Mary @ Giving Up On Perfect

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About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Public Relations
Location	Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Introduction	I'm a 30-year-old wife, mom, PR writer and Christian. I live in the Midwest and love the beach, but want to move to the mountains. I hate cleaning my house, but love it when everything really does have a place. Some of my favorite things are taking pictures, scrapbooking, music, reading, chocolate, Mexican food and planning parties.
Interests	Scrapbooking, reading, photography, family, church choir, TV, movies
Favorite Movies	Dirty Dancing, Cutting Edge, School of Rock, Miracle on 34th Street, Meet the Parents, Elf, Office Space, My Fair Lady, The Notebook, Princess Bride, Rain Man, National Treasure, The Santa Clause, Wedding Singer, Steel Magnolias, Grease, 21, Jerry Maguire, Sound of Music, 50 First Dates, Never Been Kissed, Three Men & A Baby, Bridget Jones’ Diary, That Thing You Do, Clueless, Napoleon Dynamite, Mary Poppins, O Brother Where Art Thou, Oceans 11, Bring it On, The Italian Job, Sleepless in Seattle, She’s All That, You’ve Got Mail, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Court Jester, Pleasantville, Runaway Bride, About a Boy, Miss Congeniality, The Princess Diaries, Two Weeks Notice, Holiday Inn, When Harry Met Sally, A Mighty Wind, Save the Last Dance, The Prince & Me, The Mask, Liar Liar, The Truman Show, The Legend of Zorro, Sweet Home Alabama, Spiderman, Secret of my Success, August Rush, Sabrina, The Breakfast Club, The Three Musketeers, The Sandlot, Enemy of the State, Rush Hour, Behind Enemy Lines, Starsky & Hutch, Back to the Future, Anchorman, Beauty & the Beast, Bourne Identity, Good Will Hunting, Dead Poets Society, Mission Impossible, Paycheck, Sahara, Matchstick Men, ConAir, Indiana Jones, Home for the Holidays, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Forrest Gump, Guys & Dolls, The Music Man, The Wizard of Oz, Happy Gilmore, Akeelah & the Bee, Step Up, She’s the Man, Head Over Heels, Notting Hill
Favorite Music	Country, contemporary Christian, classic rock, 80s music, 90s music, classic country, classical, jazz, hairband rock
Favorite Books	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Da Vinci Code, The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Kite Runner, The Five Love Languages, Little Women, Sweet Liar, Blink, Robinson Crusoe, Deadline, Hatchet, Body & Soul, Chronicles of Narnia, Believing God, The Power of a Praying Wife, The Jester, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Yada Yada Prayer Group, Dream Giver, A Time to Kill, anything by Dee Henderson, Susan May Warren, Karen Kingsbury, Kristin Billerbeck, Karen Ball, Terri Blackstock, Rachel Hauck, Jennifer Crusie, Catherine Coulter, Jonathan Kellerman, Faye Kellerman, Kasey Michaels, Brad Meltzer, David Baldacci, Lisa Scottoline, Janet Evanovich, and Robert Ludlum.

You've written a hit musical! How will you avoid having fame go to your head?

I will not. I will let that fame go straight to my head until I'm bursting at the seams with a song to sing. At which point I'll belt it out in the middle of the street while twirling in my pretty red dress.