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I live in Idaho, a tiny little town called Greenleaf. No pets. If I had time, I would have a dog, but alas...

I'm a Starbucks barista (love my coffee). And that takes up a good deal of my time. Honestly, more of a pastime than a job. I love it.

My favorite colors are green, red and blue. I'm pretty much game for any color. Mauve is a little on the questionable side. Pink is nice as long as it's not, you know.. like ALL pink.

I like things that are.. unique and different. Things that peak interest.

I like to read and write and watch films (you sound cool when you say it like that. "films", instead of "movies".). I like to cook a little. Mostly only when I'm driven to it by severe starvation, however. I like muffins and cupcakes.

I'm really, strangely obsessed with trees and hands. In a way, they're a lot alike, I guess. Octopi, too. Or.. octopuses. I like tendrilly things (is that creepy?), things that branch out, things that grab you with suction cups! Well.. maybe not so much on the suction cups...

I like rain. I like seas and oceans and big glasses of water. I like wide, open fields of wheat and corn and I like the smell of the summer air just after the mint and alfalfa's been harvested. I like long, long drives alone. Up through the desert mountains where there is not so much water as there is sage brush and not so many towns as there are just one car passing you every half hour or so. I like someraults and wet grass and toads that are hard to catch (it makes the victory so much sweeter).

I like a lot of stuff. Pennies on the sidewalk... simple things? Great, amazing things. I'm not picky, I'm really not. I just like to look at things and I like to wonder where they've been and how they got to me and I like to see them less as objects and more as stories. Stories I make up, or stories that I'm told.

Romantic much? ;)

Sewing, knitting, gluing things onto other things and, you know, generally making a continual disaster of my living area. I love, love, love reconstructing clothes. Giant T-shirts might be my current favorite thing. Depending, you can practically make a dress out of a T-shirt. Hrm.

I also like to knit little animals (i.e. my profile picture) for my nieces and my friends. Recently, they've been being made of mohair because it's just so much fun to knit mohair. Sometimes, I knit sweaters. I like scarves (they're easy and so satisfying), mittens, socks are a bit labor intensive, but I like them too. Shrugs are pretty amazing.

I like sewing purses. I like crazy patchwork. I love fabric and fabric stores. Were I so diligent, I would make a quilt, but alas... I'm virtually a poster child for ADD and I really have to gear myself up for things that long and time intensive.

I love thrift store shopping for vintage-ish things to recon. I love vintage-ish things.

I like to draw, but it's usually funny little things with colored markers, not great, lifelike portraits, unfortunately.

Collages are fun. They're like patchwork, only.. not.

I don't know, lots more. Too much more.

Hard to say, really. I'm obsessively into bluegrass/appalachian music right now. Yazoo records. I also still like the bands I liked in high school: Bright Eyes, Dashboard Confessional.

I have to admit that I listen to more NPR than music radio. Nerdy? Maybe. Just maybe.

I like The Plain White Tees and The Supervillains, and (I get made fun of, but..) MxPx, also.. Pete Yorn, Damien Rice, Bebo Norman, Derek Webb, hmm.. Nickel Creek is nice and Rosie Thomas, David Wilcox is to die for, Yann Tiersen (best known as the composer of the Amelie soundtrack), Ben Folds, Jimmy Eat World. Aand... The Shins, Joshua Radin, Jack Johnson, Regina Spektor, Snow Patrol, Corinne Bailey Rae, John Gorka, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Hackensaw Boys, and Jack's Mannequin. And She Wants Revenge.

And I'm going to stop now.

I like good music, basically. :P (j.k.)

Quick list:

Fight Club, Survivor, Invisible Monsters, Diary, Choke, Lullaby, Stranger Than Fiction, and Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk Through Portland - all by Chuck Palahniuk.

Prayer and the Art of Volkswagon Maintenance, Blue Like Jazz, Searching For God Knows What, and To Own a Dragon - all by Donald Miller.

A New Kind of Christian, The Story We Find Ourselves In, More Ready Than You Realize, and The Secret Message of Jesus - all by Brian McLaren.

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

On The Road by a one Jack Kerouac.

Anything at all David Sedaris. Anything.

Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wertzel.

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. A-mazing.

Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet.

That wasn't so quick, sorry.

Garden State, Dead Poet's Society, A Home at the End of the World, We Don't Live Here Anymore, American Beauty, Ghost World, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, The Dreamers, Closer, A Very Long Engagement, Mad Hot Ballroom, Delicatessen, Chelsea Walls, Cold Mountain, Fight Club, Trainspotting, Ghost World, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Napoleon Dynamite, Life as a House, De-Lovely, Anniversary Party, Igby Goes Down, Love Liza, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, The Following, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Life Aquatic, Almost Partners, Breakfast Club, Indiana Jones, How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days, Max, Better off Dead, Toy Story, The 25th Hour, The Shipping News, Magnolia, The Pianist, Secretary, Memento, Kinsey, K-PAX, The Life of David Gale, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Gattaca, Tape, Reality Bites, The Godfather I, II & III, Dogma, The Last Kiss, Rushmore, Shopgirl, I Heart Huckabees, The Royal Tenenbaums.

And too many more.

The Real World (I just LOVE the voyeurism! I can't help myself.), The West Wing (such a smart show.), Six Feet Under (my first inspiration to work toward art school), Queer as Folk (my first real exposure to homosexuality, which, honestly.. probably changed my whole life. I love that show.), Firefly (Do not laugh. I'm just madly in love with Mal. What self respecting women wouldn't be?), and MAS*H (Something about Hawkeye makes my heart swoon. Plus, it's like the perfect combination of sweet and horrific. If there is such..). Oh, oh. And Kathy Griffin's Life on the D-List. Absolutely.

And this is my current Top Ten List of All Time Favorite Things. I find it's good to keep an ongiong one, as.. you know, it just helps a person prioritize the IMPORTANT THINGS. This is, however, in no particular order. Figure that one out.

1. Chocolate covered sunflower seeds.
2. Iced double tall 2 pump white mocha Marble Mocha Macchiatos.
3. Giant T-shirts.
4. Yazoo Records.
5. Vintage wool yarn.
6. Quarters. As in change.
7. Mix CDs.
8. My weekly 1lb. of free coffee (I've bought SO many new friends this way! ;P)
9. The word, "delicious".
10. Chile bombs.