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Misti

Once upon a time...

About Me

My name is Misti. I have been in the Air Force for four years. Before that, I was born in Tennessee and raised in Ohio. I have two brothers, a mother, a soon-to-be stepfather, a father, a stepmother, two grandmothers and way too many cousins to count, and I love 'em all. I joined the Air Force a few months after graduating from Cuyahoga Falls High School in Ohio. I spent the next year in Texas, Arizona, and Florida. Of the three, I had the best time in Florida, where I married the boyfriend I had met in Arizona. The beaches of Pensacola, FL are absolutely beautiful, too, and I'm sad that they've had such a tough time there this last year.

For the past two years I have lived in Misawa, Japan, on the AF base there, with my husband. Our daughter, Aislinn, was born there in 2004. She will be celebrating her second birthday next month, and the time has certainly flown by for me!

The best part about being in Japan, besides having a baby, was getting to experience the culture! We went to see cherry blossom festivals (I swear it's one of the most beautiful things in the world), shopped in little Japanese shops throughout Japan, and stayed in a Japanese hotel in Tokyo once. Some advice if you ever have to travel through Tokyo's Nerita International Airport: wear REALLY comfortable shoes! We walked thirty minutes to get to our gate from the security point both times we flew out of there (I think it was closer to 45 the second time), and we were just exhausted! Also, for travelers, travel light if you can. If you have an infant or toddler and can't, my sympathies.

We're in Anchorage, Alaska now, and we love it. Yes, Alaska is really cold, but it's also incredibly beautiful! It took me a little while to get used to the mountains--they're so close here! But now I absolutely love it, and I can see why a good half of the Air Force is usually dying to come here--well, to Anchorage, anyway, not Fairbanks. That's a little too far north for me, thanks all the same.

You know, I joined the Air Force to travel, and I have, but I've only traveled to cold places so far. (Misawa's on the northern tip of Honshu, Japan's main island, and don't ever let anyone tell you that it doesn't snow in Japan! Brrr....) Just once, I hope we get to go somewhere warm.

I'm huge on books and writing, and I teach a class on how to make websites. I want to do web design professionally, but right now I work with computers for the Air Force, so that's pretty cool. I am also trying to start up a writing career. I've got most of a fantasy short story written, and I plan to start sending it out to magazines and anthologies soon to see if I can get someone to publish it. Well, we'll see.


Your Eyes Should Be Hazel
Your eyes reflect: Intellect and sensuality
What's hidden behind your eyes: Subtle manipulation What Color Should Your Eyes Be?


Your Japanese Name Is...
Mamiko Sasaki What's your Japanese Name?


Your Hidden Talent
You have the power to persuade and influence others.
You're the type of person who can turn a whole room around.
The potential for great leadership is there, as long as you don't abuse it.
Always remember, you have a lot more power over people than you might think! What's Your Hidden Talent?


Your Power Color Is Teal
At Your Highest:
You feel accomplished and optimistic about the future.
At Your Lowest:
You feel in a slump and lack creativity.
In Love:
You tend to be many people's ideal partner.
How You're Attractive:
You make people feel confident and accepted.
Your Eternal Question:
"What Impression Am I Giving?" What's Your Power Color?


You Have a Melancholic Temperament
Introspective and reflective, you think about everything and anything.
You are a soft-hearted daydreamer. You long for your ideal life.
You love silence and solitude. Everyday life is usually too chaotic for you.
Given enough time alone, it's easy for you to find inner peace.
You tend to be spiritual, having found your own meaning of life.
Wise and patient, you can help people through difficult times.
At your worst, you brood and sulk. Your negative thoughts can trap you.
You are reserved and withdrawn. This makes it hard to connect to others.
You tend to over think small things, making decisions difficult. What Temperment Are You?

And while this one is in part true, I believe that my faith is a little more specific than agnosticism.


You are Agnostic
You're not sure if God exists, and you don't care.
For you, there's no true way to figure out the divine.
You rather focus on what you can control - your own life.
And you tend to resent when others "sell" religion to you. What's Your Religious Philosophy?

This is too cool. I love Rogue.

Take the quiz:
Which X-Men Character are you most like?

Rogue
You are the kind of person who enjoys the simple things in life, and it doesn't take very much to keep you happy. You have a problem getting close to people and letting people get close to you, which can break a few hearts. You are a person with many secrets.
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My Interests

Reading scifi, fantasy, romance/historical romance, historical fiction, alternate universe fiction, etc. Also anything having to do with anthropology, archaeology, or history in general and British and/or Celtic in specific. I love to write, and you can see some of what I have written on allyunabridged.com , my web site. I'm a huge web geek--I've maintained a website since I was in eighth grade, and I've had a domain for about four years. I love to hike, and I think Alaska is going to inspire the latent photographer in me--the views here are breath-taking!

I'd like to meet:

Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, Sharon Green, and any of the other dozens of authors whom I absolutely adore. I'd also like to meet Roxann Dawson--for those of you who know me and know who this is, yes, I'm still a Trekkie at heart.

Music:

Country, pop, hip-hop. Anything that tells a story. Classical and folk, new age.

Movies:

Right now my favorites are Memoirs of a Geisha, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and Chronicles of Narnia (MAKE THEM ALL!!!). I love a lot of the same kinds of movies as I do books. I don't love them all, however. And I love comedies, but not the tasteless ones. Romantic comedies are a fave.

Television:

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, Law and Order, etc. Also anything Star Trek, Babylon 5, Buffy, those sort of shows. I've got most of them on DVD. Will & Grace.

Heroes:

All female science fiction/fantasy authors who pioneered the way through the first half to the middle of the last century, especially Andre Norton, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Anne McCaffrey.

My Blog

Second Surgery

I just had my second jaw surgery on Wednesday.  I hope it's the last!  I was doing okay the last two days, but I woke up sick this morning.  I'm not sure if it's because it's too hot in...
Posted by Misti on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:28:00 PST

Newsy stuff

Okay, so it's been a really, really long time since I've written in this.  My excuse is that my life has been busy the last, oh, six months.  I've been doing a lot of organizational stuff wi...
Posted by Misti on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:29:00 PST

Late Night TV and Other Stuff

Wow.  Late night TV is really...interesting.  I have the scintillating options at 2 am of watching BBC World News, Jerry Springer, While You Were Out, The History of Sex (which I've already ...
Posted by Misti on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:30:00 PST

Food And Stuff

Okay, now that I'm on a no-chew diet for six weeks (five more weeks and counting down!), I'm having to find some creative things to "eat."  Some of my discoveries: Acidic fruits should only be pu...
Posted by Misti on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:20:00 PST

Screw Smiling

Seriously, screw smiling.  And screw stupid husbands who make too many jokes.  And not literally, either.  Stupid husband. I wish I could just vow not to smile or laugh anymore.  I...
Posted by Misti on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:07:00 PST

No Smiling Allowed

Do me a favor and try a little experiment.  Smile.  Feel all of the muscles around your mouth and nose moving when you do that.  Now you get to hear my reaction to doing that: OWOWOWOWO...
Posted by Misti on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:03:00 PST

A Little Bit About Pain and Some Rambling

Okay, so my mouth hurts right now.  I should take my percocet and go to bed, but I missed House Hunters earlier 'cause I was sleeping off an earlier dose, so I'm being a geek and staying up to wa...
Posted by Misti on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:18:00 PST

Another quick update

Oh, and Aislinn's finally potty training!  Yay!  She still waits to poop until she gets her bedtime pull-up most of the time, but she's GREAT at peeing in the potty.  She hasn't had an ...
Posted by Misti on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:26:00 PST

An update

Okay, to summarize the last half year because I've been both too distracted and too lazy to get on here long enough to blog.  *bad me!* My husband was TDY for a class in Florida from September un...
Posted by Misti on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:22:00 PST

It's been a while...

Okay, I know it's been a while since my last blog.  I've been pretty busy and just didn't feel like writing, to be honest.  I've gotten into medieval reenacting, which is as cool as I though...
Posted by Misti on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 06:31:00 PST