A Renaissance woman for the 21st century. I'm a girly-girl who owns all her own tools. I prefer to be barefoot. I love to cook. I love amusement parks. I am a regular blood donor. I care about nutrition. I am a volunteer. I'm unconventional. I love nerds. I collect June birthdays. I'm a cat mom. I can name (at least) 10 celebrities from Michigan. I'm fastidious and precise. I am The Bead Girl, LLC. I learned everything I need to know from Wikipedia.org. I see alpacas (or maybe some sheep and a couple llamas) in my future. I'm a decent euchere player. One day I hope to be fluent in Esperanto.

Beads, crafts, cooking, nature-oriented spirituality, microbrews, writing, Netflix, Winamp Shoutcast Radio, reading, learning, hiking, camping, electric bass, quantum physics, global impact of carbon emissions, U.S. trade deficit with China, Dorothy Parker, Betty Dodson, Dr. Bronner, Alton Brown, Carl Sagan, John Conyers, Jr., Bruce Campbell, Bob Ross, Ira Glass, Spaulding Gray, Penn & Teller, Kim Deal, John Taylor, She-Ra, "Bob" Dobbs, Bill "The Kaz" Kazmaier, Guitar Hero,

Duran Duran, White Stripes, The Racontours, Beck, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Cake, XTC, The Donnas, Le Tigre, Franz Ferdinand, The Dead Milkmen, Panic! At The Disco, Slash's smooth jazz project, Vivaldi, alternative, new wave, synth-pop, Aussie rock, surf, lounge, punk, ska.

Fight Club, Evil Dead 2, The Station Agent, Shakes the Clown, The Big Lebowski, Orgazmo, Cry Baby, Polyester, Velvet Goldmine, DeadAlive, Meet the Feebles, Cube, Gosfard Park, The Player, Once Were Warriors, Breakfast Club, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Rocky Horror Picture Show, What the (Bleep) Do We Know? Anything with Hugo Weaving.

Arrested Development, Strangers with Candy, Kids in the Hall, Scrubs, Dexter, Japanese game shows, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, any iteration of Talk Soup, Queer Eye

Douglas Adams, Chuck Palahniuk, David Sedaris, Scott Cunningham, Neil Stevenson, Irvine Welsh, Raymond Carver, non-fiction, BUST magazine