michelle

Hello There! I am a 43 yr old outspoken person with a silly streak. I always seem to be looking for fun, comfort, and pleasure in life. I am one of the few people who got married as a teen and is still married---to the same spouse, lol! I have three kids, 23, 21, and 19 yrs old. They all still live at home and attend local colleges. Luckily for all of us, all my kids are a parent's dream and never got into any trouble. Probably because I was a full time mom when they were little and played with 'em alot. I'm Bipolar type 2, and have various medical problems, and have 14 yrs clean & sober. I am on permanent disability. I worked as a Veterinary Technician for 13 years and really loved it. Horses have always been my life passion, and need to make a little money to pay for my horse-habit. I have a small resale business called "Hodge Podge Resale". It's a great way to channel my love of shopping into a (hopefully) money making venture! I generally hate housecleaning and love to lay around reading and eating candy or something yummy. Reading and internet subject searches are my favorite things to do when I am kicking back. I like gardening and home improvements. I could spend hours in Home Depot and Lowes, brainstorming what my latest project will be! I have a silly streak and enjoy moments of hysterical laughter while shopping with my daughter Deanna in aisles of stores, esp Wal Mart :) We have a lot of cars, too. Uh, like 10 or 11 on the insurance policy right now, lol.... I have been sober since Oct 1, 1993. There's a 60 yr old alcoholic bartender/waitress that lives across the street goes on blackout binges and sometimes screams at us to "Go back to Arkansas" with her raspy gutteral voice. She gets drunk and staggers around her lawn sometimes screaming at how our lawn has dandilions and we are spreading weeds to her lawn. I once had to turn the garden hose on her one night when she was staggering on our porch drunk refusing to leave, bellowing and wheezing. Oh, that was funny; Even the cop laughed! We bought our house in 93 and have a lot of equity now, but can't really afford to move away because house prices have really shot up in Santa Clarita. We were never from Arkansas, and so we are staying! She will pass away eventually and then we'll have a nice new neighbor. Maybe. lol. We have a lot of animals; 6 doggies, a kitty-cat, 2 birds (hand fed starling and a cockatiel) and 3 horses. My mare Xena was rescued from a rental string. I traced her lip tatoo and got her old owner to give me her papers. She is a well bred standardbred off the track. I bred her to a very nice arabian stallion twice, and kept both colts. Stinkie is almost 7 yrs and awesome, and Tanner is 3 1/2 yrs.. The horses live at a ranch 5 miles down the road. Tanner is being *broke* now. See Deanna's page for pix of Tanner. I wish they could be in our own yard, but....Maybe we should go "back" to Arkansas?!!