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Maggie

It's the journey, not the destination.

About Me

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One Deep Breath at a Time


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Lattes, my kitties, Mo, figuring out a way to never have to work again, waterfalls, and finding my place next to the ocean are my passions. Oh, yah, and anything Japan, Hello Kitty and my Sims2 addiction. Most of the rest doesn't really matter.


What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Inland North You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."


The Midland
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The South
The West
Boston
North Central
What American accent do you have?
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Some pictures I took at the Japanese Gardens:Oh, and of course I was born a Cubs fan... GO CUBBIES!
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TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Maggie
Birthday: April 18
Birthplace: Chicago
Current Location: too far from Chicago
Eye Color: blue/green
Hair Color: brown
Height: 5'2"
Right Handed or Left Handed: right
Your Heritage: German, Irish, Italian
The Shoes You Wore Today: boring work shoes
Your Weakness: lattes
Your Fears: too many lattes = growing old with no money
Your Perfect Pizza: made in Chicago
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: save more
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: ...
Thoughts First Waking Up: I promise I will go to bed early tonight so that I don't feel like this again tomorrow
Your Best Physical Feature: hmm...not sure
Your Bedtime: way too late
Your Most Missed Memory: my mom
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: both
Single or Group Dates: single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Lipton (I guess?)
Chocolate or Vanilla: coffee flavor :)
Cappuccino or Coffee: Yes, Yes, and more of it
Do you Smoke: in between quitting
Do you Swear: like a truck driver
Do you Sing: yes, often, but not well
Do you Shower Daily: usually unless I stayed up *way* too late
Have you Been in Love: yep
Do you want to go to College: been there, done that, got the degree, still paying long after
Do you want to get Married: maybe
Do you belive in yourself: yes
Do you get Motion Sickness: no
Do you think you are Attractive: sometimes
Are you a Health Freak: hahahaha, I wish
Do you get along with your Parents: yes, but didn't always
Do you like Thunderstorms: yes
Do you play an Instrument: yes
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: yes
In the past month have you Smoked: yes
In the past month have you been on Drugs: nope
In the past month have you gone on a Date: nope
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: nope - hate malls, even if I am a girl
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: nope, probably won't next month either
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: yep, and I need to go more often
In the past month have you been on Stage: not on purpose
In the past month have you been Dumped: nope
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: too cold...
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: nope, and I won't next month either
Ever been Drunk: yep
Ever been called a Tease: probably
Ever been Beaten up: no, but I've felt like it
Ever Shoplifted: when I was really little
How do you want to Die: on a plane that me or my honey are piloting, after the best vacation ever, when we are so old that we are going to die anyway, and dying instantly then means not suffering.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: crap, I'm grown up and I still have no clue... now what?
What country would you most like to Visit: been to a few, would still love to get to Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, China, Vietnam, Turkey, Germany, Ireland, Italy, maybe Australia - next time ask where I *don't* want to visit for a much shorter list
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: any color if I can see sincerity
Favourite Hair Color: hmmm... not picky
Short or Long Hair: depends on the face
Height: not too tall, not too short
Weight: doesn't really matter as long as he's healthy enough to stick around awhile
Best Clothing Style: no clue - I must be getting old
Number of Drugs I have taken: can't remember back that far
Number of CDs I own: 50-ish?
Number of Piercings: 5 (considering 2 more...)
Number of Tattoos: 1 and already planning another
Number of things in my Past I Regret: currently, just one big one... in general, a few things here and there over the years
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My Interests

Way too much Sims2 lately. One more expansion pack really will be the death of me. I'm sure. The addiction continues. Just when I've put the game down, started to detox, they come out with an expansion to suck me back in again. The Sims are like crack. I need an intervention.

A more recent addiction that I've almost beat is Zuma, one of those simple little games that suck you in. If you have a job that you need to keep, a child you need to care for, or a relationship with someone you love - do not start playing this game.
My time spent in Japan...


...is to blame for my Hello Kitty obsession:

I'd like to meet:

I've met enough people... Just kidding. I'd like to meet more of the good guys, fewer of the bad guys. OK, you got me, maybe I would like to meet Oprah.

Music:

Lately country, sung loud along with the radio, by me, to the windshield audience while on my hellish commute, trying always to decide which one I could get away with singing at karaoke once everyone else is drunk enough. And then I stay home on Friday/Saturday nights.
(Sometimes I sing to my cats =^..^= meow)

Movies:

Entirely too many movies to list. But here's a random sampling of the first few to come to mind in no particular order:
Waiting (OMG did I laugh! Didn't expect to like this & loved it!)
Office Space
St Elmos Fire
Hustle & Flow
Heights
Crash (see this if you haven't - incredible)
The Cooler
When Harry Met Sally
Where the Heart Is (but the book is even better!)
Secretary
50 First Dates
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Pieces of April (I *love* this movie)
Stand and Deliver
Lost in Translation (really good story, but sad that they didn't love the whole Japan thing)
March of the Penguins
Million Dollar Baby
Top Gun
Working Girl
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Monsters Inc
Finding Nemo
Miss Congeniality
Almost Famous
American Pie
Big
Billy Maddison
Castaway
Cinderella Man
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
Christmas Vacation
The Apartment
The Family Man
Freaky Friday
Mean Girls
Grease
Grease 2
Green Mile
Grand Canyon
House of Sand and Fog
That's just the top few...

Television:

Ugly Betty
Lost
Deperate Housewives
Apprentice
ER
My Name is Earl
The Office (Best Show Ever!)
Wife Swap (never tell!)
Beauty and the Geek (never, never tell!)
fluffy cotton candy for the mind "reality" shows.

Books:

Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts is the book I grew up thinking I would someday write, and then Billie did, and she wrote my favorite book in the entire world. The movie was OK, but not nearly as delicious. Lots of other good books I've loved, but nothing quite like this one.
Lately, every Sujata Massey book written so far in the Rei Shimura series. Such good stuff and so many memories of Japan while reading.

Heroes:

1. People who protect children and animals.
2. People who are there when scary tragedy in any form strikes.
3. People who take time from their lives to do something useful for others.
4. My local barista.
In that order.

My Blog

Smoke-free since June 18, 2007

I've been blogging my way through the entire experience day by day every day since I started taking Chantix over on my "real" blog at:maggie's mindHere's a quick summary: I quit smoking for good with ...
Posted by Maggie on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:24:00 PST

Yep, I still don't smoke

Today is Day 29, and I've been blogging my way through the quit (this time taking the Chantix route) on my regular blog.My regular blog is not here but at maggiesmind.blogspot.com.I actually post regu...
Posted by Maggie on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:18:00 PST

Chantix

I'm doing the Chantix thing to quit smoking, and today is Day 5 smoke free. I've been documenting the process in more detail than anyone probably cares to know (along with my other usual random prattl...
Posted by Maggie on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:08:00 PST

My other blog

...is actually something I update these days. Since you clicked on this, I thought I'd point you in the right direction since that's the kind of girl I am. My blog is at maggiesmind.blogspot.com....
Posted by Maggie on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:55:00 PST

Added some stuff to my real blog

Added some stuff to my blog today:http://maggiesmind.blogspot.com/...
Posted by Maggie on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 08:53:00 PST

My Other Blog

I do not have a blog here, but I do have one at:http://maggiesmind.blogspot.com/And I even posted something today....
Posted by Maggie on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 08:02:00 PST