About me

I am Canadian and share my life with a sweet and often unintentionally, humorous man.

I love computers and the Internet even though I have come to both later than sooner. I love to write and hope by keeping this blog that I will be more disciplined and write more frequently.

My writings will be featuring both our past foibles and present triumphs.

This seemed to be as good a way as any to make the next installment of the “about me” page. This is a web exercise stated thusly: “write 100 things about yourself in 20 minutes or less.” It was supposed to be 100 things but quite honestly , in 20 minutes I would still be floundering around 45 or so..lol. So I am slowly adding to it, bit by bit.
Thanks to Dan

but I am sure the thanks could also go to numerous others ..

1. I live by and love the ocean
2. I do not swim unless I can touch the bottom
3. I taught myself to swim
4. I work part time in a university
5. I used to work in a hospital full time
6. I do not like hospitals
7. I do not like modern medicine
8. I have arthritis
9. I take vitamins daily
10. I like to talk
11. I would love to act(but never have)
12. I love to read
13. I love my computer
14. The same goes for the internet
15. I love to write
16. I enjoy British situation comedies more than Canadian or American
17. I taught myself to read at age 5; it was the Wizard of Oz.
18. I have thought about writing a book
19. I have written and kept journals from the past 18 years
20. I did well in English
21. I went to university but did not graduate
22. I have never worked in an office
23. I have worked as a cook and ran my own restaurant
24. I enjoy cooking and baking
25. I cannot whistle
26. I can sing but not well
27. I played the piano when a teen, but have no piano now
28. I do not feel comfortable in a huge crowd
29. I love the colours yellow green and blue
30. I do not like red shades
31. I met my husband in a night club
32. We have been together 19 years
33. We have no kids
34. He has two grown sons
35. We have no pets
36. I love animals
37. We had a cat that lived 20 years
38. I learned to drive when I was 22
39. I like to drive and can drive a stick shift
40. I love to travel
41. I have been to Europe four times
42. I backpacked for two months in France
43. I can speak French
44. I have relatives in the UK and in Paris, France
45. I cannot speak much Chinese, but I can understand it.
46. I enjoy learning languages and have taken Italian and French in university
47. I enjoy meeting people
48. I have a good sense of humour
49. I do not like pushy people
50. I have a good sense of time, and am never late.
51. I love tea; have drunk it since two years old(mostly milk at that time..lol)
52. I am indifferent to coffee but I used to love it when a student, drunk even when it had been at the boil all day
53. I love Chinese food(but the real thing, as H is Chinese)
54. I love any kind of food unless it is really meant to be cooked but is not(like sushi, which I don’t really like)
55. I cannot WAIT to retire. Even though I am far from 65 (just turned 56) work is taking its’ physical toll.
56. I enjoy my work for the most part, but am much better if let to work alone, and at my own pace.
57. I have issues with people not listening to me(comes from being the youngest of 3 kids)
58. I also hate people not taking me seriously
59. I am much more calm since I started doing Tai Chi again(three years ago)