# Introducing myself/practice

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-myself-practice/162143>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [March 17, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-myself-practice/162143 "2003-03-17T23:27:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Esmeralda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/22d042/32.png) [@Esmeralda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esmeralda)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-myself-practice/162143/1 "2003-03-17T23:27:26Z")

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I’m venturing away from my two comfortable message boards ([JamieWhite.com](http://JamieWhite.com) and [SecondWivesCafe.com](http://SecondWivesCafe.com)) to meet some new people and hopefully read some stuff I haven’t read before.

Hi. I’m Esmeralda. Four years ago, I married a man who had 3 daughters, and it’s the craziest fool thing I ever did :smack:. I love him, and the girls, who are now 11, 13, and almost 16, are great – no one could ask for better kids, step or otherwise – but I could sure do without his ex-wife :mad: . She’s a real piece of work, but I’ll reserve those observations for the Second Wives Cafe boards.

So to escape when I need to, I take belly dancing classes 2 nights a week, and I recently joined a professional, award-winning belly dance troupe. My other escape is wallowing in the unconditional love of my dog, Snickers, and my cat, Missy. They’re my babies, and thankfully I don’t have to share them with their “real” mother :rolleyes: .

I also love to go horseback riding; my plan is to belly dance until it’s no longer appropriate for me to do so, then I’ll buy a horse.

Other things that get me through the week: TV (Friends, CSI, Law & Order, Scrubs, Nick at Nite, Discovery Channel, “I Love Lucy”), reading, making scrapbooks, going out for coffee with my mom or my girlfriends, and enjoying the home my husband and I have put together in the last 4 years.

I love my job (textbook editor), but I often have long periods of down time between projects. I’m in one of those periods now, so here I am. Enjoy.

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-myself-practice/162143/2 "2003-03-18T05:56:06Z")

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Hi, **Esmeralda** , and welcome to the SDMB. You might find a few more responses to your post if this was in another forum for introductions like this, such as MPSIMS. Nice to see another new poster!

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-myself-practice/162143/3 "2003-03-18T12:34:06Z")

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Most people skip “testing” threads, as usually very little information is conveyed in them . . . they’re for testing board functions, checking signatures, and the like.

Since you apparently do have the board functions working for you, I am going to close this thread so you can start this again in a more appropriate forum.

Hope you enjoy your time with us here at the Straight Dope.

your humble TubaDiva  
Administrator