So, here goes…

Hello. Writing about myself, well it is weird. I like to throw a party, I enjoy good food and beverages, I have done a lot of stuff people think are extraordinary, I am a fiancé, I am a geriatric toddler mom, I am a step mom, I am a business owner, I am a career woman, I am at times the most imperfect human being, I can be overly creative but don’t consider myself an artist and can’t draw to get out of a real life escape attempt, I want to remodel everything, I have too much vision. Years ago, I had a travel blog. It wasn’t popular like people would recognize me, but it did start to get popular. I shut it down as I felt people were misunderstanding me, then in recent years I realize even if I am talking to someone in person and trying to get them to understand, they still don’t. I enjoy writing, people tend to find it amusing, and often a lot of amusing things happen to me. So here I am.

I have had an interesting professional career, which at a young age put me on a huge learning curve and in some odd places like a safety professional in Equatorial Guinea; to sitting on an FDA panel for developing regulations for nanotechnology. Not to age myself, but there is a lot, and I mean a lot, of things in between on that career front.

I have traveled not continuously throughout my life, but in intensive spurts. I have traveled solo and with others. My travel diversity is pretty wide. Let’s just say I didn’t just go to Hawaii every year, year after year, and actually have never yet been to Hawaii. I have eaten Balut in the Philippines and Whale in Iceland (which had instant karma). I wouldn’t say I am food adventurous. Sure, I am willing to try anything; however, what I would say about me is that I am local adventurous. I will try any local custom or tradition to have the full experience.

As many moms would say, it is the most challenging job I have had. The physical part of it, personally is not hard for me, it’s the mental. I often feel that I am not doing a good job. I feel that my Type A personality and need to get a lot of things done hampers my qualities as a really good mom. More on that later. Being a bonus mom, is a completely different challenge and often ties for first place in which is harder, for those who know, know all the things I am referring to.

I, externally for many years was a very Type A individual. My spices were in a drawer in alphabetical order, my garage was labeled and organized before it became trendy. In later years and after kids, moves, remodels, and you name it, that part of me has had to not die, but be hidden, which is a never-ending strain on my mental health if I am being honest. But what was partially suppressed for many years was my creative side. I love theme parties, that is nothing new. I enjoy decorating and remodeling. My creative battles my get it done attitude on almost a minute-by-minute basis. As I type this, I am thinking about how much time this is taking, and how many millions of other things I have to do.

I am stubborn and hard working. When I say I am going to do something, you better believe I am going to do it. That is why this blogging is so scary for me. When you build something, you see the result. With blogging, I guess the result is followers, but I am not even sure that is what I am going for and to be honest the thought of a lot of followers is actually very intimidating. So, what is my goal? I don’t really know.

So, this is my introduction. I have wanted to restart a blog for many years, but fear kept me back and time also. I am not a niche person, so this won’t be niche blog like all about momming, or all about traveling, or all about eating. I used to joke years ago when I was single, when I was part of a hiking group and a beer group during the same period, that I was like goldilocks, nothing was ever just right. All the guys in the hiking group were too focused on fitness and had no other interests; and all the beer people were just focused on beer and had no other interest. I like so many things, I never really fit into any “box”. So, this blog won’t fit into the categorization of a specific topic. This will just be about me as I navigate paddling my canoe around the tumultuous at times, waters of my life.