senn392015
senn392015
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Hello and welcome to my blog.
My name is Michele Jones-Senn and I am a 43 year old married mother of two. Up until 2003 I had worked outside the home until I suffered a Lacunar Infarct. A stroke from a random blood clot that somehow made it to my brain. I’d like to think it was a not so subtle clue that maybe I needed to slow down and take more time with my family. There is Jon, my husband. Then there is 20 year old Jonathan, my first born and Kyla is my 2nd born and she is 19.
That worked out until I finally realized that the children were getting more independent and needed me less. It was then that I began to feel the dreaded "empty nest" syndrome. The children were always out with friends or participating in activities at school.
On one hand you're proud of them for getting out there and spreading their wings. On the other hand, it leaves you walking around the house with nothing to do and unless your significant other is there, no one to talk to. It also means you miscalculate how much food to prepare because you don't know if or when they'll be around or how many of their friends are coming with them.
I would complain to Jon day after day that I needed somewhere to go or something to do. Then one day Jon said to me, "Why don't you start a blog? Write about something you know, something you love to do." I loved the idea of starting a blog. I loved talking to people and learning as well as teaching a little bit of what I know. There was just one problem with that. I didn't know a thing about computers!
Let me explain. I can work a program, check my email, and go to social networks, but put a website together? I just liked to PLAY on the internet, not actually do something constructive on it. The thought of me sitting down and learning what ALL of those SSL's, SSQ's, LMNOP's and acronyms meant terrified me. Then actually learning what to DO with those abbreviations and acronyms, brutal.
Whenever anything needed to be hooked up or programmed, I called Jon. When I ever needed to do ANYTHING more than basic email. I called Jon. Having a blog meant to me, no Jon. It meant I would be responsible for the content and the SSL's and LMNOP's that I lived in fear of. That thought also did something I frankly didn't expect. It gave me a challenge! A challenge was something that I hadn’t had in a while. It forced me to LEARN.
We all learn something new every single day. Although with me, I only wanted to learn about things that I liked. If there was a subject I wanted to know more about, I could sit down and soak it in through reading, observing, practicing it. If I wasn't interested in the subject, no matter how much or for how long anyone told me, it wasn't going to happen.
Around that same time, I had an appointment with a neurologist dealing with some lingering memory issues I'd had since the stroke. I honestly worried that I had the early onset Alzheimers. I went through test after test until they found the problem was found. I had ADHD. Not only that. My neurologist said that I was born with it. She explained that they didn’t know as much about the disorder when I was in school. She said that they didn’t think it was a disorder that effected girls. She told me that I had developed "coping" skills to deal with it. For example: I can't just "sit" in a waiting room. What I mean to say is. I can SIT but I go a little stir crazy without something to read. I had learned to "cope" by always having a purse big enough to carry at least 1 book. All this time I thought it was "normal", it was actually put into place by my brain to help me cope. The human brain really is quite wondrous don’t you think.
Learning about my ADHD explained so much to me. It taught me that when I didn’t get something right away, not to just forget it and move on to the next but to SLOW DOWN. That not everything worth knowing, should always come so easy. With that I also came up with something I know and love. How to find coupons, deals, and outright steals.
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