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Lisa

It's all about the Benjamins

About Me

What makes me happy is seeing other people happy.. You happy? I happy! Get it? Good. :o)
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My Interests

motorcycle riding, National Geographic, books, just about any type of music, photography, outdoorsy activities, attempting new things even if I don't succeed (guitar, anyone?), hanging out with friends, travelling, watching movies, drinking while playing Apples to Apples Which Drive-in Damsel Are You?
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I'd like to meet:

Dave Matthews. Oh, and I'm sure I'd like to meet you, if I haven't already.

Music:

These days it's Dave Matthews, Regina Spektor, They Might Be Giants, Tenacious D, Nelly Furtado, White Stripes

Movies:

The most recent one I've seen is Hot Fuzz. But I can't go wrong with Forrest Gump, Alice in Wonderland, or Pirates of the Caribbean.

Television:

Currently following Heroes, and occasionally enjoy the Discovery and Travel channels.

Books:

Recently finished "A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah, and will begin "True Believer" by Nicholas Sparks.

Heroes:

It's a really good TV series :o)

My Blog

Accelerate!

I rode to Leavenworth and back on my motorcycle this weekend!  James says I'm a speed demon - we had some hard accelerations back out onto the highway, and he wasn't expecting me to be able to ke...
Posted by Lisa on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:34:00 PST

Newest Edition to the 2-wheel Family

James spoils me... he bought me a new bike this weekend so we can go have fun and get exercise together since the weather decided it would finally get nice outside...  It's a Trek 3700 Woman's ed...
Posted by Lisa on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:34:00 PST

Discoveries

2 things I've recently learned: King size beds CAN be bought for less than $50.00, and I'm actually, surprisingly, super excited for school in September.
Posted by Lisa on Tue, 22 May 2007 12:15:00 PST

Another Item to Scratch Off the List

I passed the Motorcycle Safety class, and can officially get my license endorsed for riding.... This means a few things - one, I can officially scratch learning to ride a motorcycle off of my "list of...
Posted by Lisa on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:49:00 PST

Thank You!!

I have the best friends ever. THANK YOU to Mary and James for my wonderful surprise for my birthday - you guys are awesome... :-)I love you! :-DAnd THANK YOU to everyone who celebrated with me, too...
Posted by Lisa on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:13:00 PST

I DID IT!!

I DID IT! I RODE MY MOTORCYCLE! And I mean I really rode it - I had my feet on the pegs and was accelerating (slowly, but still accelerating)! I did around 2 miles on it going back and forth on an ...
Posted by Lisa on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:10:00 PST

Food?

I ate sushi for the first time today.  Salmon, tuna, striped bass, yellowtail, octopus, and some sort of fish eggs.  Wasabi included.    And I didn't vomit.  ;-)...
Posted by Lisa on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 11:25:00 PST

Rosie's Running!

So, after much hard work done by my superhero, Rosie (my Honda CM400) has regained life!  With a weekend almost completely devoted to the garage, the following was done: -Carburators cleaned -Wi...
Posted by Lisa on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:04:00 PST

Curiouser and curiouser..

Does anyone really like reading these?
Posted by Lisa on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:02:00 PST

How things change

Not that far long ago, I was sitting at my computer desk in my small one-bedroom apartment after working at my call center job, and I was trying to decide if cooking food for one person was worth the ...
Posted by Lisa on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:47:00 PST