About Me
- About Me: I am a wife & mother of 3. I love music & movies, blogging & scrapbooking when I get the chance. And I love spending time with the ones that I love.
Books
- Favorite Books: The Stand; ROOTS; Strong Women, Soft Hearts
- Favorite Authors: Stephen King,
- Favorite Quotes: "The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out." --Stephen King
- Recent Reads: currently reading (for the 3rd time) "The Stand" by Stephen King
Television
- Favorite Shows: The Office, Scrubs, 24
- Favorite Channels: HGTV, FoxNews, TBS (movies)
- Favorite Reruns: Seinfeld, Friends, That 70's Show, The King of Queens, Frasier
- Most Addictive Show: Rock Star
- Favorite Late Night Talk Show: Conan O'Brian
- Characters you relate to: Pam & Jim on The Office
- Show I Secretly Watch: Boy Meets World
- Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Sports Night (1998)
More About Me
- Nicknames: Karebear,
- Nationality: ?? German, Irish, English, even heard tell that I have Native American in me ??---basically I'm a mutt
- Religion: Christian
- Heroes: Jesus and my husband
- Interests: Scrapbooking,
- Expertise: wasting time
- Occupation: motherhood
- Website: http://www.myspace.com/karelina917
Music
- Favorite Artists: Prince, Stevie Wonder, Trip Shakespeare,Paul Simon, Family Force 5, some Fall Out Boy, Killers, Tobymac, U2, Edie Brickell,
- Favorite Albums: Weezer (the blue one-1994), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles, Jellyfish's "Bellybutton", Trip Shakespeare's "Across the Universe" & "Lulu", Stevie Wonder's "Journey through the Secret Life of Plants" Vol. 1&2, Disintegration by The Cure, Face Value by Phil Collins
- Favorite Genre: most anything FUNKY, Classic R&B, Rock, some alternative, 80's (but not big-hair bands)
- Favorite Songs: can't pick just one...
- Favorite Lyrics: "Stay Together" by Al Green, "Never My Love" by The Association and many others...
- Songs for Roadtrips: aforementioned Weezer album, all Trip Shakespeare, U2
- Songs I hate: LOATHE is more like it--"You're Beautiful" by James Blunt, "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter, "You're Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera
- Guilty Pleasure: I don't know if it'd be considered a guilty pleasure or not, but more along the lines of "music I secretly listen to"---and that's Patsy Cline
- Songs I repeat the most: most recently (I usually have a "song of the week" that I wear out until I go on to another one) it's been "Kissing the Dirt (Falling down the Mountain)" by INXS
- Band I wish I was in: Trip Shakespeare or Jellyfish
Style
- I like to wear: jammie pants and a big oversized sweatshirt
- Can't live without: flip flops
College
- School Name: Bethel University
- Class of: 1993
- Attended: 1989 - 1992
- Major(s): first was Art, then Biblical & Theological Studies
- Sports: does broomball during interim count?
Movies
- Favorite Movies: When Harry Met Sally, Jerry McGuire, As Good As It Gets, Shawshank Redemption, Little Miss Sunshine, Edward Scissorhands, What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Limony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Outsiders and many more
- Favorite Actors: Johnny Depp, Greg Kinnear, Jim Carrey
- Favorite Genre: Drama
- Movie Quotes I say all the time: I don't say them all the time, but two of my favorite movie quotes are from Steel Magnolias---"Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion" and "I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence"
- Movies I can watch over and over: see above list
- Actor that would play me in a movie: Wynona Ryder or Jennifer Garner
High School
- School Name: Cross County High School
- Status: Alumni
- Class of: 1989
- Attended: 1976 - 1989
- Sports: volleyball (all through jr. & sr. high) some basketball, tried track-but it sucks, and suffered through some softball
- Organizations: band (played French Horn), speech, FCA, Art Club And might I add since there isn't any other place to say this--I actually attended Benedict Consolidated School in Benedict, NE, but it wasn't listed since they consolidated w/ Stromsburg a few years back, so I had to list Cross County....just FYI ;)
Food
- Favorite Dishes: enchiladas, lasagna
- Favorite Desserts: Breyer's Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
- Favorite Drinks: strawberry lemonade at applebee's
- Favorite Junk Foods: doritoes, M&M's, coca-cola
- Best meal ever: chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes & gravy and corn
- My Original Recipes: I'd tell you but then I'd have to feed you
- Favorite Restaurants: Grisantis, Olive Garden, Hu Hot
- Foods I hate: vegetables...mostly almost all of them...oh, and seafood of any kind
Travel
- Places I've been: Hawaii, Colorado, Washington, South Dakota, The Ozarks, and many more places....
- Places to see before I die: Ireland, Australia, Africa,
- Dream Vacation: Ireland
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- Name: Kari
- Birthday: 12/5/1970
- Gender: Female
- Member Since: 10/10/2006
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