OK, I'll follow Triskell's example...

My name is Natalia Hawthorne, but everyone calls me Nat. (Except when I am in trouble. Then my husband calls me Natasha. Which is kind of silly, because this is the "friendly" version of "Natalia" in Russian.

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I'm 43 and live in Plano, Texas, USA. I am Russian and have lived in the US for almost 8 years. I am married to a wonderful guy named David. We don't have kids, but we have a dog, two cats and a bird. (Hubby got rid of our fish tank and the two turtles when I was away visiting Russia 3 years ago.

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My Green Card took a very long detour... with paperwork getting lost in the mail, data "disappearing" from the INS computers after they cashed our processing fees, interview notice never arriving, and lots of other fun stuff happening (with months and months of waiting in between), to the point that our local Senator had to be involved to get it done.

... So in the meantime (for almost 5 years!!

) I couldn't "do anything" (like getting a job or anything else), and that's how I discovered the wonderful world of the Internet.

It was a roller coaster of a learning curve with some exciting "ups" and pretty scary "downs"... But it's been worth all the trouble.

Sometimes I see people who are very new to the "online money-making world" complaining about certain things, and I can't help thinking that they still need to go through that roller coaster ride themselves, before they could really understand and appreciate those things.
I was a member of quite a few PTR's for about 3 years (2002'ish - 2005). Then I gradually refined my goal and started focusing on building a solid team of like-minded partners and creating a long-term residual income, while continuing to use PTR's as an "outside advertiser".
Now I have come a full circle and have returned to the "PTR world" both as a member and an advertiser, and I am hoping to bring something new and delicious to the PTR table. (It's still in the oven... can't offer it to you half-baked...)
Other than online things, my interests are music (I used to play the piano and the guitar once upon a time), singing, being a part of my church, cooking, doing all sorts of "arts-and-crafts", beadwork, and a recently discovered passion in computer image editing and graphic design... oh yeah, slideshow and short YouTube-style movie making, too.

Er... did I mention languages?

Nat
P.S. I am
NOT a rodent.