My life - Chapter 1???

Anytime I think about an autobiography, I think that a person who writes an autobiography does it when they are getting into the later years of life. Only an old person does such a thing. I am only 30, so why would I think about writing a story about my life?

I guess that my life has been a bit different. I was born in June 1976, in a relatively small city in Canada. My mother was 37 at the time. The closest sibling I had was my sister, Maryann, and she was 13-14 years old when I was born. I also had another sister, Debbie, and a brother Ronnie, who are 11 months apart in age from each other, but they had already moved out of the home. Guess you could say that I was an "oops" baby. My mother was already a single mom when I came along. Her husband had died over a year before.

My mother was living on a farm near Lake Manitoba. What a beautiful place that is. You can go walking along the shore for miles, breathing in the fresh lake air and picking berries from nearby bushes. The shoreline was a bit rocky, and the sand was a gray color. Cows can sometimes be heard mooing in the distance. If you look out across the lake you can see an island. About a mile or so down the shore is a relatively primitive campground, only having an outhouse and access to electricity.

My mother was always busy. She worked 1 or 2 jobs most of the time, besides looking after the farm and her kids. I remember her working at several different places over the years. She worked at a place she calls "the Hotel." I don't really remember much about it other than it sold beer and I think it had a restaurant. I don't remember there being actual hotel rooms though, but I could be wrong. A child's mind can be slightly distorted at times. I think that this is the place she met my father.

My mother also worked at a place she called the Legion. The only thing that I really remember about this place was that when my sister got married she had her reception there. That night was pretty interesting for me because I met a boy that night and walked around and around that building for hours just talking to him. Don't really remember what it was that we talked about, considering that was.......about 23 years ago.

The place that she worked at that was most memorable was a place called the Narrows. She worked for Pete and his wife, Winnie. They had a grandson named Chad, who was a year or so older than me. Chad came up to my mother once when she was at work and asked her if I was her kid. She said that I was. He asked her if she could get me to stop bugging him on the bus. Guess I was a bit of a bully then.

The Narrows brought a very important person into my mother's life. While she was working, it wasn't uncommon to meet hunters from various parts of Canada and the United States. This resort was well known in the area and played host to numerous hunters every fall. My mother happened to catch the eye of one particular hunter from Minnesota. He had hunted around the area before, and had met my brother some time before but didn't realize it until later on. Well, my mother exchanged numbers with this Minnesota hunter, and honestly never expected to hear from him again. She was wrong. Not only did she hear from him, but she ended up marrying him.

I was almost seven when she got married to the Minnesota hunter, and my time living in Canada came to an end.

Writing About My Life

My husband says that I should write a book about my life. But would people actually find it interesting?

It is hard to look at my life and be objective about it. What I find interesting, might not be all that interesting to anyone else. How do I know what to include? It seems like such a huge undertaking, but one that I have considered from time to time.

When a project seems so big like this, I tend to just shy away from it altogether for fear of screwing it up somehow. I fear that I will start writing and get stuck. Then what? Do I just get rid of everything that I have written and start again? Ok, I guess I am rambling a bit. I will talk about a few things in my life and see where it leads.

Gay marriage

Blogs of Note
Gay Marriage
We should be up in arms about current divorce rate, not gay marriage I am not a regular church-goer by any means, having attended maybe four or five times in the past year. I do not know the last time I actually sat down and read any part of the Bible. Some may call me an atheist, and that’s fine.

Call me what you will. I consider myself a Christian in every way that matters, though some may say I do not understand God’s teachings.Isn’t God supposed to be a loving and understanding God? Would he really want the hatefulness that people have been showing toward the gay community?

Yes, I know that it does say in the Bible that man should be with woman. Every religious leader seems to preach about that part of the Bible when talking about why everyone should oppose gay marriage. Even my mother, who was born and raised to be the good Catholic girl, harps on this Biblical truth.

Yet they conveniently seem to leave out another thing the Bible says: Do not judge others. Since I haven’t been to church in awhile, is it now common practice to pick and choose which parts of the Bible to adhere to?

We shouldn’t be crying foul about allowing gay marriage. We should be up in arms about the current divorce rate in this country. The heterosexual community still has the right to get married and the divorce rate shows total disregard for the sanctity of marriage.To me that is something that is far more troubling than allowing gay marriage.

Online business opportunities

It should be easy to find a decent paying job on the internet that I can do from the comfort of my own home. It shouldn't be too tough.

BOY, WAS I WRONG!!!

I have already spent several hours trying to find a job that is relatively easy that I can do from the comfort of my own home, and that is flexible enough so that I will still be able to carry on the normal routine of a 3 children household.

Talk about a lot of crap out there, pardon my language. I had heard a lot of talk about doing surveys to earn some money. Sure, you can make money on some of them. You can make the money by filling out some long, tiresome survey and get your name put into a drawing where you might WIN some money. I had belonged to some of these sites over the years and have filled out many surveys. Guess what, I have NEVER won one of those nice money filled drawings.

Some of those survey sites say they will pay for each survey you do. That is true, but there is one catch to all of these sites I have looked at. You have to not only fill out a lengthy survey, but then you have to complete one or sometimes more offers from other websites. That isn't bad sometimes if some of the offers are for things that interest you, such as a Blockbuster or Netflix offer for people who rent a lot of movies, which is something perfect for my household. The problem is that those offers almost always cost money.

So how does anyone ever really come ahead on these survey sites? If you sign up for offers every time you do a survey, any money you have made on those surveys goes to pay for the offers you signed up for.

So much for that idea. I have tried posting my resume and answering online ads for data entry positions, and have filled out applications on different jury websites to try to be an online juror. Guess I will just have to wait and see if THAT pans out.

I guess if those ideas don't work, I could always go be a stripper. I have heard they make really good money......lol