I love to learn and take in new knowledge and experiences. I'm all about living life to the fullest and personal growth. Self awareness and personal growth are huge to me. I hope I never stagnate. I always want to be improving and growing and I want the same in a partner. Self awareness isn't much good without the desire for personal growth. What good does it do if I know I'm an asshole and don't care? Doesn't do me any good; doesn't do you any good. How miserable would it be to be an asshole? I'm thinking there has to be some deep pain going on there. Anyway, I digress, personal growth and just living life are two things I focus on in my life...if I had to pick one focus, which I guess if it's going to truly be a focus than that might be a good idea, personal growth would be it - I think I can squeeze living life under that heading - how can you grow if your not living, right?

Sometimes I think I get excited and passionate about too many things - there are so many things I want to do, want to learn, but there are only 24 hours in a day! And this is where ADD-type symptoms come in - what do I focus on first?! I find it very frustrating that I have to use some of those precious 24 hours to sleep! If anyone figures out how to add hours to a day, please let me know - I am so on board! :P

Ok, so maybe a little background info on me...some people find this interesting. I grew up in St. Louis, MO in a Charismatic Christian (holy roller, speaking in tongues, laying on of hands...all that wacky stuff) home. I was totally into it until college where I learned to think for myself. :) Well, it wasn't until the second or third year that I got out of the charismatic aspect of the religion and then the rest slowly went out the window...brainwashing runs deep. Have you ever seen "Jesus Camp"? That's pretty much exactly what I grew up in. Now I'm more agnostic than anything else - though I do find spirituality intriguing and enticing. I have a lot of respect for Buddhism, for example. I don't have a set of beliefs - that's still part of my personal growth, well, I guess it always will be, I'll just be further down the road of my journey. I love to hear about other people's belief systems and philosophies on life. I think we can all learn something from each other - even if it's "I really don't want to be like that" - lol (yes, I just used "lol" in my profile). That's actually a good lesson. :P

My focus is on living and experiencing life. I embrace both ups and downs - there's this great quote about how you have to embrace the bad with the good in order to fully live and appreciate life, but I can't remember where I heard/read it or who said it, arg! So, that leads me back to stuff like self awareness, analysis, improvement...I'm always trying to be a better version of me. I always want to be growing and changing.

I've starting pursuing one of my passions, which is acting. I have a few others that I'm starting to test the waters with, but I'm keeping those to myself right now. :P Like, I said - so many things and so little time!

Daydreaming. I daydream WAY too much! Oh, and laughing - I laugh a lot! I love to laugh (Hence the earlier lol). Haha haha. :)

Lately, I've gotten a lot of comments on my eyes - big blue eyes.

Books:
One of my all time fav books is "Catch-22". I find it endlessly amusing. :) Other books I love: "A heartbreaking work of staggering genius" by Dave Eggers, "The Bookseller of Kabul" by Asne Seierstad (love her!), "The Poisonwood Bible" by by Barbara Kingsolve (growing up in a religious family, this totally spoke to me), "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia E. Butler (find unique belief systems fascinating), "Fluke" and "Lamb" by Christopher Moore (funny!), "Foundation Trilogy" by Isaac Asimov

Movies:
Pan's Labyrinth, Zoolander ("How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read if they can't even fit inside the building?"), Eat Pray Love (hey, it speaks to me! lol), Underworld, The Fifth Element, Swing Kids...

Music:
Liz Phair, Meklit Hadero, Regina Spektor, KT Tunstall, Lady Gaga, Pink, No Doubt, Rooney, Motion City Soundtrack, The Presidents of the United States, The Ditty Bops, Death Cab for Cutie, Fall Out Boy, Ok Go, Gimme Gimmes, The Postal Service, The Ataris, The White Stripes, Aimee Mann, Cake, Green Day, Dropkick Murphys, Meredith Brooks, Norah Jones, Alanis Morisette, Bowling for Soup, Less than Jake, Mad Rad..I appreciate all kinds of music

Food:
Indian, Moroccan, Mexican, Pizza, Chinese...and lots more - I like trying new things!

In no particular order:
1. Creativity/Artistic Expression
2. Connection
3. The Beach and nature in general
4. Sense of humor
5. The internet
6. Smart Phone (I used to have "iPhone" on here, but I lost mine and now have a windows phone...not so sure saving the money was worth the switch...but it's a smart phone and going without for a week was rather torturous - not knowing if a bus was late, early or on time or if there was an alternate route I could take was killing me and my punctuality! Plus, not the keenest sense of direction so gps is a godsend! How did I survive before the smart phone? I don't think I got out much. lol)

How I can be a better person, what I really want to do when i grow up and how I can make those things happen.

Typical? Sheesh, I don't know. I'm usually doing something with someone...

Sheesh, I already told you I used to be a "holy roller" what else do you want to know? :P

Seriously, though, I am an open person, so just ask - more than likely you will get an answer.

If you think we would get along and would enjoy each other's company, send me a message.