I like variety with my variety. I like to do and explore a lot of different things. I wanted to work at the post office just to see how they did all that! Crazy! I love to cook and especially love to bake. If I could make bread, cookies and soup all day, I'd be a happy girl. When I was healthy I'd walk 6 miles a day, swim a mile, ride my bike, snow ski (180 days a year!) and well - I really never sat still for very long.
I'd like to meet:
I've always wanted to meet Prince Albert of Monaco. Yeah, lots of drama, press and controversy around him, but something about him has always interested me. Maybe someday I'll get my wish. Can anyone hook me up? :D
Music:
Music. Interesting topic. I like all kinds of popular music, but I hate rap. However, as a brain surgery patient, I listen to my music a little differently than you probably do. To comfort me and 'reset' my brain, I tend to listen to the same song over and over, often for months on end. It comes in handy to live alone during these times. Often when I'm really sick I will NEED to do this and will go from the song playing in my office, to having to put it on in the car if I have to head out, and then walk around with an MP3 player and headphones playing the same song - over and over. Sound crazy? I'm not crazy - it just helps me feel better on extreme days. Some of the music I've listened to a lot is Darius Rucker (This is My World), and Kenny Chesney (I Might Get Over You), but I have a huge variety of music. Just depends on what my head needs to hear that day!
Movies:
Well, I'm a girl, so don't roll your eyes when I say I like, "You've Got Mail" and "Bridget Jones' Diary". I also loved, "Bruce Almighty" and often fear if I ever start using post it notes to replace my ever absent memory that I'll look like the post it note scene from that movie. The movie, "Fifty First Dates" was exactly what my life was like right after brain surgery. I seriously thought the same nurse that visited my room everyday in the ICU was a different person each time. It was so bad that all you could do was laugh at it. My memory isn't quite that bad now, but I do have my days.
Television:
I don't get a lot of TV time, but I love American Idol, Sex in the City and Frasier.
Books:
Since my brain surgery, reading anything that requires me holding it steady and then relocating my eyes once again on the next page is out of the question. My head explodes and I feel car sick!I have listened to books on tape, which I like very much. I used to have an Audible.com subscription but I can't afford that anymore. Most recent listen (well over a year ago) was, "He's just not that into you", which actually helped me a great deal move on past some unfulfilling relationships.
Heroes:
My 8 year old daughter Natalie. For being the strongest, sweetest, smartest, most patient girl on the planet after having her life torn apart by my illness, divorce and thousands of miles of distance between us. Please someone help us get back together again.
