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BSHERT

TODAY I BENT THE TRUTH TO BE KIND, AND I DO NOT REGRET IT, FOR I AM FAR MORE SURE OF WHAT IS KIND TH

About Me

im the mother of four amazing children and married to the most wonderful man in the world. (he's my jeff) i love animals and do dog training and animal rescue. im also a certified sexual assault and domestic crisis counselor/ victim advocate. (thats a mouthful!) my favorites: COLOR: orange. FLOWER: white tulips. TIME OF DAY: early morning. SPORT: baseball- go mariners! SEASON: autumn!!!! i LOVE falling leaves in burnished colors and crip, chilly air! i love my best friend,RICK!FOOD: all kinds, but i love chocolate ice cream. MUSIC: accoustic, womens voices (especially the voices of my daughters), BLUES, jazz, bluegrass, (i adore songwriters), alternative rock, old r&b. MY FAVORITE ALL TIME SONG IS SAMBA PA TI BY SANTANA. it so completely reaches my soul... FILMS: i have a huge collecton. i really love the art of story telling. in books, in song lyrics, but especially on film.(see interests) i love to write and feel compelled to every day. just have to. i sing in the car, dance in the kitchen, and take a bubble bath almost every night.( my idea of heaven). my favorite animal is the giraffe. i guess opposites attract? (im short) im a faithful prairie home companion listener for nealy 30 years! i've lived all over and have taken something good from everywhere, but especially loved living in ITALY for four years. i love to read. im a student of learning. every kind of learning. im politically aware and active, and engaged in the never ending journey of jewish learning. i've been working hard at the most important job on earth, raising humans, for all of my adult life. i make mistakes. (some big) i learn as i go. motherhood is the most rewarding undertaking i could ever imagine for myself! thats me. up till now.a href="http://photobucket.com/"

My Interests

music, films, good books, human behavior, dogs, family. hiking, being on the water, the ocean, the mountains, autumn, studying things i want to learn, trivial pursuit (i know soooo many useless things, dog training, i love shooting, and am rather proficient with most firearms. iI'm dedicared to outreach for women and children who have been exploited or victimized. i love history, biblical, world war 2, and elizabethan in particular. im enterested in becoming the truest version of myself with the time given me in this lifetime.colspan=2TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: jeffs girl
Birthday:
Birthplace: colorado springs, co.
Current Location: colorado springs, co.
Eye Color: green
Hair Color: red
Height: 5ft
Right Handed or Left Handed: both
Your Heritage: im a mutt(ajewish mutt)
The Shoes You Wore Today: flipflops
Your Weakness: my husbands baby blues
Your Fears: losing a loved one
Your Perfect Pizza:
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: getting fit, getting closer to andy
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: lol (hate it)
Thoughts First Waking Up: is it too late to kiss jeff goobye?
Your Best Physical Feature: eyes
Your Bedtime: 9:30pm
Your Most Missed Memory: michael
Pepsi or Coke: coke
MacDonalds or Burger King:
Single or Group Dates: single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea:
Chocolate or Vanilla: cocolate (ALWAYS)
Cappuccino or Coffee: cappacino
Do you Smoke: no
Do you Swear: no
Do you Sing: ofted(and badly)
Do you Shower Daily: do bubble baths count?
Have you Been in Love: still am
Do you want to go to College: been there, done that
Do you want to get Married: i want to stay married
Do you belive in yourself: most days
Do you get Motion Sickness: only when i read in the car
Do you think you are Attractive: most days
Are you a Health Freak: sort of
Do you get along with your Parents: wonderfully
Do you like Thunderstorms: terrified of them (working on that)
Do you play an Instrument: used to play windwoods
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: yes
In the past month have you Smoked: no
In the past month have you been on Drugs: no
In the past month have you gone on a Date: yes, with my hubby
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: yes
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: 0 oreos
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: no
In the past month have you been on Stage: no
In the past month have you been Dumped: no
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: do bubble baths count?
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: just jeffs heart
Ever been Drunk: yes
Ever been called a Tease: often
Ever been Beaten up: yes
Ever Shoplifted: yes
How do you want to Die: in the arms of my bshert
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: happy
What country would you most like to Visit: israel
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: usually brown, but i love jeffs blue eyes
Favourite Hair Color: dark
Short or Long Hair: short
Height: 5ft 9 or so
Weight: big
Best Clothing Style: relaxed
Number of Drugs I have taken: that was a VERY long time ago
Number of CDs I own: hundreds and hundreds
Number of Piercings: 2
Number of Tattoos: none
Number of things in my Past I Regret: none. i just keep trying to do better.

I'd like to meet:

WAR IS AN UGLY THING, BUT NOT THE UGLIEST OF THINGS. THE DECAYED AND DEGRADED STATE OF MORAL AND PATRIOTIC FEELING, WHICH THINKS THAT NOTHING IS WORTH WAR, IS MUCH WORSE. THE PERSON WHO HAS NOTHING FOR WHICH HE IS WILLING TO FIGHT, NOTHING WHICH IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HIS PERSONAL SAFETY, IS A MISERABLE CREATURE AND HAS NO CHANCE OF BEING FREE UNLESS MADE SO AND KEPT SO BY THE EXERTIONS OF BETTER MEN THAN HIMSELF. -- JOHN STUART MILLS 1868would have liked to have met carl sagan, golda meir, buckminster fuller, janis joplin AND DOUGLASS ADAMSwhile they were still living.(maybe later, huh?) would like to meet TAMAR GELLAR (ISRAELI DOG TRAINER) herman woulk, dennis praeger, joseph telushkin, naomi wolf, karen pryor, and others that im drawing a blank on. would like to meet women freinds. all my freinds are guys, and i want real girlfriends. looking forward to meeting all my childrens children someday. (especially my newest grandson due in november)
Three Things
Three things that scare me:
1: thunderstorms
2: insects
3: bridges
Three people who make me laugh:
1: kyla
2: noah
3: ellen degeneris
Three Things I love:
1: my childrens and husbands laughter
2: being in the mountains
3: music
Three Things I hate:
1: that anyone goes to bed hungry on this abundant planet
2: pretensiousness
3: the harming of children and animals
Three things I don't understand:
1: trigonomitry
2: football
3: computors
Three things on my desk:
1: boombox
2: cup of tea
3: photo of jeff
Three things I'm doing right now:
1: watching football (and not understanding it)
2: completing this survey
3: drinking a cup of tea
Three things I want to do before I die:
1: see israel
2: become the truest version of myself
3: blow out 80 candles on my chocolate bithday
Three things I can do:
1: dream of things that come true later.
2: train animals
3: read people
Three ways to describe my personality:
1: generous
2: mercurial
3: curious
Three things I can't do:
1: open jars or packages
2: reach tall shelves
3: eat anything i want
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Music:

a href="http://I LOVE DISCOVERING NEW MUSIC. MUSIC IS ONE OF MY GREATES PASSIONS! jazz, BLUES, achoustic rock, bluegrass, women vocalists. ARETHA, david broza, nil lara, mark knoffler, valerie carter, butterfly boucher, madelein piryoux(she sounds like lady day), the sundays, everthing but the girl, pat matheny group, evenescence, earth wind and fire, STEVIE RAY VAUGHN IS MY G-D!, CARLOS SANTANA (G-d plays through his fingers!) michelle shocked, tracey chapman, BB KING, Jane Monheight, big head todd and the monsters, CHET ATKINS, etta james, LUCINDA WILLIAMS IS A GODESS!, john hyatt, little featt, KATE BUSH, achoustic alchemy, ella fitzgerald, joni mitchell, firefall, patsy cline, hiroshima, spiro gyra, yellow jackets, foreplay, mazzey star, bob marly, annie lennox, jean-luc ponty, shakira, flor purim, susanna machorcadale, the pretenders, BONNIE RAITT, fatberger, shawn colvin, tasmin archer, bella flek, dido, damien rice, rebbe soul,patty smith, joan armitrading, k.d. lang, innasence, freddy jones band, world party, kai benjamin, andy callinghawk, johnny lang, bruce cockburn, afroceltsound, widespread panic, peter gabriel, beth orton, lou reed, sonya kitchell, ROXY MUSIC, loreena mckennitt, mary black, ofra haza, john legend, robert cray, BUDDY GUY, allman brothers band, jack johnson, THE STORY(especially angel in the house), csny, ben harper,TIFT MERRIT, todd rundgren, jimi hendrix, RACHEL YAMAGATA, steely dan(fagans lyrics are deliciously cryptic), DAVID GRAY, los lobos, john mayer, shelby lewis, VAN MORRISON, jason mraz, dianna krall, eric clapton, kim ritchie, ray charles, floyd kramer, harry connick jr., corrina baily rae, allison krouse and union station, LADY DAY, and a million others. i could fill this entire page with the artists i love hearing. i really love music. i listen to sirius coffee house achoustics and blues a lot. stereo broke by the movers :(

Movies:

i especially like films that deal with themes of redemption or tell the story of relationships. "age of innocense", "feild of dreams", "the natural", "lost in yonkers", "pleasantville", "infinity", "driving miss daisy", "always" richard dreyfuss and holly hunter, "fried green tomatoes" jessica tandy, "sliding doors" gwenyth paltrow, "contact" jodie foster, "lost in yonkers", and "ramblin rose", both martha coolidge films. love laura dern. cant leave out cameron crow and almost famous. kate hudson is turning out to be quite impressive as an actress. I like Regina King a lot too. maggie gyllenhall is an arresting actress.almost anything directed by ron howard, especially "appollo 13", i like zemeckis' work a lot!,and lawerence kasdan. sophia coppola is an amazing force in film making, especially "lost in translation" and bill murray is one of the most under rated DRAMATIC actors in film. "the straight story' i love sissy spacek! anything with angela bassett, PAUL GIAMATTI IS ONE OF THE MOST UNDERATED ACTORS OF HIS GENRATION! i like gary sinese, and clive owen. tandy newton is phenomenal. "avalon" aidan quinn and directed by barry levinson. (my favorite director) "quizz show" "yom yom" "the right stuff", "firefly" "fire in the sky", "84 charingcross road"with tha magnificent anne bancroft, and many others. then there are the fun movies like both "ghostbuster movies","so i married an ax murderer", 'bruce almighty", "groundhog day", "young frankenstein","when harry met sally", and lots of others that just make me feel good.some of my favorite performers are morgan freeman, william h macey, john c. riley, jimmy stewart, cathey bates, sissy spacek, cate blanchette, tom hanks, jessica lange, laura linney, all time favorite actor is jack lemmon. all time favorite actress is jessica tandy. all time favorite movie is "its a wonderful life" (i hate being typical, but good is good.) there are a few movies that i think should be seen: 'philidelphia", "saving private ryan", "amistad", and "schindler's list" to name a few. i have seen them, but only once, because they just hurt too much. i also love the classics, casa blanca and most things hitcock; rear window, north by norwest, gaslight. i also like period, or costume peices, like jane austin stuuff.

Television:

i like sci fi best on tv. firefly, dead like me, battlestar galactica (new series), x-files, hex, dark skies, 4400, invasion, surface, loved deepspace nine and babylon 5.(yeah im a total nerd) also 24 and windfall. oh, and monk--tony shalhoub is a genious! oh, and arrested developement is phenomenally innovative. and big love got me hooked! also like lost and the L word. lots of others i cant think of at the moment. i watch WAY too much tv.!

Books:

the tanact,"the nine questions" by dennis praeger, "as a driven leaf" milton steinberg, "down and out in the majic kindom" by cory doctorow" "exodus and revolution" by michael walzer, "pack of two" by caroline knapp, "dont shoot the dog" by karen pryor, "the intelligence of dogs" by stanley koren, "contact" by carl sagan, EVERYTHING BY DOUGLASS ADAMS, "a brief history of time" by steven hawking, "night" by ellie wiesel, the poetry of anne sexton, primo levy, theodore rothke and many others others ( i read a LOT)

Heroes:

my mom. shes one of the most courageous women ive ever known. she has overcome so many of the things that so many women of her generation had to and has found her own voice. she continues to be my greatest inspiration to become the best woman i can. also, my four children who continually amaze me with their willingness to become the people they are meant to be, and to love me so well despite of the mess i made parenting them. last but not least, my bshert, my journey mate, my best friend, my husband jeff. he is one of those rare men that actually lives his belief system. he is a GOOD man. a mensch. he loves feircely, is gentle with children, great with animals, and genuinely loves women. he's a shameless flirt, a real romantic, but a rugged mountain man that loves football and fishing. he's my hero because he's not afraid to live and not afraid to learn, he stands up for his country, his family and israel. but mostly because he's a man of his word. he's also the sexiest man i ever met! I KNOW I HAVE HIS WHOLE HEART, AND HE HAS ALL OF MINE! ALWAYS!Click here for Myspace glitter graphics and Myspace layouts

My Blog

jaffa's birthday

today our sweet girl turns three.   sometimes it seems as if she only just came to us.  we are still discovering each others mysteries.  other times it seems she's always been here...
Posted by jeffs girl on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:58:00 PST

SEPTEMBER 11TH

We were living in Italy when America was attacked 5 years ago today. We were attatched to a military base and were there to support the mission in Kosovo.  My husband and I were shopping at the b...
Posted by jeffs girl on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:29:00 PST

family

its sunday and its raining.  i LOVE rain.  but its still 95 degrees. so im staying indoors and watching it hit my window and pretending i live in seattle and its really 68 degrees and there ...
Posted by jeffs girl on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 03:10:00 PST

family

its sunday and its raining.  i LOVE rain.  but its still 95 degrees. so im staying indoors and watching it hit my window and pretending i live in seattle and its really 68 degrees and there ...
Posted by jeffs girl on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 03:11:00 PST

my third favorite pastime

Jeff came home with a dvd of one of my all time favorite movies, Fried Green Tomatoes.  i have it on tape, and have been looking for it on dvd.  i always find it, but its priced higher than ...
Posted by jeffs girl on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:23:00 PST

please help

recently i added a mising persons and most wanted criminals page to my freinds list.  this organization does wonderful work finding missing children and kidnapping vitims and their abductors.&nbs...
Posted by jeffs girl on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:37:00 PST

perspective

i tried to post this last night and didnt quite make it work.  so ill try again.yesterday i saw one of those surveys that are always floating around my space.  one of the questions was "what...
Posted by jeffs girl on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:40:00 PST

being married

last night after supper, jeff and i were watching an episode of 'dead like me' and relaxing.  he came home from work feeling under the weather, and had had a bad day at work, but he grilled the m...
Posted by jeffs girl on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:55:00 PST

first day of school, second blog

ali called today to tell me that jasper started his first day of school at his new school today.   wolf went back to school today too.  jasper is usually in the same school ali teaches ...
Posted by jeffs girl on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:08:00 PST

first time

this is my first entryi would not have thought of having a my space space if not for my daughters.  one of them was out of touch for awhile, and i knew through her sister that i could find her he...
Posted by jeffs girl on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:17:00 PST