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Liz

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About Me



Please visit my daily blog at:

www.msgardengirl.com



3rd greatest red-head in the world (after Alex and Kim, of course)!

Your Political Profile:
Overall: 90% Conservative, 10% Liberal

Social Issues: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal

Personal Responsibility: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal

Fiscal Issues: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal

Ethics: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Defense and Crime: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal How Liberal Or Conservative Are You?

My Interests



An Engineer's Guide to Cats



You Passed the US Citizenship Test
Congratulations - you got 10 out of 10 correct! Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test?

Mr. Snerdley, Official Obama Criticizer

I'd like to meet:

Still Living:

Mary Matalin, Condi Rice, Elizabeth Dole, Mitt Romney, Chris Noth, VDO, Donna Tartt, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Burton, Patrick McGoohan, Mariska Hargitay, John DeLancie, Gary Oldman, Robert Smith, and Susan Ballion (aka Siouxsie).

Already met Ms. Anne Rice!

Those who passed on: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Winston Churchill

Bidding farewell to a brave ally & good friend

Music:



The Cure, The Police, Duran2, Depeche Mode, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Godfathers, Smithereens, Smiths, Sisters of Mercy, X, Public Image Limited (PiL), Love and Rockets, Bauhaus, Mr. Bowie, Concrete Blonde, Afghan Whigs, and most 80s one-hit wonders.

Movies:

Interview w/a Vampire, everything Star Wars, the HP series, LOTR trilogy, Neverending Story, Willow, Princess Bride, the majority of 80's comedies, anything that was a Marvel/DC comic (thanks, hon), and anything with Gary Oldman, John Cusack or Vincent D'Onofrio in it!

Television:

"The Prisoner"-the Original 'Where Am I and What do You Want?' show

Twin Peaks

Lost, Ugly Betty, Rescue Me, Friday Night Lights, The Sopranos, Law & Order: CI, L&): SVU, Ghost Hunters, Star Trek: TNG, The First 48, and other junk as we find it.

Books:

"Every burned book enlightens the world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Currently reading :

You Grow Girl by Gayla Trail

An Inconvenient Book
by Glenn Beck


HP & the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling

Heroes:


My grandparents in Paris, France in August 1945. My grandfather came ashore at Utah Beach on June 6, 1944. My grandmother was a WAC who met my grandfather in Paris in 1945. They married and came home in late 1945.

My father, Spring 1974-Keesler AFB, Biloxi, MS

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried-Winston Churchill

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another-Thomas Jefferson

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress-John Adams

My Blog

Any other parents doing this?

I don't know how many of you guys do this (I know Jeri has), but have you introduced your kids to movies you enjoyed as a child/tween-ager? It started about three or four years ago when Greg brought h...
Posted by Liz on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:56:00 PST

My life has come full circle...

My father has been dead for just over five years. We were not on the best of terms when he passed. As an only child, my dad and I were close. He and my mother divorced after 30 years of marriage and h...
Posted by Liz on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:16:00 PST

Favorite Christmas Movies

Trying to make a list of some favorite Christmas movies. These are movies we start watching Thanksgiving weekend to get ready. Feel free to add any you might watch too... 1. A Christmas Story (duh) 2....
Posted by Liz on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:00:00 PST

boston

RED SOX PRAYEROur Father, who art at Fenway...Baseball be thy game.Thy Kingdom come,Playoffs need to be won,On Earth, then on to the Cask 'n' Flagon.Give us this day, a perfect Papi,And forgive us our...
Posted by Liz on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:15:00 PST

Stress Relief and Couple Time!

So I cut out from work an hour early today and Greg got up from his naptime couple of hours earlier than usual. We went to Rangemasters to try out my new weapon, a Kahr CW9 (9 mm). We got our Car...
Posted by Liz on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:20:00 PST

Harry Potter mania! **Spolier Alert**

Well, we have managed to get both the movie and the book over with in the past two weeks. I read the book this weekend and finished Sunday around 6 pm, handing it over to Greg. The book was well-writt...
Posted by Liz on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:24:00 PST

The Police are over... Now on to THE CURE !!!

Great show-The Police played for a solid two hours with *intermissions* between the each of the the last five songs. Wish they had played "Canary in a Coalmine" or "Murder by Numbers" but beggers can'...
Posted by Liz on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:37:00 PST

Memphians & Mid-Southerners and "MagicLand"

If you grew up in Memphis there's a chance you remember Dick Williams from Channel 5. There's an even better chance your parents were ON his show. Over 20+ years, Dick and his wife, Virginia, did 1,20...
Posted by Liz on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:07:00 PST

Mississippi People-Read Up!

This story was on the website for the Olive Branch Humane Society. If you have pets, love animals, or have a heart, please go to the link at the bottom, copy and paste it in your web address bar. You ...
Posted by Liz on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:40:00 PST

The Police Reunion- St. Louis

I am going to the Police concert!!! I am going to the Police concert!!! I am going to the Police concert!!! I am going to the Police concert!!! I am going to the Police concert!!! I am going to the Po...
Posted by Liz on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:21:00 PST