Just Like Heaven

About me

Occupation Hmmm....
Introduction I love people. :) Twenty Things I Like: 1) I like to eat at places that still have jukeboxes. 2) I like Tony Dungy. 3) I like being around handicapped people. 4) I like nighttime walks through the snow, when the world is so quiet. 5) I like New Mexico. 6) I like the smell of daphne. 7) I like to bake homemade bread and cook with fresh herbs. 8) I like laser tag. 9) I like bonfires on the beach. 10) I like shopping at small grocery stores that are run by Mom and Pop. 11) I like dark chocolate. 12) I like, no I love, kids. 13) I like piano players. 14) I like feeding stray animals and making them feel loved, even just for a day. I also like hunting them, lol. 15) I like you. 16) I like being home. 17) I like classic rock 18) I like civil war re-enactments 19) I like hip-hop dance 20) I like fruit trees.
Interests It would be easier to list what I'm NOT interested in. Let's see... Rod Blagojevich, the environmental impact of... pretty much anything, The GREEN Party, Loch Ness Monster sightings, Lindsay Lohan's ankle jewelry, mating rituals of the African prioninae beetle, Bret Favre's retirement, eggplant (gross), and um... that's it.
Favorite Movies The Pianist, Braveheart, Tommy Boy, The Diary of Anne Frank, Chariots of Fire, A Room with a View, Coal Miner's Daughter, Groundhog Day, Naked Gun, Holiday Inn, Zoolander, A Beautiful Mind, There's Something About Mary, Napoleon Dynamite
Favorite Music Some of my favorite CD's: Pet Sounds, Bellamy Brothers Greatest Hits, The Black Album, Staring Down The Sun, Flashback: Best of 38 Special, Hysteria, Joshua Tree, I Walk The Line, Thriller, Rio, Mothership, A Night At The Opera, Dan Reed Network, Dirty Dancing Soundtrack, Pogue Mahone, Beatles One. I have an enduring thing for Depeche Mode and 60's surf music. My go-to song is "Happy Together."
Favorite Books A few favorite writers: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Peter Carey, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Khaled Hosseini, Leo Tolstoy, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dale Carnegie, Henry David Thoreau, Stephen Ambrose, Harper Lee, Beverly Cleary, Mark Twain, Laura Schlessinger, The Brothers Grimm. I also like sports biographies and bios of people who have accomplished great things. And I love reading to my children.

Do you believe that forks are evolved from spoons?

Ahhh.... the age-old question regarding the evolutionary roots of our utensils. I'll need to think on this one.