I've always hated the "about me" page.

My name is Lori. I'm 41 years old. I have been married for 15 years to the guy who helped me pack up my stuffed animals on the last day of my freshman year in college. I know, pretty sappy…but it's true. Anyone who knows us knows that we're kind of the antithesis of sappy, so it's doubly odd.

Did I mention that I am 41? How did that happen? I tell people that I am 24, which is patently and obviously ridiculous, never more so than when I have neglected my hair for a while, and the copious amounts of gray begin to appear. Like now. But I feel 24 inside, and that has to count for something, right?

What else? I love my family, my cats and my TiVo. I like Christmas and General Hospital and snow. I think that Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the best television show ever. Veronica Mars and Battlestar Galactica are no slouches in that department either. And, you know, Sports Night.

I don't like the word "quixotic". I hate looking at pictures of myself and live in fear of being caught on video. This fear has lead to at least one embarrassing moment, at a wedding. I don't really like water very much and would prefer it if I could be clean without ever having to be wet. Most people think that that makes me very odd.

My favorite word is "fabulous", my cats are named Owen and Zoe. I like to cook, but not to clean, meaning that my kitchen is usually a total disaster. I read a little, surf the net a lot, watch an inordinate amount of TV. I sometimes manage to drag myself to the movies. My favorite color is white, although many have pointed out that it's not a color at all. I think that I must like orange and purple, too. I do like music, but not the way that many people do. I don't ever like anything the first time I hear it, and have to break new music in gradually.

Unless it's something by Matchbox Twenty. I am pretty brainwashed when it comes to Rob Thomas.

That's the Matchbox Twenty Rob Thomas, and not the Veronica Mars Rob Thomas. Although, I like that Rob Thomas, too. Odds seem pretty good that if your name is Rob Thomas, you're in good with me.

I don't like HTML. It gives me a headache.

Here is a picture of me when I was a baby:

You can't tell, but I have blue eyes. Well, I think they're blue. My husband thinks they're green. This causes me great stress.

When I was growing up, everyone in my immediate family had the same initials. My parents almost named me Lana. I wonder who I would have been if they had.