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(Updated June, 2008)

I am Linda.

Wife of Bill.

Mother of Katie, Amber, Sarah, Jadyn, and Raena who are, respectively, 24, 23, 11, 6, and 4 years old.

I am a working mom (yes, yes, I know - we all are).  I have worked pretty much since I was 15 years old.  Not because I really want to or because I particularly love it, but mostly because it just has always been necessary.

I got knocked up at 17.  I had 2 kids before I had 1 orgasm.  I was married to that first dude for 8 years (although there was a long separation in those 8 years).

I divorced him when I was 26 and was remarried when I was 28.  I’m now 43 and I am very happy in my marriage and with my family, most of the time.  I spent a number of years as a single mom, broke as a joke, and it’s rather nice to be on the other side of that.

I had a bit of secondary infertility.  Bill and I married in 1993 and immediately began ‘trying’.  We had Sarah in July of 1996.  Since it took so long to get Sarah, we decided in 1996 not to prevent any potential pregnancy.  By my 35th birthday in 2000, we still hadn’t succeeded in getting pregnant so I sought help getting knocked up.  We did some things, blasted my tubes clean, doc wrote a Clomid Rx, etc. and I had my Jadyn in January of 2002.  We wanted to give it one more shot so in August of 2002, we started trying again - more tube cleaning and Clomid and charting and OPKs and the roller coaster of the monthly cycle and a year later in August 2003, I did manage to pull it off again.  Raena was born in May of ‘04.

I have struggled with my weight all my live-long life and that struggle continues.  Weight, food, self-image… it’s a prevalent theme in my life.

I do not have a college degree.  I’ve reached a place in my career where this matters.  I feel almost naked amongst my colleagues without a degree.  Still, I am proud of the fact that I have been able to come as far as I have, me, the knocked-up-at-17 girl, the fat chick, the no degree person.  Me.  I’m doing okay.

From the time I was a little girl, I’ve wanted to be a writer.  Right now, dabbling in bad poetry and blogging is about as close as I get.  I’ve taken great satisfaction in keeping this blog and I’m glad to have you here visiting me.

I’m available at linda (at) justlinda (dot) net.

PS:  The original intro post I wrote back when I started this blog is HERE.  It’s pretty repetitive to what is above, but maybe a bit more expansive.

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