. I have an amazing son, who was born July 5th, 2005, in a kiddie pool in my living room. I am not easily satisfied, though I am rarely disappointed. I love learning. I don't trust perfect-looking people. I want to go everywhere, do everything, starting with Iceland... or anywhere. Just scratching the surface. I will answer any question as honestly as I know.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I would rather surround myself with honest, original, intuitive, gentle, open-minded, non-judgmental, artistic, holistic, intelligent freespirits with a good sense of humour, from alternative scenes.

Music:

Ani Difranco, Bjork, Cake, The Cure, Dead Can Dance, Depeche Mode, Portishead, Skinny Puppy, Digable Planets, Amon Tobin, Fat Boy Slim, Blaster the Rocket Boy, Ninety Pound Wuss, Nina Simone, Firewater, Radiohead, Mindless Self Indulgence, Wakin' Dead, all Mike Patton, etc. jazz, blues, rock, gothic industrial, punk, rockabilly, psychobilly, hard house, tribal house, funky house, jazzy house, classical, etc.

Movies:

Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Amelie, Waking Life, The Princess Bride, Labyrinth, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Trainspotting, Gia, Leningrad Cowboys Do America, Naked Lunch, Willow, I Heart Huckabees, Run Lola Run, etc.

Books:

The Little Prince, The Alchemist, anything by Neil Gaiman, Lamb, Ishmael, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Fahrenheit 451, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, Brave New World, The Island, Stranger In a Strange Land, Titus Groan, etc.

My Blog

sweet child o' mine (long mommy story)

Galen has been becoming particularly awesome these days. I give his new babysitter a lot of credit, though it is true that Galen has always just been awesome under it all. He started going to a new ...
Posted by Cate on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:19:00 PST

thumbs down

Most people's idea of a quiet romantic evening without toddler probably does not involve awkward silence, an awkward half-hearted attempt at visualizatiion interpretation (ie, The Cube), sobbing, appa...
Posted by Cate on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PST

Bad Religion

We went to the Bad Religion show last night. It was great, though not quite what I expected. I guess I figured I'd be in the pit, but I had a spot right in front of the stage, I mean front row centre,...
Posted by Cate on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:13:00 PST

long story

Man, I had the craziest, longest, most detailed, most frightening, most beautiful, amazing, two-part dream starring Brodie (a dear, dear friend of mine) and me this morning-Starts off Brodie...
Posted by Cate on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:57:00 PST

how many times can I say great in one entry?

My little baby's growing up- Galen turned 3 yesterday! I had to work in the morning, so my brother and then our friend watched Galen. I got home 2 hours later than I'd expected and had to somewha...
Posted by Cate on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:55:00 PST

hospital

So I'm in Thunder Bay, flew out Saturday morning for my mom and little brother's grad party. It was fine. I've spent most of my time visiting with my older brother and his wife and baby who are&n...
Posted by Cate on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:43:00 PST

why I love punk rock shows

Quite a while ago, I was going to post a blog entitled 'I found god at a punk rock show [not that I was looking]", after Marc and I had gone to a Social Distortion show and had an amazing time. It was...
Posted by Cate on Thu, 15 May 2008 07:27:00 PST

repeat of the bulletin

Hey guys!! Galen & I will be in Detroit from the afternoon of Feb. 7th until the morning of the 18th, so get ahold of me & let`s try to arrange a potluck or something kid-friendly. Alternative...
Posted by Cate on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:29:00 PST

good & bad news

Let's get the bad news over with first..There was an accident within the company this week, in the restorations division. It's not entirely certain how exactly it happened, because no one saw it, and ...
Posted by Cate on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:07:00 PST

the very long weekend

Thursday evening, September 20th, Laura (Marc's niece), Maude (her friend), Galen & I got a ride to the airport where we'd rented a car. We ended up with a Hyundai Accent, which was helluva lotta ...
Posted by Cate on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:19:00 PST