Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself!

Hello all you faceless masses, sitting at your computers, aimlessly searching for something to amuse you other than cats doing backflips into fish tanks.

My name is Dana. I am a 35, almost 36 year old stay at home mother of an 8 year old girl named Taylor, and a 5 year old boy named Dylan. I have a third "child" if you will. I married him 11 years ago. Chuck is his name and saving lives is his game. He is a paramedic you see.

As for me, other than the above, I am lost and stuck at the same time. We live out in rural Oregon. Chuck works 40 minutes away and we have one car. So I am stuck here in this house for days on end with children, whom I love, by the way, but at times I just want to lock in their rooms for a couple of hours to give me a second to breath. That is the stuck part.

The lost part of my equation is that, because I was an idiot in my twenties and partied the short time I was in college, instead of studying, I have no idea what I want to be when I grow up. Meaning I am about 15 years behind schedule. Dylan will be starting school this year, but only half days, so I have this year to find direction. Lets just say that I am holding onto that magic compass from the "Pirate" movies and have no idea what I want, so the needle is spinning in circles so fast it is making me dizzy.

Add to all this that even though my husband saves actual human beings, he only makes $15.00 an hour. So we are barely scrapping by and he is having to get a second job. I can't work right now, because all I could get is some "you want fries with that" job and all that would do is pay daycare, if we were lucky. And to quote Ferris Bueller "It still wouldn't change the fact that I don't have a car."

So I thought that I would start this blog. Maybe challenge myself intellectually a little. Get things off my chest and hopefully get that compass arrow to slow down somewhat.

I plan on ranting about politics, current evens, movies, pop culture and life in general. And of course there will be plenty about my children and husband. So for now thank you for reading and talk to you all tomorrow.

Sunday, August 17, 2008