I am 43 year old, mother of an 9 year old, overweight and recently separated from husband. And I am trying to make changes to my life.....
I love cooking, spending way too much time on the internet, gardening, and also I just started making mosaics, I have a great deal of admiration for anyone who is artistic and wish I were too! doesn't stop me from trying.
I am also obsessive about stuff, but it doesn't last long, for example when I was growing my hair which is very thick and curly,(after having a buzz cut for the last 20 years) I had a phase where i would spend about 2 to 3 hours a day researching on the internet how to care for it, I got my hair to a bob length and I buzzed it off again, did I tell you that I love very very short hair?
I have also done the same with the mosaics, gardening, pastry making and so on... Some of these have been very successful and others were flops!
I am a perfectionist and I think I do give up on a lot of things because of that, if it is not perfect it is not worth it. unfortunately I can see this trait in my son.
I started my business almost 2 years ago, and it has been very successful almost immediately, I work from home.
I have been very lucky in my life and I am grateful for all the wonderful friends I have and the new chosen family I have made here. If I had to say what my biggest accomplishment is, it would be starting a new life in the US and learning to speak english as an adult and being pretty good at it, when I first arrived in the US, the first year I would go out with a translation dictionary, look up words in there and would try to converse that way!
I have not graduated from high school, but I don't tell people about that because I am ashamed of it. Even though I don't feel that my level of knowledge is lesser than somebody that has graduated and went to college, I am missing the diplomas and I am not too proud of that!
I became an American citizen in May 2007, so I could vote for Barack Obama.
I might or might not keep up with this blog, the problem is that I am not a very good writer and I am very self conscious about it...But I will try.
