Introducing bex-dk

I hate this sort of thing. I hate talking about myself almost as much as I hate being in pictures. You're lucky you can sorta tell who I am from my profile picture...

I grew up in PA in the US and finished my college degree over there before moving to Denmark. I've been living abroad since then, but I only have US citizenship.

I am one of those scatterbrained people who has a zillion different interests and always seem to have several projects going at a time (and sometimes difficulties finishing them). One thing that hasn't changed since I was 3 years old is reading. I read and devour books at a pace most people find overwhelming. Generally I say I average about a book a day, but since I've been pushing to get some ratings and reviews onto Goodreads, it seems that I have exceeded this pretty well. Since such a high reading rate is hard for people to believe, I stuck in a 365 book reading goal for 2017... You can check my status at (https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/8451405 but beware I am often behind posting reviews.

Together with my husband, I have 7 horses... A quarter, 3 paints, and 3 shetland ponies. I've found since my health got really bad some years ago that riding keeps me able to walk.

We additionally have two border collies. Molly, the older one, works as a service dog for me when I need her.

Once upon a time, I worked as a manual editor in the IT field, but I had to give that up when my health failed. These days I only "work" at a very slow pace in my hobby non-business (http://www.rrww.dk) doing rope and leather work, but my site is only in Danish. I'm mostly bilingual, although my Danish isn't at a professional level and my pronunciation has issues.

I also do some hobby photography, especially birds and flowers, but I'm not that good. A lot of my photography these days is taken especially for my family. My grandmother, who is 101, has a nifty frame that lets her family send her pictures, so I try to show her what life is like in Denmark. Occasionally I manage to shoot something that might be interesting for other people.

Since we have the aforementioned animals and I'm on disability and my husband is retired, I also know a bit about living on a budget. Of course that is easier in DK than in the US since we have health care, government pensions, etc.

I fear that my posting may get excessively annoying for some followers, because I have so many diverse interests. So don't worry if you choose not to follow me, but just to drop by once in a while when I post something you find interesting. I won't be offended. We will have to see if I can manage to write anything vaguely interesting for people-who-don't-really-know-me.

My thanks to anyone who managed to get through all this. I know I somewhat broke etiquette by not posting a picture of myself with a note with my username, but as I said before, I HATE having my picture taken! I hate even more letting anyone see pictures with me in it. If someone really needs me to verify I am me, perhaps we can settle on posting a pic of a dog or horse with a hand written sign? Or posting some of my work with a note next to it?

I really hope I figured out this tagging thing properly. If not, I apologize in advance.