Merrow
02-07-2013, 12:45 AM
Hello all! I am another newcomer. It's nice to have stumbled on such an amazing place! I had no idea up until a few weeks ago that mermaiding was a viable hobby option for a regular Joe like me. It's mind-blowing!
Anyway, a little about me. I've loved mermaids since I was a little kid. I can't tell you how many times I pretended to be a mermaid in our backyard pool with a towel for the pretty "floaty" effect. A long time ago, I was a member of a swim team for little kids (think 6 & 7 year olds), & my favorite swim-style was the Butterfly-kick & ironically, that still is my strongest swim-style. Go figure. Of course, Ariel was my favorite Disney character & still is, actually. I even find it hard to resist visiting the Disney shop in our local mall every time I need to be in the building for whatever reason (usually movie-watching or my one-time-a-year jeans run). Of course, like any other mer-phile, I love Splash so much. I don't think I'll ever forget the first time I watched Darryl Hannah draw up the saltwater bath & unfurl her gorgeous tail. <3
On a non-mer note, I have a bit of an obsession with otters. LOVE THEM! I have a ton of otter plushies that I've collected through the years that I refuse to part with, so they get to hang out in a bag in my closet since I currently have no other place to put them. I am the mom to three cats, all of which have Catster pages to prove just how much I'm the crazy cat lady. I love music & languages. I especially love films in other languages besides English. My Netflix is pretty much all non-English movies. They just have a certain something that makes them so different from the mainstream movies in my area.
As for my occupation, I am employed with a large law enforcement agency, but I'm hoping that one day I can get out of that profession as I do not agree with a lot of the things enforced. I'm a bit of a free-spirit & I've lived a pretty hard life so I didn't have a lot of the opportunity that my peers had to experience things. I am currently making the time to experience a lot of what I missed out on now that I have reached a point in my life that I can actually afford to have free time. I'm a very compassionate person; I don't think that there is enough of that in this world.
I'm pretty cynical, but I can find the humour in just about anything save a few topics that are very personal to me. I use a lot of sarcasm in my day-to-day life, but rarely on the internet, simply because there's no way to gauge tone. I feel like a complete doof when I screw up on grammar. I'm a little OCD about it, actually, but I'm not one to point it out when others make grammar mistakes. I mostly just inwardly cringe.
I am so thrilled to be a part of this community. Thank you for this opportunity!
~Merrow
Anyway, a little about me. I've loved mermaids since I was a little kid. I can't tell you how many times I pretended to be a mermaid in our backyard pool with a towel for the pretty "floaty" effect. A long time ago, I was a member of a swim team for little kids (think 6 & 7 year olds), & my favorite swim-style was the Butterfly-kick & ironically, that still is my strongest swim-style. Go figure. Of course, Ariel was my favorite Disney character & still is, actually. I even find it hard to resist visiting the Disney shop in our local mall every time I need to be in the building for whatever reason (usually movie-watching or my one-time-a-year jeans run). Of course, like any other mer-phile, I love Splash so much. I don't think I'll ever forget the first time I watched Darryl Hannah draw up the saltwater bath & unfurl her gorgeous tail. <3
On a non-mer note, I have a bit of an obsession with otters. LOVE THEM! I have a ton of otter plushies that I've collected through the years that I refuse to part with, so they get to hang out in a bag in my closet since I currently have no other place to put them. I am the mom to three cats, all of which have Catster pages to prove just how much I'm the crazy cat lady. I love music & languages. I especially love films in other languages besides English. My Netflix is pretty much all non-English movies. They just have a certain something that makes them so different from the mainstream movies in my area.
As for my occupation, I am employed with a large law enforcement agency, but I'm hoping that one day I can get out of that profession as I do not agree with a lot of the things enforced. I'm a bit of a free-spirit & I've lived a pretty hard life so I didn't have a lot of the opportunity that my peers had to experience things. I am currently making the time to experience a lot of what I missed out on now that I have reached a point in my life that I can actually afford to have free time. I'm a very compassionate person; I don't think that there is enough of that in this world.
I'm pretty cynical, but I can find the humour in just about anything save a few topics that are very personal to me. I use a lot of sarcasm in my day-to-day life, but rarely on the internet, simply because there's no way to gauge tone. I feel like a complete doof when I screw up on grammar. I'm a little OCD about it, actually, but I'm not one to point it out when others make grammar mistakes. I mostly just inwardly cringe.
I am so thrilled to be a part of this community. Thank you for this opportunity!
~Merrow