Balustroid? That''s Me!

[Balustroid]

Hello everybody,
Thanks to Mr Gates & Leonid for making this site possible!
Pricescope is really useful. I''m learning so much here.

OK, about myself - I met my husband in the previous century when I was 23 and he was 25. After 9 years together, we decided to get married. We celebrated our first anniversary this year. In that 9 years together, we faced a lot of difficulties in life but somehow we got through it all and today we still have each other.

We live with my cat who is going to be 2 in December. She is a very playful cat. She has tiger stripes on her legs, leopard prints on her tummy, white chest, a long stripy tail and razor sharp claws. She is so cheeky, sometimes she would paw my leg and ran away! She likes to play hide and seek too. She loves to sit in the garden and watch the birds. Now that I am owned by my cat, she eats roast chicken (only breast, and if she has to, the drumsticks) and I eat the wings. She is very loving too. She likes to sleep underneath my chin and purs really loud! She brings so much joy into my life.

In my safe, I have the following: my favourite chocolate (never trust my friends when they come over!), love letters and cards of me & my husband (of 10 years being together), jewellery and some 19th century books.

I love my husband & my cat. A good sense of humour is very important to me. I love food. My favourite food is sauteed scallop with asparagus, love most fruits, I love strawberries with heavy cream & sugar, cheesecakes and the multi million calories English Trifle. Oh, I love broccoli cheese! I don''t eat breakfast but if I have to, I would have chocolate. Simple food is always the best!

I enjoy reading very much. Glossy magazines are such a treat. I read the classics mostly (99.9%) and my favourite authors are Oscar Wilde, Edgar A Poe, Victor Hugo, Daniel Defoe & Guy de Maupassant.


Two months ago, I found a new hobby - gardening. So I bought some petunias and busy lizzies and they are flowering like mental!

I have travelled. Lived in Australia, the Far East, the UK, Bahrain. Been to Europe. I always like Europe.

I work on a project basis (interior decorating & themed displays). When I am not employed, what I do in the morning is to let her majesty the cat out in the garden for birdwatching, then I play Spider Solitaire ( I have to score 3 times every day) and join my cat in the garden to check for dead flowers etc.

Well, that''s me Balustroid. Where did I get that name from? I wonder!

 

[Colored Gemstone Nut]

Balustroid,




Hey nice to read more about you...I am a big lover of food too

..Lol




How about some Alaskan King Crab legs and a side of steamed halibut...Hmmm.mmmm.mmm. I never get tired of the Alaskan Cuisine...




I think I have become accustomed to it..So much that I find myself turning it down at times

 

[fire&ice]

Hi there!

I, too, have been recently introduced to gardening. At our second home, a previous owner must have *loved* to garden. Some of the plantings are probably as old as the house (1925). Something blooms starting in Feb. & the cycle doesn't end until around mid Nov. I feel responsible to keep it going. Fortunately, the grounds are not vast. Gardening consumes a good deal of my time there. Also, the computer there has spider sol. I'm hooked on that also.

I live in the southeast. What kind of fauna/climate do you live in?

 

[winyan]

Hi there Balustroid, and welcome.




In NJ, Balustroid is a golf club, I think.




Your nick have anything to do with this?




win

 

[Balustroid]

*Colored Gemstone Nut*,
Seafood is my middle name! So, yes to the crab and steamed halibut. Yum-cious! What about grilled lobster tails with garlic butter sauce? MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

Hi fire&ice,
The climate where I live is hot but now it's winter and it's very pleasant. I also have a lot of bougainvillas - single and double. They are very pretty too, you know orange and pink together, yellow and white.

Hi winyan,
Balustroid is a type of drinking glass stem shape (think of a wine glass)invented in 1730. I got that name while browsing through an antiques encyclopedia.

"No civilised man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilised man ever knows what a pleasure is."
- Lord Henry (The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891) by Oscar Wilde.