A Little About Me A Little About You

[Hena]

A Little About Me

Name: Helena

Age: 29

Location: Dübendorf, Switzerland

Occupation: EFL teacher

Short Personal Description:
I'm an archaeologist by training, but currently teaching English while simultaneously trying to improve my German -- and thoroughly enjoying it!
My husband of four years and I decided to start TTC in January 2011 and I quickly realised I need the support of others, preferably in my native language, to calm the nerves.

Favorites:

Hobbies: crocheting, cross-stiching, knitting, and general crafts; hiking, skiing, camping

Color: pink

Food: anything sweet

Hang-out: oh, those were the days!

Music: I enjoy many types of music, but am partial to classic rock

Books: I love classical literature, but for modern lit I'd have to say Harry Potter is my abolute favourite.

Movies: very wide range

TV Shows: I've recently become obsessed with the American series "Castle"

Authors: Homer, Virgil, Horace

Cartoon Character: Lila from Futurama...the hubby is Fry

Digging Deeper:

Country You Wish To Visit The Most: Tibet

Most Influential People in Your Life: still Mum and Dad!

Greatest Ambition: to complete my PhD and do what I love for as long as I can

Biggest Achievement: successfully surviving some difficult times, hand-in-hand with my Love and coming out stronger and happier than ever

Grandest Wish: to start a family and continue to grow together

What You Can't Live Without: Chocolate!

 

[JEM11]

A Little About Me

Name: Marie

Age: 24

Location: Alloa, Scotland

Occupation: Support Worker

Short Personal Description:
Married Martin August 2010 and our little girl came into the world in March. On Mat leave at moment

Favorites:

Hobbies: reading, concerts/comedians, spending time with family & eating out

Color: Blue

Food: anything hubby cooks

Hang-out:

Music: a bit of everything

Books: twilight, Harry P, crime/forensic and chick lit

Movies: too many to name

TV Shows: criminal minds, csi New York, One tree hill

Authors: Stuart MacBride, Patrica Cornwall, Val McDiarmid, Tess Gerristan

Cartoon Character:

Digging Deeper:

Country You Wish To Visit The Most: Sri Lanka or South America

Most Influential People in Your Life: Mum and Grandparents

Greatest Ambition: to live a happy life

Biggest Achievement: having my little girl

Grandest Wish: for us as a family to continue being happy

What You Can't Live Without: music

 

[MrsGruffalo]

A Little About Me

Name: Clare

Age: 25

Location: South Coast, England

Occupation: Youth Worker

Short Personal Description: Been a full-time youth worker since I left school at 18. Love it to pieces- working with teenagers is great fun. Met hubby in November 2008. He proposed in May 2009. Bought a house in July 2010 and married in August 2010.

Favorites:

Hobbies: Baking, Walking, Reading, Games, Painting

Color: Red

Food: Seafood Paella

Hang-out: My back garden in the sunshine

Music: All sorts!

Books: Again, all sorts. Top three are: The Timetraveler's Wife, A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Interpretation of Murder.

Movies: Anything by Pixar! Man of La Mancha, The Emperor's New Groove

TV Shows: Doctor Who, CSI,

Authors: Jodi Picoult, Bill Bryson, Khaled Hosseni, Audrey Niffeneger

Cartoon Character: Peppa Pig

Digging Deeper:

Country You Wish To Visit The Most: America

Most Influential Person in Your Life: My husband

Greatest Ambition: To have a family

Biggest Achievement: Getting my current job

Grandest Wish: A trip to New York

What You Can't Live Without: My phone!

 

[Blondie91]

About me
Name: Alicia
Age: 19
Location: Ontario, Canada
Occupation: Recently unemployed, & looking for work
Short Personal Description: I'm young & ambitious, and am aiming to one day work as an editor for a major magazine. I found out I was expecting 2 and a half months ago, with my ex-boyfriend of 4 years. I live in a super religious family, and though I resisted for most of my life, I was recently saved.

Favorites
Hobbies: Singing & writing music, reading like crazy, and running
Color: Purple & teal
Food: Italian & Thai anything
Hang-out: The beach
Music: Any & all. Not that crazy about rap though
Books: Too many to count! Favorite author I'd say Dean Koontz
Movies: Anything that can make me laugh and cry all in one movie.
TV Shows: America's Next Top Model, Criminal Minds, & Real World
Cartoon Character: Bugs Bunny

Digging Deeper:
Country You Wish To Visit The Most: Australia & Morocco
Most Influential Person in Your Life: I'd like to say I'm pretty influential.
Greatest Ambition: To be the best mother I can be, to be a successful writer, and to find true love
Biggest Achievement: Staying true to myself always, and standing up for my beliefs
Grandest Wish: To never have to worry about money.
What You Can't Live Without: My family

 

[HippyDippy]

Name: Hippy (I am sorry but not giving real name quite yet)

Age: 21

Location: Texas

Occupation: n/a

Short Personal Description: I am very short. I dye my hair a lot and I am normally really quiet. Sometimes I get hyper that is rare though.

Favorites:

Hobbies: TV, Reading, and being with my husband.

Color: Pink

Food: Steak, mexican food, fries and pickles.

Hang-out: No where at this moment.

Music: Rock/Metal

Books: Horror

Movies: Horror, Thriller, Children

TV Shows: Teen Mom, True Life, Animal Planet.

Authors: Shan, Sniegoski

Cartoon Character: Rugrats, Darwin and Donnie from Wild Thornberries.

Digging Deeper:

Country You Wish To Visit The Most: No where Animal Planet scared me from that :\

Most Influential Person in Your Life: My grandma and husband.

Greatest Ambition: To be happy

Biggest Achievement: Getting out from under my mothers control.

Grandest Wish: to go back in time and wait.

What You Can't Live Without: dr. pepper and ice.

 

[Lyvid]

Name: Lynn

Age: 38

Location: California

Occupation: Unemployed

Short Personal Description: Husband and I have been married one year. I am the step-mom to a wonderful step-son 22, and step-daughter 17. Hoping to expand our family by one more. TTC and charting for 3 months.

Favorites:

Hobbies: reading

Color: Purple

Food: Chocolate

Music: 80's metal

Books: Sci Fi/Fantasy

Movies: Sci Fi/Fantasy

TV Shows: Sci Fi/Fantasy

Authors: Too many to list

 

[Ibbitt85]

Name: David

Age: 26

Location: Nottingham

Occupation: Chef

Short Personal Description: I work as a chef im 26 and engaged she has a son and were TTC another hopefully will be positive this month

 

[xostars]

About me

Name: emily

Age: 25

Location: Arizona, USA

Occupation: staff part time and school full time; graduating in may 2011

Short Personal Description: I am originally from Rhode Island, but moved to Arizona in July 2007 for my husband's job. I am happily married to a wonderful guy that I got married to in March 2011, We been ttc since December 2010. I have 9 animals (call me crazy but i love animals).

Favorites:

Hobbies: Movies, mall, being with my husband, my animals, my friends, traveling.

Color: blue, black and silver.

Food: soup, salsa.

Hang-out: with my husband and animals at home.

Music: rap, r&b, techno-- I am starting to love Bruno Mars. Hes fabulous!

Books: Anything that is interesting.

Movies: everything, I collect dvds. I have so many!

TV Shows: Cops shows such as jail, CSI, NSIC, GLEE ( my cousin is an actor in GLEE, -- Darren Criss aka character name is Blaine).

Authors: cant think of any lol

Cartoon Character: no clue?


Digging Deeper:

Country You Wish To Visit The Most: France, Italy, and Austrila.

Most Influential Person in Your Life: my mom (RIP)

Greatest Ambition: have a child with my husband first time.

Biggest Achievement: not sure yet

Grandest Wish: To be able to get pregnant.

What You Can't Live Without : my imac, my tv, my husband, my friends, my family, my cell phone, and my animals.

 

[Ashtree]

Name: ashley

Age: 20

Location: huntsville, texas

Occupation:work 2 jobs a desk clerk and a sales person

Short Personal Description: i am currently attending college and trying to keep on going to school

Favorites: food music and reading

Hobbies: knitting

Color: blue and green

Food: italian food

Hang-out: my home

Music: country ,ostly but up fo anything

Books: anything

Movies: comedy action and chick flicks

TV Shows: Charmed
Authors: dont really have one favorite one

Cartoon Character: bugs bunny

 

[shirl16]

Hey im a mum of 2 boys and love it! Looking forward to sharing my experiences and advice with everyone!

 

[Destined2BMom]

A Little About Me

Name: Layne

Age: 24

Location: Florida

Occupation: Mary Kay Beauty Consultant

Short Personal Description: I am inlove with my wonderful husband of a little over two years, and we are the Children's Directors at our church as well as head of Media Department at our church. We LOVE children and are excited to have our own someday. We have everything planned out (of course things dont always go as planned). God has healed me of Polyo cystic fibrosis of my ovaries, as well as many other things that would be played as a hindrance for me to get pregnant, but I am believing and knowing now that there is no reason I should not become pregnant and I am so excited to be carrying our first child SOON!

Favorites:

Hobbies: Dancing, graphic design, computers, spending time with family and friends.

Color: pink

Food: depends on my mood

Hang-out: at home with the love of my life

Music: Christian Praise & Worship

Books: Tilly by Frank Peretti

Movies: When Harry Met Sally, Selena, Die Hard, and tons of others (We are big movie buffs in my house)

TV Shows: King of Queens, The Office

Authors: Frank Peretti, and others

Cartoon Character: yogi

Digging Deeper:

Country You Wish To Visit The Most: Australia, New Zealand, France, Ireland, Italy



Greatest Ambition: To Meet as many goals as possible. Without Goals where are you going in life!?

Biggest Achievement: Being able to be happy. Living my life the way God intended and following Him whole heartedly. Proving everyone wrong that said I wouldn't stand up on top


Grandest Wish: To have 4 beautiful healthy children one day

What You Can't Live Without: Jesus!

 

[sweetbuthyper]

Name: Debbie

Age: 23

Occupation: final year student

Location: Sheffield, UK

Carrying first child due around 26th october 2011

 

[yorkie85]

Teacher, on easter holidays.

WTTC at the moment as we are unsure about the status of my fertility.

26 - living in Yorkshire.

Married, not much else

 

[NellaE]

A Little About Me

Name: Nella

Age: 25

Location: New York

Occupation: Homemaker.

Short Personal Description: I am a small-town, southern girl thriving in the fast-paced city life. I love my DH more than life itself. We have known each other for more than 6 years and now are living the life we have only dreamed about. We are currently TTC our beautiful, interracial, perfect, baby #1.

Favorites:

Hobbies: Internet, museums, singing, Facebook creeping, signing (ASL), learning everything I can about cloth-diapering, breastfeeding, making my own baby food, home-schooling, vaccinations and circumcision (both of which we are against! )

Color: Purple

Food: Mexican and Chinese! Oh gosh, YUM!

Hang-out: Snuggled up next to DH watching bad reality shows.

Music: Wide variety.

Books: LOVE to read. Way too many to list.

Movies: Any musical is great. Especially the older ones (Oklahoma, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, etc)

TV Shows: I am a self-proclaimed reality junkie and proud of it!

Authors: Harper Lee, J.K. Rowling, Laura Ingalls Wilder... and way too many others to list.

Cartoon Character: None.

Digging Deeper:

Country You Wish To Visit The Most: Australia

Most Influential Person in Your Life: J.A.

Greatest Ambition: To be the best wife and mother I can possibly be.

Grandest Wish: Same as my greatest ambition.

What You Can't Live Without: Books, books, books!

 

[mybabythestar]

Juliet, 26.

Love my family and Im always online.

Hi everyone!

 

[charchar92]

A little about me
Name: charlene

Age: 19

Location: hampshire

occupation: looking for work

Short personal description: Desperate to hold my baby again. i love to learn new thing and look to the brighter side of life.

Favorite

Hobbies: running, looking after children,

colour: pink

Food: cheese burgur

hang-out: with my fiance and his family

Music: Eminem

Books: Dont really read much

Movies: twilight

Tv shows: Eastenders

Authors: Dont know

Cartoon Character: winnie the pooh

Digging Deeper

Country you wish to visit the most: Africa

Most influential person in your life: My fiance

Greatest Ambition: To live life to the full, Dont hold onto the past live for the future. a smile can brighten up the day.

Biggest Achievement: learning beauty is skin deep. you are who you are, you dont have to change for anybody.

Grandest wish: Going to Africa and helping the children show them how to read, learn, play, and be children.

What you cant live without: My fiance and his family.

 

[charchar92]

hi

 

[DowntownPony]

About me

Name: Sammii

Age: 18

Location: Charlotte, NC

Occupation: Student

Short Personal Description: I'm a senior in HS about to graduate this June :} I'm enrolled to start college in September; I've got to wonderful bulldoggies; I'm single and just trying to get by each day

Favorites:

Hobbies: Writing, drawing, singing, interent, music, sewing

Color: Black, pink, blue

Food: Just about anything

Hang-out: MSN or skype

Music: Slipknot, Korn, Deftones, lots of heavy metal but alot of other different kinds of music too

Books: Hamlet

Movies: Silent Hill; The Mummy

TV Shows: Family Guy; Chopped (Foodnetwork); Showdown with Bobby Flay

Authors: Shakespear lolol

Cartoon Character: Meg

Digging Deeper:

Country You Wish To Visit The Most: Egypt

Most Influential Person in Your Life: I'm not quite sure

Greatest Ambition: Just to live ^^

Biggest Achievement: not quite certain

Grandest Wish: Not worry about finnicial issues; To have love and support

What You Can't Live Without : My computer

 

[Tana]

A Little About Me

Name: TANA

Age: 30

Location: Philippines

Occupation: CLIENT RELATIONSHIP MANAGER

Short Personal Description: I have been happily married for 5 years and we have been trying to have a baby since day 1! i am diagnosed to be polycystic and hubby has a very low sperm count and motility rate

Favorites: dining out and watching movies

Hobbies: shopping, spending time with friends and playing poker

Color: Pink

Food: can't resist french fries!

Hang-out: online!

Music: R&B

Books: confessions of a shopaholic series

Movies: Serendipity

TV Shows: Extreme makeover

Cartoon Character: Mickey Mouse

Digging Deeper:

Country You Wish To Visit The Most: UK

Most Influential Person in Your Life: my husband

Greatest Ambition: to become a mom

Biggest Achievement: finishing college

Grandest Wish: to have a baby!

What You Can't Live Without: My family!


I am looking forward to hearing your stories and sharing mine! I am excited to have new friends!

 

[MandaPanda]

Oh this is a great idea : )


A Little About Me

Name: Amanda

Age: 26

Location: Central Ontario, Canada

Occupation: Part-time Registered Nurse Emerg (sometimes ICU if needed)

Short Personal Description: I live for each day and love to laugh and smile : ) I love keeping active and the outdoors as do my husband and kidlets. I like new adventures and experiences in my life and I'm not afraid of much! Hubby and I are going on a sky-diving date this summer.

Favorites:

Hobbies: Sports (ie/ softball, soccer, volleyball, curling), painting and drawing, running, canoeing, dancing, yoga, reading, crocheting & knitting, oldschool video games, playing piano & guitar, camping . . . I like a lot of things, it's just a matter of what I have time for these days!

Color: bubblegum pink & teal / turquoise

Food: marzipan my guilty pleasure.. my not so guilty pleasures are mushroom caps, anything greek, and pretty much anything on the bbq

Hang-out: the park, the beach, coffee places, cocktail bars for get-together with the work girls. . the rec-room in my house for movie night

Music: top 40's dance music, classic rock, country

Bookskaaay i admit it. . . i liked the twilight series, recently read a book called "still alice" by lisa genova and loved that, now working on "water for elephants". .. "the notebook" was also a fave of mine . .

Movies: Moulin Rouge, Fight Club, Princess Bride. . .and Aladdin, Little Mermaid, Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, 101 Dalmations... and pretty much any Pixar flick

TV Shows: Glee, House, How I met your mother, Big bang theory, Grey's anatomy

Authors: Jodi Picoult (sp) is really the only author I read regularly, otherwise I pick for the book itself not the author

Cartoon Character: Spongebob Squarepants

Digging Deeper:

Country You Wish To Visit The Most: Australia or New Zealand

Most Influential Person in Your Life: My grandmother

Greatest Ambition: Run a marathon, climb mount everest

Biggest Achievement: Being where I am now with my wonderful family & career.

Grandest Wish: Health for all my family and friends.

What You Can't Live Without: My family & friends of course. . materialistic thing however: my hair straightener