  Okay... so this is my first post. I guess I'll tell a little about myself. I'm married to a police officer, we've been married for 17 years. After 17 years of working nights, he is finally working days and I can experience a real life. It is nice not needing to check his schedule to see if we can get together for dinner, catch a movie, just about anything.
The down side is that he is not home for things like mid day dr appts and deliveries. We have two kids, a son who is 16 and works at a movie theater part time. We love the free movies, which saves us a ton of money since we tend to see a lot of movies. Our son is very computer literate. He is also very smart and I pray that he uses his smarts for good not evil... just kidding... well, actually , I do hope that but I'm not worried that he will do evil. Oh, I've read that many bloggers post in all lowercase w/o punctuation, but that would just about kill me, since I am a teacher, so sorry for the correct punctuation and capitalization (most of the time) Our daugher is 14 and we worry more about her than our son.
He pretty much always plays by the rules, our daughter never met a rule that couldn't be bent. She does this very sweetly, however. So, what about me? Well, I'm kind of introverted. I like to be around people - I just don't like to have them in my house.
I like to hang out with people at school , or go out and meet up with a bunch of people, talk with people at my church, etc... but just not have people over, I guess it's an invasion of my privacy or something, plus, if they are at my house, I'm trapped to stay with them until they decide to go, whereas if we're out somewhere, I can go anytime I like. That's really the only strange thing about me... oh, I lied... I'm also a major hypochondriac. Mostly about cancer, any time I have any pain , I'm sure it's cancer of something. I'm really bad about googling all the symptoms I have and finding out what great disease I have.
I'm a closet hypochoncriac, though, because I don't go to the doctor much and I don't tell people about what I'm worried about because I don't want them thinking I'm a freak, so I just worry about it and do my private research for a couple weeks and then forget about it until the next strange pain. My husband has caught me a few times and just laughs at me. SO, when I'm not busy not inviting people over or researching cancer (I know about every symptom and cause there is) I'm busy reading or working in my garden.
Lately I've been reading mostly the bible. I was raised Lutheran and just became a Baptist. Yep, I'm born again. I was a pretty good Lutheran, but I have a long way to go to be a good Baptist. I haven't read the Bible in so long and many of the people in my small group can quote verses to back just about any statement they make.
So, I've been doing a lot more reading and praying than I ever have. I have to admit that I truly feel a greater sense of security, comfort and purpose in my life. ( but, no, you still cant come over for a coke - let's meet somewhere instead... ) Well, I'm going to browse some other blogs now, I'm sure I'll think of something interesting to say next time... Happy Father's Day! 
