Fat, fifty-six years old, with no job and everything is falling apart. I’m just weeks (maybe a few months) away from being a divorcée. Great! Every women’s dream to face her golden years alone.
I invite you to come with me on my journey to create a new life. It’s not going to be easy because I’m nearly penniless, unhealthy, waaaaay passed my prime and not exactly what you’d describe as an “asset to society”. In other words, I’m a basket case. Actually I was a basket case BEFORE this divorce situation so now you could describe me as “a basket case on steroids”.
There’ll likely be a lot of pissing and moaning in my posts but I promise that I’ll try to find silver linings. There’s always something good in each day (like discovering some of last year’s Halloween candy lost way back in the junk drawer) and I’ll always write about it to equalize the positive with the negative.
Right now I’m afraid; really afraid of a future alone!
My life wasn’t supposed to go this way. I had a great husband, awesome kids, beautiful home and a secure future. I thought I was winning the game of Life. EEHHHH! (Buzzer sound) “WRONG! Sorry you lose. You get some nice parting gifts: unpaid bills, empty accounts, and a lifetime supply of loneliness.“
Anyway, I will use this blog as therapy to get myself back in the game. I used to be healthy, happy and fun to be around. I enjoyed life and the challenges that came with it. I know the old me is in here somewhere and I’m going to dig her out! I’ll share this journey with complete honesty. WARNING: things could get dirty (not in a sex way just in the emotional way).
If you decide to follow me, I would sure appreciate an occasional kind word of support. It might be the only silver lining I find that day.
Postscript: Technically speaking, I don’t fully understand how this blogging works. I haven’t figured out how to add images or why there’s double spacing between some of my paragraphs but not others; or why there’s double spacing at all! I’m going to click “publish” with NO IDEA of how it will appear to you. Give me some time and I will figure it all out. The blog will get better and look better eventually… huh, kinda like me.
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