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#zooregistrarsrock

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I am a zoo registrar. Cue the blank looks and simple nods of appreciation while secretly they think “I have no idea what that means”. Most people don’t know what that is, I didn’t. I remember vividly the day I learned what it was and decided that I was going to be that person, come hell or high water. It was my first semester in community college. I had enrolled in the Zoo keeping Technology program because I didn’t want to work in the domestic pets’ veterinary field anymore but I didn’t exactly want to be a zookeeper either. I thought maybe I could get into ambassador animals or education, maybe something in the administrative offices. I was sitting in my Intro to Zoo Careers class and our instructor introduced Randy Barker, registrar of Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Here was a bear of a man with a larger than life personality. I thought to myself, what the heck is a registrar and why hadn’t I heard of it? My head was full of gobs and gobs of animal/zoo related facts and trivia. He introduc...
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#thankfulnovember

There has been a trend taking shape over the last few years on social media of people posting for the entire month of November what they are thankful for. They post something new every single day that they are thankful for. I started participating the first year I found out about it but as often happens, it slowly fizzled out after about a week. Life got busy, things came up and I found myself forgetting to do it. It became a task or chore and suddenly it was difficult to find something to post that I was thankful about that sounded both wise and sentimental. My human nature took over and as ashamed as I am to admit, I felt like I had to compete with people to have the best "thankful" post. So I stopped posting. I think it's great that people are taking time to stop and think about what they are thankful for but should it really be limited to only one month a year? I've grown and changed a lot since turning 40 and the biggest thing I have learned is to stop wanting ...
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I'm one of THOSE people.....

Life continues to be a never ending journey of experiences and learning. I thought, more than once, that I would figure it all out if I just reached this goal or got that job or made it to this age but you know what? You really never figure it out. You have AHA moments where you think you did and as soon as you decide you're done something comes along and shows you that you were completely and utterly wrong about it. Fourteen years ago I decided to accept Jesus into my heart and become a Christian. I sincerely believed it would fill the gap in my life, I would be whole again. I would be able to be a better role model for my son. I would attract the perfect, godly man because I was finally a part of something, I was in their clique and they had to accept me. It worked, or so it seemed, for a long time. I got married, my kids were happy. I had a wonderful husband who was the epitome of good and clean and godly. He prayed all the time for everyone, he never cursed, he was Mr. Goody-t...
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Letting the Real Me Out!

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I'm fat. I am tired of the terms used to make it sound more attractive. I am not pleasantly plump, fluffy, curvaceous, vertically challenged, full- figured, or any other adjective that society has come up with. Yes I am this way partly because of my own bad habits but also because my body doesn't work right. I am in the process of changing my habits and becoming more active, at least as much as my aching knees will let me. I want to be around for a long time, I want to be a good example for my children. I want to live the kind of life I always imagined. I want to let the skinny girl inside me out to have her turn at having some fun! Why is she writing such depressing stuff, you may be asking yourself...well I started out with this because I am excited to be moving into a new phase in my life. I have decided to go forward with weight loss surgery! I am hoping to have my surgery in the fall. I have decided on the VSG or Gastric Sleeve. I have spent over a year researching things...
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Shattered Glass

I had a strange yet beautiful dream last night. In my dream there was an artist but I couldn't see them. There was a large piece of glass...the edges were perfect, maybe a few blemishes here and there but for the most part intact. The internal part of the glass was completely and perfectly shattered. You know how glass just spiders and cracks every which way. It creates the most abstract patterns. Well the artist took drops of colors, bold and bright colors, and dropped them in various places on the cracks. Then all of a sudden the glass starts to spin...slowly at first then faster and faster but then just as suddenly it stops. The result is this breathtaking panorama of colors. They have mixed and melded into new shades and some have stayed the same shade but they all blend and work in perfect harmony. Now I don't know if this kind of artwork is out there somewhere or if it can even be done....the paint traveled through the cracks in the glass, driven by gravity but the result...
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Hello....Again

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I grew up listening to Neil Diamond music and I just love this song. I think the lyrics are very appropriate for what is to come in our lives very soon.  We just found out that Tom is being transferred to Virginia. He will be on the USS Cole and will be going out to sea on a regular basis. In fact there is a possibility he will have to leave within a few days/weeks of us arriving in November. So not only will we be living in a state that neither of us have ever visited....we will not have any family or friends when we get there and I will possibly be alone with my children for the holidays. To say I am not a little nervous or scared would be a lie but I believe the years I spent as a single mother helped prepare me for this. That's the funny thing about God and his plans...when you are going through something you can't understand why He would ever make you go through such difficulties, heartache, etc but had it not been for those years I wouldn't have been prepared for what...
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It's Been A Long Time!

So I finally decided to take a look at my blog and realized it had been almost a year since my last post....again!  I remember very distinctly promising myself that when I posted last time I was going to be faithful about posting at least once a month.  It's amazing how time gets away from you. So we have been busy living our lives out here in New England.  It is a much different environment than Colorado.  If I didn't know for a fact that this was also part of the United States, there are some days when I would totally believe I was in a foreign country.  They even talk different out here!  I am going to school now at night for Medical Billing and Coding, which I must say is about as fun as a dentist appointment.  Actually it's not too bad, I am flying through my classes with high grades so I guess I shouldn't complain too loudly.  We have made a lot of adjustments living out here.  Namely the time change from back home.....we go to bed so ...
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