Layer One

• Name: amancay
  
• Birth date: november 27, 1977
  
• Birthplace: white salmon, wa
  
• Current Location: hood river, or
  
• Eye Color: hazelnut
  
• Hair Color: dirty blonde... sounds almost scandalous!
  
• Righty or Lefty: wait, i know this one... left!
  
• Innie or Outtie: we had an extensive conversation about this at the YWC group dinner last night... and despite my advocacy for outties... i have an innie!

• Your heritage: german, argentine... and mostly english from the other side
  
• The shoes you wore today: n/a as i've donned not a one today, tooling around my place all cruddy feeling
  
• Your hair: *de ja vu* dude, peoples... there's a glitch in the matrix! *opting for the more flamboyant answers this go 'round* all mussed up, with little attention to care as i'm going no where
  
• Your eyes: all squinty, possibly quite puffy, yet seemingly more rested then ever in the last few weeks!
  
• Your weakness: "a certain man's scent" that's my line... and i'm stickin' to it!
  
• Your fears: being alone... lightning/thunder... bugs
  
• Your perfect pizza: jamón crudo y espárago
  
• One thing you'd like to achieve: recording a song or two...

• Your most overused phrase on IM: *hbw*
  
• Your first waking thoughts: today: 'oh my shees! i can't do this... not today!'
  
• The first feature you notice in the opposite sex: contrary to popular belief; eyes, lips, & smile.. in no particular order as it all depends on the initial interactions
  
• Your best physical feature: *quizzical eyebrow raising* mine? i've got a pretty nifty flying toe!?
  
• Your bedtime: *laughing in the face of disaster* that might be a good thing to pursue!
  
• Your greatest fear: ultimately, it's being alone
  
• Your greatest accomplishment: putting my foot down, and shutting someone out of my life who was only bringing me down spiritually, emotionally, and... other krup
  
• Your most missed memory: today i'd have to say my murray...

• Pepsi or Coke: here: pepsi; in argentina: coca-cola
  
• McDonald's or Burger King: here: BK; there: MickeyD's (not that i've ever seen a BK in argentina, or anything!)
  
• Single or group dates: "i kissed dating goodbye" (before i ever got the chance to have dated)
  
• Adidas or Nike: here, strangely confused as to why: nike; there: adidas (i think it has something to do with soccer sponsorship)
  
• Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: *making face* gross... I like the real deal... made without all the extra crud!
  
• Chocolate or vanilla: i am chocolate, i like vanilla
  
• Cappuccino or coffee: caffeine

• Smoke: cigarettes: no; salmon, turkey, other yummy goodies: yes
  
• Cuss: no!
  
• Sing: yes!
  
• Take a shower everyday: every other day, with some extra events in there at times
  
• Have a crush(es): currently: no... ; ever: der...
  
• Who are they: none at present, except maybe Gordo from Lizzie McGuire
  
• Do you think you've been in love: there's like 4 different kinds of love... if you mean the 'ooo i wanna marry you and have your babies' kind... i try hard not to let myself get to that point until an established courtship is going on, and i've never been there.. yet!
  
• Want to go to college: not really... i like learning about what i'm interested in and pertains directly to my needs/goals at hand, currently that need does not exist
  
• Like high school: i liked bits & pieces... just like any part of life: ups & downs
  
• Want to get married: duh!
  
• Believe in yourself: that's a tough one... "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!"
  
• Type with your fingers on the right keys: i type with my fingers on all the keys, the right & the left ones!
  
• Think you're attractive: not really... I sure clean up well, though!
  
• Think you're a health freak: um no! but I know enough that I could if it was really all that important to me...
  
• Get along with your parents: yeah... all 4, for the most part!
  
• Play an instrument: my lovely vocal chords is about all... I own a guitar, but it's currently lost in the abyss of the Vande's house

• Drink alcohol: *giddy grin* yes, a very nice man actually shared some schnapps with me one sunday evening *refrains from singing 'the sharing song'*... it was peach, and yummy, and wow!
  
• Smoke: no
  
• Do a drug: only over-the-counter pain meds
  
• Eat an entire box of Oreos: never!
  
• Eat sushi: oh man! where's nela when i need her!?
  
• Go on stage: not conscientiously
  
• Get dumped: impossible... not because i'm undumpable, but becasue... well, you know!
  
• Go skating: i knew skateworld was calling me for a reason!
  
• Make homemade cookies: oh that sounds fun, & yummy, &... "Ruthanne?"
  
• Fall in love: *again, laughing in the face of... something* ha! um, no
  
• Gone skinny dipping: the sun may have come out recently, but it's still a little cold for that just yet!
  
• Dye your hair: um, no... jonathan was quick to encourage me to quit considering the magenta i've got sitting in my cupboard. (i wonder if he thought i was serious/took me seriously!?)
  
• Steal anything: *sigh* if only i'd stolen someone's heart... *wink*

• Played a game that required removal of clothing: i have vague memories of strip poker at like age 6 or 7 with my sister, huge blankets were involved and i'm not sure we even knew how to play poker yet!
  
• Been trashed or extremely intoxicated: nope
  
• Been called a tease: certainly not...
  
• Gotten beaten up: i got punched in the eye by a guy once... he was 'play punching' and stopping just before hitting me, slipped.. and well, the rest was a flood of apologies & ancient history!
  
• Shoplifted: surely in middle school i sniped a lipstick or something
  
• If so, did you get caught: nope, mostly why i'm not sure when or what exactly...
  
• Changed who you were to fit in: that's never worked for me... i'm just too intensely 'amancay!'

• Age you hope to be married: not 26... 27 I could do, but I somehow highly doubt that one... i'd hope to be married *singing* "when I'm 64!"
  
• Numbers and Names of Children: shouldn't that be worked out with a significant other? if left to my own devices 2 would work for me... and i've always been particularly fond of Nahuel Lanin
  
• Describe your Dream Wedding: we don't have the time for this right now... really! more than anything I pray/dream it's a day of pure and utter romance & celebration to be shared with huge amounts of friends & family... partying until the cows come home!
  
• How do you want to die: knowing where i'm going!
  
• Where you want to go to college: we already discussed this... not interested
  
• What country would you most like to visit: italy, greece; most of europe... it's just so hard for me to take the time & money and not go to argentina

• Number of guys kissed: praise Jesus for clean slates... otherwise i'd be drudging up gross dirt from the entirety of my life that really has no place in me anymore!
  
• Number of boyfriends: currently: none; at any one given time: only one... i'm not a polygamist; in total: one... in the third grade, it was so sweet & precious, he'd save me a seat on the bus every day! *sigh*
  
• Number of drugs taken illegally: not one
  
• Number of people I could trust with my life: *begins to count* I'm gonna go with somewhere between 7 & 11 wholeheartedly... in concept, probably more towards 27
  
• Number of cds I own: 400+
  
• Number of dvds I own: *quick glance to the side* 37?
  
• Number of piercings: 2 per ear... 4 all together
  
• Number of tattoos: 1
  
• Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper: oh boy, a bajillion... surely... between grades, a ticket or two, super-selling abilities in school, drama, & other activities... plus the fact that the HR paper doesn't always have that much to write about!
  
• Number of scars on my body: i'm not a boy... i don't keep track... but i've got 2 pretty significant marks that have/will last: roller-blading & cooking injuries!
  
• Number of things in my past that I regret: *singing, reassuring self* "as far as the east is from the west... that's how far, He has removed our transgressions from us!"