About Me

  • About Me: Hmmm...there's just too much awesomeness in my life to fit here, so let me sum up. I'm a stay-at-home mom, two of my four precious offspring (3 sons, 1 daughter) are in school while my ever-curious 4-year-old and his studious toddler apprentice hang out here with me. And obviously, I just sit at my computer all day while they ransack the house and conduct bizarre experiments with food and gravity. Okay, maybe we occasionally go for walks, hang out at the park, read Curious George books and create thought-provoking art...but I wouldn't want my Xanga dedication to come into question.

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  • Nicknames: All English forms of the word "Mother", "Schweet" (only my mom calls me that!), "Half-Pint" (only my dad calls me that!), and "Beebus" (only my Beebus-Baby calls me that, so basically if you're not my child or any of the above mentioned people, I have no nickname.)
  • Nationality: American
  • Religion: Christian
  • Heroes: Stephen King
  • Interests: I'm willing to try anything once, as long as it doesn't involve law-breaking, hurling myself FROM anything (i.e. a plane) or OFF OF anything (i.e. a bridge). But if you're looking for someone to try the new sushi place up the street with you, then I'm your gal. Of course, there are lots of things I currently love to do on a regular basis, such as...speaking with God, consuming gallons of coffee, playing with my kids, spending time with my hubby, cleaning (yeah, I'm a weirdo), scrapbooking, beading, crocheting, crafting stuff in general, watching episodes of our favorite shows (of which there are too many to mention), shopping for scrapbook supplies (I'm currently seeking a 12-step program for this), photographing practically everything I see, and developing a cure for stupidity. Actually, I just made that last one up to see if you were paying attention.
  • Expertise: I consider myself a well-rounded person, but the only thing I could be called an expert in would be diaper-changing. Yep. I've got that totally covered. Ask me anything. <center><br/><a href="http://guttergirlz.blogspot.com"><img src="http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc210/latte_grande/guttergirlz.jpg"></a><br/><a href="http://tallyscrapper.com"><img src="http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb298/crevels/TallyBlinkieDT08.gif"></a><br/><a href="http://dreamgirls.typepad.com/dreamgirls/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn248/Dreamgirlsdesign/dreamgirlsbutton2.jpg"></a><br/><a href="http://www.myscrapbooknook.com/"><img src="http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc210/latte_grande/4pedytk_2.gif"></a></center>

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Wow, we watch so much TV, I don't even know where to start! Medium, House, Scrubs, My Name Is Earl, The Office, CSIs, Law & Orders, Hell's Kitchen, American Idol, Survivor, Last Comic Standing, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, Smallville, Supernatural, ER, Monk, Psych, South Park, and most of those shows come on Thursday night, so that is my favorite day of the week and the evening we are least likely to answer the phone. Oh, I almost forgot about daytime! There's Regis & Kelly, The Price is Right, Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless, Ellen, Spongebob Squarepants, Jimmy Neutron, and Fairly Oddparents!
  • Favorite Channels: NBC, USA, WB and FOX
  • Favorite Reruns: Friends, Fraiser, Seinfeld, The King of Queens, and any of the above-mentioned shows
  • Favorite Late Night Talk Show: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, but I love Conan also!
  • Favorite Episode: "Lexmas" - the Smallville episode where Lex is shot and has a coma dream that he's married to Lana with kids (or was it a dream?)
  • Characters you relate to: Marge Simpson, Monica Geller-Bing
  • Show I Secretly Watch: It's no secret...I watch all shows unashamed (though I felt a little guilty watching The Swan a few years ago)

High School

  • School Name: Goshen High School
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 1996
  • Attended: 1992 - 1996
  • Sports: swimming
  • Organizations: band

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Raising Arizona, A Clockwork Orange, The Color Purple, Donnie Darko, The Jacket
  • Favorite Actors: Nicolas Cage, Jake Gyllanhal(sp?), Matthew McConnahay(hey, I like their acting, but don't ask me how to spell their names)
  • Favorite Directors: M. Night Shylaman (ditto on spelling a director's name), of course Stephen Spielberg and Ron Howard
  • Favorite Genre: I love them all...Suspense and Horror are givens, but I love comedies, action, tear-jerkers...you name it. Don't tell anyone, but my guilty pleasure is musicals! Totally loved "Chicago!"
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: Sandra Bullock (yeah, right!)

Books

  • Favorite Books: "The Stand" is my favorite Stephen King book, but I'll read anything he writes...still waiting for that laundry list he keeps threatening to publish!
  • Favorite Authors: uuuummm, did I mention Stephen King? Also, Laurell Hamilton, James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Clive Barker, Kelley Armstrong, any horror/suspense writer, really.
  • Favorite Genres: Horror, Suspense, Mystery
  • Favorite Characters: Roland of Gilead, The Walkin' Dude, Anita Blake

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    • Name: Christi
    • Birthday: 9/21/1977
    • Gender: Female
    • Member Since: 3/24/2006
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  • vikkiotis
    remember when you and nikki and i were all scrapbooking together at nikki's, and it was like 3 in the morning? we were playing uno attack and screaming every time a card would fly out!! haha...and we were all laughing at the stupidest things? that was so much fun!! we should do it again sometime

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  • natguseman
    Just stopping by to say hello...haven't chatted in a few days. :)
  • vikkiotis
    okay...forget both of those...just go to this website: http://www.xanga.com/item.aspx?user=Pretty_cute_lays&tab=weblogs&uid=499309356 and then look for the turtles layout and click on it and it will give you instructions on how to make it your layout!
  • vikkiotis
    copy this instead... layout by pretty_cute_lays BODY { Background-color: #ffffff; background-image:url(http://i7.tinypic.com/20sja05.jpg); background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: bottom right; scrollbar-face-color: #0080ff; scrollbar-shadow-co
  • vikkiotis
    christi copy the stuff following this message and paste it in your look and feel section. change the header to say input your own header and then paste this in that box...it's a turtle layout...don't know if it's exactly what you want...but it's really cute!!! try it out and if you don't like it,
  • latte_grande
    I love to paint...don't start without me!
  • vikkiotis
    yes, that would be AWESOME if you guys moved to nappanee!! and i might take you up on the painting thing!! we want to get a new white bedroom set from value city furniture (in which case if we did..we would have an extra dresser...rick was asking about one), and i want to paint a.j.'s and my new b