"Trivia-Girl"

My instinct to life is to be a survivor...

I was born late in life to two wonderful parents,

and one older brother who was 20 yrs my senior.

For much of my toddler yrs my brother responded to me

in more of a father~daughter relationship than as a

brother so my childhood had somewhat of an extended

choice of outllooks to life.

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I experienced much of the usual moving around and

unstableness often associated with single parent

life.

Looking back on my life, I can honestly say that my

mother may have never added to my creativity, but

she always provided me a warm comfortable home full

of safety and security.

My mother's ultimate desire would probably have been

to see me remain childless and be a self supporting

strong contemporary business woman. In most respects

I hope she is watching me and seeing that while I

am not the stereotypical business woman, I believe

there is room for creativity, and no amount of money

is worth boredom and unhappiness.

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I believe there energy has developed into something

positive in my life. Losing them each to terminal

illness, my father to leukemia, and my mother to cancer,

made me grow up and mature. I now see all the dreams

I should have had younger in life. I make my own choices

and I work harder than I ever have in my entire life.

Basically I have learned to smile about everything, and

always look for the rainbows amongst the rain.

Tragically I lost my brother to suicide Halloween 1998.

Bill was a wonderful human being and the ultimate

brother~hero. There is not one day I do not wish he

could have felt relief from the greif he felt in losing

our parents. Nothing should be so complicated in life to

allow someone to choose suicide.

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I am the survivor, and I am the most trivial.

As my nickname might suggest to you, I LOVE TRIVIA!

Other items of interest to me :

Waterfalls

I have always been a fanatic about water,

I was a lifeguard during my teens and I basically

have been swimming like a mermaid since the age of

three. Somewhere along the line I have developed

a fasination to the beauty of waterfalls.

Waterfalls are one of the most serene yet

exciting things of nature.

Snowglobes

I own a growing collection of snowglobes.

I enjoy watching the tranquil snowflakes fall

within each tiny world. They put me at ease and

make me think of "home".

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At the moment I call a small village near Detroit, Michigan, my home. However, I recently found the home of my dreams in Ryan Falls near Seattle, Washington. If I could live anywhere it would be in the serenity of the Pacific Northwest surrounded by nature and of course my own private waterfall! My ultimate dream would be to move to Ryan Falls and set up an artist community. I would like to follow my first dream of "ADVERTISING" and work with other artists translating the beauty around us into marketable ideas for companies and businesses worldwide. I have a commercial/graphic art background

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SMILE by Chaplin, Parsons and Phillips

Smile, though your heart is aching.

Smile, even though it's breaking.

Though there are clouds in the sky,

You'll get by...

If you smile through your fears and sorrows.

Smile and maybe tomorrow.

You'll see the sun come shining through.

If you just light up your face with gladness,

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Hide every trace of sadness.

Although a tear may be, ever so near.

That's the time you must keep on trying.

Smile, what's the use of crying?

You'll find life is still worthwhile

If you'll just smile, come on and smile.

If you just smile.

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