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About Me


2006 Chicago Games Beach Volleyball Medal Ceremony


2006 Chicago Games Volleyball Championship Point


I'm gullible, because I expect honesty and truth. I'm shy, but have the heart of an extrovert. I want to be rich and famous, but don't want to play the game. I'm silly and funny, but sometimes just don't get it. I'm naive, due to my young at heart innocence. I want to travel the world, but love to sit at home and relax. I wonder why people cry when they laugh too much, or why some folks can feel when you are looking at them from a distance.
I'm introverted. But considerate. Prone to quietness - better listener than conversationalist. I have a knack for committing bizarre little details to memory and totally forgetting things that most people can remember without difficulty. I actually don't drink very often, despite the fact that I sound like an alcoholic. I have a car named "Camel Joe". I would do anything for my family and friends. As much as I love the sun, I also enjoy chilly, gray days - when you drain the color and warmth out of the scenery, there's a beauty there that I think most people don't appreciate.
I value everything random, nonsensical, and irrelevant. I love those unexpected moments that make life seem surreal, because reality is overrated. I have goals in my life and know that I will eventually achieve them. I'm not an intellectual, but I am okay with who I am and what I am about and I like me that way. I think I know you... but, maybe I don't. I enjoy being a fairly simple person with a fairly simple life.
Birthdate: May 16
I'm incredibly introverted and introspective. I live inside my head.
I spend a lot of alone time meditating and thinking.
People see me as withdrawn, and at times they are right.
I am caring and deep, but it may be difficult for me to show this side of myself.
My strength: My original approach to thinking
My weakness: I tend to shy away from others
My power color: Pale blue
My power symbol: Wavy line
My power month: July

My Interests

Hermosa Beaches, Laughing, Macaroni and Cheese, Teeth, Body Art, Live Police Pursuits, Egyptian Cotton, Warm Water, Ice Cream, Travelling, Thai Food, Clean Rooms, Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup, Personal Hygiene, Iced Soy White Chocolate Lattes, 3 series coupe, NAGVA, French Desserts, Corinthian Leather, Target, Designer Shades, Hiking, Vegan Glory, Boardshorts, Horizonal Stripes

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet people who say "please" and "thank you." People who are flexible in the things they do, the places they go, the people they can have fun with. People who are generous, funny, uninhibited, clever, and who laugh a lot. But not always at me.

Music:

Five Times August, Matchbox Twenty, Morcheeba, Jack Johnson, Luther Vandross, Bob Marley, Maroon 5, Keith Urban, Michael Buble, Gavin Degraw, Rascal Flatts, Madonna, Marc Broussard, Colbie Caillat, Brandon Heath, Eric Hutchinson, B.B. King

Movies:

North Shore, Rudy, Goonies, Whale Rider, Karate Kid, E.T., The Lord of the Rings, Coyote Ugly, Grease, Red Sonja, Latter Days, Mean Girls, The Ride: Back to the Soul of Surfing, Something New, Midnight Madness, Ever After, Blood Diamond, Disturbia, High School Musical

Television:

Taquita and Kaui, ANTM, The Office, Drawn Together, Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Charm School, Young Americans

Books:

California Labor Law Digest Volumes 1 and 2, Dude Where's My Country?, Where The Wild Things Are, 101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions, Oh, The Places You'll Go!, Confessions of an Heiress, The Audacity of Hope

Heroes:

So cliche, but definitely my parents

My Blog

i'm turning 30

I am about to turn 30 years old next month& so what?  So what?  30 is a big deal, a significant birthday, if you will.   Surely I'm not about to enter one of the best decades of my lif...
Posted by eric on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:56:00 PST

safety net

when you were young, your whole life was about the pursuit of fun. then you grow up and learn to be cautious. you could break a bone... or a heart. you look before you leap and sometimes you don't lea...
Posted by eric on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:35:00 PST

don't stand so close to me

At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it's usually a l...
Posted by eric on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:46:00 PST

Universal Truths

There are certain universal truths.  Sunrises and sunsets are meant to be shared.  Kids do grow up a bit slower when hunting for seashells and the smallest moments often make the best memori...
Posted by eric on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:05:00 PST

Second Chances?

Do people really deserve a second chance?  I mean this in many different aspects of life& as friends or with relationships.  Things that have happened in the past are just that... the past.&...
Posted by eric on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:53:00 PST

enjoy the ride

It's human nature to assume that the easiest way isn't the most correct way of solving a problem. We seek out the most ornate and elaborate ways of doing things because in our minds, we see the road l...
Posted by eric on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:35:00 PST

Quotable quotes

"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain y...
Posted by eric on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:08:00 PST

2006 Chicago Games

For the last couple of days I have been trying to figure out what I was going to say in my blog to all of you about the 2006 Chicago Games. There are so many different emotions that I have felt in the...
Posted by eric on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:05:00 PST

Letter

This is a copy of a letter I received from my mom, dated Friday, July 7, 2006: Hi Eric, Wondering how your long weekend was.  Read the letter in the plane as instructed.  I'm still in the st...
Posted by eric on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 02:56:00 PST

You as You

A little voice whispers words and you agree, you completely agree because your own eyes verify the truth, eyes that can see without having to look because they know what's there: A thousand imperfecti...
Posted by eric on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:44:00 PST