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Would love to learn Spanish, Russian, & Irish, but I only know a little bit of those.

Wasted, Stacking in Rivertown, The Outsiders, Kitchen Confidential, Lost Souls, The Fountainhead, Stranger in a Strange Land, Unintended Consequences, Atlas Shrugged, Lost Souls, Friday, Farnham's Freehold, The $50 and Up Underground House Book, The Hellfire Club, Reviving Ophelia, Ophelia Speaks,

I listen to lots of different types of music. My favorite genre is oi and streetpunk, followed closely by "old school" punk, rockabilly and psychobilly, then "roots" country & honkytonk, oldies, southern rock, hard rock, some metal, bluegrass, and classical. I also like some ska and reggae, and a lot of Christian music but what I listen to usually just depends in the mood I'm in at the time.

Dirty Dancing, Red Dawn, Labyrinth, Legend, The Last Unicorn, Pan's Labyrinth, Grease, American Graffiti, CryBaby, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, A Walk To Remember, Cry-Baby, SLC Punk!, Resident Evil, Dawn of the Dead, I Am Legend, Crow, Gladiator, 28 Days Later, Silent Hill, Lord of the Ring, The Phantom of the Opera, Gremlins, Tremors, Calendar Girl, Braveheart, 300,

Reading, going to shows [live music], baking, cooking, hiking and outdoor activities, volunteering, self-sufficiency, emergency preparedness, off-grid living, green technology, biodiesel, renewable energy, sustainable development, yurts, gardening, do-it-yourself, alternative building methods.

I'm 27, married and female. I have worked as a prison guard for 6 years, and part-time as a Realtor for 2 years, and will be moving over to real estate full time by spring, so I can spend more time with my baby.

I've never been LDS, but keep finding myself drawn to the church, and have had several times when I've been questioning my own beliefs and ran into something LDS-related. It seems to be happening again, so I am trying to take it more seriously this time around.

Right now, I'm reading the Book of Mormon on my own, along with the Bible, and following along in the seminary study guide, to supplement my learning. I will probably take the discussions sometime after I've read through it on my own a time or two, because I am stubborn and skeptical like that.

I am a Christian, but some of my beliefs are out of line with mainstream Christianity, so I've been looking for a church "home" for a long time. I think most churches are corrupt and love money more than truth, and am looking for one that is not that way.

I am expecting a baby in March 2010, and would like to have a good church to raise him in. My husband is non-religious, and is hostile toward most Christian churches, but is OK with our son being raised Christian. I hope he will also attend with me, if I find a church that is not the same as the ones that have left such a bitter taste in his mouth.