Hi there! I am a thirty-something female living in Northern California. I grew up in the Bay Area of California, home of Apple Computer. My parents pointed Steve Jobs out a lot having business meetings at local restaurants, which didn’t mean much to me at the time.
As an young teen, my parents split and my mom moved my older sisters and myself to Florida to be closer to family. What a change! I was horrified that there was no mall within biking distance and it stormed daily. Eventually my sisters and mom trickled back to California leaving me behind. 17 years later, after completing college and getting laid-off from my first real job after 6 years, I moved to northern California to be closer to family, dragging my Florida-born fiancé with me.
My life has been a constant whirlwind since moving back to California over 2 years ago, I have more gray hairs than most 50-year-olds I think thanks to that. I can write books on dealing with the DMV and IRS among other things. The first job I got in the area was with a small, shady IT company run by a driven entrepreneur only needing 2 hours of sleep each night apparently. I worked 10 plus hours a day and many weekends without overtime and eventually got burned out and couldn’t get away from the company fast enough. I work for a wonderful company now that has a positive mission, a nice change after working for a small, profit driven company run by greedy, hot-tempered rednecks for too many years. I am a late bloomer, physically in my early thirties, but mentally probably still in my late twenties … maybe even younger.
I’ve been with my husband for over 11 years and I’m pretty sure I will never have kids. A decision I agonized and thought about a lot to say the least. Woman deciding not to have kids are more and more common today, but there are still people who’ll treat us like lepers. I’ve been called selfish and many people I tell my decision to just assume that I’ll change my mind in the future which I find interesting. I had to change dentists because of it and he was a great dentist. But he and his wife were just starting a late family, pregnant with 2nd baby at the time. He thought this was the greatest thing ever and insisted on convincing everyone he talked to. He just couldn’t accept that I didn’t want kids and tried to turn every appointment into an attempt to convince me otherwise. I can’t argue when the man has sharp objects in my mouth! However, I’m curious if he’ll be singing the same tune when his kids are teens. I have nothing against those that have kids, I respect parents a lot based on what I learned researching and weighing out the pros and cons of my decision. It’s a hot topic for me and something I’ll probably be writing about a lot.
A new hobby of mine is cooking, I love trying new recipes and finding new ways to make healthy meals taste good. I am kind of a health nut, I suppose a pretty common trait in California. I also like to exercise and find ways to make that more fun. About 2 years ago, we invested in a home gym to avoid tiring evening trips to the gym after a long work day and commute and that proved to be a good investment. Now, if I was just enough of a morning person to knock out a workout before work …
Aside from being an IT geek, I’m a wannabe writer and graphic designer. I love to tinker in Photoshop and design sites and graphics for friends. I dream of being a professional writer and/or designer someday. So this blog will mostly be writing about my chaotic mess of a life and constant quest to improve myself – maybe inspire others too.
