Youniverse

I'm a newly-married (2 years now!) mother of three children - a boy, 15 and two girls, 17 and 20 - who loves nature and is striving to leave less of a carbon footprint on the world. As a result, we've given up our vehicles completely and now walk everywhere, even to get groceries, which can be a bit challenging at times! :-)

My hubby and I are big into computers... he's built and networked every computer in the house (6 currently!), and while I help with the networking part of it, I tend to be all about the pretty! lol My operating systems and browsers all have nature themes, and I've even changed some of my sounds to nature sounds!

I'm a pretty positive person... I don't believe in wasting time on the negative when there are so many happy things in life to enjoy... and life is far too short not to enjoy every precious second!

I love to cook and am always on the look out for new recipes to try. It's hard trying to make meals that everyone in my family enjoys, so a lot of the time, I have to make more than one meal at a time... talk about multi-tasking! lol Hubby and I consider ourselves "hippies with hygiene" who are in the process of totally changing our eating habits and trying to nudge the children in that direction as well... a losing battle most days as they like their junk food and the fat associated with it! Having just been diagnosed as pre-diabetic is even more of a motivation to eat healthy and exercise is becoming more of a routine in my life.

I also love to read (Heinlein, King and Straub being my favourite authors) and I certainly can't live without music! My tastes range from bands like CCR, Aerosmith, the Black Crowes, Nirvana, Matchbox Twenty, Crowded House, and Coldplay to Canadian classics like Sarah McLachlan, Great Big Sea and Nickelback.