About Me

  • About Me: Sometimes getting a Panda through customs can be difficult.

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: OH MY GOD!!! I FREAKING LOOOVE MOVIES!!! Wow, I don't even know where to begin.
  • Favorite Actors: Katherine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Rita Hayworth, Danny Kay, Cary Grant, James Dean, Gene Kelly, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Will Smith, Lee Pace, Hayden Christiansen, Robert Downey Jr.,George Clooney, Leonardo Di Caprio, Kate Winslet, Kate Beckinsale, Jennifer Lopez.
  • Favorite Genre: All of them. Well...except porn.
  • Favorite Soundtracks: Juno, The Little Mermaid, Nightmare Before Christmas, Hairspray,
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: "'Chancho...I need to borrow some sweaaats.' 'Are ju leaving us?' 'No chancho I would never leave you. I just need to borrow some sweeeaats." "'My favorite color is light tan, my favorite animal is puuppies. I like hiking, playing volleyball.' 'Oh my God, everything you said are my favorite things to do every day."
  • Movies I can watch over and over: Nacho Libre, The Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Nightmare Before Christmas, Love Actually, Monty Python and the Holy Grail....
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: Someone cute and amusing.

Books

  • Favorite Books: I have too many favorite books I couldn't even begin to list them all.
  • Favorite Authors: Agatha Christie, Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Austen, Stephen King, C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, Roald Dahl, J.R.R. Tolkein, Sophie Kinsella, Louise Rennison, Meg Cabot, Anne Rice, Max Lucado-he is amazing, there are too many too list.
  • Favorite Genres: Girly romantic comedy novels, mysteries, historical fiction, manga (nerd), fantasy (Harry potter and Lord of the Rings-esque), and whatever I pick up that looks interesting
  • Favorite Characters: Hercule Poirot, Elizabeth Bennet, Anne Elliot, Georgia Nicolson, Rebecca Bloomwood.
  • Recent Reads: I just finished re-reading Of Mice and Men, I'm currently reading How to be Single. I've also read Interview With the Vampire, Hallowe'en Party...um I jeez I just returned like 12 books to the library and checked out another 15...I have no clue off the top of my head and at this late hour which ones they were.

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: The good kind. But mostly Mexican, Thai, Indian, Italian and Chinese. That's most of them innit?
  • Favorite Dishes: Brown mole, spaghetti, chicken fricase, Rama Chicken noodles, anything with peanut sauce, chicken and noodles to tell you the truth.
  • Favorite Desserts: Flan, Creme Brulee, vanilla ice cream, nutella and banana crepes, bananas foster, mexican fried ice cream.
  • Favorite Drinks: Fresh squeezed orange juice, fresh strawberry smoothies, tall glass of water with lots of ice, White Russians, Cosmopolitans, Fruity girlie drinks, Strawberry Blondes, Pimms and Lemonade, Shots of all kinds except Jaegger bombs (ew) and especially Tequila (my love) and most importantly free drinks. Please don't think I am an alchoholic.
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Cool Ranch and Nacho Cheese Doritos.
  • Favorite Restaurants: Thai Pastry, Duck walk, Standard Indian, Poncitlan, Panera (guilty pleasure) Leona's, Capone's.
  • Foods I hate: The bad kind.

Travel

  • Places I love: Chicago. It's my base. London. It's my second home. Paris. It's magical. Rome. It's ancient.
  • Places I've been: Many, but not enough. Guadalajara & Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. London, Oxford, Brighton, Rochester and Bath, England. Glasgow, Scotland. Paris, France. Barcelona, Spain. Rome, Venice, Pisa and Florence, Italy. Malia, Heraklion, Crete. Milwaukee, Wisconsin :). Holland, New Buffalo, Michigan. Indianapolis, Michigan City, Indiana. New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Washington, D.C. Hannibal and Carthage, Missouri. Clearwater, Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florida.
  • Places to see before I die: tooooo many to list. The French Riviera, Hong Kong, The great wall of China. Tokyo and Kyoto. Egypt. Morroco. Dubai. New Zealand. Ireland. New York. San Francisco. Cuernavaca. Buenos Aires. Gosh everywhere!!!
  • Dream Vacation: A world trip.

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Sand Kastle, Kastle with a K
  • Nationality: I'm a Mexican-American girl.
  • Religion: I believe that God created the world and that he sent his one and only son Jesus to die on the cross. And that by this act of extreme love he conquered death and rose again and saved us all. I guess you can say I'm Christian. :)
  • Interests: Include, but are not limited to: Pandas (as well as other animals), sleeping, eating, watching t.v., popping bubble wrap, taking pictures, remembering my umbrella on a day that they say it's going to rain and it actually does, random dancing, pointing out awkward moments, listening to myself talk, being fabulous, wearing high heels, writing, singing along to the car radio, playing tennis, lauging hysterically, making others laugh, shenanigans, quoting Nacho Libre, taking the time to ask someone about their day, rubbing Baloo's tummy, reading new books and re-reading all of my favorites hundreds of times, brightly colored tights and breaking piñatas.
  • Expertise: Living and living well.
  • Occupation: I document the lives of the people around me, known and unknown.
  • Industry: Journalism