Meripendium on Revelife

About Me

Places I love: Home
Places I've been: Mexico and several US States
Places to see before I die: Italy, France, England
Dream Vacation: One where I can spend as much money as I want and still be able to pay my bills on time!

Favorite Cuisine: Italian
Favorite Dishes: Lasagna, if I have to choose.
Favorite Desserts: Pink Berry, Cheese Cake, Tuti Fruti Mint Sandwich
Favorite Drinks: Ice Tea, Mr. Pibb, LavaColada, Malibu and OJ, Mohitos
Favorite Junk Foods: Nerds, Cool Ranch Doritos, Gardetto's!
Best meal ever: Homemade spaghetti or lasagna from my mom, grandpa, or Aunt Sophie
My Original Recipes: Vegan Lasagna
Favorite Restaurants: Carino's, On the Border, El Torito
Foods I hate: Onions, Tomatos, Celery, too many to list!

Favorite Shows: Big Love, Project Runway, Top Chef
Favorite Channels: Bravo, HBO
Favorite Reruns: Friends, Seinfeld, and stuff I watched growing up like Full House, Tool Time, Family Matters - my brother's watching them for the first time now!
Most Addictive Show: Big Love, Project Runway, Top Chef
Favorite Late Night Talk Show: I'm not a fan of talk shows...
Favorite Episode: Any West Wing episode is my favorite.
Characters you relate to: I can relate to pretty much anyone depending on the situation
Favorite Theme Song: All in the Family "Those were the days" sung wonderfully off-key by Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton.
Show I Secretly Watch: If I told you, it wouldn't be a secret.
Show I wished wasn't cancelled: The West Wing

Favorite Movies: Too many to list!
Favorite Actors: Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Stockard Channing, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jake Gyllenhaal, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Geoffrey Rush, Kevin Spacey, Dustin Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Hanks,
Favorite Directors: Martha Coolidge, Steven Spielberg, M. Night Shyamalan, Michael Moore
Favorite Genre: Documentaries, Foreign, Historical, and the typical Romantic Comedy
Favorite Soundtracks: Fiddler on the Roof, Sound of Music, My Best Friends Wedding
Movie Quotes I say all the time: "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father prepare to die."
Movies I can watch over and over: My Best Friends Wedding, The Princess Bride, Yentl, Fiddler on the Roof, The Sound of Music, The Nuns Story, A Walk in the Clouds, A Few Good Men
Actor that would play me in a movie: I always thought I looked like Candace Cameron when she was on Full House

Nicknames: Even when I was small I refused to let anyone but my mother call me 'Missy'...if you absolutely can not pronounce 'Melissa', or if you have a really cute accent, you can call me 'Mis'.
Nationality: Italian, American Indian, Irish, English
Religion: Roman Catholic
Heroes: My mom and other women who withstand the odds
Interests: Looking for the answers to all of lifes questions.
Expertise: “An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.”
Occupation: Sr. Clinical Trials Assistant
Industry: Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology
Website: www.facebook.com www.myspace.com/meripendium www.twitter.com/meripendium

Favorite Books: Anything that can take me away from the moment, make me feel like I'm getting smarter with every word, or lift my spirit and remind me of why I am here and in who's image I was created.
Favorite Authors: Steven King, Sarah Waters, Jennifer Weiner - Other than those I read a lot of books by a lot of different authors and I love different things about them all.
Favorite Genres: Religion, Politics, Biography, Fiction,
Favorite Characters: Roland Deschain, Nan King, Sue Trinder, Candice Shapiro
Favorite Quotes: How can you believe in something so blindly, and then, in the darkness, condemn others for not seeing the light.
Recent Reads: "What's so great about Christianity" - D'nesh Desouza and "God is not Great" - Christopher Hitchens