More get-to-know-you stuff...

[mturnidge]

So, obviously we all love digi and/or hybrid stuff, but what else do you love to do? What are your NSBR talents and interests?

I love to sing. I was in show choir in high school and I've always loved performing... in groups or solo. I'm an alto... because altos rock! lol I also love to watch TV. My fave shows are 24 (I am going through withdrawals), Monk, Smallville, and Heroes. Other than that, I don't do too much other than work and school!

How about you?

[KirstieGai]

I can't sing and have never even done karoke no matter how drunk :cheers: I've been. I love to dance but wouldn't claim I'm a professional :banana: I love to read and I love to cook and I AM very good at that :happydance: and these days I love to exercise ::yipee::

[MissPotts]

I am also a student. I hope to enter the Nursing program next fall. My other hobbies are journaling, photography and making moments to document. I also had three kids in two years. So I have almost 4 year old id twin boys. Gideon and Yeshua. Plus my dd Molly who is 2.5. Its a mad house here I tell ya!:rant:

[AquaRuby]

Well aside from digi scrapping, I also paper scrap. When I am not scrapping at all, I've really gotten into reading again. I was such an avid reader as a kid, but motherhood kind of took over and I pushed it aside. I love to bake and I am always experimenting with new foods.

[joscie]

Hey Megan, I'm an alto too. I sang in school *it was a requirement and in church *they let anyone sing...rofl

I also love to paper/hybrid scrap, take pictures, blog, bake, sew, drink coffee, travel...

[LeeAndra]

I love to sing. I would say I'm okay at it. Not American Idol reject bad, but not Whitney Houston good, either.

I love to cook, and I have the magic ability to be able to pull any kind of baked good out of the oven at the exact moment it's just cooked enough, but not overcooked.

I've always been a writer, and I would say that's my biggest God-given ability.

Oh, and I've been told I'm pretty good at giving advice and/or reading people's true intentions. I'm one of those strong/rock/shoulder to cry on type people.

[goldengirls2]

I sing too, although I'm a soprano...LOVE it!!! I don't do it enough anymore... :( I also play the piano, and LOVE to cook. I'd say I'm pretty alright at it! I love photography and have done a little professional stuff this summer...it stresses me though...I might just stick with my kiddos! I like to sew, wouldn't say I'm great at it, but good enough to do little projects here and there. I'm with you on the TV thing Megan, when I get a chance to just sit and watch, it's great! We like 24, Smallville, and Prison Break. And of course, motherhood takes over it all! I really do love being a mom though, wouldn't trade it for anything...most days! ;)

[~Julie~]

I don't do much LOL. I can't sing, can't cook very well. I don't play any instruments. If I'm not scrapping I am reading (Twilight at the moment). I watch way too much reality TV. LOL

[glumirk]

...I'll get back with you in May when I have a life again...

j/k! But seriously, I hardly have time for anything I used to do, and unfortunately I don't even have time to be on here, but I took a test today so I'm taking a break...

Anyway, I love singing! Not for real though...I love just singing when it doesn't matter. Sometimes in choirs or in front of people I get self-conscious, but I sure love singing when no one is around!

I also LOVE to play the piano. We don't have one though, so I hardly get to play these days.

My hubby and I love to watch YouTube videos and find new singers/artists on there! It's our "we don't have cable" entertainment.

There was a point when I really liked sports, especially racquetball and ultimate frisbee. No time for those these days, but I've started to really enjoy riding my bike to and from school.

Oh! I also love hiking! And the beach....oohhh...I would live on the beach if I could! There's something about it that makes me feel so free!

Cooking/eating good food....mmm....

And that's all for now. Back to the homework.

[ingridfasquelle]

Aside for digi, I love cooking and backing. I'm an avid reader too and i love linguistics.

[Gabby]

Wow, lots of singers on here! I sing as well. I'm a First Soprano, though I really should work on my range as I can't go very low. I sing mostly in my church choir, though once in awhile I'm asked to sing solos. But I get really nervous so I don't do them often. However, I love acting (my minor in school), though I haven't done it in a long time. And it's funny, because I could stand in front of thousands of people and recite a monologue with no nervousness, but ask me to sing solo in front of 10 people -- eek!

I also love to write and have lately been trying to finish a fanfiction (I know, I know), and I also greatly enjoy reading. Fantasy is my favorite genre, though Pride and Prejudice is my favorite book. I also sew some, try photography, am a decent cook, and enjoy web design.

As for TV, my guilty pleasure is Top Model. ^_^ I also like fantasy/sci-fi shows (and movies), including Lost. I also watch Ugly Betty, and just recently started watching Heroes (season 1) and can't believe I didn't watch it before -- it's definitely my DH and I's kinda show.

[Missys3lilbugs]

SHeesh how did you guys all get so lucky and be able to sing? I can't sing at all. I'm so jealous. I LOVE music though. I used to play the flute and taught myself to play the piano. But that was long ago.
I LOVE to paint. If it's my walls or a canvas, I really enjoy it. It's so relaxing. I also enjoy gardening and being outdoors with my kiddos. I'm a plant addict. I'm constantly looking to see what else I can add to my garden. I have about 15 plants outside right now waiting to be planted before the ground freezes.
I also love finding cool things for my house at thrift stores. I go at least once a week.

TV I watch. Of course it has to be Tivo-ed otherwise I would never get to watch anything. I love, Greys Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Lipstick Jungle, Biggest Loser, Private Practice, fav. Dirty Sexy Money & a few more. Gosh I didn't realise I liked that many shows right now. Hubby and I Tivo them and try to watch them together after kiddos are sleeping.

Miss Potts I didn't know you had twinners and a single. Twingles! I SO know your situation.... it hasn't got any better yet. My twins are 5 (turning 6 in Oct.) and youngest 3 (turning 4 in Nov.). Mine are almost exactly 2 yrs apart. I had the same due date for all three of them. The twins were early.

[aggietha]

So many things to know about you guys!

Well, Im left handed, dont know how to ride a bike NOR swim.
I cant sing to save my life but 10 million years ago when there were no kids I was a dancer. So yes, I think Im good at dancing.

I love to read. Books are my passion but online life has been a tough competition rofl
I dont watch too much TV but really catch up on seasons of GA, House, Heroes, Prison Break and ANTM :)

What else? :huh::huh:
Im pretty boring LOL

[Sarah8914]

Oh, I love to sing too.... and I sing alto. :) I also play the flute and piano.

I love to read. I seem to do it in spurts these days but I could read all day every day.

I also like to sew. I'm not that great, but I can do what I want to most of the time. :) I'm going to make aprons for my girls tonight in fact.

I love being a mom too--even though it takes time away from all of these things. It's worth it. :) When they're old and grown, I'll have TOO much time for all these things, so I can sacrifice it now. :)

[shades of bliss]

Hmmm I do a little of everything and not enouh of anything to be good at it :). I can do all kinds of crafts from sewing, knitting to beading. I would love to read but I never have the time to be truly lost in a book, so I watch way to much reality TV. I can cook, but I do have the uncanny ability to burn anything, even water, lol.

I love to hike and bike. Oh I guess I do ski regularily most winters. Although two years ago I tore my ACL and then last year I couldn't because I was pregnant. So we'll see if I'm brave enough to get on that horse again this winter.

[Sarah8914]

Hmmm I do a little of everything and not enouh of anything to be good at it :).

That's how I feel! Well, I think I'm fairly good at a lot of things but not great at anything.

[MissMint]

Lots of singers and cookers. I'd say I enjoy baking more than cooking. I'm interested in Photography so I try to spend time learning when I can. I actually enjoy working out (once I'm in the groove) and I wish I wrere taking dance classes again, but I haven't found the motivation to sign up!

We watch a LOT of tv too..thank god for the PVR!

[Digi Designz]

So I don't fall into the singing category I can definitely carry a tune and keep to a beat tho..I'm an emcee and if you all don't know what that is its hip hop, I rhyme, I write and record my own music and sing a hook from time to time :)

I also LOVE to bake and make crazy specialty cakes, I also really love photography and an tryin to learn as much as I can about it.

[MissPotts]

Miss Potts I didn't know you had twinners and a single. Twingles! I SO know your situation.... it hasn't got any better yet. My twins are 5 (turning 6 in Oct.) and youngest 3 (turning 4 in Nov.). Mine are almost exactly 2 yrs apart. I had the same due date for all three of them. The twins were early.


Oh no please dont tell me that. I am so looking forward to a year from now when things settle down. :rant: Its been a madhouse lately.
Alot like this! >>>::yipee:::cheer:::yipee:: but worse. If u have any strategies on how to handle three kiddos these ages feel free to PM me. Its like they whine all day long. Ok sorry to hijack!

[monalisasmiles]

My other interest is photography, that's how in got into scrapping. Have to do something with my pictures.

And besides that... I have a job and two childeren. No time for anything else... :rant: Wich there were 48 hours in a day.... Or I didnt need sleep!!

[reese]

Someday, when my kids are able to drive themselves everywhere, I will garden, read and play tennis and golf.

For now I work from home p/t and drive my kids to school, practices and games.

I don't watch much TV; just Amazing Race and sports. My weaknesses are old movies and the Wii.

[marylee]

So fun to see what everyone else does besides scrap (how do any of us have time to do all this!?) Anyway, what is it I do? Well, let's see. I work two afternoons a week at a family-owned bridal boutique. Most of the time that's pretty fun. It's fun to watch the happy brides and their families trying on beautiful gowns. Once in a while we have a bride-zilla (or a mom-zilla) but most of them are nice and happy people.

I enjoy working in my garden, sewing things for my kids (especially Halloween costumes). My other main computer hobby is editing home movies. I love adding titles and music and documenting our lives that way. Although, I haven't done any movies or scrapping for a while now. I recently learned how to knit and I'm working slowly on my first project still. I would say in general I'm pretty crafty and I'm always up for some kind of a craft.

I don't get to watch too much TV, but you know the new seasons started and my regular shows are: The Office, Dancing With the Stars, The Amazing Race and the Biggest Loser.

Hmmm, well, I guess that's it.

[MissPotts]

Its been nce getting to know everyone!

[JenniLeen]

I'm a crafter in every sense. I do "normal" scrapping, photography, sewing, I make hairbows, bake, and cook. I clean and I actually enjoy it. Ummm what else....oh I crochet, and I also help with web design for my dad and my sisters websites. So I'm also taking classes so I can be an "official" web designer. Other than that I'm a mom and most of us know that takes a TON of time!

[Sweeet]

well okay....hmmmmmm I work outside my home for the GOVERNMENT (yeh, big bro..I mean SISTA is watchiiiiiiiiiing U :eyepop:!..pffft right! LOL) No seriously I do work outside my home and it's NOT one of my loves, although I do love what I do here.......just thought you'd be interested in knowing that I scrap at work LMAO...shhhh lol2

Here are my other lurves, in no particular order....

1. Working Out (strength training)
2. Swimming
3. Singing (yeh I am jumping on the "I am a singer" wagon too)
4. Dallas Cowboys SHHHHHHH from the peanut gallery, OK!
5. Sketching/Drawing/Painting
6. Reality Shows: ANTM, DWTS, AI and anything on the Food Network (why? I can't cook even if I tried, SAD! LOL!)
7. Horses (OMG I love anything to do with them..seriously!)
8. Stamp Collecting (no, not the scrapping type, the kind that mails your letters *giggles*)
9. Watching Movies
10...last but not least, I love to be looney/goofball/make folks smile, laugh, spew..you name it..that's me :loco:

The things I only wished I could do...oh pity me...

1. I wish I had a green thumb and could grow my own garden, let alone a plant. I swear I started a sunflower for my son, it went sooooooo perfectly well and then one day thought to myself: "OMG, it's scorching hot outside, it needs to be in the shade to be cool!".... so I did and HELLO, it died......OKAY JENNA, S U N flower *ahem* {{{{DOH DOH DOHHHHHHHHHHHHH}}}}

2. I wish I could cook...I can shamelessly admit I mess it up each time so I threw in the towel LONG ago and lucky me has a hubby who does it all and does NOT mind. It starts off well (like the sunflower scenario) and I walk away for 1 second..ok maybe like 15 minutes, and we're singing "smokin!....smokin!".....omg too funny!

3. I wish I was a SAHM....one day I will....isn't that silly? NO! :annoyed:

...nice to meet ya! :happydance:

[glumirk]

2. I wish I could cook...I can shamelessly admit I mess it up each time so I threw in the towel LONG ago and lucky me has a hubby who does it all and does NOT mind. It starts off well (like the sunflower scenario) and I walk away for 1 second..ok maybe like 15 minutes, and we're singing "smokin!....smokin!".....omg too funny!

3. I wish I was a SAHM....one day I will....isn't that silly? NO! :annoyed:

...nice to meet ya! :happydance:

lol! dh and I call that the pancake problem! Literally 3 days in a row I made his pancake perfect, poured mine on and then forgot about it until it was too late! So I had 3 days in a row of burnt pancakes, but luckily his were fine! T?he 3rd time he wouldn't let me eat my whole one like I kept insisting and we each had half burnt, ha lf wonderful.

And I totally agree with your #3! It's not silly at all...for me it's like a yearning, but my senior capstone is a committment through May and I wouldn't want anything like stress to cause problems!

[KirstieGai]

I'm a crafter in every sense. I do "normal" scrapping, photography, sewing, I make hairbows, bake, and cook. I clean and I actually enjoy it. Ummm what else....oh I crochet, and I also help with web design for my dad and my sisters websites. So I'm also taking classes so I can be an "official" web designer. Other than that I'm a mom and most of us know that takes a TON of time!


I'd love to be able to sew but there must be something missing from my genes because I just can't get it :hissy:

[Mellykat]

Yikes too much talent here...I'm such a lame-o!

1. Can't sing. I do believe that I become Cher though when I'm drunk enough and do Karaoke! LOL I also sing in my Jeep but I crank the music enough to not be able to hear my awfulness!

2. I'm rarely NOT touching a computer. At work or at home. It drives the hubby nuts. I'm always working on something!

I do love to cook (though I hate deciding what to make for supper). My kids are my main hobby aside from digiscrapping! (Yeah, Mother of the Year award goes to me...I just called my kids a hobby! lol)

[BeccaBoo]

Great learning more about everyone!! Some of my loves:

Photography
Playing Rock Band
Watching House, ER, Bones, Fringe, True Blood
Total movie buff, so movies, movies, movies
My family would say talking on the phone is a skill of mine :blah:
I go to school
I love to bake
I love doing anything creative
Mocha Frappucinos

[MissMint]

BeccaBoo I LOVE House too - what a great show!!
And so cool that JenniLeen is learning web design.
I wish I would have taken classes

[Jenny318]

So great reading about everyone's hobbies and such! I have a HUGE array of interests and because of that like a lot of people I dabble in a lot of things, but I am not particularly great at any of them, and its also why when people ask what I want to do with my life, I stare at them blankly going "are you asking me to make a decision?"

I love:

people, I am super social and extroverted, I just finished college and had to move back home while I job search, and I hate being away from all my friends, and not being super busy, the lack of activity bums me out

new things, love trying new things, but can never decide which ones to hone in on, I love learning new things, I love knowledge, I want to learn, know, and experience, I like to kind of throw myself in a situation and see how well I can wrestle myself out

writing and reading, my degree is in English literature, I love language, because its the basis of being human, I love to play with words, love it, love it, I am a major nerd

food, what person doesn't?, but I love to cook, I love learning about food as in organic and health, how food is related to culture, philosophy of food (don't laugh, I took a class on it!)

travel, I am hardcore about travel, I want to go and experience a new place and a culture, I want to meet locals and learn about them, I want to immerse myself in my surroundings, when I was in Vienna and some of my fellow Americans wanted to go to Starbucks, I thought that was the lamest thing in the world, looking at joining the Peace Corps so I can really get that experience of living in an entirely new culture

yoga, karata wado-ryu, dancing, tattoos, Project Runway and Heroes, ideas, debate, bad jokes and really bad puns, music (finding new music, may not be new, but it may be new to me), cleaning and organizing (I saw someone else likes cleaning, too, hahaha), dogs and cats (one thing I can do very well is train a dog), "green living" for lack of better term