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I have four dogs that keep me very busy...an English Setter, two English Cocker Spaniels and a dashchund. I enjoy cooking but I cannot keep a house plant alive. In fact, while watching a British remake of "The Day of the Trifids" my friends agreed that if plants ever attacked, they would just hang out by me! While I don't have the greenest thumb, it does not stop me from trying! I like to garden and if I manage not to kill something, I plant it again the next year. I love to travel but I equally love to stay at home and curl up with a good book. I play the piano and the flute. I like playing poker, too. I do a lot of volunteer work locally and will usually be seen helping out at auctions, golf tournaments, Habitat for Humanity, and other charitable events. I also enjoy watching the birds in my yard eat at the bird feeders. I feed them year round and it is so peaceful...except when my English Setter (bird dog) is stalking them!

This year I received four ducks for my birthday and I just started beekeeping in May 2011! I am very busy in my yard, vegetable garden, duck house, bee hive...I'm going to try chickens next!

I really am open to everything. I love all kinds of dance music - especially songs that I can use to practice ballroom dancing (tango, rumba, salsa, cha cha and swing). I also love 80's pop and hair bands, deathstars, christian, top 40, latin, rap, country, southern rock and classic rock.

I'm a huge fan of vinyl records and search flea markets and old vinyl stores to find them. I listen to vinyl more than anything else!

I don't like polka, Zamphir the Pan Flutist and anything out of tune.

I don't usually have time or discipline to follow a TV series..what with 4 dogs, 4 ducks and 12 thousand bees! I started watching all the Doctor Who episodes - both current and way way back from the beginning and when I am able, I catch an episode or two of Fringe which I record on DVR.

I love to quilt. I am a machine quilter and I use a rotary cutter to cut my material. I typically make lap quilts or baby quilts. I have MANY unfinished projects.

I love to make tote bags and grocery/shopping bags.

I make CD cases for my mix CDs and like different types of scrapbooking papers and embellishments to create them.

I make Friendship books (FBs).

I also like photography and I love to write and try to keep up with my blog: http://chasingpuddles.blogspot.com/

Labyrinth and Sepulchre by Kate Mosse, Marley and Me by John Grogan, books by Jodi Picoult and Dorthea Benton Frank. I love Elizabeth Kostova's "The Historian" and "The Swan Thieves". I also enjoy horror books but it seems so hard to find any good ones these days like old school Stephen King / Dean Koontz. I wanna be SCARED!

Because I commute an hour each way to work, I listen to a lot of audio books. Recent ones that had me laughing out loud (and looking like an idiot to other drivers) were The Devil in the Junior League and The Ex-Debutante. Being in a Junior League, myself, I could totally relate!

Recipes (I love to bake and cook)

Interesting Stickers

Pretty Scrapbooking papers

Jelly Babies from UK...so hard to find here :)

Herbal Teas / Green Teas (No loose)

Coupons

I tend to not use lotions that are perfumed - I have allergies and can't use a lot of things from Bath & Body. Along the same lines no bath gels, bubble bath and soaps unless natural and organic. That's it :)

I love coupons! I have listed coupons I use the most but I can always give others away to friends :)

Toilet Paper (charmin, quilted northern)

Paper Towels (bounty or any)

Kleenex (Puffs, Kleenex)

Cereal

Dog Treats

Frozen foods (pizza: Digournos, Palmero, veggies, etc)

Dishwashing liquid

Contact lens solution (Opti-Free)

Lotion

Shampoo

Snacks

Yogurt, Sour Cream, Country Crock

Colgate Toothpaste or Toothbrushes