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About Me

Every day I ask myself, "why did I move to California?" But I'm still here. That was almost 10 years ago. Why does it have to be so damn hot here? :) I have two favourite times of day in CA: before 10 a.m. and after 6 p.m. Oh and also when we get a little "weather" like perhaps some rain...

My Interests

Gardening, DIY home improvement, writing, reading voraciously, laughing, photography, vacuuming (god I love to vacuum!), cooking for friends and family, hosting parties. And Sean. I love to sing but have wicked performance anxiety. Writing, the old-fashioned way, with pen to paper - makes me more honest. The Post-Secret website.

I'd like to meet:

Friends that I haven't been in touch with in a long time... or new friends I haven't met yet.

Music:

Joni Mitchell, Gomez, U2 (they've been around 25 years but I've never once seen them :( ), Audioslave, Nina Simone, Foo Fighters, Gorillaz, Incubus, James Taylor, Kate Bush, Lyle Lovett, Beatles, Neil Diamond, Paula Cole, Queens of the Stone Age, Prince, Rage Against the Machine, Seal, The Sundays, Train, Tina Dico, Julia Fordham, Bowie, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, Blue Rodeo, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, BTO, CSNY, Tonic, Ultravox

Movies:

The English Patient, Young Frankenstein... so many to mention... Braveheart, Some Mother's Son, The Playboys, The Boxer, all Irish cinema; Hedwig & The Angry Inch, Agnes Browne, Persuasion, Gregory's Girl

Television:

Six Feet Under, Anything BBC America, CSI (the orginal), LOST, Hamish Macbeth

Books:

The Lovely Bones, Anything Diana Gabaldon, John Irving, Cormac McCarthy, Robertson Davies, Margaret Atwood, Ayn Rand

Heroes:

Bill & Lois W.; Mum & Dad

My Blog

Memories & Photos

Photographs and memories are deceiving. They can cause a lot of emotional distress for perfectly innocent reasons. I've been sorting through old photographs of mine, and also of my husband...
Posted by Maevey Baby on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:18:00 PST

Just another Christmas Story...

Someone asked me to write about my "favorite Christmas" and I admit, it took me a looooonnng time to roll back the years and come up with something. Honestly, there hasn't been one that has REAL...
Posted by Maevey Baby on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:57:00 PST

The Lost Art of Fine Dining

It isn't hard to understand why so many of us in the United States are overweight. Not only do we live more sedentary lives with white-collar jobs that require us to sit for a large amount ...
Posted by Maevey Baby on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:27:00 PST

That age-old question of whether to carry on ones genes...

This year has gone by like the blink of an eye for me. You have to understand, I'm a really late bloomer. I've always been smart, and mature, and people looked to me for advice on what to do with thei...
Posted by Maevey Baby on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:11:00 PST

I never thought that Id be sticking up for Rudy Giuliani, but...

Katherine Prudhomme-O'Brien should just shut her mouth. I've got one answer to her question to Rudy Giuliani about how can the American people be expected to show him loyalty when he can't get i...
Posted by Maevey Baby on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:41:00 PST

Are we sheep?

My fiancee and I decided to go to the Lucinda Williams concert here in LA on 9/10. I asked him how much it was, and he said, "$35... plus $9 for a convenience charge." I said, "total? or p...
Posted by Maevey Baby on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:30:00 PST

For love of Mary

I lost a good friend this weekend to brain cancer. She was diagnosed with it three years ago and it finally took her. Even though the disease ravaged her physically, I could tell it was my...
Posted by Maevey Baby on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:20:00 PST

The bike path

The Chandler bikepath in Burbank is a strange mix of culture, exercise and social meet 'n' greet. It's wonderful to have a place to go where you are not going to get hit by a car because you're ...
Posted by Maevey Baby on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:06:00 PST

I LOVE GORDON RAMSAY!!!

I don't know why I love it so, but I do. Gordon Ramsay is a foul-mouthed nasty git, but I love him. Mostly because he is absolutely correct when he goes off on a rant on someone. "He...
Posted by Maevey Baby on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:57:00 PST

The name is changing but I am the same...

I actually have a date. September 14th is when I go to the Burbank courtroom and change my first name legally to the one I've already been using almost 20 years. I have a whole bunch of em...
Posted by Maevey Baby on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:33:00 PST