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Jeffie

Klaus... Klaus, the pinata is drooping.

About Me

I am silly, sarcastic, artistic, goofy, easily amused, easily annoyed (especially by apostrophes, misuse thereof), nocturnal, shy, a raging geeknerd, a fangirl, a damn yankee, a nature lover who spends almost all her time indoors. I am engaged to the most wonderful guy in the whole wide world. Warning: I am atheist. This seems to bother people around here, so I like to give fair warning. I promise I don't make a big deal out of it in real life - I never mention religion when I'm talking to a person unless they mention it first - but it does tend to get mentioned first in East Texas, so I thought I'd give it some space up front.Oh hey a shiny thing quiz!
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Jeffie
Birthday: January 5
Birthplace: Hudson, NY
Current Location: Greenville, TX
Eye Color: They're either blue or green
Hair Color: I think it's blonde under there somewhere
Height: 5'7
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right (but I bat lefty)
Your Heritage: Mostly Irish and German
The Shoes You Wore Today: Barefoot and lazy day!
Your Weakness: I'm scared of everything.
Your Fears: Like I said, everything.
Your Perfect Pizza: Deep dish pan pizza with extra cheese
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Find a new hobby.
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: omg
Thoughts First Waking Up: shit.
Your Best Physical Feature: Shit, I don't know.
Your Bedtime: Around 2 am
Your Most Missed Memory: Hanging out with my friends back home
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: McDonald's
Single or Group Dates: Single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Nestea
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: Cappuccino
Do you Smoke: Only when I drink
Do you Swear: Like a fucking sailor, asshole
Do you Sing: In the shower, in the car, whenever I'm alone
Do you Shower Daily: Every second day (baths in between)
Have you Been in Love: Yes
Do you want to go to College: Yes
Do you want to get Married: Yes
Do you belive in yourself: In the Descartian sense? Yes
Do you get Motion Sickness: Occasionally.
Do you think you are Attractive: Not particularly, but I'm not a troll.
Are you a Health Freak: Nope
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: If I'm inside
Do you play an Instrument: Kind of. I can play a little guitar and piano
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Several times
In the past month have you Smoked: Again several times
In the past month have you been on Drugs: No, but I've nothing against them
In the past month have you gone on a Date: I don't know, does driving around randomly with your fiance count as a date?
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Yes
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Tried it once three years ago, didn't like the seaweed wrapper, never did it again
In the past month have you been on Stage: Nope
In the past month have you been Dumped: Nope
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Dude, it's February
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Only some hearts! No, seriously, I haven't done anything that would have gotten me arrested. This is, however, slippery wording on my part.
Ever been Drunk: Oh yes.
Ever been called a Tease: Once or twice.
Ever been Beaten up: Yeah. :(
Ever Shoplifted: Not really. I've taken some loose pieces of things that were on the ground, but I'd never steal an entire packaged object.
How do you want to Die: Actually I don't
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: An editor
What country would you most like to Visit: The UK
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Brown
Favourite Hair Color: Black
Short or Long Hair: Short
Height: Taller than me
Weight: Doesn't matter too much
Best Clothing Style: Retro Thrift Store Nightmare
Number of Drugs I have taken: Are we still in the "In a Boy/Girl" section? I'll pretend we're not. I've done alcohol and once I smoked some pot. That's it for non-prescribed medication.
Number of CDs I own: I don't even know. I have almost ten gigs of digital music, though.
Number of Piercings: Just my ears, and I think they've closed up.
Number of Tattoos: None yet, but I have one planned.
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Only one really big one

My Interests

Let's see... books, cars, history, penguins, birds, photography, and various other random pursuits. Oh, and making The World's Stupidest Short Films, like the remake of "Hamlet" set in a trailer park and filmed entirely with finger puppets, and the one about the killer tupperware, and the western done for a school screenwriting project and shot in the middle of winter so the scenery is a lot of snow and a plywood cactus.

I'd like to meet:

Let's hang out until all hours. Let's sit in the bookstore and argue over whether Indiana Jones could take Batman in a fight. Let's go to Denny's or IHOP or Whataburger or Walmart at three in the morning, just because they're open. Let's drive across three counties just to see where the road leads. Let's go see movies and play MST3K under our breath and shoot laser-eye at people whose cell phones go off. It'd be fun!

Music:

Swing, rockabilly, and a lot of random other stuff. If you aren't familiar with the Reverend Horton Heat I'd like to suggest him. Also Metallica, although in my universe St. Anger was never released.

Movies:

Pirates of the Caribbean, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Princess Bride, Plunkett and Macleane, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Road to Perdition, Master and Commander, etc.

Television:

I don't really watch TV, I just get it from Netflix or the internet. Lately I've been watching The Dresden Files, Doctor Who and 24 (I have an unholy fascination with Kiefer Sutherland).

Books:

Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe, Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey, P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster and Psmith, Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin series, Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, and pretty much anything and everything I can get my hands on, fiction or nonfiction, as long as it's not set in contemporary times. I get enough modern life just living in it; I want escapism in my books.

My Blog

FUCKERS BROKE INTO MY CAR

Somebody broke into my car at some point between 6:00 Friday and 5:30 today.  I didn't leave the house all weekend, and was going out this afternoon to run a couple of errands, when I realized ...
Posted by Jeffie on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:02:00 PST

I haven't posted in a while.

My sister found my myspace (hi T!) so I feel like I ought to.Life's pretty boring.  Trying to get the '71 Chevy Nova on the road - it seems to have popped a freezeplug, which won't be a DIFFICULT...
Posted by Jeffie on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:52:00 PST

I wrote a story.

Mine is not a line of work in which getting famous is a good thing.  A solid reputation can do you no harm, of course. Word of mouth's the best advertising in the game.  But you start gettin...
Posted by Jeffie on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:52:00 PST

My WWI British Army Gun Collection Is Now Complete

Well, I have two. I have the Enfield No. 1 Mk 3 - Tommy Atkins' rifle, with its 18" "hun-sticker" bayonet - and I do love that rifle so. And at the pawn shop I FOUND A GODDAMN WEBLEY MK VI TOP-BREAK...
Posted by Jeffie on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:09:00 PST

have i ever mentioned how much i love flying?

Ready to go and taxiing out, past the traffic men, the earthbound souls in down parkas and safety-orange caps for whom flight is no longer a miracle. Out on the runway the word is passed down: a ten-m...
Posted by Jeffie on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 05:25:00 PST

Sartorial Guidelines for Men: Formal Wear

There are three levels of formal wear. Formal Daywear:  the Morning Dress A black tailcoat is worn, with a white shirt, gray waistcoat, and grey pants with a black stripe.  The tie can be a...
Posted by Jeffie on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:17:00 PST

My life as a libertine

The past week is a blur in my memory.  I know I accomplished the following (if you can call any of them accomplishments): 1. Worked 40 hours on 12 hours of sleep, cumulatively between Monday mor...
Posted by Jeffie on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 05:41:00 PST

I May Be Getting A Pacemaker

A Hudson Pacemaker, 1951 model year, to be exact.  It needs new brakes and a lot of cosmetic work, but the motor starts and the body is sound, so if my dad approves of the photos and detailed mec...
Posted by Jeffie on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 07:06:00 PST

Just an update

I'm doing my real job now, instead of data entry.  It's alright, I guess.  I won't talk about it much, because my supervisor has a myspace account, and although I have no intention of alerti...
Posted by Jeffie on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:44:00 PST

BBC Radio

If they ever take me off data entry I'm not going to know whether to be relieved or disappointed.  On the one hand it is rather tedious work, and it makes my wrists hurt.  But on the other h...
Posted by Jeffie on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 09:01:00 PST