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User:	chappell (35638)
Name:	Chappell
Location:	Montgomery, Alabama, United States
Birthdate:	1970-05-10
Email:	chappell @ livejournal.com
AOL IM:	chappellch (Add Buddy, Send Message)
ICQ UIN:	113919780 (Add User, Send Message)
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Bio:	Psst: My name rhymes with Apple. Who am I? I am: * 31 years old, kind of tall (6’4”) and if you look up and to the right, you’ll see a somewhat recent picture of me. * A senior accountant at a large local CPA firm in Alabama. It’s what I do for money, not what I am. I haven’t particularly enjoyed it in a while, so that may change at some point in the near future. * A fiercely loyal, dependable, trusting and giving friend. This has led to people taking advantage of me in the past, and will continue to do so in the future. That’s just something I have to deal with. I am trusting to the point of being gullible, and if I consider you a true friend, I will do anything in the world for you. * An ass at times. My worst character flaw, in my opinion, is that I take out my frustrations on the people who don’t deserve it, and who I love the most (primarily the true friends I mentioned above). I try my best to keep those episodes to a minimum. If I am an ass, say, 5 percent of the time, can you live with that? I hope so! * An alumnus of Auburn University and a devout Auburn Tiger. My favorite two places in the world are the football and baseball stadiums at Auburn. I have had a season football ticket for as long as I can remember and have cherished memories of going to games with my grandparents and my father. * A Christian and a Southern Baptist. I have been a Christian since I was a kid. I got away from God for a while, and looking back, it was the worst period of my life. Things are far from perfect now, in fact I have some major issues and dilemmas facing me right now, but I know I can count on God to lead me through the tough times and be assured that everything will be all right in the end. I am not perfect, sinless, or a good role model, necessarily, but I do try to portray the right qualities whenever I can. I have a birth defect that caused the retina in my right eye to not fully form, leaving me legally blind in that eye. I consider myself lucky, because most people with my disorder have it in both eyes and have very limited sight. My disability (I hate calling it that) has only stopped me from doing two things in life – playing football and joining the military, which prevented me from having my all-time dream job, an F-16 pilot. The treatment for my eye that was performed in the early ’70s has proven to be the exact wrong thing to do, which has left me with a lazy eye that I am very self-conscious about. OK, that’s who I am. Now here are some of my favorite things. * Driving – I love to drive, and usually drive fast (sometimes exceeding the posted speed limits) * Cooking – I love to create things in the kitchen, putting things together for the first time on the hunch that they will blend together. To steal a phrase from a friend, it is turning a necessity into a piece of art, but also because it's like alchemically producing love through common household ingredients. (Thank you, Birdofparadox) * Music – This is one I do not indulge nearly enough. I was very musical earlier in life, playing in the band until basketball got in the way, and singing in the church choir (and just about anywhere else) for years. I got away from music when I went to college, and have never picked it back up. Now I am merely a listener, which has it’s merits too, but it’s not the same. * Learning – I have two degrees, but that’s not really the kind of learning I’m talking about. I love watching The Learning Channel, Discovery, Food TV, History Channel, etc., reading books and newspapers, surfing the web, and so forth. I get bored easily, so I love finding out new things, even if it’s about a subject that I previously had no interest in. One morning many years ago, my roommate came in the kitchen and saw me reading the automotive section of the newspaper over breakfast. He said, “You will truly read anything that’s in front of you, won’t you?” So that’s a synopsis of me. If I bored you, sorry; if it was a bit more than you wanted to read, hey, you didn’t have to read the whole thing!
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Interests:	auburn, auburn university, caribbean, christianity, cooking, cruises, deep-sea fishing, dogs, driving, dvds, god, good beer, jimmy buffett, labrador retrievers, m&m; dispensers, mellow mushroom, pasta, procrastinating, they might be giants, traveling, working out
Friends:	63: alilnoochie, aubreystar, audiguy, ballman, birdofparadox, blakethedog, brandifsk, caddosgrrl, caitlinfan, catgirl, chaddie, chappell, crayola_whore, cutelin, dcy, elek, fiorile, firetigr, first_dragon, foster, fweebles, giddycam, gm_928, hollybear, izzicam, jedilizard, justj, kcmosher, latitude11, lj_maintenance, macguyver, macsister, maxine, meredithwc, meredith_wc, misskris, mistertibbs, mizbehavin, mizredhead, mntrout, mom, moosifer, moo_cow, mremile, mrs_1stdragon, msbtch, nikkiegirl, nikkinicola, owl_tn, praxis, princessamy1980, punquin, qtkat, rinoaheartilly, spygirl, tannie, tefen, tharian, therockergrrl, tommydiablo, whorylori, yesfan5, zippyd
Friend of:	56: aubreystar, audiguy, ballman, birdofparadox, blakethedog, burlroad, caddosgrrl, catgirl, chaddie, chappell, chrishaas, crayola_whore, cutelin, dcy, elek, fiorile, firetigr, first_dragon, foster, fweebles, giddycam, gm_928, hidden_dreams, hollybear, izzicam, jedilizard, justj, kcmosher, macguyver, macsister, maxine, meredithwc, meredith_wc, mistertibbs, mizbehavin, mizredhead, mntrout, mollybear, moo_cow, mrs_1stdragon, msbtch, nikkiegirl, nikkinicola, owl_tn, rachaelwynter, rinoaheartilly, spygirl, tannie, tharian, therockergrrl, tigerldy, tommydiablo, wesleymarcus, whorylori, yesfan5, zippyd
Member of:	6: 80s, bamacommunity, caitlinfan, meateaters, paidmembers, thebookclub
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