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A s h l e y

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About Me



whateverlife.com Part I: I find the time. Prefers evolving over revolving; can understand without necessarily agreeing; I don’t care to mince my words. A frequently introspective extrovert who bruises easily... like a peach (huh Jen). I'm waiting for someone to make me theirs (in only the healthiest of ways). :)Part II: Noticing that I'm starting to drive like I'm in the Bronx no matter WHERE I am (((ekk))), still going strong with my new year's resolution to return my shopping carts to that cart holder thing, has seen the importance of retrospective review: I document my life (but I'm not stuck in rewind)...Part III: Stays away from the macho men, has a weakness for whispered words, capitalizes the "E"s in E.E. Cummings, surprisingly strong (which mom always said happened so that she would have someone around to help her out), has high self-efficacy (which could be bad if I ever took to gambling—good thing Vegas is oh so far away), it takes me some time, but able to forgive and forget and I understand that in the end perception and reality end up to be one and the same...Part IV: Supporter of the arts, can never have too many friends, I don't let the blondes have all the fun, would do anything to help a friend in need, don't tell me what you think I want to hear, just tell me the truth, loving the smorgasboard of life, no regrets or complaints, yes, supporter of the arts includes music.
.. "Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change, kiss slowly, love deeply, take chances, and have no regrets. Life is too short to be anything but happy."

My Interests

In no particular order: NPR's World Cafe, heart-to-hearts, watching the sun set, idioms, live music,weekends spent in Harrisburg, PA, pashmina shawls, salt and pepper, www.urbandictionary.com, non-stop flights, google.com, las vegas, street fairs, express check-out lines, giving props, dualing pianos, coca-cola, cruising, Little Italy, dimples, chapstick, ben and jerry's oatmeal cookie chunk, sarcasm, black eyeliner, playing softball, serta sheep, hoodies, bear hugs, old yearbooks, Stop and Shop salads, cala lilies, texting, Jesus, yankee baseball, Word of the Day emails, belts, red nail polish, sicilian pizza, ultra fine point Sharpie markers, dressing up and going out, Strawberry Place, days off, men in uniform, Benihanas, smores, french vanilla creamer, the colors of fall, ordering in, teasing Lora, van Gogh, reading the paper, campfires, cruise control, sleep, the NY skyline, St. Patrick's Day, Shoebox greeting cards, full moons, the smell of freshly ground coffee, Ocean City, holding hands, tire swings, key racks, chandelier earrings, Wikipedia- the free encyclopedia and black and white photos.

I'd like to meet:

A true poet whose internal rhyme complements mine in the ways that matter most (and if he just so happens to smell of Acqua Di Gio and look like this... well then, I guess I CAN have my cake and eat it too ;-P).

Music:

As the self-proclaimed Queen of the Scan Button, I really like a lot of everything… but would have to say that I lean towards rock and pop.

Movies:

Lost in Yonkers, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, A Bronx Tale, Edward Scissorhands, When Harry Met Sally, Holiday Inn, Happy Accidents, What about Bob?, Multiplicity, You've Got Mail, Empire Records, Rear Window, The Breakfast Club, Finding Nemo, Mystic River, The Wizard of Oz, The Little Mermaid, Crash, Unusual Suspects, Napoleon Dynamite, Finding Neverland, Wedding Crashers, Almost Famous, Shrek, Misery, Groundhog Day, The 4th Floor, Gladiator, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...and I don't usually go for the dramas but I watched "My Life" awhile back with Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman and even though I cried for 2 hours straight *literal BOO HOO*, I really, really liked this movie.

Television:

law & order, gameshows, house, MAD TV, project runway, barefoot contessa, grey's anatomy, the golden girls, seinfeld, without a trace, the office...but in all honesty, who has time for TV?

Books:

Lately I’ve had my head buried in a textbook or some other literature for school but some of my favorite authors include: John Irving, Robert James Waller, C.S. Lewis, Max Lucado, Jim Collins, Ayn Rand, Jane Austen, J.D. Salinger, Theodore Dreiser, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Nicholas Sparks and, of course, Dr. Seuss.

Heroes:

www.NoMoreVictims.org,Organ donors, cancer survivors, dream chasers, single moms, www.invisiblechildren.com and anyone who has made it to the 12th step.

My Blog

scattered and sprinkled...

So, I realized today that there are only 11 weeks left in the year 2006-- wow... and on top of that I feel like Fall started and ended in the same week and now it is basically winter (unofficially but...
Posted by A s h l e y on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:34:00 PST

A blog: (a.k.a) my thoughts...

Summer is coming to an end.  I can see it and feel it too, I guess.  Even though it is still in the upper 80's - low 90's, the leaves are starting to fall off of the trees, only a few but st...
Posted by A s h l e y on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:49:00 PST