About Me
- About Me: I'm a refugee / in a world that's not my own / a refugee / til the Savior brings me home
Food
- Favorite Cuisine: Italian, Chinese
- Favorite Dishes: Prickapat beef; crockpot stew; garlic bread and spaghetti; crab rangoons; open to new tastes!
- Favorite Desserts: fresh baked chocolate chip cookies
- Favorite Drinks: Water, chai tea latte, iced grande one shot no whip mocha (or mocha valencia), tangerine frapuchino, pumkin spice latte, peppermint mocha... mmm. Iced Tea. Water.
- Favorite Junk Foods: Hershey's white cookies'n'cream bars, Yorkie pattys or bars or whatever, s'mores
- My Original Recipes: Sour cream & applesauce, eaten using a sliced homemade rice crispy treat bar. Coldstone Ice Cream: Cotton Candy/Raspberry Sorbet
- Favorite Restaurants: Fazoli's, Macaroni Grill, Starbucks, Rubio's, Taco Bell, Wendy's, Chipotle, some hole-in-the-wall places (greek food!)
- Foods I hate: Bubble and Squeak :p (and I never want to try escargot, calimari, haggis, or caviar... ::ugh:: If you can't pronounce it without help, I think it's safe to say it shouldn't be eaten.)
Music
- Favorite Artists: Depends on the day.
- Favorite Albums: Finding Neverland, The Far Country, Carried Away, Declaration, Newsies, A Day Without Rain, Closer, Worship God Live
- Favorite Genre: Eclectic. I know what I like, just not the 'official' classification for it.
- Favorite Lyrics: Every day His grace is new with the rising sun! -- West Coast Revival
- Songs for Roadtrips: Kelly Clarkson, Lifehouse, DC*B, Matt Kearney, and Switchfoot; oldies;
- Songs I hate: "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
- Guilty Pleasure: Kelly Clarkson, Beach Boys
More About Me
- Nicknames: Dory-girl. Dorothy. Cordelia.
- Nationality: I'm a refugee / in a world that's not my home
- Religion: Christianity
- Heroes: Currently? Chesterton, Dr. Grant, Tolkien, Lewis, John Piper, Athanasius
- Interests: Playing with Slinkys. Books of many sorts. Misunderstanding people on purpose. Laughing at the little things.
- Expertise: Absent-mindedness in general. Very easily amused and distracted too -- oh look, it's raining!! *runs off*
- Occupation: Homemaker-in-Training
Video Games
- Favorite Characters: The linux penguin
- Proudest Achievements: Surviving MarioCart (sp?) against my bbsitting kids for three seconds without falling off the track, taking off in the wrong direction, or flying sky-high from a well-placed and poorly-avoided bomb
Style
- Brands I love: erm.... none? it's not worth it really.
- Prized Possessions: my books! (I know, not really what you were asking, is it?)
- Guilty Pleasure: Cordouroy, only I enjoy that whole-heartedly
Television
- Favorite Shows: Hogan's Heroes, MacGyver, Numb3rs
Travel
- Places I love: Arizona
- Places I've been: Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Mexico, Kentucky (New Attitude!), Oregon (Starlight Ball!)
- Places to see before I die: Scotland, England, France, Austria, Spain, Italy... New York.
- Dream Vacation: see above :wink:
Books
- Favorite Books: Waay too many to list!
- Favorite Authors: Kate di Camillo, C.S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, G.K. Chesterton, John Piper, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.H. Spurgeon, J.K. Rowling, Madeliene L'Engle, Alexandre Dumas, Charlotte Bronte
- Favorite Genres: Theology, fantasy, children's picture books, well-written adventure or historical fiction, classics
- Favorite Characters: Samwise Gamgee, Despereaux, Edmond Dantes, Vicky Austin, Jason Fox, Jane Eyre, Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane
- Favorite Quotes: "Be prepared for surprises in this Kingdom. You never know what is going to happen. The last shall be first. What a complete reversal of our materialistic outlook, the last first, the first last, everything upside down. The whole world is turned upside down by grace..." - D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression
- Recent Reads: Spiritual Depression, Keep a Quiet Heart, Thief of Time, Five Red Herrings
Movies
- Favorite Movies: You've Got Mail, Hunt for the Red October, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, The Village, Finding Neverland, Return of the King, Sabrina (new), Dear Frankie, Pirates (1)
- Favorite Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Meg Ryan, Juaquin Phoenix, Harrison Ford, Christian Bale, Mel Gibson, Kenneth Branaugh, Johnny Depp, Cary Grant, Gene Kelly, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Antonio Banderas
- Favorite Directors: M. Night Shyamalan, Peter Jackson
- Favorite Genre: 'Most everything except very gory, violent, or 'kissy' movies. Or wanna-be-but-aren't-really-funny movies.
- Favorite Soundtracks: Finding Neverland, LotR, Pirates of the Carribean, Dear Frankie, Sabrina
- Movie Quotes I say all the time: "Inconcievable!" "You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means..." "That'd be the French. Latin-based, of course. Inventors of mayonnaise." "I like mayonnaise!" "Let me 'splain... no, there is too much. Let me sum up."
- Movies I can watch over and over: Henry V, Dear Frankie, Sabrina (new), You've Got Mail
- Actor that would play me in a movie: hahaha... I have no clue! Suggestions, anyone?
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- Name: Anna
- Member Since: 4/22/2005
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Have you read the post I told you to read yet???! *exasperated look* -
Time to come to the rescue on my blog....
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And you still haven't responded to my response to your late response on my chatboard....:-P :-D
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You're weird, sir. You also happen to be funny. :-D
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