Kari, Care', Kair...a rose by any other name...

My name is Kari Lynn, or Care' Llinn, if you were to spell it in phoenetic Gaelic. I am female, 22, and if I told you any more than that, I'd have to kill you. ::grins::

Actually, I'm a tailor, a singer, a writer of music and poetry, and I love life in general. There is so much about me, it'll be hard to explain, simply because I don't know where to begin.

I s'pose I shall begin at the beginning...or so they always taught me in school...I live in Illinois, land of corn, pigs...and I think that's just about it. Actually, our claim to fame so to speak is President Abraham Lincoln...who really only lived in Illinois in passing. You know, we do have Chicago, the pleasure-dome that it is, but seeing as I live only 40 miles away from it and have only been there less than, oh, 20 times in my life, what is there to say? I've been online for about 4 years now, closer to 5, and every year I have to re-teach myself HTML so I can update these darn pages. Maybe I should do it more often? I'm waiting for someone I never knew to write me and say they found my site witty and informative...but I'm not holding my breath, if you get my meaning. I'm totally devoted to my family and I love them all very much. I don't think I could have done half the things I have without their support and help when I needed it most. I own two cats, named Lizzie and Bosco...cute as hell and about 7 months old. I'm a hopeless romantic currently dating a wonderful man named Daniel Schrum...he's done so much for my family and I...I love him to death and he's probably the only person other than my mom who'll put up with my insane shit without totally cracking and braining me to death with my own shoes.

I am: (not necessarily in order of importance or favouritism)

• Currently unemployed again. ::shrug:: Good work is hard to find. I used to work in downtown Chicago at a tailoring shop in the Loop, but apparently there aren't enough people losing/gaining weight. Eat more twinkies, people!
• Soprano I, somewhat operatically trained...ok, so I don't know any Italian, never sang in an opera, and the closest person I even know to an opera singer is my best friend, Mary Gunn. I do have a vibrato you can drive a truck through, though.
• Daughter to Wolf and Sister to a crazy fuckin hacker-juggalo Dragon and Hawk...pages to follow...:D
• Currently dating an insane fweek named Dan...Rahvin for short (even though technically and character-wise it is longer). (Fweeky sugah pannies.) He and I began dating last August, and it will be a year this August 16th...he's been nothing but sweet to me, and I do believe I love da boy. Ooo, I'm gettin tha vapors...
• A Gemini Extrordinaire--straight out of a textbook, if they wrote textbooks on astrology. Sometimes I believe I have two separate personalities...decisions are impossible for me, and if somethings not creative, I want no part of it. That would explain why my web page is awesome (heh heh heh), my ren garb is also beyond compare, but I've been out of college for 3 years now and I haven't paid any of the loans anything. Oops!
• A huge Stephen King fan--I own almost everything he has done in hardcover. I'm looking for some of the more obscure things he's done, the short stories he's only had published in magazines, etc. Hard to find.
• A short person (5'4", thank you for askin'.) Not much to elaborate on this. Short is short. What do you want?
• Driver of an 89 Grand Am sans muffler. Oh yeah, needs a paint job too. And a transmission. It could use an oil change, too...really, it's just a box on wheels.
• IMHO, a talented tailor and costumer. I can make an entire renaissance court lady's outfit in a weekend. HA! I'd like to start my own business someday, but I have to get some more experience in business management and the like. The work I can do. The paperwork, eh, that might be another question altogether.
• A believer in faeries. ::Claps hands:: I have always thought there were strange forces working in my life, around me but never directly interfering with my body...lost keys, strange noises, intuition and close calls all are attributed to faeries in my mind. (Sometimes my Granpa Duke has something to do with it...but more often than not, he's just fucking with my mind.) I've always felt a bond with the wilds, be it a meadow abloom with wildflowers or a plot of land left to grow back into a copse of trees. Where civilization is least obvious is where I am most comfortable.

Links-A-Zillion!

• The Official They Might Be Giants Website. S-E-X-X-Y!
• Mancow Online...sick shit, but hell. We all need it sometime!
• Monty Python Online. 'Nuff said. DINSDALE!
• Fiore Family Genealogy Forum--where I got most of my name info, much thanks to one of my root-tracer friends.
• All Things Scottish--It's Willie Time--You have to love Groundskeeper Willie. He's just...awesome!
• Chicago--The Home Page--the ultimate 80's band...they're good no matter what you're feelin!
• The Simpsons Archive: The Simpsons Drinking Game--booze and the Simpsons...what a better combo?
• Codpiece International Home Page--Codpieces till you puke. Enough packages to make *anyone* happy.
• Welcome to Spatula City!For all you Wierd Al fans....this has nothing to do with that song other than they both say "Spatula City".
• w w w . e m i n e m . c o m--"Hi, my name is...", remember? It'd be hard to with all the other stuff he's puttin out...
• Fantasy Name Generator--for all you RPers out there lookin for a good name...try also another random glamname generator whose name I forgot. Write me if it's yours and I'll fix this.
• Bob's 80's--I LOVE THE 80'S!!
• Sound Clips--Enya. Love it.
• Glossary of Tartan Terms--not like *I* need to read it, but I suppose not everyone can be as learned concerning that most wonderful of wearables, the tartan.
• Ever After--Only one of the best movies Drew Barrymore has ever done...she's beautiful. Hell, even *I'd* do her!
• INAC Political Action--quite a worthy cause...
• Celts: The Lost Tribes and CeltNet : An Online Celtic Community--two of my favourite Celtic Online resources...definitely something to check out if you've got any blue blood...(and 2 bonus points if you actually get that.)
• Kinky Cards--*the* place to get your risque' cards...from slightly flirty to downright nasty they have it all, for any occasion. Did you know May is National Masturbation Month?
• Clipart Castle--They have the web's best (IMHO) selection of animations, bars, banners, buttons, icons, and backgrounds. Lots of different colours and variations on themes, great for anyone looking for fantasy/gothic/mythical clipart.
• Hotmail, the World's Free E-Mail, they'd like to tout it as. Microsoft, yeah yeah yeah. Another penny into the Gates Coffers...but it's free. Watch me complain about something like *that*!
• Yahoo!, a pretty good search engine. They have e-mail too, and some other things...if you're not too keen on AIM, you can get their pager, but it only works with other people who have the pager, and you can find them in the Personals...::shrugs::
• Movie Cliches Online, a listing of all cliches in movies...things like, when two strangers are having sex for the first time, they both must simultaneously climax...all the things you suspected were true but never had the time to find out for yourself.
• The Sushi Fortune Teller which determines your fortune, or rather, your personality type, based on the 5 types of sushi you pick. I've never had sushi, but I picked the ones I thought were most attractive (read: pretty) and it was really quite accurate. Interesting if you're into Anime or a Japanophile.
• The Death Test by The Spark, another accurate info-input test. I'm slated to die at 68 of cancer. I'd better party now, while I still can!
• Along the same lines, The Grim Reaper.
• The Mouse Odometer 3.0 will tally up the miles your mouse has traveled, letting you know when you've reached the equivalent of Mount Everest, the Iditarod trail, and 21 other famous landmarks. (Thanks to Maxim mag for the tipoff.)
• Internet Bumper Stickers. Not real stickers, Duh. Good if you got a page an want to make a statement. Or something.
• The Phobia List. Find what you're skeered of in alphabetical order. Don't let hypochondriacs see this page.
• InfoUsa.com. If you're lookin for someone, come here. It's freeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
• Switchboard, another great place for all you stalkers...er...I mean, estranged family members. ::grin::
• Wicked Moon Virtual Cards, for *really* good freakin artwork and some funny shit as well.
• The Official Lexx Website, where you can find some delicious pics of Kai, Xev, and the rest of the crew of the Lexx, the most powerful spaceship in the two universes. Also my favourite sci-fi show.
• This To That to see what kind of glue you need to glue this to that. Does NOT include selections for gluing flesh to toilet seat.
• Meat On Tap. This is one of the most gosh-awful sites I've EVER been to. Absolutely nauseating. But then again...like a nasty car accident...once you're on that progression of day by day photos of said meat...you just CAN'T STOP!!
• The Dialectizer. This is hilarious to use on your own web site, or make the White House web page into hillbilly dialect. Insert Joke Here.
• America Online on the internet. I check mail here.
• The Coffee House Poet Website. He's got some very good poems--I recommend "The Kiss"--and he's not a bad person, to boot! :D