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About Me

My life is being with my best friend and husband, the funniest and sharpest man on the planet. We live, work, and make music together; he plays the drums and guitar while I sing and (try to) play the keyboard and banjo. Rob and I can spend every waking minute together, and for the most part, do. We occasionally play local gigs with our friends, collectively known as the Small Pox Mountain Boys. It's a dream to get paid to do what I love, but I can't quit my day job. It pays the rent and feeds the cats. (And you will never meet bigger "cat people" than Rob and me.)
Raised to appreciate music, I love good ol' rock and roll--but my heart is with jazz--and most recently, I've an affinity for country. I'm blessed to have a family whose blood runs with the same passion for the arts. I'm an old soul and often told that I'm "too young to know" a lot of things. Materialistic things that make me happy are shoes, sushi, and steak.. not in that order. I still don't know how to get myself to practice my banjo. My passion for writing and grammar is a point of pride. I'll correct your speech and I'm an asshole. But I like cats with bad grammar . I'd like to say I'm tomboy-ish, confident and adroit, which consequentially makes me girly, apathetic and just wrong. But I can tell the difference between chorus, tremelo, phaser, and flanger. Anyway, I can honestly say I'm truly happy and love my life... cheeeese.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to somehow tell Neil Peart that I wish he wouldn't look so sad all the time. I also think these people would make good pals: Howard Stern, Kathy Griffin, Dave Attell, Sarah Silverman, Chelsea Handler, Anthony Bourdain, Cedric the Entertainer, the Fab Five, the Squirrel Nut Zippers, Dirk and Lerxst, and... Freddie Mercury's teeth?

My Blog

From 6/24/08

"It's the morning we leave for Nashville and I'm hungover. I just don't know it yet. Maybe it's the years of practice I have making that labored stretch of ten paces, from the bedroom to my shower, kn...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:36:00 GMT

Math makes me cry.

I was brought into a high school counselor's office for bullying. A work associate of mine was playing the part of the victim--she was a popular cheerleader who'd been so hurt by something I did or sa...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:34:00 GMT

The reason I think you should join us at our shows.

Hi guys. I stole the following entry from the Small Pox Mountain Boys MS blog. I'm posting it, not only because it's cool, but I think it truly encompasses the vibe that defines the reason we play...a...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:56:00 GMT

New song, yay

Hey mean girls,Rob and I just finished recording our second song and it's now posted on The Barnfires happy fun time MySpace pagina (and that's "page" in Spanish, not vagina with a P.. although that i...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:25:00 GMT

Alcohol...

Dear bee-snatches, In case you weren't watching, Brad Paisley won Best Male Vocalist of the Year on the CMAs last night. Down a beer and download a song of his, for all you adventurous music folk.Isn'...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:40:00 GMT

Music, love and life: a revisitation

Music: I say this every time we play, but I'm sickeningly out of practice for our next gig. Someone at work once said "When you're a singer, don't you practice day in and day out, and make it your lif...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:10:00 GMT

More gig dates. And... go.

Okay, we're playing again at:Finnegan's on 12.30Hennessey's Tavern in Vista on 1.13.07Finnegan's on 1.20.07Let us entertain, let us entertain, let us entertain you!Here's Bob with the weather. I mean ...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 20:05:00 GMT

People just want to talk about themselves.

Hi everyone't. This is what's going on in my world:   The Puppini Sisters: My new favorite group. Close harmony backed by an acoustic hot jazz trio. Reminiscent of the Squirrel Nut Zippers.....
Posted by on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:26:00 GMT

Goings on

Hello f(r)iends..I got a promotion on Friday and that's happy. Not only a new title, but a desk next to an actual window.. where the sun can shine on my skin, and make it smoke and smell like burnt ha...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:57:00 GMT

I can bake stuff.

I thought I posted this already. I made the cupcakes for our Halloween party. And the cookies were kind of shortbready-tasting with buttercream manicures. Yes, they're fingers. Feliz Dia De Los Muer...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:26:00 GMT