"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option." (I don't know who to credit with this quote, but I'm using it anyway!)
Making the world a more aesthetically pleasing place, sustainability, words, laughter in all of its forms, irony, photography , the adrenaline rush from being awake for 30+ hours, art, staying in bed all day, shoes and scarves, quotes, taking funny pictures of my slutty cat , intelligent conversation, the color red, Fresca and Southern Comfort, the sleep you get between bludgeoning the snooze button, fifth gear, and baby carrots. ..
I’d like to meet people who will like me because of my quirks and randomness, not in spite of them. If I wanted to be around people who simply tolerated me, I'd hang out with my family and my co-workers.
I will listen to most anything that has a decent beat and lyrics I can sing along with (very poorly, of course). If I had my choice though, Live, Better Than Ezra, Sarah McLachlan, Gin Blossoms, Bob Marley, Sister Hazel, Jann Arden, James Blunt, The Shins, Augustana, Cake, Tori Amos, Matchbox 20, Death Cab for Cutie, Black Eyed Peas, Frou Frou, The Cranberries, Norah Jones, Jack Johnson, The Killers, Blondie, John Mayer, Snow Patrol, Nirvana, Sex Pistols, U2, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Sugarcult, Weezer, Tom Petty (with or without the Wallflowers or the Heartbreakers), Jazz, and, of course, Jackie Daum. ..
I’m a movie whore; I can admit it. I’ll watch just about anything once, but it takes something special, or at least something of a special level of kitchiness to get me to watch a movie more than once. I love new movies, old movies, happy movies, sad movies, movies that make me laugh, movies that make me think. Here are some of my favorites: Garden State, Speak, It Happened One Night, Amelie, Happy Accidents, Practical Magic, Juno, One Hour Photo, Pride and Prejudice, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Ten Things I Hate About You, Pillow Talk, V for Vendetta, You’ve Got Mail, With Honors, Secretary, American History X, If A Man Answers, Matilda, The Crow, Love Actually, Empire Records, Death to Smoochy, Strictly Ballroom, Donnie Darko, Bridget Jones’s Diary (I & II), The Princess Bride, Napoleon Dynamite, Return to Me, Benny and Joon, Clue, War Games, The Whole Wide World, Sabrina (the new one is actually better than the old one), Gone in 60 Seconds, anything by John Hughes, Kevin Smith, or with Vincent D’Onofrio, John Cusack, or Edward Norton...
"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
It’s great and if it’s on, I’ll probably watch it, like a moth to a flame, but the only show I can remember to watch is Gilmore Girls. Also ranking high on my list are L&O:CI, Monk, Friends, House, Golden Girls, Will and Grace, and commercials that are dirty, but don’t mean to be, just about anything on Comedy Central. Guilty pleasure: MTV’s Made (I know, I know, but I can’t help myself)...
I LOVE to read. It used to be that you could always find me with my nose in a book, but that was before my internet addiction. . . Pride and Prejudice, Enduring Love (this book changed my life, don't let the sappy title fool you), The Kitchen Gods Wife, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Dubliners, Twelfth Night, Regeneration, Tartuffe, anything by Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, David Sedaris, Tom Stoppard, Maya Angelou, Jonathan Swift, Virginia Wolfe, Dorothy Parker, Amy Tan, Dawn Powell, Saki, Dr. Seuss, . . . theres more, plenty more, but I may be running out of room here . . . ..
My great-gran, Ollie, the strongest, most amazing woman I have ever known. It is a privilege and honor to inherit her name. Julia Morgan, a very smart and ambitious woman who wouldn’t let anyone stand in the way of what she wanted. Anyone who is pursuing their dreams. And George Carlin because he tells it like it is, but in a funny way so we'll all pay attention...