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Jinxi

BE YOURSELF. NO ONE CAN EVER TELL YOU YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

About Me


"I HAVE FOUND THAT IF YOU LOVE LIFE, LIFE WILL LOVE YOU BACK." - Artur Rubenstein
Hi! I'm Jinxi (aka Jinxi Boo). I'm happy as peaches in pie that I'm married to my best friend & a mom to three amazing kiddos!
I have owned my own business (www.MermaidInk.com) since 1997 and sell all kinds of fun collectibles there (currently over 2,500 goodies). You can check it out with the links on the left-hand side of my page.
I am also a freelance writer and have been published many times in magazines; and have just finished my first book, a collaboration with Mike DeVries (www.mdtatttos.com), called "Let's Be Realistic" (expected release date: July, 2008).
I love being surrounded by creativity, music, art, great books, happiness, cupcakes, color, diversity and unique people that live life by their own rules & don't fall victim to conformity.
I am an adamant activist for freethinkers, human rights, LGBT equality & gender equality.
My husband, children & friends mean the world to me and I treasure their vibrancy, devotion & beauty SO VERY MUCH! The inspiration I receive from the people that really matter in my life are the sprinkles on my cupcake!
I love getting tattooed and have a large collection of ink all over my body. I hope to continue adding to the canvas as long as there is space left to design upon.
I have a Bachelors of Arts degree in Psychology and hope to continue with a Graduate Degree in Writing.
I am working on an art project that celebrates individuality called the Cupcake Continuum. Please be a part and join the Continuum! (www.CupcakeContinuum.com) Find out more by clicking on the banner below:
"HAPPINESS IS A PERFUME WHICH YOU CANNOT POUR ON SOMEONE WITHOUT GETTING SOME ON YOURSELF." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"MAKE THE MOST OF YOURSELF, FOR THAT IS ALL THERE IS OF YOU." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"IT IS BETTER TO BE HATED FOR WHAT YOU ARE, THAN TO BE LOVED FOR WHAT YOU ARE NOT."
"HAPPINESS IS NOT HAVING WHAT YOU WANT. IT IS WANTING WHAT YOU HAVE."
"AVOID THE CROWD. DO YOUR OWN THINKING INDEPENDENTLY. BE THE CHESS PLAYER, NOT THE CHESS PIECE." - Ralph Charell
"BE YOURSELF. NO ONE CAN EVER TELL YOU YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG." - James Leo Herlihy
"LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT, ALWAYS HAS BEEN, ALWAYS WILL BE."
"IF SOMEONE IS TOO TIRED TO GIVE YOU A SMILE, LEAVE ONE OF YOUR OWN, BECAUSE NO ONE NEEDS A SMILE AS MUCH AS THOSE WHO HAVE NONE TO GIVE." - Samson Raphael Hirsch
"IF WE DON'T CHANGE, WE DON'T GROW. IF WE DON'T GROW, WE AREN'T REALLY LIVING." - Gail Sheehy
"NOT EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE COUNTED COUNTS, AND NOT EVERYTHING THAT COUNTS CAN BE COUNTED." - Albert Einstein
"The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our facilities and the fullest realization of the world in which we live." - Bertrand Russell
"IN ORDER TO BE IRREPLACEABLE ONE MUST ALWAYS BE DIFFERENT." - Coco Chanel
"THE SHOE THAT FITS ONE PERSON PINCHES ANOTHER; THERE IS NO RECIPE FOR LIVING THAT SUITS ALL CASES." - Carl Jung
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." - Hugh Downs
"THE CONSTITUTION ONLY GIVES PEOPLE THE RIGHT TO PURSUE HAPPINESS. YOU HAVE TO CATCH IT YOURSELF." - Ben Franklin

My Interests

♥♥♥ my family
♥♥♥ my friends
♥♥♥ cupcakes
♥♥♥ tattoos
♥♥♥ quotes
♥♥♥ art
♥♥♥ freethinking
♥♥♥ 80s music
♥♥♥ reading
♥♥♥ writing
♥♥♥ coffee w/soy milk
♥♥♥ punctuation
♥♥♥ octopodes
♥♥♥ playing SkeeBall
♥♥♥ positive thinking
♥♥♥ live music
♥♥♥ Mary Blair's artwork
♥♥♥ maneki nekos
♥♥♥ Rex Manning days
♥♥♥ PrismaColor pencils
♥♥♥ peppermint tea
♥♥♥ Tokidoki
♥♥♥ Project Playlist! Join me there if you have an account (or make a new account if you don't) by clicking on the headphones below

Eating vegetarian

"TRY TO LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING ABOUT SOMETHING." - Thomas H. Huxley

One of the commercials that ran for the episode of "Wife Swap" on TV (ABC) that my family & I were on

"IF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING OFFENDS NO ONE, THEN YOU ARE PROBABLY NOT SAYING MUCH."

"Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others." - Buddha

"THE BRIGHTER YOU ARE, THE MORE YOU HAVE TO LEARN." - Don Herold

"PEOPLE WITH COURAGE AND CHARACTER ALWAYS SEEM SINISTER TO THE REST." - Hermann Hesse

"FAITH IS THE GREAT COP-OUT, THE GREAT EXCUSE TO EVADE THE NEED TO THINK AND EVALUATE EVIDENCE." - Richard Dawkins

"Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life." - Isaac Bashevis Singer
"TO AVOID CRITICISM, DO NOTHING, SAY NOTHING, AND BE NOTHING." - Elbert Hubbard
"THOUGHTS ARE BUT DREAMS TIL THEIR EFFECTS BE TRIED." - William Shakespeare "I AM ALWAYS DOING THAT WHICH I CANNOT DO, IN ORDER THAT I MAY LEARN HOW TO DO IT." - Pablo Picasso

"I DON'T WANT EVERYONE TO LIKE ME; I SHOULD THINK LESS OF MYSELF IF SOME PEOPLE DID." - Henry James

SOME PURSUE HAPPINESS...OTHERS CREATE IT.

"IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT A MAN'S LIKE, TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT HOW HE TREATS HIS INFERIORS, NOT HIS EQUALS." -Sirius Black

"PEOPLE WILL FORGET WHAT YOU SAID,
PEOPLE WILL FORGET WHAT YOU DID,
BUT PEOPLE WILL NEVER FORGET HOW
YOU MADE THEM FEEL." - Maya Angelou

I'd like to meet:

"I DO NOT REGRET THE THINGS I HAVE DONE...BUT THOSE I DID NOT DO."

Sprinkle my Cupcake

Music:


♥♥♥ Propagandhi
♥♥♥ The Cure
♥♥♥ Yaz
♥♥♥ 65daysofstatic
♥♥♥ Blaqk Audio
♥♥♥ Anti-Flag
♥♥♥ The Pixies
♥♥♥ Girl in a Coma
♥♥♥ Metric
♥♥♥ OMD
♥♥♥ New Order
♥♥♥ Love & Rockets
♥♥♥ X
♥♥♥ Depeche Mode
♥♥♥ Erasure
♥♥♥ AFI
♥♥♥ The Psychedelic Furs
♥♥♥ Bjork
♥♥♥ Screeching Weasel
♥♥♥ The Murmurs
♥♥♥ Oingo Boingo
♥♥♥ The Sugarcubes
♥♥♥ Thompson Twins
♥♥♥ The Pet Shop Boys
♥♥♥ Ann Beretta
♥♥♥ Violent Femmes
♥♥♥ Tegan & Sara
♥♥♥ Queen
♥♥♥ Pat Benatar
♥♥♥ Rage Against the Machine
♥♥♥ The Muffs
♥♥♥ Mary's Danish
♥♥♥ Love Psychedelico
♥♥♥ Cyndi Lauper
♥♥♥ The Descendents
♥♥♥ Elvis Costello
♥♥♥ Enemy You
♥♥♥ Garbage
♥♥♥ The White Stripes
♥♥♥ The GoGos
♥♥♥ Fishbone
♥♥♥ Bad Religion
♥♥♥ Alison Moyet
♥♥♥ Gush
♥♥♥ No Doubt
♥♥♥ Puffy AmiYumi
♥♥♥ The Jesus & Mary Chain
♥♥♥ Flesh For Lulu
♥♥♥ Lick the Tins
♥♥♥ Blood Red Shoes
♥♥♥ Zero Boys

"BE WHO YOU ARE AND SAY WHAT YOU FEEL, BECAUSE THOSE WHO MIND DO NOT MATTER, AND THOSE WHO MATTER DO NOT MIND." - Theodore Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss)

Movies:

♥♥♥ Empire Records ♥♥♥ The Secretary ♥♥♥ Ferris Bueller's Day Off ♥♥♥ High Fidelity ♥♥♥ The Breakfast Club ♥♥♥ Brokeback Mountain ♥♥♥ Little Miss Sunshine ♥♥♥ 200 Cigarettes ♥♥♥ Kissing Jessica Stein ♥♥♥ Saved ♥♥♥ Pump Up the Volume ♥♥♥ The Usual Suspects ♥♥♥ But I'm a Cheerleader ♥♥♥ Some Kind of Wonderful ♥♥♥ Harry Potter Series ♥♥♥ Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ("Candy is dandy... but Liquor is Quicker")

Television:


♥♥♥ Spongebob Squarepants
♥♥♥ Penn & Teller's Bullshit
♥♥♥ South Park
♥♥♥ How It's Made
♥♥♥ Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
♥♥♥ Reno 911

Books:


♥♥♥ Doubt ♥♥♥ Where the Wild Things Are ♥♥♥ The Tipping Point ♥♥♥ Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism ♥♥♥ The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss ♥♥♥ 1984 ♥♥♥ The God Delusion ♥♥♥ Stumbling on Happiness ♥♥♥ Oxymoronica ♥♥♥ Letter to a Christian Nation ♥♥♥ Harry Potter series ♥♥♥ The End of Faith ♥♥♥ The Catcher in the Rye ♥♥♥ The Art & Flair of Mary Blair ♥♥♥ god is Not Great ♥♥♥ The Twinkie Cookbook ♥♥♥ Queen of the Oddballs ♥♥♥ e.e. Cummings poetry ♥♥♥ Athiesm: The Case Against God ♥♥♥ Atheist Universe ♥♥♥ Cupcakes! ♥♥♥ The Quotable Einstein ♥♥♥ Fraud ♥♥♥ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ♥♥♥ Franny and Zooey ♥♥♥ Animal Farm ♥♥♥ Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." – e. e. cummings
Please spread the word about the Cupcake Continuum project!
Be your own cupcake!! Join the continuum:
"YOU CAN COMPLAIN BECAUSE ROSES HAVE THORNS, OR YOU CAN REJOICE BECAUSE THORNS HAVE ROSES."

Heroes:

Steve, my kids, Camryn & Dr. Seuss
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." - Robert Brault

I love Knee-Hi Sox!!

My Blog

How Having a Head Tattoo Almost Ruined a Perfectly Great Afternoon

Ok... ready for a shocker?So, I took my sons to Dave & Buster's (www.daveandbusters.com) this afternoon. I don't know if you have ever been there, but they have guard-like guys at the entrance t...
Posted by Jinxi on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:41:00 PST

Interview/Article About Jinxi on www.ParentalPlayground.com

The fabulous site www.ParentalPlayground.com did an article about me - yay!If you want to read it... here is a link to the site and interview below: Thanks for checking it out!Hugs & Winx, Jinxi ...
Posted by Jinxi on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:29:00 PST

Cupcake Continuum featured on www.AllThingsCupcake.com

Be sure to check out the feature about the Cupcake Continuum (www.CupcakeContinuum.com) on the fun website  www.allthingscupcake.comI was so flattered to get a shout out on this fantastic site!...
Posted by Jinxi on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:22:00 PST

Should Tattooed People Be Parents And/Or Grandparents?

You know those chain emails you receive from time-to-time; the ones that you are supposed to forward to every relative and friend in your email address book, but that are REALLY just annoying and pro...
Posted by Jinxi on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:31:00 PST

6 Words

Ernest Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") and is said to have called it his best work.I have included my 6 words below.What are YOUR 6 words??Leave th...
Posted by Jinxi on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:18:00 PST

IE Weekly Magazine - 8 New Pieces by Jinxi in this Week’s Issue

The annual "Best Of" issue of IE Weekly Magazine is out and I was able to contribute 8 of the 100 "best of" features.So pick up a copy if you are in Southern Cali and look for the write-ups by me. &nb...
Posted by Jinxi on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:58:00 PST

www.JinxiBoo.com website has LAUNCHED! Please check it out =)

Hey Hey Jellybeans!! ♥♥♥ ♥♥♥I'm so excited because my new website has launched! WOO HOO!!! PLEASE check it out ... I would be SO APPRECIATIVE!!It's waiting f...
Posted by Jinxi on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:31:00 PST

Two Articles I Wrote for Inland Empire Weekly Magazine

Two articles I recently wrote were published in the Tattoo Issue of Inland Empire Weekly (IE Weekly) Magazine - yay!! If you live in Southern California and are in the IE, you can pick one up - they ...
Posted by Jinxi on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:13:00 PST

Cupcake Continuum Article in MetaCreative Magazine

I'm SO EXCITED and flattered to be featured in the July/August 2007 issue of MetaCreative Magazine!It's a fabulous mag that features a platform for diverse progressive artistic communities to express...
Posted by Jinxi on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:57:00 PST

Let me be in your photo! Jinxi magazine Slideshow

My friends SOOOOOO RULE!So many people have sent me messages about picking up the new Savage Tattoo Magazine with the Jinxi article in it... and some have been sweet enough to take photos of them with...
Posted by Jinxi on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:53:00 PST