Hometown: The Roch, MI (aka. The Crotch, aka. Crotchscratcher, aka. Crotchmolester, aka. Rochester)
Currently Living: Clawson, MI
Height: 5'8
Weight: Ha ha, yeah right
Favorite Color: Blue (preferably navy)
Profession: Researcher
Favorite Nickname: Trick, Sloan
Favorite Drinks:Vodka Tonic, Guinness, Diet Dr. Pepper, Dirty Martinis, red wine
Favorite TV Show: Friends, Sex & The City, Project Runway, The Amazing Race, Iron Chef America
Least Favorite TV Show: A Baby Story, I Love Lucy, Martha Stewart, Everybody Loves Raymond, every hour long drama
Favorite Books: The History of Love, Beloved, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Fight Club, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The of Being, SurUnbearable Lightness vivor, Empire Falls, The Corrections, The Bell Jar
Favorite Movies: Little Miss Sunshine, Anchorman, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Wordplay, American Beauty, Life is Beautiful, Amelie, Breakfast Club, Singin In The Rain, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sleeping Beauty, Dancer in the Dark, Duets, The Virgin Suicides, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Austin Powers I, II & III, My Best Friends Wedding, Moulin Rouge, Tommy Boy, Billy Madison, The Shining, Gone With The Wind, Bridget Jones' Diary, Chicago, Love Actually
Guilty Pleasure Movies: Xanadu, Dirty Dancing, Overboard, Groundhog Day, Steel Magnolias, 10 Things I Hate About You, Bond movies, Footloose, Clue, Murder By Death, High Spirits, A Cinderella Story
What I Do Too Much: Check email, crossword puzzles, complain about my job to friends and family,
Obsessions: sushi, Indian food, ranch dressing, toenail polish, song lyrics, hands, awards shows, symmetry, avocados, maps, dreams, This American Life, the display in my car that tracks my MPG
Pet Peeves: loud eaters, slurping, gulping, arrogance, snoring, bad grammar, repetition, late mergers, ripping cardboard, the word "chunky", intolerance, couples in a restaurant sitting on the same side of a booth, pop-up ads, privacy manager, men that drive without shirts on, being foolish, unfairly jumping to conclusions, being made fun of, cat-calling, people who type too hard
Greatest Fear: crossing bridges
Relaxing Activites: late night drives to sing by myself, headstands, hot baths,
Wish I Was: Ansel Adams, Jenifer Aniston, in love, living alone
Prized Possessions: ring from my grandparents, flower pot of my Grandma's, electric blanket (temporarily broken), tongue scraper, my bed
Craziest Thing Ever Done: getting a tattoo, strip Jenga
Things I Eventually Want To Do: skydive, buy a guitar, learn how to play the aforementioned guitar, take flying lessons, travel to France, write a novel, learn how to play the harp, tap dancing lessons, run a marathon
Monday, November 08, 2004 So bring on the rain clouds and block out the moon, let the action begin....When I went for a walk on Saturday, I was walking past one of the parks in Royal Oak, and every leaf had been ravaged off the branches and weren't even pretty colors anymore. Just brown and crispy crunchy on the ground. But the smell of the park when I went by took me instantaneously back to raking leaves in my old friend, Christy's, backyard. Where somehow I could be fooled into thinking that the giant pile was actually soft, but I'd still get winded everytime I flopped in on my back and hit the ground. The smell was 100% staring up at the blue sunny fall sky and finding twigs and leaves in my hair hours after we had abandoned the rakes in the half-finished yard. It made me incredibly happy, and I finally feel as though I had a second to actually enjoy autumn instead of imaging what it feels like through plate glass hospital windows. It can now officially get cold now. Not that I'm rooting for it to or anything. But I may have just sneaked a peak at the forcast for the week, and I saw highs in the low 40s and figured I should just accept it.
BTW. Last night was the episode of Extreme Makeover Home Edition that they taped nearby me. Andlemmetellya: sobfest. SOBFEST. I know I say this every week, but this wasn't just "get the kleenex" time, it was "calm down and take a deep breath" time. So freakin' good. If you missed it, I will be sure to be on top of the repeats when they show it again, because you need to spend 2 hours getting in touch with your emotions too.
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