Eons member since

July 04, 2008

Age, Gender

52, Female

Location

Toney, AL

Relationship

Married

Hometown

Toney AL

Places I've been

Seattle WA, Ithaca NY, Columbus IN, Cancun and Chicken Pizza Mexico (Really - you didn't know about Chicken Pizza Mexico?), San Diego CA, Norfolk VA, Gulf Shores AL, Birmingham AL, Huntsville AL, Decatur AL, Nashville TN, Atlanta GA, Savannah GA, Chattanooga TN, North Dakota, Washington DC, Denver CO, Phoenix AZ, the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls. Places left to go: Alaska, whale watching anywhere, Canada, New England USA, Hawaii, Europe, Asia...

Education

• A. P. Brewer - 1970 to 1974
• Athens State University, Athens AL - 1980 to 1984

Work

• , Sr. Manager - Credit & Collections - 1986 to 2008

More about me

I'm a 50'ish bookworm, empty nester and Catholic.  Barnes & Noble with the Starbuck's Cafe is my favorite shop and I crave their light mocha mint frap with chocolate whip cream and mint sprinkles on top. 

I'm always stumped when people ask what I do?  If you mean how I define myself, then I am an expert gardener, an artist wanna-a-bee and a little bit of a pack rat and impluse buyer :>  If you want to know what I do to earn money to pay for who I am, then I am a senior administrative manager at a technology services corporation in charge of credit & collections.   I am ambivalent about my career but it pays the bills.  

Hubby is a vintage mechanical watch collector and the resident expert on just about everything that I don't know ( or think I don't know as I frequently have menopausal memory lapses these days) and a junior high school science teacher.  He is a cancer survivor. 

We were married in a Southern Baptist Church by a Church of Christ minister; I was a practicing Methodist and hubby was no adherent to any particular faith at the time.  My family is from a long line of Pentecosts and his family a mixture of Shinto and Roman Catholics.  We were both drawn to the Roman Catholic Church. We've been married 30 years and part of our marriage longevity, I believe, is directly attributable to our shared Catholic faith.  However, I can't emphasize enough how much I think organized religion contributed to the ills in the world.  Practice your Faith for yourself - leave me to practice mine, please.

Hubby and I both enjoy thrift store shopping, yard sales, e-baying and our little min-pin, Bro.  I create mosaics and am always trying new crafts.  Anything we can't sell on e-Bay, we donate to a local charity shop.  Both Daughter # 1 and Daughter # 2 have flown the nest - one to the West Coast and one to the East Coast so we're cleaning out the house as well and offering their stuff up for auction with their consent. 

There are many blessings I have each and every day. I try to live simply, I practice Yoga to keep fit, and praise Jesus Christ, My Lord and My God, in some way each day and to lighten my footprint on the earth for future generations.

 

Activities

Gardening, Crocheting, Exercising, Crafting, Bonsai, Animals, Friends, Yarn

Favorite Charities

Catholic Charities, my Church, St. Vincent de Paul food pantries, Crisis Line, Big Brothers/Big Sisters

Favorite Music

Check out pandora dot com where you too can create a radio station of your favorites. Mine are: Bonnie Raitt, Harry Connick Jr., Lenny Kravitz, Johnny Cash, June Carter-Cash, Enya, Righteous Brothers, Willie Nelson, Dixie Chicks, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Alicia Keyes, Karen Carpenter, Mama Cass Elliott

Favorite TV Shows

Anything about Cooking, Ellen, Dancing with the Stars, Monk, America's Next Top Model (me-ow, hiss), Heroes, Antique Road Show

Favorite Movies

An Officer and a Gentleman, Chicago, (um, anything with Richard Gere), Under the Tuscan Sun, There Will Be Blood, Last of the Mohicans, My Left Foot (um, anything with Daniel Day-Lewis), Lord of the Rings trilogy, Quinceañera, Transamerica, Syriana, Michael Clayton (um, anything with George Clooney), Crash

Favorite Books

To Kill a Mockingbird, any biography or autobiography, travel books, any Scott Oden books (my youngest brother).

Favorite Quotes

What doesn't kill you makes you stranger, the Joker as Heath Ledger in the Dark Knight

Favorite People

My husband and daughters, my family and friends

Favorite Places

Sweet Home Alabama, Anywhere lush and green like Seattle WA or Ithaca NY or the mighty Niagara Falls (Canadian side).

Favorite Animals

Alpacas for their luxury wool, chickens, rabbits, my little guy, a min-pin

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