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I'm a million miles high. I'm a piece o' the sky. I'm the purple in the rainbow, my, my, my!

About Me

Among other things, I am a nature lover, a bookworm, a terrible procrastinator, a perfectionist, a lover of the color green, and not much of a cook (though I bake fantastic cookies and can make a mean manicotti). I'm the mommy of the cutest, sweetest, and most mischievous little four-year-old girl you have ever seen. I am a super senior at Central Michigan University with a double major in Environmental Science and Biology. I'm ALMOST done, which I keep saying, but I'm finishing up my last bit one class at a time. I'm a country girl trapped within city limit signs and I can't wait to get out! I yearn for green grass, breezy trees, and wide open spaces in which to both romp and relax. I miss the night sky without street lamps to diminish its sparkle and I'd love to surround myself with lilacs, lilacs, lilacs! because they smell soooo good.
China Rose --
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My Interests

Environmental and political issues, the outdoors, classic literature as well as a little fantasy fiction, art, eco-art, houses, good movies and music, and my family that I love very much.

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Your Love Number is 1
You tend to be a stubborn lover, holding your ground in every argument
You take your time falling in love. You aren't the type to lose perspective.
You are loyal (to a fault), and you require the same loyalty in your sweetheart.
At your best, you are a wise and inspiring partner - who sticks around. What Is Your Love Number?

You Are 52% Open Minded
You are a very open minded person, but you're also well grounded.
Tolerant and flexible, you appreciate most lifestyles and viewpoints.
But you also know where you stand firm, and you can draw that line.
You're open to considering every possibility - but in the end, you stand true to yourself. How Open Minded Are You?

Your Heart Is Green
Love completes you, but that doesn't mean you seek it out.
When love comes your way, you integrate it peacefully into the rest of you life.

Your flirting style: Laid back

Your lucky first date: Walking around aimlessly and talking

Your dream lover: Is both enthusiastic and calm

What you bring to relationships: Balance What Color Heart Do You Have?

I'd like to meet:

Old friends, new friends with similar interests or that have something in common with me, a great green architect to build my "off the grid" dream house for me someday . . . . and Paul Newman!

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Music:

I enjoy blues, classic rock, alternative, country, zydeco, some world music, and when the urge strikes, classical.

Favorites
Susan Tedeschi
The Cure
The Violent Femmes
Fiona Apple
Concrete Blonde
Dixie Chicks
The Animals
Blind Melon
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Soundgarden
Offspring
Spin Doctors
Heart
Cowboy Junkies
Nirvana
Patty Loveless
Aretha Franklin
Tool
Pink Floyd
Smashing Pumpkins
Talking Heads
Radiohead
Jane's Addiction
LeAnn Womack
Hounddog Taylor and the Houserockers
Patsy Cline

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Movies:



Pride & Prejudice (A&E Version, not this newest one)
Star Wars Original Trilogy
Harry Potter (though the most recent was disappointing)
The African Queen
Dirty Dancing
Fried Green Tomatoes
Schindler's List
The Color Purple
Lonesome Dove
Clay Pigeons
Rounders
Big Trouble in Little China
Swiss Family Robinson
The Wizard of Oz
Mansfield Park
Man in the Moon
Sherlock Holmes movies (with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce)
all those fantastic Christmas claymation movies
The Long Hot Summer (and pretty much anything else with Paul Newman, seen above)

Television:

Current
Weeds!!
Big Love
My Boys

No Longer Aired
AbFab
Newsradio
The Sopranos
My So-Called Life

Books:

Pride & Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Romeo and Juliet
David Copperfield
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Villette
Harry Potter-all
and oh so many, many more . . . .

Poems
pity this busy monster manunkind ~ e.e. cummings
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ~ T.S. Eliot
Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too ~ Jim Hall
The Flea ~ John Donne
Daddy ~ Sylvia Plath
. . . to name a few

Heroes:

My Lily because she was so strong.

My Blog

On using a plunger correctly.

So one of the recurring problems in this apartment is that the sinks get clogged far too often. I just discovered via the web that I, like so many others, was using my little sink plunger incorrectly....
Posted by !!-->chinarose<--!! on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:14:00 PST

John McCain's ads are LIES. Here's the video proof.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0xzsogzAk ...
Posted by !!-->chinarose<--!! on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:36:00 PST

Leaving the Beave

Well, I have spent three lovely weeks on Beaver Island, MI. It's about time to head for home and I'm having some mixed feelings. I'm so supremely excited to live in the "luxury" of my little apartment...
Posted by !!-->chinarose<--!! on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:57:00 PST

Lack of Blogging

Wow, I really don't blog much, do I?
Posted by !!-->chinarose<--!! on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:11:00 PST

if only "craziness" was a category option!

So it's 1:00 in the morning and I'm cleaning my apartment a bit when I hear a somewhat timid yet persistent knock on my door. Indeed I wasn't certain it was a knock at first, but after a short pause t...
Posted by !!-->chinarose<--!! on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:39:00 PST

What a first day!

So today is the first day of the semester and I'm sitting here at home on my computer instead of being in class. Yes, I'm missing the first day, but it's not my fault this time. I really wanted to go!...
Posted by !!-->chinarose<--!! on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:37:00 PST

Killing Jay Leno?

I just turned on my tv and saw Jay Leno and remembered that I had a dream last night in which myself and someone else (not sure who) killed him. It's a vague remembrance and I can't remember if it was...
Posted by !!-->chinarose<--!! on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:10:00 PST

FREEDOM!!!

My last summer class is over, yay!! It was environmental economics. I like the environment part, but the economics . . . not so much. I ended up with a B+ which kills me because there was one homework...
Posted by !!-->chinarose<--!! on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 03:28:00 PST

What the hell?!

I just checked my email and after only about 2 hours since last emptying it, my bulk folder contained 329!!! spam email messages!!!!! That's just rediculous!
Posted by !!-->chinarose<--!! on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:40:00 PST

coincidence or psychic phenomena?

So I think I must have some kind of psychic mom connection or something. Lily was taking her nap so I went outside for a while. She hadn't been asleep long and she usually sleeps for about two hours, ...
Posted by !!-->chinarose<--!! on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 09:22:00 PST