JenL

It's now official!! I married a truly wonderful man on Christmas Eve (2012) after being divorced for 19 1/2 years. I absolutely love being married, contrary to my earlier convictions of never wanting to be married again. I love being able to come home to someone at night that I want to be with and being able to say "my husband" now...

I work at a local school district as a teacher's aide (I've had this job for 20 years now). I've worked with a variety of children over the course of the years, but would love to use my teaching degree, rather than having it collect dust!! My second job is managing a low-income apartment complex, which I've done for 12 years now. Doing this job is like doing one's own income tax, but for 16 units, ALL THE TIME!! Low income apartments are forever changing tenants and they constantly seem to be in upheaval over something!! Some nights, I feel like I could get buried in an avalanche of paperwork!

My daughter is a full-time student at a local community college; I believe she is close to being done with an associate's degree in business management. Hopefully, by December of 2013, she will have it (it sure would be nice!!). Things have been tough recently for her...

My husband is a school bus driver at another local school and has been a bus driver for about 23 years. He also is a bass guitar player for a local band, called Knuckleheads; they play a mix of rock and roll and heavy metal songs. He is going to resurrect an old band of his called JAB here pretty soon. He's busy trying to contact the old group and get thing set up for it!

My step-daughter is living about 20 minutes away in a small town. She has a son that turned 1 on Christmas Day, 2012, and he is absolutely adorable. He's fun to be with and I am always excited when they come to visit.

UPDATE: There's now another addition to our household, as of the end of March, 2013.... my husband and I have adopted a basset hound from the local humane society. His name is Bo and he is a little over a year old. We're not quite sure why is previous owners gave him up, buet we have a speculation... Bo has a slight limp in his right front leg. His upper bone stopped growing before it was supposed to and is slightly bowed. Also, upon the Humane Society taking an x-ray of the leg, they noticed the signs of onset of arthritis.... :( puppy arthritis!! He's adjusted really well to our house and absolutely LOVES the attention that he is getting!

Some songs that are out now are not too bad, but my favorite has from the 80's (when I was growing up!). Some of my favorite singers include, like I said, the "big-hair bands" (GNR, Poison, Motley Crue) and Cher. I've gotten hooked on the Hair Nation Channel on Sirius Satellite as well as the 80's on 8, which I've got in my car. I've had it so long that I really don't know if I could ever switch back to regular FM radio!!

Pretty Woman, Moonstruck, Sleepless in Seattle, all Star Trek movies, the X-Files movies, the Twilight series (go Team Jacob!)

X-Files, Star Trek (original series, TNG, Voyager), MASH, Cheers, Night Court, Smallville

My husband has gotten me hooked on Pawn Stars, Operation Repo, Restaurant Impossible... gee what else was there? I know I'm missing some! Some of the events that occur in those shows are so BIZARRE... but pretty comical!

I used to love cross-stitching, but haven't done that in a really long time!! SO, I like to grill outside while reading a good book or magazine with a drink in hand, of course. I collect sunflowers; I've downsized some of what I had when I moved into our house. I'm currently thinking of where I can put the things I haven't put out yet!! I really hate to put them in the garage sale that we need to have this spring (the garage is trashed!!) so I better get busy looking! Not sure if this means looking for places to PUT the sunflowers out at or looking to see what I can part with right now!

There are several books that I consider "easy reads", meaning if I have a few hours, I can finish these books off really fast. These include: Danielle Steele, Mary Higgins Clark, and Carol Higgins Clark. If anyone has any other suggestions for good books, please let me know. I'm on the lookout for more books to read! Contact me for suggestions!

I hate to do this, but stated that I would do this in the swaps, so here goes:

ErikaG - Shared Journal Experiment #14. She did NOT send or reply to any messages that I sent to her for her immediate attention a week after the send deadline, nor did she contact the person she was to send to.

raeaz - Shared Journal Experiment #16...Same as above....

driftwood -

michelyn38

sweetsweetlife - Shared Journal Experiment #22.... the gal that was supposed to receive this has attempted to elicit a response from her in regards to the whereabouts of the journal

wikkedlilgrrl - Shared Journal Experiment #24 as well as possibly another one before that. The partners have tried to elicit a response to these 2 swaps with 3 weeks late in sending

THIS LIST HAS BEEN PASSED ON TO THE NEXT COORDINATOR OF THESE SWAPS!!