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liz

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. - Vince Lombardi

About Me

27 year old (soon to be 28! eek!) female. Cynical, Intelligent, friendly, sailor at heart, caring - yeah and apparently contradictory looking at my guesses at myself :PI have lived in Finland for a bit over the last 2 years. My husband is finnish and is working as a Project Manager at a company in Lauttasaari(near Helsinki). I currently work for a mobile game company and am finishing my Master's in New Media at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland in March. I am also studying finnish with the goals of sometime soon, being able to talk to my husband's grandfather as well as have multi lingual children. (Plus its cool knowing a language no one knows :P)I turned into a pretty big gamer about 7 years ago and my most current games have been WoW and I hope an incoming Wii! Until recently when I switched to EU servers on WoW, I was part of an elite high end guild called Ascent - first Rag kill baby! But unfortunately,time restraints and time in general (1am raids aren't cool) killed that. Anyway, just idly playing now, on my very limited spare time with my husband and a few finnish friends.I also have spazzed at responsibilities, so am the president of my department's student board. I am also a chapter coordinator for an organization called "IGDA" (International Game Developers Association) in Finland.Anyway, enough about me, how about you? :)

My Interests

I enjoy watching the Green Bay Packers, reading books, riding horses, gaming, cooking, drinking a bottle of wine with my hubby or good friends, traveling, and being with my family.Found this site through my work - amusing enough. I wonder why I always make redheads.. Get your own character at AvaPeeps.com!

I'd like to meet:

Hugh Jackman (I just can't resist Wolverine)Farscape - Aeryn and John (in that form - yeah nerdy I know - but seriously this was the best romance EVER)Melanie (previously Nester)

Music:

Everything but screaming.Most Especially at the moment (I like) - Gwen Stefani Jimmy Buffett Garth BrooksHey now, varity is the spice of life.

Movies:

I don't see movies much - I just can't handle that in Finland they lock the theatre doors.

Television:

Farscape, Stargate, BSG (see the trend here?)

Books:

Everything I can get my hands on. Most recently Terry Pratchett.

Heroes:

Any honest reporter out there - if there is one. Maybe Stephen Colbert, at least he is amusing.My dad and my mom. My sister Kate as she did everything she wanted to do and more.

My Blog

Foreign Music

Man, coming home made me remember how little foreign music is heard on the radio here.  If you get a chance check out a song called 'Femme like U' by K'Maro and read the lyrics with it.  Rea...
Posted by liz on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:53:00 PST

Nothing Sweet on the Table

Have you ever thought your families Christmas table food (this could include Thanksgiving) was exactly the same as everyone else's?  I did in a way.  I mean obviously I never thought they we...
Posted by liz on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:55:00 PST