Welcome! To My Roller Coaster...Strap In...It's a Hell-uv-a Ride!

Your name on Tribe.net:

Quixoticrepose

Location:

NC...But trying to find a place to call home

Gender:

female

Age:

jailbait

Your Tribe profile:

http://people.tribe.net/quixoticrepose

Your blog:

http://360.yahoo.com/whereverthewindblows

Additional web addy:

http://sunoasis.ning.com/profile/Patricia

5 Random Things About You:

* I stir my coffee seven times.
* I love bugs, lizards, frogs and other creepy crawlies.
* I'm an odd mix of outgoing and shy.
* My pet peeve is incompetence.
* I crave salty munchies, rarely sweets...and I gotta have milk if it's a shweet snick-snack.

Relationship status:

single - open to dating

Official job, in life as we know it:

Starving artist/writer/grease monkey

Unofficial job, in that other world

Angel with dirty wings

Superpower(s):

Flicking a bic with my toes (among other feet related fetes)

Fav food:

* Broiled scallops; my "oysters" *grins*
* Eggs benedict; extra lemon pleeease
* Asparagus w/ butter or hollandaise; extra lemon pleeease
* Tomato & mozzarella salad w/ a Greek vinaigrette
* Mediterranean fare; hummus, tabouli, dolma, lamb, etc...

Fav movies:

Fight Club, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Silence of the Lambs, Indiana Jones & the Mummy series of flicks, Pay it Forward, Blade Runner, Greenfingers, Waking Ned Devine, Danny Deckchair, Reservoir Dogs, etc...

Fav TV:

Entourage, Mad Men, Burn Notice, The Colbert Report, Grey's Anatomy, Medium, All CSIs and Law & Orders and other forensic based shows, Comedies ranging from
Dharma & Greg to My Boys, any genre that I can either learn more about the human condition or laugh like hell at it.

Fav books:

Easier to say authors: Follet, Folsam, Cussler, King, Gerritson, Woods, Grisham, Pirsig, Gibran, etc...

Fav music:

The Cure, Garbage, Cold Play, Collective Soul, Blue October, Tricky, Aqualung, Audioslave, Sia, Butthole Surfers, Marcy Playground, Cold War Kids, Guster, Placebo, Muse, Portis Head, Radiohead, Cold Play, K's Choice, Crossfade, Feeder, Live, Fiona Apple, Oasis, Frenzy, Frou Frou, Liz Phair, The Smiths, N.E.R.D., Nine Inch Nails, Orson, The Pixies, Poe, The Raconteurs, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Snow Patrol, Sound Garden, Wilco, Stereophonics, Tegan & Sara, The Vines, Weezer, Evanescence, and of course Classic Rock.

Fav artists or designers:

Édouard Manet, August Macke, Aristeo Aemeliano, Egon Schiele (odd fellow,) Nadir Afonso, Alberto Giacometti,Gustave Moreau, Yaacov Agam, George Segal, José Bernal, Paul Cézanne, Henry Moore, Vincent van Gogh (early years,) Henri Matisse, Auguste Rodin, Chaim Soutine, Maurice de Vlaminck (obvious Matisse influence,) Claud Monet, Paul Gauguin, and so many more...

Fav holiday:

Christmas: Family, friends, baking, festive air, the joy of giving, warm wood fires, stuffing stockings.....

Passions & Obsessions:

Positives: Art; both viewing and creating, textures, colors, all mediums...
Love, life, friendships, simple pleasures, quiet moments, nature (four seasons, cloud watching, star-gazing, hiking, fishing, etc) reading, writing and nooky...

Negatives: OCD, but not in an annoying way to anyone but myself...At least I don't think so...'Scuse me, I have to obsess about this awhile....Hahahahaha...

Thing(s) you'd save / treasure in the post-apocalypse:

The people most important and loved in my life, my furry girls, photos of family, friends (especially the silly ones,) views of nature and humanity, seeds for crops, farm animals, fresh water, toothbrush (if I have any teeth left,) my favorite slippers, tomatoes, lemons, coffee, fishing pole, passing down stories, books, pen and paper (art stuff in general,) memories, my grandmother's ring...

Thing(s) that should be wiped from the face of the earth:

Ignorance, hate, greed, nuclear plants, war, pesticides and preservatives that pollute our bodies, litterbugs, leggings with short tops, crop tops on fat chicks, those stupid stickers with the little kid peeing on the competition's logo, NAFTA, flies, cockroaches, rats (human and animal)...

Person(s) on your awesomeness list:

My kids (all grown now), my close pals (They know who they are. Bless 'em all to put up with my quirky ass), Jim Malenda, my jewelry enamel instructor....More to come as they impress me.

Person(s) that should be rocketed to the sun:

My ex-hubby/fat ass alcoholic control freak jerk wad, my boss/judgmental prejudice loud mouth idiot, fanatics of any venue, cocky arrogant dishonest pigs, my deceased father's second wife and her loser sex pal The Yard Boy, my ex-lover/game player/smooth tongued bullshitter...

Wow, that all sounds so bitter....I think I need a cleansing....Mental detox forthcoming...

Anything else you'd like to share:

I'm just a simple girl; a starving artist wandering this earth in search of honest eclectic souls who appreciate the uniqueness and value of rich, witty, humorous, passionate minds and the little wonders life offers in the midst of the struggle and strife.