About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Fashion
Occupation	Retail Manager
Location	Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Introduction	"Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I'm just a girl who wishes for the world." (Marilyn Monroe)
Interests	Reading trashy magazines and great novels, chick flicks, scrapbooking (yeah...it's dorky. I don't care!), road trips, having breve coffee at Caribou, fresh flowers on my kitchen table, walking the dog, substituting lentils and chickpeas for the meat in recipes, listening to Bob and Sheri podcasts, Edy's Loaded ice cream, watching Flight of the Conchord videos on youtube.
Favorite movies	Knocked Up, Children of Men, The Hours, Crash, Hope Floats, Meet Joe Black, Cruel Intentions, Juno, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Stepmom, Freedomland, A Beautiful Mind, Premonition, Steel Magnolias, Bounce, Eye for an Eye, Gone Baby Gone, Spanglish, Ms. Congeniality (I and II), Hitch, Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, Double Jeopardy, Someone Like You, Pulp Fiction, Enough, My Girl, Saved, Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, Rain Man, Wedding Crashers, Bedazzled, 40 Year Old Virgin, Click, Adventures in Babysitting, Frequency, The Goonies, Spaceballs, Fargo, The Wizard of Oz (don't even tease me about that), Gremlins (really), The Lord of the Rings trilogy (I get lost halfway through, but I think they are amazing movies anyway!). Anything with Julieanne Moore, Michelle Pfiefer, Sandra Bullock, Denzel Washington, Julia Roberts, Ashley Judd, Jodie Foster, Ed Harris, etc. etc.
Favorite music	Lifehouse, Jewel, Kelly Clarkson, Brandi Carlile, Beyonce
Favorite books	Love everything by Elizabeth Berg, Anna Quindlin, Jodi Picoult, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Laura Moriarty, Kim Edwards, Erma Bombeck, Wally Lamb, some John Grisham here and there. Also, I dig older stuff like Agatha Christie, Poe, and Greek mythology (like Homer's Odyssey). "The Secret Life of Bees" rocked. My favorite places are used bookstores, where the books smell old, which makes me love them more.