Introduction

I was reading something just yesterday about how too many bloggers blog, (say that five times fast), what's a seemingly "perfect" life, with kids that are darn well close to perfect, husbands that are "perfect" and lives that are, well...perfect. I don't quite know what to say about that. I know that I've read a lot of blogs where the houses seems to be like June Cleaver just whirled through on a housecleaning binge, kids are a little less rumpled than those I see on the street, (or in my house), husbands I'd like to talk to about their unmarried brothers and lives that seem to have way too much time spent on the good things rather than the practical things in life.

Kinda like fiction. Right. Or maybe I'm just jealous. Because my life is far from perfect. My kid is rumpled, my house is a mess, there's no husband in sight and I rarely seem to have time for the good things in life (even if I could afford them.). A couple years ago I had a blog, but circumstances required that I close it. Now I'm back under a new pseudonym, in a new blog, thinking about a slightly different focus.

I don't really know what it was about the past two years that has moved my self-definition from my glory days, to where I actually am today. I can definitely say that the last two years has been a reality check. Still is. When reality imposes itself upon your psyche, the psyche usually gives way. Which has brought me from my former early life glory to my current life reality.

I am an end-of-my-30s parent. Specifically a single parent of one girl child currently on the brink of teenhood. (God help me.) I also have a dog that's like a second child. We also have a cat, a hamster and a fish; but I'm not so attached to them. I just feed them. I'm working now at a temp job at a community college, where I'm trying to get a permanent job. I need to get my butt in gear and get back to school. I moved to my current location for the sole reason of going to school. So why am I not in school now? Long story.

I intend to blog as a parent. I want to do a bit of life and news commentary. I'm also starting to explore my spiritual side again, so you might find a bit of that here and there. Blogging helps me to explore thoughts I have that are right now a bit free range. It helps to focus and narrow it all down. Amazing what black and white can do.

Hmm. What else to tell you? Only other thing I can think of that might flavor all of this is that I am former military. That is a big part of where I come from, so I might not sound like the typical mom sometimes when I'm thinking from that. I think that's it though.

I hope you stick around to catch the ride. It's sure to be interesting. At least, that's the hope.

A'Parent