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"I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are." ~Bill HicksPeople will only tell you what they want you to know about them, the rest you have to find out on your own. Keeping that in mind... I think I'm a very lucky woman. I have a beautiful and charming son who is happy, healthy and ridiculously well behaved most of the time. I'm married to my best friend. He is my most honest critiq and helps give me motivation to strive for excellence in the things that I pursue. He's the funniest person that I know and he keeps me sane in this crazy world. My life is simple and complete for now... I have my two boys and my spoiled dog and I'm happy. I work. I go to school. I have a few real friends that I hardly get to see due to the afore mentioned responsibilities but I love them dearly. I'm fortunate enough to have a wonderful, loving, yet terribly dysfunctional extended family that keeps me quite entertained with neverending drama of one sort or another. I have the best in-laws on the planet. I wish I had more time. I can't wait to finish up with my degree so that I can have more time. I have a few pet peeves regarding people that I'm sure have come to be because of the enviornment that I work in. Somethimes I think that people can be astonishingly ignorant and have no regard for their own well being despite what they would have you believe. I like to quietly observe my surroundings and usually find people to be very strange and amusing. Home is my refuge and while it seems to me that it is never clean enough, I love being there. Part of the joys of being a homeowner is that something always needs vacuuming, dusting, or sorting...Or is broken more recently. I dislike piles of things. I loathe toothpaste spray on the mirror in the bathroom, yet it frequently reappears despite my best efforts. I like the towels in the closet to be folded a certain way and grouped by color. I love the smell of clean sheets and I change our bed linens often to accomodate this affinity. You think I'm weird well I think you're weird too. I appreciate irony and how it makes me think about the possibility of fate and predetermined outcomes for things over which I have no control. I turn a very telling shade of red when I drink alcohol thanks to the Vietnamese side of my family. I drive with my seat leaned way back for some reason. I tend to question authority. I tend to over analyze and I worry compulsively at times. I'm one of those people who thinks that I can do it better than you and given the chance I will try. I believe that no battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy and that sometimes you have to pick your battles."Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." Douglas Adams