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Name: Andi
Birthday: July 27
Gender: Female
Status:
Divorced
Religion:
Christian/Protestant
Location:
DAVIE, Florida
United States
DAVIE, Florida
United States
Work:
Sales Rep for pay
Artist forever
Sales Rep for pay
Artist forever
Hometown(s):
Hialeah, FL
Miami Springs, FL
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Town of Davie, FL
Hialeah, FL
Miami Springs, FL
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Town of Davie, FL
Quote:
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. Jon Lithgow First we make our choices, then our choices make us. John Maxwell
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. Jon Lithgow First we make our choices, then our choices make us. John Maxwell
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I've been a single mom most of my life, & now am facing my Sr yrs alone, unless you count 5 pets & 2 youngest kids who live with me, & only communicate to say "buy me this, I promise to clean my room". I haven't succeeded at doing what I wanted to do when I grew up, which was to be a wife & mother - how politically incorrect of me, a teenager of the 70's. I didn't burn my bra, instead I gave up college with future security & became a wife at 18 for instant security. I had jobs that didn't need a degree, then got a degree to teach & found I couldn't support my family. Now I'm in sales, telling myself it's only a stepping stone, I'll re-invent myself & make money doing what I'm passionate about. So after 6 yrs of watching TV & eating, waiting for prince charming to whisk me away into a state of marital bliss once again, I looked in the mirror & saw that I had indeed reinvented myself - a sad, tired, overweight, weak, over 50 looser. I ate several more gallons of ice cream & a ton of fries to celebrate my failure, & decided I had to lose weight or lose my job & company car & pay check that came with it. WW got me started, but after 3 weeks, my weight just fluctuated wildly. I joined AARP to get a hotel discount for my oldest child's wedding. Next thing I knew, I was reading about Carole - my hero! This can work! I've wrapped my mind around the fact that my weight & physical pain are directly related to the food I put into my mouth & time spent NOT moving my body. DUH! Food & weight gain, in my mind, had nothing to do with each other. Until the onset of menopause, I had no weight issues. No time for TV - married, raising 5 kids - his, mine, & ours- working as teacher, laundry lady, & cooking for a crowd daily. Then hubby went in search of greener golf courses & I couldn't figure out how to cook for us 3 who were wondering who the hit & run driver was that destroyed our family. That sad chapter had too many pages, because I am such a slow learner!
Interests:
Woodworking, muralist, Recycle Artist, which means I collect all kinds of junk with the possibility that someday I will make it into something useful and most of the time I do! Love to work outside in my yard, and right now I am trying to find more places to make ponds, and keep the grass from swallowing up my house. In south Florida, when it's rainy season, the grass needs to be cut again almost as soon as you've finishedMy Photos (13)
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