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Tia

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About Me


TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Tia
Birthday: November 23rd
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Current Location: Chicagoland
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Brown with blonde highlights
Height: 5'10"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Righty
Your Heritage: 1/4 Scottish, 1/4 Bohemian, 1/4 White Russian, 1/4 Redneck
The Shoes You Wore Today: Black Birki clogs
Your Weakness: Good chocolate
Your Fears: No-one needing me
Your Perfect Pizza: Deep dish cheese
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: MOVE!
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: *nods*
Thoughts First Waking Up: where....snooze....button...***SLAP***
Your Best Physical Feature: My height
Your Bedtime: When I'm tired
Your Most Missed Memory: Twilight in the French countryside
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: Mickey D's
Single or Group Dates: Yes
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Neither, Pims please!
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: eeeew, you can have 'em!
Do you Smoke: Yup
Do you Swear: Yup
Do you Sing: Only if there's drumming and a bonfire
Do you Shower Daily: Nope
Have you Been in Love: Several times
Do you want to go to College: ...and finally graduate!
Do you want to get Married: Maybe
Do you belive in yourself: Yup
Do you get Motion Sickness: Sometimes
Do you think you are Attractive: Depends on the day
Are you a Health Freak: Depends on the day
Do you get along with your Parents: Almost too well, most people would say
Do you like Thunderstorms: Yup
Do you play an Instrument: Several - piano, bassoon, mallet percussion, djembe
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yup
In the past month have you Smoked: Yup
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Yup
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Yup
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Yup
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Nope
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Yup
In the past month have you been on Stage: Nope
In the past month have you been Dumped: Kinda
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Unfortunately, nope
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Nope
Ever been Drunk: Yup
Ever been called a Tease: Yup
Ever been Beaten up: Only once
Ever Shoplifted: Yup...but only once!
How do you want to Die: In a painless way
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: An adult
What country would you most like to Visit: Scotland
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Doesn't matter
Favourite Hair Color: I'm favoring redheads right now
Short or Long Hair: Doesn't matter
Height: In a guy, taller. In a gal, doesn't matter
Weight: Doesn't matter
Best Clothing Style: Clothed where required by law
Number of Drugs I have taken: ....you don't want to know....
Number of CDs I own: Somewhere around 150
Number of Piercings: Two per ear
Number of Tattoos: One
Number of things in my Past I Regret: A few things
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!I'm a lot more than a quick quiz. I work in the accounting department of an architecture firm yet stink at geometry. I love animals and hate peas. Driving is wonderful but commuting sucks. I love Kansas and hate the distance to Chicago. I love to read people's blogs but hate writing my own. I am divorced and in a long-term relationship. I have over four years of college but no degree.I'm a bundle of contradictions in middle suburban America.

My Interests

Reading. Watching my dog try to make friends with my cat. Long country drives.

I'd like to meet:

Just about anyone open-minded.

Music:

Mother Grove, Spiral Rhythm, Coyote Run. Dave Matthews Band, Grateful Dead, Phish, Ben Harper. Berlioz, Mozart, Gluck. Ditty Bops, KT Tungstall, Indigo Girls. WXRT in Chicago!

Movies:

What the Bleep Do We Know? Dune. Serenity. Sliding Doors. Little Women. Beauty and the Beast. The Princess Bride.

Television:

Firefly. aBattlestar Galactica. Roseanne. Grey's Anatomy. MythBusters. What Not to Wear.

Books:

The Song of the Lark. Of Mice and Men. It. Imajica. Book series: Dune; Kushiel's Trilogy; Anne of Green Gables; Little House on the Prairie.

Heroes:

Christa McAuliffe. Amelia Earhardt. Melissa. My parents. The inventor of the dishwasher.

My Blog

Can’t Let Go

It's February 3, and I'm having a hard time letting go of the past.  Oh, I've taken steps, believe me, and they weren't easy, but there is improvement.Each thing has it's own special memory, and ...
Posted by Tia on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:28:00 PST

Two Very Good Weekends

Life is suddenly very, very busy; a nice, stable busy-ness, but still busy. Last weekend I had a home spa day with some of the BrewCrew gals, then Sunday was opera ("Die Fleidermaus" - I enjoy it, but...
Posted by Tia on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:17:00 PST

I survived my 20's!

I thought about doing a stereotypical Thanksgiving entry, rejected that notion, and then came back to it. *sigh*Today, I am most thankful to be out of my 20's. Yes, I am now 30. Phear me! I spent last...
Posted by Tia on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 02:21:00 PST

My first meme...whee!

Leave your name...1. I'll respond with something random about you.2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.3. I'll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle you in.4. I'll say something that o...
Posted by Tia on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:44:00 PST

Nirvana, peanut butter and softball bats.

What do these lovely objects have in common?  Not much by themselves....to me, they represent portions of high school. I find myself thinking more about high school these past few days.  Tal...
Posted by Tia on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:21:00 PST