I Am Me

• I am 30 years old, and I don't feel like that's old, but I'm aware I'm not young, either.


• I am intelligent, take pride in that intelligence, but don't shove it down people's throats.


• I've done a lot of jobs in my life, from executive to stripper, and a lot in between, and I regret none of those paths. I am now working on a new one, which I feel is the right one.


• I love to laugh, often, and at stupid things, and that's ok.


• I am a mother to a wonderful child. I am a devoted, loving, firecely fighting, very involved, completely enraptured mother to my wonderful child.


• I am raising a child who is sweet, hysterical, happy, determined, and downright magnificent. And wonderful.


• I am a parent alone, and I am ok with this. He is too.


• I am an unabashed dork. I like Hello Kitty, Jim Henson, and Tim Burton. I obsess over all three (ok, the latter two more than the former).


• I am a proud geek. I love my video games, board games, and comic books, I'm getting into anime (damn you, OB) and my close friends are from an internet site.


• I am also a nerd. I love studying the brain, play chess, and have lively conversations about robots and emergent theory.


• If I laugh hard enough, I have snorted. Screw you, I'll just laugh harder.


• I am an artist, a crafter, a writer. I love being covered in paint and hotglue, and typing out my soul.


• I love to cook, and am take pride in my talent. I will reach out and learn even more new things about this hobby as I expand my social circle.
  
  
• I have no fashion sense.


• I hate being a woman because of the above, and my utter confusion by makeup and beauty products in general.


• I love being a woman because I like wearing heels, and think skirts are great, and I like to smell nice.


• I am a ninja and a pirate. Or at least a pirate's wench.


• I am terrified of falling in love, but I do have so very much to give.


• I may not like myself right now, but I am determined to fix that. Both mentally and physically I am reshaping my core.


• I am a fierce and loyal friend, and am surrounded by fierce and loyal friends who inspire me every day.
  
  
• I really have collected some amazing people around me, and my heart swells with joy when I think of all of these people. I strive now to show them how much I appreciate their existence.
  
  
• I am exploring a great big world around me, and loving every minute of it. I am meeting new people, going to shows, learning new things, and planning an awesome future for myself and my child. For just us.
  
  
• I've discovered recently that I like beer, and that little fishfry place next to Neumo's.
  
  
• I may be late in getting back into school, but the direction I am taking is more right for me, and drives me more intensely than any path I had thought of wandering down prior.
  
  
• I have weird taste in music, but I am at the age where I can say "I like what I like" and totally get away with that.
  
  
• I have been treated horribly in my past two relationships, and understand now that there's only so much blame I can take for this before I have to realize the other people were just...dicks.
  
  
• I am happier than I have ever been at this moment in my life, more comfortable with who I am, and emerging from the shell of pain a better, brighter, stronger individual. I hated what happened, but now am grateful for the release of my soul.