CURRENT MISSION

My needs are simple.. Ivory, apes, peacocks. Maybe a couple o' massasa boys..oh, rubies, i do like rubies. And ovaltine.)

ABOUT ME

He said that my house looked like it should be looted by an angry mob..That's the sweetest thing anyone has ever said to me... There's a special place in Hell for me.. And I'm pretty sure it is a SUPERVISORY position.)))"Sometimes I find it hard to live up to my blue china.."-Oscar Wilde "He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty, who was young for his years or man of about a hungred and ten who had been aged by trouble." Priveleged. Hedonistic. Bored. Definately a bit of the lilly-of-the-field about me... Spreader of sweetness and light. Mostly...mostly. "... and the air is sweet with curling smoke...from all my burning bridges..."-Dorothy Parker... "...who had in his day travelled much and known many cities and men. Otherwise he was not at all like Odysseus, and could least of all be called ingenious, for he had shown very little skill in managing his own affairs. Probably from a keen sense of failure in this respect he carefully kept from discussing practical matters with an efficient younger generation, keen on their careers and success in life. But on theology, the opera, moral right and wrong, and other unprofitable pursuits he was a pleasant talker.."- Isak Dineson/Baroness Blixen.

PHILOSOPHY

MORE is MORE!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host, I surf, I spread sweetness and light.)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I enjoy the forums, I often surf while abroad to meet new people. I always enjoy having guests!

Interests

Alphabetizing things, Anti-Bolshevik Committee post cards, antiquities, auctions, basmati, basements, bedrooms with fireplaces, beeswax, Beidermeir, being in bed, bell jars, bergamot, blood oranges, boarding school, books, breakfast on balconies, burlwood picnic trays that fold down in the back seat of cars, burning things in fire places, cabinets of curiosities, cabochon rubies, candle-light, captive audiences, Carey Grant, cashmere, child-support, comparative theology, convex glass, copperplate handwriting, crepes, cults, Delhi Durbar, dinner menus that indicate at least four forks, disasters-at-sea, egg-custard pie, Ella Fitzgerald, estate jewelry, European Orders, exotic pelts, Faberge, farm houses with high ceilings, fountain pens, Fran Lebowitz, free stuff, fresh sqeezed lemonade, freshly cleaned sheets that have been dried on a clothes-line, Galle, game hens, gargoyles and other figural architechtural elements, girls in kilt skirts, gold boxes, guilloche enamel, haunted houses, hereditary madness, hidden safes, high church, high maintainance, history, hot baths, ice cream forks, ice cream in silver bowls, icons, India under the British Raj, inheriting things, ink wells, inscriptions in books, intaglios in carnelian, Italian convertibles, ivory, J.D. Salinger, Katherine Hepburn, kilim rugs, lacrosse players, leather bindings( see books...and maybe lacrosse players), library ladders, lillies, Machiaveli , malachite, marble table-tops, Mayflower ancestry, mercury-gilding (see ormulu), metronomes, Mitfords, miserly ancestors(see inheriting things), monacles, Mormons (they are so freaky), mottoes, mourning stationary, my children (though they are ghastly), Nancy Mitford, NAZI daggers (idk why), nobility of spirit, noblesse oblige, old rugs, old sewing boxes, ormulu, Oscar Wilde, ovaltine, parasols, P.G. Wodehouse, paper knives, Palestinians, peach roses, pearls on girls, personal Jihads, picnics on persian carpets in the park, plotting revenge, pocketwatches, poetic justice, polishing silver, portrait miniatures, Prague, pretty things, quartz, Queen Victoria, quinine(just the idea, really) rainy nights, reading in a well placed hammock, recieving packages, rib-eyes (rear), reliquaries, rock-crystal, rose-cut diamonds, royalty-in-exile, Russian Imperial Porcelain Factory works, Saint Sebastian, salukis, sea salt, sea shells, sealing wax, servants that speak a different language, sleeping pills, sleeping with open windows, the smell of old oil paintings, snow without footprints, Sotheby's catalogs, sterling picture frames, sugar cubes, summer houses, tapioca, tea in tins,Thai massasa, things with fitted boxes, thirteen, thrift, tortoise shell, train trips with sleeper cars, Truman Capote, trunks, uranium glass, vanity sets, Vigee Le Brun, Victorian sentimentalities, watching Greeks dance, a well turned ankle, wicker baskets, worthy adversaries , X-mas, xenophillia, yellow birds, the Zulu wars.

• birds
• books
• dancing
• breakfast
• picnic
• thrifting
• clothing
• reading
• cars
• opera
• lacrosse
• divinity
• genealogy
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

P.G. Wodehouse, any by... Nancy Mitford. Florence King. I've had a passionate love for Fran Lebowitz since the eighth grade... but then who hasn't? 'Class' by Paul Fussel. Evelyn Waugh. Isak Dineson Lyrical. They make me wobble and weep. Stephen Frye. Moore, who wrote 'Lamb'. Robert Graves. "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'.David Sedaris. Baudelaire. Bright Eyes, Her Space Holiday, Noah and the Whale, The Decemberists, Bobbie Gentry, Orff/Carmina Burana, Mountain Goats, Harold and Maude, I, Claudius, Downton Abbey, MAnor House, Upstairs, Downstairs,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have raised TWO AMAZING children..Ridden a camel to Saqquara, Bought my first piece of Faberge at 21.Been blessed by John Paul II at the Vatican. Most recently, I was in THE earthquake in Japan. I once found some diamonds hidden in a secret drawer in an antique piece of furniture!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, United States