Random Thoughts:
This is my ramblings section…
Here you will find my personal thoughts on various subjects.

Website: I started this website on April 6, 2003. Before that day I had very limited exposure to any sort of HTML programming. I got this nifty little program called Dreamweaver MX and just sort of winged it. Luckily, I found a very informative book from Macromedia titled Dreamweaver MX by J. Tarin Towers and voila! It has a wonderful index for my quick questions and I am reading most of it page by page in my free time. I have also been given support and feedback from friends that I consider computer gods (thank you Kevin and Jason!) plus encouragement and advice from the Morrowind forum community. That list is very lengthy, but you know who you are!
Hopefully with all this help, my site will develop into a cool and informative resource for all things Morrowind.

Morrowind Official forums: Lovely place full of wonderful people. Unfortunately tempers flare between some of our more creative geniuses but everyone has always been kind and helpful to me. (The exception being a swarthy rodent) Some of the people there have become very dear to me (you know who you are!) and it has been fascinating to get a peek at the views of different nationalities and geographical locations. (as well as lifestyles unfamiliar to my own)

Morrowind Modsite Hacker: You suck! Get a life!

Age: I am 25 years old and my 5-year-old son will be starting Kindergarten next year. I think that officially makes me a grown-up. I find that idea kind of shocking, as it is a very hard call to decide who likes to watch “Justice League” the most in our household. My husband and I spend more time playing the X-box or PC games than watching television and the whole house gets excited when a new Disney film is released. I hope I will adjust to this soon; it kind of snuck up on me when I realized that I needed to start school registration for my son…

The state of the world: Woe is me!

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Favorite Books
I probably should have made this favorite authors, but I’ll make a go of it like this:
(Approximately alphabetical by author)

Apprentice Adept Series by Piers Anthony
If I Pay Thee Not in Gold by Piers Anthony
Incarnations of Immortality Series by Piers Anthony
Tarot Series by Piers Anthony
The first few Xanth novels by Piers Anthony
Myth Series by Robert Asprin
The Cat Who… Series by Lillian Jackson Braun
The Unlikely Ones, Pigs Don’t Fly, Master of Many Treasures, and Dragonne’s Eg by Mary Brown (all wonderful)
Lords of the Four Diamonds by Jack L. Chalker
Mysteries by Agatha Christie
Sherlock Holmes Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
James Bond novels by Ian Fleming
The Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter books by Laurell Hamilton
About everything by Robert A. Heinlen
The Giants series by James P. Hogan
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan
Talisman and Eye of the Dragon by Stephen King
Twilight Eyes and a few others by Dean R. Koontz
The Adept Series by Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris
The Heechee novels by Frederick Pohl
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Stray Stuff:
Angel the Series novels
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Adult novels)
Movies turned into books (Guilty secret, shhhh…)
The Girlfriend’s Guides by Vicki Iovine (best parenting books around, no joke)

Just finished:
Emma by Jane Austin

Currently reading:
The Entire Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series by Laurell Hamilton (again)
Books 10 & 11 will finish it out for me…
Recently finished:
Books 1-9 of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series
The Portable Doonesbury by G.B. Trudeau
Knight Fantastic by Martin Harry Greenberg
Season of Sacrifice by Mindy Klasky
Knight Life by Peter David
One Knight Only by Peter David
Drinking Midnight Wine by Simon R. Green
The Patriotic Murders by Agatha Christie (again)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (Whooo!)
Mistress of Dragons by Margeret Weis
The Cat Who Brought Down the House by Lillian Jackson Braun
The Morrowind Prophesies by Bethesda
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer
Cerulean Sins by Laurell Hamilton
The Count of Monte Christo By Alexander Dumas
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore


Up next:
Sword of Shannara (Original Trilogy) by Terry Brooks

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Favorite Games
PC Games-
The Last Express by Interplay
The Longest Journey by Funcom
Morrowind by Bethesda Softworks
The Sims (plus expansions) by Maxis
The Trophy Case II by Legend, which includes:
Companions of Xanth, Shannara, Deathgate
(This is so not available anymore)

Console Games:
X-Box™-
Batman Vengeance
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Dead or Alive 3
Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb
James Bond: Nightfire
Morrowind
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance
Silent Hill II
Spiderman

N64™-
Beetle Adventure Racing
Mario Party Games
Namco Museum (Galaga, oh yeah!)

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Favorite Music
I am just going to toss these out alphabetically:

General-
50s
60s
70s
80s
Billy Joel
George Clinton
Nat King Cole
Harry Connick Jr.
Delerium
Dido
The Doors
Enigma
Enya
Evanescence
The Hollies
Chris Isaak
Diana Krall
Lesiem
Madonna
Loreena McKennitt
Robert Miles (Fable anyway)
Moby
The Police
Queensryche
Frank Sinatra
Sixpence None the Richer
Sting
Sugar Hill Gang
They Might Be Giants
Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers

Musicals-
Amadeus
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More With Feeling
Guys and Dolls
Moulin Rouge
Music Man
Sound of Music
Victor/Victoria

Soundtracks-
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The 1999 Series Album
Dick Tracy
The Fifth Element
Harry Potter Movies
Indiana Jones Movies
James Bond Themes
Lord of the Rings Movies
Princess Bride
Star Wars Movies

I enjoy most classical, some opera, most New Age, and just about all of the Disney Soundtracks. (sad, but true!)

Plus a bunch more that isn't popping into my head.

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Favorite Movies
Amadeus
The Avengers
Bicentennial Man
Charlie’s Angels
The Fifth Element
Ever After
Gattaca
George of The Jungle
Harry Potter Movies
Highlander (what second movie?)
The Hudsucker Proxy
Indiana Jones Trilogy
L.A. Story
Labyrinth
A Life Less Than Ordinary
Lord of the Rings Movies (so far, so good)
Matrix
Mission Impossible
Men in Black Movies (Part II mainly for the Chubb Chubbs!)
Mortal Kombat
Moulin Rouge
The Mummy Movies (w/ Brendan Frasier)
Notting Hill
Office Space
Princess Bride
The Rock
Shrek
The Sixth Sense
Disney’s Sleeping Beauty
Spiderman
Star Trek Movies (some more than others)
Star Wars Movies (again, some more than others)
Still Breathing
Disney’s The Three Musketeers
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
The Truman Show
Where the Heart Is
X-Men
More movies that I can’t think of I’m sure-
Also any James Bond movie (Sean Connery especially!)

Television Shows-

Angel: The Series
Animaniacs
Batman: The Animated Series
Batman Beyond
Batman/Superman Adventures
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Eeep- a grown-up show!)
Crossing Jordan (when Jerry O’Connell shows up)
Highlander: The Series
Justice League
Smallville
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager

Of course you can tell from this list that we’re down to watching new episodes of Angel, CSI, and Smallville. Unfortunately, because we are busy so much we end up having multi-episode marathons. (You watch enough Angel at one time then try to go to sleep) Not restful, let me tell you…

Dearly departed Buffy... I miss it already!

Smallville is really my husband’s show, but I have watched most of them with him.

CSI is pretty much my show; my husband can’t believe I am watching it. (I am a generally squeamish person) but the science and technology involved are fascinating…

Cartoon Network is always a happy Place for the whole family!

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