The Truth is Stranger Than Fiction - An Introduction

Truth is Stranger Than Fiction - An Introduction

My first foray into the Social Networking world was some years ago, in 2005 I believe, with Yahoo. They had a site called Yahoo 360° that was their own attempt at MySpace, which, at the time, was all the rage. I hadn't been bitten by the MySpace bug yet, but I was already an active member of Yahoo, so to get my feet wet, I set up a Yahoo 360° profile.

Blogging was an extremely attractive prospect to me. I love to write, I love to give myself that type of "outlet" to my problems, fears, joys, and experiences. I've kept diaries and journals off and on over the years and they've always been therapeutic when I took the time to keep them up. But this... a public diary? How do I approach such a thing? How much do I divulge? And what, praytel, do I write about that would actually entice people to read it?

Browsing thru existing blogs, one thing was an absolute MUST: I could not, would not, write about mundane things that no one but myself would care about. I needed an angle-- Something that I could write passionately about. Something that people, in general, have an interest in. Something that would grab the attention of the public. And something that had a "theme." I found that, to me personally, a blog that jumped around all over the place was difficult to read. A theme would keep me in check, and allow me to focus, rather than a stream of conscious that I was sure would bore to death anyone who came across my page.

The idea came to me fairly quickly. I was newly divorced and discovering the delights and annoyances of being single and dating in my 30's. It was perfect! Love, sex, relationships, dating... The overall general interaction between men and women has always been a fascination and a sure-fire hit to our society, if not our entire species! I had my topic, I was ready to roll...

Yahoo has since shut down their 360° forum, and the experience I had there was both rewarding and therapeutic. So I am going to retell my adventures in a retro-active tale here, and see if I can gather the same, if not bigger, audience I did there. Maybe I can even get inspired enough to bring the whole thing up to date and wrap it all up into a happy ending? We shall see...

So, here we go! Hello, my name is Jennifer. I am 37 years old and I've been divorced just over 6 years now. Fasten your seat belts, boys and girls, it's gonna be one hell of a ride!

About Me

~~~~STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS~~~~

Being the daughter of a Mechanical Engineer, I inherited the unusual combination of being artistic as well as logical. "Daddy's Little Artist" was already meticulous about "coloring inside the lines" by the age of 3. So you can imagine that I was showered with crayons, brushes, paints, chalks, pencils and all the markers I could handle from various grandparents, aunts, uncles, and any other adult that nurtured a relationship with me.

It never occurred to me that I might pursue a life that didn't somehow involve an artistic element. I started my training even in high school, taking Commercial Art classes that would give me a jump on learning a marketable trade that I could carry over into my college studies.

As I already mentioned, Dad was a Mechanical Engineer. He came from a long line of ancestors who's minds could not function in any other way than to always approach any situation in the most cost-effective and time-efficient way possible. Wanting to reach my goals absolutely as rapidly as possible, I mapped out my post-high-school education to maximize my learning in the least amount of time possible
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