This is just a little about me
:)
I was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on Wednesday, May 27,
1964 at 6:10 a.m.
Mother: Diana Helen Doris Rideout (nee; Clarke) 1939 - 1992
Father: Arthur William Rideout
Marital Status: twice married, once divorced.
Hobbies: pets, cooking, singing, photography, crosswords, reading
(mainly Celtic history), geneology (that is why I have included a lot of my family info, if anything looks familiar to you email me with any info you may have), swimming, computers, internet, living,
laughing and many more things besides.....
O.K. Here are the stats.....
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 136ish pounds (am trying to gain more)
Eye Colour: very true blue
Hair Colour: Strawberry blondish, with blonde streaks. My hair
goes to about my waist.
My parents were both very tall people so I
guess I had no choice in the matter and the whole while that my
mum was pregnant with me she went around telling everyone she
knew that she was going to have a blonde haired/blue eyed
girl...... so...... voila :)
As for family....
My mothers people all came here to Canada
from one part of Britain or another. Mom's paternal grandfather
(I knew him as Grandpa Clarke), was born and raised in England
but went to Scotland and there met his wife to be (who's last
name was Monroe but I have yet to find out what her first name
was or even if I have got the last name spelled right). They had
a son first and that is my maternal grandfather, born in
Scotland. His name was Edward Walter Alexander Monroe Clarke
(again I'm not even exactly sure he spelt it Monroe... it could
have been Monro or Munro...).
I think my mom told me her mom was born and
brought up in Timmins Ontario, though Nana's mum came here with
her 3 sisters (Alice, Flosie, Amelia) from England and I think I
have even seen a picture of the four girls on a boat when they
were on their way here to Canada. I knew my aunt Alice, and met
aunt Flosie a few times when she would come up here from New York
where she had settled years before. Sadly I only met my aunt
Amelia once, while she was in a seniors home, but she did impress
me a lot. She used to write poems and when she was 92 years young
she decided to learn how to use a computer so she could put all
her writing on disk to save. Amelia lived to be about 101, a
testimony to living a long life through learning something new
all the time and keeping the mind active.
My father, Arthur, was born and raised in the province of Newfoundland and we
all made many trips there for summer vacations when I was a kid.
He is a very tall man (6'4" tall) and has only just recently
retired at the age of 68 years. He worked the last 20+ years in
the aerospace industry. He has a
sister named Ena and a brother named Blair. Ena is still in
Newfoundland but Blair has been all over Canada and Guyana.
I have grown up with something called Marfan Syndrome, a
connective tissue disorder that has affected my heart, eyes, and
spine. In fact I joke about my spine having more curves in it
than a rollercoaster *L* My mother had this too but her heart was
in a LOT worse shape than mine and that is what caused her death
August 18, 1992. I do most things that anyone else can and am NOT
in a wheel chair but I do things in my own time my own way. When
I was 11 years old I had my first eye surgery, to straighten out
my right eye that had gone inward. When I was a teen, 13
actually, I had to leave school to have more surgery, this time
on the back of my neck to correct a problem with some bones
there. They did try to fix my back when I was 18 but I had some
trouble with the process so that never went through. In 1988 I
had my eye done when it went out again and all has been well
since :)
Had to go to Adult ed to get my high school diploma but after
that I went back to work and then, 4 years later, left work and
went to college. After being in the work force for so many years
I had decided to go with my very first love and take music. Well
was I in for it. I went to a college called Trebas Institute for
the Recording Arts and took the program Computer Assisted Sound
Design. I now have an Attestation of Collegial Studies from that institute. In that program we did a lot more than just sound design
courses. Part of the course curriculum was taking a lot of
marketing courses, sound recording (the practical part of that
course took place in Trebas' own working studio... lots of nobs
and buttons and flashing lights *L*), music business, and
everything else they could cram into our heads in one year. Yes
Trebas is one of those professional colleges where you do in one
year what usually takes 3 in other places. The big difference is you take all the core courses but no english or maths so it is not a college diploma really but I was told that this school is highly regaurded in the industry so that is why I went there. It was a fantastic experience though and I
am so glad I did it, to have taken something like that on and
complete it gave me a feeling of accomplishment like nothing else
has before.
For the past year and a bit I have lived in a small city in
Ontario, and boy is it ever different from living in a Large city
like Montreal. It has taken a lot to adjust to but it is
peaceful, relaxed and safer here by comparison.
Who is it that said what does not kill you will make you stronger
??? I think I'd like to have a chat with that person. Must have
been a guy.
If I really had a home of my own with a den, and there really ws a desk there with various papers strewn over top of it here are a
few more things you might find there :)
Shakespear sonnet #30
a Celtic poem
