About Me

I am a business owner, wife, sister, aunt, daughter, niece, friend. I am in my 30's and broke. I have resisted the recession, worked my butt off, took on multiple jobs,and still... Can't seem to come out ahead.
I have meditated, did daily affirmations, prayed, not prayed, relaxed, stressed, made changes and still... the bank account sits at zero.

I was widowed when I was in my early 20's, and I thought that was the worst time in my life. In retrospect, it just made life since then, that much harder. Harder because I don't take the petty stuff for granted anymore. I believed that I could live on love, and love alone...
4 months after I was widowed, I was laid off. Ha! Not much to do but laugh!

I struggled for 8 months... grieved, a lot. Lived off unemployment, which was probably the best thing I could have ever done for myself. There were days when I could not, or would not move any further than from the bed to the couch. Jerry Springer was actually entertaining. I spent a lot of time on my computer - the internet world was much more entertaining than my own-- and it wasnt quite as lonely.

I often felt like I was going crazy. I was in my own little lonely world. My mother in law was my best friend at the time... she (who lived next door) and the crazy old lady across the street, were some of my closest confidants...
(Like I said, I thought this was one of Life's Biggest Jokes).

But somehow, I was able to find a light at the end of the tunnel and get a little bit of reprieve, until Life decides to send the next train down the tracks in my direction...