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Vitamin

Gwenyfar's a total bitch.

About Me

NERD!

My Interests

+Camping
+Painting
+Cultural Geography
+History
+Blue Dresses
+Japanese cookies
and candies
+Zoology
+Biology
+Sociology
+Ok, and sometimes Astronomy
+Craft projects
+Casting Resin and
moldmaking
+PBS documentaries
+Eastern Europe
+Cuckoo Clocks
+Boys with Glasses
+Old tobacco pipes
+Hating Corporate America
(esp. factory farming practices)
+Text messaging
+Croquet
+European Folk Art
(espcially from Eastern
Europe and Scandinavia)
+Concertina Accordians
+Breaking News
+Letter writting
+Late 19th century
facial hair styles
+Playmobil
+70's style cabins
+Old 80's technology
+ Guitar playin'
by a campfire
+Orange vehicles
+Rainbow Flip Flops
+Fields with floaty
white thingys
+Mammals
+Wooden Salad bowls
+Making things with my hands
+Engineering
+Czech Animation
+Synesthesia
+The circus
+Pirates
+Gypsies
+Freak shows
+Bizare turn of the century
graphic design and
newpaper comics
+Phrenology
+Karaoke
+Thriftstore shopping
+The early 90's obsession with mini and bite sized foods, the repercussions of which we're still feeling today
+Dia De Los Muertos
+Pinatas
+The Enchanted Forest
Amusement Park
+Travel
+THE WORLD
(espcially when it "comes together"
like for the Olympics, or the It's
a Small World ride at Disneyland),
+That guy in the purple spandex and
mullet who plays the saxophone
in the movie "Lost Boys."

I'd like to meet:



More of the same please!

AND:

And Someone who can answer this riddle:

Homme petit d'homme petit, s'attend, n'avale
Homme petit d'homme petit, à degrés de bègues folles
Anal deux qui noeuds ours, anal deux qui noeuds s'y mènent
Coup d'un poux tome petit tout guetteur à gaine

Music:



+All kinds of things.

(right now: The Lightning Seeds, Hidden Cameras, of Montreal, Led Zepplin and Heart)

Movies:



+Return to OZ
+Sleepaway Camp
+Movies directed by Lars von Trier
+The Yugoslavian Film "Underground"
+"War and Peace" the 409 minute one
from Russia circa 1968
+Cabaret
+Hayao Miyazaki Style Anime
+Dabney Coleman style 80's movies
(War Games)
+The Goonies
+Star Wars
+Anything with Bill Murray in it

Television:



+Jeeves and Wooster
+Nova
+The Simpsons
+Fontline
+Masterpiece Theater

not any of that reality TV crap, so don't try talking to me about who got voted on or off of anything, because I don't know, nor do I care.

Books:



+The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
+Geek Love
+Edward Lear's Nonsense Omnibus
+The tales of Horace Walpole
+The Fairy Tales of Herman Hesse
+Books by Phillip Pullman
+Books by Oscar Wild
+Books by George Elliot
+Books by Lewis Carroll
+Books by Joseph Campbell
+Books by James Joyce
+Books by Iris Murdoch...
+And I collect books of fairy tale
collections from around the world.

Currently reading: The Mists of Avalon; 5 stars!

Heroes:



+Nellie Bly
+Iris Murdoch
+Joseph Cambell
+the Dali Lama
+any social activist
+volunteers
+some artists
+some comedians
+happy people
+some sad people
+people who somehow managed to fall in love with eachother
+Bill Murray
+Serpico

My Blog

A few words about beets

1. toss with olive oil, and roast, covered, at 350 degrees for around an hour until a knife easily passes through the largest beet. DELICIOUS served hot with salt, pepper and butter (though I use ea...
Posted by Vitamin on Thu, 17 May 2007 09:42:00 PST

Rockford Files Theme

Man, have you listened to the Rockford Files theme??? I mean really listened to it? Because it totally rocks! Take a few minutes and listen to it like 5 times in a row and you'll get the real beaut...
Posted by Vitamin on Sat, 12 May 2007 08:45:00 PST

The Wind Storm

That wind storm WAS creepy! I felt like a witch was going to blow into town and grant me three wishes that would have unforseen unhappy outcomes, and I'd realize after a long ordeal that it's best no...
Posted by Vitamin on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:10:00 PST

THIS IS FUCKING REAL (Let the Eagle Soar)

So, I'm at home painting and watching the Lawrence Welk show on PBS; yes I'm a grandma, infact if I could get my house to look like the set of the Lawrence Welk Show then I'd be one happy girl.Anyway,...
Posted by Vitamin on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:01:00 PST

Cocoon; best movie ever?

Brian Dennahey is an alien, not a bad guy.Wilford Brimley has a big blue boner that a cat can't scratch.Steve Gutenburg... well he's Steve Gutenburg.AMC, American Movie Classics, ah, indeed......
Posted by Vitamin on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:17:00 PST

Tofu Scrambler by Fantastic Discontinued!!!

WTF! My weekends just got waaaaay less delicious!for the past few weeks I've noticed Fantastic's Tofu Scrambler missing from the shelves at my grocery store, but for awhile I was able to convince mys...
Posted by Vitamin on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 10:54:00 PST

Why are people such jerks!

So I need to reside my house and have been trying to figure out how to refinance the house to pay for it. The guy from Sears was here for 3 and a half hours last night, and I thought it would cost li...
Posted by Vitamin on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:38:00 PST

I heart my friends

Today I got home and found a little bouquet of flowers on my doorstep.That made my heart happy.
Posted by Vitamin on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:05:00 PST

Have fun in the Summertime

So I just got back from my first camping trip in 7 years. It was so much fun! Despite the mesquitos (our campsite, though beautiful, was also next to a marsh), everything was almost perfect. We ate, ...
Posted by Vitamin on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:08:00 PST

SPRING CLEANING

Huh, it's been awhile eh?So, I just wanted to say that I've been deleting things, some old blogs that give me idot shivers, and a few people from my Myspace... Pretty much all the bands, people and es...
Posted by Vitamin on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 07:58:00 PST