CURRENT MISSION

To find the comfiest couch in the world!

ABOUT ME

I bought a house with my parents who are moving to the US Virgin Islands soon. I have three cats and two dogs right now and I am hoping they decide to take at least a cat with them when they go. I'm not a very good speller. I love Nutella on graham crackers and melted marshmellows. That always reminds me of camping, which I LOVE. I don't like snorkeling thanks to a very traumatizing experience that involved a school of jelly fish off the coast of Egypt. I go out to the barn to ride horses several times a week, I ride Australian style now and it's the most comfortable ride in the world. My horse was a rescue horse that needed a tracheotomy at one point. I hope to someday get better at spelling and continue working at making my mom's business a success. I was born on Pearl Harbor Day, which kind of sucks, actually. I'm kind of confused about what I should do with my life, but keep plugging away at it, even when I'm not sure what the next step will be. I love spirituality, but haven't found anything that really suits me. I love going to the movies and art galleries and live shows. Stereolab will forever remain one of my favorite bands ever. Same goes for Yo La Tengo. If I won millions of dollars, I'd most likely buy little properties everywhere in the world then travel from place to place donating supplies and food to third world countries and medical operations, orphanages, and homeless people that need the help. I would buy a very nice horse. Several, actually. I would build a tropical paradise complete with goats and donkeys on Jamaica, Cuba, or Fiji, someplace romantic. Then I would read books in a hammock and suntan and just enjoy the things around me. I'm into Buddhism as much as one can be when they're a total amateur, You see, I'm very normal. Actually kind of boring to the untrained eye.

PHILOSOPHY

Live and let live. Have fun, be respectful. Stay Present, Listen more. I think Americans can be self-centered, so I try to stay aware of that kind of stuff.
Try to help others whenever you can.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None so far, need to try it first!

Interests

Ponies, Books, Travel, Music, Your Underwear, Food, Film, Political Activism, Queer Stuff, Reading LOTS of books, listening to NPR ( the independant news channel here in the USA) almost non-stop, educating the world on Death and Dying and other forms of grief work (I work for a business that sells work books), Keeping myself sane with a rudimentary knowlege of Buddhist teachings amd meditative practices, and I love to just hang out, drink coffee , wine, sit and watch the moon, look at art, and anything else that sounds like fun!

• cats
• dogs
• horses
• fish
• arts
• books
• dining
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• drinking
• news
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• fishing
• camping
• snorkeling
• buddhist
• business

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: Amelie, The Mother, Sex and Lucia, The Venus Beauty Institute, When Harry Met Sally, Crash, Lulu (french version),Metropolis, Sense and Sensability, Lost in Translation, All About My Mother, Secretary, Ma Vie en Rose, Logan's Run, Me You and Everyone We Know, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fire, Mean Girls,The Color Purple, Frida, The Life Aquatic, Manhattan,Rushmore, Saving Face, The Royal Tennenbaums, Supersize Me, Whale Rider, The Twilight Girls, Celebrity, Good Bye Lenin!, Laurel Canyon, Young Frankenstein and many more!

music: Electrelane, Duncan Sheik, Beck, The Gossip, Quix*o*tic, Visqueen, PJ Harvey, Jude, Jamiroquai, Le Tigre, Lhasa De Sela, Carla Bruni, The Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Feist, Martha Wainwright, Holcombe Waller, Dungen, Brazilian Girls, Yo La Tengo, Beuna Vista Social Club, Mia Doi Todd, CSNY, Tori Amos, Radiohead, Glass Candy, The Gossip, The Divided, The Swallows, anything DISCO!!!!!!!: Abba, the Beegees, Rod Stewert you sexy beast, Air, Django Reinhart, The Beatles...

Books: Cunt, The Poisonwood Bible, My Year of Meats, Life of Pi, The TIme Travelers Wife, She's Come Undone, Garrison Keillor's Collection of poems as read on The Writers Almanac,(radio show here) as well as his very witty stories in his books, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, anything by Charlotte Kasl, SARK, and Inga Muscio

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbed Mt. Sinai, rode a horse 100 miles in the South of France for a week, seen the wailing wall in Israel, been to a lot of beer theaters here in Portland, haha.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm going to make millions off of my new Bumper Stickers:

Stay Present, Listen More.
Don't Be So Self Centered.
You Could Be More Patient.

Countries I’ve Visited

Colombia, Egypt, France, Greece, Honduras, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States