Sarah - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I like chocolate. A lot. Especially chocolate cake.
mmm...chocolate cake
I was born and raised on Maui, and after going away to college in Oregon, my one goal in life was to be able to live on Maui again. It seemed like a lofty goal, but I reached it when I moved back to work at an observatory atop Haleakala right after college. So, now I'm trying to set new life goals that don't involve moving away from Maui - not easy.
Due to recent staff changes at work, I am now working in Safety, Health and Environmental Affairs. I work on a lot of laser safety stuff, which I have been for a couple years, and now I am also doing a bunch of environmental stuff as well. So, I guess I'll be learning a lot about silverswords and other natural and cultural resources at the summit of Haleakala.
When I'm not suffering from trying to think in an oxygen deficient environment I like to watch movies. I also do costume design for Maui OnStage (Community Theater), and for one of the shows I sewed five nun habits and a giant squid costume.
I also love traveling. I have been to England, Ireland, Paris, Slovenia, Croatia, China, Thailand and I just returned from Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro. I have not yet planned my next trip, I really want to go to Egypt, but I think that is still a couple years off.

My Interests

Chocolate, chocolate ice cream, chocolate cake, oatmeal raisin cookies, baking, soccer, ballet, tennis, reading, sewing, quilting, Guinness, High Energy Physics, lasers, movies, traveling, TV, hair dye, silly putty, my iPod, collaging, millinery, shoes.

and especially Theatre and Costume Design:

I'd like to meet:

Nicholas de Fleury

People who like Guinness and other physicists-out-of-water

Peter Parker

Go Team Venture!

Music:

Punk, Ska, Alternative, Christmas music, showtunes, The Beatles, Less Than Jake, MxPx, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Flogging Molly, Reel Big Fish, Jason Mraz, most everything else

Movies:

Breakfast at Tiffany's, Chungking Express, Psycho, Singin' in the Rain, Spaceballs, Amelie, Rear Window, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Boondock Saints, Down With Love, Girl Interrupted, It's a Wonderful Life, The Princess Bride, Chocolat, Spaceballs, Ever After, Saved!, Love Actually, Drop Dead Gorgeous and many, many more

Television:

Friends, The Simpsons, Sex and the City, SpongeBob SquarePants, the History Channel, Family Guy, South Park, The Colbert Report, The Venture Brothers, Project Runway, Star Trek: Voyager, Ghost Hunters

Books:

Da Vinci Code, House of Niccolo, The Virgin Blue, The Lady and the Unicorn, The God of Small Things, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Kitchen God's Wife, Harry Potter, anything by Carl Hiaasen, The Sword of Truth Series, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff - Christ's Childhood Pal and anything else by Christopher Moore, historical fiction, romance novels

Heroes:

Nicholas de Fleury, Audrey Hepburn, Josephine Bonaparte, Edith Head, Anna Pigeon, Mia Hamm, Brandy Chastain, Martha Stewart

My Blog

Christmas Survey

'Tis the Season to be NICE!!1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? For Christmas, always wrapping paper2. Real tree or artificial? Always real, they smell so pretty3. When do you put up the tree & decorate? ...
Posted by Sarah on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:02:00 PST

Emerging from the Fog

I try not to be to metaphorical or philosophical about things because I feel that it tends to vague them up rather than clarifying them. However, the problem here is that things aren't clear to me an...
Posted by Sarah on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:03:00 PST

Home Improvement

I'm kind of a lazy person. I have a lot of great ideas, but I'm not always great at the follow through. That's not to say that I never complete things, I just occasionally lose interest. Often I do...
Posted by Sarah on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:20:00 PST

May 14

Go to Wikipedia.org and type in your birthday (without the year!) in the search bar.List 3 events, 2 births, 1 death and 1 holiday that happens(ed) on your birthday.3 events:1607 - Jamestown, Virginia...
Posted by Sarah on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:57:00 PST

More Quilt Pictures!

Here are some pictures of the quilt I made for my sister Lexy. It was her graduation present.It took me almost 4 years to make it - although I did take a lot of long breaks....
Posted by Sarah on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:02:00 PST

Theater Withdrawls

Last week was tech week and dress rehearsals for "The Full Monty", and like a good little costume designer I was there everyday. Fortunately, unlike the last show, pretty much all of my work had been ...
Posted by Sarah on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:11:00 PST

How fast can you quilt?

I went to a baby shower today, so yesterday I was looking for a gift. I don't know much about baby stuff and what's hot in infant couture right now, so I was a little perplexed by what I should get.W...
Posted by Sarah on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:56:00 PST

The World As I've Seen It

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Posted by Sarah on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:44:00 PST

Living like a Vampire

Call me Irma Vep 'cause I'm living like a Vampire.My current work schedule has me working all night long. This isn't something new, I've worked this shift before, and while I'm working it's no proble...
Posted by Sarah on Tue, 08 May 2007 06:50:00 PST

Rio de Janeiro

I have just returned from Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro. It was awesome! I have posted some pictures. Most of them are of the sights: Christ the Redeemer, Sugarloaf Mountain, the Arcos de Lapa, and Co...
Posted by Sarah on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:51:00 PST