It's Mother's Day.

nobody@vox.com(JennyExiled) — Sun, 11 May 2008 11:00:14 -0400

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

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QotD: Meaningful Words

nobody@vox.com(JennyExiled) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:19:57 -0400

What is your favorite quote and why?

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - Tolstoy

It's the opening line to Anna Karenina, a literary character I identify with far too much.

Especially when you consider that she ends up under a train at the end.

Heh.

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Jenny, Exiled

It's Mother's Day.

QotD: Meaningful Words