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Created on 2003-10-07 11:56:05 (#1374626), last updated 2009-11-23
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Basic Info| Name: | Tales from a suburban tourist |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1975-12-17 |
| Location: | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Website: | Balconville |
Bio- I live in Ottawa, Ontario. It is the capital of Canada.
- I am fluent in both English and French, although my French writing leaves a lot to be desired
- I run my own environmentally-friendly cleaning business, but did my undergrad degree in Psychology at the University of Ottawa.
- I became engaged to my soulmate![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
sticknick on top of the Eiffel tower on April 3rd, 2005. We were married in St. Thomas, USVI on May 24, 2006. We celebrated our first wedding anniversary by traipsing across Ireland and our second anniversary we stayed home to look after our newborn daughter.
- I live with Nick, our baby Liliane Marguerite and our dogma Dixie – a rescue from B.A.R.K, an excellent organization I wholeheartedly support
- Welive in our very own 530 ft box in the sky, downtown in the market area of Ottawa, but spend most of our time in the dog park down the street. Now live in a suburban bungalow in the west end of Ottawa where lawns are green, but relatively little else is.
- Our future plans involve: paying off debt, buying a house in the country, and having children. I used to think people who dreamed these things were boring. Now I am that boring person, but see it all as very exciting.
- I am a social capitalist and I believe in things like social healthcare and other safety nets. I am socially left-leaning, but am conservative on a lot of economic issues.
- I am adamantly pro-choice, and believe in a woman’s right to control her own body [emphasis on the word, “woman”]
- I believe in delayed gratification, saving for things rather than using credit, as well as saving for emergencies and retirement [even if I am not perfect at it]
- I think there are three things worth putting on credit: real estate, an education and travel
- The only thing I want more than a house in the country is to travel more
- I am a big hippie at heart: we eat organically, clean with environmentally friendly products, and walk or bike to work.
- I am as much of a hypocrite as everyone else, and have some pretty lofty goals as to what kind of person I am trying to be
- I love all things domestic: cooking, cleaning, gardening, knitting, and organizing are some of my favourite things, my absolute favourite thing is budgeting
- I have the most amazing group of friends ever – some of the people I am closest to live the furthest
- I try to always appreciate the good things around me, and try to avoid focusing on the negative
- I also have an interesting obsession with the LINCOLNHEAD.
I am a big dreamer in a realist’s body so I am fairly sure that I have a long road full of hard work ahead of me. I just am hoping I can keep the good stuff in perspective and avoid the North American desire to have everything - and to have it now.
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These are my old bios
- I am fluent in both English and French, although my French writing leaves a lot to be desired
- I run my own environmentally-friendly cleaning business, but did my undergrad degree in Psychology at the University of Ottawa.
- I became engaged to my soulmate
sticknick on top of the Eiffel tower on April 3rd, 2005. We were married in St. Thomas, USVI on May 24, 2006. We celebrated our first wedding anniversary by traipsing across Ireland and our second anniversary we stayed home to look after our newborn daughter.- I live with Nick, our baby Liliane Marguerite and our dogma Dixie – a rescue from B.A.R.K, an excellent organization I wholeheartedly support
- We
- Our future plans involve: paying off debt, buying a house in the country, and having children. I used to think people who dreamed these things were boring. Now I am that boring person, but see it all as very exciting.
- I am a social capitalist and I believe in things like social healthcare and other safety nets. I am socially left-leaning, but am conservative on a lot of economic issues.
- I am adamantly pro-choice, and believe in a woman’s right to control her own body [emphasis on the word, “woman”]
- I believe in delayed gratification, saving for things rather than using credit, as well as saving for emergencies and retirement [even if I am not perfect at it]
- I think there are three things worth putting on credit: real estate, an education and travel
- The only thing I want more than a house in the country is to travel more
- I am a big hippie at heart: we eat organically, clean with environmentally friendly products, and walk or bike to work.
- I am as much of a hypocrite as everyone else, and have some pretty lofty goals as to what kind of person I am trying to be
- I love all things domestic: cooking, cleaning, gardening, knitting, and organizing are some of my favourite things, my absolute favourite thing is budgeting
- I have the most amazing group of friends ever – some of the people I am closest to live the furthest
- I try to always appreciate the good things around me, and try to avoid focusing on the negative
- I also have an interesting obsession with the LINCOLNHEAD.
I am a big dreamer in a realist’s body so I am fairly sure that I have a long road full of hard work ahead of me. I just am hoping I can keep the good stuff in perspective and avoid the North American desire to have everything - and to have it now.
Support love.
These are my old bios
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