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About Me

How many people can define themselves at all, let alone in a limited-character text box on a website, in a profile that random strangers will see as often as the people one actually knows? I don't really know who I am for sure, so I'm going to just pick some descriptors that work.First and formost, I'm a mom to two beautiful, brilliant daughters. I'm passionate, intelligent, seeking, curious, bright and talented (other people's words, not mine). I'm a musician, a lover, a writer, a sensualist, 'a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer' (credit: Shel Silverstein). I surf the internet all week, and I dress up like it's the middle ages or renaissance on weekends. I sew (sort of), I cook, I clean, I play soccer with my kids. I go for long walks and teach my four year old that, 'when a catapillar goes into a cocoon to sleep, and then comes out a butter fly, it's called metamorphosis'. I speak at least a little in multiple languages (German, Spanish, Italian, French as well as English), though I'm only conversant in one other than the one I was born to. Words are more important to me than just about anything other than music and my family; I like the way they taste, look, sound and feel.And, I guess that's me. I hope you enjoy!
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My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

You. Come in, take off your shoes and stay a while.

Music:

Aerosmith, Albinoni, Ani DiFranco, B52s, Bach, Beck, Beethoven, Berlin, Blondie, Bruce Springsteen with and without the E Street Band, Bob Dylan, Bon Jovi, the Clash, the Cure, Dave Matthews Band, Depeche Mode, Dramarama, Elvis Costello, Fall Out Boy, Flogging Molly, Gaelic Storm, Golden Earring, Green Day, GnR, Indigo Girls, INXS (before the MTV travesty), Jason Mraz, Jethro Tull, Jimmy Eat World, Journey, Kansas, Linkin Park, Malus, Medeaval Baebes, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Moby, Mozart, Nirvana, Patti Griffin, Patti Larkin, Patti Scialfa, Patty Smith, Pearl Jam, Postal Service, REM, Rickie Lee Jones, Santana, Scissor Sisters, Sex Pistols, the Smiths, Simon and Garfunkel, Steeleye Span, Styx, Talking Heads, Tchaikovsky, They Might Be Giants, Tom Petty, Tom Waits, Tori Amos, Tracy Chapman, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Tristan Prettyman, U2, Voltaire, Wally Pleasant, Ween, and many, many more

Movies:

Labyrinth, LotR trilogy, Back to the Future trilogy, Die Hard, Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters, Angels in America (the play was better, but they did a great job on the TV movie dealie), Star Wars (the original three), Clueless, Motorcycle Diaries, Troy, Gladiator, Bride and Prejudice, Victory, Bend It Like Beckham, Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, The Outsiders, Sideways, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down, All About My Mother, Legend, Dark Crystal, Muppet Treasure Island, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Sky High, Peter Pan (just about any version, really), The Wizard of Oz, Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar (except for the lame ass extra songs that weren't in the play), Phantom of the Opera (Lon Cheney all the way), Carnival of Souls, Rear Window, Vertigo, In the Mouth of Madness, Psycho, The Mission, Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc, We Don't Live Here Anymore, A Home at the End of the World, Dazed and Confused, Dangerous Liasons, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Alice in Wonderland (the 60s black and white version), and more

Television:

Arrested Development got cancelled . . . so now, on the odd occasion I watch TV, it's whatever's on TLC or Food Network. I love Alton Brown and Trading Spaces, even if the latter is super lame now that they only work with people who could afford to hire their own decorators - I miss the days of houses that looked like mine and real solutions to real problems.

Books:

Anything by Madeline L'Engle, Harry Potter, Love in the Time of Cholera, the Milagra Beanfield War, Bag of Bones, The Refugee Summer, Rosebud With Fangs, The Chronicles of Narnia, the Over Sea, Under Stone series, American Gods, Neverwhere, Good Omens, the Earthsea books, Wicked, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Where the Sidewalk Ends, any of Pablo Neruda's poetry, A Tale of Two Cities, Anna Karenina, Vanity Fair, Of Human Bondage, Rebecca, Eloise, Madeline, Corduroy, the Aurian quartet, almost anything Shakespeare

My Blog

Yay, Online Quizzes!

Business minded and a natural leader, you are a canidate to be embraced by the Ventrue clan. You can be rather dominant with a high stamina however, you tend to have obsessive compulsive tendencies......
Posted by If you are a dreamer, come in! on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:05:00 PST

Dear You

Yes, you. Do you think it's easy for your grown children to rely upon you for so much? Do you really think we - and I mean all four of us - don't wish there were another way to do things? From my stan...
Posted by If you are a dreamer, come in! on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 08:49:00 PST

Nnnnngh

My computer is broken. Technically, I'm not supposed to be on this laptop, cos it's the hubby's work machine.I'm going through withdrawals, but I should have a new computer tomorrow. Yay f...
Posted by If you are a dreamer, come in! on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:34:00 PST

Antici . . . . pation

We're leaving for Mackinac Island first thing tomorrow (for those of you who don't know, that's between Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, in the straits of Mackinac) for once, I'm already packe...
Posted by If you are a dreamer, come in! on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:32:00 PST

Next Week, Or Maybe Next Month

Someone else rented the house. Disappointed, sad, and not crying very purposely.
Posted by If you are a dreamer, come in! on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:05:00 PST

Update

The house is adorable! It's four bedrooms, comes with kitchen appliances and a stackable washer/dryer (we have our own of those, but they're old and dying). There's a deck in the fenced in back yard, ...
Posted by If you are a dreamer, come in! on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 05:58:00 PST

Stuff

We're going to look at a new house to rent today; I'm kind of excited. Morgen's really excited, except she says she wants to stay where we are I know she doesn't understand about things like...
Posted by If you are a dreamer, come in! on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 05:56:00 PST

And More Books

So, I'm really anal and I'm changing this one a bit. The other way was driving me crazy trying to find all the ones I'd read (and I've read a lot), so here goes. And, for those of you who don't want t...
Posted by If you are a dreamer, come in! on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:25:00 PST

Books

Banned Book Week (the meme)In light of last week, here's another fun web game. If you've read the book, bold it. How many of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books have you read?Scary Stories (Serie...
Posted by If you are a dreamer, come in! on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:23:00 PST

Frustration

Hurray for blatant favoritism and lack of subtlety. It makes everything easier, yes it does . . . because it's always best to disgruntle as much of any given base as you're pleasing. I know what's goi...
Posted by If you are a dreamer, come in! on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:40:00 PST