Amber's Abode

Amber

I'm 30 and live in Portland, Oregon. I have cerebral palsy, and use a power wheelchair.

I love anything to do with music, especially karaoke recently, computers, Anime, kids, people, writing, reading, watching movies, enjoying outdoors when it's not raining, pretty much life in general.

I play Scrabble fairly well, and I'm currently working on improving my almost nonexistent chess game. I'm hoping to get further into digital photography soon as another outlet.

My newest hobby is playing Texas hold em for free, online or in person, and I'm getting pretty good at it.

Starving Writer

Like all starving writers, if you can afford to donate it, I would appreciate it.

 

Amber's got talent, or how I made more money in a night than in a month

Monday, October 01, 2007 at 12:21 PM by Amber - Tagged as Life

Something kind of fun and funny happened to me last night.

I won third place in a talent contest. I've got talent! Either that, or everyone just thought it was so cute that a little girl in a wheelchair was reading poetry. Either way, I won $25, plus eight dollars in stage tips, totaling $33, which is officially more than they give me per month here. Not bad for a night's work, whatever their motivation.

Still, I just have to say that if I hear the word inspiration one more time in the next week, I'm going to hurl or scream, or both. Giggle. The pieces I read are under my writing section as Phoenix Rising and A Response to Pity.

Now I have to go off to get my head examined. See you soon.