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To those who make me a contact.... please be aware, I check your profile, your favourites, your groups and your contacts. I hold you responsible for your choices on flickr.. and will block you accordingly. I will not be added as a contact for your "personal pleasure".

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just a girl with a camera

I've decided to cut and paste one of those annoying "Get to Know Me" emails and let you see. Don't worry, you don't have to send this to 15 of your friends in 20 minutes for the love of your life to realize where you are and call you at 6:23pm tomorrow night.

This is March 16, 2008.

I'm procrastinating

1. What time did you get up this morning? 10:00. Ask me what time I went to bed ;-)

2. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds, and big enough to take me strait to the bottom of the lake if I fall in. I have a preference for a nice emerald cut, but I'd take a chip of glass if the sentiment was behind it.

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? 27 Dresses

4. What is your favourite TV show? House

5. What did you have for breakfast? Timmies whole grain bagel with cream cheese and an English Breakfast Tea

6. What is your middle name? Lynn ** Last time I looked, my birth certificate still says that

7. What is your favourite cuisine? does food count as a cuisine?

8. What foods do you dislike? Tomatoes, pickles and olives, oh my ** ok.. I like sweet pickles, and recently, sometimes black olives

9. Your favourite Potato Chip? I DON'T like Dill Pickle

10. What is your favourite CD at the moment? Dave Gahan, Hourglass

11. What kind of car do you drive? 2003 Ford Focus hatchback... her name is Lillian

12. Favourite sandwich? PB&J

13. What characteristics do you despise? rudeness, ignorance and arrogance.

14. Favourite item of clothing? my jeans

15. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Away from here...

16. What color is your bathroom? green & black

17. Favourite brand of clothing? H&M

18. Where would you want to retire? good grief, I'll be dead 20 years before I have enough money to retire. Offspring wants to be an astronaut...

19. Favourite time of day? night

20. Favourite sport to watch? volleyball

21. Where were you born? Niagara Falls, Ontario **Edmonton Alberta.

22. Who do you least expect to send this back? anyone who's too lazy to take the time to do it! ** I BETTER GET THIS BACK!!!

23. What laundry detergent do you use? unscented anything

24. Coke or Pepsi? both, but coke if it's with Parrot Bay rum

25. Are you a morning person or night owl? night owl.

26. What size shoe do you wear? 8 ish

27. Do you have pets? Dawson & Gahan the Cat

28. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share with everyone? I'm happy... those who "know" me may be able to figure out why.

29. What did you want to be when you were little? Paramedic

30. Favourite candy bar? unfair to be forced to pick one

31. What is your best childhood memory? Being with Pop & Gramma

32. What are the different jobs you have had in your life? Barn Hand, Dishwasher, Sandwich Artist, Front desk at hotels, Cashier, Bean counter, Receptionist, Accounts Payable, Gopher, Mom

33. What color underwear are you wearing? underwear??

34. Do you have any piercings? one in each ear.

35. What is your favourite number? 17

36. Eye color? brown

37. Ever been to Africa? not yet

38. Ever been toilet papering? I am not confessing to anything until I see the evidence held against me..

39. Love someone so much it made you cry? yes

40. Been in a car accident? yes one too many

41. Croutons or bacon bits? I have to pick?

42. Favourite day of the week? Saturdays ** Well for sure not Monday to Friday

43. Favourite Restaurant? Outback

44. Favourite Flower? Lilies

45 Favourite ice cream? mint chocolate chip ** Anyone got any??

46. Disney or Warner Brothers? Pixar

47. Favourite fast food restaurant? all...

48. What color is your bedroom carpet? hardwood ** I've added a small black shag rug beside the bed

49. How many times did you fail your driver's test? none

50. What do you do? I do lots of things.

51. What are you listening to right now? Offspring playing with lego and the furnace

52. What is your favorite color? black (yes that says alot about my psyche)

53. Lake, ocean or river? lake

54. How many tattoos do you have? none.....yet

55. What are you most afraid of? Snakes.

56. What's your natural hair color? I'm a brunette

57. What are you currently reading? Evil King by Andy Thompson. google it.. I went to school with him. so far so good.

58. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Today, green

59. What was your favorite toy as a child? Hotwheels

60. Last person you went to dinner with? Actually out to a dinner with a server and everything? My friend Jen.

61. Ford or Chevy ? Jeep ** Once a Jeep, always a Jeep

62. Summer or winter? Anything not WINTER

63. What is under your bed? Pictures I can't find space for on the wall and dog hair and a random sock

64. Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea:Nestea, Raspberry please, on ice

65. Cappuccino or Coffee? Tea, then coffee

66. Do you Smoke? Nope

67. Do you Swear? ummm ...

68. Do you Sing? In the car, very bad

69. Do you Shower Daily? Sometimes twice daily

70. Have you Been in Love? Thought I was, but I was just hungry! but....

71. Have you gone Skinny Dipping? (intentionally left blank)

I believe~

~That our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

~That just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

~That it's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.

~That you can keep going, long after you can't.

~That heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.

~That money is a lousy way of keeping score.

~That my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.

~That you shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.

~That even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help.

~A good friend will come bail you out of jail....but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying ...we screwed up, but wasn't that fun!

For those of you who actually read the whole darn thing... I am truly impressed!! The rest of you, well, you just missed out!

K