The OLD FiReCrAcKeR

A few people I know emailed this to me... and some had it on their LJ's. So i decided out of boredom I'd post it here. Maybe you'll learn something random about me!

Fourteen things you wish to accomplish:
-Get rid of my complex and try to date again... for real
-Grow with my job for a while... if not a long long while. Maybe get promoted and put my B.S. degree to work using all my HR and administration stuff and maybe teach.
-Find someone... take it slow. Have someone again...
-Finish my research project on proactive policing. Changing it up to make the NPS ranger dispatch center act more proactive. Yeah, you heard me. Proactive dispatching. It sounds funny but it's a different aspect of being proactive than proactive patrol. It's anticipating things before they happen and more... not gonna totally go into it here. If you're interested ask me. Maybe I'll get published somewhere.
-Cleaning out all of the stuff i have at dad's house
-Buy a real house. No more renting. Maybe out in Rawley Springs. (Upper Rawley)
-Pay off the Student Loans and my car and my credit cards... and not being in debt.
-Play my Sax again in Community Band next summer if i have time
-Teach my class on "Critical Spanish for the Law Enforcement Officer or Emergency Communications Personnel" that i had to write for class. Maybe split it into two since there's a lot of difference in the EMD stuff and the patrol stuff. But yeah, using it cuz i forgot about it until yesterday and it'd be a waste not to use it. (though it did get me an A!)
-Being able to tell those close to me about my dad and the divorce stuff
-Get my black belt in kickboxing (now that i'm staying here)
-Provided I find someone... and we decide to, get married in the forest or something like that. Start a family.
-Skydive. Or Parasail. Or both? I'm a daredevil and i usually try anything once.
-Go to Hawaii again. This time with someone to enjoy it with.


Thirteen random things you like:
-The forest and being outdoors (Nice Days)
-Stars and Waterfalls and Sunsets (and someone to enjoy them with me)
-Metallica!
-Family Guy (and all the TV shows i listed below!)
-Being loved...
-The sound of the Marching band on the first day of band camp :) forever an MRD!
-Airsoft. Or just the shooting range. I've got pretty good aim. Maybe I'll apply for my CWP sometime soon.
-Sex and the City
-Tigger from Winnie-the-Pooh. I'm bouncy trouncy flouncy and pouncy (fun fun fun fun fun!)
-Fireplaces in the winter. And REAL christmas trees. (I get the tree on my birthday :))
-Weather phenomena... like t-storms, big-ass snowstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes (Though i wouldn't want to be in one of them!)
-Hanging out with a group of my friends... love you guys whether I tell you that or not!
-Playing Clarinet or Sax... or just pounding it out with the drumsticks. I'm going to learn the fiddle part of "Devil went down to Georgia" soon... got the fiddle!

Twelve movies: (very hard for me)
-Super Troopers
-Dirty Dancing
-Newsies
-Top Gun
-The Wizard of Oz
-Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
-Being John Malkovich (cuz it's wierd)
-The American President
-Southpark: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
-Meet the Feebles (like fraggles but getting high)
-Any of the Harry Potter movies
-Shrek 2 (for lack of thinking at 8am)


Eleven good bands: (taking band loosely, and knowing i have the craziest genre taste of anyone)
-Metallica (pre-black album!)
-Slipknot
-Linkin Park
-Black Sabbath
-Learning to like these bands (or the ones i don't know). Come with me... i haven't bought tix yet!
-Garth Brooks
-Thestir (when they were together!)
-Small Town Workers (sTw)
-Jimmy Buffett
-David Pope. (Go see him at Daves if you haven't... he's amazing on the Sax)
-Dave Matthews Band
(yes... the list DOES start with Metallica and end with Dave Matthews Band. I'm aware.)

Ten things about you ... physically:

-I've got really pale skin. Sometimes it's tan. Now my arms are!!
-I'm about 5'4"
-I aparantly have a really smooth body? ;)
-Not that you want to know... but the hair on my arms and legs is really really invisible
-I've got flat feet.
-I have a lot of scars. one that looks like an "i" on my knee, one on my abdomen from surgery, and then a line on my neck (across my throat) and a squiggle on my left wrist (from my car accident... thank god for seatbelts)
-I have really long fingers. Especially my middle one!
-I'm double jointed
-I'm always sick. And I've been told I had cancer a few times. But nothing so far. (Thankfully!)
-I'm getting my tonsils taken out at some point this summer!

Nine random memories:
-Seeing the Challenger accident... i was little and didn't quite understand it, but i remember being with Kristen and our mom's were completely bawling
-September 11th... reading away messages, becca waking me up, going to the living room and putting on the news and just falling to the ground. I knew too many people...
-Moving away from everything that i knew. Then leaving there. And truly finding where I belong...
-My sister's reaction to my parents getting divorced. And then my learning the reasoning...
-Graduation from College. It was one of the best days of my life. (I hope to only be topped by days like an engagement or wedding day, etc...)
-Helping a girl last year over 911. I won't go into a ton of details but I remember the call in my head. I think that it's part of what made me want to come back.
-Playing Indians when I was younger. We made our own language: Leni Lenape "The river people". And finding the shell pile in Kristen's backyard!
-Paradise City... enough said!
-Recent memories of off-roading and beer and fun times... love the fun times :)

Eight favorite foods/drinks: (here's where i get the name "freak girl!"
-Cheese. Pretty much anything. I LOVE cheese.
-Fried Pickles
-Fried Chicken (are we getting the "fried" part? I belong in the South!)
-Bacon!
-NY Bagels and Pizza
-Panera's broccoli cheddar soup in a bread bowl and the portobella sandwich... mmmm
-Fish and clams and stuff (i grew up on the beach!)
-I can't believe i forgot Beer until now! (in the words of Chad Siever... "I need a beer!")

Seven things you wear daily: (this is currently... different in the winter!)
-flip flops.
-A thong. (cuz you needed to know that)
-The eagle ring that Leigh gave me before he died. (so i don't "wear" it. but it's always with me)
-Bra. (duh! unless it's built into a shirt.)
-Pants
-Shirt
-Not rechnically "wear"... but my cell phone

Six things that annoy you:
-Stupid People. (and lord knows there's enough of THEM here in h'burg)
-How I've become "countrified" and say "Harrisonburg," "water," and "fire" (if you ask me to say these i won't... but if you listen you'll hear what H'burg/R'ham has done to me!!)
-People who intentionally hurt other people
-FAKE people.
-People who can't be honest
-That when i was looking for housing online for H'burg, I found a link for quality housing, clicked on it, and it led me to Harris (Harlem?) Gardens. REALLY... negative!!!

Five things you touch everyday:
-um... ::deleted item:: ;)
-A computer (or laptop)
-My hair
-My keys
-A beer

Four shows you watch:
-Simpsons
-Family Guy
-SouthPark
-Monster House, Trading Spaces, or the new show Extreme Home Makeover

Three celebrities you have a crush on:
-um... i don't really know
-David! (Duchovny or however you spell it. The truth IS out there! I miss the X Files)
-I really don't know...

Two people on LJ you have kissed:
-I'm not on LJ anymore!

One person you could spend the rest of your life with:
-I'll have to get back to you...

So it's ironic. But it's 9:11 am now. Perhaps I will update more later.

Peace. :)