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About Me

I'm a girl who grew in the city, only to have my parents rip my roots right up out of the ground at age 13 to move me to the country. I was quite bitter about that for years, but my path in life and the friendships I have been blessed with made up for it.
As soon as I could I took myself and my roots and ran back to the city. Pittsburgh was my small pond for this big fish. Then off to San Diego for a short time. Mean while back in the small pond was a blue fish that I couldn't shake. This big fish loved that blue fish and they made a baby fish. Big fish moved on without blue fish, and rumor has it he was swallowed whole by a whale.
So Mama fish and Baby fish moved back to the country to live simple. Now we wouldn't have it any other way.
The last seven years I have been caring for my mother who was ill. She passed in September 2006. Now this big fish is spreading her fins and is jumping back into school soon to finish her psychology degree.
Just one mixed up eccentric traditional. You know the type.

My Interests

culture, music, books, organic gardening, and smelling nice.

I'd like to meet:

Not sure. My friends rock. More like a huge extended dysfunctional family than mere friends. I imagine there is room for more. Just don't allow me to drink cause then I'll be all kissing on you and trying to touch you in your pants. That's how the "J's not allow to have whiskey" bill was allowed to pass in the senate after the Halloween 2004 scandal.

I'm really a nice girl. I swear.

Maybe a man with messy hair that has more wit than they have arrogance. A cross between Jimmy Fallon and somebody taller than Jimmy Fallon would be nice. Those who read books rather than watch TV. Somebody who will risk hurting themselves, by falling down, just to make me laugh.

Would be nice to meet a man who can kick my ass at pac man, YEAH like that will happen.

R.I.P. 09*10*06 See you in the morning.

Music:

Jeff Buckley, White Stripes, Kasey Chambers, Ben Folds, Soul Coughing, Ocean 11, Sublime, Ben Harper, Cake, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Cowboy Junkies, Save Ferris, Patsy Cline, Nickel Creek, Jill Sobule, Luscious Jackson, Ween, Gavin DeGraw, Damien Rice, Elliott Smith, Billy Bragg, Bloodhound Gang, Liz Phair, Pixies, Jonatha Brooke, Dance Hall Crashers, Less Than Jake, Carole King, Weezer, The Donnas, Home Grown, Coldplay, Jack Johnson, Johnny Cash, Ani Difranco, Joss Stone, Korn, and Green Day...Sue me.

Movies:

Swingers, Paper Moon, xx/xy, Bowling for Columbine, Punch Drunk Love, The Virgin Suicides, Election, Secretary, My Life Without Me, Pieces of April.

Television:

Discovery and TLC channel. I watch far too much CNN and Fox News. It's sick.

Books:

White Oleander, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Corrections, East Of Eden, I know This Much is True, Fast Food Nation.

Heroes:

My Dad.

My Blog

The Best Part.

So I've been reading threw a lot of my old poems (if you can call them that) maybe should really be considered long rants of thought. Writing for me has always been my stress reliever. When my brain...
Posted by Janna on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:07:00 PST

How long did it take? Not sure yet.

The first anniversary of my Mom passing is today. I really wish I could have taken the whole day off, but today was the first day in one of my classes, and I had another class tonight. I planned on ...
Posted by Janna on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:15:00 PST

Back to School Time ROCKS!

Growing up I wasn't the most studious one in the class. Truth is I never took my books home, and most homework assignments were never done. I was lucky to graduate high school.Not doing well in scho...
Posted by Janna on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:24:00 PST

Lattes Kill.

Tonight I needed a late night Latte, so Lil M and I jumped into the car and were on our way. Lil M noticed that we were almost there and we hadn't seen a single car on the road. She said "WOW it mus...
Posted by Janna on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:07:00 PST

My "baby" is 7 years old today.

So I woke up at around 2am and couldn't get back to sleep. Then I realized it was our birthday, AND that 7 years ago I had suddenly woken up around the same time with labor pains.I remember that night...
Posted by Janna on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:37:00 PST

Hippies.

So Miss M and I were driving down main street a few days ago. We were in the truck so Miss M had a great view of all the going ons. Traffic stopped for a second, and I saw a man trying to cross the...
Posted by Janna on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:44:00 PST

Snow Days.

Poor Lil M. Tomorrow is Valentines Day with the big Valentine party at school, and school is closed. My poor gal she was really looking forward to it. One reason is because my brave gal asked a boy...
Posted by Janna on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:50:00 PST

I love my kid, I love my life!

Before Lil M my basic goal in life was becoming numb. My early twenties were filled with sweet liquids, kisses, smoking, laughing, and pills. The pills were provided to me by Dr.'s who said I was da...
Posted by Janna on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:33:00 PST

Family.

Okay so after the holiday season I have come to the conclusion that Lil Miss M has a much different childhood that I did. What is she lacking? Family. Well not just family but children in the famil...
Posted by Janna on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:04:00 PST

What I learned on Thanksgiving.

If you make a cheese ball. Fill the plate with three varieties of crackers. The Triscuit's will always be the last picked. Even if you buy the new "Olive Oil and Rosemary" Triscuit 's. First picke...
Posted by Janna on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:28:00 PST