First post

Welcome to my first blog!!

I'll start with a bit about myself and also some of my passions.

My no.1 passion is my family. My super amazing husband who supports me with anything I want to try, and our two beautiful boys who drive us both crazy at times but have brought us so much happiness and laughter and make me so proud. We also have 3 loving cats who are also apt to drive us crazy either with worry or their dashing about antics and not being able to decide if they want to be inside or outside. My life would be empty without all five of my boys and my sweet girl.

My next passion is gaming. I have been a gamer since my 10th birthdays when I got my first game boy with Zelda:Link to the Past, Super Mario Land and Tetras.. and later I got Wario as well.. I love my dad.

To be fair even before this I was gaming when ever I could, such as kicking the boys *** at Mortal Kombat and Sonic on the Mega Drive at my village youth club (at least that's how my memory thinks of it ;)
Present day I am still suffering from withdrawal from a 5 year stint of World of Warcraft.. I finally escaped about 4 and a half years ago, a little after my first son was born.. I did relapse earlier this year for 2 months, but time to play was not my friend.. and the pull to go back is stronger than ever.
When my husband and I got together my world of gaming expanded so much as he was a consol gamer and he brought his xbox 360 and Nintendo wii into my life. And we now have the Nintendo WiiU and Xbox One.
Currently I have started replaying Skyrim V on 360 until I can have the prettier one on XboxOne that was released on Friday last week... just got to wait for pay day....!
Besides computer games I also love two card games.. one is Magic the Gathering, and it was through playing this that I got to know my hubby before there was an us.
And my other card game is poker :( I have to say I am not a great player.. I mostly play at my friends cash game as my social night out, and I play one night a week in a local league. My online career is pretty much a disaster and I don't think I will ever be earning my millions there.. but watch this space just in case, lol.

So, after gaming and games I have a passion for crafting hobbies.. or should I say I have a passion for starting to craft. My current crafting path is crochet, and I have to say I have actually made some nice things. I also have a draw and box full of beading tools and beads. I will get back to beading.. I just don't have the lighting sorted for it.. or the right work area.. honest ;)

The final passion I am going to put down is my passion for books, I did want to be a librarian at one stage in my life, as I spent a lot of time in the school and local library's. For me books are amazing magical things that hold whole new world's withing their pages that are only a turn of a page away for me to escape into. My mum was my guide when I finally discover the joy of reading, having a ready copy of The Hobbit available when my 5th year teacher started reading it to us in class and was going to slowly for me as I wanted to know what happened next. After that she set me onto Terry Pratchet's Equal Rights and later onto Anne McCaffrey Dragons of Pern and David Eddings Belgarade.
Currently I recently bought books 1 to 7 of the Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind on Kindle for an amazing price and have recently re-read them. Reading The Pillars of Creation now.. and after this will be all new to me as this was as far as I got to before I lost my last set in paperback.

Well, I hope that all tells you a bit about me and what this blog might cover in the future.

Until next time, a smile helps the worry to slide away.