About Me

  • About Me: The way to my heart is through my blog...

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Mexican, Japanese
  • Favorite Dishes: Sushi, Curry, Chimichangas, Quesadillas, Enchiladas!
  • Favorite Desserts: Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
  • Favorite Drinks: Beer. Diet Coke. Long Island Iced Tea. Rum & Coke.
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Doritos, Flamin' Hot Cheetos, M&M's, Fries.
  • Best meal ever: Everytime I eat I say that. Basically, if it has cheese on it I like it.
  • My Original Recipes: I put peach yogurt and raisins into my oatmeal. And barbecue sauce on pizza rolls.
  • Favorite Restaurants: Nick's II, Applebee's, Jalisco's, BW3, Taco Bell.
  • Foods I hate: Cilantro!!! and things that grow on dead things [mushrooms]

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Big Love, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Nip/Tuck, King of Queens, Footballers Wives, Seinfeld, OZ, Family Guy
  • Favorite Channels: E!
  • Favorite Reruns: hopelessly addicted to Seinfeld reruns
  • Most Addictive Show: Big Love
  • Favorite Late Night Talk Show: Conan

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Marie Antoinette, Borat, Night at the Roxbury, Legally Blonde, American Beauty, Anchorman, Stars Wars Episode I, Requiem For a Dream, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Aviator, The Terminal
  • Favorite Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robin Williams, Tom Hanks
  • Favorite Soundtracks: Marie Antoinette
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: "WHAAAT?" - Borat "A gun rack? What am I gonna do with a gun rack? I don't even own A GUN, let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack. What am I gonna do with a gun rack??" Wayne's World
  • Movies I can watch over and over: American Beauty, Legally Blonde, Wayne's World, The Terminal, The Devil Wears Prada
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: Julia Louis-Dreyfus ( Elaine from Seinfeld )

Travel

  • Places I love: Greendale, My Dad's house in Oak Creek, the Library, the Root River Parkway, sitting under a tree anywhere on a nice sunny day with a good book
  • Places I've been: France, California, Oregon, Memphis
  • Places to see before I die: CANADA BABY!!
  • Dream Vacation: The Amazon River

Style

  • Where I shop: Kohl's, Target, Old Navy, TJ Maxx.
  • I like to wear: Jeans. Tees. Black.
  • Can't live without: My Treo Centro. My laptop. My ipod. My camera. A blowdryer. Philosophy, The Present. Shu Uemura eyelash curler. Diorshow mascara. Web access.
  • Prized Possessions: see above
  • Guilty Pleasure: Handbags. Jewelry. Shoes.

Video Games

  • Games I Play: Little Palm Pet, Fish Tycoon, Guitar Hero III
  • Consoles: Treo 650, Palm Pilot
  • Favorite Classic Arcade Games: Super Mario Brothers, Donkey Kong, Castlevania, MarioKart
  • Most Addictive: Rock BAnd, Guitar Hero, GTA: San Andreas
  • Proudest Achievements: Beating Mario's 1, 2 and 3!!!! 5 Starring My Name Is Jonas on Easy with a 455 note streak!!!
  • Favorite Soundtrack: Tony Hawk

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Anna Banana, Nanners, Bananza, Annie, Little Maniac
  • Nationality: Good Old Fashioned Midwest Americana, Cheese-Eating, Beer-Drinking, Baseball-Watching, Rummage-Sale-Shopping Girl
  • Religion: none in particular.
  • Heroes: the founding fathers of our great country.
  • Interests: technology, fashion, jewelry, gossip
  • Expertise: more of a generalist than an expert at any one thing
  • Occupation: Product Development Manager

Music

  • Favorite Artists: 311, Maroon 5, Silversun Pickups, Spoon, Maximo Park, Daft Punk, Coheed and Cambria, Taking Back Sunday, The Ramones, Green Day, Weezer, Shiny Toy Guns, We Are Scientists, Aerodrone, OK Go, The Raconteurs, PlayRadioPlay!, Paramore, Foo Fighters, Jason Mraz, John Mayer, Royksopp, Taking Back Sunday, Daft Punk, HelloGoodbye, Keane, Coldplay
  • Favorite Albums: 311 - Evolver
  • Favorite Genre: Alternative, Indie, Powerpop, Electronica, Techno, House, Jazz, Oldies, Folk, Salsa, Trip-Hop
  • Favorite Songs: 311- Speak Easy, Incubus - 1984, Foo Fighters - Everlong
  • Favorite Lyrics: *311* "If there's a shadow in your life then there's sunshine" -Speak Easy "I've been tryin to transmit a feeling / I've been hoping you receive what I'm revealing." - Crack the Code "Every time you will ignore your Heart it will come back twice more Never deny your own instinct" - Reconsider Everything
  • Songs I hate: Meep Meep, Dot Com, to Shop For Cars Online or any song talking about bling, booties, and bitches
  • Guilty Pleasure: Jamiriquoi, Josh Turner, Kelly Clarkson
  • Songs I repeat the most: 311 - Give Me A Call & Other Side of Things
  • Band I wish I was in: The Donnas

College

  • School Name: Milwaukee Area Technical College
  • Status: Undergrad
  • Class of: 2008
  • Degree type: Associates
  • Major(s): Human Services
  • Organizations: Student Senate - West Campus

Books

  • Favorite Books: The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ; Little House on the Prairie Series - Laura Ingalls Wilder ; The Giver - Lois Lowry
  • Recent Reads: Maus- Arthur Speigelman

High School

  • School Name: Custer High School
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 1999
  • Attended: 1994 - 1999
  • Organizations: Newspaper/ YearBook/ Jay's Special Pizza Club/ GSA

Contact Info

  • AIM: bananza80
  • Yahoo: munkwitza

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    • State: Wisconsin
    • Birthday: 11/3/1980
    • Member Since: 4/16/2005
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Memories (2)

  • El_Tizzzle
    Nope, don't remember that. Thanks to my ineptitude, I spent forever trying in vain to figure out how to get to your memory board, before Shana explained to me that I had to click on the link that said profile. I feel like a freakin' genius :-P
  • ashleybug706
    oh yes i do! that was so much fun...and the midnight bowling was too! we should definitely do that again!

Chatboard (3)

  • bananza80
    @ShepherdExpress - Make a blog entry! Most people on Xanga came here for the writing function, but it has branched into so much more. I would suggest writing something of your own and then going around and finding people you are interested in and comment on their blogs. People LOVE to get blog comme
  • ShepherdExpress
    Thanks for the add, I'm still new to Xanga... what's some stuff that I should make sure I am familiar with?
  • BadnarikChick
    Oh, I absolutely love Monk. The only problem is that I don't get USA, so I have to wait until each season comes out on DVD. I love Sharona. I was so sad to see her go and be replaced by Natalie. :-( Then again, I like Natalie's daughter better than Sharona's son.