About Me
- About Me: About me...I love Jesus, my hope and my security. I also love My Husband and my dysfunctional but very funny family.A big part of my life is getting my 6 year old twin niece and nephew on the weekends(they come from the city to run around in the country air).I love to talk to people and hear their stories.I especially get a kick out of watching people and noticing the funny everyday things they say and do....like watching my mom trying to extract money from the ATM,if she needs $120 she'll do the fast $40 three times!!! I work in our greenhouse and with our church youth group. We have a huge garden and I preserve many things. I keep my hands busy writing,doodling,sewing , crafting or playing my mandolin.I love to cook and dislike doing dishes.I love old movies from the silent era to the 40's !!Many types of music,reading(especially southern stories),old junk! I'm either barefoot or in Birkenstocks. ......I LOVE TO LAUGH!!!!
Books
- Favorite Books: Pride and Prejudice A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith,Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain,Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Burns,Loose Lips by Rita Mae Brown.To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee ,.I always have a heap of "must reads" on my bookshelf waiting for a rainy day!!
- Favorite Authors: Austen,Willa Crather,Mark Twain,Rita Mae brown,Fannie Flagg
- Favorite Genres: classics,small town and southern fiction
- Favorite Quotes: The eternal sunshine of his soul kept him from the abyss...written about Robert Lowell
Television
- Favorite Shows: All time Favorite is 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', on t.v. now I only watch Boston Legal,My Name's Earl,Antiques Roadshow
- Favorite Reruns: Mary Tyler Moore,Rhoda,Barney Miller,MASH,Desiging Women,WKRP in Cincinatti
- Most Addictive Show: Monk
- Favorite Theme Song: I always liked the theme song from Grizzly Adams
- Show I Secretly Watch: No tv hookup here
- Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Designing Women
More About Me
- Nicknames: Bessie,
- Nationality: U.S. citizen,Pennsylvania Dutch Heritage
- Religion: Christian,I go to a Mennonite Church
- Heroes: People who do the right thing reguardless of the price and those who rise above their circumstances
- Interests: Some of my favorite things are... Praying,Keeping my hands busy(sewing, doodling, crafting, cooking, writing, planting, oragami, organizing,pestering!),Paper, Old movies pre 1950,(I especially love the ones from the 1930's), Film history, Being barefoot,old film clips( early 20th century) on National Library of Congress website, Calligraphy, Reading,Glass beads, Beachglass, Photography, Talking, Organizing a chick-trip every year with my female relatives!!!! My dog Cider(a large collie), Collecting junk like mosaic tiles, vintage sewing kits, notions and fabric,cobolt glass, inkwells, hurricane lamps, old perfume bottles, items, old school books and just plain ugly stuff. Second hand stores,Being in the High Sierra,Road trips!!! Driving on a summer eve with loud music and the most blessed smell of honeysuckle after the dew!
- Expertise: I talk to anyone and everyone
- Occupation: we own a greenhouse
Food
- Favorite Cuisine: Mexican and Mediterranean and most ethnic cuisines
- Favorite Dishes: Guacamole,Garlic stuffed olives from the Italian market!!!!!!!!!Pastelles,Greek Salad,Baba Ghanoush,,,Hot andSour Soup,Chile Rellenos,Thai Lettuce Wraps,Homemade chicken potpie w/handmade noodles, any and all olives except canned black ones,
- Favorite Desserts: Real Cheesecake,Homemade Blueberry Pie,Flan
- Favorite Drinks: Water!!!!!!!!!
- Favorite Junk Foods: Tortilla chips and Guacamole,salsa roja,pico de gallo
- Best meal ever: Thai Lettuce Wraps at The Cheesecake Factory
- My Original Recipes: I have a bazillion,just ask
- Favorite Restaurants: Any authentic foreign cuisine,Sahara,El Tapitio's,Buca de Beppos,El Serrono's,
- Foods I hate: liver,raw onions,chocolate ,watermelon
College
- School Name: Reading Area Community College
- Attended: 1980 - 1982
Movies
- Favorite Movies: I love movies from the 30's,it's the dialouge,it would be!!!Dinner at Eight,The Awful Truth,The Women,Bombshell,The Philadelphia Story,
- Favorite Actors: Cary Grant,Jean Harlow,Edward Everett Horton,Irene Dunne,William Powell,Buster Keaton,
- Favorite Directors: George Cukor,Frank Cappa,George Stephens
- Favorite Genre: Classics, 1930's (Pre 1950)
- Favorite Soundtracks: O Brother where art Thou, Now and Then ,Remember the Titans,Chariots of Fire,
- Movie Quotes I say all the time: "Why does everything always happen to me?" From Talk Of The Town(1942,Cary Grant,Jean Arther)
- Movies I can watch over and over: Dinner at Eight,The Awful Truth,The Women,Parlor, Bedroom and Bath,Bombshell,The Philadelphia Story,On Golden Pond,Steel Magnolias,Moonstrck,Driving Miss Daisy,Gone With The Wind,Pride And Prejudice
- Actor that would play me in a movie: Who is fat ,cute and funny???Not much out there ....
High School
- School Name: Boyertown Area Senior High School
- Class of: 1980
Music
- Favorite Artists: Emmylou Harris has always been my favorite singer,Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir,Gaither Vocal Band,George Jones,Third day,Crosby Stills and Nash,Vince Gill,Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver,Third Tyme Out
- Favorite Albums: The Last Waltz/The Band;Appalachain Journey/Yo-Yo Ma,Mark O'conner,Edgar Meyer;Boston/Boston;Martina McBride/Timeless;Greatest hits/Bad company;Decade/Neil Young;So Far/Crosby,Stills,Nash & Young;The Messiah/CBS Recording with Eugene Ormandy & the Mormon Tabernacle Choir;Angelband/Emmylou Harris;Trio/Emmylou Harris,Linda Ronstadt,Dolly Parton; Sweethearts Of The Clinch Mountains/Ralph Stanley;My Mothers Hymnal/Johnny Cash
- Favorite Genre: I love most music,Gospel,Bluegrass,Swing,Big Band,Folk,Classic Rock,Blues,Hip-Hop,R&B,Classic Country,Cajun&Zydeco,Classical,Contemporary Christian,Opera,Reggae,Salsa.....
- Favorite Songs: ...all time favorite is Lean On Me /Bill Withers A FEW of the others are ... Country~Coat of Many Colors/Dolly Parton, If I Could Only Win Your Love/Emmylou,Uncle Pen/Bill Monroe,Today I Started Loving You Again/The Hag(Merle Haggard),Same Old Me/George Jones,Cattle call/Eddie Arnold,When I Call Your Name/Vince Gill/Heard It In A Love Song & Can't You See/Marshall Tucker Band, Gospel~Redeemer/Nicole C. Mullen,The Anchor Holds/Ray Boltz,Stroll Over Heaven/Third Tyme Out,On That Dat/B.T.C.,My Hope Is In The Lord/Larnell Harris& BTC,Jesus Only/GVB,If We Never Meet Again This Side Of Heaven/Ralph Stanley,I Wanna Sing A Song For You Lord/Third Day,I'll Fly Away/Jars Of Clay,Where there is Faith & There is a Fountain/4 Him,Crucified With Christ/Philips,Craig & Dean Rock~Jessica,Blue Skies/Allman Bros,American Woman/The Guess Who,Me and Bobby McGee/Janis Joplin,Take It To The Limit/Eagles,Suite Judy Blue Eyes/CS&N,Southern Cross/CS&N,Drift Away/Dobie Gray(I likke the one W/Uncle Craker also),Kiss and Say Goodbye/The Manhattens, Other~Chatoogna Choo-Choo,At last/Etta James,Rondeau/Mouret,Ode To Joy/Beethoven Just to name a few...
- Favorite Lyrics: Redeemer/Nicole C. Mullen
- Songs for Roadtrips: A mix with a lot of Motown thrown in.
- Songs I hate: Coppa Cabana/Barry Mannilow ,Da Ya Think I'm Sexy/Rod Stewart,
Style
- Where I shop: Second hand,If I have to get something new I'll go to T.J.Maxx or Walmart.I do not do malls!
- Brands I love: I love best the things I make
- I like to wear: colorful skirts
- Can't live without: birkenstocks
Video Games
- Games I Play: I still like the original" pong" that we hooked up to our huge floor model zenith in about 1973! It was "far-out"
Travel
- Places I love: Yosemite,The High Sierra,The Oley Vally,being on the road
- Places I've been: Drove thru all 48 mainland states. Mexico,Jamaica,Honduras,Netherlands,Germany,Belguim, Canada
- Places to see before I die: Greece and Italy
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Lol :) Thanks for the comment. My mom doesn't even know the fundamentals of using a computer...
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I love Jesus, too :) Mom's can't function next to an ATM... (Just watching them look at it is straining...)
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