As much as I love Sex and the City, I’m surprised I never saw this, LOL! From the 2000 MTV Movie Awards, which Sarah Jessica Parker hosted. Hilarious . . .

Thirteen Things about LINDSEY - a quiz!

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1. Which TV show do I prefer (darn canceled TV!), Sex and the City or The O.C.?

2. Which type of milk do I drink, 2% or skim?

3. What kind of person am I, dog or cat?

4. What are my favorite color for roses, pink or red?

5. If I’ve got 2 hours on a Saturday night to spare, which type of movie am I more likely to watch - a horror film or a chick flick?

6. Which am I horribly afraid of - heights or small spaces?

7. Which of my majors did I choose to put on my college diploma (we had to pick one) - English, or theatre?

8. Do I prefer sweet or salty snacks?

9. Which climate am I more at home in - blistering hot summers, or freezing cold winters?

10. What was my big time activity and love growing up - playing soccer, or dancing?

11. Which is my favorite artist, Degas or Picasso?

12. Did I go to public or private high school?

13. In the kitchen, am I the next Julia Child, or am I a childish mess?

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I’m Lindsey, and thanks so much for stopping by Suspension of Disbelief. You might want to know a little bit about who is writing all this babble on this blog, so I thought I’d share a little bit about myself!

I love living in the South. Born and raised in Georgia, live in Florida, school in North Carolina – it just doesn’t get better. I went to undergraduate school in Winston-Salem at Wake Forest University, and graduated with my BA in May 2006. I double majored in theatre and English – too much reading for my own good! After briefly dabbling as a business school graduate student, I took a year off from school and just enjoyed life working as a barista at Starbucks and as the assistant project manager for E. Webscapes (I’m still working at both of these places, though I was promoted to Shift Supervisor at Starbucks in November 2007). Now I am in the MFA in Performing Arts Management program at North Carolina School of the Arts, and will be doing that until 2010 - yay grad school! When I get tired from all the school and work, I just go home and cuddle with my ADORABLE kittens, Oscar (Peterson) and Miles (Davis)!

I’ve been blogging since August 2004, and I’ve been on WordPress since February 2005 . . . I consider my blogiversary to be February 24, 2005. I opened my first website, the now defunct site Doodlebug, in July 2004. It had a paid member’s area (Doodlebug Designs) which offered design services for email stationary on several email platforms. Unfortunately, my interests shifted and I no longer had the time and energy it required to maintain Doodlebug Designs along with my other endeavors, so I closed the doors for good in March 2007. I also switched my hosting over to Blogs-About Hosting in December 2006, and have been very happy with the service I receive there!

As with most people, everything hasn’t been rosy in my life. In May 2000, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. She has been in remission since August 2000, and she is an incredible woman! In February 2003, my father was diagnosed with prostate cancer (he has been in remission since March 2003), and in March 2006 he was diagnosed with Autoimmune Hepatitis. However, throughout all of this, our family has only grown closer to each other, and to God.

I am a strong Christian, and am committed to my faith. I was always raised in a Christian home, but didn’t realize just what it meant to be a Christian until I gave my life to Christ in July 1998, when I was newly 14. In high school I was a co-president of Brothers And Sisters In Christ (BASIC) and for all four years of undergrad I was a devoted member and leader in Living Parables Christian Drama Troupe. I also have a faith blog called Reading Red Letters. My favorite Bible verse is Jeremiah 29:11.

My whole life I have loved reading. When I was a little kid, a lot of kids’ parents would punish them by taking away television, not allowing them to go play with friend . . . nope, not mine. My punishment was that they would take away my books. It was the ONLY way they could get me to mind, LOL! Since graduating I have found that I am reading a lot of frivolous books (read: chick lit), which I can only attribute to exclusively reading real literature and theatrical works for the past eight years of my life. Chick lit authors I like include Sophie Kinsella, Sue Margolis, Jennifer O’Connell, and Carole Matthews. I am an active participant on Bookcrossing, and I HIGHLY recommend all readers check it out!

I have loved music since I was a small child – really, as long as I can remember. My dad has loved music his whole life and he just kind of passed it down to me I guess. My favorite music is old rock’n’roll and R&B from the 1960’s and 70’s (thanks Daddy), but I also listen to current popular music, hip-hop and rap particularly. I’m game for pretty much any music, as long as it’s not country. My all time favorite band is The Beatles, but I also love the Temptations, Chicago, Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson, and Ludacris (yes, random). A more extensive list includes:

Beach Boys, The Beatles, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Black Eyed Peas, Blue Man Group, James Brown, Burlap to Cashmere, Busta Rhymes, Caedmon’s Call, Carole King, Ed Cash, Chicago, Cirque du Soleil, Eric Clapton, Nat King Cole, Cream, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dave Brubeck, Dave Matthews Band, Miles Davis, dc Talk, Bob Dylan, The Embers, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Stan Getz, Al Green, Hair, Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson, Jars of Clay, Jay-Z, Jefferson Airplane, Elton John, King Floyd, The Kinks, Gladys Knight and the Pips, John Lennon, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Ludacris, The Mamas and the Papas, Bob Marley, Maroon 5, Medeski Martin and Wood, Missy Elliot, Lee Morgan, Nappy Roots, Nelly, Nickel Creek, Outkast, P.O.D., Paco de Lucia, Paul McCartney, Art Pepper, Oscar Peterson, Pillar, Pink Floyd, Bud Powell, Queen, Rent, Santana, Will Smith, Snoop Dogg, Star Wars, Steppenwolf, Sweetwater, James Taylor, Tchaikovsky, The Temptations, Thelonious Monk, Chris Thile, Third Day, Three Dog Night, Justin Timberlake, TobyMac, War, Wicked, Stevie Wonder, Victor Wooten

I’m also big into movies, though I don’t know as much about movies as I do about music. I guess I’m a music aficionado, but just hold an appreciation for movies. I am a HUGE fan of Netflix ;-)! My all-time favorites are Star Wars (V, VI, IV, II, III, I) and the Disney version of Sleeping Beauty. More recent favorites include Men in Tights and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. I also love television. My favorite show of all time is Sex and the City, and I also really enjoyed OZ and Friends.  I’m a pretty big Law and Order junkie too, including SVU and CI. My TiVo Stevo records a variety of shows for me every week, including Oprah, Desperate Housewives, Brothers and Sisters, Heroes, Lost, Medium, Ugly Betty, Grey’s Anatomy, ER, and Private Practice.

Being from the south, cooking has been a big thing for me. My dad was raised on a farm, and when my parents got married, his mom taught my mother everything she knew. Which was a lot, LOL! I still have a ways to go, but I’d like to think that I’m pretty good at what I do for my age. And my friends are always coming over when I say I’m cooking! My favorite meal is fried chicken, rice and gravy, and zipper peas . . . ooo buddy! And, like the good southern girl I am, I am obsessed with grits and sweet tea. I’m a huge coffee drinker, which has only gotten worse since I started working at Starbucks. Used to be that I had my black coffee every morning and went about my day, but now? If I get something right before or after my shift, it’s free, so of course I have to take advantage of that! I’m also interested in learning more about wine (red wine in particular).

And in case that wasn’t enough info about me, I am ALWAYS open to questions. I love responding to questions that people ask me on my blog! So, wanna know something? Ask!

Thirteen Things about LINDSEY

1. Alright, so, what has been up in my life since my last good update? First I had finals . . . which were a mess. I had a ton of work to do at the end there, and I would up getting a really bad sinus infection that lasted for almost a month. Getting my work done was a NIGHTMARE. But it happened. Phew!

2. Then we immediately left for Living Parables tour. It was great except that I was sick the whole time and spent almost 2 whole days in the bed . . . sigh. But we got some good performances in, and a neat service project. Not bad for my last things with the troupe. And on the last night all the underclassmen talked about the seniors and the seniors talked about each other, and we were a mess. Correction: I was a mess. Crying everywhere. Which is pathetic, because all four of the seniors are going to be in Winston-Salem next year, so it’s not like we’re going anywhere . . .

3. Then I graduated. Which was good, haha! We had a great graduation party the day before - kind of a cookout with our families. And Daddy got a new camera before graduation, so I have lots of great pictures of everyone in caps and gowns! And a bunch of family came up to see the graduation, so it was a really great weekend.

4. The week after graduation I stayed at school and packed things up and finished my GRE course. Then on Monday I went and took the GRE, completing #19 on my 101 in 1001. I was so nervous, because the admissions committee from the grad program I applied to was waiting on the scores to make a decision, and that’s a lot to ride on a test that’s on stuff I haven’t done since high school. However, I did really well, much better than I had expected (Verbal: 580, Math: 740). So, hopefully that’s good enough to get me in!

5. In the middle of all of this I took care of wrapping up all the Parables stuff that I needed to get fixed up for the future generations. We got all the reimbursment stuff worked out (#22), I delegated someone to get the new constitution approved since they never got back to me (#24), and I got all the coordinating director stuff pulled together and passed it along (#26)!

6. I also sorted through all of my clothing at school (you know, actually trying things on to make sure they fit or not), and I got rid of a ton of stuff, definitely at least 70 things, which completes #57. And I didn’t give it to Goodwill, I’m giving it to our housekeeper. Her house burned down, and she and her husband (the other housekeeper) are having to start from scratch, and they have a baby . . . it’s a tough situation. So, I’m considering #60 to be complete, even though it’s not going to Goodwill. To me, this is more important anyway.

7. I came back home to Florida on Friday, and on Sunday was my brother’s graduation party. It’s so wierd that my little brother is graduating high school! It’s even wierder that at his party I didn’t know hardly any of the kids (keep in mind, we went to the same high school) . . . they’re just all that young. And I wasn’t at the party as a guest - I was there as an adult chaperone. It felt odd. But it went really well, so 2 points for Bo!

8. And there was the big computer crash, which is all better now. I’ve been playing catch-up ever since. I’ve had a ton of stuff to do online (my website, email correspondence, etc.) that I’ve been neglecting because of, well, all the things you just read. Anyways, I’ve been frantically working to get everything back up to speed, and I’ve still got a lot ahead of me, but I’ve done a significant chunk of it tonight.

9. The new MagicMouth Productions website is up, and I must say, it looks STUNNING. It was designed by a company called MindSmack, and they’ve done a terrific job with it. We are really pleased with how it turned out, so go check it out!

10. Also in MagicMouth news, there is an article about us in the June 2006 issue of Entrepreneur Magazine!!!! Here’s the link, but you should really check out the paper copy if you get a chance - there’s a great photo in the magazine that’s not online. June issue, page 150 ;)!

11. And our DVD is supposed to come out this week. Ben went to Charlotte to review the final copy today, but I haven’t talked to him yet to see how it went. More news on that later!

12. My 22nd birthday is coming up soon (June 7), and I’m super psyched because I get to go up north for it, including being in New York City on my birthday. We’ve got a crazy busy week planned for that, so I will fill in the details later.

13. And a quiz to round things up!

Which Sex and the City Player Are You? Find out @ She’s Crafty

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