womanwithcatz's profile

Eons member since

Sep 21, 2007

Age, Gender

57, Female

Location

Chicago, IL

Relationship

Single. Interested in meeting people for friendship and meeting people for networking

Hometown

Chicago

Places I've been

New York - the best place to see ballet Arizona - my Mom winters there Las Vegas - toooooo noisy toooooo $$$$ Toronto - the cleanest big city i've ever seen California - i hate the LA freeways Terre Haute Indiana - i lived there for 11 months, 2 weeks, 6 days and 13 hours, but who's counting? Cordon Bleu Chicago where i got my degree in baking and pastry

Education

• Cordon Bleu, Baking & Pastry - 2002 to 2003

Work

• a multi-national consulting & publishing firm, senior technical writer - 2003 to 2007

More about me

baker, owned by 2 felines, powerlifter, writer

Activities

writing, grooming the catz, baking, weight lifting, bicycle riding, filling in forms on the computer.

Favorite Charities

ADL, ACLU, Susan Komen, JUF, Walk for the Cure, JDF

Favorite Music

Beatles, classical, 60's folk music, almost anything that has a catchy tune.

Favorite TV Shows

Top Chef, Project Runway, Dirty Sexy Money, House, America's Test Kitchen

Favorite Movies

Gigi, Some Like It Hot, Chicago, Gone in 60 seconds, A Hard Day's Night, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races

Favorite Books

Rose Levy Berenbaum's the Cake Bible, Pastry Bible, & Bread Bible, Friberg's The Professional Pastry Chef, Gissen's The Professional Baker, Joy of Cooking (all editions), Julia Child's The French Chef (signed by the author)

Favorite Quotes

we are torn between the desire to know and the fear of having known.

Favorite Places

in front of the tiffany windows in the new american wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, Colleen Moore's Doll House at the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago, the view of Taleasin West in Scottsdale AZ. wrigley field on a warm summer day (no lights)

Favorite Animals

Pablo, Max, Cotton, Sander, Willow (my cats and my brother's cats), Kodi and Ms Edna the Great (teddibear dogs belonging to friends) i guess i'm a cat person.

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