About Me

  • About Me: "If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt." -- William Shakespeare

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Mari, Delghetta, Doll, the Black Orchid, and don't ask...
  • Nationality: English, French, Welsh, Irish (the most of anything... 1/4), Scandinavian, Bohemian/Transylvania, Czech (and somewhere way back, Greek)
  • Religion: Conservative Lutheran (LC-MS)
  • Heroes: God, My Family, My Friends, Godly politicians, Elizabeth Bennet
  • Interests: dancing... friends... time... sunrises... stars... conversations... imagination... music... debate... life... forgetting... forever... paradise...
  • Expertise: ask someone not me
  • Occupation: wanderer
  • Industry: life
  • Website: http://splintersinthelight.blogspot.com/

Music

  • Favorite Artists: The only answer to this question is Michael Buble. Josh Groban is amazing, but not better than my Michael Buble.
  • Favorite Albums: Call Me Irresponsible (my favourite CD ever), It's Time and Michael Buble (Michael Buble), Awake and Closer (Josh Groban), Eden, Harem and La Luna (Sarah Brightman)
  • Favorite Genre: SWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And lots of it, too. Really, any dancing music. Tango, big band, salsa, waltz... and so on... Okay, well, and I would have said Country, which I very rarely listen to now, and even rarer enjoy anymore. *sighs* I almost feel like because that is gone, so is a huge part of my life. But to fill the void, I've decided that I really like modern rock (HINDER!!!, Chris Daughtry, Breaking Point, The Fray, Nickelback, Snow Patrol, The All-American Rejects, etc.), pop (BT, Justin Timberlake, Kelly Clarkson, Ryan Cabrera and the Backstreet Boys), opera (Andrea Bochelli and Il Divo), jazz (Michael Buble, Chris Botti, Sammy, Franky Baby and Deano to be more specifically), and miscellany (i.e. Sarah Brightman, Christine Andreas and Josh Groban)...
  • Favorite Songs: Lost. Lost. Lost. Lost. Lost. I can't believe how amazing that song is. Wow. I ADORE IT.
  • Favorite Lyrics: Basically, any Josh Groban or Michael Buble song
  • Guilty Pleasure: *laughs* Justin Timberlake. But I don't really feel guilty listening to it, so I suppose it doesn't count...
  • Songs I repeat the most: Dancing music! Hands down.

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Italian or French... or British... although I've really been liking spicy foods lately...
  • Favorite Dishes: steak anything, tropical fruits of any kind besides coconut, salads
  • Favorite Desserts: tiramusu, white chocolate mousse, dancing (oh, wait, that's not a dessert...)
  • Favorite Drinks: passionfruit-mango iced tea... anything tropical that doesn't have coconut in it... Carmel Macchiatto!
  • Favorite Junk Foods: sweettarts. or bottle caps. or MOUNTAIN DEW.
  • My Original Recipes: too many to list here! I'm a gourmet chef, don't you know.
  • Favorite Restaurants: Olive Garden, Macaroni Grill, Elephant Bar, Tokyo Joes, Paneras
  • Foods I hate: mushrooms, seafood, rare meat, uncooked onions, peppers, coconut, lettuce (unless there's tonnes of dressing on it!)... that's a basic list...

Books

  • Favorite Books: Pride and Prejudice and Lord of the Rings
  • Favorite Authors: J.R.R. Tolkein, Sir Arthur Conan Doyal, Agatha Christie, myself! (kidding, kidding, I promise)
  • Favorite Genres: Mystery, Fantasy, Suspense
  • Favorite Characters: Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet
  • Favorite Quotes: "Woman is Passion, Man is Action, and it is for this reason that man adores woman." -- Honoré de Balzac "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." -- Aristotle
  • Recent Reads: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins... very good. The first of the great British mystery authors! He was a good friend and protege of Charles Dickens. Paris in the Twentieth Century by Jules Verne -- the second book he wrote, but it wasn't published until 1994. It is amazing and wondeful. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis -- I really don't like C.S. Lewis, but I loved this book. Everyone should read it.

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: the A&E Pride and Prejudice, Lord of the Rings, Gone with the Wind, Singing in the Rain and other such musicals, The Island, West Side Story, Phantom of the Opera, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days...
  • Favorite Actors: *Colin Firth*, Brad Pitt, Karl Urban, Sean Bean, Gerald Butler, Shane West
  • Favorite Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Action, Drama, War flicks... and *cough* Romantic Comedies...
  • Favorite Soundtracks: Phantom of the Opera rocks... from Broadway, I love the Scarlet Pimpernel and Jersey Boys
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: Anything from Lord of the Rings or Pride and Prejudice, really. Sometimes Pirates.
  • Movies I can watch over and over: Pride and Prejudice (the proper version)

Travel

  • Places I love: Italy, France, Germany, Scotland, Switzerland, England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Colorado (in no real order)
  • Places I've been: never outside of the US, but I've been in (that I can remember): AZ, CA, CO, DE, GA, KS, MD, MN, NE, NV, NJ, OK, PA, TX, UT, VA, WY
  • Places to see before I die: Italy and England... the rest would be wonderful to see, but I must see Italy for the history, culture and lampposts *wink* and England because it's England.
  • Dream Vacation: Right now... probably England more than Italy, but hey, I'd take either.

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, West Wing, Digging for the Truth, Monk, House, Lost, L&O: SUV and L&O: CI
  • Favorite Channels: FOXNews, History Channel
  • Most Addictive Show: Lost
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: West Wing

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Memories (1)

  • mysteriouscatt
    This girl walked up to me and didn't say anything, though I was almost certain she had said her name was Sarah. And she turned out to be one of the sweetest, nicest people I'd ever met. Do you remember her?

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