About Me
- About Me: I'm nobody, who are you? Are you a nobody too? Then there's a pair of us, don't tell! They'll banish us, you know. ~Emily Dickenson
Books
- Favorite Books: The Bible, old classics, poetry and Shakespeare plays.
- Favorite Authors: Charles Dickens, JRR Tolkien, Jane Austin, Mark Twain, A.A. Milne and a whole list of others.
- Favorite Genres: Classic Novels
- Favorite Characters: Sam Weller, Sam Gamgee, Madame Defarge, Eyore, Mr. Bennet, Hepzibah Pyncheon...I can't remember any more but I know there's a bunch of them.
- Favorite Quotes: "We can't all, and some of us don't." "Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every seperate need."
- Recent Reads: "Five Children and It". If anyone wants to know what a Psamead is, (and of course you're dying to know), this book will tell you.
More About Me
- Nationality: I'm a citizen of the Kingdom of God
- Religion: Christian, more specificly, a believer in the one true God and his Son, the Messiah
- Interests: I am interested in, Christianity, Gilbert and Sullivan, J.R.R. Tolkein, Dancing, forcing other people to dance, reading books, reading books by J.R.R. Tolkien, drawing, eating, and most recently, playing guitar and learning regency ball dances off the internet, (not an easy task).
- Expertise: I am an expert at everything I do, because I am Lady Blanche.
- Occupation: Artist
- Industry: Entertainment
Movies
- Favorite Movies: That's a hard question! I like old classics with good plots and a good cast like "Casablanca."
- Favorite Actors: Cary Grant, Humphery Bogart, Betty Davis, Edgar G. Robinson, Peter Lorre, Ingrid Bergman, Alec Guinness and people like that.
- Favorite Directors: Alfred Hitchcock, Cecil B. De Mille
- Favorite Soundtracks: Ummm...I guess the Lord of the Rings. To tell you the truth, I always view soundtracks as either adding or taking away from the movie I'm watching.
- Movie Quotes I say all the time: "Miss Smith has not those eyebrows, I think" "Buckle your seat-belts. It's going to be a bumpy night.", "we put poison in the wine, because when you put it in tea, it has a distict odor"
- Movies I can watch over and over: "The Lord of the Rings", AandE's "Pride and Prejudice", "Gaslight", "The Ten Commandments", "Rebecca" (with Laurence Olivier), "Arsnic and Old Lace" and "All About Eve"
- Actor that would play me in a movie: There is no actor that would accept the part.
Travel
- Places I love: Our Maple tree
- Places I've been: the Beach in Florida, corn field in Illinois
- Places to see before I die: Scotland
- Dream Vacation: I can't think of anywhere better than where I'm at! What's wrong with me!
Food
- Favorite Cuisine: Mexican
- Favorite Dishes: Corn and cheese soufle, Lentil cassarole
- Favorite Desserts: Coffee cake, ice-cream, strawberries
- Favorite Drinks: Hot black tea with milk and sugar, Dr. Pepper and our well water. It's really good water.
- Favorite Junk Foods: Pizza and ice-cream.
- Best meal ever: I had it at a little restaurant in the blue ridge mountains in Virginia. There was a place called the Scottish Inn or something and it had the best food you've ever tasted. Then again, I was really, really hungry so that might have had something to do with it.
- My Original Recipes: Everything I make turns into an original recipie because I have this thing against following directions.
- Favorite Restaurants: The ones I eat at most are Raphael's pizza place, and mexican restaurants
- Foods I hate: Squash. You can cook it any way you like and it's still squash.
Music
- Favorite Artists: Gilbert and Sullivan, Songs written by Veggie Tales, the Newsboys, Audio Adrenaline, Steven Curtis Chapman etc.
- Favorite Albums: "'Shine' the Hits", "Underdog" by Audio A. All oppretta scores by G. and S.
- Favorite Genre: Contemperary Christian
- Favorite Songs: "How Beatifully Blue the Sky", "With Cat-like Tread", "Rend the Air with Wailing", "Go ye Heroes"...Those are some of my favorite G. and S. songs by other people I like "Be Thou my Vision", "Million Pieces", "Lord of the Dance", "Never Gonna be as Big as Jesus"
- Favorite Lyrics: "Everybody's got a water Buffalo, Your's is fast but mine is slow.." o.k. I'll stop.
- Songs for Roadtrips: "Let us Gaily Tread the Measure", "Jingle Bells", "The Veggie Tales Theme Song"
- Songs I hate: "When a Merry Maiden Marries"
- Songs I repeat the most: Well, considering the size of my family, it's probably "Happy Birthday"
- Band I wish I was in: My own
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- Name: Lady Blanche (Leila)
- Birthday: 6/7/1985
- Member Since: 5/3/2005
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I love your xanga background pictures and colors! I wish I new something about making mine look nice. :P -
Here I am, on my chatboard... all by myself. This is so fun. -
I had turkish Delight and it was really bad tasting. Maby it was not made right or somthing. -
That brings up a common question about the Narnia movie. What do you, ("you" means whatever random person happens to be reading this) think of the performance of the White witch? Did she make a good portrayal of her charector, or the opposite?
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I don't like Turkish Delight 'cause it gets on my nerves. Lol. I think it's about the worst song ever, but I know some people think otherwise. : ) Anyway,....Thanks for the memory! Caitlin -
Look at me! i figured out how to upgrade my profile. You all must be so proud of me. I need to set a time for chatboard. Let's say at 10:30 every day Leila will be chatting on her board and you can chat with her! (like that's ever going to happen).
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