I am:
a girl; a BA; a sister; a daughter; a good friend; twenty-five; not very tall.
I Have:
two brothers; two music diplomas; two dollars; a hypersensitive bullshit radar.
I Like
music; Jesus; the Oilers; campfires; Robert Frost; coffee; the sound of an acoustic guitar; yorkshire pudding; gangster movies; itunes; Audrey Hepburn; mexican food; scottish accents; gerbera daises; blooper reels; Dr. House; going to eskimos games; those ikea cookies; ending on the ma7; driving; Jimmy Fallon; Mt. Edith Cavell; listening to Bill Evans with my eyes closed; Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole; soy peppermint mochas; Vancouver in the summer.
I Don’t Like:
green peppers; when boys don’t listen to your opinions on sports or music because you are a girl; beer breath; Sylvia Plath; scraping the ice off the car windows; confrontation; the Olive Garden; math and science; American Idol; the Toronto Maple Leafs; horror movies; fake accents; Will Ferrell; heavy metal; split pea & ham soup; Vancouver in the winter.
I Listen To:
Everything. No seriously. But some favorites include anything Jon Foreman touches, Ben Folds, Coldplay, Explosions in the Sky, The Beatles, Ryan Adams, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Patty Griffin and Dario Marianelli.
I Read:
The Bible; Stories from the Vinyl Cafe; Poetry by T.S. Eliot, Mary Oliver or Robert Frost; Anything by L.M. Montgomery; The Romanov Prophecy; the Traveling Pants Books; The Once and Future King; anything C.S. Lewis ever wrote; And I just started Anna Karenina which should keep me going for at least the next two years.
I Watch:
Friday Night Lights, House, One Tree Hill, 30 Rock, Dexter, Gilmore Girls, TSN Sportscentre (Pacific), The Office, Veronica Mars, Deadliest Catch, The Amazing Race
This Website:
Was started for me by my good friend Jon Page when I moved to Vancouver from my hometown in Edmonton just after my 22nd birthday. It began as a way to keep in touch with people back home and let everyone know what I’m up to out here in Vancouver but it has sort of evolved from there. Writing has become a joy for me over the years and this blog has become a place to vent frustration, a place to write things so I don’t forget, a place to share what makes me laugh, and a place where I try to make sense of my own thoughts.