chihuahuense
| Interests | knitting, walking by the river with my doggie, walking, playing with my boys, playing trumpet, religion, reading non-fiction, watching trashy television shows, loving on my husband, cooking, watching the Twins or college football or basketball, making people smile, politics, gardening |
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| Favorite Movies | Saint Ralph, Crash, the Notebook, the Life of David Gale, Edward Scissorhands, ANY Tim Burton movie, especially because I like Danny Elfman's scores, Going My Way, the Five Pennies, Holiday Inn, Blue Skies---okay, to shorten things, ANY Bing Crosby movie, Man on Fire, There Will Be Blood, Elf, Nat'l Lampoon's Christmas Vacation |
| Favorite Music | I love everything about music. Big band, swing, be-bop, the standards, musicals, classical. I have listened to the Dave Matthews Band since high school and still love them. Joss Stone; John Mayer; The Temptations; Duke Ellington; Robert Johnson; the Beatles; Bela Fleck; Ben Harper; the Wooten Brothers; Louis Armstrong; Medeski, Martin and Wood; Coldplay; Chopin; Lynyrd Skynyrd; Earth, Wind and Fire; Bird; Lionel Hampton; Count Basie; Ella Fitzgerald; Bing Crosby; Muddy Waters; Marvin Gaye; Janis Joplin; Jimi Hendrix; Ben Folds Five; Bob Marley; Johnny Mathis; Glenn Miller; CCR; Benny Goodman; Miles Davis; Handel; Grateful Dead; Widespread Panic....hmmm, can't think of others, but I'm sure there's more. Other than that just about anything except for any country music from 1990 to present and I am learning to love that, too. |
| Favorite Books | Less is More, Foxfire Series, the Joy of Camping, Herbal Antibiotics, Incredible Country Store, the Frugal Gardener, First Things First, the Tightwad Gazette, Homekeeping Handbook, Green Up Your Clean-up, Born to Buy, 10, 001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget, Bullies Tyrants and Impossible People, the Purpose Driven Life, the Millionaire Mind, How to Get the Breaks and Make the Most of Them, Indoor Plants, Spanish for Dummies, the Encyclopedia of Country Living, the Celestine Prophecy, the Total Money Makeover, For One More Day, Tuesdays with Morrie, 5 People You Meet in Heaven, or Have a Little Faith--his new one, Lost in the Cosmos, Heartsongs by Mattie Stepanek, the Cheap Bastards Guide to Good House and Home, the Dangerous Book for Boys, Mean Girls All Grown Up, The Age of Turbulence, Night by Elie Wiesel, A Small Still Voice, Mayflower, the Crossing, Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI, Culturally Incorrect, 23 Minutes in Hell |
Which do you prefer and why: whittling with soap or whistling with wood?
Whittling with soap, of coarse. Whistling with wood gives you splinters. duh.