laura b.

My blogs

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Blogs I follow

About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Museums or Libraries
Location	Glendora, California, United States
Introduction	I am a 50 year old dancing bear. By day, I work in a public library. By night, well...I sleep!I have 5 big kids: Son #1 - Kick Back Dude (27) - who is dad (with his girlfriend Princess Diva (27)) to daughters, Miss Personality (8) & Love Bug (5), and son Little Prince (4), Son #2 - Secret Agent Man(26), Son #3 - Social Animal (23), Daughter - Girlie Girl (20), and Son #4 - Handsome Lad (15).But remember on Everybody Loves Raymond when he says, "It's not really about them."? Yeah, I'm not a mommy blogger (NTTAWWT!)I don't always succeed, but I am trying hard to live my life with joy and purpose.
Interests	Books, movies, television, music, pop culture, family stuff, dancing bears, pirates, the circus, shenanigans, brouhaha
Favorite Movies	Haiku Tunnel, Office Space, Muriel's Wedding, Wedding Banquet, Monsoon Wedding, Lost in Translation, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Royal Tennanbaums, Zoolander, Fargo, Broken Flowers, Imaginary Heroes, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Juno, This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman.
Favorite Music	Steely Dan, Decemberists, Arcade Fire, Cold War Kids, Vampire Weekend, The White Stripes, Morrissey, Beck, Radiohead, Coldplay, Sleator-Kinney, Tahiti 80, Kings of Convenience, Elliott Smith, Hem, Barenaked Ladies, Wallflowers, Billy Bragg, Wilco, Ditty Bops, Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, Muse, Neon Trees, U2, Nina Gordon, Veruca Salt, Pink Floyd, Grandaddy, Earlimart, Dandy Warhols, Iron & Wine, The Thrills, Lumineers, Of Monsters & Men, fun., Tigerella, Light Sleeper, Ivan the Bear
Favorite Books	Anne Tyler, Jane Hamilton, Jane Smiley, Haruki Murakami, Tom Robbins, Douglas Coupland, Anna Quindlen, Elizabeth Berg, Nick Hornby, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Why don't you ever wear a scarf? It doesn't need to be cold outside for your neck to feel naked.

Sometimes I wear a scarf sort of draped down my coat. But I don't have enough of a neck to feel worthy of the full wrap.