CURRENT MISSION

Learn as much as I can

ABOUT ME

I am stubborn, and hard-hearted. I am goofy, silly, and serious all at the same time. I love to teach and be taught. I am too critical â

PHILOSOPHY

Live through this life the best you can, and always smile.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Right now, all I can do is offer up my couch to stay, and hopefully help others with their travels. I hope to travel quite a lot next summer, and yearn to share my experiences with others.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

As of yet, I have not had a couch surfing experience, but cannot wait for my first!

Interests

Coffee, tea, hot chocolate. Ice cream. Making lists, and getting things done. Spontaneity. History, and all it encompasses. Namely Classical Greece and Rome, Ancient Egypt, The Tudor era, The Renaissance. Cooking, cooking shows, and my recipe box. Card games, esp euchre and hearts. Stationery – I have a thing with nice pens. Impressions. Impressionism. Catchy phrases and sayings. In fact, lame jokes that need not be repeated but repeated to no end by me. Quotes. Laughing and being silly in general. Fuzzy slippers. Rum. Sexuality, red rooms, matching underwear, corsets, stockings, long gloves. Evil grins. Long hair. Tattoos and piercings (drools), The English language; Anagrams, crosswords, poetry, stories, songs. Reading, writing, researching. National Geographic Channel, CBC, Discovery Channel. My Time magazines, my Discover Magazines. I guess discovering, really. My laptop. My external hard drive – pumping them both full of music and information. Mostly music. Heroines. Make-up. Earrings. Swimming, yoga, swimming, yoga, repeat. Martial arts. Thunderstorms, rainstorms. Snowstorms. Spending them alone, spending them with a someone. Snuggling, cuddling – alone or not. Skipping, frolicking, and rolling down grassy hills. Surprises. Volunteering. Helping people out – usually with school. Little known facts, misconceptions. Concepts, photos, memories. Friends. Naps, sleep. Lying in bed while the sun shines through.

• arts
• writing
• poetry
• impressionism
• tattoos
• piercings
• cooking
• chocolate
• coffee
• yoga
• reading
• traveling
• music
• surfing
• boxing
• martial arts
• swimming
• history
• volunteering
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

This list is going to be LONG:

Music:Where do I begin? I will always and forever love the Chili Peppers and Alkaline Trio. Obvious ones include Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Eric Clapton, Cream, David Bowie, ACDC. Alice in Chains, Nine Inch Nails, System of a Down, Atreyu, Unearth, Hatebreed, Pantera, Iron Maiden (har har har), Audioslave, Tool, The Reason, Disturbed, As I Lay Dying, Evergreen Terrace, Poison the Well, older Tea Party, Deftones, Depeche Mode? (still figuring that one out), Rob Zombie, Rage against the Machine, Mad Season, Foo Fighters, Queen <3, The Tragically Hip <3, old Green Day, Guess Who, The Who, Incubus, INXS (got something to say about that one?), Ted Nugent’s Stranglehold (pure sex), Muse (drools), Manson? (only some), Metallica (not recent stuff), Offspring, Bush, Chevelle, The Cardigans, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Damien Rice, Death Cab for Cutie, Dispatch, Everclear, Frou Frou, OLD Jimmy Eat World, John Mayer, Matt Good (but I don’t know much), Snow Patrol, Modest Mouse, The Jealous Sound, Stars, Aerosmith, the Arcade Fire, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Stills, Rise Against, Anti-Flag, AFI, Alexisonfire, Metric, Prince, Radiohead, CCR, Def Leppard, Deep Purple, Dropkick Murphys, k-os, The Roots, She wants Revenge, Van Halen, The Weakerthans, Weezer, ZZ Top, Steppenwolfe, Dredg (thanks to Nick shoving them down my throat), A Perfect Circle, Jamiroquai, Prodigy, and Robbie Williams, oldies and eighties and this list will never end.

Movies: Interview with the Vampire, John Carpenter’s Vampires, Nosferatu, Blade, Dracula, Underworld (notice a theme?), Quills, Waking Life, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Leaving Las Vegas, Pirates of the Caribbean 1, 2, and 3 (do you really think I won’t?), Inventing the Abbots, Amadeus, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Chocolat, Almost Famous, Dirty Dancing, Dial M for Murder, Snatch, Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels, Gangs of New York, The Illusionist, The Prestige, Borat, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Poltergeist, Sexy Beast, Requiem for a Dream, The House of Sand and Fog, The Beach, Boondock Saints, The Departed, Disney (but only GOOD Disney; for example Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, etc), 9 ½ Weeks, The Motorcycle Diaries, Resevoir Dogs, Kill Bills, House of Flying Daggars and old school Kung Fu with my sister, Sarah ♥(no one has an appreciation for it like she does), Troy, Gladiator and other epic movies such as that… Braveheart because of my mother’s quest to seduce Mel Gisbon. And because I cried while watching it. A Knight’s Tale, Anchorman, 40 Year old Virgin, 12 Angry Men, Trainspotting, The Emperors New Groove (fantastic movie on all levels), TMNT Trilogy, Every Harry Potter (come on, now), and this list will continue to grow. But I’ll stop here.

Books: Harry Potters are the obvious. Lullaby, Choke, Diary, Fight Club - anything written by Chuck Palahniuk basically. Bram Stocker's Dracula, The House at Pooh Corner, Interview with the Vampire and most of Anne Rice, the Abarat books, The best Poems of the English Language selected by Harold Bloom, The Iliad and the Odyssey, Midnight's Children, Never Let me Go, The Alchemy of Mind, Catcher in the Rye, The Doors of Perception, the Electric Kool-Aid acid test.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I just got back from a Habitat for Humanity build in Samoa, and it was unbelievable. I will never forget the experience and how I have grown and changed from it. I should stop here, or else I will never stop talking about it. heh.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Bahamas, Canada, Cayman Islands, China, Cuba, France, Malaysia, Samoa, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Cayman Islands, United Arab Emirates