Jenny, Exiled

And while I am a mom and all that, Mother's Day is also the day I graduated from college.

In 1998.

Go ahead, do the math on your fingers. This is the last year you will have enough fingers for all of the years because I graduated 10 years ago.

And honestly, I'm pretty okay with how those 10 years have gone. I spent five of those 10 years married to my now estranged husband. I spent six years working for a company I probably never should have left, but I did. I spent three months living in Tunisia. I've spent the last four years being a mom to a really great kid. I've traveled and seen some amazing things. I bought a bar and helped to keep it open for two years now. And I've spent the past several months working in a challenging and often exciting and certainly frustrating new field.

I was never one of those people with a plan. If you had asked me on my graduation day where I would be in 10 years, I don't know what I would have said. My answer probably wouldn't have matched where I'm at now. But that doesn't really matter. What does matter, is that I'm happy with where I am. I'm happy with the ups and downs of the last 10 years. If you asked me today, I couldn't tell you what I will be doing in another 10 years. I just don't know. I haven't thought that far ahead. But I'm okay with that.

I'm happy now and I'm confident I'll be happy then, too.

It's a good feeling.

ETA: Picture of me on Mother's Day.

MILF Day

Show us your bible.
Submitted by Connie.

The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law

Norm Goldstein

Originally from my nedesque pal's blog.

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

Check out my "books to read" collection and make a recommendation. Much obliged.

nedesque

What is your "role" in your family?

Baa, baa.

What indulgence always makes your grocery list?

My mother would claim my entire list would qualify as "indulgences".

And that's why I'm poor.

I just found a bunch of stuff leftover from my previous (slightly pathetic) attempts at a Baltimore Vox meet-up.

Third time's the charm - so who wants to meet-up? When? Where? Why?

Holla!

Nim

I went to see Nim's Island today with my son and his father.

I didn't hate it. And that's why I owe Kelly an apology. I've been telling her for weeks how awful it looks and that I wouldn't go see it. But it was cute. Light, not too heavy and happy endings all around. Jodie Foster did a good job in a comedic role that was pretty far from her usual stridant, strong, woman against the world roles. Lots of animals to keep my son entertained. Beautiful scenery. His dad hated it, but he never likes anything, so... Yep. We liked it.