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Rachael

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About Me


I am engaged to the greatest guy in the universe, Steven. He is the love in and of my life. I have 3 birds (Chester, Boris, Paco) and 3 cats Hunnie (HB), Yoshi and our newest addition...the beautiful Nadia. She is named after the famous Romanian gymnast.
I love beauty and nice things. I seek happiness and positive aspects in almost everything. I don't like the dark side of things. Blueberries and sunshine :).
I am buddhist and I am attempting to follow the Tao. I am studying Buddhist Psychology and finishing my Bachelor's degree in Medical Nutrition Therapy while doing some Nutritional counseling.
I am also spending time healing from a long illness with some annoying complicatoins. Yes, I was a State Champion Gymnast and while training I got sick with a rare autoimmune problem called myositis (inflammed muscles). OUCH.
I love to exercise. I love to do Yoga and Pilates. They are both helping me rebuild my body. I have the HUGE ball for doing Pilates exercises and have only fell off of it and hurt myself once ;).
I play guitar and used to be in 2 bands. I hope to play with Steve in the future.
I have some really great friends. They know who they are :). There is a lot to say here but that's it for now. If you want to know more ask me.

My Interests

Some of my passions are Steve, Steve's drums, playing the guitar, preferably my Ovation, qi gong, yoga, pilates, Buddhism, anything to do with nutrition, cooking with herbs, tabouli, dolmades, hummus, indian food, POPCORN, gymnastics, my pets, my 5 year old niece Adriana, and being healthy and happy.

I'd like to meet:

Nice people, happy people, everyone I am supposed to meet.

Music:

I really love music.

Movies:

Peaceful Warrior...I finally saw it :).

Television:

The Office makes me laugh so hard I could cry.

Books:

I read a lot. Just a few of my fave's....anything by Herman Hesse, Kafka, Dan Milman, Kurt Vonnegut,J.D. Salinger, Don Miguel Ruiz, Deepak, Dalai Lama....many more...

Heroes:

"Do not go to the garden of flowers!
O friend! go not there;
In your body is the garden of flowers.
Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty"

Kabir

My Blog

My Friends

Hi everyone!  I have not vanished from the earth and returned to my home planet yet!!  I am here.....Steve and I are both still here.  We have both been doing one of the hardest things ...
Posted by Rachael on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:25:00 PST

Always Hope

..Ok, we made it back from Baltimore.  Steve is my hero (and our new GPS!!).  He was sick the entire way with something.  He pulled through although I had to keep telling him to keep hi...
Posted by Rachael on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:13:00 PST

Stuff

Well, there has been stuff going on here.  I finally have enough time and energy to write a blog.  I want to keep all of my very caring friends up to date on my life since I do not get to se...
Posted by Rachael on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:31:00 PST

KITTY!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!! NADIA :)

We have kept the feral kitty for a few days and have spent a lot of one on one time with her.  She has adjusted SO well!!  She is such a sweety now.  She crawls up on me and curls up an...
Posted by Rachael on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:29:00 PST

Kitty Rescue Continues!

Ok!  we got a surprise this morning at 8 am.  our landlord called and said there was a feral kitty (the last one of the litter we think!) in the trap.  so we got up and she brought it o...
Posted by Rachael on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:04:00 PST

JH Update

..> ..> Hi everyone. Thanks for the good energy and good thoughts.....I know it helps. So, it was a LONG trip this time. It was unusually tiring but well worth it, of course. The trip there was a ...
Posted by Rachael on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:39:00 PST

Johns Hopkins

Hi everyone!!  Tomorrow Steve and I are leaving for Baltimore.  I have a test at Johns Hopkins at 8 am on Thursday morning and an appointment with the amazing Dr Christopher a...
Posted by Rachael on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:33:00 PST

Johns Hopkins Rescheduled

FOR EVERYONE!  I AM NOT GOING TO BALTIMORE TODAY AS PLANNED.  THIS WAS AN IMPORTANT VISIT SPECIFICALLY MEANT FOR A TEST THEY WANTED TO DO.  IT IS A TEST THEY CAN ONLY DO THERE.&nbs...
Posted by Rachael on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:15:00 PST

The OCEAN and Johns Hopkins

Just got back from a much needed vacation :).  Our long long journey went through the Poconos in PA and drove through the mountain (Lehigh Tunnel).  Then we went through Maryland and De...
Posted by Rachael on Sun, 27 May 2007 06:51:00 PST

Alienware Laptop

Yay!  I just recently sold my Mac  ibook, it was just not compatable with my needs.  Now I found an awesome laptop that will fulfill ALL of my needs for school and work :).  It is ...
Posted by Rachael on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:37:00 PST