About Me

  • About Me: I want to be someone that future generations of children will read about in their textbooks.

Music

  • Favorite Artists: All American Rejects, Amber Pacific, Anna Nalick, Avril Lavigne, Carrie Underwood, Cute Is What We Aim For, Dan Nichols and Eighteen, Daughtry, Death Cab For Cutie, Evanescence, Five for Fighting, The Fray, Halifax, Kate Voegele, Kelly Clarkson, Krystal Meyers, Rascal Flatts, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Relient K, Sara Bareilles, Secondhand Serenade, Switchfoot, Taylor Swift, Vanessa Carlton, Yellowcard...I love music! Pretty much anything but rap
  • Favorite Genre: Rock, Christian, *some* pop
  • Favorite Songs: Anything by Anna Nalick Scars --Papa Roach How to Save a Life --The Fray You're Beautiful --Phil Wickham Move Along --All American Rejects Fix You --Coldplay I Will Follow You Into The Dark --Death Cab for Cutie After the World --Disciple Let It All Out --Relient K My Immortal --Evanescence Landslide --Fleetwood Mac Face Down, Your Guardian Angel --Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Wish You Were --Kate Voegele (best breakup song I've heard in a while!) Gravity --Sara Bareilles And tons more
  • Favorite Lyrics: Anything by Anna Nalick, that woman is pure lyrical genius! I tear my heart open/I sew myself shut/My weakness is I care too much --Papa Roach In the press of the crowd/Or when I'm walking alone/Somehow I feel found/Because in You I know there's hope --Dan Nichols & Eighteen You said I know that this will hurt/But if I don't break your heart/Things will just get worse/When the burden seems too much to bear/Remember the end will justify/The pain it took to get us there --Relient K You loved me because I'm fragile/I thought that I was strong/But you touch me for a little while/And all my fragile strength is gone --Sara Bareilles Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same --The Fray And TONS of others!

Books

  • Favorite Books: The Bible, She Said Yes, Diary of Anne Frank, The Red Tent, To Kill A Mockingbird, Speak, Stargirl, Anne of Green Gables, Catcher In The Rye, Diary of a Teenage Girl series, The Freedom Writer's Diary, The Sunflower, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Book Thief, Thirteen Reasons Why, The Other Boleyn Girl, Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie, Real Sex: The Naked Truth About Chastity, Girl Meets God, The Handmaid's Tale, Here If You Need Me, Traveling Mercies, Mudhouse Sabbath, and pretty much anything by Jodi Picoult

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Titanic, Ever After, The Notebook, Hotel Rwanda, Bruce Almighty, A Walk to Remember, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Matilda, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pay It Forward, Bridget Jones' Diary, Dead Poet's Society, Stepmom, Ladder 49, Casanova, Pirates of the Carribean, Little Miss Sunshine, Enchanted, Juno, 27 Dresses, He's Just Not That Into You...I confess, I am a chick flick junkie!
  • Favorite Actors: Natalie Portman, Drew Barrymore, Katherine Heigl, Leelee Sobieski, Kate Winslet, Jennifer Garner

More About Me

  • Religion: No religion, just a relationship :)
  • Heroes: Jesus, Anne Frank, Joan of Arc, Cassie Bernall, my parents, pretty much anyone willing to stand for a worthy, yet unpopular cause
  • Interests: Dancing, ice skating, writing songs/poetry, collecting hats, Starbucks, spooning, The Red Hat Society, singing, getting lost in book stores, "intellectual intercourse, " figuring out what I'm gonna do with my life, talking like an English major, and much more!
  • Expertise: Being ridiculously awkward and sarcastic, caring too much, analyzing things, debating, writing poems, randomly bursting into song and dance routines because I am CONVINCED my life is a musical (and if not, then it should be!), making people laugh with my "wicked" (and, ok, sometimes misunderstood) sense of humor...and just being crazy in general...

Food

  • Favorite Junk Foods: I could live off pretzels if I really wanted to. I go through at least 2 bags a week. It's a little ridiculous!
  • Favorite Restaurants: *Applebees* Cheesecake Factory, Olive Garden, Johnny Rockets, Cracker Barrel

Style

  • Guilty Pleasure: Shoes and hats, I collect them both!

Television

  • Favorite Shows: 7th Heaven, Boy Meets World, Full House, American Idol, and I have an extremely unhealthy obsession with Law and Order: SVU