I'm very eclectic and very much a girlie girl. But I LOVE sports. Hoping to make a buddy for Sunday football. I like a lot of different music. I'm a classically trained flutist who performs with two different Dallas area community bands. I listen to everything from Fleetwood Mac to Moby to Vangelis and Enya. I prefer to play classical music rather than listen to it. I like all the usual stuff - dinners, movies, art museums, putt putt, speed zone, flying a kite at White Rock Lake. I take Time, Sports Illustrated, D Magazine and Texas Monthly. I want to go on the adventures I read about in TM every month - be a tourist in my own home town and state. I'm a self employed hairstylist (no, asking me for a haircut is not a good ice breaker). I'm very intelligent and can talk about nearly anything. I have an intense curiosity about nearly everything. I love to learn about new things! Ever see the show Made in America? LOVE it!

I'd love to meet someone who's as eclectic as I am. Someone who can take me on an adventure and not me dragging someone on one of mine. Someone to go, see and do. I'm not much of an outdoors person, but boats are fun and I can be talked into camping occasionally. Remember! I said up front I'm a girlie girl! A love of sports is a must. Please! I'd much rather find a game on tv than any reality show. Ok, I'd take LA Ink over another bad Ranger game........ My ideal guy is a little bit of a bad boy, but very responsible in their life (engineering degree a bonus - I have a thing for engineers - yeah, I know it's weird). I prefer someone my age or older. NOT younger - please. I get a lot of that, and I'm just not interested. Too much of a difference in frame of reference and life experience. I'm a professional person, I hope you are too. I would like to find someone who really wants to be in a relationship if all things click. I enjoy spending time with a significant other and having fun. If it's not fun, what's the point?

Right now it's pretty simple - working and teaching. I volunteer to teach flute at a Dallas HS. It really truly is one of the most rewarding things I've ever done. I love my girls and want them to succeed. They really have no idea why I show up week after week to work with them. Most will never pick up a flute after high school. What they don't know, yet, is how much the experience will stay with them long after they graduate.

I started working on a music degree a few years ago. I started at Brookhaven because they had a flute choir. I really never intended to go full on as a major, but somehow it happened. Then life got in the way and I haven't finished at the two year level. At the time, I said I couldn't finish a four year because I couldn't stand two more years of theory and ear training (if you've been a college music student, you understand!). Now, after teaching for almost a year, it's making me want to finish. This just might be my retirement job. It never ceases to shock me how music is just IN me. I went to hear this dude at the Granada a couple of weeks ago, and I'm standing there listening to this really cool Texas/blues/rock/alt country stuff and I'm thinking, "I really need to go home and work on learning some blues scales." I don't wanna be a rock star, I just wanna write like one! LOL

Hmmm.........I'm really good at a lot of things. I type like a fiend - can ya tell? I crochet really well - I can do afghans and stuff, but I can do the thread crochet like your Grandmother did. I can whistle loud at football games (no body wants to stand next to me when I do.) I'm really good at problem solving. I'm creative and like to do different stuff like business/personal cards for friends, help them design a room, stuff like that.

Dang - this was a little harder than I thought. I'll have to add to this later. I wanted this section to be about stuff I DO that not everyone can do. I could totally add that I'm a GREAT kisser, but that's for me to know.

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• caj1067

Physically - you can see my picture. It's definitely in the eye of the beholder. What do YOU notice about me?

But me personally - the first thing people notice is I am very smart.....and maybe a little opinionated. They also notice I'm passionate - I wear my emotions out on my sleeve and you never have to wonder what I'm thinking. But (!) it's in a good way. I'm older and my goal is to entertain my clients and friends - I'm usually telling something funny ON MYSELF. I also get a lot of laughs when that passion and intelligence turns to the subject of sports. I always surprise people who don't know me that I really am sports crazy and know a lot. (Disclosure: I probably watch too much Sports Center in the morning.)

Books: I used to only read stuff about murder and mayhem - Stephen King, Tom Clancy, the Kellermans, Robin Cook and on. But the last few years, I've picked up some different stuff. I went back to read classics that other kids read in HS - like Catcher in the Rye, 1984, Animal Farm, etc. I've read a few more 'best seller' types and glad I did. Right now, I'm really behind on reading. I mention the magazines I take somewhere else here. I'm behind reading those!

Movies: I really like Indie type films. Give me something to chew on. I don't like to be spoon fed. I enjoy a lot of mainstream stuff, too. Action, sci fi, comedies, but not so much in to straight on chick flicks. Ok, but one I did LOVE was Steel Magnolias. I want to be Ouiser when I grow up! LOL My all time fave movies: Blade Runner, 1941, American Beauty, Secretary and about 10 or 15 more that I'll think of later.

Music: I LIKE classical music, but do prefer to play it than listen to it. Along those lines, I also like movie soundtracks - not everything, but some stuff stands out to me. John Williams is a freaking genius - he doesn't just write music, he writes characters. Danny Elfman is great, too. I love how these guys are instantly recognizable when you hear their stuff. I think this type of music has become modern 'classical' music. Two of my fave soundtracks, however, are Run Lola Run and Changing Lanes. More clubby ambiant type stuff. Very well used in the films. I think Tarantino is also a genius with using music in his films.

I like to listen to a lot of different stuff. In my studio it's a lot of Vangelis, Enya, etc. I prefer to have music with no words because it's less distracting in the salon. If it had words, I'd want to sing along all the time! My clients might not enjoy that so much - I'm a musician, not a singer. In the car, it's ESPN and the Ticket. When there's nothing on there it's on NPR. I'm an information junkie. I like NPR because they tell stories within the news and not screaming it at me. NPR is knocked for being liberal, but that's not what I get out of it. Again, I don't like to be spoon fed an opinion either.

Back to music - I'm a child of the 70's and early 80's. Fleetwood Mac and Pink Floyd are my two fave bands. But I also listened to Blondie (from way back), the Go-Go's, B-52's, ZZ Top, Van Halen, Journey, Foreigner, Heart, etc, etc. I'd add U2 (best concert I ever saw), Smash Mouth, the Cranberries, and more. I'm a little lost on a lot of new music because I don't listen to commercial radio. But a good song always filters down to me eventually.

My Dad is a musician, too. A Sax player. So, I also grew up listening to a lot of jazz - mostly fusion, the Crusaders, Tower of Power and Earth, Wind, and Fire type stuff. I was really blessed to be exposed to so much different stuff from a very young age.

Food: LOL Look at me! I love food! Being a native Texan, Mexican food is my absolute fave. I've been many places in the world and hate staying away for too long because I want to come home for some real food! But I'm willing to try many different things.

My friends and family - my music - my work. Those were the easy ones. I also can't do without Texas, sports, and Mexican food.

LOL Sports! That is the first thing that came to mind, but I think I'm starting to look obsessive. I dunno........what does one spend a lot of thinking about? Lately, it's been music and my future. How can I keep bringing these kids along, how can I help improve a music program at a school that doesn't have any money to spend on it, should I really finish a four year so I can teach more, etc and so on. I've had a lot of change in the last year. I thought my future was laid out for me as a wife and step Mom, but he died suddenly in a motorcycle accident in 2007. I hate blurting that out, but it has colored my thinking - obviously. I just don't have a lot of big expectations right now. Teaching, my work, my friends, and being able to enjoy the things I DO enjoy (like the stupid sports thing) has gotten me through all this. Every single day is about keeping perspective and one foot in front of the other. People pay lip service to the saying "Life is too short." I KNOW what that really means. So, I guess I just don't waste time thinking about crap that doesn't matter. No time for negativity in any way. Life is too short.

Well, until a week or so ago, my Friday nights were spent at high school football games with the band kids I teach. I have to say, that really was so much fun. I usually try to at least find something to do with my friends. I have girlfriends who like to do the dinner and a movie thing as a small group or stay in with some other friends to watch the Mavs. I was invited recently to go to a concert at the Granada. Had a blast. Just whatever strikes.

I don't really care for mayonnaise. I prefer Miracle Whip - especially on a sammich.

Message me if you find what I've put down here interesting. I am a very well rounded person looking for the same. Message me if you just like to explore stuff. And if you like sports. ;-)