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Annika

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About Me

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. -Gandhi

My Interests

THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY: My family, my dog, good music, drinking tea with my grandma, yoga, baking, playing board games, taking baths, the view of Mt Ranier and Lake Washington from my bedroom window, accupuncture, massages, fresh picked fruit, shopping, pedicures, sushi, dancing like an idiot, fires in fireplaces, cowbells, Anthropologie, chinese antiques, travelling, the occasional game of texas hold 'em, musicals, ballets,wine and cheese, giving great presents, going to the beach, summer...the list goes on and on. THINGS THAT DON'T MAKE ME HAPPY: Fast food, soda, moody people, most sports (except soccer), littering, throwing a bottle in the trash when a recycling can is right next to it, cigarettes, control freaks, horror movies, republicans AND democrats (I'd say politicians in general), paying taxes, most rap (or hip hop, whatever), and being so far from my family.

I'd like to meet:

Zerimar Ramirez- and anyone else whose full name is a palindrome.

Music:

Pink Martini, Nickel Creek, Parliament, The Commodores, Norah Jones, Abba, Stevie Wonder, Madonna, anything from the 80's, Emylou Harris, Tom Petty, James Taylor, the Bangles, the GoGos, the Carpenters, Earth Wind and Fire, Outkast...

Movies:

Moulin Rouge, Waiting for Guffman, Life is Beatiful, SUPERSIZE ME!!!!, Bride and Prejudice, Notting Hill, Narnia, Les Choristes, Amelie, WALMART- The High Cost of Low Price, any musicals ever written

Television:

Grey's Anatomy, BBC World News, Lost

Books:

Wicked, Narnia (all of them), cookbooks, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, Nanny Diaries, Little House on the Prarie, Harry Potter, Fast Food Nation

Heroes:

Julia Child, Billy

My Blog

getting shot

I got a tetanus shot today. Those thingys hurt!
Posted by Annika on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:47:00 PST

George Bush (from a five year old)

This is a replay of the conversation I had with the intuitive little 5 year old that I nanny while we were driving in the car:"Annika, does the Army work for the President the same way an army works f...
Posted by Annika on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:22:00 PST

This is such a waste of time...or is it?

Ok, so I made fun of my sister for having a my space website because she's 27 and I thought only Jr Highers used it! "Try it, you'll like it" she says. My husband says "Look at all these old friends t...
Posted by Annika on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:28:00 PST