User Profile

For the first time in many moons, I am unemployed. Of course, my life is full enough without work. I am a college student and a staff writer for my college newspaper. In addition, I am working at building a freelance writing/graphics clientele and writing (academically and artistically both collaboratively and solo). I will be continuing the journey to a better version of me in 2009. I am a total work in progress. I’m taking a new approach to the whole New Year’s resolution thing and making myself more accountable for reaching my goals…but I am also being more realistic in the goals I set for myself.

In the wardrobe of my life I have many hats, wife, mother, lover, friend, daughter, confidant, student, employee, watcher, philosopher, dreamer, animal lover, aspiring author and student of life. I can be sensual, naïve, curious, devout, loyal, shy, adventurous and vulnerable; I have hopes, dreams and desires.

I have been married to my high school sweetheart for 18 years; he has been my one and only significant other for more than 21 years. We have three children (a daughter 17, and sons 15 & 8), who are the light of my life; they are wonderfully interesting, complex and fun people in their own right. We have several pets that we consider part of our family, two dogs (Pepper & Lucy), an Oscar fish (Fish), and a turtle (Mr. Turtle).

I love to read (sci-fi, paranormal, classics, biblical studies, historical fiction & nonfiction…you name it), in fact I listen to books on tape everyday on my way to and fro and even while working because I have such a passion for reading and will never have enough time to read as much as I would like to. I also enjoy watching movies and television, listening to music, writing (poetry, short stories and that great American novel), spending time with my family, cooking and baking, playing games (both old-fashioned and video games), gardening, camping, walking, biking, hiking, canoeing…playing. I have an intense curiosity and will research topics that strike my fancy just because I can and because I want to know.

I take a holistic approach to life. I try to be responsible, trustworthy and conscious of the impact my actions may have on others and our planet. I am a spiritual seeker, basically I am Christian but I don't really fit fully into any organized religion...kind of have a naturalistic/Native American/Witchy slant to the way I view my faith. I do attend a Methodist Church, and am an active volunteer with the youth group.

I love romance. I am a romantic. Flowers and candy are nice, but I love cozy snuggling in front of a roaring fire, a shared bottle of wine, a lazy rainy day spent in bed with my man listening to the rain pattering on the roof, walking anywhere with my honey holding my hand, passionate kisses, sunrises, sunsets, sandy beaches, autumn leaves blazing on the trees in reds, oranges and hues of yellow and crunching underfoot; long, lazy picnics in a secluded place, making love anytime and anyplace, taking steamy scented baths by candlelight (preferably not alone). I want to be cherished, and treasured, loved for my mind, body and soul, to be taken care of in a way that indicates that I am worshipped by my husband only behind the Almighty.

I am a little different, a bit odd, and I have come to love that about myself.

I tend to neglect this journal when life gets too busy…sorry. You can also find me on Facebook if you want to know what is going on in my life in one word sentences=)

And so you will all know exactly how lifeless a geek I am I will log the books and movies I indulge in this year…

Currently Reading:

Books Read 2009: Charlotte's Web by EB White, Dark Lover by JR Ward, Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary, Persuasion by Jane Austen, Full Speed by Janet Evanovich & Charlotte Hughes, Cross by James Patterson, Lord John and the Hand of Devils by Diana Gabaldon, Up Til Now by William Shatner, James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, Missing May by Cynthia Rylant,Lincoln a Photobiography by Russell Friedman, Double Cross by James Patterson, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, Wisdom Walk by Sage Bennet, The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo, Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand by Carrie Vaughn, Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs, Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris, Skin Trade by Laurell K. Hamilton,


Movies Viewed 2009: Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Run Fat Boy Run, Season One of Jericho, Jumper, Step Brothers, The Dark Knight, Season Two of Jericho, Season One of Jeremiah, Disaster Movie, Be Kind Rewind, Tropic Thunder, Wanted, Madagascar 2, Quarantine, Juno, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Iron Man, House Bunny, Open Season 2, Battlestar Gallactica (the original), Battlestar Gallactica (New Mini-series), Battlestar Gallactica Season 1, Death Race, The Incredible Hulk,The Librarian Quest for the Spear, The Librarian Return to King Solomon's Mines, The Librarian Curse of the Judas Chalice, X-Men Origins:Wolverine, True Blood Season 1,

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