emilybee123

what I pledged

Hi there! I'm an energetic, optimistic 37 year old art therapist. I live in Israel with my husband and son and our cat and turtles. In my spare time I like to write, draw, listen to audiobooks, play flute duets with a friend, talk to good friends and watch tv. I've also started penpalling, postcrossing and swapping and love it.

I enjoy heart to heart talks with friends, laughing, getting swept into a movie and goofing off with my husband at home. I love roller coasters and nature and being able to see the sea from my living room (great sunsets).

In my job I work with children and adults and am a small child at heart. I'm glad I found my profession and so far enjoy what I do very much!

All sorts: 80's music, classical, ambient, R&B, funky, pop, chill out and electronic, relaxing music.

To be more specific (though open to a lot more): Beck, Pixies, The Smiths, Radiohead, Muse, Dandy Warhols, Franz Ferdinand, Depeche Mode, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Lily Allen, Keren Ann, The Beatles, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Robert Wyatt, Zita Swoon, Air, Saint Germain, Bach, Vivaldi, Rachmaninoff.

I have seen countless times: Neverending Story, Back to the Future, Big, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, The Goonies, Groundhog Day, Dirty Dancing, Spaceballs, Clueless, The Birdcage, 12 Monkeys, Donnie Darko, A Nightmare Before Christmas, Bridget Jones' Diary, Leaving Las Vegas, Lost in Translation, Requiem for a Dream

I really enjoyed: American Beauty, Willard, Boogie Nights, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Fifth Element, Living in Oblivion, America X, Big Lebowski, Brazil, The Machinist, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, The Godfather 1+2 (not 3), Batman Begins, About A Boy, Star Wars (all six), Happiness, Anything Monty Python, Coraline, The Squid and the Whale, District 9.

I miss: Fringe, Friends, Carnivale, Six Feet Under, Life on Mars, Dollhouse, Brothers and Sisters

I love: Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, IT Crowd, Downton Abbey, House, Mad Men, Gilmore Girls

My guilty pleasures: Project Runway, Top Chef, Top Design, American Idol.

His Dark Materials Trilogy, Ender's Game, Dune, American Gods, 2001, The Fountainhead, The Road

My favorite childhood books (I'm very nostalgic): A Wrinkle in Time, This Time of Darkness, The Planet of Tears, Behind the Attic Wall. Also calm me down: Stephen King books (go figure), The fountainhead, anything Douglas Adams

TURTLES!! Anything turtle related, especially miniatures, magnets...

ALL OTHER SWAPS: I love anything sea related and marine life in general. Clear blue water (with rays of light), just nature, sunny days, grass and trees and anything green, any landscape in general!; cats, turtles (yet again), owls, koalas, pandas, tigers and leopards. I love roller coasters,

Colors I currently love: teal, turquoise, red, violet, B&W checkered.

Anything handmade or creative, puffy or metallic stickers, short poems, small miniatures (people, animals, objects etc), small dolls (felt ones are lovely), things made of plaid fabrics, things made of felt, anything kawaii, colorful earrings, scarves, creative socks, bobby pins, shiny colorful eyeshadow, notebooks and sketchbooks; anything nostalgic from the 80's.

Teas, sweets! (chocolate, candy corn, chocolate chip cookies, oreo's, liquor filled chocolate candy, M&Ms).

THINGS I CAN"T GET AROUND HERE AND I WOULD LOVE: Composition books (with marble cover), the book "The Planet of Tears" (childhood book I've been dying to find), Cadbury Creme eggs, candy corn!

Toe socks, coriander, chocolate covered orange peels (I really don't get mixing chocolate with oranges or mint), licorice.

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” Albert Ellis

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people”. Carl Jung

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." Carl Rogers

“If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.” Fritz Perls