My main interests are having fun with my friends and making new friends. I love aerobics, weightlifting, playing tennis, swimming, skiing, bike riding and dancing. I'm not really a health nut I just find that if I don't do something to pass the time I get restless.
I'm also a big music fan especially of 80's music. I like everything from The Clash to Def Leppard. Current bands that I like are Oasis, Dave Matthews Band, Smashing Pumpkins, Veruca Salt, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, U2 and a bunch of others that I'll list eventually. :-)
Well okay not all my opinions or really even opinions just a few thoughts on life in general. I wouldn't trade my life now or in the past for anything in the world. I have lead and continue to lead a very happy life filled with good friends and many happy occasions. To me life is too short to spend it griping or letting small things get blown out of proportion. I believe in appreciating the small things, turning the other cheek and not holding grudges. When you see something you don't understand, ask, most of the time people will be happy to explain things. And to quote one of my favorite movies "Always be excellent to one another."
I see myself as an attractive, intelligent and witty woman. The fact that I'm missing an arm doesn't detract from my beauty for I feel that beauty is as much something you project from within, as it is something others see. I have never felt that somehow the world had it in for me because I'm disabled or that I couldn't be happy with the way I look or that if I wasn't happy that I couldn't go and change it. I admit that ever since I was 13 I thought my breasts were too small so a few months ago I went and had my breasts augmented. There are those that say I'm just giving into stereotypes and pressure from society. In reality I couldn't care less about stereotypes or pressure, I did what I did because I wanted to, because I wanted to change not because of magazine ads or TV commercials.
I have never been one to shy away from attention and have never felt that trying to get attention whether it be by the way I dress or by the way I act. There is however a big difference between being obnoxious to get attention and just being outgoing and getting attention. To me getting attention by the way I act means walking with my head held high, a smile on my face and if I happen to be out a club with my friends, dancing up a storm. I have never thought that just because I'm missing an arm that I shouldn't be able to show pride in the way I look and flaunt it. Part of being proud and flaunting it is not trying to hide or draw attention away from my artificial arm, if I'm wearing it or my stump if I'm not. I have never felt that I should try to hide behind clothes so that I look more like everyone else. I've met women who were uncomfortable with the why I don't mind drawing attention to being one armed, or that I don't mind eyes focusing in on my artificial arm the first time someone sees me. I have said many times before that I see myself as beautiful not despite nor in spite of being one armed, to me being one armed and being beautiful go hand in hook. It's just the way I am, having lost my arm so young I hardly remember having two real arms and the way I am now is to me the way I've been my whole life. To use on of my favorite sayings "If you got it, flaunt it even if it's not all there or if it's fake" and don't let anyone tell you that you shouldn't be proud of how you are.