Let's see... I've been blessed beyond measure with amazing family and three wonderful best friends! I'm quirky, slightly absentminded, and little on the shy side. Home chef, self-taught baker (cupcakes, cookies, and bread), and all around lover of food (eating it, making it, reading about it). I love feeding people! I'm also an amateur jewelry maker, of which SNC seems to have taken over recently.
I work in a library. I love to read. I've never 'shushed' anyone in my life (at least not in the library), my glasses do not hang from my neck, I don’t walk around wielding a ruler and a perpetual scowl, nor am I a mousey maiden in on a bad sweater. I have not memorized the Dewey Decimal System. I love librarian/library stereotypes.
Nickname
Beka, Bek, Madam Librarian (as stolen from The Music Man), Dart Meister Fly-Bane (long story...)
Birthday
September 14, 1988
Birth Sign
Virgo (I'm told I'm a Leo now...)
Currently Living In
The equally beautiful but also weather confused Bothell, WA
Hometown
The ever beautiful but always weather challenged Seattle, WA
Relationship Status
Single
Trademark
Watching my favorite movies to death (and then quoting along as I watch them. Again.), my love of coffee, cupcakes, an inability to find matching socks when I need them.
Hobbies
Baking cupcakes, reading, making jewelry, planning and making weekly dinners, sun soaking whenever I can.
Favorite Place You've Traveled
Probably the Washington coast or the different parts of Oregon. I haven't gone as many places as I would like; what's a starving college girl with a library salary to do? That said, I love living in the Pacific Northwest! I feel very thankfully to be in such a beautiful part of the country and I really enjoy getting to explore my own backyard.
Canada!
Favorite Things in General
Jesus, family, friends, books, coffee, space heaters, pirates, music, old libraries, used bookstores, gorgeous harmonies, dry humor, sarcasm, and laughter in general, sun, collecting favorite quotes, going on road trips with friends (and the jokes and memories that come from such trips), the color blue... An ever growing list!
What Magazines/Periodicals do you read consistently?
The Sunday Seattle Times and any and all cooking magazines.
Name Your Top 5 Favorite Foods
My grandmother's Swedish rye bread, apples (another reason I love living in WA), sandwiches of any kind, pasta, my grandmother's Pepperkaker (a Swedish cookie, usually made around Christmas time). I also have a weakness for good ice cream. And chocolate. And pizza. And... Well, I did say I love food.
Name Your Top 5 Favorite Books
Only 5? The Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling, Pirates - Celia Rees, any cookbook I can get my hands on, Terry Pratchett 's Tiffany Aching books, Blink - Ted Dekker, The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series - Rick Riordan. Too, too many...
Name Your Top 5 Favorite Movies
Pirates of the Caribbean 1-3, Lord of the Rings 1 and 3, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Sherlock Holmes.
Name Your Top 5 Favorite Bands/Artists
Apocalyptica, SNC, Hillsong, Mercy Me, Sara Bareilles, Muse, NeedToBreathe, John Williams, Howard Shore, Hans Zimmer... A variety of sounds, genres, and artists.
Name Your Top 5 Favorite Songs
This changes from day to day, depending on my mood...