Slolane.org
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SLOlane
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About Me
I'm a native of Orange County, California--yes, the one they made a movie and a television series about--and grew up in the suburban center. The city I grew up in is roughly 80% Latino. This is why I have no problem with eating Mexican food for breakfast, lunch and dinner and anything in between. I spent one miserable year in Jersey, but other than that, I'm a California girl. I would rather live with earthquakes than anywhere you can't grow lemon trees or jalapenos. I've been in a lot of earthquakes. I'm still here.
I was not really raised with any particular religion, as my dad was atheist and my mom was agnostic. After my parents finished their messy divorce there was a brief and last-ditch attempt to "save me" by dragging me to church, but this probably had the opposite intended effect; I went pagan in college. Over time this has faded to a gentle and vague spirituality that is closer to agnosticism or Unitarianism, but I still fundamentally believe nature has much to teach us if we would only listen. I also do yoga, which I love. Not hot, squeeze-your-brain-out-through-your-ears yoga, but the the decaf variety that focuses on relaxation, meditation, and breath. I don't like leaving a class feeling more exhausted than when I came in.
Fullerton. It's one of the largest schools in the nation--last year they had something like 35,000 students. Obviously, it wasn't exactly the nice Oberlin experience my husband had. But it was affordable, and since I was putting myself through college, it was either be a number or forget going to college at all. I graduated in 2001 and got married that year, after having lived with Bruce for almost a decade. Then we talked about moving. We had been wanting to to get the hell out of Orange County for several years, and we finally decided it was crushing our spirits in ways that we couldn't take anymore, not even another year. We knew we would have to make some big sacrifices to get out. So we headed north to San Luis Obispo county, and I'll spare you all the details, but the short version is this: hubby still works in Orange County. Yes, it's 200 miles away. If you're wondering why we didn't just get jobs here, that's because there are none to be had; the only jobs in this county are crummy, low-paying retail and ranch hand jobs, and even those are immediately snapped up by the local Cal Poly students.
Contact
- The Guardians of the Happy Bananas
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- Grover Beach California
- United States 93483
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- +1.18055327118
