I believe that women can have it all and be it all. I believe we can be feminine, sexy, girly, strong, smart, creative, funny and irresistable all at the same time. Stick-thin is NOT ideal - curvy and healthy is. I find so many things fascinating and beautiful that I find it impossible to limit myself to just a few. If I could, I would take every child in need, at-risk teen, challenged individual and abused pet into my heart and care for them, teach them to be smart and show them that there are people who are worthy of trust - and who do love. I am by no means an angel or a saint, and I am not super-religious. I swear, am somewhat overweight and in the past I have had to fight off my own drug habit. Even now, I still have to fight depression, and I think I will have to battle with it for the rest of my life. I really admire people who, in spite of media attention, continue to be positive example for us all, no matter what religion they belong to.
Interests
music, art, books, poetry, history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, Romany culture and history, theology/religion, spirituality, medieval and Renaissance history, the Greek Muses and equivalents in other cultures, tribal and traditional bellydance, fire dancing, swordplay, martial arts, the Socety for Creative Anachronism, Dungeons and Dragons, World of Warcraft, anything to do with computers, networking, and web design, social work, Canadian law, and lots of outdoor activities such as hiking, canoing, camping, and cross-country skiing.
Favorite Music
Evanescence, Disturbed, Linkin Park, Spirit of the West, Great Big Sea, Sarah McLachlan, Sarah Brightman, Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Cream, The Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Hinder, Hedley, Nickleback, Bif Naked, Cree Summer, Ben Harper, Lifehouse, Swollen Members, Edwin, Snow Patrol, Sandi Thom and more....
Favorite TV Shows
Smallville, Charmed, Survivor, Ghost Whisperer, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, NCIS, Aeon Flux (original Liquid Television series), M*A*S*H, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Red Dwarf, Monty Python, Are You Being Served?, Fawlty Towers, Kids in the Hall, Royal Canadian Air Farce, Just for Laughs
Favorite Books
anything by Charles De Lint, anything by Anne Rice, The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell, The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt, Keeper of the Crystal Spring by Naomi Baltuck and Deborah Baltuck, anything by David Eddings, any of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony, the Griffin and Sabine series by Nick Bantock, anything by Deepak Chopra, Significant Others by Armistead Maupin, anything by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Pen, Sword, Camisole: A Fable to Kindle a Hope by Jorge Amado, A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon, Opium Dreams by Margaret Gibson, and anything by J. R. R. Tolkien. More to come soon, I am sure - I just got a whole bunch of books for Christmas....
Favorite Quote
Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.
-Maryon Pearson Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
-Eleanor Roosevelt-
You, I am sorry to say, need to be put out to pasture. You are old and run down. You look like you are seriously hurting. You have had a good, long and productive life. You have served me well - however, in your last days, it has become evident that you are out of shape. My bruised and sore tushy bears silent testimony to this fact. My back has cried out in pain for the last time. (Ow! ) It is time to put you out of your (my?) misery.
I got a new office chair today! I am SO happy! It is so comferbuls - I could almost sleep in it! I was hoping to have a piccy of it to show you but for whatever reason, it will not show up. Oh well. It's a high-back padded mesh office chair with padded arms. M . of course, was the perfect boyfriend and he carried it out of the car, into the house, and helped me put it together. I will have to show him later how grateful I am.
In other news - I have my voice back! I am to go back to work tomorrow! I am HEALTHY again! I can sing too! I'm more of an alto now though - but hopefully not for long. I am practicing a little every day. I can sing along with my music again - but I will try and spend just as much time listening as I do singing, from now on. I know that singing along with music that I love is my instinctual response, but I believe I have to listen too, so that I remember on a conscious level why I love that music.
Goals for the upcoming week:
1) fill out application form for Library job 2) talk to Barb Pillar to make sure I am graduating 3) update my YMCA membership and start working out
Goals for the upcoming month:
1) get Mike's bike fixed so I can use it 2) get caught up on all of my laundry 3) get my ID and Pharmacare updated 4) lose 20 pounds before grad
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