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Ashley :-)

Little Miss Sunshine :) GUMMI BEAR Bouncing here & there & everywhere! :)

About Me

:-) i must've been an old italian man in my past life cuz i love bocce ball! :) hmmmmmm....born & raised in southern california & yet still managed to remain real! :-) haven't even tried bleaching my hair yet or getting fake nails or tinting my eyebrows or adopting whatever new craze that's selling :-) what's wrong with me? ;-) !! :-) in grad school getting my teaching credential as well as my masters in cross-cultural education..i'll be teaching p.e. so i'm not stuck behind a desk..plus sun salutations & inversions r way more fun than static badminton..namaste. & yes, i know teaching public education is like doing charity work but i get 2 keep mi alma/my soul :) my camp counselor name was SMILES...i wonder why :) loved teaching the kids how to rock climb & rolling in the grass with them~ i genuinely & emphatically love, love!, LOVE!!! my family & friends! :) ~ pretty social, but also indulge in alone time to reflect & grow. i like to be active & bounce around but i also enjoy subdued & serene time as well- guess it all comes back to balance...prefer the word AND over OR~ also started a company with my roomie~ spirited sweets because i like to bake & add flavor enhancing spirit(s) in my concoctions...wink, wink! insatiable GLITTER & FOOTBALL consummated...now that's bringing sexyback...football season should be longer! ;-) berries, bays, bands, base/basketball, buildings, beer, bamboo, barberas, & brains~ i don't go out expecting free drinks from guys...it's just not my thing, the right side of my brain seems 2 come alive at night, i SMILE a whole bunch, can't help it, i'm addicted to enjoying life! :-) pensive, passionate, people-lover (take that alliteration), social, curious like george, saturated in similes & metaphors cuz they're cohesive & cool, active, into details & exclamation points!!! :), thirsty, sincere, BUBBLY like a happy champagne!!!!!!!! :-)Lights will guide u home & ignite ur bones & I will try 2 fix u...oh irony, it's 2 COLD2PLAY outside :)

My Interests



angelic vixen ...pool sharks! don drysdale in the background & that HOT red wall ;-) look out 4 those smiles & the 8 ball...corner pocket :-) just following teddy roosevelt's advice 2 "Speak softly and carry a big stick." forget LL Cool J it's Ladies Love Mr T! :-)Touching my nose to my toes & bending like Gumby, smiling, peOple, words, working out, i LOVE lemons, citrus, & the smell of orange blossoms at about 8 am & at sunset, i love the endorphin & servitude rush from teaching aerobics, pristine humbling nature, hiking in it,teaching yoga~i love babar & other classics, breathing, the beach, cooking&baking, playing scrabble, spending time with friends, touch & connection, real estate, kind scents, eduMYcation, laughter, acai, oyster shooters, studying comfy beds, communicating, walking the dog (commonly confused with downward dog :-P), dive bars, travel, snogging, siddhartha & the journey, HOT pink bikes with a baseball bell on it & yes...it's a 5 speed beach cruiser, baby! :-P card & board games~ jacuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing~playing dress up with my roomie, court, every girl MUST have a box of dress up clothes, feather boas, smelly pirate hooker gear, & other fun accessories ;-) as the brilliant philosophizer ferris bueller once said "The question isn't what are we going to do today, it's what aren't we going to do today" :-) ! seven&sevens, ufc/pride, SPORTS!!! involving BALLS...yo quiero beisbol, my fantasy football team- tits mcgee!:-D, commercials with peyton manning in them cuz he's such an awesome actor ;-), the art & tradition of bbqs~ more fire! Kegs! Pump It Up hans & franz style! :-) yay-4-croqueti'm a big fan of sunday fundays whether it's croquet season with beer & the retard helmet or FOOTBALL season with beer & the "smac" talk :-), building stuff with wood, guys in green shirts! :) beards, cabs, riojas, zinfandels, pinots, pinotages, port, mourvedres, malbecs, meritages...in vino veritas, doing the crossword, dinner soiree"YAY"s, going out- donde esta la cerveza? dancing like a dork, jager, mimosas~margaritas~ mandarin/soda...mmmmm! unique fragrant flowers not cliche roses :-P, acupuncture, snail mail, the smiling sun :-D, balancing peace & pleasure, learning new things, trying new things, & so much more...i love my friends! :-)New Page 1

The only way to have a friend is to be one!!!

this birthday picture is B.S. Before the dozens of Shots! :-P ! :-) as for this picture, what is going on??? your guess is as good as mine...while i have no clue what dan's trying to do in this pic, i do know that u would have had to pay me to stop smiling on my b-day! :-Dnick's the pimp :-) he got to go home with 2 ladies on his arms! :-)crazy new yorkers...good people, smoking in bars, drinking after 4 am...it's mayhem & i love it! :-)NY rockefeller center~ my first time seeing snow fall out of the sky & it wasn't the artificial man-made kind that i grew up with in my southern california big bear skiing/boarding experiences so awesome although it is NYC i probably shouldn't have tried to catch the snow on my tongue...just another afterhours party at smac house...bet u didn't know that a vacuum vs a wheelchair dance off/joust is the latest thing in afterparties ;-) ! i love my guy friends...they definitely keep my cup FULL of jack&cokes :-P & lots of laughter...even of the snorting-giggling kind! now if i could just get them to give me massages & make me dinner...jk...i'll appreciate what i have while i'm single! :-) jake IS blue steel :-) how do you like it? ...double fisting it! :-P @ the turquoise bar! :-)tis the season for halloween~ :-)captain canada, drink ur molson¿dónde está el toro?Tricks AND Treats! :-)why can't everyday be halloweenie?!? :-) it's not a good night till someone gets put in the trunk or passes out there, nick ;-) i mean tarrable reid! :-) ...i ain't sayin she a gold digger, RATHER she's ...a miner for a heart of gold...and i'm getting old... ;-) don'tcha just love wordplay & music?!? :-P¿Palabras? Sí, de aire, y en el aire perdidas. Déjame que me pierda entre palabras, déjame ser el aire en unos labios, un soplo vagabundo sin contornos que el aire desvanece. También la luz en sí misma se pierde.


I'd like to meet:

u! :-)

Music:

Anything & Everything! Even the most esoteric kind...like a Tongan chant! :-)
i'll list a few, but it only encompasses the tip of the iceberg ...U2!!!!!!!!!!!, Morcheeba, the San Diego Superchargers theme song, Tom Petty, Sublime, N2Deep, "party all the time," Frou Frou, Marvin Gaye, Jethro Tull, Faithless, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Thievery Corp, Arbiters, Dave Matthews, Public Enemy, doors, deep dish, johnny cash, yo-yo ma, Massive Attack, Jimmy Buffett, nightmares on wax, blink182, Stevie Wonder, benny benassi, perrozompopo, kaskade, jimmy fallon's "idiot boyfriend," the pixies, beatles, unkle, chopin, brazilian girls, Bran Van 3000, shuggie ottis-especially strawberry letter 23, archie bell & the drells i'm keen 2 "tighten up" ~ van halen, hall & oates, m. ward, muse, huey lewis, deep dish~sharam~ Gipsy Kings, bedouin soundclash, Outkast, Delerium, Sade, mana, Sly & the Family Stone, belinda (de mexico), hotel costes, sia, benny benasi, cake, Ministry of Sound music, journey, Live, Bell Biv Devoe, Bling Faith, yardbirds, spencer davis group, traffic (did i forget the other offspring groups of clapton & winwood?), Enigma, John Denver, verdi, GunsNRoses, Ben Harper, AC/DC, Spoon (me! :-), fila brazilia, Maná, the who ? ;-), Guster, Kosheen, common, tori amos, tool, sasha/digweed, the presidents of the united states of america, imogen heap, goldfrapp, Bad Company, Al Green, iio, Mana, 2pac, Tiesto, Radiohead, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, brazilian girls, the cure, Deelite, nada surf, Bob Marley,the doors, ivory fire, Oakenfold, J5, BT, Ella Fitzgerald, van halen, muse, Tribe, Incubus, Wu Tang, Hendrix, lionel richie, beth orton, mos def, bedouin soundclash, Marshall Tucker Band, Khaled's "Aicha", Busta, Ben Folds 5, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Basement Jaxx, , Seal, James Taylor, Trick Daddy, coldplay, Kenny Chesney, Beth Orton, nas, Arrested Development, FRANZ ferdinand, Pink Floyd, The Spooks, Dido, Boston, Dobie Gray, the killers, Swollen Members, rolling stones, Oar, Daft Punk, ivory fire, The Darkness, anything Jon Sautter spins, Yardbirds, Jack Johnson, elan, Counting Crows, Belle Stars, Too Short, Sting, Counting Crows, Esthero, Weezer, Nelly, Traffic, Pearl Jam, Duran Duran, STP, nada surf, Bonnie Raitt, Flaming Lips, ministry of sound, REM, Blackalicious, sissy wham (hmmm those 2 seem well paired), buena vista social club, prodigy, Rusted Root, Putumayo... i am ridiculously involved in a life long amorously charged love affair with music! took this pic from the back of the cruise ship overlooking the ocean while listening to my ipod!!! :-) i like the MUSE of music! :-)

Movies:

blades of glory, uhm...huge CRUSH on Gael García Bernal can i just bask in the captivating intrigue? :) wait no way Vincent D'Onofrio was THOR!!! in adventures of babysitting....isn't life grand ;-) !!! little miss sunshine, borat :-) ZOOlander (someday i hope to be eugooglelized), Napoleon Dynamite, Goodfellas, :-) "take me to pleasure town!!" yay ANCHORMAN can't live in san diego & not endorse such a quality film :-)!!!, elf, Talladega Nights "8 pound 6 ounce baby Jesus" ~ Diarios de motocicleta aka The Motorcycle Diaries, MAD max (mel gibson/tina turner/& the cage...2 go in 1 comes out ;-) ANY GIVEN SUNDAY ! por supuesto if it's a football movie u know i'm gonna drool! ;-), anything with christopher walken in it even poolhall junkies & suicide kings~ Donnie Darko, Dodgeball, Usual Suspects, TommyBoy, man under fire, Braveheart, MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, coolhand luke, Spaceballs...watch out, watch out, Reality Bites, Scent of a woman, joe dirt.Tombstone, Dumb & Dumber, Fight Club, baz's version of Romeo&Juliet, City of God, Rounders, WWII movies, Young Frankenstein, Caddyshack "chinchbugs" :-), Shawshank Redemption, A Clockwork Orange, Shrek, Pulp Fiction, Snatch, OfficeSpace, Godfather, Princess Bride, the departed, Office Space, Gladiator, anything with joaquin phoenix,Monty Python, Bridget Jones, the squid & the whale, red dawn, Airplane I&II, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, the life aquatic with steve zissou...wes anderson films, Field of Dreams, Heat, & the first movie i saw in the theatRE The Three Amigos

Television:

the eyes r the window 2 one's soul! :) FOOTBALL~ ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT~ planet earth~ & FOOOOOOOOOOOTBALL!!!!!! :-P i want suzy kolber's job! :-) have the nfl & monday night football ring tones! :-P, nfl access, college FB~ I’ve always been a sucker for college QBs last year it was leinart, this year brady quinn, i’ll probably switch to Booty next year when he’s a senior, but I think I’ll pick brady quinn for my 2007 fantasy football team…he’s SOOO dreamy ? I also like little tuna/charlie wise from notre dame even though I was raised in a Trojan usc-crazed home! BASEBALL...just thinking about it makes me want to be at petco park partaking of miller lite & a whole lotta SUNshine! :-) BASKETBALL...i love it...it's a sport for energizer bunnies like me ~ sometimes the lakers if they're playing like they should...not as much of a ko-big-ego-bryant fan more into lamar odom, “smush” parker, rookie farmar, & of course san diegan luke walton ~ my so called life when we were forlorn...y do they always cancel the good shows, grey's, scrubs, mythbusters, the TRAVEL channel, the office (both versions), law & order (orbach years) ~ ESPN!!!! ~ better yet, the espnZONE! old seinfeld, sex in the city, cheers, family guy, simpsons~ i wish wonder years was still on! that and TWIN PEAKS (although the dancing midget still gives me goosebumps!) ! :-) sopranos ~ entourage(i'm liking the hbo series...much more edgier than most of the fluff on tv)
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Books:

RIP kurt vonnegut jr, malcom gladwell's the tipping point...i'm a little bit connector/ little bit maven...whooooo r u? ;-) !!! SHANTARAM like siddhartha meets jack keruoac & the whole tom wolfe electric kool aid acid test group! :-)~ Fountainhead~ Kama Sutra~ Moneyball~ chuang tzu~ oscar zeta acosta's revolt of the cockroaches~ tuesdays with morrie~ tom robbins wacky cracky writings including villa incognito~ ULYSSES (ask me about my 25 page paper on masturbation & metempsychosis :-P) ~ allan weisbecker's IN SEARCH OF CAPTAIN ZERO (like a combo of dr gonzo/hunter thompsen's fear & loathing in las vegas except this one occurs in central america & they're supposedly making it into a movie in 2008~ Alice's adventures in wonderland~ the alchemist~The Bible~ rumi~hesse's steppenwolf~ ee cummings...yum! :-)~ john muir~ once minutos de paulo coelho lei en espanol aun soy una gringa~ goethe~ bio of Sandy Koufax~ cs~ FRANZ kafka~ hey jack kerouac~ albert camus~ Kierkegaard ~ octavio paz; ¿Palabras? ~ poe~ thomas friedman~ ezra pound~ william carlos william~ candide~ i read hemingway & i want sangria! i love me some great gatsby & that green light~ aldous huxley...brave new world & island ~william blake...doors of perception~ anyone from the old oxford circuit like jrr Tolkien (can't wait to read his posthumously published book), cs lewis, although i have mixed opinions about oxfordian- mr shelley, Zen & the art of motorcycle maintenance~anyone read T.O.'s children book yet? ;-) looking forward to the movie version of the kiterunner "Perfectly Imperfect...Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss" Knowing is not enough; We must Apply. Willing is not enough; We must DO! ~Goethe ya take that nike ur "just do it" pales in comparison~2~goethe! :-) Good Night Moon!!! :-)

Heroes:

people who live...not just exist! "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." ~Walt Disney the kids cuz they keep on smiling...kind of like hines ward after he gets pummeled & they r the curious georges that embody & exude the element of Awww in life! :-) ~

My Blog

THE THEORY OF THE DIPPER AND THE BUCKET...thanks Cory! :)

lemme preface that i'm borrowing this from cory...it's on the choo-choo tracks of the internet now! :-) i'm merely copying & adopting... :-P !!! :-D THE THEORY OF THE DIPPER AND THE BUCKET> Each of us...
Posted by Ashley :-) on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 06:56:00 PST

things that make u go hmmm...

and i'm not merely referencing to Dance Party 2006 in my room along to bass blastin', sensory slammin', tongue trippin',bun burnin', dee-lite ;-)  i'm talking about soul-sweating wit-wrestli...
Posted by Ashley :-) on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:20:00 PST

a blizzard in big bear in april?!? & people claim global warming doesn't exist

pictures from visiting family in big bear this past week!! ...it was awesome...i guess my aunt & uncle's neighbors said in the 25 years they've been in big bear they've never seen a blizzard like ...
Posted by Ashley :-) on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 01:08:00 PST

i am now certified to give mouth to mouth to U!!!!!! ;-) !!! :-)

i am now recertified to give mouth to mouth!  !!!  i spent the day giving mouth to mouth to dummies...reminds me of my past relationships actually !!! ...hehehehe got my cpr/first aid final...
Posted by Ashley :-) on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:29:00 PST

i fell in love with new york!!! :-) !!! :-) !!!

i fell in love with new york~ so enchanting, alluring, invigorating, & sensual!!!!! :-) i experienced my first "snow job" too ;-) here! :-) <img src="http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/alfy...
Posted by Ashley :-) on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 10:46:00 PST