You should know up front this is about me. It is foolishly, selfishly, all about me. I've spent a lot of years hiding how I feel, what I was thinking, eating my anger. If you find a piece of yourself here, feel free to put up your feet and stay awhile. If you have learned something on your path, feel free to share. If you are looking for a place to spread hate or share ugly, this is not your bridge.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life
so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett
Who am I? I was valedictorian of my high school class then I dropped out of college. I joined the Air Force then got honorably discharged just 4 months after re-enlisting because I refused the alcohol treatment program. My colonel told me I'd be dead within a year. Since then, I've gotten a college degree, a few industry certifications, a couple good jobs and a few bad ones. My now ex-husband was my rock. He was at times the most understanding, supportive best friend anybody could ever have. At other times, he was the world's greatest asshole. He is still both those things. My very beautiful daughter is the epitome of love and grace, except when she isn't.
I had surgery on my back to remove a bone spur near L5/S1. Before I actually recovered from that, I broke my ankle. I'm still working out all the health problems I've caused for myself by stacking those 2 injuries. And, just for fun, I don't seem to be getting enough calcium because I think the bone spur is reforming. The end result is some level of pain daily. Because I'm a glutton for punishment, I donated a kidney to a friend. He is doing fabulous!! And that actually has been the easiest of my masochisms to heal from. Weirdly though, I still feel pain where my left kidney used to be when I get dehydrated.
That's the book cover biography. What follows is the day-to-day minutiae that is my continuing educational journey as I figure out who and what I want to be when I grow up. Grab your smokes, your adult beverage and your football helmet. We only live once and so I intend to figure out how to do right.
God never intended for us to work, pay bills and fall apart watching bad television. Life is meant to be an adventure and I mean to figure out how to make the rest of my life better than any movie script.