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  • Mak

  • 54 / Female
  • New Hampshire, US
  • Last Login: 6/26/2009

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Interests

  • General

    Music- listening, singing, play a bit of piano

    Reading

    Writing

    Chili and salsa

  • Music

    I like most everything- not a big fan of rap, opera or country, but most everything else is in there somewhere. Mostly rock (and mostly classic): Journey, Def Leppard, Styx, Chicago, ELP, Yes, oh, lots and lots of others!

    Jazz: Pat Metheny, Yellowjackets, Spyro Gyra, Larry Carlton, David Sanborn, many, many more

    New Age: David Lanz, Yanni, George Winston

    Unclassifiable: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

    Classical: Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, to name a few

  • Movies

    Casablanca is undoubtedly the best movie ever made! Followed by Steel Magnolias, Princess Bride, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spaceballs, Almost Famous

  • Television

    Babylon 5/Crusade- easily the best SF to hit TV ever, so, of course, it's not around anymore... Ok, well, B5 was planned that way, but Crusade *sigh*

    Dr. Who

    All the CSIs (tho Horatio Caine is a pompous ass!)

    All the Law and Orders

    24

    Numbers

    Monk

    Psych (it's cute!)

    Iron Chef America

    Molto Mario

    Pretty much anything on the Food Network

  • Books

    Mostly fantasy, some Sci-fi, a few mysteries

  • Heroes

    How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

    Maya Angelou (1928 - )

    Chrissy:

    Yes, YOU! Because you haven't let the MS defeat you. Yeah, you have good and bad days, up and down times, but you come out fighting every time! You're fun, sweet, gorgeous and one tough lady!

    ..

    Christopher Reeve- and I think this quote from him says it all:

    "I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

    Declaration of Principles

    The Universe speaks in many languages, but only one voice.
    The langauge is not Narn, or Human,
    or Centauri or Gaim or Minbari
    It speaks in the language of hope
    It speaks in the language of trust
    It speaks in the language of strength and in the language of compassion
    In the language of the heart and the language of the soul
    But always it is the same voice
    It is the voice of our ancestors, speaking through us,
    And the voice of our inheritors, waiting to be born
    It is the small, still voice that says
    "We are one
    No matter the blood, no matter the skin
    No matter the world, no matter the star-
    We are one
    No matter the pain, no matter the darkness,
    We are one"
    Here, gathered together in common cause,
    We agreed to recognize this singular truth:
    That we are one
    and this singular rule:
    That we must be kind to one another
    Because each voice enriches us and enables us
    and each voice lost diminishes us
    We are the voice of the Universe
    the soul of creation
    the fire that will light the way to a better future
    We are one.
    We are one.
    (As spoken by Citizen G'kar)

    -J. Michael Straczyinszki, Babylon-5, "The Paragon of Animals"

Details

  • Status: Married
  • Here for: Friends
  • Height: 5' 5"
  • Religion: Other
  • Zodiac Sign: Aries
  • Children: Proud parent
  • Smoke: No

Blurbs

About me:

I'm pretty normal, I suppose. Well, it depends on your definition of "normal," but by most standards...

I'm "not old, Just Older," and I wouldn't go back for anything. I live in NH, am married with 3 grown daughters and one awesome grandson, one chocolate Lab, 5 cats, and a bunch o' fish. I love, love, love music- all kinds. I started taking piano lessons last March, because I've always wanted to learn to play, and I finally figured that if I didn't start, I never would. So I went out and found me a teacher and here I am. I have a Mason & Hamlin upright screwstringer piano that was built in 1889- it's gorgeous and I love how it sounds. (No, that isn't it in the picture. That is an also gorgeous Schimmel K230T grand that I got to play at a piano party.)

My other musical love is seeing live shows. We tend to go to a lot of concerts in year- jazz mostly with my hubby, and my rock concert buddies (other than the other fans I've gotten to know, of course!) are my girls. There is nothing like seeing music performed live! It's such a wonderful experience.

The other hobby in my life is chili cookoffs. We compete all summer long in International Chili Society sponsored cookoffs and then go to the World's Championship Cookoff in Omaha, NE in October. It's fun and a nice summer hobby.

Other than that, I dabble a bit in writing- nothing serious these days, and spend (I suppose) far too much time on the computer.

Next cook-offs of the 2008 season:

Feb. 2, 2009- RI State, Middletown, RI May 2, 2009- New England Regional, Somers, CT

May 9, 2009- Soldiers' Angels District, Webster, MA

More info, full schedule for the season, pictures, recipes, spices and more: ChiliCats Website ..

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Who I'd like to meet:

Mario Battali, Bobby Flay, Alton Brown, Bill Gates, Nelson Mandela, Scott Adams

20 Books in 2009

1) M'Lady Witch by Christopher Stasheff

2) Past Imperative: Round 1 of the Great Game by Dave Duncan

3) Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey

4) Cesar's Way by Cesar Millan

5) Frontier Earth by Bruce Boxleitner

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922)

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