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INVITATION
If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...
If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!
~Shel Silverstein

My current fascination: Joe Wright's motion picture interpretation of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"

Hey everybody! I'm a pretty down-to-earth type of gal. I like oldies, country, and Christian rock music and stories that are so happy they make you hate the characters because you wish your life was just like that. I'm motivated by nature, and I have a fascination with mythology (especially Greek and Atlantian) and astronomy. I don't usually write rhyming poetry, but sometimes (usually in other people's poetry) it fits pretty well. I get teased a lot from my friends in other states cause they think all Nebraska is, is corn fields and cows, and...... well, ok, that's mostly true but we've got civilization too.

As I stated above, I love country music but there are some awesome Christian singers whom I love as well, such as Jennifer Knapp. If you haven't listened to any of her songs, check her out! Her voice is awesome and her lyrics are so poetic, it's just fantastic. My favorite song by her is called Faithful to Me:

All the chisels I've dulled carving idols of stone
That have crumbled like sand 'neath the waves.
I've recklessly built all my dreams in the sand
Just to watch them all wash away.

Chorus:
Through another day, another trial
Another chance to reconcile
To One who sees past all I see

Reaching out my weary hand
I pray that You'd understand
You're the only One who's faithful to me

All the pennies I've wasted in my wishing well
I have thrown like stones to the sea
I have cast my lots, dropped my guard, searched aimlessly
For a faith to be faithful to me

By the way, she writes all of her own lyrics and music. I love her music. Another singer I like is Chris Rice. His song, 'What if Cartoons got Saved,' is hilarious. I could listen to it all day and never stop laughing.

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Here are a few of my faves:
Color: green, blue, and any mix of the two
Song: well, there's the one above and about a million others like:
"College Kids" by Relient K - awesome Christian Rock band
"Only Hope" by Mandy Moore
"More" by Matthew West - Christian singer
"Long Black Train" by Josh Turner
"Kiss This" by Aaron Tippin and
"When You Say Nothing at all" and "Lucky One" by Alison Krauss
~~~~~ and that doesn't include all the oldies...
some of the best songs in the world!!!! ~~~~~
Food: does chocolate count??? I love chocolate, I also like sour kraut, as weird as that may be, I'm not ashamed
Animal: tigers intrigue me to no end, they're beautiful, lethally graceful, and mysterious animals. I also like wolves, horses, gazelles, and lemurs... yep lemurs (pronounced leemerz), look it up, they're funky!
Book: Ooo, this list could go on forever, but here's a few I couldn't live without
my Bible
"The Bridge to Terebithia" by Katherine Paterson
"The Wheel of Time" series by Robert Jordan
"The Giver" by Lois Lowry
"Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
"The Bourne Identity" by Robert Ludlum
and others by Christian author Lori Wick

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Quotes I like:

"What I see convinces me God exists; what I cannot see confirms it."
~Albert Einstein~

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
~Mark Twain~

DO YOU SMOKE?: "Only when set on fire"
~Greg Bulmash~ McDonald's Job Application

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
~Mark Twain~

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
~Albert Einstein~

"Something makes me want to touch it, but I just can't put my finger on it."
~Seth Strouf~ when talking about wet paint on the wall

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
~Mark Twain~

"I am the queen of oddballs."
~MoonWolf~ here on AP

"English please... contrary to popular belief, I do not read the dictionary, although I do love a good thesaurus."
~ME~

"Don't look to the stars for your fate, look to He who made the stars."
~Unknown~

"O, Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me I would love him alone and forever."
~Sienna Miller~ as Francesca Bruni in the movie Casanova

"Love... Love is good weather all the time, because wind and rain are just another kind of good weather. That's love."
~Lena Olin~ also from the movie Casanova

"See God in all things."
~Brian Adams~