25 Things About Me
1. I was once a foster parent when John and I first got married (she was 15), and I thought I could find Amanda Lester on Facebook. I haven’t found her...yet, but I've found everyone else that ever meant anything to me.
2. I love to laugh, and spend my day trying to see humor in what I find to be my purgatory. I love to LOL and can make myself laugh by creatively expressing what I know that everyone else is thinking but is still “being Kool”. Without a doubt “The Office” makes me laugh. John and I say we’re going to convert our basement to the set of The Office and get Dunder Mifflin coffee cups. My favorite episode is Moroccan Christmas. I met John at “the Office”.
3. I used the F bomb daily as a noun, verb, adjective, and adverb and can conjugate it with ease and expertise. I’ve also replaced individual’s first and last names with it. I probably owe my kids a million dollars for its frequency of use, but I have a great life insurance policy, so I promise them that “I’m good for it”. The best part is that my kids don’t every say it unless we’re singing the “Name Game” and using “Chuck”.
White Girl Problems®
White Girl Problems® It’s not really registered, but it makes it funnier.
Can I believe that I haven’t updated this place in two years? Shouldn’t come as a surprise, I haven’t sent out my infamous Christmas letter either. If I am completely honest, I just haven’t been inspired. Something really shitty happened almost 3 years ago and I am STILL waiting for our legal system to put the dude in jail. What sucks is that he was like a brother to us. Another day I shall share that story. But, hence the silence.
In the meantime, life has been meaningful. Truly turned around since I escaped to my island on a lifeline. John’s business finally took off and hasn’t slowed down. Guess that’s what happens when you just let go. I never did go back to work. Maybe it was the Firefly talking, but when the consulting firm called me as I was sitting on the beach with my three kids and the recruiting director told me that the only job they had for me would require 100% travel, instead of throwing myself into the surf, I looked out into the water and saw my three children swimming in the place that they love and surrendered to being a mom. Never going back to work. Just going to have to figure out something else to do.