I look 10 years younger than I actually am.

I discovered a pirate in my direct maternal line this morning. He was a privateer who supported Henry VIII. He lived in Leith, in Scotland, and his home was burned to the ground by disgruntled opponents during the Reformation. He and his three sons were forced to find a new home, and they moved to Thornbury, Gloucestershire.

Apparently there is a chapel in Windsor with a special notation regarding one of his sons, who was secretary to King Henry VIII.

My apartment is like a museum, full of interesting and odd things, and I live in a city where you can get any kind of food imaginable.

Im now retired and just work selectively....

Im loving it...

It feels like a more respectful life...🤗⚘⚘⚘

About an hour ago I returned from a 12 km long walk in the woods. I took a new unknown path along a deep ravine and as I stopped at one place and came to the very edge I heard some thumps. I had a good position with a nice vista and sounds came from the other side of ravine with a steep and much taller slope so I felt kind of safe. But I started threateningly stomping and kicking things to make noise anyway...just in case. I spotted a fresh foliage shining green against the sun so I was trying to capture some pictures when suddenly I heard some really odd sounds. I'd swear they were electronic. Okay, maybe just some odd sound distortion but then I heard a real animal roar. 😅 I've never been that glad to be on the other side of a deep ravine before. I trudged forward and saw a deer herd running away, apparently from the place where roars sounded. The problem was that they seemed to be running to the place where I aimed as well. So I just hoped there wasn't anything chasing them.

Hmmm... I work in the ICU of a hospital around a bunch of Covid patients. I've seen a thing or two in my time there. 😁

I built an off grid cabin in the mountains a few years ago. For the most part, its done, but I'm continuously working to make it better. I have it wired for 12 volt DC using 3 solar collectors, a wood stove, and I get my water (gravity fed down the mountain thru a pipe) from a spring. There are deer, turkey, bobcats and bears on the property. It about 2 miles from the nearest paved road. Sometimes I feel like I should've been born 100 years sooner than I was. Most of my free time is spent working there, unless I'm hunting or fishing. Its all very rewarding to me. I feel as if that is how people were intended to live...living, not just "existing" and working just to pay the bills. Feel free to picture yourself walking thru the forest, exploring like I do.. Oh, I found a fossilized scallop shell in a granite boulder not far from the cabin last weekend. It sits about 2,800 feet above sea level, so its been a while since the ocean was there. There is all kinds of cool stuff like that...Hope that helps?

My family owns property in two different countries and I grew up moving around and now I live in a different country than them myself

I traveled a lot and now I am working at a call center for Covid testing

Currently not teaching while eating double chocolate mini Swiss rolls from m&s with a hot coffee while I mark books 🥴

Trust, you wouldn't want to. I suffer from physical pain, depression and PTSD. I joke and play a lot, to hide what is going on behind the scenes

I’m not doing what I had initially set out to do because of life’s circumstances . However I am doing something I like and my life ( as a result of that decision) has been so much more than I could have imagined .

I have loved and lost, and never had love returned to me like I gave out to a woman. Fought battles with in myself and on a battlefield thinking I had won, only to realize I lost a bit more of my humanity, sanity, friends in uniform right be side me with every foray. spent 27 years fighting a nations and other folks fights learning things no one ought too. Now I have found a great harmless to other's outlet in cross dressing that leaves my love life empty.

So I survived the worst, and learned to live my best life possible for me post survival.

I play poker quite often.

I am retired after building houses for 40+ years. I began rescuing abused and neglected horses and raising mini horses. That went well until the floods destroyed my pastures. So after giving away my pets to good homes, I'm now down to one old horse that's totally blind, and after he's lived his life out, I'll be out of the horse business.

I enjoy living between dark and Light in the gray areas and I love to poke around forgotten corners

I have a box collecting obsession...

After the failure of an extremely intense love affair when I was very young and idealistic and she'd come to mean life to me, I married in an attempt to numb some of the pain, and not from love. She's been loyal, we're still together, but in an emotional sense I died then. I've sometimes regretted not having what it took to put an end to life properly. I wouldn't ever wish to hurt my wife and my mind forces me to stay positive if that makes sense.

I watch NBA while I'm teaching in class lmao

I am a collector of artifacts from all around the world.

I sing and play the harp. You will feel peace, joy and being MOST ALIVE when I am writing a song, picking out harmonies, singing with others, recording and singing LIVE.

Hugging my cat.. Writing my thoughts. Keeps me sane ha.

My shoes are hard to fill. 😏 lol

I was hoping you could do that for ME.

I have three children. A daughter 27 and two sons 25 & 17. I live in Scotland now, but I've lived in England, Germany and Ireland.

Have been to 17 US National Parks and many more state parks in the 44 US states I've visited.

Was pro level at social distancing well before Covid came along. ;-)

I'm a pop culture nerd!!🤓

Do I need to talk about the Chipmunks? Lol

I have been riding motorbikes since I was 5, it's something I feel I can do as easy as breathing and it blows all of the cobwebs away

I have people fire hockey pucks at me on occasion 🏒

I vicariously live my life through everyone else.

You can’t.

Always a helping hand.