I’ve wanted to do this feature for a while now - I’m going to do a series of posts spotlighting my awesome, awesome readers/friends/family/stalkers.  Introducing some of the greatest reads on the intraweb to people who might not be reading them just yet.  Also, you are awesome.

For my first Spotlight On My Stalkers,  I want to do none other than my very own sister-in-law Jane (of Jane and Tarzan fame).  Who is Jane?  In her own words, she is “ …probably the only female, left-handed, Mormon, diabetic, architect and also Queen of the South Central Jungle, who cooks dang good, in both senses of the word.”  A few interesting factoids and quotes:

• She is a die-hard Dancing With The Stars fan, and can dissect every show like a pro.  


• She loves LOVES anything Wicked and has seen the show what - seven times?  She took me to my first Wicked, too!


• She is a huge USC Trojans fan, what with her being a graduate and all that, but when she watches the football games she actually know what is going on.  Now THAT’S impressive.


• She lives in South Central LA in a VERY… interesting neighborhood.  She revels in the wacky animal life there (sooo many cats, bugs, and raccoons, oh my!)  and has oh, so interesting neighbors.  


• She’s been married to my brother Tarzan (who occasionally shows up on their blog) for over 10 years.  DUDE.


• Her birthday is one day before mine and she has never once failed to send me a birthday card.  I’m going to reciprocate one of these years, dang it.


• She is a FABULOUS cook.  We made her do the entire Thanksgiving dinner 2 years ago and we didn’t feel the slightest bit guilty about it.  If you got to taste her cooking, you’d do the exact same thing.


• “Be honest now - is it weird to be excited because the kittens pooped themselves?”


• “So I suppose it’s a testament to how long we’ve been married that Tarzan can walk into the kitchen sniff the air, declare dinner smells like turpentine, announce he’s thrilled to see what it tastes like and I don’t even blink an eye.”


• “The Michael Jackson tribute had a little too much crotch grabbing for me, but we’ve already decided I am an old fogey.”


• She is the greatest commenter known to man.  She is religious about it, always has something to say and gives my heart that skip when I see the “new comment” e.mails in my inbox.  (You should read her, she’ll stalk you too :)

One additional interesting tidbit is that we were not the closest of buddies when she and my brother got married.  We’re very different (aside from the whole Libra thing) and we didn’t get the chance to really know each other until one day a few years ago when she e.mailed me out of the blue and informed me she’d read my ENTIRE blog, all the way back to 1999.  She told me some very sweet things about all I’d gone through and then started up her own blog so I could get to stalk her.  Getting to know her through her blog has been one of the best things the intraweb has ever done for me - because not only is she really my sister now, she’s also my friend.

And she really likes getting good parking spaces at In-N-Out.

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Now go stalk her too!

If you want to be spotlighted, don’t forget to add your name to my link list on the right.  I’ll get around to everyone before the intraweb stops being cool and we all go back to reading books and communicating in person or something.