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Maria

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About Me

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Om Parama Prema Rupaya Namaha.

"If you want me, you can find me, left of center, wondering about.”
I’m curious. I love to learn about people. I’m quite easy going, pretty well-balanced and find my life highly enjoyable. I generally "go with the flow" and am lead on interesting adventures. I am constantly revising my understanding and acceptable logic of 'why we are here' but so far find that our connections with other people are most important. I can find some glimmer of hope or amusement in *most* situations and laugh often, generally with the person or at myself. I amuse easily.

Om shaanti shaanti shaanti

My Interests

- Energy work – Reiki, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Therapuetic Touch
- Getting crafty/Taking art classes/living on Craftster.
- TRAVELING!!! ...3 continents down, 3 to go (forget Antartica!!)...lots more of the US to still explore.
- Going to as many concerts as sound interesting.
- Doing yoga.
- Spending time with friends.
- Going to parks...I love Boyd Hill Nature Trail, Lettuce Lake, etc.
- Sending mail to strangers. (In hopes of some in return. :P)
- Going kayaking!!!
- Developing my courage to try another swing dance class and or salsa class.
- Recording: obsessively taking photographs (mostly digital lately) or journaling on the many exciting events in life.
- Volunteering (currently for my local Hospice).

I'd like to meet:

You!
Send an email, I'm currently focused on energy work, spirituality, art, nature, music, humor...etc, etc, etc...friends new and old. I dig dialogue!
Please don't send a friend's request without a message. Say hi!! :)

My most wonderful friend, Normally , allowed me to steal his code. He's in my top eight for a reason! :D

Music:

Music. I LOVE MUSIC, just about all genres.
Currently in love with Gnarls Barkley, Jai Uttal, Krishna Das, Ringside, Bright Eyes, Damien Rice, Kings of Convenience, Jem, Bad Religion, Interpol, Blue October, Elefant, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, The Shins, Snow Patrol, Death Cab for Cutie, Radiohead, Reel Big Fish, Dispatch, Leona Naess, and Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies...and it pains me to say, but I've come to appreciate Tori Amos...and even worst, some Country songs, I know, I know!! :O
My other long term loves are TMBG, Live, Counting Crows, Moby, The Postal Service, Coldplay, The Cure, U2, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Dead Can Dance, Enigma, and The Eelsamong others and many many songs of the 80s, not to mention techno. (Take a listen to my station if you are curious, the songs are pretty random.) I will give just about anything a listen.

Movies:

I prefer independent films that make you think…but will easily settle for a ridiculous comedy. Some favorites include goofy movies like Airplane, Spaceballs, Zoolander, George of the Jungle (*LOL*), Monty Python flicks, most of Kevin Smith's movies (well, not Jersey Girl :D ), then Groundhogs Day, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, The Emperor's New Groove (had to have Disney, being from FL), Garden State , and What the Bleep Do We Know ... there are others but they are not coming to mind.

Television:

Were I to choose to watch it, I enjoy Scrubs, The Daily Show, *OLD* Family Guy episodes, South Park, and reruns of MST3K, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Quantum Leap. Oh...and HGTV can be fascinating. :P
Oh how I love this!! -Thanks James!!!!!!!!

Books:

I read rather randomly and then multiple books at the same time when I'm actually reading...
Favorite authors include: Roger Zelazny, Orson Scott Card, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen, as I find them all quite insightful...and now: Christopher Moore!!!!!
A few favorites are Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Adams), The Amber Series (Zelazny), Enchantment (Scott Card), and The Alchemist, (Paulo Coelho)...oh and cannot forget: The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein). And now: LAMB - the best book in the world (Christopher Moore)!!!

Heroes:

I have a hard time with this word. I am most moved by people who live/act in service to others, without losing themselves in the process. I value those with compassion and empathy.

My Blog

Getting closer..

My team, The Parrot Made Me Do It!, is hoping to raise over $17,000 for Breast Cancer research and education but we are only at around $15,000. We walk on October 19th in the Breast Cancer ...
Posted by Maria on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:12:00 PST

WOOOO HOOOOOO!!!

WOOO HOOOO!!! I MADE MY GOAL FOR THE BREAST CANCER 3-DAY WALK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks in no small part to JAMES and all of you FABULOUS people who donated!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!! If you haven't dona...
Posted by Maria on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:00:00 PST

Save the TaTas with $6!!!!

Q) But Maria, how can I save Ta Tas with only $6? A) I'm happy to explain. This year I'll be walking 60 miles over the course of three days with thousands of others in the Breast Cancer 3-Day Wal...
Posted by Maria on Fri, 11 May 2007 06:54:00 PST

SHA NA NA

Yup, you read that right: SHA NA NA!!!Saw them in concert with my pop on Thursday (3/22/07), it was the best, most wonderful concert EVER!!! At first it was alittle disorientating to be hearing such ...
Posted by Maria on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 07:15:00 PST

Pirate-napped!!!

MAN DOWN!!! Limey the Pirate, with parrot Santiago Montigo Jose the Third, were pirate-napped!! Some theorize that he was pirate-napped by a small drooling child, other theories that t...
Posted by Maria on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:29:00 PST

My exciting life: BREAKFAST!

Oh yeah, "Green Lemonade"...apparently this is gross to some people (ie: my coworkers who said 'that is gross!')? WHAT?!?!? Shouldn't every day start off with a full head of lettuce? And yet...is it...
Posted by Maria on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:18:00 PST

Would You?

Would you go skydiving? So now that I am once again safely on the ground, even with a few hours of sleep, and the *total* space cadet feeling is gone...I feel the need to ask: Would you go skydiving? ...
Posted by Maria on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 06:14:00 PST

The Birthday Pics and quick overview

And so the evening started with a few tokens, a few hats, and a little coke, the commercial kind. :P   It was quickly derailed with some scary singing animals: (What the hell we are doing is be...
Posted by Maria on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:38:00 PST

Confession of a Skeeball Fantatic...oh and I'm old soon...

Soo.... Sunday, I turn officially old. So, to celebrate in the most appropriate fashion, I'm going to Celebration Station: Saturday, 8PM, to play some mad skeeball. All of my friends (in or...
Posted by Maria on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 02:05:00 PST

Please welcome me to the turn of this century...

Well, here is my big news:   Yup, its a laptop and its all mine and it seems to have Internet access. Soooo its 12:15AM and I am posting my first blog from home...yup, probably not actually wort...
Posted by Maria on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:25:00 PST