Some Stuff About Me
Hello…anyone? Anyone? Well, anyway…if you want to know a little about me, and why I’m writing this blog, I’ll give you just a bit of information: I am 47, I’ve been divorced almost 2 years…I’m a mother, daughter, friend, and grandmother to one special angel in Heaven. I have two beautiful, intelligent adult children. I have one furry angel …a shelter puppy named Pookie, who has me wrapped around her little paw.
I am continuing to make some changes in my life…just how extensive those changes will be…I’m not sure. I have trouble with procrastination…I make excuses very well….but I also know life is WAY too short to settle…in any area.
So, I’ll be discussing me (woohoo!), my life, what I want to change, how I want to do it…and I’m sure there will be rants and ponderings about many of the things that that life brings. So, y’all…this might not be pretty…but it will be REAL. Carry on.
Terri, You are quite an interesting writer. I really like the way you write. Have you read “The Amazing Adventures of DietGirl”? Type it into the web and read about it. This book was very motivating for me and she writes in a style that is similar to yours. I’m 51 and I have struggled with my weight since my first marriage. My first husband cheated on me too, only in a way that was very strange. I found out many years later that he had OCD and was a paranoid schizophrenic.
He came home one night, after we had been married about 6 months, shaking and crying, telling me he was in big trouble. (1975) He ran to the attic and pulled out all these hard-cor porn magazines. I didn’t even know they were there. Piles and piles of these magazines. He was running back and forth to the backyard and putting them in the burner out back. Back then you could still burn trash in your yard. I was shocked at the magazines but then he told me that he had “accidentally” hurt a girl that he had picked up hitchhiking. He took her to a back road and said his hunting knife had “accidentally” slid out from under the seat after he proposed that she have sex with him. This is when she jumped out of the car while it was moving. She broke her arm and her glasses. He then got her back in the car and drove her home because he got scared. Then he had the nerve to ask me to take money to her to pay for her doctor bills and broken glasses. I had just turned 18 and his crying and pleading with me worked and I forgave him and did as he asked. It was the start of 13 years of hell. He was crazy, crazy, CRAZY!!!! But I had loved him to start with and it hurt me so bad, what he did to me, that from that point on I started eating like a pig. I tried to loose weight many times and was successful about 4 times but always gained it back. The most I weighed was 289 in 1979 when my one and only son was born. I’ve been though hell and back. Married 3 times, 1 was annulled. Single for 7 years and now finally have a wonderful husband who loves me, supports me and makes me laugh instead of cry. This time has got to be different. I can’t afford at my age to be this weight. It is going to kill me. I can do this and so can you. By the way I’m on facebook as Laraine Zady if you are on there. Take Care!
Hi Terri,
Read your last blog “rose-colored glasses”. It reminded me of something I did years ago when my first marriage was ending. I became close, too close, to my boss. We talked a lot because he was unhappy in his marriage and I was unhappy in mine. I was talking divorce and he was constantly flirting with me, making me feel good about myself. My ego got the better of me and I briefly allowed the flirtation to flourish. His wife got wind of it and fired me. He never took responsibility for his part and blamed it all on me. This whole episode lasted only a few weeks but was horrible. I felt guilty for many years. I wrote her a letter to apologize but later found out that he intercepted the letter and she never got it. Thankfully, God has forgiven me and they are still together but it is a part of my life that I am not proud of. His wife was the smart one to see the world clearly and not under-estimate the power of mutual attraction. Take off the glasses because that’s the real world. P.S I have a great before and after picture on my last blog.(before and after weight pictures that is!) Too bad I couldn’t give you before and after pictures of my heart!