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(updated 02/11/12)

(photo era 2007)

• I was born in Delta, Colorado on July 9, 1972, a date which is also shared by the Argentinian Independence Day.

• My mother was a teenager, and my father was an Argentinian citizen that my mother met while a foreign exchange student there.

• "Just this once won't hurt," is a line that I don't believe.

• I have lived in many places. Delta, CO, Huntington Beach, CA, Norway, IA, Cedar Rapids, IA, Toddville, IA, Iowa City, IA, West Branch, IA, Coralville, IA, Bandon, OR, North Bend, OR, and Chicago, IL, are a few of them.

• My mom got married and divorced a few times in there somewhere.

• I attended 8 different schools before high school, and somehow managed to finish all four years of my pre-collegiate education in a single nice, private Catholic high school.

• Most of the people at my 10-year reunion didn't remember me, but I remembered them. 99% of the people I actually wanted to see were smart and skipped out on it. The catered steaks were good, though. A lot of people remembered me at my 20th reunion, but I mostly noticed some of the guys checking out my rack, which I did not have 10 years prior.
  

• I am not Catholic. I consider myself spiritual, but claim to be a member of no particular organized religion or belief system. Call me a heathen if you will.

• I make a concerted effort to live by the Golden Rule, but often fail.

• I have two sisters and one brother: Short-Round (19 years younger than me), Stinkerbell (10.5 years younger than me), and the one we don't talk about (3 or so years younger than me). Stinkerbell is a Pathologist, and Short-Round is graduating college this spring.

• At various times I have: sung in school choirs all over this great nation, taken violin lessons, played the flute, been a nursing major enrolled in AFROTC changed my major to Communications, changed my major to Art, had a nervous breakdown, gone to beauty school, cut +/or colored +/or permed +/or waxed a lot of different people, graduated with a BA in Studio Art from the University of Iowa, and kissed a lot of boys.

• I like to make things. I make jewelry, knit things that are some permutation of rectangles, crochet accessories like flower brooches, sew messenger bags, make hand-embroidered felt things like donut ornaments and bacon action figures, I draw, and I troubleshoot craft.

• I like to cut and color, but I really don't like perming or doing updos. I can do all four very well, though, thank you.

• Sometime my hair is red, and sometimes it is blonde, and now that I'm older, it's usually purple or pink.

• Until moving to Chicago in May 2003, I spent close to a year living at home with my mom and dad, my youngest sister, a dog, two koi, a couple snails, an algae-eater, many many cats, and more fleas than you can shake a stick at. As of 2013, they have a dog, one koi and one pleco, many many cats, two bunnies, and probably a lot of fleas in the summer. Cricket, my devil kitty, recently took up residence here.

• I now live alone in a charming studio apartment in Edgewater Beach with a cat, Cricket "NoBadKitty!" Martin, and an array of fine furnishings largely purchased at IKEA and Target. Soon, I am moving in with a friend, to a charming attic apartment in Roscoe Village, where she already has a roommate and two cats, so I had to sent Cricket to my parent's to live.

• I used to drive a light pink, 2009 Genuine Buddy 125 scooter (very mod), but had a ridiculous accident that totaled it. Now, I drive a seafoam green, 2009 Genuine Buddy 125, with a baby blue topcase - my old one was pink and covered in stickers and was totaled with the bike or else I'd still use it, and then don't make those topcases anymore, thus the mismatching, and nice black saddlebags. 

• In the accident, I went down sideways and broke my fall with my arm, and messily fractured my elbow - had to have a 5" metal plate and 6 screws installed.  was wearing a helmet and armored gloves, but not body armor. Now I don't ride it without all three - I was more concerned with road rash, and never considered breaking joints, so I never bothered before with armor. And the helmet definitely saved my life - I whacked my head against the pavement very hard, and then bounced my face on the ground a few times - which trashed the helmet but only bruised my cheek.

• I would rather stay at home and read a book, or watch a movie than go out to a loud, stinky bar.

• I work for a quirky, privately owned salon in Lakeview East, as a contract stylist. (1099 all the way, baby.). I used to work other places as a manager, but they are all teh suck. 
  
  
• I collect lots of things. I like Tinker Bell and Hello Kitty, but I don't snap it all up.
  
  
• I super dig Santa Monica, but I don't think I would want to live there. At least not for more than a couple of months or so. I also love Costa Rica, but couldn't live there full-time because it is too hot and humid and technologically unadvanced, despite being the home of Intel.
  
  I am going to Nice and Paris, France in early 2013, with my ex who is not my friend. I have no idea what to expect, and neither of us speak Franch.
  
  
  
  
• My favorite colors are pink, orange, pale greens (celadon, celery, mint, sage), and light blue.
  
  
• My favorite flowers are lilies and gladiolas, but I am super jazzed about flowering Tillandsia - a bromeliad/air plant, for now. Orchids also pique my interest.
  
  
• I could never go on the Atkins diet because I live for carbohydrates, although I do love bacon with an unholy passion, but I am moving in with a gluten-free vegetarian, so we'll see how that works.
  
  
• There's more, but I think that's enough for now.