Gender	Female
Industry	Technology
Occupation	Consultant
Location	Kirkland, Washington, United States
Introduction	Melissa's blogs on daily life in western Washington
Interests	Gardening, taking care of my animals, computers, hiking, mountain biking, home decorating, traveling, star gazing, kite-flying, sleeping
Favorite movies	Always, Benny and Joon, Better Off Dead, Citizen Kane, Ever After, Gremlins, Jurassic Park, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Napoleon Dynamite, Star Wars, The Wedding Planner, Best in Show
Favorite music	Molly's Revenge, Lunasa, Bond, Enya, Loreena McKennitt, Nelly Furtado, Erin Copeland, Claude Debussy, George Frideric Handel , George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, celtic, classical, folk, jazz, pop rock
Favorite books	Harry Potter series, Of Mice and Men, John Grisham's novels

The first time you had your shoes taken off - how surprised were you to see that you still had toes?

Very surprised, considering I have two toes on each foot that are webbed.