Amy's Little Homepage

Bienvenue chez moi. This isn't my greatest attempt at a web atrocity, but as you can see, I'm doing rather well with my gawdiness. Thanks for visiting, anyway. If you'd like to find out some junk about me, then go ahead and click yourself silly. You can even let me know what you think, if it piques your interest, or is your forté. One final note, you *need* the font Graffiti Treat if you'd like to optimally view this page. It's not required, but why not take a second to download it and not only add a nifty font to your computer, but view this page the way I intendeded to be?

I know you're waiting in anticipation, so here's the most important (I use this term loosely) part to this page... my biography! Well, it's a biography...of sorts...really just one of those goofy email profiles. But that's how it is when you're living a busy life like mine *lol*

NAME: *aMeS
SEX: femme fatale
HOME: virginia beach
HEIGHT: 5'8
EYES: hazel
HAIR COLOR: strawberry-blonde
YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOWS? Talk Soup
the Daily Show
Absolutely Fabulous
Strangers with Candy
the Powerpuff Girls
Dr. Katz
WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? cow spots
FAVORITE BOARD GAME: Monopoly
Sorry
Hi-Ho Cherry Oh
Candyland
Chutes & Ladders
FAVORITE MAGAZINE: Mademoiselle
Jane
FAVORITE BANDS/GROUPS: Deftones
Tori Amos
Fear Factory
311
No Doubt
Dance Hall Crashers
Margret Heater
Nashun
BEST SONG TO DESCRIBE YOU: "Girl" by Tori
FAVORITE SMELL: Water Lily
Citrus Fantasy
WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD: guilt
nausea
pity
BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD: success
real happiness
feeling important
love
FAVORITE THINGS TO DO ON THE WEEKENDS: sleep
surf
read
watch movies
FAVORITE SOUNDTRACK: undecided
WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WOKE UP THIS MORNING?: do i want to be awake?
what the hell is laying on my leg (it was my kitten)?
should i skip school?
DO YOU GET MOTION SICKNESS? negative
ROLLER COASTERS~ DEADLY OR EXCITING? technically, both.
PEN OR PENCIL? pen
HOW MANY RINGS BEFORE YOU ANSWER THE PHONE? top secret message for you: i despise the telephone. no joke. don't call me, i hate talking on phones. i don't know why, so please don't ask. however, i'd be glad to meet up with you in person (crossing state-lines is out of the question, btw), but talking on the phone is a no no in my book.
FUTURE SON'S NAME? Kaleb Augustus
FUTURE DAUGHTER'S NAME: Kylie Amethystine
FAVORITE FOODS: icecream
pizza
provelone (not by itself, i'm not that weird)
DO YOU GET ALONG WITH YOUR PARENTS: practically tous les temps. and why shouldn't i? i'm the good child, remember? ;)
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CONVICTED OF A CRIME: convicted is the keyword here. so, no, i haven't been convicted.
CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA? vanilla
FAVORITE ICE CREAM: mint chocolate chip
rainbow sherbet
CROUTONS OR BACON BITS: croutons
DO YOU LIKE TO DRIVE?: sometimes.. at odd hours (early morning, late at night) & where there's little to no traffic (i.e. chesapeake, heh).
DO YOU SLEEP WITH STUFFED ANIMALS? only mr. ted
THUNDERSTORMS~ COOL OR SCARY? are you kidding? i LOVE thunderstorms.
WHAT TYPE OF CAR WAS YOUR FIRST CAR: i'm still driving my first car...
IF YOU COULD MEET ONE PERSON, DEAD OR ALIVE, WHO WOULD IT BE? tori
FAVORITE ALCOHOLIC DRINK: BLECH.
WHAT IS YOUR ZODIAC SIGN? cancer
WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE POET? william butler yeats
DO YOU EAT THE STEMS OF BROCCOLI? positive
IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB YOU WANTED, WHAT WOULD IT BE? mammologist
*rock star*
someone famous...
IF YOU COULD DYE YOUR HAIR ANY COLOR, WHAT WOULD IT BE? wouldn't.
IF YOU COULD HAVE A TATTOO, WHAT AND WHERE WOULD IT BE? i'm going to get a faery on the right side of my lower back, right above my butt :) something like this below (minus the black background, duh), because it has a faery and a water lily...

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE & W/WHO? leaning toward no. in love no one would hurt you, and i was hurt :Þ
DESCRIBE YOUR DREAM WEDDING: outdoors in ireland (near stonehenge would be perfect!!), the reception would be in an ancient castle, lots of beautiful flowers, a very very simple wedding dress for me...a crown of flowers, too! :) eee.
WHAT IS ON YOUR WALLS IN YOUR ROOM? posters
IS THE GLASS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL?: half full
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SNAPPLE? i'd prefer something other than snapple.
ARE YOU A RIGHTY, LEFTY OR AMBIDEXTROUS?: lefty... with ambidextrous tendencies....i can cut with scissors right handed! lol...it's one of my adaptations to a right handed world *sticks out tongue*
DO YOU TYPE WITH YOUR FINGERS ON THE RIGHT KEYS?: yes
WHAT'S UNDER YOUR BED? carpet...sometimes my kitten, Pixie
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NUMBER?: 16
WHAT IS YOUR DREAM CAR?: i'm rather content with my old car
WHO IS ANNOYING TO YOU? whoever is calling..the phone is ringing, and i'm not answering.
IF YOU COULD GO ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, WHERE WOULD YOU GO AND WHY? Ireland - to see the beautiful miles of green
Netherlands - to see beautiful dutch flowers
Tornado Alley - to see nature's brute force (a tornado)
SPORTS YOU PLAY: surfing
softball
skating
FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH: Xgames

Bored enough, yet? Thought so, alright, move along. That's right, keep it moving, nice and easy...

I'm somewhat of a history fanatic; it really interests me to hear what went on in the past. Well, one day I was at a webpage and glanced at one of the sponsor banners, it was an ad from the History Channel that was semi-interactive. You put in your birth month and day, and it took you to a webpage that listed what all happened on that day in history. So without further ado, here's what's happened on June 30th (my birthday)...

1959 - Frenchman, Emile Blodin, crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope this day! It took him five minutes. 5,000 spectators stood and stared as he made his way across the falls in a most dangerous Odyssey. What some people do with nothing but spare time on their hands. Next, they'll be going over the falls in wooden barrels!

1921 - Documents were signed forming the Radio Corporation of America, better known as RCA. RCA soon rivaled its main competitor, General Electric (GE).

1936 - Margaret Mitchell's book, "Gone with the Wind", was published on this day in New York City.

1939 - Frank Sinatra made his first appearance with Harry James' band this night. Sinatra was center stage at the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore, MD, where he sang, "My Love for You".

1952 - CBS-TV debuted "The Guiding Light" on this day. It was a daytime serial which continues on the air today.

1953 - The first Corvette rolled off the Chevrolet assembly line in Flint, MI on this day. That early 'Vette sold for $3,250. Today, a basic model sells for ten times that -- and more.

1962 - Los Angeles Dodger's star, Sandy Koufax, pitched his first no-hitter in a game with the New York Mets. Koufax would toss three more no-hit games before he retired in 1966.

1970 - The Cincinnati Reds moved to their new $45,000,000 home at Riverfront Stadium on this day. The Reds had played 48 seasons at Crosley Field.

1974 - The famous July 4th scene from the Steven Spielberg movie, "Jaws", was filmed on this day. A crowd of 400 screaming, scared, panic-stricken extras in bathing suits ran from the water -- over and over and over again, until the scene was perfect. No man-eating killer white sharks were harmed during the production of this paragraph...

1975 - Cher married rock star Greg Allman this day. Cher announced her divorce from Allman just days after the couple tied the knot.

1981 - Grant Tinker, head of MTM Enterprises, was named to succeed Fred Silverman as president of the NBC-TV. Silverman was known as a programming wonder boy in previous successes with CBS and ABC but would find it rough-going at the Peacock Network.

1984 - The Los Angeles Express of the United States Football League (USFL) played the longest game in professional history by beating the Michigan Panthers 27-21. The game went on for 93 minutes, 33 seconds. The old mark had been 82 minutes, 40 seconds, set by the Miami Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs.

1985 - Yul Brynner left his role as the King of Siam after 4,600 performances in "The King and I" at the Broadway Theatre in New York City. The show had run -- on and off -- for over 34 years.

1985 - For the 13th time since 1972, the world's official timekeeper atomic clock ticked off one extra second at 23:59 Greenwich Mean Time (also called UCT, Universal Coordinated Time) or 7:59:59 p.m. in New York. The leap second was added to compensate for the gradual slowing of the Earth's rotation. The practice continues every few years, but the adjustments are now made on New Year's Eve.

1985 - The creator of the Twinkie, James A. Dewar, died on this day. Mr. Dewar created the treat in 1930. Many say that Twinkies will stay fresh almost forever. In fact, many bomb shelters in the 1960s were furnished with stockpiles of Hostess Twinkies just for that reason. Today, more than 45 billion of the soft, cream-filled sponge cakes have been sold.

How fitting, some rather strange things went on June 30th... and I'm a strange girl, *lol* Want to find out what happened on your birthday? C'mon it's interesting!! Be a sport!

Alright, in my sixteen years of existance, I've come to the conclusion that the Netherlands would be a lovely place to reside in. Yes, Ireland would also be nifty, but I'm not addressing that yet... Perhaps in the next installment.

Now I'm sure you're probably asking yourself, how in the hell did I come up with the idea of living in the Netherlands. And if I really knew, I'd gladly share. However, I just have this gut feeling that I would like to live there (not necessarily permanently). Or for another reason.. I quote lonelyplanet.com, "The Netherlands has managed to combine liberal attitudes with one of the most orderly societies on earth, in a community which manages to be radical and sensible without being silly or staid.

As of this year, I've been on a quest to learn Dutch, but my efforts have been in vain. My school doesn't offer any courses in Dutch, only French, Spanish, German and Latin.. the more "normal" languages, apparently. I'm not giving up, however, I plan to find a college that offers it, or if that fails, I'll just learn it on my own. Dammit.

I don't really know why, as I've stated before, but I have this inner feeling that the Netherlands are just the epitome of cool, relaxed living. I love how the Dutch language sounds, and the names of cities are just as neat! Click here to see what I mean.

The below is a condensed bit of Netherland history, it's quite informative, if you're interested in this sort of thing.

The Netherland's early history is linked with Belgium and Luxembourg; the three were known as the 'Low Countries' until the 16th century when the present-day Netherlands' boundaries were roughly drawn. Originally the land was inhabited by tribal groups: the Germanic Batavi drained the sea lagoons while the Frisii lived on mounds in the remote north.

In the late 16th century the region's northern provinces, inhabited by recent converts to Protestantism, united to fight the Catholic Spanish rulers. Philip II of Spain sent the cruel inquisition to enforce Catholicism and war broke out in 1568. The revolt of the Netherlands was led by Prince William of Orange, nicknamed William the Silent for his refusal to enter into religious arguments. After 80 years of conflict Holland and its allied provinces expelled the Spaniards in 1648 and Holland became synonymous with the independent country that emerged in this corner of Europe (a bit like saying England when you mean Britain).

Amsterdam pranced onto the European stage in what was the province of Holland's most glorified period: the golden age from about 1580 to about 1740, after which the British began dominating the world's seas. The era's wealth was generated by the Dutch East India Company which sent ships to the Far East in search of spices and other exotic goods, while colonising the Cape of Good Hope, Indonesia, Surinam, the Antilles and New Amsterdam (today's New York) and establishing trading posts throughout Asia.

Meanwhile Amsterdam's bourgeoisie indulged in fine, gabled canal houses and paintings of themselves and the remains of last night's dinner. This in turn stimulated the arts and brought renown to painters such as Rembrandt. But it didn't last. In 1795 the French invaded and Napoleon appointed his younger brother Louis as king. When the largely unpopular French occupation came to an end, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands - incorporating Belgium and Luxembourg was born. The first king, King William I of Orange was crowned in 1814, and the House of Orange rules to this day. In 1830 the Belgians rebelled and became independent; Luxembourg did the same soon after.

The Netherlands was able to stay neutral through WWI but couldn't exercise the same privilege in WWII. The Germans invaded in May 1940, obliterating much of Rotterdam in a bombing blitz four days later. Although a sound Dutch resistance movement formed, only a small minority of the country's substantial Jewish population survived the war. In 1949, despite military attempts to hold on to Indonesia, the colony won independence. Surinam follwed with a peaceful handover of sovereignty in 1975. The Antilles, off the coast of Venezuela, are still a colony, but are largely self ruled. The Netherlands is a staunch supporter of the European Union, and further integration is taken for granted by most Dutch people.

Although the Dutch have the cute habit of calling anything higher than a speed bump a mountain, the Netherlands is largely a flat and soggy bog. Most of its land has been reclaimed from the sea over the centuries and the drained polders are protected by dykes, very few of which are plugged by little boys' fingers. More than half of the country lies below sea level and only in the south-east Limburg province will you find hills. The Netherlands is bordered by the North Sea, Belgium and Germany. The Rhine is the major river, slurping up runoff from the proper mountains in Germany and Switzerland and slopping it out all over the flat lands.

One of the country's worst disasters hit in 1953 when a high spring tide coupled with a severe storm breached the dykes in Zeeland drowning 1835 people. To ensure the tragedy would never be repeated, the Delta Project blocked the south-west river deltas using a network of dams, dykes and a remarkable 3.2km storm surge barrier which is only lowered in rough conditions. In 1995 the largest mandatory evacuation in the Netherlands since the Zeeland disaster was carried out after heavy rain in France and Belgium caused the Meuse and Waal rivers to flood. Some 240,000 people were relocated from Gelderland, the region based around Nijmegen, due to fears that dykes along the two rivers would burst.

Forget about wilderness in the Netherlands. This is Europe's most densely populated country, but it feels like the most organised place in the world. The western hoop of cities including Amsterdam, the Hague and Rotterdam is one of the most densely populated conurbations on earth and even out of this area it doesn't get exactly isolated. Towns often blur from one to the next, linked by highways and bicycle paths. Neat, flat, muddy fields and tame and pleasant woodlands act as buffers; there are even places where you can hear the twittering of birds above the constant traffic drone.

The Netherlands has a temperate maritime climate with cool winters and mild summers. It can get pretty drizzly here, especially in autumn and spring when it can seem as though it's going to be grey forever. But because the Netherlands is such a flat slab of a place, changes sweep through quickly when the wind starts to blow.

Here's my idol, Tori Amos, in all her grace and beauty. She is an amazing singer and songwriter, whom I've had the luck of seeing in concert. It was only once, and of course I'd love to see her again, however there's not a single stop near me on her upcoming tour.

{ click here for 1999 tour dates }

My favorite songs by her are "Precious Things," from her 1992 album 'Little Earthquakes,' and "Flying Dutchman," from the 1992 UK China import. Of course, that's not to say that her other songs aren't fabulous, as well! If you've never heard Tori's music, you should visit here for Tori mp3s and wav files.

Now a couple of Tori site I love and visit very often...
a girl and her watercolour stain
a dent in tori's ass (humorous)
the force of tori amos