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jackie

The only thing that could pry me away from my daughter overnight is Ween!

About Me

I am a big goofball. I am also a writer, music and book lover, friend, sister, aunt, and mother. That's pretty much all you need to know if you're a stranger, and if you're not, well, then you already know all this stuff, so why the hell are you reading this?

My Interests

All things live. And stuff like this.

I'd like to meet:

People who enjoy life and being a parent.

Music:

If it's funky bring it on. I love Morphine, Ween, Grateful Dead, Ani Difranco, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Allman Brothers, Herbie Hancock, Medeski Martin and Wood, Blind Melon, David Grisman, Stevie Wonder, Tribe Called Quest, Beastie Boys, Maceo Parker, Clutch, old school ACDC, Pat McClimans Group, Woodstove Flapjacks, Double A Daddies, Moonshine Mason and generally anything that makes you want to shake your ass!

Movies:

Top 30 or so... NeverEnding Story (it's tattooed on my back for crying out loud), Reality Bites, Something About Mary, Garden State, any Kevin Smith (except Jersey Girl), When Harry Met Sally, Boondock Saints, Benny and Joon, Quentin Tarantino flicks, Almost Famous, Say Anything, The Big Lebowski, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Like Water For Chocolate, Cinema Paradisio, Better Off Dead, Dead Poets Society, Hi Fidelity, Love Actually, Reservoir Dogs, most Adam Sandler stuff, pretty much everything by Cameron Crowe and I love David Lynch!

Television:

Rockumentaries, Vh-1, The Wonder Years, Freaks and Geeks, My So Called Life, Sex and the City and Friends reruns. That's pretty much it.

Books:

Yes. All of them. Please advise me of the ones I need to read, and I will do it.

Heroes:

Ma, Liza, Priscilla, Anne, Katja, Melanie May, Amba, Deva, Ani Difranco and Maya Angelou.

My Blog

Life with Aria

As a writer most of my life, I have always had a way of putting on paper almost exactly what is going on in my brain. This is what has kept me relatively sane all these years. But now, as I sit here, ...
Posted by jackie on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 07:07:00 PST

THINGS

So because I have the most awesome friends and family on the planet, I was moved in less than 3 hours from start to finish Sunday. I am so humbled by the love and generosity of my friends and family t...
Posted by jackie on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:31:00 PST

My doctor felt my daughter’s head today...

It was weird when he told me. It kind of finalized any question about whether or not there really was a human growing inside of me. There's no turning back now. I am going to be a Momma!
Posted by jackie on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:36:00 PST

For my friends

For those of you who filled my sister's house with all the love, happiness, support and laughter that any one person on the earth could ever ask for, I send this to you with the deepest of gratitude.I...
Posted by jackie on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:59:00 PST

I want to scratch my eyeballs out.

Seriously. You have no idea how UNBELIEVABLY mind-numbing it is to have to input 300 or so inches of fair results per county fair into a database for repurposing. With 10 county fairs, that is a total...
Posted by jackie on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:21:00 PST

If I hit the lottery....

In this exact order, I would:1) Call Liza, get the name of the bank she has her mortgage through and pay it off. 2) Call Anne, and do the same.3) Give my car to Katja, and buy a Honda Element.4) Give ...
Posted by jackie on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:49:00 PST

Austin bound!

I did it! I finally made the decision to take a break from work, life, and all the worries to spend a week at Betsy's cabin in Austin, Texas! A week with the homies is going to be AWESOME!!!!!!
Posted by jackie on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:44:00 PST

Feeling a little sad.....

Not a lot, just a little. I miss my friends. We are all busy, and I know we aren't going to get a lot of QT this month. Life just gets hectic sometimes, and I get that. But it doesn't make it suck any...
Posted by jackie on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:49:00 PST

Pushing the six month mark...A RECAP

So, I am 23 weeks pregnant, just shy of 6 months. The beginning was scary, I mean petrifying, not knowing how, when what, if...I would have had many sleepless nights, if it weren't for the fact that a...
Posted by jackie on Tue, 22 May 2007 11:09:00 PST

JACK'S BIRTHDAY!

It's my Dad's birthday today. He would have been 69. I miss him. Happy birthday Dad.
Posted by jackie on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:06:00 PST