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About Me

"Maple syrup in the rough" was the latest comment about me. I think they meant I was a sap. ;) Or sticky. Who knows.I love change. I love freedom. I have a love/hate relationship with love; one day I'm a hopeless romantic, the next I'm a hardnosed cynic.My take on life is that we are here to improve ourselves, to learn as much as we can, to make the lives of those we meet better in whatever way we can. Whether we cross their path for a moment, or walk a mile beside them, we all take away something from those we encounter and in return, they take a little of us with them. Life is about people.I love to create something out of nothing: books and stories on blank page, paintings on blank canvasses, businesses where none existed, and friends out of strangers.Feel free to say hi.

My Interests

Writing, reading, travelling, meeting new people, cooking great food, and finding humour in anything and everything. Dancing, riding horses, cats and other animals. Psychology. Making lists. Checking off items on said lists. Naps. Mmm. Yes, naps. And more writing. Writing while listening to music. Meditation and candles. And friends.

I'd like to meet:

Friends, friends, and more friends.

Music:

I love most everything. I enjoy finding new artists, especially Canadian ones. Go Sleddogs, Daniel Powter, OLP, Jann Arden and Matthew Barber!

Movies:

Bridges of Madison County and The English Patient top the list. Kevin Smith movies. Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Movies that appeal to the hopeless romantic in me (Say anything, Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally). Movies that appeal to the cynic (Closer, Thelma and Louise). Movies that challenge how I think (American Beauty). I hate wasting 2 hours of my life on a crappy film.

Television:

Rarely watch TV but when I do, it's usually CSI.

Books:

Wayyyyyyyyy too many to mention. One day I'm going to have a library with more books than I could read in my lifetime.

Heroes:

All of you. There is something heroic in all of us. We just need to let it shine.

My Blog

"No, that is not a hooker. That is the girl that works behind the cosmetics counter."

"Good morning, staff!This weekend's excursion to Vancouver with certain staff members has shown the importance of having rules when small town girls visit the city for a work conference/girls' weekend...
Posted by SecondHandMuse on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:46:00 PST

Conjuration Dissertation.

"Quick and easy to assemble" was the matter-of-fact statement on the compact box of condensed dresser. Someone in marketing for that company is a damn liar. The only way the project could ...
Posted by SecondHandMuse on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:18:00 PST

Vibrators and Mistaken Identity

A couple days ago I had an add request pop up on msn. I generally accept these, as my msn address is not advertised anywhere and it's almost always someone I know or a current contact changing e...
Posted by SecondHandMuse on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:32:00 PST

A Birthday Back Scratch Blog for M.

I was chatting with a very good friend of mine yesterday after my blog posted and he mentioned that he'd never had a back scratch. He reassured me that he was not referring to sex, as that&...
Posted by SecondHandMuse on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:43:00 PST

Like a Back Scratch in Your Vagina

Thank you, Jamie Lynn Spears. Thank you very much for the opportunity to have a discussion with my nine year old daughter about WHY people want to have sex.For those of you who don't unders...
Posted by SecondHandMuse on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:58:00 PST

Me, Myself, and I

At 4:30 this morning, I awoke to the sounds of a very heated argument going on in my bed.After a few disoriented moments of listening to two very concise and most definitely antithetica...
Posted by SecondHandMuse on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:17:00 PST

Hot Wax, Brazilian Sphynxes, and the Status of My Own Personal Tourism Industry

(This blog is a bit longer than usual and I do apologize, but I promised a few people that if I ever got a Brazilian wax, that I would detail it. For educational purposes, of course!)I am not su...
Posted by SecondHandMuse on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:47:00 PST

Disaster Puppy

I really wish I had a video camera following me around. Well, a selective one, of course, that I could pause when I needed to pick my underwear out of my buttcrack, or when I am having a pe...
Posted by SecondHandMuse on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:55:00 PST

Face(book) Your Fears

"You should join Facebook", my friend Michael said to me this past weekend. I rolled my eyes and made my trademark Facebook Objection Face. "God, if I hear another person say that to me... ...
Posted by SecondHandMuse on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:46:00 PST

Goodbye to a Friend

"How can I fix this?" he asks softly, staring across the park, hands silently coffered in his pants pockets, back firmly against the thickly ravined bark of the tired old oak tree. For a moment she pr...
Posted by SecondHandMuse on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:59:00 PST