NAME:  Kim Q, known online as  Lady Kirin, Jedi Kirin, or KirinQ
AGE:  49 
FAMILY:  happily married to an engineer, have a one-derful 12 yr. old son.
PROFESSION:  former physics teacher, now Stay-At-Home-Mom and part time bookkeeper for two churches.
FAVORITE:
COLORS - blue & silver
FLOWERS - white & lavender/blue roses
MUSIC - most genre, but especially classical & jazz
FICTION - fantasy and sci-fi, naval (Hornblower or Ramage),  WWII novels, esp. those that deal with the submarine service and the carrier war, Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, & John Le Carré espionage.
NON-FICTION - physics, ancient & medieval history,  world religions, art
ANIMALS:  kirin, turtle, cat, horse, falcon, wolf, hamster, bunny
MOVIES:  Star Wars saga, Star Trek II: Wrath of Kahn, Indiana Jones trilogy; Errol Flynn or Tyrone Power swashbucklers; WWII Naval campaign films; Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly musicals; anything with Cary Grant or Maureen O'Hara; artistic martial arts sagas such as Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon or Hero;  Bruce Lee martial arts movies & much more.
TV:   'classic' shows such as Rat Patrol, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Man From U.N.C.L.E. and others; all incarnations of Star Trek except Enterprise;  some anime, select British comedies such as Monty Python and Wallace & Gromit; most things on the Discovery, Home & Garden, Military & History channels.
HOBBIES:  music, trying to draw, playing with hubby and son, scrapbooking, used to study martial arts & fencing, enjoy web design, growing roses, exploring Celtic and Franciscan spirituality, researching miscellaneous things via the internet and/or library.
COLLECTIONS:  kirin, doujinshi, Star Wars LEGO, goodies from my four favorite TV shows, black cats, bunnies, stuffed animals, carousel horses, old church hymnals from a variety of denominations, and Orthodox icons.