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Tara

It's all good

About Me

I love laughing, excitement, adventure, the beach and the outdoors. I'm all about having fun and living each day to the fullest.I'm a genuine person who hates pretentious assholes. I'm not a big fan of people who talk shit & lie. Life's too short for bullshit. I'm a really laid back person. Drama sucks & I have no room for it it my life. I'm friendly & enjoy talking to all types of people. I've always been a dreamer. Dreaming is a quick escape from reality & always brings me peace of mind. So yes, my mind is always wandering, thinking, imagining, & conjuring up ficticious fantasies in my head.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Tara
Birthday: November 16th - scoprio
Birthplace: Long Island, NY
Current Location: Long Beach, NY
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Reddish
Height: 5'2"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Righty
Your Heritage: Irish, Italian, Russian, Polish
The Shoes You Wore Today: Flip flops
Your Weakness: sometimes I'm just too nice
Your Fears: Being caught on the ocean or in the mountains at 4,500 feet during a thunder storm (i've survived both)
Your Perfect Pizza: Plain slice right out of the oven from Carmines in Brooklyn
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: To buy some sort of real estate
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: LMAO
Thoughts First Waking Up: Is it nice out?
Your Best Physical Feature: My smile & my eyes
Your Bedtime: Now that I'm off for the summer who needs a bedtime?
Your Most Missed Memory: My Grandpa Vic (RIP) I love you!
Pepsi or Coke: Neither
MacDonalds or Burger King: Gross
Single or Group Dates: It depends - both can be fun
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Neither
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee
Do you Smoke: Smoke what?
Do you Swear: Unfortunately yes
Do you Sing: Yep - driving in my car
Do you Shower Daily: Nope - does swimming in the ocean count as showering?
Have you Been in Love: Yep
Do you want to go to College: Graduated
Do you want to get Married: Only if I meet the right person. I'm in no rush. I'm living my life & having a blast.
Do you belive in yourself: Hell yeah!
Do you get Motion Sickness: Nope
Do you think you are Attractive: Yep
Are you a Health Freak: Nope but try to live healthy (does drinking count?)
Do you get along with your Parents: Yep
Do you like Thunderstorms: Yes - especially watching storms from the beach
Do you play an Instrument: I always play the marakas when we jamm out
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: What kind of question is that?
In the past month have you Smoked: Smoked what?
In the past month have you been on Drugs: What kind of drugs?
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Yep
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Nope - hate malls
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Nope
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Yep - love rainbow rolls
In the past month have you been on Stage: Yeah - in the school where I teach
In the past month have you been Dumped: Nope
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Hell yeah! drunk skinny dipping in the ocean at night is the best
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Hell no
Ever been Drunk: Who me? never
Ever been called a Tease: Nope
Ever been Beaten up: Nope
Ever Shoplifted: Hell no
How do you want to Die: In my sleep
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: I'm a teacher
What country would you most like to Visit: I have no idea - I want to go everywhere
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Doesn't matter
Favourite Hair Color: Doesn't matter
Short or Long Hair: Either - dreads are cool
Height: Tall
Weight: not too skinny
Best Clothing Style: Laid back - flip flops, boardshorts, tee shirt
Number of Drugs I have taken: uummmmmmm
Number of CDs I own: too many
Number of Piercings: 1 - my nose
Number of Tattoos: 2
Number of things in my Past I Regret: I don't have many regrets. I'm a good person living a good life. Maybe just my 2nd tattoo.
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My Interests

LIKES: (this is a work in progress) The ocean, LB, my job, funny people, laughing, late night swims in the ocean, my apartment, happy hour, reading good books, body surfing, kayaking, hot summer days, coronas with lime, my friends, my family, going up to Maine, hiking, camping, vice magazine, Sea, Black Betty's, sleeping on the beach, dogs especially Muffy & lil Jack, tank tops, flip flops, going fishing with my dad on his boat, surfing with my dad & my bros,my sidekick cousin Tom (the older bro I never had), "Hey who is that? come here I want to talk to you", crazy nights at 658 with Matt & Tom, manicures & pedicures, vodka, being crafty, being able to fix things by myself, night swims in the ocean, lazy summer days, BBQ's, the secret passage to the beach, Coney Island, my comfortable bed, collecting beautiful shells, traveling, 413 road to happiness, Jobos, sunsets & sunrises (which is better?), not having to work in the summer, lazy walks on the boardwalk, parties, gypsy stories, cruising around LB.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who is real & and anyone who is down to earth.a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"found this flowers layout at HOT FreeLayouts.com :: MyHotComments

Music:

Sublime, Beastie Boys, Jack Johnson, Jane's Addiction, RHCP, Bob Marley, Lenny Kravitz, De La Soul, Phish, DB, Digable Planets, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Deee-Lite, Thievery Corporation, Damian Marley, I Am The Avalanche, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Audioslave, VOD, The Who, Alice in Chains, The Roots, Ziggy Marley, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Fugazi, LTJ Bukem. I love music & appreciate all different types.

Movies:

Garden State, The Royal Tennenbaums, Adaptation, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Maria Full of Grace, The Big Lebowski, Step into Liquid, Endless Summer, Scar Face, Fear & Loathing Las Vegas, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Memento, Office Space, Swingers, Boogie Nights, The Squid & the Whale, Road Trip, Orange County, Saving Silverman, Old School, PCU, Dazed and Confused, Grizzly Man, The Salton Sea, Borat.

Television:

Family Guy, The Office, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, That 70's Show, Rescue Me, Wild Boys, Arrested Development & I love watching the discovery channel especially shark week.

Books:

The Life of Pi, In Search of Captain Zero, Endurance Shackleton's Incredibile Voyage, Scar Tissue, In the Heart of the Sea, Adrift, Lost at Sea, Into Thin Air, Into the Wild, Skeletons on the Zahara, The Lobster Chronicles.

Heroes:

Ken Bradshaw for surfing the biggest wave ever!! & any person who dares to surf Teahupo'o

My Blog

Heading Out Of LB

So it's all good to have off for the summer but at a certain point it's like enough is enough. I mean during the school year I'm so super busy & have the most hectic schedule & then all of a s...
Posted by Tara on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 07:56:00 PST

Trike stealing

I don't know what's going lately but my stuff has been getting stolen.  About a month ago my cell phone got swiped off the perch in my yard.  That was only a minor inconvenience being t...
Posted by Tara on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:13:00 PST

Kayak adventures

Woke up to a beautiful, hot, sunny day.  Cousin Tom & I decided that we were going to go on an adventure involving  a 2 person ocean kayak.  Where were we going?  After discuss...
Posted by Tara on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:27:00 PST

The Leap of Death

Ok so about a week ago I was woken up by my roomate at 9am on my day off.  He opens my door, throws a harness in my bed & tells me quick put the harness on & come into the living room.&nb...
Posted by Tara on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:16:00 PST

Bouncing out another free loader

Once again we had to bounce out another ex junkie who was ready to set up shop in our apartment.  What is with these people?  Why do people think that it's ok to just hang out & use...
Posted by Tara on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:18:00 PST

Catnap

The gypsy that lives downstairs from me has 2 cats that my roomate & I  hate.  They pee all over the backyard & they like to sneak into my apartment when the door is left open (...
Posted by Tara on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:35:00 PST

Gypsy Traps

So we are pretty sure that the lady who moved in downstairs from us is a gypsy.  She is an older woman from Ireland who is a complete scam artist & who is full of shit.  We think she get...
Posted by Tara on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:52:00 PST

no peeping please & break-ins

So we found it necessary to post a small sign in our front window that says No Peeping Please.  Yeah it's totally bizarre but when people are banging on our front door & we don't an...
Posted by Tara on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:05:00 PST

Stalkers

what do you think about stalkers?  i'll tell you what i think.  they are fucking out of their minds.  how is it that lm,tc,& tm all have stalkers at the same time.  1 has to de...
Posted by Tara on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:49:00 PST

Moving is a bitch

So my roomate (cousin Tom)  & I have decided to move again.  We had to tell our crazy landlord that we are leaving & will be out by the 1st.  Up until this point the maniac...
Posted by Tara on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:07:00 PST