Well...hello! Welcome to my homepage! Here you can learn more than you need to know about me and if you get "Jasmine overload" there are a lot of great links here so you can escape! *LOL*
First of all, I live in Hawaii! I'm a 53-year-old housewife/artisan of Japanese ancestry...(yes, housewife means I'm married *s*). I am first and foremost a creative person....not to mention one with a sense of humor...and very simpatico! Aquarian traits perhaps?
After working for over 15 years in retail management, I quit work to be home for my daughter, who is mentally handicapped, and found that I could finally use my University of Hawaii degree in fashion design to make extra money. Oh joy.... I finally have a "job" I love! I've been designing, sewing, and selling men's sportshirts and women's t-shirts and t-dresses for the past 16 years. Yes, the lowly t-shirt becomes a work of art after I'm done with it! They must be seen to be appreciated! Visit my SHIRT PAGE and see for yourself.
My favorites~
Chat places~I found Hawaii Chat Universe in Sept. '96 and never left (Still trying to figure out a way to punch a timeclock there and have Matthew pay me! *LOL*)I can also be found on Yahoo, ICQ, MSN, and AIM! (Thank you TRILLIAN!! Check out this free program which allows you to connect to all of these messengers at once!!) I love chatting with people from all over the world and I hope you will do the same. Treat them all with respect and you'll broaden your horizons as well as your mind!
Books~Medical thrillers (Robin Cooke, Michael Palmer, Michael Crichton), mystery/suspense (Dick Francis,Dean Koontz, Sydney Sheldon, Mary Higgins Clark)
Music~Smokey!!Past and present faves include: Motown, Beatles, Paul Young, jazzy pop (Blow Monkeys, Style Council, Sade, Manhattan Transfer), Lindsey Buckingham....love good jazz vocals (Lou Rawls, Dianne Reeves, Al Jarreau, Bobby Caldwell!)...Savage Garden, Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20), Marc Anthony, Charlotte Church, Andrea Bocelli, Enrique Iglesias, Wallflowers--eclectic tastes! I really appreciate a good song more than any particular artists and I love making my own CD/tape mixes.
For the past 5 years, I've become interested in pop "World Music" (especially Middle Eastern/Indian). My favorites are Takfarinas and Cheb Mami (both Algerian but totally different styles), HISHAM ABBAS (Egyptian), Tarkan (Turkish) and Shakira (totally awesome Latin Grammy winner)! Lately I'm playing the "Bend It Like Beckham" soundtrack...love it!
Food~chocolates...Chinese food....pasta...seafood (Alaskan King Crab--yum!)
TV
~comedies (current favorites include Will & Grace, King of Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends, Frasier)and dramas (ER, Law and Order, CSI, Without a Trace) OK, OK, I confess...I enjoy those "guilty pleasures" in the form of "American Idol" and "The Bachelor" (Why is it so fun to watch these women!?) Lately I'm watching more daytime TV: Oprah, Ellen and the Food Network (I love Rachel Ray and Jamie Oliver! AND I've stopped hating cooking *LOL*)
Please wait a couple of minutes for a special music clip...it's worth the wait if you'd like to hear the song that inspired my handle! "Jasmin" by Smokey Robinson
quietstorm, is another handle I've used and it's taken from another of Smokey's compositions, "Quietstorm"
Soft and warm....a quiet storm Quiet as when flowers talk at break of dawn... A power source.....of tender force Generating, radiating....turn me on....
written by the Master of Metaphor, William "Smokey" Robinson
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