An ordinary life with extraordinary circumstances...
I have a degree in education from the U of AZ. I taught for a year and didn't love the school. After plans to move to Los Angeles fell through, I ended up back in Tucson. Since, I have worked at Casa de Los Ninos (a home for abused and neglected children), nannied for three girls with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and now I tutor biology at the community college level. I am part of the U of A's accelerated nursing program and would love to become an OR nurse. Eventually a nurse practitioner.
I have dreams to be a big screenwriter someday and live in Los Angeles (take two) where everyone will seek my newest screenplay. Of course, by then everyone will be envious of the newest thing to hit Hollywood (hey a girl can dream.) For now, I'll pretend I have the right to tell you what to read and watch by running a website with my friends. Check it out at: Reviewer Notebook
I am currently living with my parents and our little dog too-- not exactly the best situation but the most affordable. My goals: to get out of the house, to obtain a degree in nursing/become a nurse practitioner, to get out of the house, to lose a bit more weight...and have I mentioned to get out of the house?
What Others Think:
Arena (known to self and others)
caring , dependable , intelligent , self-conscious , trustworthy , witty
Blind Spot
(known only to others)able , accepting , bold , brave , cheerful , clever , complex , energetic , friendly , giving , happy , helpful , idealistic , independent , ingenious , kind , knowledgeable , logical , loving , mature , observant , patient , proud , searching , self-assertive , sensible , sentimental , shy , silly , sympathetic , tense , warm , wise
Façade
(known only to self)Unknown
(known to nobody)adaptable, calm, confident, dignified, extroverted, introverted, modest, nervous, organised, powerful, quiet, reflective, relaxed, religious, responsive, spontaneous
All Percentages
able (4%) accepting (9%) adaptable (0%) bold (9%) brave (4%) calm (0%) caring (31%) cheerful (13%) clever (22%) complex (9%) confident (0%) dependable (31%) dignified (0%) energetic (18%) extroverted (0%) friendly (50%) giving (22%) happy (9%) helpful (13%) idealistic (9%) independent (4%) ingenious (4%) intelligent (40%) introverted (0%) kind (18%) knowledgeable (22%) logical (4%) loving (13%) mature (18%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (9%) organised (0%) patient (4%) powerful (0%) proud (4%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (18%) self-assertive (9%) self-conscious (18%) sensible (9%) sentimental (9%) shy (4%) silly (13%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (9%) tense (4%) trustworthy (22%) warm (4%) wise (4%) witty (36%)
Created by the Interactive Johari Window on 8.11.2006, using data from 22 respondents.You can make your own Johari Window , or view JanineD23's full data .
The Quotes to Live and Laugh By
"Satan has a sense of humor." --Addison (Grey's Anatomy)
♥ "My vagina is a party...and you are NOT invited." --Me
♥ "My stream of consciousness has one too many rocks." --Me
♥ "I was blessed with a big mouth and a big brain; unfortunately, they don't always work at the same time." --Me
♥ "Life is but a complicated mess of convention, irrationality and leaps of faith." --Me
♥ "The experiences that stand out the most are those that veer from the ordinary." --Me
♥ "Someone has been stalking me and writing puppet musicals!" --Me
♥ "The only thing to fear in life is your own stupidity." --My Mother's Fortune Cookie
♥ "When I think of having sex with a stranger, I think that I'd rather lick a dog's ass. At least you know it's clean, the dog licked it first." --Gail (my cousin)
♥ “The children the world almost break become the adults who save it.†–Frank Warren
♥ "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire." --Talmud
♥ "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." --Voltaire
♥ "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being." --Goethe
♥ "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." --Dr. Seuss.
♥ "You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." --Unknown
♥ "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." --Mark Twain
♥ “To be great is to be misunderstood.†-–Ralph Waldo Emerson
♥ “How much of life is lost in waiting?†-–Ralph Waldo Emerson
♥ "All is flux and nothing stays still." --Plato
♥ "Life isn't about the breaths you take; it's about the moments that take your breath away." --Unknown
♥ "Find out who you are, and do it on purpose." --Dolly Parton
♥ "Do not waste your life waiting to turn back into dust." --Reba McEntire
♥ “Live free or die. Death is not the worst of evils.†–-Gen. John Stark
♥ “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.†–Mark Twain
♥ "Poetry is what is lost in the translation." --Robert Frost
♥ "Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives." --A. Sachs
♥ "If you wait too long for the perfect moment, the perfect moment will pass you by." --Unknown
♥ "If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more chances to learn and win." -- John W. Holt, Jr.
♥ "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." --Mark Twain
♥ “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.†–Eleanor Roosevelt
♥ "All it takes for evil to succeed in the world is for good people to stand by and do nothing." -- Major Brian Shul
♥ "With knowledge comes responsibility."
♥ "Writers are the cartographers of the imagination."
♥ "I never subscribed to that 'Love means never having to say you're sorry' bullshit. In fact, love means you always get a chance to say you're sorry. When we love someone, we always want to forgive them." --Mom (Why Moms Are Weird)
♥ “You gotta to embrace your inner freak, ‘cause the only thing you’ll regret is denying who you really are.†–Zack (Heroes)
♥ “The world is too fragile for people to be untrue. There’s too much at stake and life’s too short for lies.†–Kitty (Brothers and Sisters)
♥ "I’m a virgin. I know. No one waits this long. It’s weird. I didn’t want to give it up in high school to some band geek in the back of his dad’s car, you know? In college, I kept thinking he’s coming. The one…and I wanted to wait for him. And then I thought, I’ve waited this long, I should hold out. I want it to mean something. I wanted the fairytale. I want it to be special and perfect." –Kathleen (Private Practice)
♥ “Science only comes so far and then comes God.†–- Noah “Duke†Calhoun (The Notebook)
♥ “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul, that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and bring peace to our minds. –-Noah Calhoun (The Notebook)
♥ “Don’t ever be someone’s slogan because you are poetry.†–Gwen (28 Days)
♥ "I'm cookie dough. I'm not done baking. I'm not finished becoming whoever the hell it is I'm going to turn out to be. I make it through this and the next thing and the next thing and maybe one day I turn around and realize I'm ready. I'm cookies. And then, you know, if I want someone to eat m...or enjoy warm, delicious cookie-me, then that's fine. That'll be then. When I'm done." --Buffy ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
♥ "The heart does things for reasons that reason does not understand." --Joe (Princess Diaries II)
♥ "No pretense here. I am completely self-absorbed and deeply shallow." --Fiyero (Wicked)
♥ "Happy is what happens when all your dreams come true." --Glinda (Wicked)
♥ "You cannot leave everything to Fate. She's got a lot to do. Sometimes you must give her a hand." --Da Vinci (Ever After)
♥ "Nothing is final 'til you're dead, and even then, I'm sure God negotiates." --Rodmilla de Ghent (Ever After)
♥ "Life is really all about love. Finding it, having it, keeping it." --Tablitha (Passions)
♥ "You never see the hard days in a photo album but those are the ones that get you from one happy snapshot to the next." --Mr. Leezak (Just Married)
♥ "It is the fool that forgets to return to the place of his last happiness." --Woman (October Road)
♥ “Trick or treat isn’t just some phrase you chant mindlessly like the Lord’s Prayer. It’s an oral contract.†–Bart Simpson (The Simpsons)
♥ "The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are, can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self." --Joe Fox (You've Got Mail)
♥ "I am someone who is looking for love, real love, ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t live without each other love." –-Carrie Bradshaw (Sex and the City)
♥ "Stroke a man's d*ck, you get him for a night; stroke a man's ego, you get him for life." --Grace (Perfect Stranger)
♥ "Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them." --Meredith Grey (Grey's Anatomy)
♥ "At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it." --Meredith Grey (Grey's Anatomy)
♥ "Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else."
♥ "Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield."
♥ "Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your mouth is moving."
♥ "I don't talk fast; you think slow."