My name is Laurie. I am 37. I live in Maryland
Walt Whitman, dessert, claiming I'm not having any dessert, red wine, John Irving, John Cusack, South Park, The Breakfast Club, Say Anything, getting money in the mail, photography, Last Train Home, zodiac signs, guilty pleasures, trying to learn to crochet with beautiful yarn, Family Guy, beaches in the sun, snow, rain or anywhere in between, Elton John, North Carolina, jewelry, art, Baltimore, New Jersey, Ohio, Annie Lennox, design makeover shows on TLC, David Letterman, the Real World challenges (see "guilty pleasures"), Duran Duran and most 80s new wave, Barenekkid Ladies, Boston Terriers and Pugs, the Internet, my friends, Maryland, talking, bookstores, road trips, babies, newspapers, going to school, Photoshop, craft stores, colored pens, Prince, languages, guitars, magazines, conversation, farmer's markets and decent produce, iTunes, makeup (i'm a girl in spite of myself), baths, Europe, Christian Slater, ER, SNL, crosswords, live music, web design, writing poetry and essays, sleeping, cooking, Red Hot Chili Peppers, intelligence, Whole Foods, drums, colored pens, interesting men, long hair, dogs, Metallica, Dar Williams, microbrews, the Midwest, Best Week Ever, politics, eating out, The Wizard of Oz, memoirs, the Southwest, hiking, porch swings, magazines, history