ArtsOnFire

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I am in a band called The Sump Pumps; I play percussion and sing backup.

I am a tour guide for Chicago Hauntings. This is a ghost hunting tour created by Ursula Bielski, a world-renowned author and ghost-hunter.

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I was struck by lightening when I was 12.

A piece of my artwork is on permanent display in Malaysia.

I've started "super couponing." My highest dollar savings amount was 126.00 on 1.6.12; my highest percentage savings was 67%. My goal is to get cart loads of free or nearly free groceries and donate them to the food pantry that helped us when we were in need. Check out http://www.jillcataldo.com for some great tips and tricks.

I once stalked Bono outside his hotel room in the freezing cold Chicago winter and had my picture taken with him.

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Preferences: Book to movie; Hardback to Paperback; reading to tv, wood mounted rubber stamps mounted to acrylic mounted rubber stamps; toilet paper coming out from the bottom to coming out from the top; Coke to Pepsi; 12 grain wheat to white; psychological thrill to gore; 2% milk to regular; half caf to full caf; Equal to Splenda; Target to Wal-Mart; Edgar to Sig; cloudy to sunny; cool to hot; truth to lies; black and white to color; sepia to black and white;

Some of my favorite people are: My Ray, My Meagan, Susanah (whom I miss terribly), my Uncle Al, Kelly Y., Maizey, Chloe, Tyler Durden, Daniel Craig, Jana Holle, Uncle Billie, Mike Rowe, Vincent D'onofrio, Heidi Klum, Ursula Bielski, Angelina Jolie, Leland Chapman, Daniel Burnham, Dan the EMT who tried to save my Ronin,

Some of my favorite books: The Help by Kathryn Stockett, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, The Odessa Files by Frederick Forsyth, The Taking by Dean Koontz, Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, There Are No Children Here by Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers, The Sinking of the Eastland, America's Forgotten Tragedy by Jay Bonansinga.

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Jeni and Amy - Rest in Peace two lovely, yet troubled girls who burned too bright and died too young; and whose fires, though diminished, will never be extinguished. Namaste.