About Me

Things have changed a bit since I first published my About Me page. I left my original post below; but, here’s a quick update on a few of the facts:

• I’m now 36.
• We finished remodeling the house we were living in at the time (the same house I had grown up in) and sold it. Now we’re in what I can only describe as my dream home–at least, for now.
• I had another baby…a little boy who I named after my first dad.
• My original goal of writing one post a day for 365 consecutive days was completed on January 15, 2009. I still write regularly enough, but not every single day, although I did do it for one whole year.
• I’m now a columnist for our local daily newspaper and love when I receive emails from my readers who want to tell me they liked what I wrote.
• I still don’t have a picture of myself that I like enough to post.

My original About Me entry (published on 1/03/2008):

About me…hmmm…I have no idea what I want to say about myself. I’m 35. I’m a mom and a wife. I live in the house I grew up in—my husband and I bought it from my dad three years ag0. Even though I am much older than all of my three siblings (9 years, 14 years, and 15 years), I am very, very close to them.

I hate starting sentences with the word ‘I’ but what can you do when it’s about you?

I have a full-time job in Marketing…yawn. I have a shitload of friends. A huge family. I have two dads. One who died two months before I turned four and the other who I got when I was eight and he married my mom (they’re divorced now). I don’t call him my stepdad, he’s my second dad.

I feel blessed in many ways, but I still get pissed when I should just relax. I read a lot. I have a shitload of magazine subscriptions and buy books like it’s my job. I love magazines almost as much as I like using the word shitload. My home office and where I am typing right now used to be a bedroom that my youngest sister and brother shared when they were toddlers; they’re going to be 20 and 21 this year.

I’ve committed myself to write one post a day for a year starting January 15, 2008. The goal: to spend a year getting into the habit of daily writing and finding my voice so that soon I will get compensated handsomely for writing what I want when I want.

I’m not nearly comfortable enough with this to post a picture yet.