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Alana

Hard Candy and Headlights

About Me

I am an adventurous spirit. I love humor, laughter, and unique experiences. I seek out people that blur the edges and provoke thought.I am tight with my family and maintain a close network of friends all over the world. Traveling is a passion of mine. And mostly, I love Livin in the Abstract!
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Alana
Birthday: February 7
Birthplace: Chicago
Current Location: Chicago
Eye Color: hazel-green
Hair Color: changes regularly
Height: 5'5"
Right Handed or Left Handed: right
Your Heritage: martian
The Shoes You Wore Today: glass slippers
Your Weakness: ice cream
Your Fears: smelly feet and spiders
Your Perfect Pizza: a round one
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: quit smoking
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: lol
Thoughts First Waking Up: SNOOZE!
Your Best Physical Feature: my wings
Your Bedtime: no comprende
Your Most Missed Memory: the one I forgot
Pepsi or Coke: Sprite
MacDonalds or Burger King: MacDonalds
Single or Group Dates: taken
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Lipton
Chocolate or Vanilla: chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: coffee
Do you Smoke: yes
Do you Swear: yes
Do you Sing: yes
Do you Shower Daily: yes
Have you Been in Love: am so in love
Do you want to go to College: been there, done that
Do you want to get Married: someday
Do you belive in yourself: absolutely
Do you get Motion Sickness: farfrompukin
Do you think you are Attractive: sure
Are you a Health Freak: i wish
Do you get along with your Parents: most of the time
Do you like Thunderstorms: no
Do you play an Instrument: the djembe
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: daily
In the past month have you Smoked: daily
In the past month have you been on Drugs: crack kills
In the past month have you gone on a Date: yes
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: yes, unfortunately
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: no comment
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: i'm allergic
In the past month have you been on Stage: hell no
In the past month have you been Dumped: no
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: no, too cold
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: no
Ever been Drunk: that's rediculous
Ever been called a Tease: no
Ever been Beaten up: yes
Ever Shoplifted: yes
How do you want to Die: i want to live forever
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: a princess ballerina astronaut
What country would you most like to Visit: Italy
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: brown
Favourite Hair Color: brown
Short or Long Hair: i like both
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 210
Best Clothing Style: clean clothes
Number of Drugs I have taken: no comment
Number of CDs I own: infinity + 1
Number of Piercings: 8
Number of Tattoos: 3
Number of things in my Past I Regret: everybody has regrets...
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My Interests

traveling , photography, purple polka dots, flea markets, motorcycle rides, dancing , camel toes, cats , La Deana's cooking, playing Spades, butterflies , lilacs, crystals, mashed potatoes, the ROBOT (that includes the car-bot and the couch-bot) , red jelly beans, squishy balls, bubbles, wine, Mojitos beats, theater/music/stand-up comedy, popsicles, poetry, wax candy, live music, Mad Libs, tattoos, drumming (djembe) , arts & crafts (I made these!) , sunsets, mountains, cereal, Burt's Bees, the beach, snowmobiling, rafting, camping, the smell of the ocean, super bust-a-move, and of course good friends

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I'd like to meet:

Trust me, you will know if you're on this list...Meeting Criss Angel would be pretty sweet, though - I'd like to see him in action! Background Artist:
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Music:

Ani Difranco, Modest Mouse, Morcheeba, Erykah Badu, Etta James, Stevie Wonder, Motown, Oldies But Goodies, Outkast, Incubus, Sade, Esthero, Everything But The Girl, Tracy Chapman, Stevie Nicks, Prince, Common, Bjork, Dee-lite, Norah Jones, Mos Def, The Roots, Tribe Called Quest, Sublime, Amel Larrieux, Jamiroquai, Tool, Black Eyed Peas, Talib Kweli, Luscious Jackson, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Sia, Sting, Violent Femmes, Money Mark, Nine Inch Nails, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Thievery Corporation, Morrissey, Soundgarden (or anything with Chris Cornell), Madonna, U2, Doria Roberts, Bob Marley, No Doubt, Heart, Portishead, The Beatles, White Stripes, Pharcyde, Coldplay, James Morrison, Chemical Brothers, I LOVE 80's MUSIC!, Drum'n'Bass esp. Andy C, and of course HOUSE MUSIC makes me happy!

Movies:

Chocolat, Spy Game, Best In Show, Shawshank Redemption, Dances With Wolves, , Royal Tenenbaums, Wedding Singer, Meet the Parents, Requiem for a Dream, Memento, Indiana Jones (all of them!), Traffic, 15 Minutes, Casino, Swordfish, , Igby Goes Down, Thirteen, Run Lola Run, Heathers, Harold and Maude, Magnolia, Pulp Fiction, , Usual Suspects, American Beauty, Big Daddy, Dogma, Cruel Intentions, Practical Magic, Forest Gump, School of Rock, The Princess Bride, The Never Ending Story, Ace Ventura, Fight Club, Meet Joe Black, Rounders, The Hours, Garden State, Basketball Diaries, Office Space, , Bukowski: Born into This, Airplane, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Pecker, Slackers, , Butterfly Effect, Buffalo 66, Drugstore Cowboy, Pirates of the Carribbean, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Zoolander, Saved!, Happy Gilmore, Horse Whisperer, ,Truth About Cats And Dogs, Man on Fire, White Oleander, Matchstick Men, Titanic, , Face Off, Crash, Aeon Flux, , Grandma's Boy, Idiocracy

Television:

Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, , , House, Six Feet Under, CSI, Cheaters, anything on Discovery Channel or TLC, X-games and all extreme sports, Chuck, Nip/Tuck, Criss Angel: Mind Freak, The Family Guy

Books:

The Fifth Sacred Thing, Walking to Mercury, Da Vinci Code, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior, Ishmael, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Lovely Bones, The Little Prince, Harry Potter (all of them), There Are No Children Here, I Know This Much Is True, A Handmaid's Tale, Daughter of Fourtune, She's Come Undone, A Million Little Pieces, Celestine Insights, The Eyes of the Dragon, the Zion Covenant series, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Little Women, The Red Tent, Anthem, Fall On Your Knees, The Kite Runner

Heroes:

Stewie Griffin of course!

My Blog

Help our Neighbor/Friend on his quest to win the IRONMAN-He's got Cytic Fibrosis

Thanks for taking a minute to open this email and actually read it versus skimming the subject and deleting. Just like you I HATE spam. My sister Terri and my bro-in-law Craig recently...
Posted by Alana on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:40:00 PST

Water or Coke or Pepsi???

WATER #1.   75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Likely applies to half the world population.) #2.   In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is m...
Posted by Alana on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:18:00 PST

Special People

Special people are special because they change our lives. I'm not sure exactly how they do it. Somehow they wander into our life unannounced; they brighten it with love, energy and humor. They change ...
Posted by Alana on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:18:00 PST

Now that I'm older...

Now that I'm 'older' (but refuse to grow up), here's what I've discovered: 1. I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it. 2. My wild oats have turned into prunes and All Bran. 3. I finall...
Posted by Alana on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:16:00 PST

Why everyone should shop at Sears...

I assume you have all seen the reports about how Sears is treating its reservist employees who are called up to duty? By law, they are required to hold their jobs open and available, but nothing more...
Posted by Alana on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:45:00 PST

Night Tears

Night Tears There is a cryingthat happens at nightthat does not comewhile the light is with us.There are things that cannotbe evadedonce the sun goes down.Small nocturnal creatureswith sharp white te...
Posted by Alana on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:11:00 PST

Live the Questions

I beg you... to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search f...
Posted by Alana on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:30:00 PST

Knowledge is Power

Knowledge is Power Thanks, Diamond... Recently there is a new artist out of Saint Louis that goes by the nameJIBBS. Jibbs debut single "Chain hang low" has a history that most peopleare not aware of...
Posted by Alana on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:59:00 PST

Eating Locally Helps the Environment

Locally Grown Food Uses Less Fuel to Deliver Better Health and More Flavor In our modern age of food preservatives and additives, genetically altered crops and E. coli outbreaks, as with the recent ...
Posted by Alana on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:37:00 PST

stupid questions

As far as stupid questions go, these are the stupidest...   1. Why does your gynecologist leave the room when you undress?   2. If a person owns a piece of land, do they own it all the way d...
Posted by Alana on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:29:00 PST