MOTW - Mar 24 - Mar 30 2013 - Jenste

[Heatheranne]

Yay!!! Finally, you get to be the highlight of your hard work . Congrats!

[Jenste]

Monday, tell us all about you! We know you obviously like amphibians, but we want to know about the rest of your life. Details about you, your life, hobbies, families, past times, favorite colors, poems you have written etc etc....just use this post to brag/boast/bore us how you please.

Ok. About me. Here goes.

I am 25 and live in Rhode Island, where I have lived my whole life. Most of it has been lived in the same town, North Providence - same town where my husband and I have bought our home. In a couple months I will be celebrating two years of marriage with my wonderful husband Steve. (Combining our names was the inspiration behind my username). We actually met online almost 5 years ago and it was an instant connection - we and our families just "knew" that it was going to be a forever kind of relationship. He is not really into aquatics but he tolerates my obsession with fish and frogs as well as any man can who is creeped out by all things scaly, hoppy, slitherly, and crawly.

Most of my free time, when I am not up past my elbows in one tank or another, is going to soon be put into painting the inside of our house. Last spring (the first spring in our home) we dedicated all of our free time and extra money to fixing up the gardens and yard. This year we are working on painting the interior. Yay!! I have also been getting antsy for some major spring cleaning - my mother was one who loved to pretty much empty out every imaginable cupboard, closet, bin etc in the house all at once and rummage through and reorganize the house in a weekend. I inherited this, much to my husbands horror. He walks in and it looks like a bomb went off or I am auditioning suddenly for an episode of Hoarders.

Hobbies? Reading is a top one - I am currently plowing through the Game of Thrones Series. We love the show and I love the written series even more. That brings me to TV shows - oh boy. Besides GoT, Walking Dead, Sons of Anarchy, New Girl, Hoarders, My Strange Addiction, Face Off, Americas Next Top Model (Don't judge me!), Grey's Anatomy, Pretty Little Liars (again, please don't judge me!)....that's all I can think off off the top of my head but I am sure there are others.

Another hobby is cooking...or well expanding my limited knowledge of the subject. My mom is not much of a cook and I was never taught my way around a stove. I started learning when I moved in with my husband while we were dating. It has been interesting and I'd like to say I have significantly improved.... however any one who has ever tried cooking for my husband will say it is quite a challenge as he is SO picky!

A hobby I would like to get back into is learning American Sign Language. I took seven semesters through out high school and college and would love to take refresher courses. Unfortunately, I lost touch with most of my deaf friends (they have mostly moved away, and contact now is all through internet/text) so I have forgotten most of the language except for basic conversation. I would love to learn it again.

I think that's all I have time for right now... hope you enjoyed reading about me. Oh, my favorite color is like a blue/teal color. And I won't bore you with poems I have written...they are all from a creative writing class in high school and I have no idea what I was thinking at the time!