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About Me

My name is Val, and I live in Kansas. fucking sweet. I depict my life and the world around me by painting and drawing... have recently decided to dabble more into the music scene. I'm engaged to be wed in June to Wes, my lover and best friend. I was born on a thursday, one minute behind schedule, and I have been struggling to catch up ever since.

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My Interests

Art and Ideas, Religion, Politics, Small Businesses, Coffee, Music oh how I love music, I like going to plays and I love live music.. jazz mostly. I want to catch some opera this season, I always miss 'em.

I'd like to meet:

friends that encourage the better good... positive outlooks on life..

Music:

John Mayer, Jack Johnson, Ingrid Michaelson, Fiona Apple, Amy Winehouse, Nora Jones, Frou Frou, Interpol, Explosions in the sky, Sigur Ros, Nine Inch Nails, Breaking Benjamin, Tom Waits, Thom Yorke, Bjork, Radiohead, Pete Yorn, The Foo Fighters, Regina Spekter, Rilo Kiley, Sufjan Stevens, The Cure, the strokes, red hot chili peppers, tegan and sara, cat power, journey...

Movies:

lord of the rings, star trek, napoleon dynamite, casablanca, gone with the wind, click, bloodsport, grandma's boy, the goonies, hard target, happy gilmore, billy madison (I actually spent an entire summer watching billy madison every day, and I still love it)

Television:

history channel and porn. will and grace. top model.

Books:

lord of the rings, the hobbit, gone with the wind, a farewell to arms, captains and the kings, hatchet, the great gatsby, i bought andy warhol

Heroes:

anyone who makes me strive to be a better person

My Blog

I am what I am

Don't be afraid of doing something, just because no one is doing it yet. Let that be my word of advice, I find it's applicable to more than just painting.. usually a person is their own worst critic, ...
Posted by shmalerie <3 on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:49:00 PST

engineers, thanks for being an oompa loompa of science

So, valapalooza is over now, and it was indeed five days to remember. the kc trip was fun... but yeah, got no pictures. i suck. zach randomly joined our entourage at the last second, and it made the...
Posted by shmalerie <3 on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:09:00 PST

i was off the mark about kelly ripa, it’s fergie who looks like a muppet

ok, so since wednesday I have gone to three bars... neat. drinking in public is so much better than at home! well, not all the time, but i guess i mean it's just nice to have the option now... but I w...
Posted by shmalerie <3 on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:42:00 PST

my 21st

it's a social ritual in our culture that when a person turns 21 there is celebration with many drinks. i've done a lot of crap in my life, and i've finally reached this monumental day. i think i can o...
Posted by shmalerie <3 on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:39:00 PST

I don’t care what anyone says, kelly ripa looks like a muppet. i still love her.

I feel like I am waiting for my real life to begin, like this town has been nothing more than purgatory for the last five years...but I mean, it gets us by.. I just see greater things in store, and I...
Posted by shmalerie <3 on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:17:00 PST

doot doot doot...

wow, I feel like things for the wedding are finally coming together.. and what’s better--I don’t think anyone will leave this thing empty-pocketed. I found out that the flowers I want are ...
Posted by shmalerie <3 on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:23:00 PST

when you try your best and you don’t succeed...

Disappointment only occurs as much as you let it. Situations only get as stupid as you let them. The universe is full of what we put into it. I don’t want to wake up one day, 50 some years from ...
Posted by shmalerie <3 on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:01:00 PST

I like to ride my bicycle

was it Walt Whitman who said that thing about revising writing....how it is comparable to killing one’s babies....but it must be done. I will find the correct quote, and I’m not even sure ...
Posted by shmalerie <3 on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:56:00 PST

salt lick

ah, political sex scandals.. they are saying it's the wife's fault... well, one woman said that it was the wife's fault.. she drove him to cheat? holy crap, i'm not buying it. good to know, however, ...
Posted by shmalerie <3 on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:46:00 PST

Just something to mull over...I’ll keep this brief.

I think every person will come to a time in their life when they must make peace with the realities. After all, reality is what remains when you stop believing in everything else. ...
Posted by shmalerie <3 on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:06:00 PST