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oceanpagan

oceanpagan MEDDLE NOT IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE DRAGON, FOR YOU ARE CRUNCHY, AND TASTE GOOD WITH CATSUP.
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Eons member since: March 05, 2007
Gender: Female
Relationship: Married
Hometown: I was born in Hilo Hawaii, on the Big Island.
Places I've been: I went to Kodiak High School in Kodiak Alaska. I have taken some honors courses at Tulsa Community College, and am proudly a homemaker. I have lived in Kodiak and Anchorage, Alaska; Tacoma, Seattle, and Mt. Lake Terrace, Washington; Siloam Springs, Arkansas, Ft. Benning (Columbus) and Athens, Georgia; Aransas Pass, (Corpus Christi) Texas; back and forth between Sand Springs and Tulsa, Oklahoma for the last 30 years.In the last seven years, we have traveled to and lived in San Diego, Bakersfield, and Corona, California, and Denver, Colorado for my husband's work. I was recently in a little desert town near the Salton Sea called Calipatria, Ca. for three months, traveling with my husband, and am now back home in Oklahoma as of 29 April. I have been in 36 states, Mexico, Canada, and in the summer of 2006, made a trip to the UK. Going to Ireland was a dream come true, and I hope to go there again.
More about me: I'm a happily married 58 year old lady, who loves life and its twists and turns. I live in the Tulsa area, but travel with my husband for months at a time for his work, sometimes for as long as a year or 18 months. It's great fun being a gypsy, and I love new adventures, places and people. I've never met a stranger, but being away from family and friends at times is hard. Those absences makes the time we have together even more special and precious, and I drive or fly home for necessary Gramma fixes. I took my grandson back with me to Bakersfield for six weeks the summer he was nine, and to Denver last summer when he was thirteen. He's the only one brave enough to stay away from home for so long, and we have grand adventures exploring near and far. He's one of the best things in my life.

In the second week of January 2008, I drove back to California to be with my husband at his job site near the Salton Sea. He is a Senior Field Engineer for a company that builds power plants. The site was out in the desert, surrounded by prisons, and there were cattle feedlots in the vicinity that raised a stench fit to melt ones face if the wind was blowing in the wrong direction. After that, eating a hamburger is out of the question for me.

We lived in Calipatria, which only had a population of 2000 or so. Two lovely ladies ran the little library there, and they saved my life. The area is remote, so when I returned to Oklahoma on 29 April, I had finished my 51st book. I feel like I should get a prize like my grandchildren do at school for reading so many books, but it is something I love to do anyway.

Sushi, my two-year old Shih Tzu, travels with me in a tricked-out car seat that raises him high enough to look out the window, or curl up and sleep safely. He is a quirky wee beastie and truly diabolical. He keeps me laughing and gives lots of love back, so there's a good synergy there.

Last January thru July of 2007, we lived in uptown Denver and loved the change of lifestyle, despite the blizzards. We made many friends, and really enjoyed being able to walk everywhere in an upscale, vibrant, well-kept urban area full of wonderful young people. We could walk downtown, to the movies, the corner pub, good restaurants, and had all manner of entertainment from museums to street bands. One can't do that in Oklahoma, except maybe in a small way in OKC's Brick town.

I have lived all over the country, and in the summer of 2006 we went to England and Ireland. Stepping on the "auld sod" was like coming home. An elderly Irish gentleman in Cork asked me where my family was from, and I told him mainly from the midwest, but that I had been born in Hawaii and raised in Alaska. He said "no darlin, I mean where was your family from HERE?" I was totally foundered when he told me I had the color of blue eyes found only in Ireland, and my hair and complexion gave me away as well. What fun.....I told him my people were from Lurgen, near Ulster in County Armaugh. He hugged me and said "Welcome home lass." That man was the personification of the friendliness of the people of Ireland, and a wonderful ambassador for his country. The Irish never forget how many of their families and friends migrated or died because of the famine and the troubles. I'll never forget him either. As you can see, I have another Irish trait, I like to talk, but I'm a very good listener as well.

I have two sons and four grandchildren, and my husband has five children and two grands. Very simply, they are my heart. I'm still learning from them.

I love spending time with my friends and family, and lately have really enjoyed locating old friends from my childhood and visiting with them online. Our friends are our greatest treasures, special and irreplaceable.
Favorite Movies: The Quiet Man, Steel Magnolias, Sleeping With the Enemy, Dirty Dancing, Chocolate, The Secret of Roan Innish, Practical Magic, Now Voyager, so many more. The child in me still loves horror movies.
Favorite TV Shows: Waiting For God, The Vicar of Dibley, Keeping Up Appearances, As Time Goes By, Golden Girls, House, NCIS (Abbie Rocks!), Criminal Minds, and Goddess help me, even O'Reilly, all the forensic shows, Masterpiece Theater, Dexter, Shield, X-Files, Nip tuck, Rescue Me, Becker, Fraiser, Will and Grace, Sons of Anarchy, Gray's Anatomy, Dexter, Army Wives.
Activities: Making jewelry, traveling, reading, walking with my Sushi, time spent on junkets with the grandchildren, and any time spent with dear friends.
Favorite Charities: Call Rape in Tulsa, DVIS, and those I help anonymously when they are in need, as long as every dime goes to them, not administration.
Favorite Music: 70's music, the gentle soul music of the time, adult contemporary, classical, the pipes and boudrahn, Andean/Bolivian/ Peruvian with rain sticks and pan pipes, some opera, such as Pavrotti's arias.
Favorite Books: Sidney Poitier's The Measure of a Man, which I feel should be used as a primer in raising responsible adults.
Favorite Quotes: May the warm winds of heaven blow softly on this house, and may the Great Spirit bless all who enter here. A Cherokee blessing
Favorite People: I am fortunate to have many special people in my life.
Favorite Places: Hawaii, Oregon and Washington coast, Alaska, Denver, La Jolla, Camden, Maine, Corpus Christi, Chicago, Boston, Flagstaff, and Ireland.
Favorite Animals: My Shih Tzu Sushi, and his buds Ginger, Chocko, Diego, and Jager. My son and his girlfriend have added two rescue puppies to their family, Catahula/blond Labs named Hiro and Sally. Sushi isn't quite sure what to make of them yet, because he and Hiro are both alpha males, but at two months, Hiro is already twice as big as Sush.......interesting times ahead with those three.