"I HAVE THE SAME QUESTION FOR PEOPLE THAT SPANK THEIR CHILDREN" -~Me~
MY MARRIAGE AND IT'S STRENGTH ...
I AM HOPELESSLY, RIDICULOUSLY, GA-GA IN LOVE, WITH MY HUSBAND. I WOULD WISH MY MARRIAGE ON ANYONE. IF YOU KNOW ME AT ALL, YOU KNOW JUST EXACTLY HOW PROFOUND THAT STATEMENT IS!
MY AMAZING CHILDREN
My grandbaby - "COHEN" (He's 1 1/2 - OMG!!!, and soon to be Grandaughter Lia (through marriage ...NO...Stephy's not preggers (or married for that matter) - YET! Though she will be on JULY 25th 2009.
Ya Ya's, Music, Books, Music, More books, The Olympic National Forest, Books, Sketching and watercoloring...My Cockatiel, 2 parakeets and 2 Zebra finches, 1 silkey Terrier, and 1 Jack Russell.
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NEW PASSIONS?????
ACTING in community theater and KNITTING for my kids and grandbaby's.
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I'd like to meet:
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N-E-I-T-O: (Not Exactly In This Order)
Jann Arden, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, My father, an honest (hahaha) politician, Jane Goodall, A pill to be insta-skinny.
The maker of the Northern Lights, Sunsets and Hurricane's - I've got some things I want to talk you about...,
Barbara Coloroso (Kids Are Worth It ,pub. 2002) - to thank her for saving my ass so many times while raising 5 children - TO INCLUDE TRIPLET BOYS (now 20, a daughter, Stephanie- 23 and my oldest -Cody - 26. All amazing human beans!!!
Anyone with access to teach every parent that you just DO NOT have to hit children. For any reason. PERIOD.
Bruce Springsteen - cause he is plain badass!, James Taylor. Dave Grohl. Dalai Lama. Tank Man. Jerry Garcia........some day. Jack Kerouac.....some day. I've already hung/danced/reminisced with Ken Kesey, R.I.P. big guy. Johnny Depp, more to come...........
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Music:
FYI: I am a recovering
R & B Addict
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ANY GW/YA YA COMPILATION
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And OF COURSE the INCOMPARABLE HOLLY O'REILLY (Figueroa)
Jann Arden -- Oh Yeah!
Jacob and Lily, Allison Krauss
I say "Give me Indie or give me death"!
THE SWELL SEASON - "FALLING SLOWLY" FROM THE MOVIE "ONCE" - YOU MUST SEE IT IF YOU LOVE MUSIC!!!!
Anna Nalick, Racontoures, Maria McKee (Breathe Album), Rosie Thomas, Carrie Akre, DANDY WARHOLS - cause they kick ass! Garden State Soundtrack.
Ani Difranco (Especially "Living in Clip" ) Elizabethtown Soundtrack, James Blunt, The Dead, Bruce Springsteen,
J-MRAZ.
Any chick that kicks ass on the guitar... (Holly :) ), KYM Tuvim
Patty Griffin, Antigone Rising, K.T. Tunstall, Maia Sharp, Earth Wind & Fire, Blue Rodeo, Aimee Mann, Kym Tuvim, Anne Heaton.
The Cars, U2, Nirvana, Mary J. Blige, Steve Earle, Imogene Heep, Fiona Apple, Counting Crows - (their old stuff), Patty Larkin, Dolly Parton, MTC...
Movies:
Feast of Love, Matewan, Passion Fish (Actually anything by John Sayles), October Sky, Finding Neverland, What Dreams May Come (highly personal attatchemEnt to this one),O' Brother Where Art Thou, The Divine Secret's of the YA YA Sisterhood... (hit very very close to home too).
Unpretentious Indie films (is that an oxymoron?)
Whale Rider, Ferris Beuhler's (sp) Day Off, Doc-U's of all kinds: i.e. Paper Clips (moving doc. about the Holocaust). Films about making Films,...MTC
Television:
The Starter Wife Series, Deadliest Catch,
Grey's Anatomy. House. Oprah.
Guilty pleasure: Project Runway
Books:
I ADMIT IT...I HAVE SERIOUS BOOK LUST
DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED................O.K. I got me started:
Just finished Eat, Pray, Love - EXCELLENT!
CURRENTLY READING:
JUNKY by William Burroughs
Fav's: One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Love in the Time of Cholera,
The Kite Runner,
The Winter Of Our Discontent
(actually - anything by Steinbeck).
The Bell Jar.
GEEK LOVE
Biographies of Dorothy Parker, Anias Nin, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre ("Tete-a-Tete") and Sylvia Plath ("Letters") Anne Sexton. Songs in Ordinary Time. Goodnight Moon.
Heroes:
(N-E-I-T-O: Not exactly in this order. :)
Almost every mother.
Almost every father.
My sister.
People who fight depression and stay alive.
People who support people fighting depression and stay alive.
People who live with FIBROMYALGIA -YES IT"S A REAL AND PAINFUL CONDITION.
People who give teenagers quarter and can manage to remember that they too were once a teenager - all the while remembering to be a friend SOME of the time but a mentor and a role model MOST of the time.
Martin Luther King, Jr. People who stand up to bigots. People who say "I'm sorry" and mean it. Cindy Sheehan. Santa. Teachers.
Ya'Ya's who just listen and don't feel the need to "fix-it". Soldiers. P-flag's. The inventor of Chunky candy bars. People who consciously try to keep "Green".
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