About

  1. I have something to say. It’s Like It Is
  2. Britgirl describes me pretty well
  3. I was born in England, grew up in London, England and now live in Toronto
  4. I’m very candid and independent minded
  5. I have lived in Canada for five years
  6. I think living abroad has made me feel even more British
  7. I really enjoy my life in Toronto
  8. I was born on January 22nd
  9. I love Toronto and I’ve made many friends here
  10. I love rollerblading and cycling
  11. I moved to Toronto two years after meeting my husband
  12. We met through Match.com, six years ago
  13. I was living in London. He was living in Toronto
  14. I was against a long distance relationship – until we met
  15. We married three years later in London, England
  16. We are a true Internet success story
  17. People we meet are always fascinated with the story of how we met
  18. Without the internet we would never have met
  19. We celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary on May 31st 2007
  20. We got married in England on the hottest day for over 20 years
  21. I have five brothers and sisters. I’m the eldest
  22. They all live in England, we visit every year if we can
  23. I’ve always been closer to my brother than my sisters
  24. My husband has two older sisters who are 12 and 10 years older than he is
  25. I have two nieces and a new nephew
  26. I have more than twenty cousins
  27. I have several aunts and uncles
  28. My parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer
  29. I’m a business executive and professional
  30. We have no pets and don’t want any
  31. My husband and I chose not to have children
  32. We are child-free, not childless thank you
  33. For the record, we like children, we just don’t want any
  34. Our decision is seen as strange – by many people. Usually strangers
  35. I feel passionately that having children is a choice
  36. I think that most people don’t ever consider they have a choice
  37. Some have told us we don’t have a choice.. the church for example.
  38. Screw that
  39. I stopped going to church several years ago
  40. I was scared I was losing my ability to think for myself
  41. My faith remains important to me
  42. Most of my family will never really understand my not wanting children
  43. I know that having children would limit my opportunities
  44. I’ve never felt the need to be a mother
  45. No-one has ever explained to me exactly why I need to be a mother, just that I should be one
  46. I think there is a gulf between women with children and the child-free
  47. I believe that our thoughts shape our lives
  48. I think kindness is the most wonderful virtue and often underrated
  49. I know the Law of Attraction works
  50. I’ve had some amazing results and I’ve recorded them
  51. I am a gadget nut addict and love to have the latest
  52. I meditate every day, it keeps me balanced
  53. I love clothes. I really love clothes.
  54. I have countless pairs of shoes and jackets. And jeans.
  55. I enjoy my job and I like the people I work with
  56. I’m not getting a tattoo
  57. Ive been called a clothes horse
  58. I believe if you don’t like your job, you should find one that you do
  59. I believe if you stay in a job you don’t like, you shouldn’t complain
  60. I love old films and t.v. shows
  61. Unfortunately I also love schlocky disaster films
  62. I love old WWII and British period films
  63. I love documentaries
  64. Between us my husband and I have over 1,300 500 DVDs
  65. They include films, documentaries and t.v. shows
  66. We watch very little actual t.v.
  67. Six Feet Under is one of my all-time favourite t.v shows
  68. I love it when I can tell a song within two seconds of it being played
  69. I have too many favourite songs to name just one
  70. When I was little I was known as a bookworm
  71. I read every Enid Blyton book that was in print
  72. I have a couple of books on the go at any one time
  73. I’m an avid list maker.
  74. I’m very focused
  75. I have a degree in Modern Languages
  76. I’m very adventurous, but a calculated risk taker
  77. I love travelling
  78. Moving to Canada was a risk worth taking
  79. I took a chance and completely changed my life
  80. I had a great and successful life in London
  81. I believe that’s why I have a successful life in Canada
  82. I have two homes – England and Canada
  83. I have a very dry sense of humour
  84. What I miss most about England is the British sense of humour
  85. I find it hard to tolerate fools
  86. I have an MBA
  87. I find small-talk banal, but necessary for many social events
  88. I love meeting interesting people
  89. My goal in learning to play Poker was to keep a “poker face”
  90. I am a photography enthusiast
  91. I play in two poker groups, a ladies one and a guy’s one
  92. I play squash and have been in a house league for 4 years
  93. I play pool and would love to be better at it. I would be if I practiced
  94. I hate injustice, unfairness, impolite people, racist people and dissemblers
  95. I’m afraid that our rights to free speech are slowly being eroded
  96. I think that political correctness sometimes borders on the bizarre
  97. I sometimes feel overwhelmed by all the human misery in our world
  98. I dislike arrogant, impolite, pompous twerps. Ignorant ones too
  99. I am trying to do my little bit where I can
  100. I wonder how long it’d take to write another 100 things about me…

34 responses to “About”

5 06 2006
Teri (the Purple Woman!) (09:41:42) :

I finally found your list — I think I am getting more familiar with your layout over here. You are a most fascinating woman.

5 06 2006
britgirl (19:11:08) :

Thank you! :-))

10 06 2006
timethief (21:36:01) :

Holy Guacamole girl! You have already have made a list of “100″ when you haven’t yet made 100 posts. WOW! am I ever impressed.

Thanks for being do forth coming about who you are. There’s nothing that encourages me more to beat a hasty retreat and click out of a blog site than an “about” page that’s blank. Which brings me to your effective use of the more… [hmmm I'm really going to have to learn how to use it on my blog].

Both my beloved and I are from large families. Like you I’m the eldest in mine and “he” is the second eldest in his. There’s an age difference between us. I’m older than he. What can I say ? I kept sending him away and he kept coming back for more… before he actually got any, if you know what I mean. Anyway when we did get together and later married we decided to remain “child-free” too and we have never regretted it.

It was great visting you and I’ll be back again on day soon. Until then, take good care.
timethief

10 06 2006
britgirl (22:07:17) :

Timethief, thanks for dropping by and for your comments. The “more” function is one of the best things about Wordpress - and there are many. It is perfect for long posts which is why I use it. It also pushes up page views, something I learnt in the Forum somewhere. I’ll be back to visit your blog soon.

14 06 2006
timethief (14:42:26) :

Hi britgirl. I took some time to cruise around uor site clicked on professional and read then clicked on about and read again. I was left with two inter-related questions. (1) What is your profession? (2) And what kind of company do you work for?
Bye for now.

14 06 2006
britgirl (20:42:16) :

Thanks for crusing. I am a banker and - I work - wait for it - in a bank :-).

7 07 2006
geekigirl (17:20:02) :

Damn, that’s long. I don’t think I could come up with that many things to say about myself.

Child Free WOOT!!!!

8 07 2006
britgirl (17:45:06) :

Sure you can! You’d be surprised. Once you start, it’s pretty easy. ;-)

9 07 2006
geekigirl (19:50:46) :

WOOT is like Ya! or Great! or some other kind of rallying call. The geek definition is located here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W00t

4 09 2006
john (09:16:10) :

Nice concept for a presentation… :)

22 09 2006
bluesaze (06:22:38) :

wow thats a really long list :D thanks for adding scribez to your blog roll :)

22 09 2006
bluesaze (06:42:13) :

we added you to our blogroll :)

27 09 2006
ruhi (21:29:20) :

Hello britgirl! Thank you for taking a look at my blog :) You list is very interesting, most of all, your love story :) It sounds very romantic!

8 10 2006
Mosh (19:29:47) :

I love it when two people find themselves through the internet.

12 10 2006
Justin (23:47:38) :

You lead a very interesting life, and your internet success story just blows my mind. Its so great you were able to find love, and sustain it over the 3 years you’ve been married.

I love your blog too, very nice and heaps of great content.

13 10 2006
carocat (10:07:14) :

I just randomly came accross your blog and your list of a 100 things is really good.

I have to especially agree with no. 6. I live in the UK, but I’m German and since living here I’ve felt a lot more ‘German’ than I used to. :)
Anyways, nice read, nice blog.

15 10 2006
britgirl (13:16:54) :

@justin - thanks so much for your comments!
@Carocat - thank you!

10 12 2006
Chris W. (19:22:38) :

“38. Screw that”

ROTFLMAO

Now that’s classic!

10 12 2006
Britgirl (21:01:13) :

@Chris - LOL!!

24 12 2006
mercurior (17:15:34) :

i met my fiancee online, she is american, but she wants to become a british citizen, we met via a message board, and its 2 years last september ..

we are both cf, i didnt know the term cf existed before i met her..

9 02 2007
Christine (00:08:09) :

Hello Britgirl,

I’ve been reading your blog (silently) for some time and I really enjoy it. You write very well about topics I’m interested in so I come back often. We don’t often know who’s reading our blogs but no doubt a lot of people read and enjoy yours a great deal.

9 02 2007
Britgirl (20:28:59) :

Hello Christine - welcome (although you’re probably quite at home already) and thank you very much :) Hope you continue to enjoy Like It Is!

12 02 2007
Kim Cochrane (08:47:50) :

I love your site and it seems that you and your husband have much in common with my husband and I . I look forward to meeting both of you soon at an upcoming Childless by Choice dinner in Toronto.

3 03 2007
Chris W. (16:53:40) :

Britgirl, I took a cue from you with this list and created one for my Wikipedia page. I also put it on my blog’s “About” page. I could only think about 50 interesting things about me :(. I call ‘em “Fast Facts”.

3 03 2007
Britgirl (17:40:15) :

Hey Chris - this is why I love these “About” Lists :) They tell you so much more…
Really enjoyed yours. It seems we both got married in the same month - May - and with five days difference. heh. And I also dislike mushrooms, but will eat them in certain foods. I also love puzzles. I have always admired mathematically minded people - perhaps because I’ve always wished I could be one myself… I can do the basics of course - well, a little more than the basics, but I would have loved to be able to really master it and at school it was the stuff of bad schoold days. Oh well, can’t have everything… I also watch very little TV - as you know, I do watch DVD’s.

By the way, that little cat is soo cute!! :)

7 04 2007
tony conrad (00:51:20) :

Hi Britgirl - saw your kind comment about the new Sphere Plug-in for WordPress - thx, much appreciated.

Best,
Tony

13 04 2007
PrettyInTheCity (03:06:05) :

Hi Brit Girl…

I just found your blog accidently.

I love it. Very much.

I just curious, what’s your favorite’s movie ever? I am also have a dvd collections, and romantic comedy movie keep my life brighten.

Anyway, I’ll visit your blog regularly.

English is not my mother language, so apologize me for any mispelling grammar.

Love, M

13 04 2007
Britgirl (23:36:45) :

Hello M - Thank you for stopping by and for your kind comments :-))
I would have to say that my all-time favourite movie is Midnight Run. It’s not as well known as it should be, but I love it. I’ve watched it more than five times. I am a Robert DeNiro fan. But I have lot’s of movies that I like… it’s hard to choose just one. Did you read my two movie posts? Calling all Movie Buffs! and Movie Buffs, Your favourite quotes? Have fun, and look forward to you visiting again.

18 07 2007
Caren (18:32:11) :

Hey Brit Girl!

So much we have in common! I’m also cf, also met my bf on match, and I’m also from toronto! i live in california now though… its waaaaay better down here :). That said I do miss timmy ho’s, swiss chalet, and my little apt at yonge and eg! One thing I DON”T miss is the snow!

Kudos to you for startint this blog. I’m thinking of starting a site myself.

Best,
Caren

21 07 2007
Britgirl (00:19:26) :

Cheers Caren! Thanks for dropping by :)

31 07 2007
bo moore (15:21:27) :

A funny story: When I was little I picked up on people confabbing over women in their late teens to twenties, who needed to hurry up and get married and have babies. From this I came up with the conclusion that females automatically became pregnant at that age, and for some reason it was a disgrace if you didn’t find a man to marry. What a relief when I found out it wasn’t true: that I could choose whether or not to be a mother! I chose not to, but I must confess, I call myself Mom when speaking to my dogs.

29 01 2008
Steve (03:20:46) :

Hi Britgirl, Nice blog. I am astonished at how many people feel like passing judgement on people who choose to be child-free. It’s a personal decision, and frankly nobody elses’s business. For what it’s worth, I’m a pediatric nurse in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I do phone triage. That means that every day at work, I get to talk with people about their sick kids. An astonishing number of these people have no business having children(some of these parents, we are not talking about a gene-pool, we are talking about a gene wading-pool). A lot of people are really not prepared for the work and sacrifice that you need to do a good job of rasing kids. Just because I chose to have kids with my wife, does not mean it is a good decsion for everybody. People really need to weigh it out, and I think people like you and Explosive Bombchelle bring up some good points on the subject. If somebody really feels that strongly about having kids, go and procreate, and leave people alone who choose to be childfree.

23 02 2008
Angel (20:30:07) :

I just came across your website today and love your writing. I noticed that you focus a lot on being child-free (love that term!). My husband and I decided to have children, it’s not for everyone and no one has the right to tell you it is. That’s just plain ignorant. If you’re happy with your life, why mess with it? Anyway, I look forward to exploring the rest of your site. I always enjoy a good read.

7 07 2008
Pootle (16:38:21) :

Hi Britgirl!
I’m a Britgirl too and happened to stumble across your site today. I’m SO pleased that I did. You’re an inspiration. My husband and I moved to the US from London over 2 years ago for his work and I too had a very successful life there; wonderful family and friends and a sucessful career in the business world. We’ve always questioned our decision to have children but when we moved to the US we decided I should give up my career and move to a ’sensible’ area and start a family. This is what people kept telling us we should be doing, especially at my age (!) and especially because my husband is an expat out here and would could be a better time?

We could never bring ourselves to lose the birth control … we started listening to the voices inside our heads telling us this wasn’t for us (after pushing it to the back of our minds for years) and after a depressing couple of years of losing sight of who I am, realising what we really want, and not listening to other people telling us ‘we’ll regret it’ I’ve decided it’s time to take control of MY life again! We no longer feel guilty about our decision and it’s time now to get my career back on track and move back to the city! Something I have felt awful about doing but now I know that was such a foolish mindset!

I’m so looking forward to reading your blog again, you sound just like the type of friend I’d enjoy meeting over a glass of wine! Thank you for making me feel that there’s not something wrong with me and it’s O.K to be childfree.

x

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