[SnowySurface]

I guess I'll start with the basics.

My name's Katrina and I'm 26 years old. My birthday is August 1 and my favorite color is purple. (So it figures that purple bettas are insanely rare. XD) I currently work for a pharmacuetical company as a Analytical Stability Scientist (I'm at the bottom as Scientist 1 at the moment). I moved out on my own recently, so I'm still getting used to budgetting for rent, food, utilities, ect. But I finally fill a living room with betta fish and bunnies(coming soon-ish eventually).

My hobbies are reading, music, knitting, betta fish care (obviously ^_^, MMORPGs and video games, LARP, and travel. I have been interested with Japanese culture since middle school and study abroad in Nagoya Japan for a semester in colege. Now I'm slowly regaining the fluency I lost over the few years since graduation and will (hopefully) be fluent one day. Once I can speak Japanese, then I will try to figure out what I want to do with it. :lol:

I got into bettas because I impulsed brought African Dwarf Frogs my first Betta my Freshmen year of college. Rocky and Surface only lasted two weeks because I brought them sick without knowing it and wasn't told how to properly care for them. So me being the genius that I was at the time brought Sparkle from the same exact seller. Now I realize that selling bettas outside in unheated 1/2 bowls is cruel. But I believed the guy when he said bettas didn't need heaters or a lot of water. I'm not only surprised that Sparkle lasted as long as he did under my care but that I was stupid enough to listen to that guy a second time after his advice worked so well for the dwarf frogs. :roll:

So Sparkle was the beginning of an obsession with betta fish and the realization that I should research my pets before buying them. Before this site, I was using betta books and BettaTalk.com for betta info. I still hop on BettaTalk from time to time but I've mainly been here since joining the forum. :-D

 

[Oldfishlady]

Nice to meet you Katrina.....happy you are enjoying the forum and have found it helpful....and what an interesting job......sometimes I wish I knew a second language...

 

[Romad]

Hi Katrina,

I'm glad that you found the info. necessary to keep a healty betta here

I would have failed miserably with a lot of my freshwater friends without this forum so I know exactly what you're talking about here...

 

[dramaqueen]

Hi Katrina. It's nice to have an opportunity to get to know you better.

 

[Rosso1011]

Nice to meet you, Katrina. Wow, learning japanese. That sounds difficult. Glad you are finding more success with betta keeping. Thanks for the introduction!

 

[tpocicat]

Welcome to the forum Katrina. Welcome to the forum.
I, too joined when I found that almost every time I searched on a Betta topic, this forum kept popping up!

 

[onefish2fish]

hi katrina

what are mmorpgs? lol

 

[Salamandair]

Nice to meet you, Katrina!

What kind of MMORPGs do you play? I'm a fellow MMORPG player myself!

 

[mardi]

Hello, Katrina!

It was really nice reading your into, since we're both the same age and leo's. I've also moved into a new place recently and would really love to have a Bunny someday as well.

Welcome! And I hope you don't mind but, if I can figure out how to, I'd like to add you as a friend on here.

 

[dramaqueen]

Go to her profile page and on the right side there will be something that says befriend Snowtsurface and go from there.

 

[SnowySurface]

I didn't mean to leave this thread for dead so long. It's the end of the year so work is pretty busy and I'm getting last minute gifts read yfor Christmas. I hate when I have to speed knit gifts at the last second, but everything has come out well so far. So, delayed thanks for all the responses.

MMORPGs are Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games. I only play World of Warcraft at the moment because my laptop can only handle so 1 or 2 high capcity games. BUt I'm also going to play Diablo 3 when it comes out. I put a few post about it in the Gamer Thread already.

Japanese is hard to learn because the grammar is very different from English and more similar to German grammar. I do better with writting in Hiragana and Katakana than Kanji and I stillhave a thick accent. So no one who speaks Japanese as a first language can understand me. When I was abroad, it was arkward when I said something in Japanese to a native speaker and all the native speaker would do is smile, nod politely, and then look for someone who could speak to me in English. I really have to work on my pronounciation. XD

My profile is also dead in the water. I have to fill that out one day and figure out how to upload my photos into my albumums. I may have to wait and see if I get the new camera I asked for this Christmas. It should make uploading pictures onto this site easier. My current camera is over 4 years old so it just isn't designed to connect with the web at all. T_T

BUt on a lighter note. I am on vacation starting the 22nd, so I guess I'll tiddy up all my profile info (and make an avitar) then. In theory...if I don't get distracted by something else. ^_^;

 

[Edifiler]

Hey i heard that you like purple bettas? I have a purple and black male VT His called peaches.

 

[SnowySurface]

Yeah. Purple is my favorite color so my favorite color betta is purple. Eventually I will get lucky and find a purple betta in a pet store. I've noticed a lot of different colors lately in the pet store near me, so it is a possibility. :3