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Goodness me!!! Hello, everyone!
Sep. 25th, 2013 04:25 pmRight, well! Harnessphoto certainly got the ball rolling with the whole friendswap thing, hey!!!! Ok I guess I should do a little intro. Those of you who have put up with me this long feel free to skip :D
Ok, so I'm Maggie. I'm 35 years old, so an old crone really. I am totally childfree but hey if you want them/have them, awesome, just don't expect me to comment much on those posts :) Please don't be offended, it's just not my thing. Let's seeeeee....Well, I'm animal crazy. I love anything nature, but not in a bead wearing hippy dress swirling sort of way. I'm more your get in the filthy boggy creek with a net and see what I can find kind of girl :) Oh and then I usually try to raise whatever I catch :D I have in the past owned pretty much every sort of domestic animal you can own, and some you can't legally own ;) I think really only pigs, sheep and cattle are left. I am not fond of pigs. I have worked with all 3 animals tho :) Currently I own:
2 dogs, Nigel who is a goldie x lab. He is an older boy now and belonged to Craig first. More on Craig later! and Harriet, a pure golden lab who is a rescue and has some...issues. She is OUR dog. I did until a week and 2 days ago (not that I am counting) own a wonderful ex-racing greyhound named Pokie. He was laid to rest after a short battle with cancer last Monday evening. I miss him horrifically.
3 cats, Lily and Murray are ginger and white siblings who I got from the pound, and Floyd, a Cornish Rex who was Craig's cat first. I am very fond of Floyd despite his seriously weird personality :D
7 fish. 3 guppies, 2 platys, 2 platinum gouriamies. In a little fish tank. This is very new. Although I have owned fish for many, many, many years in the past, I haven't had any for about 2 years. Last tank was a 6ft MONSTER!!!! So I needed a break ;)
2 horses! Danny, an aged (we think somewhere between 28-30 yrs old) buckskin gelding. I got him for my 16th birthday and have never looked back. He is retired now and living the life of riley. And Destiny, my Arabian mare who I rescued as a 8 month old foal on her way to the knackery. She is now 17 years old and my soul-horse. Her story can be found under the tag "Destiny's Story". It's pretty interesting from what the others have told me :)
I am married to my best friend in the entire world, Craig. We met when we both worked at 000, which is the Australian (I'm Polish-Australian btw) 911. We've been friends for a long, long time. Then our respective relationships broke up within 3 weeks of each other, he needed a place to stay and well...we were married earlier this year and traveled Europe for our honeymoon :)
I currently work as an admin assistant for a transport company here in Melbourne. It's an alright job but it's not what I want to do. I used to be a very good dispatcher but after two years of really horrific employers I can't face the idea of being on a radio again, I have totally lost my nerve. I have no idea what I want to do with my life professionally. Maybe OH&S? I don't know. I have a degree in Psychology which I don't intend to ever use again. I also hold a degree in Human Resources, which I won't return to again until hell freezes over. :) The only job I have ever truly loved was working at a boarding kennels. It was DAMN hard work but I loved it so much. It didn't pay the bills however, and in the end that comes before following a passion, no matter what all the bullshit FOLLOW THE STARS types say.
I loooooooooooove photography and will at times spam the living daylights out of my Flist (under a cut, I swear!). I shoot anything, but animals and nature are my fav subjects because let's face it, nothing is cooler! I own a 7D.
I adore reading and have an obsession with my Kindle ;) My fav authors are Jodi Picoult, Robin Hobb and a few fantasy types. I am NOT into fan-fic sorry, but if it makes you happy, write like there is no tomorrow and god-speed to your pen. I am currently heavily obsessed with the Dresden books. I also have a great love for comics. I don't like the violent crap, I like the GOOD stuff. Ones that are beautifully drawn, have a great story line and actual OMG character development. Comics are an unsung and untapped art form that can be used to create great beauty through their simplicity. I also LOVE MLP!!!!! Rainbow Dash for the win!!!!!!!!!!
And I geocache :) I also tend to resort to swearing when I get seriously peeved about something. I'm an ex volunteer fire fighter. I have a completely screwed up left leg which annoys the crap out of me. Ummm....
Anything else? I don't know, feel free to ask away!
Ok, so I'm Maggie. I'm 35 years old, so an old crone really. I am totally childfree but hey if you want them/have them, awesome, just don't expect me to comment much on those posts :) Please don't be offended, it's just not my thing. Let's seeeeee....Well, I'm animal crazy. I love anything nature, but not in a bead wearing hippy dress swirling sort of way. I'm more your get in the filthy boggy creek with a net and see what I can find kind of girl :) Oh and then I usually try to raise whatever I catch :D I have in the past owned pretty much every sort of domestic animal you can own, and some you can't legally own ;) I think really only pigs, sheep and cattle are left. I am not fond of pigs. I have worked with all 3 animals tho :) Currently I own:
2 dogs, Nigel who is a goldie x lab. He is an older boy now and belonged to Craig first. More on Craig later! and Harriet, a pure golden lab who is a rescue and has some...issues. She is OUR dog. I did until a week and 2 days ago (not that I am counting) own a wonderful ex-racing greyhound named Pokie. He was laid to rest after a short battle with cancer last Monday evening. I miss him horrifically.
3 cats, Lily and Murray are ginger and white siblings who I got from the pound, and Floyd, a Cornish Rex who was Craig's cat first. I am very fond of Floyd despite his seriously weird personality :D
7 fish. 3 guppies, 2 platys, 2 platinum gouriamies. In a little fish tank. This is very new. Although I have owned fish for many, many, many years in the past, I haven't had any for about 2 years. Last tank was a 6ft MONSTER!!!! So I needed a break ;)
2 horses! Danny, an aged (we think somewhere between 28-30 yrs old) buckskin gelding. I got him for my 16th birthday and have never looked back. He is retired now and living the life of riley. And Destiny, my Arabian mare who I rescued as a 8 month old foal on her way to the knackery. She is now 17 years old and my soul-horse. Her story can be found under the tag "Destiny's Story". It's pretty interesting from what the others have told me :)
I am married to my best friend in the entire world, Craig. We met when we both worked at 000, which is the Australian (I'm Polish-Australian btw) 911. We've been friends for a long, long time. Then our respective relationships broke up within 3 weeks of each other, he needed a place to stay and well...we were married earlier this year and traveled Europe for our honeymoon :)
I currently work as an admin assistant for a transport company here in Melbourne. It's an alright job but it's not what I want to do. I used to be a very good dispatcher but after two years of really horrific employers I can't face the idea of being on a radio again, I have totally lost my nerve. I have no idea what I want to do with my life professionally. Maybe OH&S? I don't know. I have a degree in Psychology which I don't intend to ever use again. I also hold a degree in Human Resources, which I won't return to again until hell freezes over. :) The only job I have ever truly loved was working at a boarding kennels. It was DAMN hard work but I loved it so much. It didn't pay the bills however, and in the end that comes before following a passion, no matter what all the bullshit FOLLOW THE STARS types say.
I loooooooooooove photography and will at times spam the living daylights out of my Flist (under a cut, I swear!). I shoot anything, but animals and nature are my fav subjects because let's face it, nothing is cooler! I own a 7D.
I adore reading and have an obsession with my Kindle ;) My fav authors are Jodi Picoult, Robin Hobb and a few fantasy types. I am NOT into fan-fic sorry, but if it makes you happy, write like there is no tomorrow and god-speed to your pen. I am currently heavily obsessed with the Dresden books. I also have a great love for comics. I don't like the violent crap, I like the GOOD stuff. Ones that are beautifully drawn, have a great story line and actual OMG character development. Comics are an unsung and untapped art form that can be used to create great beauty through their simplicity. I also LOVE MLP!!!!! Rainbow Dash for the win!!!!!!!!!!
And I geocache :) I also tend to resort to swearing when I get seriously peeved about something. I'm an ex volunteer fire fighter. I have a completely screwed up left leg which annoys the crap out of me. Ummm....
Anything else? I don't know, feel free to ask away!
