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About Me

I love things I can get excited about. It's nice to relax and decompress during the down time -- but life is mostly about finding things that make you wild with happiness. I love to travel. I do my utmost to prevent regrets. I welcome honesty, loyalty, enthusiasm, a sense of humor and people who seek growth. Laughing is my favorite hobby.I have an open mind and struggle dealing with people who don't (but I try!). I think it's important to believe in things, and to say so. I'm sarcastic, but I'm still an optimist. I'm feisty. I'm a talker who detests public speaking. I believe trying new things fights off Alzheimer's and keeps you young. I have a soft spot for animals, kids, and old people. I love to cook (especially breakfast!) and subsequently, love to force people to eat my creations.I believe it's important to have a future you look forward to. And that having family is work, but it's the most important work we have...

My Interests

BOOKS! I like to read a whole lot, and writing is a close second. Name a sport and I probably wanna play it. I love oil painting, and singing in the car (solo! Of course) on a long road trip. Dogs, NOT cats. Kittens maybe. Until they grow up. Traveling, baking, board games, crossword puzzles, sudoku squares. Putting things together, like furniture from Ikea. Hiking, gardening, taking naps...

Music:

The Immaculate Shacks, Joshua Radin, Alexi Murdoch, Snow Patrol, Postal Service, Foo Fighters, Rage Against the Machine, Panic! At the Disco, Sigur Ros, Nine Inch Nails, Anna Nalick, Ben Harper, Beck, David Gray, Radiohead, Otis Redding, Michael Convertino, Dave Matthews, Weezer, Vivaldi, Chopin, Tchaichovsky, Bach, U2, Smashing Pumkpkins, Nine Inch Nails, Nakedstar, Tori Amos, Etta James, Frank Sinatra, Tracy Chapman, Busta Rhymes, The Fray, Soundgarden, Norah Jones, Ludacris, Bill Withers, James Taylor, Muse, Enya, Damien Rice, Fisher, Sublime, Sarah McLachlan, Patty Griffin, The Game, Queens of the Stone Age, Fleetwood Mac, Mary J. Blige, Led Zepplin, Louis Armstrong, Joe Cocker, Incubus, Hughes & Wagner, Gavin DeGraw, Billie Holiday, The Beatles, Maria Callas, Brett Dennen, Augustana, Frank Sinatra, James Taylor, Tool, Mazzy Star, Old 97s, Patty Griffin, Rob Thomas, Sigur Ros, Simon & Garfunkel, Enya,

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Life Is Beautiful, The Money Pit, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, What Dreams May Come, Meet Joe Black, Defending Your Life, Donnie Darko...

Television:

Discovery and History Channel. The West Wing, Grey's Anatomy, MXC, 30-minute meals with Rachel Ray, Entourage, and Oprah. She's my homegirl. C'mon, you know you love her.

Books:

Anything by Anne Lamott, Natalie Goldberg or Paulo Cohelo. Catch-22, East of Eden, The Awakening.

Heroes:

People with class. Humility. Kindness. Heart.

My Blog

You snooze, you lose.

Perseid Meteor Shower. Priceless. Those of you who missed it have my sympathies. It was amazing tonight...few things rank this high on the scale of beautiful experiences. Perhaps a Snow Patrol concer...
Posted by Brynne on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:16:00 PST

Untitled

Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridge to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and s...
Posted by Brynne on Tue, 08 May 2007 09:08:00 PST

You Know Your A&P Class is Too Hard When...

1. At the study session, the night before your exam, a pre-med student who's brother goes to Harvard Law, and who got a 1500 on her SAT stops halfway through, throws her pencil and screams, "this is t...
Posted by Brynne on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:52:00 PST

The Persian Flaw

I was reading about an interesting phenomenon today. It appears to span many cultures: Native American, African, Middle Eastern, but has been most famously associated with Persians.&nbs...
Posted by Brynne on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:48:00 PST

Quote of The Day

"I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference...
Posted by Brynne on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:54:00 PST

The Day the Weather Got Biblical on our A$$es...

So we had a little weather fiasco today...storms, hail, lighting, tornadoes, flooding...I was waiting for locusts and 6 horsemen, but alas, it seems God may not be tired of us just yet. My typically ...
Posted by Brynne on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:36:00 PST

Sing To It

At the end, he said, no metaphors! Nothing is like anything else.Except he said to me before he said that, Make your hands a hammock for me. So there was one.He said, Not even the rain - he quoted the...
Posted by Brynne on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:11:00 PST

Someone tell me...

...why it is that my fridge has a light inside, but my freezer does not? I realized this the other night -- insomnia ridden, craving a fudgcicle -- I hadn't the energy to travel 2 steps out ...
Posted by Brynne on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:44:00 PST

The MySpace Train...

I understand if you're anti. Hey, I was once anti myself. I was dragged to this commercial, processed, sexy website kicking and screaming&all the while blathering on about the lame-ness of trends and ...
Posted by Brynne on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:05:00 PST

We had a perfect snowfall today...

...and you didn't! This isn't annoying, slushy, wet snow. It's the dry, perfect kind that looks like falling confetti. I thought I was sick of cold weather, but this morning we're having the most...
Posted by Brynne on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:18:00 PST