Comment on this post and I will choose seven interests from your profile. You will then explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers to your own journal so that others can play along.

psychospider picked my 7 and here they are!

agatha christie- this is a newer interest. well, 3 years or so new. when i was 8 my grandparents lived in the apartment below mine and they had a gazillion books. my grandma read horror novels and my grandpa read mysteries. he had a ton of agatha christie books. i opted to read my grandma's entire collection instead. (the covers were cooler and i was a spooky kid.) about 3 years ago i did not have cable and one night caught an episode of Mystery! on pbs and they were showing Miss Marple Murders. i have always been a fan of the murder mystery movie that takes place in a mansion (clue, gosford park, etc) so i instantly became a fan of Miss Marple. i have almost completed that series and will move on to Hercule Poirot soon.

being a mom- i'm under 3 years in at this "being a mom" gig so i find it interesting. i am an observer so i like to sit back and see the different ways people behave in their roles as a mom as well. i have it listed because if someone came along and read my interests they would have to know that i have a daughter and i will talk about her incessantly. because she is so effing awesome.

giada dilaurentis- little bighead! she is my favorite food network star. my favorite food has always been italian, she did some dishes on her show that a) i *could* eat (ie- ingredients i can work with) b) don't look very difficult and c) are pretty tasty. we invested in her cookbook and surprisingly we make food from it all the time. well, once a month or two. i used to make fun of the way she said "spaghetti" and the zillion teeth she has, but her mushroom artichoke thimbles dish is not to be made fun of. so good!

lotr films- the first time i saw the first Lord f the Rings movie was after an 8 hour car ride and i fell asleep. i woke up midway and had my 5 year old nephew tell me what i missed and fell back asleep. way back in high school i started reading The Hobbit, because my boyfriend wanted me to read LOTR since it was his favorite book. i fell asleep not even a page into the book. so i sensed a pattern. D could not believe that i would not watch the 2nd film since it was "all about wizards and talking trees and shit" so he made me hot caffeinated drinks and forced me to watch the first 2 movies so we could go to the theater and watch the third. i loved them. and have seen them several times. i am vastly impressed with the making of documentaries.

milwaukee- i am interested in this place because before i moved to the area i only knew of it as the place Laverne and Shirley were based in (which as a child i figured was somewhere near Brooklyn) as well as that scene in Waynes World where Alice Cooper talks briefly about Milwaukee and it's Native American pronunciation. it was after i moved here that i learned Dahmer lived here too.

teaching myself new things- i have always taken it upon myself to learn new things. i am self taught at a lot which may explain why i am not particularly amazing at anything. we could not afford piano lessons, but i got a keyboard when i was 9 and taught myself how to play by ear. i taught myself (and my sister) how to play chess using an encyclopedia. i taught myself crochet, i can sew things without using patterns, i can use an 8mm movie camera and can edit it (without sound), i can read tarot cards and make candles. i am presently learning the guitar, photoshop and, as always, french.

the rapture- no not the apocalypse. i was watching a movie called The Rules of Attraction and i believe it was the "End of the World Pre-Party"(?idk there were many parties in that film) bonfire and a song kicked on that was kind of jangly and noisy and dancy. It was a song called Out of the Races and on to the Tracks by The Rapture and i was in love. D liked Techno and i liked guitars and this was almost a combination of the two. i don't know what type of music the kids call it nowadays but i think of them as "disco punk".