In addition to loving what I do for a living (making soap, incense, and other wonderful smelling things) I love gardening (especially heirloom and medicinal plants), cooking, vintage clothes, doing web "stuff", retro raunch, Ren fest kinda stuff, etc .. I play musical instruments (including bass fiddle, electric bass, didgeridoo, bongo drums, and most recently I am teaching myself to play the concertina - so I can eventually teach my 3 yr old who got one for Yule how to play it), I sort of collect swords, study ancient cultures as well as the retro styles of our own culture, etc ....
I have a diploma in Herbology and Aromatherapy. Maybe, when the time is right, I will to go back to school for several degrees. Or, maybe I'll become a self made independently wealthy woman without going back to school.
I am for the most part into natural living as far as eating and the household go. Yeah, we're all gonna die one day, but as I see it we might as well avoid self induced illness and misery from what is supposed to be our sustenance and cleaning supplies while on the Yellow Brick Road to the the Emerald City of Eternity.
I try to raise my kids mainstream enough so they won't be ostracized and made fun over stupid crap, but also "natural" enough so they wont' become vidiot junk food McMunchers, and respectful enough that they won't become hoodlums that are boils on the ass of the society (there are more than enough of those around).
I cloth diapered both kids, practiced extended breastfeeding, made their baby food (and still make their food to this day), I didn't circ' the boys (they can make such choices about their parts when they are old enough to understand all about their parts), I did the whole AP (Attachment Parenting) routine, and I am an informed non vax'er.
I wish I could sew much better than I do 'cause the style of clothes I want are either not available or if they are, they are quite rare, custom made and expensive.
how jedi are you? :: by lawrie malen
Music:
There is WAY too much stuff for me to to list! I guess I could say that I enjoy anything under the sun as long as its good .. and although I love to hear wonderful singers, I really dig instrumentals.
I am partial to: true funk, jazz & fusion, blues, classic punk, psychobilly, ska, acid guitar, classic surf guitar and the beauty that is surf saxiphone, zydeco, 70's uncastrated rock, 60's psychedelic & heroin chic, 50's rockabilly, instrumental bluegrass, some "modern alternative" (although, as more comes out, I like it less and less *lol*), classical (symphony as well as chamber music) & even some opera (Andreas Bocelli - what a voice)
.. For some killer jams check out
Colonel Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains!
Movies:
Hmmm, here is a very incomplete list ....
Nightmare Before Christmas
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Seven Samurai
Star Wars (yes, even the new ones even though the old ones had far better writing and acting)
In Cold Blood
Dead Man
Boogie Nights
Ran
Ed Wood
Clockwork Orange
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Brain Candy
Raising Arizona
Young Frankenstein
Taxi Driver
Dog Day Afternoon
The Godfather I & II (I purposely excluded III)
Once Upon A Time in America
Goodfellas (I SO wish my dad could have seen that one!)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Kill Bill I & II
Pulp Fiction
Unforgiven
Henry V
Beetlejuice
Reefer Madness
Clerks
Dogma
Willy Wonka
Harry Potter
Trainspotting
Braveheart
Wizard Of Oz
Blade
Akira
Final Fantasy
Allegro Non Troppo
Heavy Metal
Fantasia
Clerks
Dogma
A Slew Of Classic Monster Flicks and Sci-Fi Thrillers
Shrek
Television:
I don't tend to watch too much T.V. but when I do, or it is on in the background, I am kinda picky:
Scrubs
Frasier
Everybody Loves Raymond
Sex & The City
South Park
The Addams Family
The Munsters
The Tick
Beetlejuice {The Cartoon}
Ren & Stimpy {the John K. Episodes ONLY}
The Jackie Chan Cartoon
Xiaolin Showdown
Myth Busters
Good Eats
Emeril Live
Austin City Limits
American Chopper
Monster Garage
Biker Build Off
Classic Star Trek & TNG
Classic Simpsons
Clone Wars
Cartoon Network Anime
Fawlty Towers
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Young Ones
Absolutely Fabulous
Planet Earth
Arrested Development
Books:
Unfortunately I don't get to read many grown up books these days due to time constraints, but I USED to (before kids) love to read books ... Another Very Incomplete List:
The Hobbit
Lord Of The Rings
Dune
The Mists of Avalon
Shogun
Many thing by Isaac Asimov
The Left hand Of Darkness
The Jungle Book by Kipling (NOT the kids version ;)
