About Me
- About Me: I'm a stay-at-home mom, married thirteen years to my wonderful husband Frank, and mom to Sailor Isabella who was born July 3, 2008. I love being a mom! I also love to travel, read, blog, and keep up with friends. Oh yeah, and I'm a Type 1 diabetic.
Food
- Favorite Cuisine: Californian
- Favorite Dishes: Homemade Macaroni & Cheese, my mom's Potato Pie
- Favorite Desserts: Creme Brulee, Chocolate Pudding Cake, Mom's apple pie with ice cream
- Favorite Drinks: Tea, both iced and hot
- Favorite Junk Foods: Reese's cups, brownies, Fritos
- Best meal ever: Hmmm..hard to nail that one down. Frank and I loved eating out when we lived in Santa Rosa and had many wonderful meals there. We are spoiled now and it takes a lot for us to rave about a restaurant meal.
- Favorite Restaurants: Chevy's
- Foods I hate: Walnuts, pecans, liver, coconut, and pineapple
Books
- Favorite Books: On Fortune's Wheel, Watership Down, Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, Jane Eyre, all the Harry Potter books, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, Midwives, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The Hot Zone, the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series.
- Favorite Authors: Cynthia Voight, Sharyn McCrumb, J.K. Rowling, Avi, Alexander McCall Smith, Richard Preston
- Favorite Genres: Historical fiction, mystery, nonfiction
- Favorite Characters: Jane Eyre, Mr. D'arcy, Charlotte Doyle
- Favorite Quotes: "The primroses were over."
- Recent Reads: Nineteen Minutes, the Twilight Saga, The Zookeeper's Wife
Style
- Where I shop: LOFT, Old Navy, Gap, Target
- I like to wear: fabulous shoes and great dangly earrings
- Can't live without: insulin - Ha!
- Prized Possessions: my wedding rings, my photos, my mahogany bedroom set
- Guilty Pleasure: Krispy Kreme chocolate iced creme filled donuts
Movies
- Favorite Movies: The Princess Bride, My Fair Lady, End of the Spear, Sound of Music, Rear Window, That Thing You Do, Pride & Prejudice
- Favorite Actors: Nicolas Cage, Leonardo DiCaprio, Will Smith, Keira Knightley, Tom Hanks, Owen Wilson, Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway
- Favorite Directors: M. Night Shyamalan
- Favorite Genre: Action
- Favorite Soundtracks: Out of Africa, That Thing You Do
- Movie Quotes I say all the time: "our pets heads are fallin' off!" and "Anybody want a peanut?"
- Movies I can watch over and over: Sound of Music, That Thing You Do, Pride & Prejudice
- Actor that would play me in a movie: Anne Hathaway
Television
- Favorite Shows: Lost, House, Monk, The Office, 18 Kids & Counting
- Favorite Channels: NBC, TLC, HGTV
- Favorite Reruns: Frasier
- Most Addictive Show: Lost
- Favorite Late Night Talk Show: The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
- Favorite Episode: The Lost Episode where Ethan isn't on the manifest
- Favorite Theme Song: Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Freaks & Geeks
More About Me
- Nicknames: Naidy
- Nationality: Pretty much as white as it gets
- Religion: Church of Christ
- Heroes: My husband Frank and my terrific parents, Alan & Tonya Bonifay
- Interests: My husband Frank, my amazing daughter Sailor, singing (soprano), reading, blogging, writing, chocolate, traveling, my cats, NPR, funny people.
- Expertise: Turning over new leaves
- Occupation: Stay-At-Home Mom
Travel
- Places I love: Zimbabwe; the Ecuadorian rainforest, San Antonio, TX; London; New York City; San Francisco, California in general
- Places I've been: Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, South Africa, England, The Netherlands, most of the fifty United States, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico
- Places to see before I die: Australia, Hawaii, Italy, France...I could go on and on.
- Dream Vacation: A horseback/elephant/canoe safari in the Okavango River Delta of Botswana.
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- Name: Danae
- Country: United States
- State: California
- Birthday: 2/13/1979
- Gender: Female
- Member Since: 5/24/2005
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