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Lisa-palooza

Do you remember... chalk hearts melting on a playground wall...

About Me

A new year is upon us. I wish for each of you the same thing I pray for every night -- that you have all that you need, and some of what you want.
I have dial-up so I'll be disabling most HTML and not doing much decorating here -- all to avoid the slowwwww load. As for friend requests -- if you are truly my friend or acquaintance, I will gladly add you.

My Interests

Muuuuusic, live music, live local (latebreaking) music, pets, baking, hiking, swimming, sudoku, geeky word/logic puzzles, PBS, piano, and trivia, trivia, trivia. I adore any tropical destination.

I'd like to meet:

BRIAN MAY, Cheap Trick, Edgar Allan Poe, Kathy Bates, Cicely Tyson, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Weird Al, Geoff Tate, Alan Parsons, Elton John, Jeff Lynne, & my true love.

Music:

Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, STP, Cinderella, The Hollies, The Babys, the REAL Van Halen, GNR, Nazareth, Badlands, Queensryche, The Raspberries, Judas Priest, Shemekia Copeland, Billy Kemp... all things Dio, Turner, Blackmore, Grohl, & Osbourne ... the unforgettable Giuffria, Saga, Sherbs, Shooting Star, Hardline, Headpins, & Marillion ... dark, romantic stuff like The Cure, The Smithereens, Psych Furs ... give or take a thousand others...

Movies:

Amadeus, The Color Purple, Pay It Forward, Say Anything, Sense and Sensibility, Waking Ned Devine, School of Rock ... and all the John Hughes stuff ... how many of you have seen Heavy Metal Parking Lot? :-DAny Animusic fans out here? http://www.animusic.com/

Television:

My Name Is Earl, Lovespring International, Ca$h Cab, Criss Angel's Mindfreak, most PBS stuff ... and if I had a Way-Back Machine: The Banana Splits, The Monkees, H.R. Pufnstuf, Midnight Special, & Don Kirshner's Rock Concert!

Books:

All things Poe! Stir in a little John Grisham and Stephen King, too. Fannie Flagg's novels are hilarious, and biographies fascinate me -- every life story is an adventure, wouldn't you say?

Heroes:

Catonsville Fire Department (thank you isn't enough) ... and Mom, G'mollie, Gaynell, Pam...

My Blog

Blog-a-dee doo DAHHH, blog a dee-ay!

Feeling groovy, friends! Thanks again for listening to my unemployment woes over this long, jobless stretch. I start my new job on Monday. BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF PRAYER. It's not a myth! ...
Posted by Lisa on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:15:00 PST

Maynard Ferguson, R.I.P.

"Chameleon." I've been a member of three marching bands (so far!) in this life -- three very different bands... my high school band, the Baltimore Colts Band, and a small, municipal band. All three fe...
Posted by Lisa on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:19:00 PST

Support the Howard County Fair -- this week!

http://howardcountyfair.com/html/fair.htm Hey, kids. I'm posting this here & elsewhere to tout my favorite annual event, the wonderful Howard County Fair. That area (West Friendship, MD) is home t...
Posted by Lisa on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:38:00 PST

More of the same...

Well, I've hit the 5 1/2-month mark of my stint as Unemployed Lisa. Being without work can do a number on the head, let alone the spirit, the wallet, and the outlook. I'm reminding myself ho...
Posted by Lisa on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:36:00 PST

I don't like Sundays...

Sunday has long since been the day that the couples & families in my life take for themselves ... a day of quality time, if I may. For someone in my position, it's a lonely day. I never want ...
Posted by Lisa on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 08:35:00 PST