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Valkri13

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About Me

So about me...

After a fairy-tale romance, I married my Prince Charming. The only way I know we're still in the real world is that 1) we live in Oklahoma, 2) we still have to work and 3) I don't have a Porsche (yet). While it's true that there's no knight in shining armor, he comes pretty darn close.

I'm a native Texan temporarily exiled to Oklahoma. While I get tired of hearing "Boomer Sooner", it makes me happy that logic dictates that somewhere in Austin, some Oklahoman cringes every time they hear "The Eyes of Texas".

I love pizza, chocolate, peanut butter and Big Red. In no particular order.

I really don't like two-faced people. But then everyone says that, right? So I guess I don't like people who don't know what they like. I don't suffer fools lightly and I don't have time to waste on someone else's indecision. Life is too short for me to wait on you to make your choice.

We have two dogs who are becoming minor Internet celebrities. Roxie is a Belgian Malinois that brings a whole new meaning to clingy, and Rio is a Siberian Husky that, despite having three champion bloodlines, more closely resembles a wolf than a dog. They provide us hours of entertainment and amusement.

I have a history degree, but I'm horrible with dates. Seriously, I'm not just saying that. To this day, I still can't tell you when the Magna Carta was signed. And that's supposed to be kind of important.

Luckily, my job doesn't require my degree (well, it does in a way...not my specific degree, mind you, but that's really neither here nor there at this point...I digress). In fact, I'm not too sure anything requires a history degree. Maybe if I were teaching history...but, nah. As long as you're a decent football coach, you can teach history.

I like football (just not Tony Romo anymore), baseball (Tom Hicks breaks my heart every year with his ridiculous roster...no, seriously, I think we take the field and the Devil Rays laugh at us), hockey (Turco is THE man aside from Jer), and basically anything else that requires skill, competitiveness and score-keeping. What, there are two kids throwing rocks at each other in the street? I am so there.

Life goals: 1) write the next great American novel, 2) own a baseball team, 3) be a space pirate and 4) get my dogs to listen to me.

Hey, I'll settle for one out of four.

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Old friends, new friends, old college acquaintances, people I knew in high school, people who like dogs, people who love sports, pirates, people who like classic literature, people who still think music sounds best on vinyl, people who think the best movies came out of Hollywood before the age of special effects, and people who can have an intelligent conversation, respectfully disagree without stooping to namecalling, and still like each other.

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My Blog

Migrating...

As most of you know, I've been transitioning everything over to Facebook.  The blog, it appears, will become the latest casualty.  I'm not moving it over to Facebook, because I don't really ...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:16:00 GMT

Just a Girl

For the past few months, I've noticed that things are generally unsettled and not as they should be.  It is completely my own fault, and no one else's.  I miss writing and I miss having some...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:56:00 GMT

Streets of Gold

This is not going to be my typical blog.  I'm sorry.  I just need to write a few things and get them down in black and white.  It's beyond fiction at this point; I think fiction would b...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:33:00 GMT

Maps

I think what bothers me the most about this whole trip is the general disorganization and lack of information.Oh, and the heat doesn't work.But anyway, we had about an hour, maybe an hour and a half m...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:29:00 GMT

Good Enough

You know how your mom always told you there'd be days like this?  And you think to yourself, it's just one day, but then it goes to another, and another, and another, and as the hours go by and t...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:44:00 GMT

My Lovers Box

Recently, I've noticed a lot of my single girlfriends are having guy problems.  Of course, when I was single, EVERY problem was a guy problem. The car wasn't running right.  If only I had a...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:09:00 GMT

Ain’t That a Kick in the Head

Love is a many splendoured thing.  It's also a highly complicated thing.  So for everyone who's griped about not getting a technical manual, here's some help for you out of a few experiences...
Posted by on Sat, 24 May 2008 13:40:00 GMT

Supervixen

It has not been a good week.Tuesday:The only thing I hate more than whiners is tattlers.  Forgive me for my misconception, but I like to think that the people I work with (particularly the ones i...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:41:00 GMT

Bukowski

So we got good news last week.  News that I had been waiting on since we came back from our honeymoon.  Well.  Sort of.I was hoping to get LASEK, but was approved only for PRK.  Wh...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:45:00 GMT

Not the Doctor

Lately, I've been in a bit of what my family terms a cat mood.Not necessarily out-of-sorts, persay.  Just a little more fiercely independent (than usual), a little less tolerance for whining (tha...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:48:00 GMT