CURRENT MISSION

I'd like to meet the world one new friend at a time.

ABOUT ME

I'm a girl on the cusp of her twenty-forth year. I drink a lot. I nap a lot. I'm full of laughter. I'm half Country Mouse and half City Mouse. I've been told my soul is old. I live in good ol' St. Louis, Missouri.

If you want to meet me, chances are I want to meet you too. <3

ANALICIA RECIPE:

Combine one cup of goofiness with a dash of eccentricity and two heaping tablespoons of adventure.

Fold ingredients into a bowl. Blend in a touch of intelligence and awkwardness, a pinch of creativity and a giant smile.

Sauté in garlic and olive oil for two minutes. Add a dollop of sarcasm, a pinch of snark, and three cups of silliness.

Serve warm with a side of quirks and foibles and coffee mug filled to the brim with cheap, red wine.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I know a lot of neat places around, so I'd be more than happy to be someone's personal tour guide. :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

N/A

Interests

Traveling, Laughing, Stand-up & Improv Comedy, Chuck Taylors, Folk Music, Meeting New People, Big Noses, Hiking, Vaudeville, LOST, Vintage Clothing, Painting, Snowboarding, Kayaking, Shopping, Spontaneity, Wine, Dangly Earrings, Sharpie Markers, Trashy Romance Novels, Coffee, Cardigans, Warm Rain, Dining Out, Old Photographs, Reading, Movies, Multi-Vitamins, Europe, Sending/Receiving Snail Mail, Drinking OJ Straight From The Jug, Monty Python, Archie Comics, Online Dating, Dancing, LGBT, Camping, Listening To Records, Trying New Things, Road Trips, Acoustic Covers, Facebooking, Tumblr, Hipster, Antiques, Drinking, Exploring, Country Western, Baby Talking To Domesticated Animals, Creating Portmanteaus, Ceramics, Bonnaroo, Ukulele, Telling Pointless Stories, Rock Climbing, Concerts, etc...

• animals
• arts
• poetry
• photography
• concerts
• dancing
• education
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• red wine
• coffee
• modeling
• drinking
• crafts
• shopping
• clothing
• comics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• pottery
• painting
• music
• folk music
• hiking
• kayaking
• camping
• snowboarding
• rock climbing
• teaching
• history
• tourism
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: folk, classic rock, old school punk, vocal jazz, old ridiculous hip hop, zydeco, alt-country, acoustic, indie, motion, bluegrass, 90s alternative, big band, 80s pop.

Ryan Adams, Jenny Lewis, Regina Spektor, Jewel, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Elvis, Green Day, Bowie, Patsy Cline, NOFX, Delta Spirit, Janis Joplin, Kaki King, The Who, Hank Williams, Fleetwood Mac, Cat Power, Nick Cave, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes, Bob Dylan, Phoenix, Sinatra, The Smiths, Fiona Apple, Aretha Franklin, Ani DiFranco, Nicklecreek, Elton John, Michael Jackson, Wilco, Jolie Holland, Carole King, Dolly Parton, Middle Brother, Damien Rice, Dead Kennedys, Belle & Sebastian, Simon & Garfunkle, Pavement, REM, Death Cab For Cutie, Willie Nelson, Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, She & Him, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Rancid, Cyndi Lauper, Rod Stewart, Funky Butt Brass Band, Feist, Avett Brothers, Best Coast, Adele, Tegan & Sara, Spice Girls, Vampire Weekend, Brooks & Dunn, Joss Stone, The Mamas & The Papas, Harry Chapin, etc...

I have an aversion to rap and most current R&B.

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BOOKS: memoirs, historical fiction, comedies, parodies, chick lit, short stories, cheesy romance novels.

Catcher In The Rye, High Fidelity, Nine Stories, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, My Horizontal Life, How Did You Get This Number?, Naked Lunch, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Catch-22, The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, Me Talk Pretty One Day, My Antonia, Escape From Warsaw, Why Girls Are Weird, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, About A Boy, The Lovely Bones, Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim, Holidays on Ice, Life of Pi, Harry Potter, Tropic of Cancer, Trout Fishing in America, How I Paid for College, Expecting to Fly, Mrs. Dalloway, The Years, Things That Need Doing, Love is a Mixtape, Social Blunders, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Miss Me When I'm Gone, Waiter Rant, Franny & Zooey, etc...

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MOVIES: 80s cult classics, British humor, dark comedies, documentaries, chick flicks, slapstick, westerns, indie, action and anything that will make me think, laugh or cry. I'm a bit of a pansy, so nothing scary.

Love Actually, Youth in Revolt, Dr. Strangelove, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Young Frankenstein, Field of Dreams, The King's Speech, Grosse Pointe Blank, Ghostbusters, Garden State, Eulogy, Uncle Buck, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ghost World, Life of Brian, Jawbreaker, Inglorious Basterds, Army of Darkness, Better Off Dead, Pulp Fiction, The Graduate, The Apartment, Get Low, If These Walls Could Talk, If These Walls Could Talk 2, Pirate Radio, Little Miss Sunshine, Star Wars, The Darjeeling Limited, Martian Child, Anchorman, Our Idiot Brother, The King's Speech, Jakob the Liar, Roman Holiday, Pulp Fiction, Indiana Jones, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Footloose, Flashdance, Billy Madison, Batman, Benny & Joon, Wristcutters, etc...

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TELEVISION: I don't watch a terrible amount, but when I do it's usually something funny or vaguely educational (If I'm luck, both). I really like shows that involve traveling, cooking, and the outdoors.

The Discovery Channel, Mr. Sunshine, American Pickers, Monk, Monty Python's Flying Circus, 30 Rock, Freaks and Geeks, Flight of the Conchords, The History Channel, Human Target, Dual Survival, Man Vs. Food, The Twilight Zone, The Travel Channel, Batman, IFC, Animaniacs, Food Network, Friends, Arrested Development, The Science Channel, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Dexter, LOST, Tosh.0, Leverage, MST3K, Archer, Mr. Show, Two and a Half Men, Coupling, Dr. Who, Who's Line Is It Anyway?, Mama's Family, MythBusters, The Daily Show, Kids In The Hall, Seinfeld, What Not To Wear, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Saturday Night Live, True Blood, American Idol, Scrubs, Reading Rainbow, etc...

Teach, Learn, Share

“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept record of their troubles. You’ll learn from them – if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.“ -Mr. Antolini to Holden (Catcher In The Rye)

Basically, I'm open to learning as much as I can as life is thrown at me.

I can do: crafts, home decor, ceramics, getting people to open up, folk art, making dream catchers, photography/modeling, snowboarding, cooking, outdoorsy things.

I am also teaching myself to speak Italian.

I am a terrible ukulele player.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Monaco, Panama, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States