WordPress says I should tell my readers a little bit about me. There’s not a lot to tell – I’m an ordinary suburban wife and mother of two, living out the (probably) last quarter of her life in relative happiness and tranquillity. I don’t know how comfortable I am sharing my thoughts on a public domain. Can you really be honest in such a format? And that begs the question: Can you really be honest ANYWHERE?
I have two wonderful sons who are the light of my life, a terrific husband who has been with me for most of my life and is still handsome and funny, some loyal friends, and a VERY annoying but endearing cat named Phoebe. I am a gym rat and am kind of a fanatic about it — I came to this late in life, being an exercise dropout for most of my 54 years. But after I was laid off from my glorious paralegal job, I was bored and needed a focus other than going to Michael’s every day and filling the house with more and more craft projects. So my husband said “Do you want to join the gym?” I said okay, not very enthusiastically, and it truly has changed my life. I go 5 – 6 days a week, do cardio and weight training, have tried yoga and pilates, and plan on trying some other classes as well. There is a community of people there whom I look forward to seeing when I go, and some of us have bonded. At least, I feel that we have. Not seeing some of those people now would leave a fairly significant gap in my life — although I know all things are fleeting and we can’t count on anything.
That’s another interesting thing about the gym — you’ll talk to someone day in and day out and look forward to seeing them, and you may not really learn their name for months. I have a good friend there whose last name I still don’t know, and it’s been five years. I wouldn’t know how to find this person in the phone book. Yet we are friends. It is an interesting environment, indeed, and somewhat unreal.
That leads to the last thing about me. I write. That is, I love to write and writing is how I cope with and understand the things that happen to me. I study human nature in the hope to improve my writing and people who know me should know that they might be used as characters in a story or book I’m writing (not that anyone would ever see it). But I find there is endless material for my fiction out there in the “real” world.
That’s enough for now, and certainly more than enough about me. I’ll be back later.
Hi, catgirl54!
Thanks for sharing a little about you. If you love to write, you will be an awesome blogger! I look forward to hearing more from you.
Btw, I’m impressed that you have become disciplined about exercising. I am 52 and still waiting fro that desire to kick in for me!
take care,
Jeanne
Jeanne – It helps that I don’t have an outside job right now. We’ll see how disciplined I would be if I was working full-time. Although being the caregiver for my two parents is sometimes a full-time job — like last year, when they were both in the hospital and then in rehab!