About Me

  • About Me: I love to talk about everything and enjoy other perspectives. I may not agree with you but find it refreshing if you can at least agree with me to disagree.

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Young and Restless, Grey's Anatomy, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Dog Whisperer, Oprah,Big Love, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Brothers & Sisters, Sex and the City
  • Favorite Channels: Discovery Health, IFC, A & E,CNN
  • Favorite Reruns: Leave it to Beaver, NYPD Blue,The West Wing
  • Most Addictive Show: Dog the Bounty Hunter!!!!
  • Favorite Late Night Talk Show: David Letterman
  • Favorite Theme Song: The West Wing
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Thirty Something; St. Elsewhere,NYPD Blue,The West Wing, Six Feet Under, Sex and the City

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Elton John, Grassroots, Seals & Crofts, 2nd Chapter of Acts, Boston, Survivor, Journey, 70s bands
  • Favorite Genre: oldies
  • Favorite Songs: Classical Gas, When The Son comes over the Hill, Going Home, We May never Pass this Way again,
  • Favorite Lyrics: We may never pass this way again
  • Songs I hate: rap
  • Songs I repeat the most: See favorite songs

More About Me

  • Religion: I believe in God and my formal religion is Church of Christ/Disciples of Christ
  • Interests: I read, crochet, scrapbook, work outside in the flower gardens; grow house plants, am a huge professional football fan including fantasy football - go Eagles and Colts!!! Rah Rah!! I collect elephants and lighthouses. I love to antique and do craft shows. I basically just love "stuff". I am an AFSCME member, a moderate liberal. I try to do my part living green by using Melaleuca products http://melaleuca.com/ I've been a secretary in an insurance company, transcribed medical records, sold life and health insurance, worked as news director for a local radio station and the longest and most fulfilling part of my work career has been working 911 as a dispatcher. Whew...the stories I can tell. I would love to work 6 months out of the year and travel in the lower 48 the other 6 months of the year.
  • Expertise: problem solving
  • Occupation: 911
  • Industry: law enforcement

Travel

  • Places I love: The ocean; the Carolinas, smokey mountains, most southern states including Texas, Washington DC
  • Places to see before I die: Hawaii
  • Dream Vacation: Passenger seat of an RV on the road to all of the lower 48

Food

  • Favorite Desserts: Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting frozen, cheesecake with no topping, monkey bread
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Fritos
  • Best meal ever: Breaded pork chops, fried potato & onion, corn on the cob, warm rolls
  • Foods I hate: Beets, cooked spinach, liver from any animal!!!!

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Same time next year, The Ice Storm, Something About Mary, Chevy Chase Vacation movies
  • Favorite Actors: Robert DeNiro, John Travolta, Ben Stiller, Ashley Judd, Jodie Foster, Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates
  • Favorite Directors: Sorry, kind of anti-Hollywood probably Opie
  • Favorite Genre: Independent Films
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: It's not a tumor
  • Movies I can watch over and over: Dirty Dancing , Vacation and Christmas vacation
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: Susan Sarandon or Kathy Bates

Books

  • Favorite Authors: Patricia Cornwell, Jonathan Kellerman, Faye Kellerman, Anne Rivers Siddons, Phillip Margolin,John Grisham, John Sandford, Sue Grafton, Mauve Binchey, Nina Brown, Donald Harstad
  • Favorite Genres: mystery
  • Favorite Characters: Peter and Rina Decker; Alex Delaware, etcl