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Pam

Why are any of us here?

About Me

Obviously, I defy description, but here are some things that are true of me: *I almost became a High School English teacher*I left my heart in San Francisco*I still eat Flintstones as my primary multi-vitamin*I am a tool junkie*I love orange*My score on most purity tests is extremely low*I both wear and sew plus size clothing*I am training to become a TaKeTiNa leader*I have a tattoo and want more*I think Jon Stewart is supremely sexy*I finally started plucking my eyebrows at age 31*I really should be a better chess player than I am*I love my husband*I make jewelry*I have a PhD in Psychology*I have more shoes than anyone I know and have been known to keep a pair that hurts because I like the way they look on my shoe rack*I have rosacea*I have a certain fondness for all things retro*I am a night person*I play the djembe, but I suck at the djun-djun*I can touch my tongue to my nose*I am more pagan than anything else, but do believe in Jesus*I am embarrased to admit it, but I don't have a long enough attention span for most old movies*I am a fun-to-watch belly dancer*I always vote*I begin writing novels, but I have yet to finish one*I am seriously addicted to Diet Coke*If I put on mascara, it looks like I am wearing fake eyelashes*I love playing poker but have a bit too honest a face*I am a mom of twins (and no, they do not run in my family, and no, I did not do fertility treatments)*I grew up with almost no music in the house*I become very cranky if I am cooking and discover that the dishwasher has clean dishes in it*I still haven't changed my name on some of my old credit cards*I love my siblings, the three most different people in the world*I love to melt glass*I used to consider getting a nose job*I have a Master's in Statistics*I like to make lists (duh)*I know my hair looks best just a bit longer than shoulder length, but I always let it grow back out to hippie-length because I like the first impression it makes*Hungry Pam is the worst*I am a terrible liar (as in, everyone can tell when I lie, NOT as in I lie all the time)*I probably watch too much TV*I am a bit obsessed with fashion*I make great cookies and once dreamed of opening a cafe*My concept of social class has weirdly a lot to do with one's taste in cheese*I don't really like most people's pets*I talk to myself in the car sometimes but when someone in the next car catches me, I pretend I was singing*I do not eat mayonnaise*I am a knee-jerk tree-hugging liberal*I recently learned to solder*I like to complain*My desk is always messy and my kitchen is always clean*I can only wink one eye (the left one)*I need my people more than I think most people do, but I still think of myself as an introvert because I don't want to have to talk to other people's people*I was the valedictorian of my High School*I had a huge crush on Spike (from BtVS)*I am stronger than I look*My parents are still together and still seem to be in love*I finally switched from chapstick to lip gloss*I could eat lobster every day*I recycle*I have gotten too lazy to go back to Burning Man*I love to redecorate houses*I used to be extremely shy*I only wash my hair every three days or so*I would like to learn to weld*I have a hard time meditating... I usually wind up just making up stories in my head*I like lizards*It creeps me out when people have long toenails*I admit to a secret love of Rice-A-Roni*I have had exactly one bikini wax, and am too much of a wuss to have another*I used to floss obsessively, but now I only floss about once a week*I like even really bad cheesy romantic comedies*I have a freakishly good sense of smell, which is more curse than blessing most of the time*When I was young, I wanted to be a Playboy Bunny when I grew up*I worship Joss Whedon*My 20GB iPod is completely full*I am a better person now than I was 10 years ago*

My Interests

Dance, taketina, drumming and rhythm, art, love. These are some of the things that allow me to glimpse the core of what it is to be completely alive. I believe I am here to live fully and gloriously and to bring as many people along with me as possible.

I'd like to meet:



Pam's Peeps
Oh how I love you all!

Ster - the rock star
Rebecca - the sis and so much more!

Brian - the photomeister

Sharon - the momma

Gary - still the pole dancer... yesterday, today, and tomorrow

Jason - the drummer
Cheryl - the myspace slacker (how long will it take her to see this?)

Gaby - the loyal friend

Ann - the wise one

Aldwyn - king of the hot tub
Cori - she who dances like the rest of us breathe

Jakey Jake - god o' the berimbau

Sam - the one mouth band
Samantha - queen of the 3/4 shimmy, or was it the choo-choo?

Kendra - woman of mystery

Amber - the cutie pie you don't mess with

Char - please don't leave us!

Christine - the soon to be very sleepy

Heather - lady of the green thumb and great quads

Linda - Turkish folder extraordinaire

Jess - the hot djembe-licious mama
Carrie - the pipes

Stillicide - the tunes
Gypsy Fusion - the troupe!

Hey, who else does Pam know?

Music:

I sing to my babies all day. They may sing before they talk. They also appreciate drumming, and grin ear-to-ear when I am groovy. When I go too far out on an improvisational limb and "lose it", they stop smiling. It's amazing. Tiny musical geniuses.

Movies:

Movies I would watch over and over: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pecker, Donnie Darko, Orgazmo, High Fidelity, The Aristocrats, Secretary, Lost in Translation, Garden State, The Princess Bride, American Beauty and American Pie both, The Big Lebowski, Shaun of the Dead, Clerks, Hero, Office Space, Holy Grail and Life of Brian, Say Anything, Sideways, But I'm A CheerleaderMovies I should have liked but didn't:
Napoleon Dynamite. Anyone who can explain to me why this was a good movie, please do. I kept waiting for it to get good. I just didn't get it.
Coffee and Cigarettes. I really wanted to like this movie. Instead, I wish I could get that night of my life back.
Triplets of Belleville. I have taken a lot of shit for this one. I was forced to watch this movie a second time in case I was just cranky the first time I saw it. This movie got 93% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. I don't know what is wrong with me, but I just didn't like it.Of course, now I don't get to go to the movies anymore. Boohoo.

Television:

Currently in my Tivo Season Pass Manager:So You Think You Can Dance, America's Got Talent, Design Star, Entourage, Big Love, The Daily Show, Dancing with the Stars, Project Runway, Lost, America's Next Top Model, Battlestar Galactica, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes. Feel free to delete me from your friends list now. (But first read my blog entry on TV shame).
Shows that are over, but were fabulous: Six Feet Under, West Wing, Buffy/Angel, Firefly, Queer As Folk, Gilmore Girls. If you have not watched these, you should. Especially Firefly. No, wait, especially Six Feet Under. No, Firefly...

Books:

I like junk for my brain--lots of fantasy and a bit of sf.
Diana Gabaldon: If you haven't read Outlander, run don't walk. Delicious time travel historical romance.
Guy Gavriel Kay: Start with Tigana or Fionavar Tapestry. Beautiful writer. Can reliably make me cry and really feel.
Jacqueline Carey: I wish I could world-build like this woman. Holy crap. The only novelist I have read recently who truly makes me feel humble as a writer.
MZB: Of course I loved Mists of Avalon. Of course. (And generally, revisionist legend rocks - Diana Paxon, Morgan LLewelyn, Gregory Maguire, etc.)
Terry Goodkind: He likes to write a good torture scene, this one, and he likes to preach politics in the later books, but if you like to live in a world for a while and hang out with the characters (a la Robert Jordan), he's worth a read.
Jennifer Weiner: Picked up "Good in Bed" at the airport when I ran out of reading materials and laughed out loud all the way home. It's a quick and clever read with a plus-size heroine. I wish I had written it.
Orson Scott Card: He can get repetitive, but I find the Shadow series to be a welcome return to form. (Form being Ender's Game, of course, which you should read if you haven't yet.)
Laurell K Hamilton: Glorified porn with vampires. Can I have a hell yeah?
Currently reading: "Kushiel's Justice" and "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child".
I'm also writing two books... both about magic.

My Blog

Here is when being a mom is less fun...

When you have the stomach flu... and I mean a bad one, the kind that makes you feel like you're going to pass out.  And your babies and husband all have it too.  And your son, who is wearing...
Posted by Pam on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:50:00 PST

A few gorgeous pics from Christmas

Here are a few more recent pics of our cuties... This pic is classic Zach: And this one is classic Zoe: Here are our cuties on Christmas: And here are their bite-able little Christmas hams:  ...
Posted by Pam on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:14:00 PST

How the mighty...

Happy New Year one and all!  We just celebrated our first new years with the babes, Rebecca, Brian, and (a sleeping) Lisi.  Zoe, being the mini-Pam of the pair, stayed up to watch the ball d...
Posted by Pam on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:22:00 PST

The Zach and Zoe Glossary

For some reason, parents make up words for stuff.  I never understood this, but it is becoming increasingly clear to me.  When you need to talk about sensitive (and often icky) things multip...
Posted by Pam on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:24:00 PST

getting in the swing...

We're getting the hang of this twin thing, but still not much time for blog entries.  But the laundry is laundering, the dishes are swishing, and the babies are snoozing... for now.  They're...
Posted by Pam on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:56:00 PST

1st photo shoot

We just did our first photo shoot with Zach and Zoe on Saturday (which was, incidentally, their full-term due date).  Thank you so much to Brian and Rebecca for doing this!!  It's odd that t...
Posted by Pam on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:18:00 PST

Zozer the dozer is home!

Just an update... we broke Zoe out of jail (aka the NICU) on Sunday and she is home with us!  Yay!  Now no more time for myspace or blogs.  Just time for being a milk cow and sleeping a...
Posted by Pam on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:35:00 PST

The babies are here!

In case you can't tell from the recent comments on my profile, the babies arrived a few days ahead of schedule!  They are here!  August 9th...6am: Awakened by an odd pain that feels so...
Posted by Pam on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:47:00 PST

We have a date....

Well, girlie tried a head-down position for a few hours there, but has resumed her favored curly-shrimp position sideways inside my ribs.  In any case, it's looking more like a c-section eve...
Posted by Pam on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:26:00 PST

So long to my custom friend space

Boohoo.  My custom friend space is no more.  No more "king of the hot tub", no more "pole dancer"... I went in to update the photos, since Stillicide took down one of their photos and left m...
Posted by Pam on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:38:00 PST