I'm a wanderer. A lover of the written word. I take National Geographic with my coffee. I make things with yarn. A wannabe foodie. I'm a loner Dottie, a rebel, and I wish I had the courage to be an absolute nobody. There's always more to the story, and this one is no different.

Please note that this is not my first rodeo, let's skip the "hi, how are you" and go straight to the good stuff, like random facts and observations. Or randomly weird. I like weird. Not to be confused with creepy weird, which I don't like.

Anyone who can help me improve my French or Russian, or anyone who has a great sense of humor and conversational skills. I've also recently started learning Norwegian and I love it! Anyone who can help me along would be most awesome. :)

I'm obsessed with stationery, crochet, knitting (beginner), cooking, anthropology, museums, coffee, books, music, movies, dancing just because, dachshunds, Jeeps, etc..

I enjoy a broad range of music, but some of my favorite bands include The Beatles, Death Cab for Cutie, Queen, She & Him, Walk the Moon, Tom Petty, The Lighthouse and the Whaler, Geographer, Margot & The Nuclear So and So's, U2, The Killers, Bastille, Ben Howard, Florence + The Machine, Ellie Goulding, Journey, Lucy Rose, OneRepublic, Passenger.... the list goes on.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Everything is Illuminated, all of the Monty Python movies, Mermaids, Amelie, any and all Wes Anderson flicks, Labyrinth, Fried Green Tomatoes, Shawshank Redemption, Inception, Girl Interrupted, Edward Scissorhands, Little Miss Sunshine, The Hours, and anything else that makes me feel, think or laugh. Oh, and superhero movies.

Bones, New Girl, Doctor Who, Chopped, Parks & Recreation, Ripper Street, Supernatural, etc.

Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, anything and everything by Jane Austen and Douglas Adams... this list goes on too.