An Intro

My blog day 1.

After much thought, I finally decided to try to start a blog, so bear with me while I get the hang of this and get it looking all fancy smancy and pretty like.

I am a divorced mother of a beautiful 11 year old daughter. My X-husband does not have anything to do with either of us by his choice and that has probably been the hardest part of being faced with a very sudden and unexpected divorce - my daughter's hurt and abandonment through no fault of her own but more on that later.

I am originally from Massachusetts but now make my home in Florida and love it! No snow! Woohooo! I have not been home in over a year and I know that is not sitting well with my family right now and they are really pist but I have to do what I have to do for me and mine, in order to get to a better place and stabilize our lives so they will just have to understand...and if they don't then too damn bad, I have lived most of my life for what other people want and need and right now I have to do the same for me and my daughter. Whew, ok that mini-rant is now over. LOL

I work as an engineer but I am far too creative for that job....LOL..gets me in trouble everytime. I started out as a business major in college but accounting kicked my behind and I was doing bad in school, so I had to pick a new major. Which I was bummed about because I just knew I was going to be a marketing genius but there was just no way I could pass accounting and I was not up for the challenge back then. So the guy I was crazy over at the time ( though we were just friends) was an electrical engineering major. I figured well hell I can do that and get to spend more time with him - cool! Long story short, sometimes when you can't motivate yourself in the right direction, fate steps in and steers you where you need to be, by any means necessary. In my case it took a tall, dark, handsome frat boy to get me where I needed to be. I ended up Dean's list my first semester in the program and did not look back. LOL

But in my spare time I paint, draw, scrapbook, read, dance, sew, cook..all very unengineering like pursuits. LOL. Very unlike most of my co-workers thus I don't really deal with too many people outside of work. But it gives me time to focus on my daughter and she is a blog entry all in herself so maybe I will make that my next subject - my beautiful, smart, wacky, caring, silly child. I swear she keeps me going. I would have given up a long time ago if it was not for her. She has saved both my life and my sanity more than once and the least I can do in repayment is raise her in a safe, loving, supportive home.

Ok I am getting too mushy so it is time to sign out for now. I am looking forward to giving a peek into me and my world. I didn't think I would be comfortable with this but I feel that it will be ok.

peace, love & hairgrease
~CC