Vickie

About me:

.. My name is Vickie and I live in Cow Town, (Calgary, AB) Canada. I'm originally from Edmonton (Edmonton FTW!) and I've spent 7 wonderful, life-changing years up in the NWT, in Fort Smith and Yellowknife. I'm here in Calgary to continue my illustrious career as a student and I'm hoping to get accepted into the University of Calgary next fall to continue working for my BSc in Astrophysics. That's right baby, I'm gonna be a rocket scientist!

When I'm not melting my brain at school, I'm a Gamer, straightforward as that. I'm a Nintendo Girl forever, but I still love my good ol' bulky 1st gen PS-2. I'm an on-again-off-again online gamer, my peak periods are usually spent on IRE's "Achaea: Dreams of Divine Lands" text MUD but I have dabbled quite extensively in Conquer Online, Ragnorok, Maple Story and Gunbound, to name a few.

I'm diabetic but you wouldn't know it unless I told you. I'm a lover of fine food and I try to keep my diabetes under control with my sports filled life. I am a soccer fanatic (I play goal!) and hope to keep being involved with it in the future, either as a amateur player or coach. I am a martial arts enthusiast but limited resources where I've lived for the past 5 or 6 years has kind of subdued my participation somewhat. I'm an appreciator of old school kung fu movies and classic fight choreography though!

I'm a knowledge sponge and I'm always wondering or contemplating something. My bookshelves (you know you might have a problem when you have multiple bookshelves filled with all your own books...and you're only 17!) are filled with fact books, encyclopedias, fiction, non-fiction, and biographies. I've taught myself (among many other things) how to juggle, do yoga/pilates/tai-chi, build a bookshelf (I haven't yet, amazingly), and use a divining (dee-v-eye-ning) pendulum. I have an obsession to be in the know about every little thing. Can you guess I'm great at trivia?

I have a big sister, Marivic, whose 10 years older than me and idolize of course! I never had to deal with the evil big sibling scenarios my friends all had to. I can't wait to move down to live with her, I hope I make her proud! She's married to the most awesome brother-in-law ever, Clifford. He's the sweetest and I'm so glad my first actual brother is him! The closest thing I've had to an actual brother is my cousin Stefan. We've known each other forever and I can honestly say he's one of my best friends. He's as lazy as I am and a pretty smart guy. He's a few months younger than me but as big as an ox, so I save him from his smart-alec mouth and he stands bodyguard, looking menacing (Which, if you knew him, is a look as genuine as paper pants)