..::About Me}

...Wow. You want to know more about me? Are you nuts?

Well... I lived in the suburbs of Chicago most of my life and recently moved to Orlando to live out my dream of working for Disney. Not the most glamorous of livings but it almost pays the bills ;) For the most part I'm very happy with my job. I'm slowly getting back into puppetry and am very excited for that. To be honest I haven't been excited like this for something at work in a long time.

I love fantasy. Love it. Basically anything that allows me to escape from this reality is wonderous. I love Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. (Although I will admit I haven't been able to get through the LOTRs books. But I'm all caught up with HP!) I do like to read, but most books can't keep my attention lately. I also like the Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends as well as the Death Gate cycle. All of those books were written by Margaret Weis and Tracey Hickman. Great authors.

Given the last paragraph about fantasy this probably shouldn't come as a surprise that I'm pagan. It's funny cause I never really felt spiritually fulfulled until I found this path.

I love old movies and musicals. I used to love doing plays at school. I'm sure I still would but I just don't have the time anymore. I do miss it from time to time. I love going to the theatre but I just don't have the money, and still lack the time.

I'd say I am a writer... but people who are writers actually write. I have no story to tell so I remain a writer wannabe. I have written a few fanfic stories which are in, get this, the fanfiction section. They're not great and were written between 4-6 years ago. But hey, they're there for your amusement. I also participate in online RPGs, writing ones through yahoogroups.

I love anime. Particularly Kaleido Star, Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, Pretear... and others. I love cartoons. Most of the newer cartoons are crap. I'm an 80's/early 90's cartoon girl. Cartoons like Jem and My Little Pony, and Peter Pan and the pirates and Rainbow Brite, and She-Ra... The list could go on forever. I love House of Mouse and Kim Possible too. Honestly I just tend to like kid shows more than adult shows. There are very few shows that I watch with regularity. I did love Tru Calling when it was on.

Despite what you can tell from this website I am a web developer. I love designing sites even if I'm not always very good at it. I am not a programmer by any means C++ what?!? But I still like to design websites. I designed all the fanlistings and subdomains except the 'Hostee's.' This site itself has now gone through 4 different incarnations.

I am a very opinionated person and have gotten to the point where if something really bothers me I will stand up and fight for it. I've recently been told that my passion is something that one of my friends loves most about me. Go figure. I am usually very shy around people, especially people I don't know.

Me personally... I am not a very social person. Even when I go out with people I feel very out of place, like I shouldn't be there. I don't trust a lot of people anymore... too many fake people down here in Florida. I'm tired of one-sided friendships and thinking people are closer friends than they are. I have one close friend that comes to mind and she's been my best friend pretty much since I met her. The friends that I do have I keep close to me. Consider yourself lucky if I let you in! I am also very lucky to have a wonderful brother who I count among my best friends and two wonderful parents that love me and support me.

Love life? Single. I've come to accept that this is probably my fate. I fall for the wrong guys to put it mildly. Two of my boyfriends were very fixer-upper. Like VERY.(Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking...) It's funny cause I don't smoke, and really can't stand to be around it. I've never done a drug in my life unless you count painkillers, and I really don't drink very much anymore. Not that I ever drank that much in general. The last guy I fell for actually turned out to be a HUGE scumbag and was actually engaged. He told me he had a girlfriend so I kinda backed off but he kept persuing me even after I had tried to get over him. *rolls eyes* Why are men dumb? Sigh... now I've met someone I think is absolutly perfect and I get to watch him fall for someone else. Because it is so obvious that he likes this other person and not me. But whatever, guys like him don't like girls like me. (Not that I'm playing the pity card, I just knew that he wouldn't like me when I met him... We're from two different worlds.)

Moving away from that, I have a cat. Her name is Demona. She's a sweety. Even if she is a brat.

Oh and I saved the best for last, Pirates. LOVE pirates. I liked Pirates before it was the cool thing to do. I can't remember what sparked my love for them... Although I think it was the Ray Stevens song "the pirate song." I heard it back when I was in 6th grade. I'm sure I've always liked pirates though... My favorite pirates are Jack Sparrow and Tim Curry as Long John Silver. I remember I took a class on Pirates.(Well, it was a writing class and pirates were the topic.) We watched movies and read books and wrote papers on them. Does it get any better than that? I got an A of course. :p

I'm sure there's more. There's always something to tell I suppose.

So yea. That's me. I'm a little bit of everything all rolled into one.